3: Winteroud Sole and the Core Marauders
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Kyllini Prime, Pleiades Cluster
Snake eyes.
Below us a world, a half finished dream deferred of a man long gone. A world first forgotten in the exigencies of the moment; a war, a stand, a victory-then time delays and some plans are not resumed. Oceans half filled, disputes among the worlds and still the half finished dream spun round its star, days upon years at the top of the Pleiades.
Snakes eyes, here on this unfinished, neglected world, snake minds-Marauders far from the Galactic Core where no one suspected. Devious doings, here among the star systems of ordinary mankind which they, the mysterious half men of the Core seemed to have abandoned and preyed upon at the Galactic Center.
Snake eyes in the Pleiades, below us hiding in plain sight of the worlds unawares. Our three ships, The Kanaafutra, The Serpentine, and The Mel's Monkey took orbit armed and ready but the snake eyes, assured of the derelict and unheralded nature of their hideout, seemed not to be watching. Something in the strange nature of the inhuman condition they had assumed gave us that much an edge; we had come to high orbit unrecognized and unchallenged....
Dante D'Anthony
From South Buffalo New York. Producer, writer, artist. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4873327/Currently heading up the launch of the “Pandoran Age Chronicles” franchise and the “Magnificent Raiders of Dimension War 1” feature film. D’Anthony has worked in Finance, NYSE Licensed broker with AG Edwards. He has worked in Commercial finance and project development in Miami with $70M in assets under management as the personal assistant to the owners at DCA International Real Estate and several high end Design, Architectural, and Development firms working on numbers of projects from conception through all aspects of Design Development, Financing, and Project management. In 2003 he won the Florida Communities Trust Grant ($6M) with his designs for parks in Southwest Ranches Florida. He has owned and managed two art publishing companies that have published art on clothing with national retailer accounts while maintaining ongoing bricks and mortar galleries. His current venture (a full animated studio launch) with a major Hollywood Producer involved includes a complete matrix of a feature film and merchandising franchise and a full console video game. Education: Undergraduate work at SUNY Buffalo, across from the venerable Albright Knox, Bachelor of Science in Design 1985 with a Concentration in Urban & Environmental Design. Included were seminars in Urban Planning and Design, and studios Interior Des, minor in Art History. At FIU in Miami graduate level Coursework in Fine Art & Special Education (continuing certification for Florida Department of Education) included figure drawing studies under the noted Richard Duncan. Additional Graduate Work in Architecture, Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture. NYSE Series 7 broker License, A.G. Edwards And Associates. U.S. Army reserves Corporal.
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3 - Dante D'Anthony
Pandoran Age Chronicles 3:
Winteroud Sole and the Core Marauders
By Dante D’Anthony
For Blaker
Copyright Dante D’Anthony 2013
Smashwords Edition All rights reserved
Kyllini Prime, Pleiades Cluster
The Artifact
The return of the Princess
New Galen
Eliane CK
…Nations as pawns, the galaxy as a board game, civilizations in relative decline-some say we are in a dark age-it seem the pieces are long left on the table from an old game now. The Arcturian Wars opened Pandora’s jar for mankind. In the Pleiades Fisher Shea’s dozens of ultramodern and meticulously planned worlds still serve as something of a tourist draw, but even their great wealth has not been the same.
Paramon, a much smaller Republic
(it truly has none of the attributes of the rule of law and is a Republic in name only) is the only other Government in the Pleiades, still sits in that corner of the galactic board game. Ever ready to harass and harry the King of the Pleiades who descended from Shea’s family line.
Mostly the two Governments fight an unofficial war of privateers menacing each other’s shipping. Occasionally full scale small wars break out. Paramon’s last folly at war was with Caldris, however, a horrid affair at the Baal System. I fear there will be more, and that Paramon will soon strike again at Baal, this time at Shea’s interests there.
There came an ugly visit recently to our expeditions work on the Sunrider. A Paramon Art dealer by the name of Izzy Gould. He apparently claimed to have galleries at Deneb IV and asserted since CCCE had won the war with the Arcurians, we needed CCCE permission to explore the Arcturian ruins.
He possessed no official documents from CCCE, and I indicated there was no International Law regarding the Arcturian colonies. Radioactive as long as they had been, until a century or so ago the point would have been moot.
He left, but I don’t think I have seen the last of him.
-Princess Clairissa Maggio
Directly from the palace via hypercasts, Mr. Gould. It places you squarely at the Arcturian ruins in the New Galen system. Should you ever attempt to circumvent us, in any way-at Paramon, or in the future, should you manage an escape or betrayal of us there, an official warrant will be issued via the Royal family at Caldris and even CCCE will not shelter you; they don’t need every government in the galaxy sharpening their swords and looking at CCCE as a kidnapper of dignitaries.
Hammerstein laid a hardcopy printout on a conference table and stared hard into Gould’s eyes with menace.
Gould, however, needed no more persuasion.
When we drop out of hyper in the Pleiades make for the top of the star cluster. Adjacent to the Baal system is a piddling star with its second world in the habitable zone. Fisher Shea had been terraforming it when Paramon had started its first war with him. Shea had dropped a couple dozen comets and there is a small ocean that remains to this day from those efforts. There is a base there that Paramon is quietly ignoring and the King of the Pleiades is unaware of. The Princess is there.
What kind of base?
Hammerstein’s