What is the Harappan History Project?

The Harappan History Project

What Is the Harappan History Project? 

Though Planet Harappa is gone, humans from the strange world have become some of the most influential individuals in galactic history. By now most people connected to the Encyclopedia Galactica know the details of the Mother’s life. Max Gavaskar did not grow up in a vacuum. She was a product of her early upbringing on Harappa and influenced by her time on Lava. Other notable Harappans, Dorian and Paladin Thain, Mary Carmini, and of course Marcus Johnson (even though he was born on Earth) deserve mention.

The Harappan History Project is an attempt to record the short history of this world that was at the very center of galactic politics for a brief but significant era in the tale of the Milky Way.

Volume One

The Harappan Secrets

(not in print)

The Harappan Secrets details life on Harappa before humans from Earth arrived, as seen through the eyes of Dorian Thain. A mere one hundred and eighty years after his death, Marcus Johnson’s society was on the brink of war as the Earth Starship “Marcus Johnson” shattered the myths started by Johnson himself, that Earth no longer existed.

Dorian Thain was there at the Battle of Caelum as well as the Arrival conference where the family of humanity was reunited.

Volume Two

The Harappan Curse

(not in print)

A diplomatic mission from Harappa to Earth included Dorian Thain, Mary Carmini and several other Harappans. Dorian Thain was abducted by a band of rebels who called themselves the Friends. Through them Dorian was able to cast doubt on the Green Bible. This book, the guiding light of the one hundred year Pax Veridis, had been attributed to Marcus Johnson in abstentia. Dorian Thain pointed out that there were no similarities to be found in the Green Bible and Johnson’s writings while on Harappa. 

Volume Three

The Last Secret of the Founder 

(not in print)

While Dorian was on Earth igniting the Earth Revolution his older brother Paladin was staging a war to stop the Earth/Salus Consortium’s mining project. A conflict between Paladin and the Starship Marcus Johnson ignited a vein of the exotic mineral illumaphane and knocked the already wobbly planet off its orbit. When Dorian returned from Earth he was involved in negotiating a settlement between Earth and the Harappans.

Volume Four

The Gavaskar Field

(available as an ebook through Amazon)

Volume Four tells Max Gavaskar’s early story; how she discovered the problem with the Gavaskar Field forcing her to go on the run from the government. She wound up running a saloon in a dusty mining town on Lava, until she was discovered by agents of the SID (Science and Industry Division). It was on Lava that she finds her ally to aid  her fight against what the government was doing to the universe.

Volume Five

Kusha

(not in print)

Volume Five follows Max to Kusha where she studies the illumaphane problem, makes First Contact and meets Dorian’s son Dallas Thain.

Volume Six

The Mother of the Galaxy

(not in print)

The final book in this series details the events that occurred when the Gavaskar Field problem was solved which opened up travel between worlds. The Mother was called on to deal with the colflicts that arose out of tensions between several alien races.