Difference between revisions of "Defending Elysium"

 

== Background ==

The United Governments military had accidentally shot down a Tenasi diplomatic vessel during an embarrassing first contact. Humanity had worried this would throw them into a conflict, then the Phone Company stepped in and, using methods unknown to even humanities intelligence agencies, brokered a peace with the Tenasi. In exchange, the PC demanded they be above the laws of humanity and had since then worked autonomously.

 

 

== Summary ==

The story opens with [[Jason Write]] in his private cabin aboard a shuttle, watching a video playback of a woman thrashing in a hospital bed. He could do nothing for the woman right now, not until he reached [[Evensong]] - an orbital platform hanging between Saturn and Uranus, and the frontier of humanities conquest in space.

As the shuttle begins to dock with the Evensong, his support operative, [[Lanna]], enters Jason's cabin informing him that his colleagues have been sent on assignment elsewhere and she is the one that will be accompanying him. Lanna has booked Jason in to a hotel under a peculiar alias, suggesting that Jason is actually an agent.

Lanna has arranged their return to Jupiter for 10:30 PM local time. But Jason suspects something might be amiss, that the ambassador's death and Denise are related. Jason then contemplates the vast differences between their races, how underdeveloped humans are while quoting from Virgil a passage of the Elysian Fields. Comparing it to Elysium, space is the place heroes go when they die.

 

 

 

== Characters ==

;Jason Write: Considered to be the top operative of the Phone Company he is a powerful psionic looking for a missing scientist on the Evensong orbital platform.

 

 

== Organizations ==

;Phone Company: The PC were the first to make contact with an alien specie and had negotiated humanity out of a disaster following the Tenasi incident. The PC had brought FTL communications to humankind.