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After centuries of intense interstellar warfare, nothing remains of the native flora and fauna on Earth. A force of explorers is created with a specific mission; find and recover the farflung seeds of nature. Braving wilderness both natural and urban, these explorers strive to bring life back to their home planet, a sample at a time.
Here's one more photo from the Ontario Highlands from where I have been recently posting.. The Tatlock Quarry is not too far from us in the Lanark Highlands section of the larger landform. You may remember that we took a bus tour down into the pit early in the fall on a very overcast day. When we returned later in September, conditions were brighter, and the marble looked quite nice from the fenced in observation area.
When I last posted photos some thought that it was an eyesore, but I don't feel that way; I like the gleaming rock. In effect, this is in the middle of a very unpopulated area with no viable alternative land uses beyond forestry, and there is already abundant forest all over this region. The quarry isn't all that large, so it really doesn't take much land out of other production. In the farflung future, when the rock becomes unviable, it will be turned into a recreational area. I am happy with that notion although I certainly won't be around to witness it.
In comments is a photo of some of the extracted rock at the top of the quarry.
© Anvilcloud Photography
Arltunga is located on the 5 000 hectare Arltunga Historical Reserve. Arltunga was officially central Australia’s first town, that was born out of a gold rush after gold was found in dry creek beds in the surrounding areas during 1887. Arltunga was producing gold until 1913 when production stopped. The area is now open for exploration and is filled with many old ruins. The police station and jail (displayed above) was restored after rumours were told of gold being hidden within the walls that were later destroyed in search of it.
Tennant Creek _457 LR
The White Hills side of the FARFLUNG/White Hills split 12 in.
pretty psyched how it came out.
"the enlightened ape"
FARFLUNG:
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White Hills:
Commentary.
Left to right……
Sàil Liath, 954m. (3,130 feet.)
Corrag Bhuide, 1,049m. (3,442 feet.)
Lord Berkeley’s Seat, 1,030m. (3,379 feet.)
Sgùrr Fiòna, 1,060m. (3,478 feet.) and
Bidein a’ Ghlas Thuill, 1,062m. (3,484 feet.)
Five of this mountain’s amazing ten peaks.
Epic.
Magnificent.
Supreme.
The expulsion, by land-owners, of the crofters,
to far-flung corners of the Empire, in the
process of emigration, known in the 18th. Century,
as “The Clearances.”
What sad, tragic and heart-rending stories these
peaks would have witnessed, in times gone by.
However, the only sights better than the views of this
incredible mountain, would be the views from it.
It is very special.
Awesome.
Momentous.
this is just a compare/contrast shot to show why i like abiz so much. it's obvious, obtrusive, big, sloppy, imprecise, etc etc. not that abiz has never tagged like this, because he has, but for every plain old crappy abiz out there, there are hundreds of neat, inconspicuous, wellplaced, farflung, welldrawn, longlived abizes.
Poem.
Gouged.
Chiselled.
Fallen slabs of earth.
Folds of rock, soil and green mantle,
lie prostrate,
like a pile of giant dominoes.
Cliffs.
Edges.
Precipices.
Rock-faces and
spires of stone,
proliferate this dream landscape,
gravity-driven, and ancient.
As Geomorphologists do,
I have seen many, many landscapes.
This one is unique.
It is mystical
and almost……
beyond belief!
Arltunga is located on the 5 000 hectare Arltunga Historical Reserve. Arltunga was officially central Australia’s first town, that was born out of a gold rush after gold was found in dry creek beds in the surrounding areas during 1887. Arltunga was producing gold until 1913 when production stopped. The area is now open for exploration and is filled with many old ruins. The police station and jail (displayed above) was restored after rumours were told of gold being hidden within the walls that were later destroyed in search of it.
Tennant Creek _479
Poem.
Superb white, shell-sand beaches.
Rocky peninsulas.
Skerries in shallow water.
Undulating, mountainous islands.
Tombolos.
Green hills sinking to the shore.
Isolated villages like Portuairk.
Utter serenity.
A magical place at the far western extremity
of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula.
Remote, but a heavenly haven has been found!
