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tonym5	Posted on Aug 2 2009, 10:40 AM
	2032AD. Earth's population, once over 6 Billion was down to 2.5 Billion after a devastating war with another planet of like humans who were 25 times larger than that of Earthlings. The first attack occurred in 2017 and would last for another fifteen years, mostly occuring in Space but some devastation on Earth during the first five years of the war. When Space technology on Earth became capable of intergalactic space travel in 2022, fighting the humans on planet Oram from the NGC5-H9174 Galaxy became easier and we could retaliate in kind with the technology that had been developed from an element known as Cusslerite. Cusslerite was the one element that was fatal to the humans on Oram. The story of the element Cusslerite which had been discovered on Earth back in the 19th Century in the Sierra Nevada mountains and in Europe had actually been used in technology that allowed certain people on Earth to conspire with the Oram Humans in provoking the war. With many dead from all countries and a large group of elderly people dominating all societies there were few young adults to build up enough of an economy for all to enjoy. Few countries had enough young adults to populate a new generation to follow. Poland, Turkey, Japan and the U.S. had just enough to keep an economy going and would dominate their regions for the next 20 years. By then they were even stronger and encroaching into each others spheres of influence. War broke out when Poland moved into Serbia and the Turks pushed back trying to keep them out and China under the influence of the U.S. tried to build a small naval fleet. Fortunately most of the war occurred with Space based technology that would only hit strategic positions and cause few human lives to be sacrificed. And what few human casualties there were was minimal because the soldiers wore light but strong armor outfits that also had the Cusslerite element woven into the body armor.
tonym5	Posted on Dec 3 2008, 04:04 AM
	2013. Godfrey Arngrim, the grandson of Dolph Arngrim was raised in part by his grandfather because his own father was too weak to become what Dolph wanted in a son. Godfrey was taught from early on to hate the powere in Washington, D.C. especially the Naval, Nuclear and Space programs. Godfrey graduated from Stanford in 2008 and immediately became part of Dolph's corporate and private operations in Naval, Nuclear and Space technology. Dolph Arngrim passed away in 2001 at the age of 83, leaving his company and private operations to be managed by professionals until Godfrey finished his education. Luthor Arngrim, Godfrey's father was displeased and incapable of showing his true feelings. "You will do your grandfather proud, son and I am happy to see that your education will be of help to come in the future" Godfrey smiled thinly at his father and accepted his father's handshake, knowing that his own father will be unable to stop his plans to further his grandfather's work. Later, in his grandfather's office Godfrey read the Van Atta/Benchwood Heights file and the DS9 operations that were already in operation. Five years later in the same office, Godfrey was reading the precis of the discovery of the Noni Darnell and why it's cargo was of importance to the DS9 operations. The simple element that lay hidden in the cargo of the Noni Darnell will be of big help in the construction of a navigation device that will help an alien human race that lived on a planet in the NGC5 H9147 galaxy.
tonym5	Posted on Jul 7 2008, 11:25 PM
	The advanced technology used during the Van Atta/Benchwood Heights projects was cybernetics that went several decades beyond what was already known to exist on Earth. The signals being transmitted through an advamced satellite known as D9 Channel or Deep Space Channel 9 that had been lofted into orbit disguised as a Department of Defense satellite supposedly built by Boeing. Maggie Manton had several Boeing employees under her thumb to oversee the components being secretly shipped into the Boeing plant and built under the guise of Boeing. The transmitting signal would travel though space towards a galaxy under the human classification, NGC5-H9147. In this galazy another human inhabited planet that was 25 times larger than Earth would receive the signal and translated by it's inhabitants who had developed the technology after a Earth spaceship, the Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceship, Spindrift had crash landed on their planet and was found years later after the survivors had perished and had cannibalized the spaceship technology to help their own advancement. This would lead to catastrophic consequences for Earth.
tonym5	Posted on Apr 21 2008, 04:23 AM
	December 24. 2012. With the continuing success of the Channel Project now in it's fifth year Maggie Manton was comfortable that nothing could ever derail the plan's objective of sending a message into space that will bring a certain extraterrestrial civilization to know of mankind's presence. Sitting in her living room with the newspaper laid out beside her on the couch as she read about the disasters that had occured three days ago in Hawaii, San Francisco, Minneapolis and New York City. A few pages later she spies a small article about how a lost yacht with it's murdered owners were in the same location as a ship named the Noni Darnell had been found on the bottom of the ocean. Maggie Manton continued reading the newspaper blithely unaware of the twin circumstances out on the Pacific Ocean would impact the Channel project. The location of the two findings were thirty fives miles west of Van Atta Island.
