Test Pilot

Test Pilot

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1. Feelin' Satisfied- Boston

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The Foundation engineers on the design team at New Daytona felt
satisfied- sort of. The physics of the gravitic propulsion was new &
not yet fully understood. For long jumps through hyperspace no one
really knew for sure what would happen. And so they needed a test
pilot, someone to take that very first jump into the dangerous
unknown. Simona de Valentine fit the bill.

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Terra Firma

Terra Firma

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1. Save Your Love- Jefferson Starship

"The grass must bend when the wind blows across it." -Confucius

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Athena gazed at Edmond, bright blue paint above unorthodox eyes.
Edmond brushed out strands of seaweed entangled in his thickly matted
hair & beard, & then he slowly tried to right his tortured body. As if
she were a bizarre nurse, Athena helped him rise to take his first
steps on Terra Firma.

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Samos

Samos

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1. Rhinocerous- Smashing Pumpkins

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, & the modest are near to virtue"- 
Confucius

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The tempeste of night swirled in dark chains of clouds. Edmond Shing fell 
upon the hard rocks of the shoreline, & in his delirious exhaustion 
the rocks became but velvet cushions fit for a king. And then he fell 
into a deep unconscious sleep....
And then gradually the stirring of consciousness returned in evanescent layers of the recent past. In this manner he relived his remarkable journey- and then finally he awoke.

His eye focused upon a young woman kneeling over his body. The warm morning surf washed over his wretched body and the hard black rocks of the shoreline. She spoke in strange words- he couldn't understand- but then she spoke in silent words as if her thoughts emerged within his mind without the benefit of sound.

"Edmond, we must move on before the return of the Turkish smugglers. Move fast."

"Who are you?" 

"My name is Athena Pythagorous. I live here on Samos." 

"How do you know me?"

"You were dreaming & I sensed those dreams- thus I know you- you cannot lie in your dreams."