POINTS OF ORIGIN
OF CRIMSON INDIGO: POINTS OF ORIGIN
By Grant Fausey
An ill-fated survivor of a corporate expedition is hunted down and eliminated by a team of high-tech soldiers who seemingly emerge out of thin air, crossing an invisible boundary between two worlds. The survivor’s body decomposes, leaving behind only the remains of a scull and a boney hand clutched around an odd-looking medallion with the image of a woman’s face imprinted on it. The image of the woman’s face becomes that of Krydal Starr, corporate liaison to a survey team heading to the Sodin moon, a dark and mysterious world on the edge of the Triad Abyss.
Jake Ramious, the team’s hotshot freighter pilot wants to kick back and relax, suck down a few suds with Krydal Starr and just let life happen, but the corporate liaison isn’t interested. She’s on mission. However, Jake’s charm is hard to resist even when under the scrutinizing eye of Renniska Brennan, the survey team leader.
After the expedition makes planetfall on the Sodin moon, and the team barely is on the surface long enough to get their bearings without incident, Renniska Brennan immediately reveals he’s a man with an agenda and Jake takes notice. Krydal asks a favor, reassuring him, he’ll get what’s coming to him. But Jake doesn’t like the sound of it, nonetheless, he’s got a job to do and even though he’s reluctant, he preps a surface hauler for transit. After which, Rooka, his trusted copilot and navigator lowers the chariot out of the main ship – anything to spend more time with Krydal Starr.
The dark-haired beauty confers with Renniska Brennan then reminds Brenda Hutton, Jason Brant, Jennifer Riggs, Hudson Warner and the rest of the survey team about timetables, it seems they’re on a tight schedule. There’s a ticking clock. The survey team heads across the terrain toward an old mining rig complex. It seems Sodin is scheduled to undergo a terraforming operation.
With twelve hours to complete the mission, trigger the operation and get off the rock, before the regenerative process transforms the planet, Krydal Starr keeps the team on schedule. On the other hand, Jake feels mysteriously drawn to the mining site as if he’s been there before, but there’s something else, a feeling of being watched but Jake just can’t put his finger on it. A small translucent spidery device keeps track of their every move, transmitting its findings to an unseen adversary.
Needless to say, Jake has questions, so he phishes Krydal for answers, but gets the same result, it seems there is more going on then just a little planetary excursion. Renniska Brennan disappears right in front of him, gaining access to a hidden laboratory. Krydal steps in between the pilot and Brennan, until Renniska returns. The pilot, heads off exploring on his own, more interested in seeing the sites than listening to the corporate suit’s explanation. But when a glint on the ground catches his eye, uncovering a small medallion. Jake calls to his companions, but when he takes a hold of the medallion, pulling the golden metal from boney fingers to examine it, only to see it absorbed into his own hand, he freaks.
Rooka comes running like a sleek panther on all fours as Jake experiences a shift in space and time. The past comes to life all around him in a grand panorama, revealing Nilana, a beautiful woman that serves as a temporal interface implanting a warning and a plea for help within his psyche. The future is being erased.
Meanwhile, as the team assembles the regenerative terraforming device, prepping it for detonation, Jake is rattled by his transformation, relatively in shock from the experience. He’s back to reality, unaware that the prying eyes of a spybot are scrutinizing him, but when it hisses at Krydal the full impact of their surroundings is revealed, a sea of spidery assailants, an unknown adversary and complications with Jake Ramious and Rooka Trent.
Jake weighs his options, the ground moves all around him alive with a wave of transparent spiders. There are hundreds of them. It’s obvious neither of them can make it to the platform through a sea of spiders, so he spies the ground hauler between him and the mining rig and makes a run for the hover truck scrambling aboard the transport barely escaping his assailants. He fires up the engine, dusts off and punches it for the platform, picking up Krydal Starr on the way.
