THE EMPIRE CAN WAIT – CHAPTER 7, PART 2
[…] the Jedi Temple stood alone. A colossal pyramid with multiple spires rising skyward from its flat top, it sat apart from everything at the end of a broad promenade linking it with bulkier, sharper-edged towers in which solitude and mediation were less likely to be found. Within the TempleContinue Reading
Operation Trojan Horse: Are UFOs a Psychological Control System?
In 1970, computer scientist and ufologist Jacques Vallée published one of the most provocative works in the history of UFO studies: Operation Trojan Horse. His thesis was radical then — and feels eerily prescient now. Vallée argued that UFOs were not extraterrestrial spacecraft, but manifestations of an intelligence that interactsContinue Reading
THE EMPIRE CAN WAIT – CHAPTER 7, PART 1
“Don’t call me stupid!” “Oh, right: to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs! But you think you are an intellectual, don’t you, ape?” (Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda,Continue Reading
THE EMPIRE CAN WAIT – CHAPTER 6, PART 2
New Xanadu, coordinates 000.000/000.000/000.000July 5th, 666 EG The door slid open, releasing Princess Virginia’s screams. “I said no! Didn’t you hear me? I don’t want to be examined!” “Please, Highness, don’t be such a baby! It’s your monthly check‑up… it’ll only take a minute…” “Get out of here, doctor! GetContinue Reading
Dreamwalkers: Cats and the Myth of Nocturnal Soul Travel
When night falls and the world quiets, cats awaken. Their pupils bloom into black moons; their movements soften into soundless grace. For centuries, humans have watched this transformation and wondered:Where do cats go when they roam the night?Do they hunt and wander… or do they walk in dreams? The AncientContinue Reading
THE EMPIRE CAN WAIT – CHAPTER 6, PART 1
Fillet of a fenny snake,In the cauldron boil and bake.Eye of newt and toe of frog,Wool of bat and tongue of dog,Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,Lezard’s leg and owlet’s wing,For a charm of powerful trouble,Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. (William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I) Starmont, coordinates 91.349/-74.222/000.001JulyContinue Reading
THE EMPIRE CAN WAIT – CHAPTER 5, PART 2
“Hey, Cthulhu!” Uful’lan shouted, suddenly popping out from cover. For a moment, the creature paused its repeated battering of an overturned table, behind which a pair of Cardassians were huddled in terror. As Cthulhu’s attention shifted to the k’rell, its nerve endings flared with a series of crackling purple sparks.Continue Reading
THE EMPIRE CAN WAIT – CHAPTER 5, PART 1
Twiglet ran at breakneck speed, not daring to look back—but she wasn’t under any illusions. Any second now, she expected to feel the werewolves’ fetid breath on her neck… and then she’d die. Funny, she thought grimly. One hundred and thirty-seven years old, and it would all end here… inContinue Reading








