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Vatican Abdicator by Mike Luoma
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This is it! The SHOCKING CONCLUSION to the VATICAN ASSASSIN TRILOGY! Bernard Campion, "BC", has been an Assassin for the Pope - The Vatican's Ambassador to Lunar Prime - CEO of The Project - Head of the UTZ Council - and now he's the Pope of the New catholic Church, the NcC. But the mantle sits uneasily on BC. The Universal Trade Zone (UTZ) and The Universal Islamic Nation (UIN) are now forced to work together in the face of dual threats: The alien race, The Eldred and the recently revived survivor of the race known as the Ancient Enemy - Dolomay. Can BC remain Pope and still lead the battle against The Eldred and Dolomay? Can humanity come together to face those who would enslave them... or worse? It all comes to a head. There will be war... but who will be fighting who? Find out the answers - in VATICAN ABDICATOR!
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Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| Chapter One (30.58 MB) | BC and Richard Wentworth meet on Wentworth Station after BC’s failed mission to see Al Salid on Mars. BC fills Wentworth in on the REALLY Big Picture... | Aug 8, 2008 |
| Chapter Two (16.28 MB) | BC decides to abdicate. Anita and M'Bekke are there. Both get more than they bargained for out of the meeting. | Aug 15, 2008 |
| Chapter Three (13.37 MB) | Three Months later. BC travels to the Vatican to meet with M'Bekke and Wentworth. A few surprises await! | Aug 22, 2008 |
| Chapter Four (25.75 MB) | Dolomay goes on the attack. BC heads for the Project's base in the asteroids as Dolomay launches a raid. The Eldred then arrive to complicate the situation! | Aug 30, 2008 |
| Chapter Five (20.28 MB) | A war that's been cold for a million years flares hot anew. The Eldred attack Mars as they go after Dolomay, last living member of the race once known as The Ancient Enemy! The Eldred pound the planet in an attempt to eliminate their old foe. Can BC do anything to keep them from wiping out the human inhabitants of Mars in the process? | Sep 5, 2008 |
| Chapter Six (14.64 MB) | BC and Al Salid meet and work together to keep the Eldred from wiping out the population of Mars and Dolomay makes another appearance! | Sep 13, 2008 |
| Chapter Seven (15.92 MB) | BC heads to Wentworth Station to meet with Wentworth and the UTZ Council. Dolomay attacks again, his ships now souped up with stolen alien tech. | Sep 21, 2008 |
| Chapter Eight (31.21 MB) | BC travels out to the asteroids to take a look at The Project's new facilities on Ceres and the new shipyard, now two months old. While he visits the old Project base, the Flaze and the Domo show up unannounced - and they want to talk to BC! | Sep 27, 2008 |
| Chapter Nine (19.53 MB) | How do you capture an Eldred ship? BC works with Project scientists to make it happen. If they can capture one, Dell and Krish will try to reverse engineer the technology... and apply it to our ships! | Oct 4, 2008 |
| Chapter Ten (13.51 MB) | The UTZ Council meets on Lunar Prime. Governor Amanda Erskine visits BC to find out what's going on. As they meet, BC decides they need a new council... a war council! | Oct 12, 2008 |
| Chapter Eleven (15.48 MB) | Anita and the other Project scientists escape Dolomay's raid on the asteroid base and arrive at Lunar Prime... only to discover Dolomay has hit the old Project base on the Moon as well! Dolomay's forces are on a rampage - they attack Mars as BC and Anita reunite! | Oct 18, 2008 |
| Chapter Twelve (26.33 MB) | The Khalif joins the war council, and BC fills him in on the Ancient Enemy, Dolomay and the Eldred. BC also proposes "something radical" - some would say impossible - to the Khalif and M'Bekke. | Oct 25, 2008 |
| Chapter Thirteen (13.51 MB) | Anita and her Project scientists head back to the asteroids as aliens show up on the Moon! The Domo and the Flaze arrive at Lunar Prime with a surprising request... and BC does some traveling, too, as he heads to Mars to a signing ceremony with the Khalif. | Oct 31, 2008 |
| Chapter Fourteen (30.51 MB) | M'Bekke and BC discuss "the book". What should be included? Left out? BC speaks with the Khalif and Wentworth as well. BC then heads out to the asteroids to check out new ships using new tech reverse engineered and developed by The Project. | Nov 11, 2008 |
| Chapter Fifteen (29.76 MB) | BC leads the way as the UTZ gives way to a new government. Humankind unites under the the threat of war as the Solar Alliance! The Domo and the Flaze approach BC with an intriguing offer. BC also discovers what an old friend has been up to, and he encounters... something... in his dreams! | Nov 14, 2008 |
| Chapter Sixteen (15.37 MB) | Waiting for the other shoe to drop... BC heads out to Ceres Central to see Anita, get caught up on the Project scientists' efforts reverse engineering alien tech, and meet with the "governors" of the Project's "colonies" from Cat's Eye, Rigel Four, Crankshaft and Depot. | Nov 22, 2008 |
