NOVEL NEXT Author’s Note: Important Announcement About SAFU Development
Before you continue, I need to make something clear about the current state of the SAF Universe.
If you've been following the series, you know I build the SAFU with a ridiculous amount of internal structure — lore, metaphysics, science, and systems logic that run underneath the stories. Normally, that's just part of the worldbuilding. But during recent development, something surfaced inside that underlying framework that was… different.
While refining the backbone that holds the SAFU together, I uncovered a deeper mathematical structure with real-world implications. It wasn't planned, it wasn't forced, and it wasn't written for narrative effect. It emerged naturally from the architecture behind the universe — and it turned out to be far more significant than anything I expected.
Because of that, I temporarily halted all SAFU development.
This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.
Not for writing reasons — for responsibility reasons.
The underlying discovery needed to be reviewed, evaluated, and handled with caution before any new story content was released.
That evaluation period is now complete.
The result?
Nothing in the narrative books changes.
Your stories stay your stories.
But the foundation they sit on now has a fully documented framework supporting it — one that required transparency and proper handling before the SAFU could continue expanding.
If you want to understand the scientific and structural side of what happened — or why I paused development at all — you'll find everything detailed in the SAF Framework Codex.
If you prefer to just enjoy the story, that's perfectly fine too.
Now that the groundwork is handled, narrative production resumes as normal.
— Zenith Zaraki
Author and Originator, SAF Universe