"NINE DAY KING is seeking musicians to complete the works of Asimov, Clarke, Lovecraft, Poe, Nietzche, Orwell, Verne, Wells, and others."

San Diego READER / June 12, 1975

 

TERRA ALERT

Two words Cleon Rocko had heard in the same sentence before.

He looked at the highlighted copies from the Black Book; one of the things Zann had given him at the last NO FATE show in the Garden of the Gods - where sections of the VOLUMICON had been performed for the first time.

Tycho Zann; who had told him in '87, that one day, he'd be able to buy a baseball cap with his initials on it, and that thousands would wear them. Who couldn't trust a guy like that?

MALDEK

10th Planet of the Solar System.
Hundreds of millions of years ago.
Orbit between Mars & Jupiter.
Mass comparable to Earth.
Green, prosperous world.
Inhabitants reasonably satisfied with their existence.
Abundance instead of necessity made life comfortable.
Duality / Procreation of the Races.
Highly mechanized warfare.
Rudimentary space-travel / Limited range.
Controlled weather.
Correlation of forces; affluence and boredom, love & attachment, confusion and infatuation, resulted in degenerating attitudes in those with a subtle lust for power and selfish individuality.

Negative processes ended in the use of a weapon of mass destruction which murders entire populace.

Millions of Souls suddenly released into their individual etheric planes.

 

COSMIC CRIME

Karmic Law dictated reincarnation of majority of Planet upon another in the Solar System.

 

EARTH

Third Stone From The Sun
Positive, Compassionate.
True inhabitants of Earth accepted the postponement of their Spiritual Progress for thousands of years until the Criminals and Victims both, could repay their shared Karmic Debt.

The Ring Pass Not; a planet-wide psycho-acoustic energy barrier was placed around Earth just in case.

Strangers in a stranger land, Life went on until a new correlation of forces brought the Human Race to the point where the many were threatened once again by the few.

Two groups were close to controlling the Ring itself. One attempting to create a cosmic weapon of mass destruction intended to enslave all within it, the other to disperse it, and free everyone unaware they were a prisoner.

The end of duality.

 

PLANET-WIDE ENERGY BARRIER? RING DISPERSAL? COSMIC WEAPON?

MALDEKIANS!!!

Who would attempt such things?

Cleon knew the answer, and he wasn't entirely wrong. He was getting backstage at HIGH-DEAF / FREQ OUT!... Terror Alert or not. And he'd be wearing his Colorado Rockies cap.

Whether it was the end of the world, or the birth of a new one, Arizona Maybe seemed a good place to be when IT happened, especially when you factored in the rumors of what the Remote Liberation Front was REALLY up to.

He found himself singing an old tune as he sped past the wind farms that were the unofficial eastern boundary of LA; the sign that only desert and magic lay ahead:

" WE'VE GOT... WHAT IT TAKES.

ALL THE WAY FROM NEW YORK TO LA... YEAH!

WE'VE GOT... WHAT IT TAKES.

RIGHT HERE IN THE USA!

YEAH!

USA... USA... USA... USA..."

Looked like the Big Time was finally here.

 

FREQ OUT