Using anything not nailed down to fight off the army of translucent spiders, Krydal quickly becomes overwhelmed with an on-sloth of fast moving, nearly invincible targets that shatter into smaller drones when hit. It is all she can do to stay ahead of the critters, and all seems lost, when the ITOL warrior gunship Firehawk emerges in a wave of distortion that strikes hell at the army of spidery drones, vaporizing the spybots in a volley of energy weapons that obliterates the drones and the transport’s propulsion ring.
The transport plummets back to the surface on a course straight for hell. It’s all Jake Ramious can do too save the ship, but ultimately the vehicle crashes into the platform, damaging the experimental regenerative processors as it plows into the surface. Disappearing below ground, the accident reveals the first of Sodin’s secrets; the moon isn’t lifeless at all, but rather a gigantic machine of unknown origin and purpose. Jake suddenly fears the unknown, overwhelmed with the day’s happenings.
For a moment, the future looks rather dim and fear of the unknown fosters his fears to new heights. Meanwhile, the ITOL warrior strike team mops up the operation as Krydal Starr and Rooka Trent aid in Commander Patton’s assessment of the situation. The wreckage of the survey team’s transport decays hundreds of years right in front of them and Patton is concerned they will have to change their travel plans. For Jake, however, everything is happening too quickly and he must find a way to overcome his reluctance, before it becomes an issue.
According to Krydal Starr where they are isn’t as important as when they are! It’s apparent that time is disconnected some how. One side of the transport is still intact, freshly jolted from the impact, while the other side is disjointed and separated as if it has suffered the stress of decay for hundreds of years. Renniska Brennan, on the other hand, becomes unhinged and advises the survey team to stick together and not wonder off; there’s no way of knowing whether or not they will be able to find their way back if they get separated.
Krydal agrees, pointing out an even more obvious problem. They’ve less than twelve hours to get off world; after that, the regenerative processors will become active, altering the planet’s subatomic structure. For Jake, however, it’s time to set things straight, starting with Krydal Starr. He is failing romantically, emotionally and spiritually. There’s more going on than she’s telling him. He suspects the regeneration experiment is some kind of cover up and the government is behind it, treachery is a foot.
Jake is defensive. It’s obvious they’ve bigger problems than conspiracy theories, it’s surprising they aren’t all dead already considering a wave of distortion rips through the underground lair passing right through Brenda Hutton, blowing her away like sand swept into the wind. Startled by the event, Renniska loses his composure: he needs to focus. They’re not stranded, at least not yet. And, unless they all want to spend the rest of their lives in some alternate reality that coexists here, it’s imperative they get off this rock before they all share Brenda Hutton’s fate.
Jake agrees and he takes the lead picking a direction, but Krydal stops him. There’s an alternative to hiking across the planet to the transport. Nevertheless, Jake feels the need to make a difference, and rescuing his new companions is on top of the list. Renniska Brennan tries to stop her, but Krydal Starr summons the Firehawk, transforming into Crimson’s combat armor becoming an ITOL warrior along with the rest of the survey team.
The ITOL gunship spirals into existence and each of the survey team teleports from the surface. The warship accelerates across the heavens, passing through the waves of distortion, which reveals the multiple dimension existence of the Sodin Moon. Shifting between the layers of a binary universe, the gunship emerges from temporal wave transit into the awaiting arms of the ring station Phoenix, a forward operating base at the edge of a temporal vortex guarding the threshold of coexisting universes.
Commander Patton and his strike team debark the gunship through the side portal hatch, entering a vast docking bay of prepped Shadowrider fighters that are poised ready for action along the boundary. For Jake, however, it’s his darkest moment, and he is lost in his own fear of the unknown, but Crimson Krydal Starr is there for him, more or less his confidant.
Commander Patton steps lively along the gantry to where Neffum Claris, an overindulgent, fish-faced dignitary awaits him. The officially informs the Commander they have a problem. There’s been a breech in the energy barrier protecting their universe, it seems the small runner team crossed the boundary on Sodin into the past and he wants them hunted down and eliminated. Meanwhile, Jake learns of his heritage and the Kalamar Indigna as the medallion takes its place in the chest plate of armor as it forges itself around his body, revealing Jake Indigo Ramious for the first time.
