Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of All Trades

[Keius' human creations, Ouranos and Gaia, have kids. The youngest of them, Cronus/Satan rebels against Ouranos/Yahweh, throwing him out an airlock, where he lives on though powerlessly floating in space. War of Titans vs Olympians (rebel angels vs loyal angels), Titans lead by Cronus/Satan, Olympians ("the Pantheon") lead by youngest cousin Zeus/Michael and oldest cousin Metis/Gabriel at the behest of grandmother Gaia/Shekhina. The gods/angels all fall from heaven (crash in Cronus' spaceship). Titans are trapped in stasis on the ship on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, Cronus/Satan falls to Earth (thrown from the crashing ship) over Auei (pre-deluge Oceania), the Olympians crash with the Titans and swim to the shores of Auei as the Titans sink to the seafloor.]

In the beginning, mighty Keius created great mother Keie after his own likeness, and from her created her brother and husband, great father Oron.

After Keius departed, from Keie and Oron were born first the son Osan, then the daughter Teth, and in turn Koie and Fibe, Heli and Teie, Krie, Iape, Temi, Mnem, Rhea, and lastly Kron.

When Keie and Oron set their children to do the work that Keius had set forth for them, studying and preserving mankind in their natural state, Kron defied his father and in the ensuing battle cast him into the void, where he lived still, though impotent. As Kron assumed leadership of his bretheren, great mother Keie warned him that some day he would have children as well, and they may well rise up against himself likewise. From the void Oron too cried out that this would be the just fate of Kron.

Because of this prophecy, Kron imprisoned every child born unto him by his sister and consort Rhea, until she tired of his actions and hid their last child Diu away. She sent him to earth with great mother Keie, who raised him amongst the primitive humans, hidden from the eye of his wrathful father.

Eventually the children of the titans grew tired of Kron's tyranny, and lead by Met, the eldest daughter of the eldest titan Osan, rebelled against their parents, and on that day Keie sent Diu back to his cousins to aid them in their battle. The wives and sisters of the titans abstained from the battle and so were spared by their children. Osan joined with his daughter against his brothers and for that was cast down from heaven into the sea. In the end Diu himself freed his siblings, defeated Kron, and cast him down to earth, while Met and her kin imprisoned their fathers and uncles who had fought with Kron (namely Koie, Helo, Krie, and Iape) in the depths. Their mothers, who had not fought them, were spared, as was Osan who had fought with them, and they went on to prosper under the subsequent leadership of Diu and Met.

The Pantheon tutors the primitive humans and creates Auei (Hawaiki/Peng-lai/Atlantis/Eden) civilization on the then-shores of now-Oceania. First king, Adam/Prometheus, given xian-gu/ambrosia/soma/tree-of-life to prolong his life indefinitely. His queen Eve/Pandora is seduced into weaponmaking for war and hunting by Satan/Cronus. The Pantheon abandons mankind when they start using technology for war and pillaging of the Earth, rather than in harmonious, peaceful ways. Without tree-of-life, Eve eventually dies of old age, then Adam not long thereafter. First war: Cainites vs Abelites; a war of succession after Adam and Eve's deaths. Cain follows in his mother's footsteps (domination and industry) while Abel follows in his father's footsteps (peace and harmony). Abel is killed and his supporters nearly conquered by the Cainites. The Olympians return temporarily to stop this early civilization from tearing itself apart. Cain is banished, and his followers defeated.

Gods attempt to return to space by building a gravitic lift in equatorial Indonesia (Tower of Babel). Project aborted due to rising tides from the Pleistocene-Holocene flood. Auei civilization destroyed by the flood, diaspora to nearby lands. (Circa 10,000 B.C.) Zeus, prodded on by Cronus, psychically "kills" Metis to prevent a repeat of history (Athena's birth) somewhere in here, but Athena just takes over Metis' body, and Metis' mind lives on, buried in Zeus' psyche.

Zeus, ashamed of his actions with Metis + Athena, goes on vacation to China, becomes "Huangdi", and founds ancient Chinese civilization. The rest of the Pantheon visit India. (Through circa 3,000 B.C.)

Zeus rejoins the Pantheon in Europe / North Africa. Zeus is also Odin et al. Jesus is Baldir? (death instigated by Loki?) The rise and fall of Rome. Cronus corrupts society again. (Through circa 1 A.D.)

Ancient astronauts and crystal skulls in the Incan empire; and Loki is a dick. The Pantheon finally gets a gravitic lift built in what would become Ecuador, take off in their spaceship, and destroy their constuction site, burying Loki under the rubble in the process. (Through circa 1,500 A.D.)

Illuminati-esque; Vampires and Werewolves?