| Chapter Seventeen (27.84 MB) | The Domo contact BC with information about an upcoming attack on humankind by the Eldred, and inform BC that the Domo now consider the agreement between us and them to be at an end. BC plots strategy with Anita, as they begin to make tough choices about the battle looming ahead. And BC has a very strange and revealing dream... | Nov 28, 2008 |
| Chapter Eighteen (10.65 MB) | BC develops battle plans over breakfast. Krish gets in touch about a new technological development he thinks might be of use. | Dec 5, 2008 |
| Chapter Nineteen Part One (18.69 MB) | The Domo have warned of imminent war with the Eldred. The waiting game has begun in earnest. BC must deal with resistance from the colony on Cat's Eye even as he keeps the combined forces of humankind on alert, waiting for the Eldred to strike. | Dec 12, 2008 |
| Chapter Nineteen Part Two (19.75 MB) | The war is on! The Eldred attack the Project asteroid base. BC and the forces of the Solar Alliance fight back! Will Dolomay be showing up soon? How many "fronts" can the Solar Alliance fight on at once? The battle rages in this second half of Chapter Nineteen! | Dec 20, 2008 |
| Chapter Twenty (11.51 MB) | BC's attention shifts to the Eldred attack on the shipyards. He decides to go to the scene of the battle. So does Dolomay. And BC begins to feel Dolomay attacking him - mind to mind! | Dec 24, 2008 |
| Chapter Twenty-One (21.48 MB) | The Eldred fleet continues to attack the Solar Alliance shipyard. Dolomay and his forces begin attacking the Eldred! BC is under mental attack by Dolomay. As he tries to fight back, BC finds himself looking out through Dolomay's eyes! | Jan 4, 2009 |
| Chapter Twenty-Two (19.1 MB) | BC and Anita meet for dinner, to discuss the future, and more. And M'Bekke and the Khalif break some bad news... | Jan 9, 2009 |
| Chapter Twenty-Three and Epilogue (14.84 MB) | This is it! The final chapter and the epilogue of "Vatican Abdicator". There are four more episodes after this, the four part Appendix to the entire "Vatican Assassin" Trilogy with the history of the future, the background to the Project and the alien races and more. But this is the end of the story of BC... | Jan 17, 2009 |
| Appendix Part One (21.75 MB) | The Appendix Part One begins with an Introduction to the Appendix materials. Part One also features the original Prologue, and the beginning of the History of The Future, the future timeline behind the entire Vatican Assassin Trilogy. This first part covers from the present up to 2030. | Jan 23, 2009 |
| Appendix Part Two (45.47 MB) | More background material for the entire "Vatican Assassin" Trilogy from the Appendix (found in hardcover omnibus editions - glowinthedarkradio.com). It's the rest of the History of The Future - from 2030 to 2109, when the trilogy's story begins. It's the rise of the Universal Trade Zone, the UTZ; the massacres and mistreatment that creates the war with the Universal Islamic Nation, the UIN; even the unification and creation of the New catholic Church. This "Future History" sets the stage for the tale to come. | Jan 30, 2009 |
| Appendix Part Three (46.98 MB) | As our journey through the background material in the appendix continues it's "The Biography of Bernard Campion" and the first half of "The Future of The Future" - my name for the outline I worked from as I wrote my three books. This is not the original outline, but it is close. Because plot points and other things changed between this point in the process and the finished books, this outline reads a bit like a summary of the trilogy that gets some things wrong! This half covers "Vatican Assassin" and much of "Vatican Ambassador". The appendix can be found in the Omnibus Edition of the "Vatican Assassin Trilogy" available at http://glowinthedarkradio.com. | Feb 6, 2009 |
| Appendix Part Four (62.45 MB) | Vatican Abdicator and the entire Vatican Assassin Trilogy conclude with this episode covering the last of the Appendix material. This includes the second half of "The Future of The Future" - my name for the outline I worked from as I wrote my three books. It's not quite the original outline, but this second half especially contains pretty much the raw ideas as I was first writing them down. Plot points and other story elements changed between this and the finished books and so, once again, this outline reads like a summary of the trilogy that gets some things wrong! This second half covers the end of "Vatican Ambassador" and all of "Vatican Abdicator". Following the "Future of the Future" are two additional outlines, the "Alien Timeline" and the history of "The Project". These are a bit repetitive, as they contain material later used in the "History of the Future" and the "Future of the Future". The appendix can be found in the Omnibus Edition of the "Vatican Assassin Trilogy" available at http://glowinthedarkradio.com. | Feb 15, 2009 |
| Thank You For Listening (0.43 MB) | Mike Luoma here. Thanks for listening to "Vatican Abdicator". If you liked it and want more from me, I have other titles on Podiobooks.com. They include "Vatican Ambassador", "Vatican Assassin" and "Synthetic Marmalade". I hope you enjoy them. And again, thanks for listening! | Jun 21, 2009 |