tonym5	Posted on Jan 6 2008, 07:17 AM
	3994 AD. Giovanni DeVallartos, the Eleventh Fellow Traveler of the Time Council kept his distance from most of the remaining people on Earth and stayed in the Chronos Geostationary Colony when he was not busy traveling through time on business for the Time Council. Sitting on the couch in his suite on the Chronos Colony, Giovanni was reading some papers he had written up earlier in the day about his recent missions. Giovanni's mind began to wander as his eyes glazed over with tiredness. He laid the papers down beside himself and relaxed. It was back in 2263 when he was appointed the Eleventh Fellow Traveler of the Time Council, succeeding Volta Xanthos in the position. Giovanni was a young man at the time and had been trained by Victor. Standing up and stretching, Giovanni decided he would fix a snack and have a cognac snifter to help him relax, Giovanni padded in his slippers towards the kitchen. Bringing the food and the Cognac into the living room and placed them on the coffee table and turned on the video monitor and decided to listen to a news channel. The usual news reports of the destructive nature of the poweful lords of science, wizardry and magic reigning terror on their enslaved people. The eighth report was news of a regular human who was fighting against the powerful warlords was good news indeed. Giovanni was pleased as well as many people in the space colonies in Earth's orbits, on the Moon and other locations in the Solar System. Giovanni decided to email a friend in the Marten Colony on the moon about the news. Stefan Varak was a good friend of Giovanni's from their time in High School. They still kept in contact and would get together on occasion to kibbitz and play cards or chess.
tonym5	Posted on Aug 8 2007, 05:39 AM
	Maggie Manton's choice of Anthony Corrado to oversee the Channel project did not strike her as anything other than hiring a criminal mind that was known to get things done and with beneficial results for all. Having heard about his accomplishments in the news and among certain powerful interests. Maggie was unaware of his early background or his connection to the Van Atta project by the Tadmor Corporation.
tonym5	Posted on Mar 20 2007, 05:50 AM
	1978. Tony Salkind, 15 years of age found himself adrift in the Pacific ocean on a homemade raft with enough food and water to last about two weeks, lay in the broiling sun parched and only drinking his water sparingly. Unknown to his family back on Van Atta, Tony had had enough and had decided to try and get off the island. Unknown to him, a satellite picked up his escape from the island and had relayed the information to the Tadmor Corporation. Already a plane with weapons was rushing to intercept him. But before the plane could find him, an aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Oriskany would find Tony adrift because Tony had accidentally set his raft afire and the smoke had caught the attention of a helicopter that had gone out on reconnaissance from the Oriskany. Tony was vague about how he came to be in the ocean except to say he had been swept into the ocean from a yacht and had been on an uncharted island. After making it to civilization he had been enamored of the U.S. Navy and after some tricky paperwork, joined the military. After several years in the U.S. Navy including a stint in Naval Intelligence, Tony would resign and join a defense contractor. Trevor Valkenos and Valerie decided after Tony's entry into the Navy and silence that he was of no danger in revealing anything about Van Atta Island. It was their fear that if the island were found, many things would be revealed about their operations, research and the fact that little known element was believed to be on the island that seemed to affect people, known as Cusslerite. It's use was unlimited. In 1983, Tony Salkind disappeared without a trace. It was believed that he had been kidnapped and murdered. Unknown to those who knew him, Tony Salkind took on a new identity as Anthony Corrado and would drift into a life of crime.
tonym5	Posted on Feb 6 2007, 02:26 AM
	In late 213 AD, Valerian was tossed into the cell after his protege Septimius Odaenathus had been removed from power after ruling for only a year by the Sassanids. A young woman was already occupying the cell. Valerian took to the young beauty who was 17 years old. "What's your name, dear?" asked Valerian. "Janae" she whispered. Before Valerian was taken violently by the Sassanids to his execution four days later he had impregnated the young beauty. When she gave birth nine months later, she named the baby Valkenos in honor of Valerian.
tonym5	Posted on Jan 20 2007, 04:24 AM
	It was just before dawn when a plane could be heard buzzing overhead on the island, when only Captain Willis was still partially awake and wondered what was up. He stepped out of the tent and saw the plane leaving in the distance and sensed the gaseous cloud settling on the island and before he could get out just a few words on the radio to his crew on the Vulcan, he died in a paroxysm reaction to the irradiated poison of the gas. Ida Maldonado, in the other tent gasped in her sleep and bent over in pain in reaction to the gas and died. The NUMA crew on the Vulcan argued about going ashore on the island but better minds overwhelmed those who wanted to save the captain and their guest. When Dirk Pitt was informed of the Captain's passing, a cold rage built inside him. It was his first meeting with Ryan Browning that he had to inform the younger man of his fiance's death on the island in the Pacific.
tonym5	Posted on Jan 20 2007, 04:10 AM
	Maggie Manton was pleased as she sat back in her chair staring at Trevor Valkenos, who had just given her an update on the data from the Benchwood Heights residents. The chairman of Deep Number Nine was most interested in the data base she had just acquired from Tadmor Corporation's four decade long project and it's relevance to her Channel project was most intriguing. Later in his office, Trevor wondered what could the knowledge gained by her acquisiton of the Van Atta project would be used for. It was a relief to have washed his hands of the project after many years of hard work on the behavioral studies of the survivors.

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