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arm…” Janet whimpered.
    Warren’s eyes widened. “What about it?”
    “The doctors said that everything is fine with it, but it’s like your brain doesn’t want to believe it’s there.”
    Warren could have said there was a logical explanation to all this. That his dream was just his subconscious telling him about his arm. But he just sat there in silence.
     
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    “I think it’s funny that we’re suddenly in the Whore Nebula,” Ryoma said and peered over Cameron’s shoulder.
    “I made a wrong turn.”
    “Please, I know enough about this thing that you can’t make a wrong turn.”
     
     
     
    “ Of all the known and civilized planets of the Universe only two star systems have been outright rejected by the Ashtar Command – the Atlantis and Lemuria star systems. Both seem bent on conquering the Universe one through force and the other through missionary work. They are like yin and yang.
    Atlantis is entirely materialistic and Lemuria has no regard for reality. It is no wonder that they have clashed so often in the past with themselves and each other. Much of the Universe’s history uses this conflict as a springboard.
    Their lost colonies of the same name on the planet Earth are a well-known failure. It is rumored that both bred with the Earth natives. The Ashtar command has no desire to confirm this, because they are absolutely terrified by the idea of a people descended from the Atlanteans and Lemurians.”
    - Various
    A History of Our Universe
    On loan from the Akashic Records
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Book One: The Fillipre Strain
     
    In space no one can hear you eat brains…
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    The Dread Pirate Cameron trekked across the landscape of the Astral. He crossed the ravines and plateaus of the soul. His mind’s eye focused upon one thing – finding Noah’s Arc. The Arc is slang across space, for those in the know at least, for God’s back up copy of Creation. Many sought after it to reverse engineer Creation, but Cameron intended to use it to siphon the very power of God. Cameron was powerful, but one day that power would run out.
    The third eye inside his brain, metaphorically speaking, fixed itself upon the Arc. However, he could not focus upon it at all. It was always obscured by mists. Hot magic piped through his veins as he concentrated harder, but the mist would not part. Frustrated Cameron cried out to the Universe to throw him a frickin’ bone.
    The Universe replied by blinking and bleeping. Bleeping?
    The landscape fell from under Cameron, and he passed through the Astral back into his body. His one green eye slid open. He brushed some of the stray, red dreadlocks from his face. LCD screens had appeared on all of the walls in his whale belly room.
    A man wearing full samurai regalia of the late Edo period walked into room. If not for the fact he passed right through the walls you would assume that he was going to the same costume part as Cameron. Sakamoto Ryoma took a moment before addressing Cameron with all the poise possessed by the revolutionary father of modern Japan.
    “What the hell did you do now, Gaijin ? The ship keeps bitching about something found on the Collision Detection System. Shoot it or something. I don’t want to hear about it anymore.”
    “I don’t think that’s what it’s there for,” Cameron said. His knees popped when he pulled himself up from his cross-legged position in the middle of the floor. The Collision Detection System was on The Soulforge to avoid objects too large for the deflector array. The deflector array could deflect minor space debris without cause for concern in passive mode. This showed an uncharacteristic error on the ship’s part since it normally takes evasive maneuvers on its own.
    There were no windows in the room, but with one great sweep of Cameron’s arms the wall’s muscles contracted and slide away to a monitor displaying the deepest reaches of