Mesa Tyree

Eastward Toward Eden
(In development)

     In the 2374th colonial period, after being displaced by the consortium's mineral harvesting, agriculturists' families disappear. The corresponding drop in lawsuits relives the the Consortiums and Governing Quorum of huge legal fees and they pay scant attention to the disappearances. Shawn MacKenna, Arturo Santiago, and Liam McDonald are three agriculturalists who are among those who vanish. Along with their families they head for a secret world being settled outside colonial space. Hidden from the Quorum's scrutiny, they labor in complete isolation to build this new world.  At first the colonist smuggle in the supplies needed to survive, but after  a freak encounter with a Quorum official they cut off their smuggling operations. They do without until they can become self-sustaining.  By building the industries needed to create a stable, productive society they further unite their people. 
    In the 2490th colonial period, while Liam McDonald guards the three families, ready to flee if necessary, Sean MacKenna and Arturo Santiago leave and journey to Kaladon Crossing.  They stroll into the huge Quorum chambers and interrupt the monthly meeting.  When asked why they are there, they tell the Quorum President they've come to request colony status for their world.  The announcement throws the meeting into chaos..
   Once order was restored, the two men answer the Quorum's questions and reveal the name of this new colony, Ventura Arriesgado.  The irony of the chosen name (Risky Venture, in the old desert language) is not lost on the Quorum members. Arriesgado should be declared a rogue world in the eyes of the Quorum members and the two arrogant men jailed for rebellion. Shawn and Arturo know, however, that the theory allows for just such a situation. To add insult to injury, unforeseen circumstances make the farming world’s enormous food stores critical to colonial survival. The Governing Quorum is forced to grant the Arrisians, over the cries and protests of the consortium representatives, colony status without modification to their duly adopted constitution.
   The development of Ventura Arriesgado, and the Arrisians' emergence as a stable government and society, puts the Quorum’s guiding theory in question and proves the need for central control to develop a stable colony is glaringly inaccurate. The Arrisians' accomplishments weaken the Quorum’s and the Consortium’s control over other colonies, and allows for the free and independent settlement of new worlds. Following the Arrisians example, the colonies of Wyndimere and Sydon are started, and further weaken the Governing Quorum's grip on the colonies. This earns the Arrisians some very powerful and patient enemies.
   By the 2430th colonial period, Arrisians are a peaceful agrarian culture. Ventura Arriesgado is a prosperous and productive world. The settlers are in large agriculturalist and craftsmen who's ties extend back to the mountain and desert regions of the home world. They carried to this new world, their languages with all their quirks, and many of their old traditions. One of those traditions is the old style outdoor fair. In 2331 on the last day of one such fair, a chance meeting between a reluctant fortune teller and the pregnant wife of Russell MacKenna will effect their world and the colonies in ways neither would believe.