MiB/X-Files-esque; "aliens" (Foundationers in spacesuits) and UFOs (Foundation spaceships).

Millenium?

In China, a terrible (but publically unspecified) defect is found in the latest crop of the monocultured, genetically-engineered 'superfood' staple which now feeds most of the country. That entire season's crop is destroyed. Famine ensues, followed by mass rioting, eventually culminating in the bombing of the headquarters of the research department of the Zhang Corporation (the producer of the superfood as well as many other products) in Xi'an. But as the building collapses, an unexpected and massive secondary explosion erupts from the basement floors, and in one brilliant flash, the entire city of Xi'an becomes a glowing crater in the earth, and tremors from the explosion are felt clear across Asia.

In response, a state of martial law is declared, and the riots are largely quelled. However, a more dedicated revolutionary movement has already begun amongst the rioters, and they are merely forced underground by the omnipresent military police. For many years the revolution has only a shadowy and elusive face in their popular leader Lan Cae-he, until one day a new face appears from nowhere to bring the revolution public. His calls himself Long Xian, the Immortal Dragon, and he makes the preposterous claim to the title of Emperor of China, claiming to be descended from the mythical immortals who first created civilization in distant ages past. Though ridiculed and ignored at first, he quickly proves to have a great deal of military prowess, winning numerous small skrimishes against the military police with the aid of his elder brother Cao Guo-jiu and his mysterious advisor Han Xiang-zi.

Long quickly becomes China's Public Enemy #1, but somehow always manages to elude capture. Lan Cae-he soon contacts Long, and a secret plan to bring about the full revolution is concocted. A number of high-level secret revolutionaries publically declare their allegiance to Long. Their numbers include Zhang Guo-lao, the former president of the Zhang Corporation, who was ousted after the disasterous crop failure; former admiral Zhoung Li-quan, an eloquent orator who was once largely responsible for rousing support for the state of martial law, until he saw what it had done to his fair country and resigned; and most devastatingly, active General Li Ti-gui, one of the most decorated commanders of the Chinese army. With each of these renowned figures comes many supporters to Long's cause, both civillian and military, and they gather together on a small coastal farm outside of Guangzhou.

In response to this public act of defiance, Commander Xing and his elite team of lieutenants Lu, Fu, and Shou move to crush the uprising outside Guangzhou. While Xing and Shou secure the coast east and west of the farm, Lu is to advance his large forces in file from the north, distracting the rebel forces while Fu sneaks a crack team of assassins in south of the farm via personal submersible watercraft. But while Fu's forces get into position, Lu must stand and parley with Long and his men, and as he does so he finds himself moved by Zhoung's impassioned words, just as he had been when he first decided to join the army years ago. So when Fu himself emerges from behind Long and his men, weapon drawn and ready to fire, Lu fires first. As Lu is an expert marksman, Fu dies instantly from a single bullet to the head.

With that shot, chaos breaks loose. Long's forces move to counter Fu's assassins, while Lu's forces begin to divide after a moment of bewilderment. In the end more of Lu's men follow his lead in defecting to Long's side than not, and the rebel forces are victorious for the moment. But Xing and Shou are still nearby, so they must still retreat - as planned.

[TO DO: HOW DO THEY GET AWAY? BY SEA? BY AIR? THEN WHAT ABOUT LAN'S AMBUSH?]

The retreating rebel forces draw Xing into an ambush set by Lan Cae-he. Xing is killed, and Shou retreats. The rebels head westward to an as-yet-undiscosed location. On the way, Lu is given a test of his loyalty. Long's forces raid a small nearby military supply depot, commanded by an old friend of Lu's. Lu is given the task of convincing his friend to join the rebel cause, or killing him otherwise. The depot commander refuses to defect, however, and Lu, reluctantly, kills him, proving his loyalty to Long and the rebel cause.

It is revealed that the rebels are headed to an old abandoned Zhang Corp facility in the Kun-lin mountains, where the rebels have been secretly manufacturing the key to their victory: a robotic army. They are followed of course, but a force of robotic soldiers is aleady en route to their position, and holds off the pursuers while the rebels retreat to their secret stronghold. From there, the remainder of the robot army begins to make its roundabout way north and then west toward Beijing.

On the way, a detour is made at Lu's hometown near Xining, which has been beseiged by Shou's forces to draw Lu there. Long allows Lu to take a small (non-robotic) force to free his friends and family; but Lu finds his wife kidnapped, and takes the forces allotted to him into Xining to kill Shou and save his wife, without Long's permission. However, as the mission is successful, Lu is forgiven his indiscretion. Lan helps Lu sneak his wife into a nearby safe house for rebel sympathizers.

