There were so many years of rough encounters and nearly crippling aftermaths. These are the stories of what led me through dozens of schools, industries, locales, and relationship styles, eventually finding and forecasting what is truly sustainable for them all. The sections of this novel are listed below in time-title-summary format:
- 1980s: [Shipborne and Stolen]: Auzdein gains consciousness in a bizarre family, his instincts guiding him until his memory is restored.
- 1994: [Riches to Rags]: Auz’s cover family squanders millions, and he is powerless but to sit on the sidelines as they tear each other apart.
- 1995: [Pipe-dreaming of The S.E.D.]: Appalled at how humanity is trashing the entire planet, Auz starts his 1st secret society in this life.
- 1996: [Elite Team Begins]: Unsatisfied with the pathetic standards of the local fitness teams, Auz founds his 2nd secret society in this life.
- 1997: [Shattering of the Veil]: After a childhood growing up in a cover family void of logic, Auz is blissfully shocked once he finds sane people.
- 1998: [The Fall from Grace]: Condescending Outlanders underestimate yet another child, futily trying scare tactics to coerce him.
- 1999: [The Fast and the Furious]: Auz’s introduction to the modern world of urban racing thrills his cellular memory.
- 2000: [Youth and Commander]: Auz’s stars and instincts soon put him right back in charge of a very large element.
- 2001: [Mission Impossible Reenactment]: Auz’s unavoidable instincts get him into a misunderstanding with local ogres.
- 2002: [The Wreckage of Airborne Dreams]: Once slated for Naval Aviation, his progress is derailed; Auz is destined to fly things far larger than jets.
- 2002: [Protruding Guts, but no Glamour for the Glory]: Auz, now mortal, finds a way to deal with the hernia he is powerless, for now, to heal.
- 2003: [Yellow Footprints]: Auz feels the call to reclaim his timeless warrior status.
- 2004: [The Portal of Mars]: Auz undertakes his first combat deployment.
- 2004: [Asteronian Jedi Master and The Celestine Prophecies]: A traveler from another world takes Auz under his wise wing.
- 2005: [Rogue Madji and the Black Spires of The Highlands]: An illegal trip to Scotland gives Auz a taste of the constructs and people with magical blood.
- 2004-2006: [Holidays in the War Zones]: Stockings nailed to concrete base bunker walls amidst bullet holes, etc.
- 2006: [Instructor Once Again]: After 2 combat deployments and hundreds of missions, Auz begins to formally teach what he has learned.
- 2006: [Culmination of the Corps]: The climactic end of Auz’s contract with the Marines results in him rising to the mantle of the Founding Fathers.
- 2007: [In the Meantime]: Before the first PMC formation attempt, merc’ work had me thinking.
- 2007: [Is You Rollin’? Bitch, I Might Be]: Auz delves headlong into the Outlands’ club scene.
- 2007: [The Pajama Party that Never Was]: More problems trying to get decent parties going.
- 2008: [The Contracting Calamity]: Auz’s first PMC is fraught with subterfuge and near bankruptcy.
- 2008: [The 5th Corps]: After the JROTC, ROTC, and USMC, the USACE helps him refocus his mind while his system detoxes.
- 2009: [The Great Gnashing of Teeth]: Yet another ‘psychic vampire’ Outlander drains Auz’s life force, reinforcing the Celestine Prophecy.
- 2010: [The Crystallizing of the Grid Mind]: The Wolves‘ Montana bunker gives birth to Inisfree’s brain and its initial terraforming abilities.
- 2011 January: [Ahoy, Antarktis!]: Sailing to the Antarctic for the first time since his 2nd life began, Auz completes the site survey of the Grid Mind‘s new home.
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