The Hero's Companion (The Hunter Legacy) (6 page)

The Captain of the Golgafrincham Arc B,
spent his time while in space, in a large bath on the bridge of his ship,
playing with a yellow rubber duck.

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in
five parts, by Douglas Adams.

Where else would you find something like
that?

Adaption of the monologue by Galadriel,
explaining the forging of the Rings of Power. Lord of the Rings flat screen
trilogy.

The Kilrathi were a race of bipedal
cats/tigers, from the Wing Commander computer games. The Dralthi was one of
their original front line fighters.

Based on the computer games World of
Warcraft, which the author never played.

The Borg from Star Trek, plugged themselves
in the power grid and the energy was converted into whatever the drone needed.
They therefore avoided the whole need to eat, drink, and the associated side
effects of doing so.

The magic machine which could turn the
non-organic, or just energy, into eatable food – The Star Trek Replicator,
first presented in The Next Generation.

Wolf 359 is a star about 7.8 lightyears
from Earth, towards the core down the arm of the galaxy.

It was the battleground for the epic unseen
battle between Starfleet and the Borg, which occurs at the end of the third
season of Star Trek The Next Generation. Since computer graphics weren't
available at the time, battles such as this one, where the pride of Starfleet
(20+ starships) was destroyed by a single Borg Cube, were too expensive to actually
film for a tv series, so the whole battle was off-camera. Only the resulting
ship graveyard was shown.

Thunderbirds was a square screen tv series
in the 1960's, using supermarionation (puppets on strings). It was about an
organization in the future called International Rescue, which had high tech
equipment beyond most other at the time. Ground breaking at its time, using
models and the occasional human hand to be more than a cartoon. It had an
incredible mix of detailed imagining about what the future would look like tech
wise, while completely missing the mundane future. So the aircraft are all
super high tech, but the cars and clothes are totally 1960's.

In 2015, a sequel series began, using
animation. The story continues from just after it left off in the original
series, with everything updated to the future in the way only computer graphics
can deliver, while keeping the original ships and concepts almost unchanged.

Palffy was the surname of the actor who
played Anubis in Stargate SG1. Anubis was the biggest baddest bad guy in the
series, part Goa'uld (parasite being which took human hosts), and part ascended
being.

Alien sentient robots with the ability to
change into any shape consistent with their base size.

Flat screen movie series.

Imperious Leader was the most augmented of
the Cylons in the original Battlestar Galactica, and thus gave all the orders.
In the books he was identified as having four brains.

From Luke Skywalker, character in the Star
Wars Movie series.

From Obi-wan Kenobi, character in the Star
Wars Movie series.

From Samantha Carter, character in Stargate
SG1.

From Elizabeth Sladen, who played the
character Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who.

Note: The author's sister spells her name
with an s instead a z, and the author wasn’t paying attention when he used it.

A group creature, where the group is more
than the sum of its individuals. Marvel's Avengers could be considered a
Gestalt, when functioning as a team.

First encountered in a book, now
unremembered.

Also used in the fourth season of Blakes 7.

"It’s a 106 miles to Chicago,"
she said deadpan. "We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes,
its dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."

"Hit it," I replied.

The Blues Brothers – square screen movie.

One of the all-time classics, mixing blues
music with humour. Jake and Elwood Blues, best described as an ongoing disaster
on a mission from God, who always wore black suits, black ties, black hats, and
sunglasses.

Homer Simpson, from the flat screen tv
series The Simpsons.

Square screen tv series, about a group of
prisoners of war, operating as a resistance group from Stalag 13, a POW camp in
Nazi occupied France during World War 2. Played for comedy, not drama.

From a 1975 song, Convoy, by C W McCall.

Character in Stargate SG1. His favourite tv
show is The Simpsons. In one episode he has a broken down ship called Homer. By
this time, the author just couldn’t resist.

Samantha Carter was a character in Stargate
SG1, played by Amanda Tapping. Enough already said.

Hugh Jackman was the Wolverine in the X-Men
flat screen movie series.

A digging and tunneling vehicle in the
series Thunderbirds.

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Borg
assimilate cities by ripping the entire area out of the ground, leaving behind
giant holes.

Star Trek The Next Generation: The last
thing you hear before you become a Borg drone is, 'We are the Borg. You will be
assimilated. Resistance is futile.'

Lord of the Rings, by
J. R. R.
Tolkien. The story is set on this land mass, the description of which matches
an undersea area of raised land, in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.