En route to Beijing, one more stop must be made. Zhang has revealed the (still publically mysterious) origin of the explosion which destroyed Xi'an. The Zhang Corp was researching gravitomagnetic technology, and discovered from that incident that the Hawking radiation put out by an artificially sustained singularity as it destabilizes is devastating in power. Since then, Zhang Corp has been working to weaponize this effect as a "gravitic bomb": far more powerful than any nuclear weapon ever built, yet without any lingering radiation or fallout. The rebels infiltrate the facility where these gravitic bombs are now being manufactured, steal the few which have been constructed thus far, and destroy the rest of the lab.

Finally the rebels and their robot army begin the assault of Beijing. Simultaneously, Lan's rebel cells across the country rise up against the military police, and China is thrown into chaos once more. As the battles rage, Long detonates one gravitic bomb in the countryside between Beijing and Tianjin, and threatens that Tianjin itself will be next if the government does not immediately surrender to him; and that if they still do not surrender after Tianjin, Beijing will be next. Though many even on his own side are shocked and appalled by this tactic, it is successful, and the People's Republic of China surrenders to Long Xian.

As the revolution quiets down, its leaders meet to construct a new government for their country. Long insists on holding his 'rightful' title of Emperor, but it little concerned with the actual day-to-day governance of the country, so long as he retains final say and can set the overall direction. Lan, being a populist revolutionary, favors a loose confederation of democratic socialist regions. The others in turn have their concerns, and in the end they compromise on a federal parliamentary monarchy modelled loosely after an amalgam of the British and the United States governments. Long retains the title of Emperor, and supreme command over the military and all foreign policy, but he has little to no domestic power. His appointed council of nobles (consisting mostly of the leadership of the revolution, and known as the "Ba Xian") form one house of the bicameral parliament. The various regions of China are given a large degree of autonomy, and elect from their numbers a set of representatives proportional to their population, to constitute the second house of the parliament. In this form, China is able to grow and to prosper, and to rebuild itself to its former glory, and beyond...

Meanwhile, high in the Andes mountains outside Quito, Ecuador, archaeologists unearth the ruins of an advanced Incan settlement which appears to have been destroyed by a landslide in the late 15th century. In the ruins, only a single body is found, crushed by rocks but remarkably well-preserved in the Andean snow. The body is excavated and taken in cold storage back to Quito for examination. However, while no one is watching the body, it heals and awakens and begins to wander the lab. Confronted by security for being a naked stranger in a restricted area, the confused, mysterious man reacts violently. Though he is shot by security, he powers through and continues his attack, so security is forced to shoot him dead.

The mysterious stranger awakens in a hospital in Brazil. It is difficult for him to communicate with his doctors, the closest thing the stranger can speak to any of their languages is some strange dialect of Latin. But communication is possible, and in speaking with his doctors, he reveals that he has no more knowledge of his identity or origins than they do. He remembers nothing before awakening in the lab, not even his own name.

The doctors tell him that they have no idea how he got into that building or where he came from, but more interestingly, they have no idea how he has managed to make such a miraculous recovery from multiple, normally fatal gunshot wounds. They say that you couldn't even tell now that he had been shot, the recovery is so complete. That is why he was brought to a larger hospital here in Brazil for more extensive study; but so far, everyone is at a loss as to the origin of his remarkable healing abilities.

On further research it appears that he has some sort of nanotechnological supplemental immune system which quickly repairs any damage done to his body and destroys any foreign tissue which enters it. Due to the latter effect, these nanites cannot simply be transported into another body, for they will reject their new host as "foreign" and destroy it from the inside out. So instead, scientists study the nanites and attempt to recreate them with their own limited nanotechnology. But something goes horribly wrong...

[TO DO: FINISH THIS. The unknown man helps combat the zombie army now spreading across South America. His memories start coming back, and on returning to the mountain where he was found, he recalls that he is the god Loki, who was buried here when the rest of the gods abandoned him and left Earth centuries ago. Then what?]

[TO DO: MAKE THIS BETTER]

Meanwhile, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a man known as Christian Xalos has united a number of Pacific island nations into the Pacific Islands International Coalition, with the goal of jointly funding the world's first "starbridge", a space elevator utilizing gravitomagnetic technology and organic fullerene construction, drawing on ample carbon resources in the oceans and atmosphere. When completed, it contains over ten thousand huge floors, each a thousand stories tall and nearly five hundred square miles in size, for a total internal surface area nearly equal to that of Australia. Yet despite this colossal scale it appears a mere thread in the air compared to the size of the Earth. With the ample resources and easy access to space of the Xalos Starbridge, the Pacific Islands International Coalition quickly becomes an world-class economic powerhouse.

