The Fifteen Year Circumnavigation
of the Sovereign Nation

A Po-Mo-Sci-Fi-Epistolary-I-Novel

By James Indena

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My dear Dr. Helm,
I have known you now for a very good 25 years. As you well know, I have been given many bizarre (to say the least) assignments by you, my friend. I must say, the one described by you in your last epistle does indeed stimulate my imagination. I am truly afraid (for your sake) that my tone in the description you asked me for will sound a bit sophomoric but you did ask for "the most basic of descriptions of my thoughts on the matter."

Well then...

Every religion begins with a great story, every story an event that is told, and once told that event becomes history. With human beings, history, once written down, more often than not becomes fact, albeit fact by the author of the story. In other words, if not true then accurate.

As the story goes, or rather, a story on September 11th in the year 2001, just 35 years before the Great Inversion, during a horrific storm off the coast of Cape Mendocino. Two people, James Lane and Dena Hankins said I love you for what they thought would be the last time. At that very moment, what was later described by Saul Tarrious as, “The great light” appeared in the sky to bond the three for “all eternity”.
(The Words: ch1-v17), “The light tore the flesh from the couple and together we three embraced Gravityfeed…”
And thus is the legend of the “last miracle, the first coupling”. At that very moment, three people became "the flesh of one flesh, masters of the physical world and the Ocean Blue and sailed off to find Ecotopia”, with Saul Tarrious to write the story from the “Gift of The Words” discovered by him 17 years later in the "sludge of Humbolt Bay".
Whether or not you believe the above quotations is completely inconsequential. What I believe is of great consequence to the human condition is the fact that over the past 98 years this story of three people becoming one superhero and discovering the perfect civilization has been translated into 70 languages, told in as many variations as the writers that have written the story (my count 167,000 different publications physical and virtual) and has single handedly broken all records concerning entertainment. Over 700 plays have been written about the first coupling, 18 full length motion pictures, 35 holomentaries and 16 “hit” serial-drama’s. The global industry built around this story is so vast that not knowing most of the details of this story, in (pretty much) any language on Earth would mean that you were not from this planet.
It is a fact that no myth or religion, book or holo has ever made this profound an impact on the spiecies Homo-Sapiens Humanus.
In my opinion though The Sovereign Nation Movement’s most profound accomplishment has to be the fact that most of the monies and when I say most I mean 97.9304% received from the aforementioned media sources were received in the name of the Sovereign Nation Movement. Meaning, “Movement” as they like to call themselves is the richest organization in the history of the Earth. A nation made up entirely of thousands of two person sailing vessels with land holdings totaling 40% of the Earth’s remaining surface!

The best of luck in your research professor,
Your friend,
Dr. C.A. Clark PhD.
Director, Center for Pre-Inversion Studies.
S.V.S.N. Sri-Lanka

Response-Transient:
...'Thanks Art, as usual you hit the nail on the head!'
MH

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>>>realtime entry#15{asp-2198///162/01/01} K. Staunch

Nathaous,
I hope I make myself very clear when I say, I think that you might have in your possession one of the very last twentieth century lap top computers on the planet. Please do not underestimate the urgency of my request that you play out the sims that I gave you in those phogs that I wrote. I think it’s quite possible you might be able to put Geno-Archeology on the map with this one Nate.
Play out those sims NOW!!!
KS

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Lusitania:

I hope you don't mind if I use you as a safety valve again, you've never complained before. You see, I have a realy big job coming up and I could use some of your direction.

There are changes in this world occurring at too fast a pace for me I think. I can't tell you what I am involved in outright but let me just say that even though It's been said and for the most part I agree, I was instrumental in the downfall of the Catholics I am now not so sure if our world can easily handle the death of another religion so soon. As we watch our planet try to elimenate the "evil monkey cancer" (as the Brutes call us) I find even religion to be a bit more civilized then their not-so-perfect ilk.

How are you? Are you with the new family yet? Did you get your official squatters status made permanent? I had another two squatters assigned to me last week. I guess it isn't too bad, I've built a wall between their side of the house and mine. Actually I only kept two rooms for me, the other eight people have 4 rooms and a bath. What can they expect for nothing? And don't ask me where I got the material to build the wall.

Are you still thinking about trying to visit soon? If it works out it would be better in the winter. It's difficult to function in 132-degree heat but if you come in the summer I'll manage. Would be best also to wait until your status is official and permanent, the gov shooters are very busy here. In the evening the bodies that died from the heat are picked up and in the morning the bodies of the ones without ID. Sometimes I think they recruit specifically for psychotics, they seem to enjoy their work too much for me. And where do all the people keep coming from? There are a few jobs around here but it seems that for each job 500 people move in. I guess with the loss of Florida and most of Miss and Louisy to the raising sea people don't have too many places to go. You would think that they would at least wait to get official permission to be displacers, other wise if the shooters find them their dead.

My research continues to provide me with a reasonable living but as you can tell from the above not enough to get me off the list to take squatters. I was thinking that if you can't get that status made official you might go back to mattress work. I know you got tired of it but you know you were very good (I should know being your father) and there seems to always be openings in that field. Do you think you could still pass the test? I'm sure you could.

Must go and try to do some work, it's evening and down to 115 degrees, a nice fall day.
again

later, dad

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>>>realtime entry#14{asp-2198///162/1/1} N. Sutra

Ken,

I made room on my drives and started running that Phog that you mentioned in (entry#5{asp-2197///161/10/10}), I know it's been way too long but they've been trying to kill me at work. I mean, I want to stop everything in the world for the sake of some old grey box sealed in ("what looks to be", that's you!) a hand blown glass cask but that thing called geno-archeology keeps calling me back to my knees in the mud and rain.
Anyway, You should come check it out. I think we've been had by some SVSN fanatic artist-type that should have tried another way to get on the ship, sorry, boat or whatever!
Speaking of rain, The hot-sweeps were coming through the valley at a rate of once every ten minutes today, and they seem hotter then usual, about 90 degrees! The locals say that means this summer, this whole valley will be under water.

By the way, I do want to see those results from your "Impact program" but It'll have to waite till the end of my present research stream. We just don't have the room for anymore of your elaborate simulations on our H-drives. Your pH-ogs are brilliant but they're just too big!

>>>realtime entry#15{asp-2198///162/1/3} N. Sutra

Ken, I think I'm in big trouble here!?

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