Of Crimson Indigo: Points of Origin

by Grant Fausey

  ITOL WARRIOR: (INTEGRATED TACTICAL OFFENSIVE LINE WARRIOR) The corporate soldiers used to patrol the boundary regions between the Triad Abyss and the threshold of the artificially created universe connecting wave corridor interface. Established as a line of defense against hostile intentions from alternate realities.

  JUMPSHIP: Vehicle capable of traversing the Time Wave Corridor.

  KALAMAR: Ancient race believed to be responsible for living light technology, which allows the creation of artificial life on a natural occurring repetition. Considered comparable to the life giving energy in all living things.

  LIVING MACHINE: Entities given existence using living light technology.

  N - T

  REGEN: The process by which artificial life can be renewed or rejuvenated to a younger, more stable age.

  REGENERATION: Regen on a planetary scale. Still experimental, but shows hopeful results on tentative worlds.

  RAMPIA/MYATEK/SODIN INTERCHANGE: The corridor connecting twin worlds in alternate realities.

  SODIN: Planetary body discovered to be a planetoid-size world machine housing the Industries’ Temporal Convergence Laboratory. Project failed, created the area of space known as the Triad Abyss. Birthplace of the alternate reality created by the Industries and the connecting corridor threshold between universes. Please note: The experiment was never shut down and maintains the threshold of temporal convergence to this day, allowing the passage between the past, present and future of the connected universes.

  TRODS: (TANDEM REMOTE OPERATIONS DRONE (DIG SPECIALIST) Biomechanically created living machine counterpart Archeologists.

  TEMPORAL INCURSION: A break in the boundary layer separating the original universe from its manufactured counterpart. Incursions can occur in any period: past, present or future.

  TEMPORAL WAVE CORRIDOR: The connecting bridge between alternate realities. Available for transit in both universes; universes are multilayered and varying emergence points are at set intervals.

  TEMPORAL WAVE CORRIDOR TRANSIT SYSTEM: The system of transit used by the ITOL warriors to traverse the corridor between the universes. Used during operations between alternate realities.

  TRIAD ABYSS: Failed experiment residue enveloping the area of space around the planet-size machine world of Sodin: Once thought to be a living mass capable of draining the life energy from all living things in existence, the mass has lied dormant for thousands of years. However, there are signs that the mass is returning to life.

  TRITHEN BARRIER: Theorized to be the residue from the big bang initiated in the creation of an artificial universe at the heart of the temporal convergence laboratory on Sodin.

  TRITHEN INDUSTRIES: A self-proclaimed power among the giant corporations, which resides on a thousand worlds ruled by the Corporate Assembly. This vast conglomerate consists of five-mega corporations that span the known universe. Trithen Industries and Trini Corporation are the largest, while Konsus Amalgamated, Hyat-Raa Research laboratories and the Hoval-Malee Corporation control the other third of the empire. Control is absolute and unconditional.

  TOUR TRANSIT SYSTEM: Economy class: Similar to the commercial system.

  U - Z

  VALCONIAN SYMBIONT: Living machine, (manufacturing date unknown) artificial life form with the ability to bridge life giving energy of an individual with his or her past, present, and future incarnations.

  VESSEL MEDALLION: The hardened edge of the living machine symbiont.

  WINDRIGGER: Pirate ship. Twenty-two gun sailing vessel with bellowing sails, ice runners spars and tether lines. Most famous of the jumpships used in the Battle of Echo Pass, during the great exodus of humanity.

  Table of Contents

  THE FOURTH UNIVERSE

  ONE: Aftermath

  TWO: Traveling Companions

  THREE: Tides that Bind

  THE ALTERNATE FOURTH UNIVERSE

  FOUR: Alternate Realities

  FIVE: Breadcrumbs

  SIX: Yellow Brick Road

  SEVEN: Reflections in the Past

  EIGHT: Steps in Time

  NINE: Silhouette

  TEN: Past Tense

  ELEVEN: New Acquisitions

  TWELVE: Rebound

  THIRTEEN: Changing Tides

  FIFTEEN: Turning Points

  SIXTEEN: Islands in the Sky

  SEVENTEEN: Tether Lines

  EIGHTEEN: Diagnostics and Judgments

  NINETEEN: A Meeting of Minds

  TWENTY: Living Memoirs

  TWENTY-ONE: Bancore and Creed

  TWENTY-TWO: The Fact of the Matter

  TWENTY-THREE: Destination Sodin

  TWENTY-FOUR: Tanis 489

  TWENTY-FIVE: Rooka Rocks

  TWENTY-SIX: Life Changes in Reality

  TWENTY-SEVEN: Arachnid Fever

  TWENTY-EIGHT: A Place like no Other

  TWENTY-NINE: Remembering the Past

  THIRTY: Rescue Mission

  THIRTY-ONE: Phoenix Station

  THIRTY-TWO: Throttle Up

  THIRTY-THREE: Human Altercations

  THIRTY-FOUR: Turning Tides

  THIRTY-FIVE: Emergence

  THIRTY-SIX: The Beast Within

  THIRTY-SEVEN: Bounty and Bounty Hunters

  THIRTY-EIGHT: Mop-up Operations

  THIRTY-NINE: Grathamar’s Haven

  FORTY: Nomad’s Choice

  FORTY-ONE: Of Crimson Indigo

  EPILOGUE

  SPECIAL TERMINOLOGY