The gunship leaps into the vast nothingness of time as the commander orders Crimson and her fighter, Brakka, to the surface. They missed something. It’s her job to find answers. A moment later, the ITOL fighter bursts out of the vortex at full throttle, hurtling across the landscape in the direction of the abandoned planet-rig mining platforms. In the meantime, Jake takes his place among the ITOL warriors, a member of the strike team. He confronts his own demons, ready to battle whatever lies ahead of them.
Meanwhile, the master-builders rise through the murky darkness into the audience chamber above the threshold of an Interdimensional temple where the faint image of a transparent sphere materializes at the center of the cavity. There is concern over the past; the future is no longer connected to the past. But Rallumn rebuts their concern. The master-builder, Alvericon, however, warns the tribunal that only a thin layer separates the futures. Its containment is failing and before the futures converge into a new universe, one coexisting reality will devour the other.
Jake, however, sees his adversary in a different light. He’s in touch with his fear and renews his commitment, the master of two worlds. His path is clearly visible on the other side of the barrier; then it is gone, obscured by the translucent nature of the barrier. Rooka Trent flops to the ground, overrun by the waves of distortion that bellow forth from the threshold at the core of their destination. While at that same moment, Krydal is absorbed by the vortex at the heart of the wave. He looks on at her, watching her vanish into the confines of another universe.
Jake vows to find her, to track her across time and space, to stop her before she alters the future, even if it means destroying her. Meanwhile, Commander Patton’s team hits the ground on the move, teleporting to the surface in the midst of the rupture in space-time. He scans the surface, uncertain they’ve returned to the right time and place.
On the other side of the boundary an all too familiar face watches the team from the obscurity of another time and place. The regenerative process begins. Paradise takes shape around Krydal then, as if out of a nightmare, there is a ripple in the master-builder’s plan. The boundary of the new universe begins its metamorphosis and expands… Crimson Krydal Starr puts her hand to the edge of the barrier, and electrical arcs race along the boundary, revealing the nature of the manufactured reality.
By Grant Fausey
An ill-fated survivor of a corporate expedition is hunted down and eliminated by a team of high-tech soldiers who seemingly emerge out of thin air, crossing an invisible boundary between two worlds. The survivor’s body decomposes, leaving behind only the remains of a scull and a boney hand clutched around an odd-looking medallion with the image of a woman’s face imprinted on it. The image of the woman’s face becomes that of Krydal Starr, corporate liaison to a survey team heading to the Sodin moon, a dark and mysterious world on the edge of the Triad Abyss.
Jake Ramious, the team’s hotshot freighter pilot wants to kick back and relax, suck down a few suds with Krydal Starr and just let life happen, but the corporate liaison isn’t interested. She’s on mission. However, Jake’s charm is hard to resist even when under the scrutinizing eye of Renniska Brennan, the survey team leader.
After the expedition makes planetfall on the Sodin moon, and the team barely is on the surface long enough to get their bearings without incident, Renniska Brennan immediately reveals he’s a man with an agenda and Jake takes notice. Krydal asks a favor, reassuring him, he’ll get what’s coming to him. But Jake doesn’t like the sound of it, nonetheless, he’s got a job to do and even though he’s reluctant, he preps a surface hauler for transit. After which, Rooka, his trusted copilot and navigator lowers the chariot out of the main ship – anything to spend more time with Krydal Starr.
The dark-haired beauty confers with Renniska Brennan then reminds Brenda Hutton, Jason Brant, Jennifer Riggs, Hudson Warner and the rest of the survey team about timetables, it seems they’re on a tight schedule. There’s a ticking clock. The survey team heads across the terrain toward an old mining rig complex. It seems Sodin is scheduled to undergo a terraforming operation.
With twelve hours to complete the mission, trigger the operation and get off the rock, before the regenerative process transforms the planet, Krydal Starr keeps the team on schedule. On the other hand, Jake feels mysteriously drawn to the mining site as if he’s been there before, but there’s something else, a feeling of being watched but Jake just can’t put his finger on it. A small translucent spidery device keeps track of their every move, transmitting its findings to an unseen adversary.
