Chapter 22 - Vatican Abdicator

Mike Luoma here. Thanks for listening to "Vatican Abdicator"- Book Three of The Vatican Assassin Trilogy! Now that you've finished the trilogy, check out The Adventures of Alibi Jones! 20 years after the trilogy's end, follow the exploits of BC's son Alibi Jones, a mediator for the Solar Alliance helping negotiate humankind's expansion out into the stars, in novels "Alibi Jones" and "Alibi Jones and the Sunrise of Hur" and the collections "Six Short Stories" and "Alibi Jones and The Time War of The Devrizium". My books are all available as free, downloadble podcasts through Podiobooks.com.  More info at GlowintheDarkRadio.com.

Vatican Abdicator and the entire Vatican Assassin Trilogy conclude with this episode covering the last of the Appendix material. This includes the second half of "The Future of The Future" - my name for the outline I worked from as I wrote my three books. It's not quite the original outline, but this second half especially contains pretty much the raw ideas as I was first writing them down. Plot points and other story elements changed between this and the finished books and so, once again, this outline reads like a summary of the trilogy that gets some things wrong! This second half covers the end of "Vatican Ambassador" and all of "Vatican Abdicator". Following the "Future of the Future" are two additional outlines, the "Alien Timeline" and the history of "The Project". These are a bit repetitive, as they contain material later used in the "History of the Future" and the "Future of the Future". The appendix can be found in the Omnibus Edition of the "Vatican Assassin Trilogy" available at http://glowinthedarkradio.com.

As our journey through the background material in the appendix continues it's "The Biography of Bernard Campion" and the first half of "The Future of The Future" - my name for the outline I worked from as I wrote my three books. This is not the original outline, but it is close. Because plot points and other things changed between this point in the process and the finished books, this outline reads a bit like a summary of the trilogy that gets some things wrong! This half covers "Vatican Assassin" and much of "Vatican Ambassador". The appendix can be found in the Omnibus Edition of the "Vatican Assassin Trilogy" available at http://glowinthedarkradio.com.

More background material for the entire "Vatican Assassin" Trilogy from the Appendix (found in hardcover omnibus editions - glowinthedarkradio.com). It's the rest of the History of The Future - from 2030 to 2109, when the trilogy's story begins. It's the rise of the Universal Trade Zone, the UTZ; the massacres and mistreatment that creates the war with the Universal Islamic Nation, the UIN; even the unification and creation of the New catholic Church. This "Future History" sets the stage for the tale to come.

The Appendix Part One begins with an Introduction to the Appendix materials. Part One also features the original Prologue, and the beginning of the History of The Future, the future timeline behind the entire Vatican Assassin Trilogy. This first part covers from the present up to 2030.

This is it! The final chapter and the epilogue of "Vatican Abdicator". There are four more episodes after this, the four part Appendix to the entire "Vatican Assassin" Trilogy with the history of the future, the background to the Project and the alien races and more. But this is the end of the story of BC...

BC and Anita meet for dinner, to discuss the future, and more. And M'Bekke and the Khalif break some bad news...

The Eldred fleet continues to attack the Solar Alliance shipyard. Dolomay and his forces begin attacking the Eldred! BC is under mental attack by Dolomay. As he tries to fight back, BC finds himself looking out through Dolomay's eyes!

BC's attention shifts to the Eldred attack on the shipyards. He decides to go to the scene of the battle. So does Dolomay. And BC begins to feel Dolomay attacking him - mind to mind!

The war is on! The Eldred attack the Project asteroid base. BC and the forces of the Solar Alliance fight back! Will Dolomay be showing up soon? How many "fronts" can the Solar Alliance fight on at once? The battle rages in this second half of Chapter Nineteen!