The Wolves

This was an idea which came to me after Elite Team (my JROTC fitness-group pass-time and pseudo start-up) was wrapped up, and it became my second black op (my very first being the proposal to preemptively protect an almost-family member).

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Timeline
  3. Curious Manifestations
  4. Disbandment
  5. Storyboard Sketches – Destined to Become Part of My 2nd Novel
  6. Compound Design
  7. Team Flag
  8. Jade

 

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Introduction:

This was the exclusive/elite team I envisioned during my first year of college back in Texas.  Before it, I’d dreamed up the Supreme Environmentalist Dictatorship (SED), which is the title of my third novel.  Years after drafting The Wolves, I also tried starting a legitimate Private Military Contractors (PMC) company.

Started/attempted still deep back in Phase 1, of course, this thing was doomed to barely exist and then completely fall apart / fade away.  It was less upsetting than Elite Team, though; Elite Team had more than one “bad apple” moron I’d had to be very careful in dealing with.  For that same reason, it was also less upsetting than the attempted PMC.

The purpose of The Wolves was to unite a dozen or so of my most-trusted friends who were brave and interested in making it on their own; we were to help each other become as off-grid and self-sufficient/sustaining as ever, and to even do some “Robin Hood-ing”, as it were.  Our purpose then evolved/expanded to include revising the design for, and building up, a comfortable homestead of sorts in a relaxing alpine forest region, and to un-steal / steal back cures the government had locked up underground in at least one facility made for that sort of thing.  We weren’t superheroes or deities, so I can’t compare The Wolves to Young Justice or anything like that, but we intended to do our best, even against all odds –even against our fellow or false countrymen, if need be; whatever it took to get our lives and our country back on the right track.

 

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Timeline:

  1. 1999:  Elite Team proposed; to supplement/improve JROTC P.T. team training/exercise
  2. 2000:  Elite Team ends; cadets going their separate ways as a new school-year approaches
  3. 2001:  envisioned
  4. 2002:  drafted in storyboard form
  5. 2003-2006:  shelved during military training and deployments
  6. 2007:  revisited, leading to another start-up attempt/venture; the PMC company named Schwarzdonner
  7. 2008:  Schwarzdonner training-schedule drafting, led to the start of many of Inisfree’s military training options
  8. 2010:  more Elite Team planning/writing
  9. 2011-2012:  relocating to Montana, just as in the Elite Team story/vision
  10. 2013 and on:  Elite Team is no more, though some of its members and developments/training live on via Inisfree
  11. 2510s-2520s:  Elite Team and Schwarzdonner elements are used by the Persephone crew during our own Voyages of Acquisition

 

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Curious Manifestations:

  • I definitely ended up alone a lot, just like in this story, and sleeping on floors, and having no choice but to get used to the cold.  That was depressing and worrisome for a long time at first, but I came to see it as a rare gift; perfect training for going where I knew I wanted and was destined to, and producing some of the greatest bragging-rights of all time.  How many people do you know who train for decades, often alone?
  • Eric manifested as a Phase 1 workout friend during a brief return to Texas.
  • The cramped Montana group-home / compound / bunker I’d envisioned… semi-manifested as the cramped hangout-apartment during my first move to that state.  There was also a remote-wilderness hangout-cabin shown to me, bunkbeds room/s and all, with an entertaining amount of fucking going on twice; once during a party, and then overnight right next to my own bunk, which I got to enjoy hearing and watching.
  • Jade/Rain actually manifested flawlessly in the Grand Canyon almost a decade later.
  • Exploring the country and beyond in search of cures to various health issues very obviously happened, and thankfully I never had to negotiate my way down into and back up from an elevator-shaft full of lethal lasers or SEALs on guard.  (I also found many cures, by the way, even when operating solo and without any real clues/help at all.)  That government bunker with cures, by the way, turned out to be the start of the vision that would eventually form the first of Inisfree’s Black Vaults; the most-secure places on Earth.
  • Traveling around to find and neutralize bad-guys in multiple states and countries also happened, of course, though it was with much more of a compartmentalized and clandestine force I never really got to know (probably for the best; OPSEC at its finest), and via much more two-way encountered; the very unpleasant “learning the hard way”.  I can’t even count how many scams/scammers I stumbled upon and counterattacked during my expeditions.  Wow.
  • The supercomputer I wrote this team as eventually being able to fund the research and development of, surprisingly, at least from what I can tell so far, was actually… me.  Mentally leaps and bounds ahead of those I kept meeting, I ended up being able to create it in an entirely revolutionary/ancient way; I manifested it without using technology as a crutch at all.  I still can hardly believe I pulled that off; I hadn’t even known it was possible, let alone intended to or consciously tried.

 

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Disbandment:

Once Inisfree was in full swing, becoming operational, The Wolves were no longer needed.  They were never officially disbanded, though; they just sort of slipped into their place in my series of books/spells.  There, they have remained, only one of their characters making agreeable visions/returns; Jade as Rain, then Zhanna.

 

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Storyboard Sketches – Destined to Become Part of My 2nd Novel:

These would also fuel one of the first television series made in Inisfree, via WMKM Studios there.

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Compound Design:

This was what came just before my primitive during-deployment color-coded notebook-paper sketch of a FOB or Firm Base of my own; The Wolves bunker-compound was the “proto proto FOB1”; what you’re seeing here is what came before… what came before… what came before… what became Inisfree.

2023 August update:  This place, left abandoned/unused for centuries, will be revisited; via me flying Persephone after its TNH-missions years.

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Team Flag:

I drew a lot of the inspiration for this from my senior-high flag and JROTC battalion crest.  We never ended up making this thing while we were in Montana, but once I’d made it to Antarctica and built a room for it, I made sure to have it made and put up on display, forever memorializing and honoring this valiant youthful effort at become as independent/Washingtonian/self-sustaining as can be.

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Jade:

She was my first black-haired beauty, at least in spirit.  So much like what I instinctively wrote into The Wolves tale (see what I did there?), she and I remained as secretive and compartmentalized as it gets.  It is still very bittersweet, but I am writing this still in Phase 2; there is plenty more time for the perfected her to finish manifesting for -and returning to unite with- me.  It shall be.

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