2041 Sanctuary (Let There Be Light) (70 page)

Sanctuary Proper
– Ancient subterranean structure

Footprint: > 20,000 sq. miles (51,800 sq. km)

Height: circa 20 to 30 miles (32km to 48km)

Depth from surface: circa 10,000 ft (1.9 miles / 3.1 km)

Deepest point from surface: circa 22 to 32 miles

Cubic capacity: 400,000 to 600,000 cubic miles

Year of build: circa 900,000 yrs B.C.

E.U.S.B.
– European Union Subterranean Base

E.U.S.B. Deutschland
– A Class subterranean base

Footprint: circa 40 sq. miles (104 sq. km)

Height: 8,500 ft (2.6 km)

Depth from surface: 2,500 ft (0.76 km)

Deepest point from surface: 11,000 ft (2.1 miles / 3.36 km)

Cubic capacity: 28.7 cubic miles (270.4 km³)

Year of build: 2015 – ongoing

Population: circa 2,250,000

Darklight
– Private security firm operating around the world and utilised by various organisations, corporations and governments. Primary client: Global Meteor Response Council.

SOG
– CIA’s Special Operations Group

NCO
– Non-commissioned officer.

XO
– Executive officer.

SFSD
– Special Forces Subterranean Detachment

Division of the United States Army

Member of Subterranean Command

Codename: ‘Terra Force’

Active: 2013 – present

Type: Infantry / Special Forces Commandos

Motto: ‘No Depth Too Difficult, No Height Too Great – Honor and Country!’

Battle cry / affirmation: ‘Ooyah!’

Deployment: United States Subterranean Bases

S.E.D. (Sanctuary Exploration Division)
– Founded in 1826 by the sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, the SED has a unique position within USSB Sanctuary in that it has a certain amount of autonomy despite its military oversight. The reason for this independence is mainly due to two factors. Fact one, the SED was operational long before the USSB was built or the GMRC ever conceived. Fact two, the SED was also instrumental in helping the United States government and GMRC create USSB Sanctuary, their knowledge of Sanctuary Proper an invaluable resource to the subterranean engineers during the planning, design and development of the enormous multilevel, underground structure / city.

Types of Team: Mapping, Structural, Archaeological, Scientific and Deep Reach.

Motto: ‘Into the dark, into the light, pioneers for life.’

Sancturian
– name given to residents of USSB Sanctuary.

Project ARES
– Unacknowledged Special Access Programme, or black project, utilising ancient Anakim technology. A collaborative venture between the GMRC’s R&D Division, United States military and NASA.

GMRC Directorate
– Executive body ruling over the GMRC. Comprising Directors from the twelve major divisions within the GMRC, the Directorate helps to shape the council’s policies and actions around the world.

Motto: ‘
In Veritate Scientia
’ (In Truth, Knowledge).

Deep Reach
– Special unit working within Sanctuary’s Exploration Division (S.E.D.).

Team Alpha Six
– S.E.D. Deep Reach unit.

U.S.S.S. Orbiter One
– United States Space Ship. Co-funded and managed by NASA and the U.S. military. Small, modular craft designed for orbital observation and scientific research.

U.S.S.S. Archimedes
– United States Space Station. Co-funded and managed by NASA and the U.S. military. Large, modular craft designed for orbital observation, scientific research and classified military applications.

I.S.S.
– International Space Station. Co-funded by the world’s major spacefaring nations. Large, modular craft designed for orbital observation, scientific research and classified military applications.

E.S.S. Guardian
– European Space Station. Co-funded and managed by the ESA (European Space Agency) and the EU (European Union). Large, modular craft designed for orbital observation, scientific research and classified military applications.

C.S.S. Jiùshìzh
ǔ
– Chinese Space Station. Co-funded and managed by the CNSA (Chinese National Space Administration) and the People's Republic of China. Large, modular craft designed for orbital observation, scientific research and classified military applications. Jiùshìzh
ǔ
translates as ‘
the Saviour
’.

Three Sisters
– A phrase used to describe the collective of the three space stations, Archimedes, Jiùshìzh
ǔ
and Guardian.

S.I.L.V.E.R.
– A multidisciplinary elite taskforce comprising twenty-two highly skilled individuals, or operatives, available to the highest bidder. Masters of various styles of combat, each member has access to the best military hardware the world has to offer and can function as a lone agent, or as part of a greater whole. S.I.L.V.E.R. is an acronym for: Stealth, Infiltration, Liquidation, Verification, Extraction and Reconnaissance. Their existence is hidden from public eye and they are regarded as mercenaries by some, assassins by others, and necessary by those who employ them.

APPENDIX K

WORDS, TERMS & PHRASES

Anakim
– Ancient and extinct race of Hominids living on Earth circa 1.2 million to 20,000 years before present-day. Scientific name: Homo giganthropsis (unofficial: Homo gigantis). Alternative plural: Anakai.

Nephilim
– The word
Nephilim
is found in the Hebrew Bible. Its true meaning, as far as I can tell, still seems to be contested to this day. Some suggest it derives from the word,
nephal
or
naphal
, which can mean ‘to fall’, which some then interpret as the ‘fallen ones’. Another, and perhaps more reasoned argument, is that
Nephilim
is derived from the word
naphil
which means ‘giant’. When researching this, I found that Dr. Mike Heiser gave a well-reasoned argument for the latter hypothesis mentioned above.

