DP9-021
Back Cover Blurb
For a few long minutes a silence hung in the great Sorrento Cathedral while Second Follower Thor Hutchison made his way up to the dais. Reaching the top of the stairs, head bowed, he turned to open the old parchment book onto the reading surface before him. Trideo cameras tightened their focus on his weather worn face.
Chief Justice Winston Stark watched from his lush home in Valeria, unable to turn himself away as the Second Follower addressed the assembly.
“The time has come for us to stand up for the rights of our brothers!” Cheers greeted the statement. “The children of Mamoud have a right to guard against the corrupt influences of the South and we will not back down before any military threat. The immoral elements that dominate the South seek nothing more then to submerge us in their filth! We have the right — nay the obligation — to fight back!” The crowd ate it up.
Stark switched off the trideo. He was angry. He wondered for the thousandth time how Northerners could be so gullible as to surrender their freedom to Hutchison.
It was clear to Stark that he would have to take control.
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.0 A HEAVY BURDEN
1.1 OBJECTIVES
1.2 OVERVIEW
1.3 THE CHESSPIECE SYSTEM
1.3.1 HISTORICAL FIGURES
1.3.2 RESTRICTED CHARACTERS
1.3.3 VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE
1.3.4 SOCIAL ENCOUNTERS
1.3.5 EXPENDABLES
CHAPTER 2: TERRANOVANS OF INFLUENCE
2.0 CHESS MASTERS
2.1 INTRODUCTION
2.2 CHIEF JUSTICE WINSTON STARK
2.2.1 CHARACTER OVERVIEW
2.2.2 CONNECTIONS
2.2.3 PLOT RESOURCES
2.3 TREASURER YVES BANDERAS
2.3.1 CHARACTER OVERVIEW
2.3.2 CONNECTIONS
2.3.3 PLOT RESOURCES
2.4 PROCONSUL LANG REGINA
2.4.1 CHARACTER OVERVIEW
2.4.2 CONNECTIONS
2.4.3 PLOT RESOURCES
2.5 SECOND FOLLOWER THOR HUTCHISON
2.5.1 CHARACTER OVERVIEW
2.5.2 CONNECTIONS
2.5.3 PLOT RESOURCES
2.6 COMMANDANT ARISTIDE LAZARUS
2.6.1 CHARACTER OVERVIEW
2.6.2 CONNECTIONS
2.6.3 PLOT RESOURCES
2.7 SPEAKER MIYAKO SOGABE
2.7.1 CHARACTER OVERVIEW
2.7.2 CONNECTIONS
2.7.3 PLOT RESOURCES
2.8 PRECEPTOR GAVIN HYPOLITE
2.8.1 CHARACTER OVERVIEW
2.8.2 CONNECTIONS
2.8.3 PLOT RESOURCES
2.9 EMIR NIGEL SHIROW
2.9.1 CHARACTER OVERVIEW
2.9.2 CONNECTIONS
2.9.3 PLOT RESOURCES
2.10 PAXTON HEO MILANI DUBEAU-SLOVENSKI
2.10.1 CHARACTER OVERVIEW
2.10.2 CONNECTIONS
2.10.3 PLOT RESOURCES
2.11 COLONEL PROUST
2.11.1 CHARACTER OVERVIEW
2.11.2 CONNECTIONS
2.11.3 PLOT RESOURCES
CHAPTER 3: NORTHERN CHARACTERS
3.0 RELIABLE SOURCES
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 DOUGLAS WINTER’S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING TEAM
3.2.1 OVERVIEW
3.2.2 ALLIES AND ENEMIES
3.2.3 MARATHON NEWS NETWORK
3.2.4 PLOT RESOURCES
DOUGLAS WINTER
JERIMIAH FALKIN
CARLA SAVAGE
ROY LINDSAY
VLADAMIR KONSTANTINOV (A.K.A. SERGE GARPENLOV)
3.3 PX COURIERS, INC.
3.3.1 OVERVIEW
3.3.2 ALLIES AND ENEMIES
3.3.3 PX COURIER SERVICES, INC
3.3.4 PLOT RESOURCES
BACCUS PESHTARELLE
ALLISON VENTER
TATSUGORO HABANA
SHARON MADDOX
DIEGO ESPERANZA
3.4 MEDECINS SANS POLITIQUE (MSP)
3.4.1 OVERVIEW
3.4.2 ALLIES AND ENEMIES
3.4.3 DESERT’S EDGE MEDICAL STATION
3.4.4 PLOT RESOURCES
LI SONG TSU
ELASAID BROGAN
SANCHO ANNA
SAMUEL TSHOMBE
SETH ONSLOW
3.5 THE WATCHERS
3.5.1 OVERVIEW
3.5.2 ALLIES AND ENEMIES
3.5.3 THE PROPHET’S SHIELD
3.5.4 PLOT RESOURCES
ALEXHANDER DÄNTE
JUDGE JOHANNUS STOLLER
LADY REVEREND EVEANNA RITCHE
ABBOT JOH ISON
KAITIAN SETHA
CHAPTER 4: SOUTHERN CHARACTERS
4.0 THE MOMENT OF TRUTH
4.1 INTRODUCTION
4.2 AARDMAN ELECTRONICS FIELD TEAM
4.2.1 OVERVIEW
4.2.2 ALLIES AND ENEMIES
4.2.3 AARDMAN ELECTRONICS, INC.
4.2.4 PLOT RESOURCES
YURI MCTAVISH
SCOT GANGOPADMYAY
INDIRA MADDISON
NATASHA HANNAWE
SUMAN HUANG
4.3 DR. LANGMUIR’S ANTHROPOLOGICAL TEAM
4.3.1 OVERVIEW
4.3.2 ALLIES AND ENEMIES
4.3.3 THE MEKONG ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
4.3.4 PLOT RESOURCES
DR. ISAAC LANGMUIR
DR. SYLVIA SHIRATO
ABRAM
PAUL GRECO
ICHIRO MESHITSU
4.4 THE PURIFIERS
4.4.1 OVERVIEW
4.4.2 ALLIES AND ENEMIES
4.4.3 THE HIRA
4.4.4 PLOT RESOURCES
PRECEPTOR TARA ALANY
MAFIN KOLT
CAPTAIN TAIND GREENBURG
POLM WEST
TZUIKI MANESS
4.5 THE REVENANTS
4.5.1 OVERVIEW
4.5.2 ALLIES AND ENEMIES
4.5.3 THE BASAL UNDERCITY
4.5.4 PLOT RESOURCES
GOYA KASMIR
HJALMAR URICH
OPAL
SEIVER EOI
TISH INCULCA
CHAPTER 5: BADLANDS CHARACTERS
5.0 DANGEROUS CARGO
5.1 INTRODUCTION
5.2 THE SPRINGER’S TRAIL
5.2.1 OVERVIEW
5.2.2 ALLIES AND ENEMIES
5.2.3 THE SPRINGER’S TRAIL MOVEMENT
5.2.4 PLOT RESOURCES
ANDREJ KALO
LIEUTENANT MICHELLE OAKLEY
HANRO
SARAH BINDHARI
CAPTAIN LUCIUS JEDBURGH
5.3 THE CAVERS
5.3.1 OVERVIEW
5.3.2 ALLIES AND ENEMIES
5.3.3 THE CAVERS’ MAPS AND BASE OF OPERATIONS
5.3.4 PLOT RESOURCES
IAN POLDARK
VALERIE SIREN
URSULA LARS
ROO REILLY
CLORIS PEREZ
REFERENCES
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