JauntWorld: August 2008

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Jaunt Cast Bio, Part IV

We had three bios of the good guys, now one for the main baddie:
Lieutenant Vasily Zivenovich Nicolenko. Unknown birth city, suspected Vladivostok. Age mid-30s, DOB unknown. First Lieutenant, Russian Confederated Army. Awarded the Sword of the White Star, the Cross of St. George, the Russian Medal of Honor twice and the Putin Shield. Remote psychological profile performed by Division 12 of the IIA’s Forensic Psychoanalysis Directorate does not indicate bipolar tendencies or lapses in judgment. IIA suspects ties to the highest of the Confederated Armed Forces cadre. Marital status unknown. 5’ 7” (guess based on webfootage). No other data available.

JAUNT

Three caches of enigmatic jewels are discovered in Asia, artifacts from an extraterrestrial crash that bear a disturbing capability to alter time. Special Agent James Gilmour must overcome his distrust of his assignment and travel through space and time to prevent the Russian-led Confederation of Independent States from assembling a temporal superweapon from these jewels to conquer not just the world, but history itself.

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, the spacecraft has been waiting two centuries for this moment, when humanity finally awakens to a greater destiny. The Confederation has other ideas. It possesses Strela, a new class of missile, thanks to the jewels, that can bring the spacecraft's secrets home to Russia. A new World War—and World Order—is imminent. If Gilmour succeeds, no one will know. If he fails, no one will be around to know.

ETHER

Special Agent Greg Mason must probe the clandestine mystery that is Project Ether, a dark energy superweapons program rooted in the forbidden research of a rogue Iranian physicist, seemingly in the employ of the Russian-led Confederation of Independent States.

But all is not as it appears. With Mason and his team of IIA agents tracking the clues of Project Ether’s origins—from the remnants of North Korea, the deserts of Iran, the decks of a fast-attack submarine to the wastelands of Antarctica—a shocking disaster leads them to the inescapable truth: the Confederation is already armed with this superweapon, and the countdown to war has begun….