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son, Canis Topler.
When Martin was nineteen, in 2695 C.E., he became a top-ranking scientist in the areas
of anthropology and archaeology, after graduating from Advanced Technical Training in
the Sciences. Martin headed an archaeological expedition to Alugean and there
uncovered a huge computer library complex. He ordered his team to keep the find secret
from anyone at the Omega 4 - EAST city, in the event Canon was to find out and have
the library destroyed.
Martin received the title of "Blue" after his name, because of his great intellect and he did
not abstain from using it.
Four years after his discovery, Canon disappeared and his Monks announced to everyone
that they saw him turn into a being of light and that he ascended to heaven in a golden
chariot.
Canon Di'Vaticanus was declared a God and the monk that was his second, named
himself the ArchBishop. His name was Morgan.
Morgan had the same powers as the Canon Di'Vaticanus and only answered to the Canon,
for his decisions.
Martin was married three times in his life, though he only had children with his second
and third wives.
With his second wife, Lilian, he had a son called Carter and with his third wife, Joan, had
triplets: Liona, Aria and Thirst.
In 2760 C.E., Carter went to Alugean, following his father's, directions and found the
computer library. He stayed there for several years and studied, alone. Liona, Aria and
Thirst left the Omega 4 - EAST city for BanGor when they were twenty-three, so that
they could learn the ways of the world, but they never survived. Only one of the three
reached BanGor, having met up with a wandering tribe of Teniqués. Only Liona, made
pregnant by a Teniqués, arrived in BanGor and was granted an act of abortion by the

High Priestess (the great, great granddaughter of Hosea Jones's first wife, Anna).
In 2780 C.E., Carter left Alugean and wandered about the continent, going through
Laurentine and then through BanGor in 2785 C.E., where he sojourned for a short time.
He represented himself to the High Priestess Lucaea (the third generation granddaughter
of Anna), with whom he became close and eventually sexually coupled, unaware of their
near relation by blood.
In 2801 C.E., they produced Smith and before she exiled Carter from BanGor, she
charmed from him a quantity of the youth drug -- the formula which was passed down to
him through his father.
In his exile, Carter went to Virune where he later met and married his first wife, Dee'inth,
who was seventeen. Carter was seventy-four at his first marriage, but he only resembled a
man of twenty-four, having taken the youth drug for so long and he manufactured more
after Lucaea took his supply away. There, he became a most important man, organising
and turning the city into a powerful city state.
Jessuum Benitar came down off the mountain and told Carter that they were related, that
both came from the loins of Hosea Jones. Jessuum told Carter that his real name was
Gavin Jones, the son of Hosea; the fourth generation great-uncle to Carter.
Jessuum told Carter that Lucaea was his relative, as well, and that Smith was a product of
an incestuous coupling.
When Carter heard this, he was determined to get Smith back. In 2817 C.E., Pomperaque
split in two, and was engaged in a civil war. Dee'inth and Carter's son, Calvin, left for
Virune.
A few years later, Carter unified and strengthened Pomperaque, and then proceeded to
invade BanGor.
Carter executed the already dying Lucaea and Smith came along willingly, back to
Pomperaque.
Dee'inth and Calvin were sent for in 2822 C.E., but they refused to come. Dee'inth had
married again, to a man called Balfour (who had a grown son called Empal).
Two years later, carter married his second wife Freida Dilaano, who had a daughter Miri.
Carter and Freida had no children, and after a year of marriage, Smith took her daughter
Miri as his wife, and they went to the Virgin Mountains for their honeymoon.
Several years of peace in Pomperaque went by and in 2900 C.E., Carter died. Soon after
Carter's death, Smith headed a campaign to unite Lower Phoride and in short of a decade,
succeeded.
In 3001 C.E., Smith and Miri went on a vacation to the Virgin Mountains, while she was
pregnant with their first child.
They were both fairly aged in years, although their physical and mental make-up was still
fairly young due to the age retardant drug which was passed down to them. Smith was
one hundred ninety-eight and Miri was one hundred ninety-four, but both looked to be
only in their mid-thirties.
On their return, Miri had experienced the pains and when they rested, one afternoon, she
gave birth to