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Multiple bays, wooded islands, small peninsulas,
coniferous forests, cruising Paddle-Steamers and a
winding, confined, elegant, graceful sweep of water,
called Loch Katrine, dominate this scene.
The mountains of Crianlarich, to the north,
near 4,000 feet, but here, in the Southern Highlands,
the colours range from grey to Blueberry blue,
and pink to brown to bottle-green.
As clouds blot out the sun’s rays
form and hue and tone and texture
seem to transform constantly,
in a living montage of exuberant colours.
This is a much loved and exquisite area
for outstanding scenery, in the round.
Commentary.
The sun catches the rocky headlands guarding
the entrance to the awesome sea-loch, Loch Hourn.
I was trundling my way across the Sound of Sleat
on my journey from the mainland at Mallaig, to Armadale
on the Sleat Peninsula, part of the wondrous Isle of Skye.
Hourn twists east, then south-east and finally east again, where it narrows to under a quarter of a mile wide,
from a maximum of three miles, at its mouth.
It is not absurd to suggest that this terrain represents one of the wildest, most remote and isolated in Caledonia and the United Kingdom.
To the left (north) is Knoydart, the “Rough Bounds.”
To the right (south) is North Morar ( out of shot.)
Both are only accessible by foot or boat.
There are no metalled roads within an area exceeding a hundred square miles.
They are truly rugged, remote, untamed and aloof to the influence of humanity.
Starkly untouched, rocky, bare but spartanly pristine, unspoiled, natural wildernesses.
Their raw, unsophisticated beauty rakes at your psyche, your soul, your spirit.
But in this “other world” you find your real self because refinement and urbanity has been stripped away
in the face of precipitous rock and mountains like Beinn Sgritheall and Ladhar Bheinn.
This three peaked mountain (two visible), just left of centre is another sentinel, like Sgurr na Ciche, an icon, a landmark for 20-40 miles in all directions, in this land of raw, unbridled beauty.
Even in this shot it lies beyond the southern side of Loch Hourn, twelve miles away in this image.
Should you wish to be “far from the madding crowd,” come here, to the mountains, to the eternal thrones of the Gods.
This is God’s Garden. It is a rocky one. Walk with him.
See your real self in the mountain pool, not the work-place window.
Over thousands of years, the action of wind, weather and water created forms on land. Archipelagos like the Philippines are more than blessed with coastlines that are yet undeveloped if not undiscovered. Isolated islets like the ones in farflung Tawi-Tawi are a joy to watch from above. Without vestiges of humanity, they showcase on what is still pristine and immaculate.
an islet near Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, Sulu archipelago, the Philippines
check out my 10 tips in aerial photography, part 1 in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
Commentary.
Dramatic, angular cliffs over 300 feet, 100 metres high,
made of distinctive Devonian Old Red Sandstone,
that is common on Scotland’s East Coast.
It is rare to have stacks so large and sharp,
like pointed daggers, some over 200 feet.
A good part of the Wester Ross coastline and all of the Sutherland and Caithness coastlines make up the now famous NC 500, including, of course, the Duncansby Stacks.
Mountain, loch, forest, gorges, geos, waterfalls, beaches, headlands and cliffs makes for a route of grandeur, beauty and variety.
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The purple heather and the blue-toned distant peaks,
the dark-green pines and the spiky sedges and rushes,
sandwich a treasure of nature as ferns and silver birch
metamorphose into their burnished golden apparel.
“Glorious,” is too weak a word to describe such glens in autumn.
For pure, natural, vivid colour, Cannich, Affric and Strathfarrar
are truly inspirational…… world class.
Your many miles of travel will be well rewarded.
Poem.
High stratus clouds allow shafts of sunlight
to beam off the sea in a glow of burnished gold.
Four miles across the mouth of Loch Hourn,
the familiar silhouetted headlands
spike, dagger-like, into the Sound,
from the remote peninsula of Knoydart.
The Isle of Eigg, on the horizon,
and one of the Sandaig Islands, in the foreground,
float on a pewter-grey sea.
Mesmeric beauty and soulful bliss.
