Star Traks: Silverado - About the Author

About the Author

(Brendan Shust - The Guy Who Writes It)

I grew up on a farm in rural Manitoba, the part of Canada that really DOES get cold in the winter. After finishing college, I moved to Toronto Ontario where I settled into a job training new employees at a tech support center. Man, am I glad that's over! I'm currently studying Computer Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada.

Aside from writing Silverado, I enjoy biking, working out, watching too many DVDs, playing around with 3D computer modeling and playing computer games. Or I did, before the military took away my spare time. (If you don't need it, they don't issue it.) I'm 25, 6'2, brown hair, blah, blah blah. I also like electronic gadgets and shiny objects.

I first started reading Star Traks when I was attending a small, rural college, bored out of my mind. Hunting for entertainment I came across Alan Decker's Nexus. I was scared for a moment that the site was static, but once new stories started being posted again I was ecstatic.

It was about two years after I started reading Traks that I thought I'd try writing my own. I always hated English class, and the only writing I really did was work-related. So I was pretty amazed when I finished one story...then two...then three. Next thing I know, I've got a series! Thanks to everybody who sent in their positive feedback, Silverado wouldn't have gone from story to series without it.

September 2007 was a hell of a month, literally. Know as the First Year Orientation Program (FYOP), the first month is RMC's way of putting new students through the most grueling routine we could imagine! Woken up every morning at 6:00 to the sound of O Fortuna, required to have faces shaved, teeth brushed and beds made by the end of the song, each minute of every day planned for us, daily inspections, grueling physical training...it sucked.

But it ended with a bang! The First Year Obstacle course marked the official end of FYOP, and it was a hell of a time!

Bring it on!
He wasn't that heavy...but you should see him trying to carry me!	Just hanging around...
Getting the mud out of our combat boots was...challenging.	They didn't call this the 'shitpit' for nothing...
One of our staff getting the water out of our boots...	And I used to be afraid of heights!
Everybody's gotta go over...	...even the last man!
It's over. Oh, thank God, FYOP's over!