On the Eve of a new millennium, teenager Raydan’s best friend is taken away to be tortured. It couldn’t get worse. But Raydan’s Family and friends are catapulted into chaos by a series of random knife attacks, the appearance of a murderous hybrid monster and society’s escalating addiction to the dangerous drug Zip.
Raydan fights for survival as he uncovers the truth about the world he lives in and the shadowy power of The New Covenant.
Rhenium Tales
Book two
Raydan, Vera and Pheebus are members of The Cut Across Ten, the group charged with locating Pheebus’s missing parents and finding an antidote to the dangerous drug Zip. The mission begins disastrously and suspicions fracture the group’s fragile unity. Old alliances crumble and new friendships are formed as the whole planet battles for Individual hearts and minds. Can The New Covenant’s ascendancy be brought back into Balance to restore the vision of Rhenium’s founders?
Rhenium
Tales
Book three
The Cut Across has returned to safe harbour and The Waking are forming a more credible opposition to the powerful New Covenant. Pheebus gets a crash course in Garrison life and is dispatched to the ice-bound island of Endurance. Vera faces medical traumas she never imagined as The Brandless and the Kuolema beasts wreak havoc throughout Midway. And Raydan confronts Family secrets that threaten to bring his world crashing down. Can The Balance be restored and return peace and harmony to the planet Rhenium?
Future
Tales
If the trilogy proves popular, there are many more Rhenium Tales to be told – short tales from different ranks in the different Orders; as well as bigger stories involving a pandemic that sweeps across Rhenium, attempts to destroy OmniTech, the banning of the Twelve Orders, betrayal and false accusations, couplings and splits, Living Contracts and Floatings, the challenges for the next generation and a threat to Rhenium that arrives unexpectedly from outer space.
Chronological order of all Sections combined
1 – 21 = Raydan’s first person Tale told chronologically
• b = variety of OmniTech ARCHIVE texts, reports, recordings and private memos
• c = third person Tale shedding light on unfolding events and aspects of Rhenium
“Ancient History” (Earth Archive and OWO: Old World Order)
• 1b The New Year Decree by Chief Astronomer Edwina Linday – Tuesday 2nd March Year 18 (OWO)
• 2b Bridge Duty Regulations by Chancellor Benjamin Brain – Linday 28th August Year 21 (OWO)
“History” (Year Zero to Year 940 in New Order of the World: NOW)
• 16b Living Contracts by Magistrate Grayton Prada – Sunday 27th December Year 19 (NOW)
• 14b Sponsors by Sovereign Scaffolder Charles Windsor – Vonday 29th January Year 86 (NOW)
“Recent History” (Year 941 to Year 998)
• 3c A Cradle Tale (Doctor Lucas Madden) – Friday 15th May Year 980 (NOW)
• 14c An Academy Tale (Tutor Lachlan Quested) – Saturday 16th October Year 983 (NOW)
• 5b Supporter Rights by HelpLord Mackenna Yielding – Vonday 29th December Year 987 (NOW)
“Present Time”
• 7b OT message to Family from Judge LauraMay Yielding – Yarday 10th July Year 999 (NOW)
• 7c A Midway Tale (Work Manager Shauna Murphy) – Thursday 14th February Year 999 (NOW)
• 10b Journal Extract by Supporter Keefer Brain – Sunday 17th February Year 999 (NOW)
• 8c A Crown Tale (Esquire Adamo de Cavallo) – Monday 21st February Year 999 (NOW)
• 3b Confidential Memorandum by OrbCutter Antonino Flame – Monday 21st February Year 999 (NOW)
• 1c A Garrison Tale (Captain Viveca Dukovra) – Tuesday 22nd February Year 999 (NOW)
• 4b Cradle Discharge Report by Doctor Lucas Madden – Sunday 27th February Year 999 (NOW)
• 2c A Garrison Tale (Guard Zeeshan Dorward) – Sunday 27th February Year 999 (NOW)
• 4c A Temple Tale (Archbishop Alzina Begum) Vonday 29th February Year 999 (NOW)
1. New Year’s Eve – Yarday 30th February Year 999 (NOW)
2. What me and Vera saw – Monday 1st March Year 1000 (NOW)
3. Christabel Lent – Monday 1st March Year 1000 (NOW)
4. Lidoquail Tabor – Tuesday 2nd March Year 1000 (NOW)
5. Morning Rally – Wednesday 3rd March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 5c An Academy Tale (Deputy Chancellor Madri Bannerjee) – Wednesday 3rd March Year 1000 (NOW)
6. Mouse – Friday 5th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 6b Valerie’s Plans – Saturday 6th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 6c An Academy Tale (Coach Gertrude Abel) – Saturday 6th March Year 1000 (NOW)
7. Outside Baldur Library – Linday 8th March Year 1000 (NOW)
8. GantShot – Linday 8th March Year 1000 (NOW)
9. Welded like hinges – Linday 8th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 8b The Commodore’s Law Report by Commodore Hezekiah Vostok – Vonday 9th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 9b Leonard’s Ultimatum – Vonday 9th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 10c A Temple Tale (Hospitaller Grunt Saxon) – Vonday 9th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 11c A Temple Tale (Bishop Simnel Morgan) – Yarday 10th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 9c A Crown Tale (Queen Fleur Syatillon) – Monday 11th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 12c A Cradle Tale (BloodIntern Malinda Friday) – Tuesday 12th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 17b Temple Prayer by TempleCutter Keshav Chowdry – Tuesday 12th March Year 1000 (NOW)
10. Going Off Grid – Wednesday 13th March Year 1000 (NOW)
11. The wrong Pheebus – Thursday 14th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 6b Travel Warrant by WarrantVassal Uriah Zane – Friday 15th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 11b Midstar Chronicle: Anger as Garrison disperse Brandless – Saturday 16th March Year 1000 (NOW)
12. The Parade – Saturday 16th March Year 1000 (NOW)
13. Oli’s Branding – Saturday 16th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 13b Personal Birthday Message from Raydan to Vera – Sunday 17th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 13c An Orb Tale (OrbCutter Antonino Flame) – Linday 18th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 12b Journal Extract by Calliope Tabor – Linday 18th March Year 1000 (NOW)
14. Visitors – Vonday 19th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 15c A Garrison Tale (GarrisonCutter Jasper Brain) – Yarday 20th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 16c A Nursery Tale (Digger Marco Green) – Monday 21st March Year 1000 (NOW)
15. The Dripping Taper – Monday 21st March Year 1000 (NOW)
16. Beatitude – Tuesday 22nd March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 15b DisBranding by Doctor Lucas Madden – Wednesday 23rd March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 17c A Crown Tale (Viscount Quentin Gant) – Wednesday 23rd March Year 1000 (NOW)
17. The New Covenant – Thursday 24th March Year 1000 (NOW)
18. The Waking – Friday 25th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 19b Memorandum re Retreat Evacuation – Saturday 26th March Year 1000 (NOW)
19. Farewells – Saturday 26th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 18c A Midway Tale (Registrar Leonard Tabor) – Sunday 27th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 19c A Mill Tale (Buyer Frances Yielding) – Linday 28th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 20b OT message Sentry Karen Tatler to Guard Zeeshan Dorward – Vonday 29th March Year 1000 (NOW)
20. Nursery Harbour – Yarday 30th March Year 1000 (NOW)
• 20c A Scaffold Tale (Sovereign Scaffolder Chun Liang) – Monday 1st May Year 1000 (NOW)
21. Dawn – Monday 1st May Year 1000 (NOW)