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tonym5	Posted on May 19 2006, 12:19 AM
	2033. China finally launched a killer satellite of their own and as it inserted itself into orbit, it noted all the locations of the surrounding satellites within it's shooting range and began firing at all of them and before it was taken out by a U.S. Killer satellite it had destroyed just over a dozen satellites. One satellite in particular that had been shot by the Chinese satellite, only took surface damage. Later, that damage would cause it's own orbital decay in early 2036. Back in the United States, the company that had built the satellite for Sharpe Industries noted it's plunging into the atmosphere and where it plunged into the Bay next to Morgan Island. Greg Sharpe, the CEO of Sharpe Industries was informed and he grinned when he heard of the satellite's location. "Well I'll be a doggone SOB that my satellite would land near that spot where the Rod of Aaron is supposed to have sunk on his father's ship, the Lily Marie when it was on tour, exhibiting the Rod of Aaron and the tablets that composed the Ark of the Covenant that had been discovered back in 2005. William Sharpe had refused to say exactly where the ship had sunk but had given the general area where it went down. William Sharpe believed it better to leave it where it lay instead of retrieving it for Egypt's sake. It had been discovered back in the 1920s by Greg's grandfather, Roland at the El-Marat-Saqarra Pyramid in Egypt. Now, in 2036 Greg Sharpe had finally greased enough money to hush the authorities on Morgan Island to prevent any word of the activities this evening of June 4, 2036 as he stood aboard the Sharpe ship, Maiden Eve, as he stared towards the beach where he knew his daughter was on her honeymoon with her new husband, not knowing that she and her new husband were watching his ship. THE END
tonym5	Posted on May 18 2006, 11:46 PM
	June 2036. The Wedding of Dirk Pitt Jr. and Eve Sharpe took place on June 4. They went on their honeymoon to Morgan Island. Dirk signed in with Eve before they went upstairs. Later they went down to the Beach and as the moonlit water moved with the wind and he watched her walking toward him, he noticed how the moonlight made her long, white dress diaphynous, showing her figure and his heart lept into his throat. They embraced and then after a few words of sweetness they walked over towards the lounge chairs and sat down. Holding hands, they talked of a future together. A large ship with it's faint glow of lights passed in the distance just shy of the horizon. After a while they walked back to the hotel and went up to their room. Later, he awoke, startled. He looked over and found that she was not with him in bed. Dirk Pitt the Third wondered where his love was. He walked down to the Beach and found her staring at a ship near the center of the Bay. "What are you doing down here my love? I missed you" said Dirk. "A bright light woke me and I stepped out on the balcony and saw lights from the Church Spire, The Light House, The Clock Tower and the Water Tower were all on simultaneously for a couple of minutes and then that ship moved to the spot where all the lights intersected. Awfully strange, don't you think, hon?" "Hmmm" Dirk muttered. "You said all the lights were on at the same time and despite their distance from each other, the lights intersected out there at a certain point in the Bay? Strange that they are all at certain points around the Bay as it is, right? I'm beginning to think that it is no coincidence of their placements and the resulting lights intersecting. Obviously there is something below the water out there and as tempting it is to get involved now, I say we continue our Honeymoon and I will look into it later, okay?". "Okay, my Love" replies Eve Sharpe.
tonym5	Posted on May 18 2006, 11:28 PM
	The war continued on until May of 2036 when all the nations that were involved were exhausted and lost the will to fight anymore after all the deaths of over 2.5 Billion people and the destruction of the war that had occurred would take generations to repair. A change in the leadership of China finally brought about a peace treaty with the United States. Ananias Stagg was mightily pleased with the destruction of so much and was going to reap profits through the reconstruction efforts. Despite severe destruction West of the Urals in Russia, Arno Drakkenzel promised a rejuvenated Russia if he was elected and indeed won election as President of Russia. President Nathan LaMontaigne was looking forward to going home after the election in the fall and the inauguration of a new President in January of 2007.
tonym5	Posted on May 17 2006, 10:10 PM
	Arno P. Drakkenzel, the Russian High CA for the Brethren was itchy to take over his country when the war ends but was still in his position of Military/Commercial coordinator. It was his job to make sure the big contractors with the Russian military provided all the weapons, supplies and Aircraft on time and with little to non-existent repair work needed. It was his recent conversation with the Master of the Brethren that he learned that he had the support of the Master for his plans to take over Russia when the time comes. It was not easy getting the contractors to deliver enough materiel for the war because of the lack of supplies needed to build all of the Aircraft, Munitions, Guns, etc....
tonym5	Posted on May 17 2006, 09:50 PM
	The Master of the Brethren was pleased with the draining resources from all of the countries involved in the war, with the exception of the United States of course. Somehow, the war industries had pulled the U.S. out of an economic downturn and were working with NUMA and others in developing advanced technology that has kept the Chinese from causing much damage to the Americas. After talking with one of his CA agents that keep tabs on field agents, he turned off the Video monitor and took off the mask that he wears when communicating with a CA. Ananias Stagg was pleased at the weakened countries where his field agents were sweeping many people into his control. Despite efforts by the Allies to thwart his plans, Ananias considered his organization as a powerful force on the planet. Even if the Allies win the war, it would still not be enough to stop the Brethren. Ananias Stagg even had a plan for the post-war period. If you looked at Ananias Stagg, he would look so ordinary that many people didn't pay much attention to him. Standing at 5'5" and Dark Hair with a hint of gray coming in and hazel eyes that did not show any hint of the evil that belies the man's true nature. Up until the year before the war, Ananias was just an Civil Engineer/Geographical Information Systems expert working for the city he lived in. After graduating from Stanford University he had gone to work for the CIA, getting some experience in Intelligence operations and then after nearly ten years he was assigned to a desk where he accumulated a lot of information on all the countries of the world. After nearly 20 years in the CIA he had retired and gone to work in Public Administration for the city he lived in. After half a decade working for the city he had quit to go into business for himself, selling his experience and knowledge.
