This is a proclamation from the Alliance council and is one of the most important information notices we have ever published in our long history. Since the magnetic storms that swept the universes seven hundred years ago and destroyed much of our historical data much has been written and speculated about the Alliance's origin and where we came from and where we should be headed. Over the past seven hundred years we have seemed to have lost our purpose and direction. Ten years ago the council commissioned one thousand teams of archeologists to survey the area on Earth known as the Smokey Mountains, since much of the rumors, mythology and tales of the local citizens seemed to point to this historical area. This is a vast and wild area, still at this point of time uncharted and ignored by the government over the past seven hundred years since the magnetic storms that swept through all universes. Five years ago one of our appointed teams discovered a large boulder that was against a large granite mountain twenty miles from the village that is known on Earth as Gatlinburg. The team was suspicious and continued to investigate this location. We now know that this was the rock that was once rumored to be the Guardian Boulder of ancient mythology. Once the boulder was moved, the team discovered inside the mountain the legendary Raptors Nest of folklore. The Raptors Nest does exist and is in mint condition. The nanocells after centuries have preserved the military base just like it was over one thousand, four hundred years ago. This was a major find.
About the Author: R. Edward Riepe was born in Kansas City, Kansas and moved to a small, isolated village in Florida as a young child. The school was so small it was called Oviedo High School, even for the first graders. There were no such things as elementary or middle schools. Edward enrolled at Florida Technological University, later renamed the University of Central Florida, where his only claim to fame is he was in the graduating class that Tricky Dick Nixon addressed right before resigning as President of the United States. He has fathered three children, Samantha, Rex and Melissa who are now grown and writers in their own right. Later in life he started to write science fiction tales and then fiction tales. Presently married to Marcia, whose name you will find in several of his works. He resides in Sin City, Nevada.