Splashdown

By: Paul J. Joseph
  • Summary

  • Sally's life on Earth becomes boring when she turns to politics, but not for long. As UN space commissioner, Sally finds herself presiding over the aftermath of Earth's first colonial war. Baltan City, Earth's greatest achievement, tries to declare independence, which creates a violent and polarizing conflict. In the midst of this new cold war, an Earth ship from the future is entering the system and appears to be approaching Baltan. Sally and Ian must call a truce with the colonists long enough to investigate. The ill-fated mission launched 20 years after the day Sally Buds sets foot on Baltan involves the testing of an engine capable of creating its own fold. The results were disastrous. The crew of the Alliance ship Ultrablitz is still alive, technically, but they've been in transit for 1300 years in an attempt to stop their own mission. But, on further investigation, it becomes clear that there is yet more at stake and than one ship, and it falls upon Sally to decide the fate of thousands of people across the centuries.
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Episodes
  • Episode 1 The Mission and the War
    Jan 7 2013

    In this first installment we find Sally unhappily at work as UN space commissioner, buried in paperwork and struggling with bureaucrats.  Earth is at war now with its first space colony, now hidden beyond the orbit of Jupiter, and everybody has a different opinion concerning which side was in the right.  In the midst of this, Ian discovers a mysterious ship approaching the solar system from somewhere far away.  And this ship appears to be from the future.  The implications of how this will affect the war are too big to ignor, and Sally must decide whether Ian's suggested mission is brave or foolish.  Either way, she will probably have to go.

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    48 mins
  • Episode 2 Tense Departure
    Jan 15 2013

    The journey to Baltan City is turbulent.  The space port is filled with armed guards and terrorism is the watch word.  Worse, the hush hush nature of their departure forces them to trust people they don't know.  But things grow worse after the launch.  The ship goes off course for unknown reasons and their arrival on Baltan is anything but warm.

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    50 mins
  • Episode 3 Prisoner of Fanatics
    Jan 19 2013

    Sally's situation deteriorates further when she finds herself under arrest by an angry group of people known as the Mercy Party.  She soon finds out that Baltan City has been taken over during the time she was in flight, and the fact that she flattened one of their leaders won't help her case.  But what do they want from her?  More mysteries await.

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    57 mins

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