Fort Bliss – U.S. Army post, New Mexico / Texas
1AD – U.S. Army’s 1st Armored Division
Phoenix – Darklight aircraft carrier
APPENDIX H
WORDS, TERMS & PHRASES
Genesisity – Global conservation movement akin to the Green political and environmental movement which drives the policies and targets of many companies, organisations and governments in the early part of the twenty first century.
Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) – Required in the United States of America when operating heavy and hazardous goods vehicles.
Confab – An informal private conversation or discussion.
[Author note: This is a strange word since it has an almost identical sister word which many people also use, conflab. Apparently, according to my research, conflab evolved from confab as an informal colloquialism. It now appears to have taken on a life of its own, so much so there is some question as to which is correct. I originally wrote conflab, but since confab is the original I opted to use that instead. ]
Rooves – Plural for roof.
[Author note: I always find the word rooves as a more intuitive and smoother sounding word than its more frequently utilised cousin, roofs. Rooves appears to have gone out of favour over the years and some now consider it incorrect.]
Get – Informal term for offspring / children.
Lucked out – A phrase to mean someone or something has been the beneficiary of good luck.
[Author note: Conversely many people also use this term to mean the exact opposite, i.e. you ran out of luck, which—when looking at it—makes more sense. It appears that some consider the meaning of lucked out to be a divide between the UK and USA, where people in the UK believe it to mean you’ve received bad luck and people in the USA to mean they’ve received good luck; this doesn’t appear to hold true, however, and many people on either side of the Atlantic have their own opinion on it. Some even expand on the phrase and use it in other ways, i.e. you’re a right luck out.]
Fubar – Fucked up beyond all recognition. Verb: to fubar, fubared.
Numpty – Foolish or stupid person.
APPENDIX I
LOCATIONS & BUILDINGS
Oxford – a city in England. Located approximately 50 miles north west of central London, in the county of Oxfordshire.
Dulce – small town located in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States.
San Benito – a city in the El Petén department of Guatemala.
Sky Pillar – skyscraper built in London, completed in 2040.
The Shard – skyscraper built in London, opened 2013 / www.the-shard.com
The Spire – sister skyscraper to The Shard, built in London, completed 2025. Similar in appearance to The Shard.
Ruins of Copán – ancient Mayan city located in the Copán Department of western Honduras.
City of Tancama – ancient city built by the Huastecs circa 700 AD. Located near Jalpan de Serra, a small town in the state of Querétaro, Mexico.
Sierra Madre Oriental – mountain range located in the north east of Mexico. Spans one thousand kilometres.
Cerro El Potosí – highest mountain in the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, Mexico.
Teotihuacan – Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city located near Mexico City, Mexico.
Sterkfontein Caves – also known as the Cradle of Humanity. Located near Johannesburg, South Africa.
APPENDIX J
TECHNOLOGY, ARTEFACTS & OBJECTS
Thermal Density Reduction (T.D.R.) – excavation technology utilised in the creation of large scale subterranean chambers
P.S.S.B.O. – Partial self-sustaining biological organism
Thermal sword – Darklight personal weapon
SABRE – Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine, an engine that operates in both air-breathing and rocket modes. Developed by Reaction Engines / www.reactionengines.co.uk
SPVU – Sediment Pulse Vibration Unit, excavation device
VSEs – Visual Spectrum Enhancement goggles
DPD – Digital Parchment Paper
Computer control circlet – Digital, infrared human interface device, similar to a mouse, worn on the finger.
Stelae – carved stone monuments, singular stela.
Stratigraphy – Geological study of rock layers / strata, which can be used to date objects found within.
Radiocarbon dating – A scientific procedure whereby the material from dead organisms is analysed to determine when it lived. Also known as carbon dating, or carbon-14 dating.
Crossmatch radiocarbon dating – A powerful scientific technique utilised by archaeologists to date the material of deceased organisms. Developed by the Chinese in the second quarter of the twenty-first century, crossmatch radiocarbon dating extended the seventy-five thousand year limitation of normal radiocarbon dating to seven hundred and fifty thousand years. Combining the fields of carbon dating, stratigraphy, big data, quantum modelling and molecular retracing, the technique is able to peer further back in time than was previously thought possible.
Molecular retracing – A scientific process whereby molecular decay (and in some instances, movement) is recorded by a special high resolution imager and then recreated in a computer simulator, before the process is reversed beyond recorded data to give a snapshot of the material’s past.
2011 AG5 – Asteroid
Impact Year: 2040
Length: circa 4.2 miles
Diameter: circa 1.9 miles
Velocity: circa 36,000 m.p.h.
Estimated Mass: 1.24 x 1014kg (124,000,000,000t)
APPENDIX K
EMBLEMS & LOGOS
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Table of Contents
FACT
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D
APPENDIX E
APPENDIX F
APPENDIX G
APPENDIX H
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX J
APPENDIX K
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