AMP
(Vol. 1)
Messenger
By
Stephen Arseneault
Published By:
Stephen Arseneault
Copyright © 2014-2015 Stephen Arseneault
“We live on a tiny speck of a world, in a small galaxy, in this massive universe. Are we alone? In our lifetimes, will we be able to reach out and travel to a distant world? To interact with alien lifeforms? That which is physically impossible today, is always possible within our imaginations. Let's take on a new galaxy... shall we?”
S.A.
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Books written by Stephen Arseneault
SODIUM Series
A six-book series that takes Man from his first encounter with aliens all the way to a fight for our all-out survival. Do we have what it takes to rule the galaxy?
AMP Series
Cast a thousand years into the future beyond SODIUM. This eight-book series chronicles the struggles of Don Grange, a simple package deliveryman, who is thrust into an unimaginable role in the fight against our enemies. Can we win peace and freedom after a thousand years of war?
OMEGA Series
Cast a thousand years into the future beyond AMP. The Alliance is crumbling. When corruption and politics threaten to throw the allied galaxies into chaos, Knog Beutcher gets caught in the middle. Follow along as our hero is thrust into roles that he never expected or sought. Espionage, intrigue, political assassinations, rebellions and full-on revolutions, they are all coming to Knog Beutcher's world!
HADRON Series
HADRON is a modern day story unrelated to the SODIUM-AMP-OMEGA trilogy series. After scientists using the Large Hadron Collider discover dark matter, the world is plunged into chaos. Massive waves of electromagnetic interference take out all grid power and forms of communication the world over. Cities go dark, food and water supplies are quickly used up, and marauders rule the highways. Months after the mayhem begins, and mass starvation has taken its toll, a benevolent alien species arrives from the stars. Only, are they really so benevolent? Find out in HADRON as Man faces his first real challenge to his dominance of Earth!
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Chapter 1
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It was not a journey of our choosing. In a single event, every Human was transported away from the Earth to a distant galaxy. A galaxy dominated by beings bent on conquest. All references to our precious Earth and its location were wiped from our memories, the event itself forgotten. Man’s origin became a thing of mystery and rumor. For a thousand years, our home was an immense space station called the Grid.
The Grid was a globe-like structure, as large as the Earth's moon. Who built it, we didn’t know. It had the capacity to sustain a billion Human lives. Its ultrafast gravity drive was like none other in the galaxy, powered by hydrogen that had to be constantly mined and stored.
The first in our lineage did what they could to record all that could be remembered. A massive effort to archive our knowledge was undertaken shortly after our arrival. That undertaking was cut short after an attack. A hostile species wanted us dead. We had done nothing to provoke their anger. We were forced to run. More of our knowledge was lost with each passing generation as we struggled to survive. After a thousand years, our history was limited to the study of the archives by our scholars or those looking for some other meaning in their lives. Our new history began with life on the Grid.
The archives contained references to four other stations of equal size. Three had been destroyed in early battles, killing billions of our kind; the fourth had gone missing, further fragmenting our knowledge of the past. We were wandering through a galaxy we did not know, while hostiles pursued us, threatening our species' very existence.
Since our arrival, we had been on the run from an alien species named the Milgari, who were bent on our annihilation, chasing us with a relentless rage. They conquered every species in their path as they pushed to extend their growing empire.
For a decade at a time we found peace in a new sector, but war came again. And, like many times before, we were not prepared. Our politicians had grown lazy and corrupt. Spies for the Milgari filled our halls. Only those true to the Human cause could save us; courage and forethought were our only hopes.
The Grid was our home, our life, our refuge. We would fight to protect her from harm. We would fight for our species to survive. Our fate would rest with our own actions...