Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: Dorian and the Friends Pt. Two

Dorian and the Friends: Pt Two

Greetings wild readers. Yesterday we told how Dorian was knocked out and abducted by Alex Hunter, his eventual wife and lover.

There must have been some attraction from the very beginning since the two immediately started working together despite how they met. Within days Dorian was meeting with supporters of the Friends telling them about his and the other Harappan’s disbelief that Marcus Johnson wrote the Green Bible.

Initially they gathered with people in private homes but soon the meetings grew too big for such venues. Dorian spoke to larger and larger crowds until the Greenfield Blast which ended Dorian’s lecture series and began the Earth Revolution.

Dorian’s talks were advertised through the tab network of the Friends. It was just a matter of a few days from Dorian’s first talk to Greenfield but the talks were shared repeatedly on the Friends tabs and almost everyone had heard Dorian’s views before the SID could take any action to stop dissemination of what they considered seditious information.

Tomorrow we’ll describe a couple of meetings and how Dorian’s tattoo became famous.

Never mix red wine and Oodo.

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 87

Earth Year 2479

Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: Dorian and the Friends Part One

Dorian and the Friends

Greetings intrepid readers. We’ve been discussing the first Harappan Diplomatic Mission to Earth. This week we’ll delve more deeply into some of the characters involved.

We now know that when the Harappans arrived on Earth they were detained by the LC who held them captive in a fake town called Johnson’s Corner.

We further know that some of the Harappans were eventually rescued from this captivity by the SID.

When the SID came to free the Harappans from the collapsing LC two of the Harappans were already gone.

The LC had been targeting Dorian Thain for conversion since he was the youngest member of the delegation and they felt the most pliable. Before they could make real their goal he was abducted by a group called the Friends.

It is claimed but not proven that the Friends evolved out of an ancient Earth cult. When the Greenies took over the Friends went underground like most other religious groups. What they did that others did not was to form a network using SID tablet computers. The SID and the LC so believed in their hegemony that they never considered the need for a security system for the tabs.

Alex Hunter was a member of an extreme group of Friends. She was tasked with bringing Dorian in. She did so with a tranquilizer dart.

We on Kusha now know Alex as the wife and great love of Dorian Thain. Apparently he does not hold a grudge for how they met.

Tomorrow we’ll discuss how Dorian became involved with the Friend’s plan to damage the control of the LC.

Never mix red wine and Oodo.

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 87

Earth Year 2479

Notes from the author: The new blog schedule.

Notes from the Author: I hope you are enjoying Philip the Bard’s telling of Harappan history as much as I am sharing it with you. This is a story I have lived with for forty years.

Right now I’m working on Harappa’s future. That is I am working on the final draft of “Kusha” the next book in the line as well as writing the first draft of “The Mother of the Galaxy” the dramatic conclusion of this saga.

My hope is to have “Kusha” ready this winter and “The Mother of the Galaxy” out this spring or early summer. I have contracted the artist who did the cover for “The Gavaskar Field” to do a cover for “Kusha”. I’ve seen the rough draft and I’m looking forward to sharing the final with you soon.

What all this means is that I will be scaling back the blog (but only slightly). I’ve been posting six days a week, everyday but Sunday. My new schedule will be to post Philip the Bard Monday - Thursday and Friday I will have a post from my own observations.

I look forward to your comments.

Earth Year 2013

Never mix red wine with Oodo.

Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: Leaving Johnson's Corner

How the Harappans got out of Johnson’s Corner

Greetings noble readers. History tells us that the SID (Science and Industry Division) rescued some of the first Harappan delegation to Earth from captivity by the LC in Johnson’s Corner. We also know that two of the Harappans were freed from captivity before the SID became involved.

Dorian Thain was the first Harappan freed from LC custody. The Greenies felt that Dorian, being the youngest member of the delegation might be the most open to manipulation. He had been set up with a very pretty young woman. History knows her as Sandy Colt but we don’t know if that was her real name. It was later revealed that she was actually a double agent for the Knights of Tarsus, who also thought Dorian would be their best chance for a convert among the Harappans.

Sandy was trying to move Dorian in the direction of joining her movement when he was abducted by another underground movement who called themselves the Friends. It is suspected that the Friends grew out of an ancient pacifistic Earth cult but that cannot be proven.