Arltunga is located on the 5 000 hectare Arltunga Historical Reserve. Arltunga was officially central Australia’s first town, that was born out of a gold rush after gold was found in dry creek beds in the surrounding areas during 1887. Arltunga was producing gold until 1913 when production stopped. The area is now open for exploration and is filled with many old ruins. The police station and jail (displayed above) was restored after rumours were told of gold being hidden within the walls that were later destroyed in search of it.
Tennant Creek _430 LR
Poem.
Serrated, dog-tooth ridge.
Wall of rock.
Gabbro and basalt.
Ten mile volcanic tee.
Remnant of a super-volcano.
Glacially scoured.
Massive striated bluffs.
Pot-bunker-like corrie lake of Coire Lagan.
Great Stone Chute.
Two thousand foot boulder path of ice-riven debris.
This is what makes such a climb memorable and magnificent.
Track leading to as well as the abandoned mines in the Central Harts Range, Central Desert region, Alice Springs, Australia. The track and walking trail extends from Atitjere Community to the Spotted Dog and Disputed mines on Mount Palmer.
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What a mountain!
One horseshoe ridge around Loch Toll an Lochain,
made up of ten tops or sub-peaks.
Torridonian Sandstone over 500 million years old
on a base of Lewisian Gneiss up to 3 billion years in age.
North and south of the ridge, the slopes plunge precipitously, 3,000 feet, to corries and lochs like Loch na Sealga.
Here, from the highest point, Bidean á Ghlas Thuill, 1,062 metres (3,484 feet) we look back at the serrated arête we have just traversed.
The views in all directions are stupendous.
West, we can see Gruinard Bay and the Scoraig Peninsula.
North-West is the Summer Isles and Coigach.
North are the monoliths of Assynt in Sutherland.
East, Ben Wyvis (1,047 metres.)
South-East, Sgùrr Mor (1,110 metres) and the mountains of Affric and South, the Torridon Range and the Cuillins of Skye.
Probably, the most dramatic and impressive mountain in
Britain.
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The Ardnamurchan Peninsula protrudes for over 30 miles
out into the realms of the mighty Atlantic Ocean.
It is remote, beautiful and unspoiled.
It is the site of an eroded, gigantic and extinct volcano
that may have reached in excess of 20,000 feet.
In the 60 million years since it erupted
immense and continuous erosion has left
but remnants of its former self.
Around these fragments is a coastline of unparalleled beauty.
Fjords, mountains, cliffs, islands, headlands and beaches
fringed by forests of Ancient Oaks and Mosses, Rhododendron and Azalea.
Sanna Bay is one of the jewels in the crown.
Further west than Land’s End and on the same longitude as the Scilly Isles,
the beach and island views here, are sublime.
Few get this far, but their efforts find a true paradise.
Unforgettable.
Commentary.
Glen Shiel has many “Munros,”
culminating in the glorious ridge
called, “The Five Sisters of Kintail.”
About half way along the valley,
on the southern side, is typified by the rocky, rugged, ragged nature of these illustrious peaks.
In spring, snow can still dominate on slopes over 200-300 metres.
The combination of green and yellow foliage,
azure-blue lochs and gleaming white peaks,
makes spring a favoured time to enjoy vivid colours and contrasts.
Roche moutonnée, like the one on the right,
often bear the scars of abrasion, scouring and scratching on one side, and the plucking of ice-shattered rock on the other.
Glen Shiel is one of many iconic valleys in the Western Highlands.
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The West Coast of Scotland starts so green, low and mellow on the golfing links of Ayrshire.
So verdant, forested and peaceful in the convoluted yachting havens of Argyll or Dalraida.
By Lochaber the Nevis Range dominate the mountain backcloth of long “Sounds” and sea lochs.
Ardnamurchan, Arisaig and Morar provide the balmy silver sands and island vistas of so many films and documentaries.
Knoydart to Torridon provides the harsh bare rock and steep slopes of fjord-like sea-lochs.
Gairloch to Gruinard is a series of broad bays backed by distant mountain vistas.
Sutherland is unique.
