An Epic In Space
Guy Bergmann is understandably surprised one day when a family of three disappears before his eyes in shallow water at a boat ramp where he is preparing to launch his sailboat. Nor are they the first. A total of 24 people have disappeared into thin air in the recent past. Intrigued, Bergmann investigates, and thus, comes to meet the Strivers, extra-terrestrials who are recruiting humans for a mysterious purpose.
Bergmann's discovery of the Strivers opens up a universe of Venture. The first challenge involves diverting a wayward comet that could well destroy the Earth. It is far from the last. Through each Venture, Bergmann uses his relationship with the Strivers and the other extra-terrestrials of the Concordat to drag the rest of the human race into the twenty-first century.
Batwing
A young family vanishes in shallow water in front of Guy Bergmann; he's determined to understand how that could happen. He saves a baby from the arms of the mother as she is drawn down in a sinking boat at a launch ramp. How could three people "disappear" in front of him? Bergmann, sailing in his baidarka after the disappearance, sees man-sized shadows over his boat from a cloudless sky, but is too preoccupied to focus on the second anomaly
.Bergman and the ranger are interviewed by two reporters. Bergmann tests the recovered boat; it doesn't sink this time. After a dinner discussion with the ranger and the reporters, Bergmann invites one of them, Juanita Jerez, to go sailing the next day. They see shadows from a cloudless sky as they begin a romantic relationship. After rejecting all the reasonable explanations of how 24 people could disappear near water; no blood, no bodies, no struggle, he decides extraterrestrials are collecting humans for some purpose. With the ranger, an FBI agent, and Juanita, he visits the launch ramp to find flying ETs, Batwings, waiting for them.
Bergman's Team
Bergmann's Team continues Guy and Nita's effort to acquire a Human Team to assist Banderat and Striver engineers in diverting the comets threatening Earth. The core of their team; Guy, Nita and the Twins, demonstrate they can go EVA and perform well in space outside the Striver starship Dawn Star, surprising both Strivers and Banderat. They recruit NASA trained astronauts to join them; the Team moves up to "Terra House" aboard the starship for the interim, training before the comets reach Mars.
Guy and the Twins rescue four young Banderat juveniles and put down a Banderat mutiny, freeing a captured Striver trooper, demonstrating Humans possess altruism and will fight when compelled. They augment their team and begin preparing Earth's governments for the oncoming comet storm. They make plans for post-comet business and plan for space tourism as one way to pay for routine access to orbital life and business.
Bergman's Comet
The story of a trio of comets hurled out of the Oort Cloud towards Earth, threatening civilization, continues. Bergmann's small group assists Banderat and Striver vacuum grunts to divert the comets and minimize catastrophic terrestrial impact. Guy and Nita Bergmann join with a small group of ex-NASA astronauts to emplace crude drives on the surface of Comet 1. The drives create a small lateral thrust redirecting the comet to just miss Earth. Two of the three comets are redirected to impact Mars: the first stage of a massive terraforming effort to prepare that second Human planet for a colony. Bergmann Ventures, Inc., Guy's space venture, prepares for a post-comet growth phase that will place Humans in space permanently so they may interact with the Concordiate's Hub Planets and cultures.
Bergman's Equestrian Venture
Eclipse...World’s Greatest Tween Superhero!
World’s Most Terrifying Tween Supervillain!
Opinions differ.
Meet Eclipse.
She's twelve. She’s hardworking, bright, self-reliant, good with tools, vigorously physically fit, tough as nails, still young enough to disguise herself as a boy. She’s also a persona: She flies, reads minds, and is not afraid of necessary violence.
Now she’s procured the Holy Namestone, the Key to Paradise. And everyone in the world will be happy to kill her to get their hands on it.
Bergman's Orbitat
Bergmann's Team returns from Stavara in the Hub, bringing back a Banderat shuttle, Accelerator. They will use the shuttle to construct an orbital habitat at L5, one of the Earth-Moon libration points, using current engineering practice.
Bergmann's orbital habitat, BV1, is spun on its axis at slow speed, to create artificial gravity so residents and visitors are not debilitated by living in zero-G. The L5 location allows easy access to both the Lunar surface and Mars mission launches. Bergmann Venturs, Inc., BVI, will recoup some of the cost by selling seats to visit the orbitat and dine in its new restaurant, offering stunning views of Earth far "below." Trips to a new permanent moonbase at Cabeus Crater will help generate revenue.
