David_A_Moore
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So, whether you care about it or not, we live in an improbable cosmos. You sit amongst a barely imaginable galaxy of one hundred million stars that is named the Milky Way. An inconceivably greater group of these galaxies is termed a galaxy cluster. Further out, an impossibly vast chain of galaxy clusters is designated a supercluster. And our very own supercluster home is scientifically labelled Laniakea, which is ancient Hawaiian for immeasurable heaven. It contains one hundred thousand galaxies like ours, and at the epicentre of our supercluster sits the shapeshifting Great Attractor governing everything, including space and time, and the politically incompetent Republic of The Galactic Core. So yes, all very National Geographic, but could you blame this Great Attractor for your lot? Or could you blame Darwin and his evolution theory, but it turns out he's been wrong all the time. Or could you blame your parents and your past? Well, in the 1980s it was a time of similar nuclear rhetoric, yet back then there were no flat whites, mobile phones, social media, nor internet. EXCEPT for a very special few. You see, since the 19th century all our futures, and our ancestors', have been controlled by an underground Directorate who are now forging ahead with a merciless plan to quit this world and leave the rest of us to our chosen path of social decay and mutually assured destruction.Duke Kramer found out, but then he disappeared. His best friend Nelson went looking for him, bumped into Tina, who took a dislike to Nelson, and then they were both kidnapped by men in very large sunglasses. And meanwhile above us at Laniakea's eastern edge, Captain Sennai's ship has been commandeered by an Almighty power on a mission to induct an unsuspecting new world into the so-called Galactic Club. So WTF has this got to do with Nelson, Tina, evolution, and saving humanity!β¦
