INEVITABILITY – A progression of events that is inexorable and unalterable.
INITIATOR – A person directly responsible for a new Time Meridian (Like Mohammed, or Christ). A Prime Mover of great significance.
LEVER – A secondary contributor to movement in a series of events.
MERIDIAN – An established line of temporal events on the continuum.
NEXUS POINT – A point of connection, intersection or branching of one or more Meridians in the Time continuum.
NODE – A specific point on a Time Meridian.
OUTCOME – A desired result achieved by a temporal Transformation – Usually referring to the positive.
PARADOX – Time’s way of correcting errors in the Time continuum. Paradox is a real force, and quite dangerous. It kills or erases people and objects from the Time Meridian when unaccountable complications arise from their actions. A Paradox is NOT simply a thorny problem; it is a real effect and force of annihilation—a kind of “Anti-Time.”
PENUMBRA – The shadow of influence on future events cast by an Imperative.
POINT OF ORIGIN – The temporal locus where a person or object becomes a Prime Mover.
PRIME MOVER – A primary causative lever or agent for an event – usually a person but sometimes an object.
PUSH POINT – A moment of insignificance that gives rise to a key event on a Time Meridian. Often associated with a Prime Mover.
QUANTUM KARMA – The influence of causality on a Time Meridian. Each moment on the Meridian affects the next, and certain Prime Movers accumulate an aura of Quantum Karma around them that also has profound effects on the configuration of future moments in Time.
RADICAL TRANSFORMATION – A catastrophic alteration of the Temporal Condition.
RESONANCE – Information available in the intersection of a Nexus Point, where many alternate Meridians “resonate” data concerning the outcome of events.
TEMPORAL CONDITION – The matrix, pattern or state of affairs in a given time period.
TRANSFORMATION – Any change in a Time Meridian that alters a future Temporal Condition.
TRANSFORMER – A person who causes a Transformation.
VANISHING POINT – The exact moment in Time when an object is removed and transported elsewhere in the continuum.
VARIATION – A subtle change in a Time Meridian that does not significantly alter Temporal Conditions.
WEIGHT OF OPINION – The culmination and likely outcome of future events as a result of a potential transformation, as perceived and reported by the Golem search cloud.
WILLFUL EVENT – Events resulting from decisions or actions taken by human beings
ZOMBIE – The walking dead. A person, fated to die, but whose life has been spared due to a willful intervention in a Time Meridian. Paradox will allow the elimination of a Zombie by restoring the moment of his natural death to the continuum.
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The Meridian Series ~ Novels By John Schettler
The adventure begins on the eve of the greatest experiment ever attempted—Time travel. As the project team meets for their final mission briefing, the last member, arriving late, brings startling news. Catastrophe threatens and the fate of the Western World hangs in the balance. But a visitor from another time arrives bearing clues that will carry the hope of countless generations yet to be born.
The project team members slowly come to the realization that a “Time War” is being waged by unseen adversaries in the future. The quest for an ancient fossil leads to an amazing discovery hidden in the Jordanian desert. A mysterious group of assassins plot to decide the future course of history, just one battle in a devious campaign that will span the Meridians of time, both future and past.
When Nordhausen follows a hunch and launches a secret time jump mission on his own, he uncovers an operation being run by unknown adversaries from the future. The incident has dramatic repercussions for Kelly Ramer, his place in the time line again threatened by paradox. Kelly’s fate is somehow linked to an ancient Egyptian artifact, once famous the world over, and now a forgotten slab of stone. The result is a harrowing mission to Egypt during the time frame of Napoleon’s 1799 invasion.
The cryptic ending of Touchstone dovetails perfectly into this next volume as Paul insists that Kelly has survived, and is determined to bring him safely home. Only now is the true meaning of the stela unearthed at Rosetta made apparent—a grand scheme to work a catastrophic transformation of the Meridians, so dramatic and profound in its effect that the disaster at Palma was only a precursor.
Nordhausen is back with new research and his hand on the neck of the new terrorist behind the Palma Event. Now the project team struggles to discover how and where the Assassins have intervened to restore the chaos of Palma, and their search leads them on one of the greatest naval sagas of modern history.
Other work by John Schettler
Kirov – Alternate Military History (Naval) – Available 2012
The battlecruiser Kirov, is the most power surface combatant that ever put to sea. Built from the bones of all four prior Kirov Class battlecruisers, she is updated with Russia’s most lethal weapons, given back her old name, and commissioned in the year 2020. A year later, with tensions rising to the breaking point between Russia and the West, Kirov is completing her final missile trials in the Arctic Sea when a strange accident transports her to another time. With power no ship in the world can match, much less comprehend, she must decide the fate of nations in the most titanic conflict the world has ever seen—WWII.