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Prologue: The Ascension Myth Ell Leigh Clarke

“When people of the ancient world Earth dreamed of the future, they imagined humans sprawled across the galaxies, ruling the world, making the right and just decisions.” This was the basis for their explorations and their activities. It’s true. Humans did travel across and beyond their galaxy, by virtue of the Yollin Annex Gate. But not to reign as all powerful demi-gods, rather to become the underdog.

One generation left early, seeking new places that felt like their home until they found their place to stay, the new home world of Estaria. A large planet, dusty and dry, where their sun, the Sark, would light their days as they traveled around it.

The Milky Way they left behind became known as the Pan Galaxy – because that was what it resembled from the far edges of the aging Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. To those who had lived on the other side of the Annex all their lives, their home was known as the Loop Galaxy on account of the way it circled the Pan.

TAM 01/ 1, 2, 3, 4 MOLLY BATES

01/1    Molly awakens to her day to find that the capacity on the hacked and upgraded holo device wired into her central nervous system was registering 98%. VERY unusual. Remembering that she had been in the AI lab the night before, she realized that her holo device must have been hacked by a sentient being, as only an entity of that type could take up so much space. She was correct. After meeting and greeting the being (it had used the Ethertrak to jump into her holo), they both agreed that it should go by the name of OZ, and should act in accordance with moral and just principles inherent in Molly’s beliefs.
   

Molly realizes that she needs to escape from her military duties (they wouldn’t allow her to be “inhabited”, that Oz would be put to horrible duties (killing, destroying things), and Oz files a 4077 to allow her to be eligible for immediate discharge. (Sexual misconduct?)

01/2 After discharge, Molly meets Pete Durham, a long-time friend, in a bar, needs a job, and to make money, legally, fast. Cannot use existing set-up trust. Joel had heard of a task she might do – stop a case of price manipulation. There were whispers of hiking the prices of a painkiller that many Estarians used, to three times their market value, just because they can. Lots of hacking. Joel will get back to her on it.

     Outside the pharmaceutical's building, hacking into system . Wasn’t working- will see what Oz can do with it. Oz got in, but Joel found inside due to unusual presence with no activity. Molly throws smoke grenade through third floor window as diversion, Joel pulls peg from computer (job done), escapes through ventilation shafts. Oz had deleted all of their identity info from government files, so could not be traced. Oz to put up warning programs if government starts looking for them.
   
    Joel and Molly think about taking activities off-world. Will need money, people, ships, more jobs. Put out the word! Maybe Bethany Anne would come along and help!
   
    Three more job offers, but found out Mac Kern, the one who had led them do the painkiller job, was really a competitor of the company, so will have a talk with Mac! Don’t do it again! Cannot use them for own ends!
  
    As a result of information on the holo cams, Joel was attacked by an Ogg and two Estarians. Oz tracked him by his holo, saw security cams, knew he had been kidnapped. Oz gets her into building, looping security cams. Molly gets into room, electrocutes three Estarians and Joel, brings Joel back with adrenalin, escapes. Decides that they needed better security, advanced thinking. Will have to have better base.     

The third generation of humans who settled on Estaria had a little girl. Her name is Molly. Broken in spirit, she didn’t understand that the future is determined not on your mistakes, but on the depth of your spirit to make things happen and the power of those who believed in you.

    This set of stories explain how Molly and those who came to love the broken young woman would challenge the might of the political and powerful and find out the truth…"  Prologue: The Ascension Myth  Ell Leigh Clarke