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Splashdown
by Paul J. Joseph
Sally's life on Earth becomes boring when she turns to politics, but not for long. As UN space commissioner, Sally finds herself presiding over the aftermath of Earth's first colonial war. Baltan City, Earth's greatest achievement, tries to declare independence, which creates a violent and polarizing conflict. In the midst of this new cold war, an Earth ship from the future is entering the system and appears to be approaching Baltan. Sally and Ian must call a truce with the colonists long enough to investigate. The ill-fated mission launched 20 years after the day Sally Buds sets foot on Baltan involves the testing of an engine capable of creating its own fold. The results were disastrous. The crew of the Alliance ship Ultrablitz is still alive, technically, but they've been in transit for 1300 years in an attempt to stop their own mission. But, on further investigation, it becomes clear that there is yet more at stake and than one ship, and it falls upon Sally to decide the fate of
Episodes
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Episode 28
This episode contains a sample chapter of Infinity Machine. It also shares some reader's letters and discussion and includes the drawing for the original manuscript. If you like this series, yo ucan now buy the books in an ebook form on both Amazon and Barns and Nobel. It is also available…
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Episode 27 The Closing of the Circle
Sally and her crew return to Earth to implement the plan that sounds crazy. And in an unlikely spot in an urban neighborhood a miracle takes place.
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Episode 26 Going Home
Ian awakens to new challenges as the ship nears Earth. But are Sally's unusual plans for their return to Earth too paranoid or is she the only voice of reason? As the clock ticks on, decisions become more critical.
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Episode 25 Epiphany
As Sally begins her long journney home, she has time to contemplate the question of the fate of the Ultrablitz. As she begins to explore the story of the mission, a critical clue comes to light. But does she have the right to interfere with history?
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Episode 24 Earth Bound
Sally and her crew are now on course for Earth, but they have a long and difficult journey ahead of them. Worse, they are now only beginning to explore who they may trust and who they shouldn't. And facing them is the memory of a longer journey that is yet incomplete. It is to this that Sally…
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Episode 23 The Aftermath
Sally and Ian are reunited in the field of debris that is all that remains of the ultrablitz. But there is one more battle that must be completed before they can safely leave Baltan territory.
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Episode 22 The Waiting Game
Sally's standoff with Dr. Beasley leads her to discover that her situation isn't as bleak as she first thought. But then all hell breaks loose as Ian carries out his deadly mission on the Ultrablitz.
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Episode 21 Escape Plans
Diego alone explains the plans to help Sally and Jackie escape the city, and he explains them only as they are about to be put into motion. The plan is insane, but it's all that's left. But, even as they approach the finish line, one critical detail is missed.
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Episode 20 The Truth Sinks In
Sally confronts Diego after finally becoming fully alert and aclimated to the present. She questions his loyalties, but admires his discoveries. She also becomes aware of a machine he has restored which opens up a new world for their species and another.
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Episode 19 Awakening
Sally begins an operation that may prevent the dreaded blight from taking hold of one of her patients. But the stranger returns in the middle of the operation, bringing mahem. And then Sally wakes up to discover which reality was which. Now they must flee the city if they can do so in time.
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Episode 18 The Mysterious Stranger
While Sally struggles to survive Earth's attack on Baltan and save as many people as she can, she is confronted with a stranger with a familiar face and an impossible tale.
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Episode 17 War is Hell
Sally's efforts to prevent the attack on Baltan prove less than successful. Instead of avoiding the bloodshed, she must now witness it. And she has a front row seat! Meanwhile, several hundred years ago in another world, a different battle occurs, resulting in no deaths at all.
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Episode 16 Reversal of Fate
Still stuck at the train station, Sally now tries to enlist the help of the very people who sent her on her mission. But they are not as she remembered, and they have different lives now. In the midst of this an old mystery is revisited concerning the loss of an ancient ship at sea.
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Episode 15 Trouble at the Trainstation
Sally arrives on Baltan six years before she was captured, but she arrives the very day of the infamous attack. With no time to lose, she makes her way towards the central tower. But everyone from the train conductor to her former secretary on Earth do not believe a word she says.
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Episode 14 Journeys Through Time
Sally is led through the city to a place she didn't know existed for the purpose of carrying out her sentance. But will the strange attempt at time travel work or prove fatal?