When Dorian disappeared from Johnson’s Corner, Sandy Colt and the other Tarsans shifted their focus to Mary Carmini who turned out to be very open to the Tarsan overtures. Mrs. Carmini left with the Tarsans and became a leader in their movement until her untimely demise on planet Kusha many years later.

Next week we’ll discuss Dorian Thain and Mary Carmini’s involvement in their respective Earth Movements.

Never mix red wine with Oodo.   

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 87

Earth Year 2479

Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: Who were the Scribes and Criers?

The Criers and Scribes

Greetings pretty readers. We’ve been discussing the LC or Leadership Council. They were the ruling body of the Greenies and controlled Earth government during the entire Pax Veridis. Their genius was not their governance but their style of governance. Once they took over they began the process of moving into the background. Eventually no one knew anyone who was in the LC.

The LC became a nameless faceless puppeteer of society. They stayed so until the Knights of Tarsus, under the leadership of Harappan Mary Carmini assaulted their private compound during the Earth Revolution.

So then, how did they exert their influence? Through their two arms the Crier’s Guild and the Scribes.

The Crier’s guild actually predated the LC. They formed during the “Decades of Disaster”. As infrastructure collapsed especially in western North America the Criers began as a response to a lack of news.

The Criers affected a strict moral code and where they had influence they were considered paragons of society. They were involved with the initial spread of the Green Religion. More established media outlets would not cover the fledgling religion but the Criers embraced the Greenies.

When the LC made their move for power they incorporated the Criers into their organization.

The Criers for many decades after that maintained the appearance of independence from the LC but records show that they were in the LC’s back pocket as soon as the LC had control.

The Scribes were established by the LC to be record keepers and as the LC stepped into the background they were moved forward to be the arms and legs of the government. Hubris is the marked nature of the Scribes. They came to represent themselves as the elite of society. They even tried to suppress information that showed the Criers were an older establishment.

Both groups crumbled and disappeared as soon as the Earth Revolution began. Seen as the faces of the hated Greenies members of both groups found themselves denying their involvement.

When the Tarsans launched their assault on eastern North America people who had been in the Criers and Scribes were singled out for persecution. Many were publicly hanged.

Never mix red wine with Oodo.   

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 87

Earth Year 2479

Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: The LC finally meets with the Harappans

The LC meets the Harappans

Greetings mellow readers. When Harappans first arrived on Earth they did so filled with excitement at the possibility of establishing formal relations between the two occupied human worlds.

The Earthers had a different view of this meeting. The LC took the stand that Harappa was an Earth possession since it was discovered and founded by subjects of the LC, humans from Earth.

They insisted that the Harappans were all subjects of the LC. The Harappans were told that they could either move to Earth or stay on Harappa, but only if they agreed to submit to LC control.

We now know that their intention was to take over governance of Harappa by force if needed. Fortunately history tells us they were never able to accomplish this.

Geoffrey Swain one of the Harappan Ambassadors was also a Johnson Scholar. He argued with the officials in Johnson’s Corner but made no headway.

It wasn’t until the LC started loosing their hegemony that the Harappan delegation was treated with any diplomatic respect. Eventually the SID removed them from Johnson’s Corner and engaged them in formal negotiations between the two worlds.

Little did we know then that the SID, originally our savior on Earth, would become such villains.

Never mix red wine with Oodo.   

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 87

Earth Year 2479

Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: Johnson's Corner

Johnson’s Corner

Greetings beloved readers. We’ve been discussing the first delegation from Harappa to Earth. When they were released from quarantine they were taken to Johnson’s Corner.

None of the Harappans knew this until much later but Johnson’s Corner was a fake town. It was built specifically to confine the Harappans and keep them from mingling with the general population.

The Leadership Council or LC who ran the world at the time had some fears, justified, that the Harappans might have some seditious information about the Earth Messiah, Marcus Johnson.

The entire town was peopled by LC representatives. 

The Harappans, especially Mary Carmini chaffed at the restrictions placed on them. They were not contacted by the LC in any official capacity for days and whey they finally did get to meet an official from the Earth government they were simply told that they were under arrest and that Harappa belonged to the LC. More on this tomorrow.

Simple entertainments were provided in Johnson’s Corner not unlike what the rest of the world experienced but news was very strictly controlled by the Crier’s Guild (more on them in a later post).

The Harappans began to suspect that they were being held in a gilded gage but could do nothing without outside help. That came for Dorian Thain and Mary Carmini from two different directions.

Never mix red wine with Oodo.   

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 87

Earth Year 2479