Meanwhile in China, decades later, Long and the Ba Xian are still alive and ruling due to a secret known as Xian-gu. It turns out the "terrible" defect of the failed season of crops was the unintentional activation of a previously unknown genetic sequence coding for an amazing healing organelle. Though China has prosperred domestically, it has become very unpopular in foreign affairs for its policy of annexing smaller neighboring country on the terms of "join us and retain most of your autonomy, or resist and be conquered by force." Though North Korea joins willingly and Mongolia is successfully conquered, other power such as Russia, India, Japan, and the former Soviet-block countries to the west, are not so easily annexed, and as tensions mount on those borders, China moves to capture southeast Asia.

To dissuade Long from persuing wars against its powerful neighbors, Han tells Long of a secret weapon he should procure before engaging them, hidden on sunken island of Peng-lai, which in fact lies somewhere on the flooded continental shelf around Indonesia, Australia and Zealandia. The nations of this region engage in maritime combat with Long's forces to keep him out of their territory, but Long succeeds in finding an ancient seafloor settlement anyway, which he raises to the surface via gravitomagnetics.

[TO DO: FINISH THIS.]

Lu, Lan, and Li defect from the Ba Xian. Zhoung and Zhang die in the conflict, Lu's wife He turns out to have been having an affair with Long and joins him, and Han stays by his side as always. Cao disappears into the wilderness.

Meanwhile North America is overrun by zombies too. The Carribean islands are the only part of the Americas that manage to remain zombie-free.

The Pacific Islands International Coalition comes to the rescue on both fronts. Turns out Xalos is Cronus, and Han is Zeus. Zombies cured, Long defeated. Asia, Oceania, and North and South America united into the Greater Pacific International State. New Starbridges built on Peng-lai and the site where Loki was found.

Earth is divided and then united; U.N. (Europe + Africa) vs the Internation (Asia + Oceania + Americas). Luna, under U.N. control, is a major point of contention (providing a stepping stone into deeper space, with a small Martian colony already under way). The Internation eventally wins over Africa; the fourth Starbridge is built near Lake Victoria, and the World Ring is built connecting all four, surpassing Luna as the dominant route into space.

The Internation begins slowly turning Venus into a tropical paradise via their sapient robots, and Mercury is turned into the mining and manufacturing center of the solar system. The Jovian moons are colonized as well. People banished from Earth for high crimes or incurable criminal insanity are taken to Mars, which is harsh but already habitable, where they are watched over by robotic wardens.

What remains of the U.N. in Europe retains control of Luna and desperately struggles to keep up with the Internation in it's space-colonization program, and also resents the use of Mars as a prison colony as they have already established a happy colony of intrepid frontierspeople and don't like their new world being peopled with Earth's dregs. On Earth, the Internation eventually wins over Europe as well, but Luna remains independent even thereafter and continues relations with their Martian colony.

Christi, a biological recreation of Metis (though her memories of that life are still extremely faint), is the star of this trilogy, and is guided by Zeus throughout, eventually remembering that she once loved him.

Earth and Luna struggle over the status of robot citizenship and control of the Venusian colony.

Cronus/Lucifer rises on Mars and turns his eye on Earth. The freed titans Koie, Helo, Krie, and Iape are the Four Horsemen.

The Portal is discovered and opened; mankind freaks about meeting the Ehrban and begins a war with them. (The Ehrban are already fighting a war with the Berol on another front, unbeknownst to mankind). The Foundation reveals themselves to mankind in general and assumes command of the human fleets against the Ehrban.

The luminal-speed interstellar exploration ship Achilles, sent out some decades ago, finally reaches its destination; a former Ehrban world on the Asiron side of the portal network. They learn much of forgotten galactic history.

The Achilles returns to Earth and informs mankind of their discoveries. The Foundation realizes that the Berol, not the Ehrban, are the alien threat that Keius warned them about aeons ago. Efforts are made to reconcile and ally with the Ehrban against the Berol (for Foundation technology is more advanced than even contemporary Ehrban technology). The Berol then send a strike force to Earth to wipe out the strange new threat.

Luna is utterly destroyed destroyed in the battle, Earth is ruined by the fallout (Starbridges and World Ring collapse), and mankind is knocked back to the stone age.

As Earth falls, Zeus believes Christi to have died in battle against the Berol, and returns to Earth to retrieve "her" mind from Virtuality before the network loses all power and she is lost forever. Christi is alive though, saved by Cronus, and is sent to Earth to protect Zeus while Cronus holds off the Berol with the Foundation. Zeus is buried in rubble beneath a falling Starbridge while connected to Virtuality, and Christi's ship is hit by falling lunar debris and crashes to the Earth. The end?

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