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Episode 13 Monkey Trial and the absurd
Sally's trial opens and more details of Earth's supposed atrocities are revealed and no obvious attention is given to her defense. But the sentance the court imposes on her is anything but conventional and it may not even be possible.
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Episode 12 Mercy's Mystery
Sally's deposition in preparation for her trial is made more difficult by the impending mystery of Mercy Collins' strange involvement with the Ultrablitz. The unfolding story proves that their problems are bigger than they would appear.
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Episode 11 The Other Side
Details emerge concerning what the Ultrablitz first saw when it's journey was concluded, but more questions emerge with each revelation. Meanwhile, Sally waits for her trial to begin and gets an unexpected visit from Ian. He now knows why the multicraft's systems did not fail when the other…
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Episode 10 The Nature of the Alien
As Sally prepares for her trial, she and Jackie compare notes on what the mysterious alien found onboard the ship might have looked like. We also learn more of Travis's original mission and what happened when they engaged their mysterious funnel initiator.
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Episode 9 The Historic Achievement
Sally and Ian continue to explore the Ultrablitz's past in an attempt to understand the notorious Funnel Initiator. But in the middle of a critical discovery, Sally is taken back into custody to await trial on Baltan. And, while Diego is describing alien technology, Rachel Poole makes another...
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Episode 8 The Mighty Engine
Ian is tasked with trying to stop the mysterious ship, but his knowledge of how to do so is dangerously limited and the one man who could help him is barely alive. But his last words represent a secret they could not have been prepared to hear.
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Episode 7 Trouble Ahead
Sally calls on an old friend to help her in her study of the cybernetic creatures that are the remains of the crew, though her analysis of the technology has less than useful results. In the mean time, Ian has been getting acquainted with future events in the ship's database, but he doesn't like...
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Episode 6 The Ship of Mystery
The time has come to board the ancient ship and Ian and Diego are to be the first to see what is inside. The ship is an ancient ruin, yet fits the design specifications of ships well known. And there is one remaining crewmember onboard to greet them. An ancient man, more machine than human…
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Episode 5 The Coming Mission
When Sally finally sees Jackie, she is forced to realize that Dr. Beasley may not be as innocent as she was led to believe. She and Ian also get a better look at the approaching mystery ship, which is now moving to intercept the city. Clearly somebody is flying the ship and it uses a technology...
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Episode 4 Culture Clash
Following the difficult meeting with Hans Melba, Sally is introduced to another of Baltan's secrets, namely the mystery of the Lower City, a vast area she originally assumed to be empty. Next, on a tense visit to a hospital, she is introduced to the blight, a disease that is as strange as it is...
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Episode 3 Prisoner of Fanatics
Sally's situation deteriorates further when she finds herself under arrest by an angry group of people known as the Mercy Party. She soon finds out that Baltan City has been taken over during the time she was in flight, and the fact that she flattened one of their leaders won't help her case. But...
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Episode 2 Tense Departure
The journey to Baltan City is turbulent. The space port is filled with armed guards and terrorism is the watch word. Worse, the hush hush nature of their departure forces them to trust people they don't know. But things grow worse after the launch. The ship goes off course for unknown reasons and...
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Episode 1 The Mission and the War
In this first installment we find Sally unhappily at work as UN space commissioner, buried in paperwork and struggling with bureaucrats. Earth is at war now with its first space colony, now hidden beyond the orbit of Jupiter, and everybody has a different opinion concerning which side was in the...
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Sally's life on Earth becomes boring when she turns to politics, but not for long. As UN space commissioner, Sally finds herself presiding over the aftermath of Earth's first colonial war. Baltan City, Earth's greatest achievement, tries to declare independence, which creates a violent and polarizing conflict. In the midst of this new cold war, an Earth ship from the future is entering the system and appears to be approaching Baltan. Sally and Ian must call a truce with the colonists long enough to investigate. The ill-fated mission launched 20 years after the day Sally Buds sets foot on Baltan involves the testing of an engine capable of creating its own fold. The results were disastrous. The crew of the Alliance ship Ultrablitz is still alive, technically, but they've been in transit for 1300 years in an attempt to stop their own mission. But, on further investigation, it becomes clear that there is yet more at stake and than one ship, and it falls upon Sally to decide the fate of
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