Goodreads asked Jordan Creed:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jordan Creed I can't say that the idea for The Breacher came from any one source. Rather, it was about a month-long process of imagination and various inspirations that gave me the story. It began when I was fifteen and toying with the concept of population control and what forms it might take. I settled on a model which soon became the System that we know in the novel. Of course, if I wanted to implement that model into a narrative, I needed a setting, a plot, and characters. I forget the source of this idea, but I developed the Colony as the perfect place for the System to operate. After that, Nathan and Jon came to be. At first, however, they were simply friends rather than adoptive brothers. I knew that Jon would be injured, Nathan would choose to save him, and that he would Advance in order to do it, but that was about all I had mapped out. Once the Breaching of the Walls Department hit me, though, I ran with it until the major aspects of the plot were established. One of the interesting things I noted along the way was that I never felt as if I was creating this story myself. I felt like I had stumbled across scattered pieces of a puzzle and was slowly reorganizing them into their intended whole.

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