Mesoamerica
– A region in Central America in which pre-Columbian cultures thrived between approx. 10,000 B.C. and 1700 A.D. Modern day countries contained (partly or fully) within the Mesoamerican area include: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The most well known civilisations/tribes in Mesoamerica include: Inca, Aztecs, Maya, Olmecs, Mixtecs and Zapotecs.

Ooyah
– SFSD commandos’ affirmation / battle cry.

The Deep Web
– Term for the part of the World Wide Web not appearing on regular search engines. Unindexed content not seen by regular Internet users who frequent the Surface Web. This content can take many forms; some is benign while other content can be more sinister in origin and use, resulting from illegal activity by individuals, criminal gangs, corrupt organisations, companies and sovereign nations, although the latter may argue this is just offensive national defence conducted in their country’s best interests. Also known as: Deep Net, Dark Net, Dark Web, Invisible Web, Under Web, Under Net, Hidden Web etc.

Scheiße
– Vulgar German word for shit, faeces or something rubbish / worthless (alternative:
Scheisse
).

The Father of His Country
– Phrase used to describe the first U.S. President of the United States of America, George Washington.

CPR
– Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

KIA
– Killed in action.

MIA
– Missing in action.

River Styx
– The boundary between the underworld (the land of the dead) and Earth (the land of the living) in Greek mythology, which takes the form of a river.

Brine Pool
– A high salinity body of water found on the seabed of deep oceans which give the impression of an underwater lake or pool.

Intercept missions
– Planned missions by the GMRC’s Space Programme to prevent four of six approaching asteroids from impacting planet Earth.

Caste
– Word used by
The Committee
to distinguish between the hierarchical ranks of its members. There are thirteen castes within The Committee, and only nine people can hold the top, and thirteenth, caste.

DMV
– Department of Motor Vehicles in the United States.

MACH
– The Mach number, denoted by M or Ma, is a variable value commonly referred to as the local
speed of sound
.

PIT manoeuvre
– Precision immobilization technique. Utilised by a moving vehicle, usually law enforcement, when trying to turn a fleeing vehicle sideways in order to stop its forward motion.

EVA
– Extra vehicular activity is a term used by astronauts and cosmonauts when they operate outside of their spacecraft in a pressurised suit when in the vacuum of space or other unpressurised environments.

Navy SEAL
– Sea, Air and Land, S.E.A.L., the term used by the United States Navy for their special operations force.

Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm
– A German phrase also used in English which translates as: The apple does not fall far from the tree. An alternative can be, ‘like father, like son’, or ‘like mother, like daughter’, or, in Brett and Samson’s case, ‘like father, like daughter’.

Obsidian
– Is a volcanic glass which has a shiny black appearance and naturally occurs in nature.

Southern Quechua language
– Native language spoken by the indigenous Quechua people of Peru and a handful of other South American countries. There are approx. seven million speakers.

Great Flood
–There are many tales of great floods throughout history and in all corners of the world. However, a more recent theory suggests the flood mentioned in the Bible may have roots in a far older event which some theorise destroyed an ancient civilisation that spanned the globe.

Das Gespenst
– The name used by the computer hacker, Eric Wolf, which translates from German as: ‘The Ghost’.

Da Muss Ich
– One of many names used by, and assigned to, the cyber terrorist, B.I.C., which translates from German as: ‘Because I Must’. Although, the acronym B.I.C. stands for the better known name of: ‘Because I Can’.

APPENDIX L

LOCATIONS, BUILDINGS & MONUMENTS

Sanctuary Proper –
Ancient underground structure built by an extinct species of Hominid, Homo giganthropsis. Located beneath the deserts and mountains of central and northern Mexico.

Dulce
– Small town located in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States.

Ruins of Copán
– ancient Mayan city located in the Copán Department of western Honduras.

Teotihuacan
– Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city located near Mexico City, Mexico.

Pyramid of the Sun
– Biggest structure in Teotihuacan, Mexico.

Sterkfontein Caves
– Also known as the Cradle of Humanity. Located near Johannesburg, South Africa.

FBI Field Office, Los Angeles, California, USA
– Located on Wilshire Boulevard.

City of New York, State of New York, USA
– Most populous and arguably the most iconic city in the United States.

Smithsonian Vaults
– Secure facilities used to store ancient Anakim artefacts and remains. The vaults are located inside USSB Sanctuary and beneath the Smithsonian Institution’s sprawling Museum of Sanctuary.

Military Vaults
– As above but with extra security and limited access.

U.S.S.B. SANCTUARY United States Military Scientific Laboratory Complex
– High security facility run by the U.S. Army. Utilised by NASA and the GMRC’S R&D Division, the complex contains projects and research based on artefacts of Anakim origin.

Shuttle bay
– Area inside the S.E.D. from where air-shuttles are launched.

Departure lounge
– Nickname given to the staging area in the S.E.D. used by teams prior to launch.

S.E.D. Control Station
– Area inside the S.E.D. Command Centre that controls the launch and return of air-shuttles into Sanctuary Proper.

S.E.D. Command Centre
– Area inside the S.E.D. complex that houses the Control Station (see above), shuttle bay and the offices for high ranking S.E.D. personnel.

Tower central
– Is an ancient Anakim tower located at the heart of U.S.S.B. Sanctuary. At three miles high the spectacular structure was built to last and it was decided – for reasons both structural and aesthetic – to construct the human subterranean base around it.

Dome Level
– The topmost level of U.S.S.B. Sanctuary and the most exclusive, due to the health benefits (both mental and physical) of living, and/or working, in a more open and natural environment.