For reference, seek a map of the world which shows all the
underwater mountain ranges.

In late 2005, one week after the last Hurricane of the year
battered Florida, the author sat in a hotel room in Orlando. He meditated. When
he came to again, an hour had passed in the blink of an eye. It felt like he
had left the room completely, spent a day doing work at the etheric level, and
was returned an hour later. Unlike in every meditation he had ever experienced
before, there was no passing of time. Blink, gone, blink, back, one hour
missing. Even in sleep, there is an awareness of time having passed. It may
take checking the clock to find out how much, but the passing of linear time
always has awareness of it. Not this one time. Blink, gone, blink, back, one
hour missing.

A fog covered what he had been doing, as if the human
perception was not capable of processing what it experienced. But he felt the
fatigue of having been gone a day without sleep.

When he asked, ArcAngel Gabriel told him he had been
repairing the engines beneath the healing temples of the three Atlantean cities
which defined the area known as the Bermuda Triangle. Further, he was told he
was the one who failed to turn them off before the cities were drowned. And
over time, the engines had degraded greatly because they'd had no maintenance
in over thirty thousand years.

Believe it or not.

But there is one interesting fact:

Since the end of 2005, no hurricanes have crossed the
coastline of the USA. Florida averages seven hurricanes every four years, while
an average of three major ones cross the Florida coast every five years.

In the ten years since the author was there, none have
crossed the coast.

Co-incidence?

Que music from The Twilight Zone main title.
(1950's square screen tv series.)

The author at the time, was on a round the
world trip. He left the Gold Coast (Atlantean outpost off the coast), and
travelled Brisbane to Fiji (destroyed city to the Southwest). To Los Angeles
(outpost off the coast) and then Orlando Florida (The Bermuda Triangle). He
went north to Green Bay, Wisconsin (outpost in the lakes area), and back to
Orlando. Next stop was southwest Ireland (city off the southwest coast, where standing
on the shoreline, a beam of light came through heavy cloud to highlight the
place out to sea where the city lay – author has a photo). The last stop was
Malaysia (partially destroyed city to the southwest, near where the 2004
Tsunami originated).

Each stop along the way had Atlantean
significance. He called the trip his Circle of Atlantis, and established a
domain name on the internet using that name.

The Day of the Triffids was a 1951 novel,
made into a movie in 1962, three radio shows
in 1957, 1968 and 2008;
a square screen tv series in 1981, and a flat screen tv series in
2009.

Overnight, most of the population of the
world goes blind. An aggressive plant becomes the dominant species on the
planet, able to walk around, and with a large flower on top from which it
swings a long stinger. Once stung, a person dies very quickly. The survivors
with sight have to help those without it to survive, while trying to survive
themselves.

From the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy,
by Douglas Adams.

Generally means what you said, or just did,
was so profoundly weird or incomprehensible, any shrink poking around in your
head is in serious danger of getting hurt.

In the town of Abadania, one and a half
hours outside Brasilia in Brazil, there is a place called the Casa. Within, is
a man they call John of God, who is a trance medium who channels over sixty
Entities, who all do what is loosely called Faith Healing.

The author has been there twice, and has
written a guide for people planning on going there.

The energy of the place is real, and for
those who feel the energy coming off crystals, you can feel the energy rising
from the ground.

Data. From Star Trek The Next Generation.

When the Japanese bombed the Pearl Harbor
naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, the Battleship USS Arizona was one of
those sunk. Given the damage to it, it was never salvaged like some of her
sister ships were, which went on to play a role later in the war.

In 1962, the site was converted into a
Memorial, which continued to attract large numbers of tourists until shortly
before the world ended in 2284.

Mount Rushmore is a US National Memorial. It is a massive
sculpture carved into the Black Hills region of South Dakota between 1927 and
1941. The sculptures are about sixty feet high (about eighteen meters), carved
in granite, featuring the faces of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming USA,
is actually the site of the caldera of a super-volcano. The actual area
measures some
34 by 45 miles or 55 by 72 km.

There were three known main eruptions, some
2.1 million years ago, about 1.3 million years ago, and
about 630,000 years ago.

No-one can agree on what would happen to the planet if this
volcano erupted again.

Optimists believed the USA would have significant problems
feeding its population and the rest of the world would be affected very little.

Pessimists believed this could be an extinction level event,
or at the minimum plunge the world into a nuclear winter scenario.

Realists wanted the opportunity to emigrate off-world before
it blew, and received their wish.