Needless to say, Jake has questions, so he phishes Krydal for answers, but gets the same result, it seems there is more going on then just a little planetary excursion. Renniska Brennan disappears right in front of him, gaining access to a hidden laboratory. Krydal steps in between the pilot and Brennan, until Renniska returns. The pilot, heads off exploring on his own, more interested in seeing the sites than listening to the corporate suit’s explanation. But when a glint on the ground catches his eye, uncovering a small medallion. Jake calls to his companions, but when he takes a hold of the medallion, pulling the golden metal from boney fingers to examine it, only to see it absorbed into his own hand, he freaks.
Rooka comes running like a sleek panther on all fours as Jake experiences a shift in space and time. The past comes to life all around him in a grand panorama, revealing Nilana, a beautiful woman that serves as a temporal interface implanting a warning and a plea for help within his psyche. The future is being erased.
Meanwhile, as the team assembles the regenerative terraforming device, prepping it for detonation, Jake is rattled by his transformation, relatively in shock from the experience. He’s back to reality, unaware that the prying eyes of a spybot are scrutinizing him, but when it hisses at Krydal the full impact of their surroundings is revealed, a sea of spidery assailants, an unknown adversary and complications with Jake Ramious and Rooka Trent.
Jake weighs his options, the ground moves all around him alive with a wave of transparent spiders. There are hundreds of them. It’s obvious neither of them can make it to the platform through a sea of spiders, so he spies the ground hauler between him and the mining rig and makes a run for the hover truck scrambling aboard the transport barely escaping his assailants. He fires up the engine, dusts off and punches it for the platform, picking up Krydal Starr on the way.
Using anything not nailed down to fight off the army of translucent spiders, Krydal quickly becomes overwhelmed with an on-sloth of fast moving, nearly invincible targets that shatter into smaller drones when hit. It is all she can do to stay ahead of the critters, and all seems lost, when the ITOL warrior gunship Firehawk emerges in a wave of distortion that strikes hell at the army of spidery drones, vaporizing the spybots in a volley of energy weapons that obliterates the drones and the transport’s propulsion ring.
The transport plummets back to the surface on a course straight for hell. It’s all Jake Ramious can do too save the ship, but ultimately the vehicle crashes into the platform, damaging the experimental regenerative processors as it plows into the surface. Disappearing below ground, the accident reveals the first of Sodin’s secrets; the moon isn’t lifeless at all, but rather a gigantic machine of unknown origin and purpose. Jake suddenly fears the unknown, overwhelmed with the day’s happenings.
For a moment, the future looks rather dim and fear of the unknown fosters his fears to new heights. Meanwhile, the ITOL warrior strike team mops up the operation as Krydal Starr and Rooka Trent aid in Commander Patton’s assessment of the situation. The wreckage of the survey team’s transport decays hundreds of years right in front of them and Patton is concerned they will have to change their travel plans. For Jake, however, everything is happening too quickly and he must find a way to overcome his reluctance, before it becomes an issue.
According to Krydal Starr where they are isn’t as important as when they are! It’s apparent that time is disconnected some how. One side of the transport is still intact, freshly jolted from the impact, while the other side is disjointed and separated as if it has suffered the stress of decay for hundreds of years. Renniska Brennan, on the other hand, becomes unhinged and advises the survey team to stick together and not wonder off; there’s no way of knowing whether or not they will be able to find their way back if they get separated.
Krydal agrees, pointing out an even more obvious problem. They’ve less than twelve hours to get off world; after that, the regenerative processors will become active, altering the planet’s subatomic structure. For Jake, however, it’s time to set things straight, starting with Krydal Starr. He is failing romantically, emotionally and spiritually. There’s more going on than she’s telling him. He suspects the regeneration experiment is some kind of cover up and the government is behind it, treachery is a foot.
