# 1 : Prologue

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For 75,258 years, the island of Sumatra, containing Lake Toba lay –more or less- in gentle repose. The deadly paroxysm that had caused the volcano below it to erupt, and had driven the human race to near extinction had been quiet for all that time.

A gamma ray burst had wreaked havoc on portions of an interstellar transportation network a century or two before earth was due to come on line. All the technicians had been killed, The machine phase nanotech had gone into crash shut down before the Portal Scepter had finished growing. Seven hundred millennia later when the Portal Scepter re-powered, and the portals opened they opened in the wrong place. The technicians who would have prevented that from happening by making the final alignments for that phase of growth were eons dead.

The portals were all buried in ice, snow, and sometimes rock. The opening mechanism burped, clearing the obstructions. The way was open for transit to other planets. Earth suddenly found its sea level half a mile too low.

There were thousands of gates in the circumferential portal ring around the earth at the 80th parallel South. They opened onto thousands of other planets. There was only one Earth. The aquatic balance was unfavorable. Earth’s sea level had to rise half a mile while the thousands of other worlds oceans needed only to fall a few inches each in order to align. On the other planets it was barely noticeable, less than the height of the fluctuation of tides.

The waters around the portals of the other worlds were NOT arctic. None of those worlds were in an ice age like earth, and none of them had icecaps. When the thousands of portals on earth opened relatively hot surface water encountered walls of ice. The Portal Scepter began to warm up to operating temperature. Since it was powered by an integral planetary core-tap running out of power wasn’t a problem. Even so it took a while clear it’s pipes. The breakthrough was gradual and thus unnoticed for some time except at West Antarctica where it was attributed to Global warming. The scientists felt vindicated, briefly, when the ice sheet disintegrated.

Trickles of hot water increased in number then increased in size to streams, then to raging torrents. Pulled by the force of gravity the rushing water melted and eroded the landscape as it made it’s way to the sea. In many cases there were MAGNIFICENT steaming water falls almost half a mile high. In other cases there were steaming miles long and wide cascades. The ice cap broke up and avalanched into the southern sea. Millions of cubic miles of warm water followed it. Antarctica transformed completely within a few months. The earths sea level rose nonlinearly at first then it stabilized at constant rise of about half a foot a day.

The resulting flooding devastated the Earth, the extra-terrestrial water mixed with local water, and wiped out species after species. Anything that couldn’t adapt within a few short years..............died.

In the United States Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin eventually were just gone. Many of the others had large portions, such as the coasts, submerged. It only took about a decade.

The End Of The World As We Know IT
TEOTWAWKI

..........began with the endless rain. It rained for much LONGER than forty days and forty nights, it rained for years. It rained as if the fountains of the deep had been been opened. Unknown to humanity that was basically what had happened.

Cubic miles of water fountained and cascaded into the Earth’s Ocean causing the Sea Level to rise. It would rise a half mile before it shut off, but no one knew that. All they knew was that the life that they knew was over. For a VERY great many any life was over. They died.

The land area of the earth shrunk. Anything below twenty five hundred foot elevation was flooded. In less than a decade the Llano Estacado Escarpment became a shore.

In Book One it was related how a Viet Nam War American combat troopie had encountered a piece of that ultra high technology decades earlier. He found a SoulStone. The SoulStone was a cybernetic tool containing ultra-dense data stored in a memory diamond along with it’s associated nanotechnology.

The Vet, Shelby Winslow by name, eventually learned to control some small part of the SoulStone technology, it took him decades to do so. In so doing he helped a small village to survive a global catastrophe.

In Book Two we see how that small village did their best to help as many other people survive.

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The Next Episode will be
# 2: Anette…
Book One: SoulStone
#1 : Prologue
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