tonym5	Posted on May 17 2006, 08:55 PM
	November 7, 2036. President Nathan LaMontaigne is re-elected. The Republican candidate, Llandra DeFelice received only 10 Million votes to President LaMontaigne's Seventy-Four Million votes. The United States now encompassed all of Mexico and Canada as well. The war was dragging on and even the American people were restlessly impatient to see an ending. President LaMontaigne tried again and again to communicate with the Chinese leaders but kept getting rebuffed. With the help of NUMA, it appeared the United States was developing some advanced technology as a result of the war.
tonym5	Posted on May 17 2006, 08:19 PM
	Time passed on as the war continued without any resolution in sight, there was a weariness in most countries that were fighting and the presidential election in the United States was less than a month away when the first Space battle occurred on the Pennsylvania Colony on Mars. Less than a dozen were dead. Up until now there had been an occasional murder of those involved with the Chinese efforts at organizing supporters for their cause. Intelligence agents for the United States had been well informed up until the shootout occurred. Now, they believed that there was little interest in helping the Chinese. The Presidential election was non-existent because the Republican candidate for President, Llandra DeFelice was not trying very hard to defeat President Nathan LaMontaigne because he was a sitting President overseeing a war and was considered a successful war leader.
tonym5	Posted on May 17 2006, 07:28 AM
	The Eastern European/Russian Front continued to see aerial dogfights on a daily basis. The Middle Eastern Front was retaliating one city at a time on a weekly basis with Nuclear explosions and a massing of soldiers every three or four months between the Turks fighting for the Allies and the Syrians, Iranians, Pakistanis and Iraqis fighting on the side of the Brethren. The African front was bogging down with less big fights but just as intense and deadly small skirmishes in the middle of the African continent. Time passed and President LaMontaigne was preparing for the Space battles slowly and steadily. The Chinese were stunned at their Naval losses and were trying to come up with a way to attack the Americas. One Nuclear ICBM missile in January of 2031, despite being hit by laser fire from a killer satellite, had only been damaged slightly and the missile struck it's target accidentally because of it's damage, El Paso, Texas was destroyed. Despite an Occupying Army, the Mexicans were satisfied at the assimilation of their country into the United States.
tonym5	Posted on May 17 2006, 06:55 AM
	Just east of the Phillipines, a second wave of Chinese Naval ships are waiting to receive the returning ships from the first wave. Finally, they begin a race towards Hawaii on a different path. Streaking southeast as they aimed themselves to take out Oahu completely. 30 miles out from Pearl Harbor, they felt confident enough to head straight into Pearl Harbor. Five miles out they begin taking fire from unknown aircraft that does not appear on their radars. Dumbfounded, they try to return fire but the Flying Subs that NUMA had recreated from the NRO's prototype were too nimble in their maneuvers as the Chinese ships take hits from the Sonic Pulses that literally shreds metal. Sonic Cannons rained down on them as well, causing metal to disintegrate into millions of flying shards that injure or kill the men. The Flying Subs were disguised by light bending surfaces that made them almost invisible to the naked eye unless you had glasses that magnified vision. Then the Flying Subs begin another round of attacks by using laser pulses that just melted the metal. The ships were taking heavy damages but were still floating. After nearly ten minutes of using their laser pulses, the Flying Subs were coming around for one last attack by simultaneoulsy firing their Sonic PUlses in one full blast that just literally caused all the ships to disintegrate. Back at the Eos Pacifica Colony beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean 300 miles to the Northwest of Hawaii, Dirk and Summer just grinned at each other, watching the results on the monitor from the live feed of the UAV, as it flew over the waters where the Chinese ships once sat floating atop.
tonym5	Posted on May 17 2006, 06:09 AM
	The first Chinese Naval ship in the flotilla heading towards Hawaii, the Xho Won Fat was three hundred and fifty miles northwest of Hawaii, racing at it's top speed, 17 knots when it appeared to hit a wall and the bow of the ship stove in and with her continuing momentum caused her to slant forward and downwards as she sank quickly. Two battle ships on each side of her less than a quarter mile behind did not have the time to react to the sinking of it's lead ship and they too smashed into an invisible wall and sank quickly. Half a mile down in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, Dirk Pitt Jr. was amazed at the results of the force field upon the Chinese Naval ships as they plowed into an unseen wall. The five Chinese frigates behind the first three Chinese naval craft saw what happened and slowed their speed immediately but still could not stop in time and therefore did not have as much damage to them. They immediately radioed to the rest of the flotilla to spread out. But the rest of the flotilla still did not think that they would be smashed by their long distance from the ships in the lead that had either sank or were damaged. The force field was fourteen miles wide and they too smashed into the unseen wall and most sank, with only a small handful of ships who had went slow and steady, coming to a stop before they too would have been destroyed. They turned around and headed back to China. Down in the Eos Pacifica Colony, Summer high fived her brother and whooped out loud at what they had accomplished with NUMA technology. Having transferred most of the power for the colony into their new technology that they had worked on for a long time and never thought would be used for warfare, Summer and Dirk Pitt Jr. were pleased as the UAV showed what had happened on the surface of the Pacific Ocean, to the Monitors that they were watching.

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