Jake is defensive. It’s obvious they’ve bigger problems than conspiracy theories, it’s surprising they aren’t all dead already considering a wave of distortion rips through the underground lair passing right through Brenda Hutton, blowing her away like sand swept into the wind. Startled by the event, Renniska loses his composure: he needs to focus. They’re not stranded, at least not yet. And, unless they all want to spend the rest of their lives in some alternate reality that coexists here, it’s imperative they get off this rock before they all share Brenda Hutton’s fate.
Jake agrees and he takes the lead picking a direction, but Krydal stops him. There’s an alternative to hiking across the planet to the transport. Nevertheless, Jake feels the need to make a difference, and rescuing his new companions is on top of the list. Renniska Brennan tries to stop her, but Krydal Starr summons the Firehawk, transforming into Crimson’s combat armor becoming an ITOL warrior along with the rest of the survey team.
The ITOL gunship spirals into existence and each of the survey team teleports from the surface. The warship accelerates across the heavens, passing through the waves of distortion, which reveals the multiple dimension existence of the Sodin Moon. Shifting between the layers of a binary universe, the gunship emerges from temporal wave transit into the awaiting arms of the ring station Phoenix, a forward operating base at the edge of a temporal vortex guarding the threshold of coexisting universes.
Commander Patton and his strike team debark the gunship through the side portal hatch, entering a vast docking bay of prepped Shadowrider fighters that are poised ready for action along the boundary. For Jake, however, it’s his darkest moment, and he is lost in his own fear of the unknown, but Crimson Krydal Starr is there for him, more or less his confidant.
Commander Patton steps lively along the gantry to where Neffum Claris, an overindulgent, fish-faced dignitary awaits him. The officially informs the Commander they have a problem. There’s been a breech in the energy barrier protecting their universe, it seems the small runner team crossed the boundary on Sodin into the past and he wants them hunted down and eliminated. Meanwhile, Jake learns of his heritage and the Kalamar Indigna as the medallion takes its place in the chest plate of armor as it forges itself around his body, revealing Jake Indigo Ramious for the first time.
The gunship leaps into the vast nothingness of time as the commander orders Crimson and her fighter, Brakka, to the surface. They missed something. It’s her job to find answers. A moment later, the ITOL fighter bursts out of the vortex at full throttle, hurtling across the landscape in the direction of the abandoned planet-rig mining platforms. In the meantime, Jake takes his place among the ITOL warriors, a member of the strike team. He confronts his own demons, ready to battle whatever lies ahead of them.
Meanwhile, the master-builders rise through the murky darkness into the audience chamber above the threshold of an Interdimensional temple where the faint image of a transparent sphere materializes at the center of the cavity. There is concern over the past; the future is no longer connected to the past. But Rallumn rebuts their concern. The master-builder, Alvericon, however, warns the tribunal that only a thin layer separates the futures. Its containment is failing and before the futures converge into a new universe, one coexisting reality will devour the other.
Jake, however, sees his adversary in a different light. He’s in touch with his fear and renews his commitment, the master of two worlds. His path is clearly visible on the other side of the barrier; then it is gone, obscured by the translucent nature of the barrier. Rooka Trent flops to the ground, overrun by the waves of distortion that bellow forth from the threshold at the core of their destination. While at that same moment, Krydal is absorbed by the vortex at the heart of the wave. He looks on at her, watching her vanish into the confines of another universe.
Jake vows to find her, to track her across time and space, to stop her before she alters the future, even if it means destroying her. Meanwhile, Commander Patton’s team hits the ground on the move, teleporting to the surface in the midst of the rupture in space-time. He scans the surface, uncertain they’ve returned to the right time and place.
On the other side of the boundary an all too familiar face watches the team from the obscurity of another time and place. The regenerative process begins. Paradise takes shape around Krydal then, as if out of a nightmare, there is a ripple in the master-builder’s plan. The boundary of the new universe begins its metamorphosis and expands… Crimson Krydal Starr puts her hand to the edge of the barrier, and electrical arcs race along the boundary, revealing the nature of the manufactured reality.