From an endless swathe of “knock and lochan” hinterland, the low-hill profile is dramatically broken by stark, ominous, monolithic mountains rising from the ancient bedrock like the back of a monstrous dinosaur rising from its slumbers.
Here in Assynt the coastline is undramatic but austere.
Ancient, bare-rock headlands are pristine and pure,
punctuated by dazzling, isolated bays of silver-white sand.
Beautiful, but quite unpretentious.
The Barkly Tableland is a rolling plain of grassland in the eastern part of the Northern Territory going into the western part of Queensland. It is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory and covers 283,648 square kilometres.
Tennant Creek _77 LR
Commentary.
Only six miles from Cape Wrath in north-west Sutherland
and a three-mile walk from Blairmore, near Oldshoremore, there is Sandwood Bay.
There is no road to here, only a track.
The three-mile stretch of sand continues well to the south (left) of this image, to cliffs and a mighty stack known as Am Buchaille.
This is one of the most remote beaches in Britain.
So isolated, so serene, so beautiful and so mystical is this place, that local legend suggests that “Mermaids” frequent
its golden sands and dunes.
Sandwood Loch sits in a hollow landward of the beach
and flows via a short burn, across the beach and into the bay.
It is the only beach I have ever visited that filled me with a
spiritual sense of pure, wild, unspoiled nature.
Superlatives fail me, but……wow!
Poem.
Remote. Wild.
Rocky. Unspoiled.
Isolated. Peaceful.
Hilly. Mountainous.
Island-strewn. Bays.
Headlands. Landing Piers.
Dwellings-past and present.
Deep. Shallow.
Austere. Wildly beautiful.
Moorland. Wooded shores……
Such is Loch Morar.
This upload brings to mind a recurring thought: Man, my images are so (ridiculously?, interestingly?) varied. Will I never settle down into one, two, or even 10 types of photography? I guess if someone paid me to shoot farflung landscapes or championship sporting events, it might happen.
The one more painful activity the women flock of the area has to undergo is fetching water for domesting and drinking usage, in the region of Nangarparker. They have to travel to farflung area just to arrange this basic necessity for their use.
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Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
is a protected area of magnificent and beautiful scenery.
Here, from 2,385 feet above the glorious Loch Katrine
we peer west to see the distinctive peak of Ben Lomond
from the summit of Ben Venue (727 metres.)
On the right horizon, fading in the haze,
are the peaks known as the Arrochar Alps,
above and to the north-west of Loch Long.
Views in all directions leave the senses
almost overwhelmed, but very impressed.
i'm working on a FARFLUNG/White Hills split 12 inch and i'm psyched that they are using the art from a poster i did for them awhile back.
The other side will be the White Hills design.
can't wait to see & hear this shit!
FARFLUNG:
www.facebook.com/pages/Farflung-official-Site/210883438782
White Hills:
Commentary.
None of the mountains of Assynt reach 914 metres or 3,000 feet.
Yet, rising steeply, as they do, from a low, hilly, lochan-strewn base, they appear to be twice their actual height.
This landscape, in Sutherland, is like no other
in Scotland, Britain or much of Europe.
It always inspires incredulity-
very “other-worldly,”
but also, amazing and intriguing.
The Barkly Tableland is a rolling plain of grassland in the eastern part of the Northern Territory going into the western part of Queensland. It is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory and covers 283,648 square kilometres.
Tennant Creek _87 LR
Commentary.
On a two-week break to the Highlands and West Coast of Scotland,
myself and a friend walked from the seaward end of the Kirkaig Gorge to the Falls, and then further east, to climb
the twin peaks of the iconic, Suilven.
The Kirkaig Falls are an impressive sight
and the river is a roaring torrent
of white-water and rapids.
Sutherland is an amazing county.
and this is just one of many
incredible landscapes in the far north-west.
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Almost 1,900 years old.
Sixty miles long.
Built by the Romans to quell raids by the Scots from their northern land.
Much diminished in height for stone in subsequent structures.
The wall well south of the modern English/Scottish border often follows natural features.
Where a volcanic dyke or sill produced a rocky ridge the barrier would be enhanced in its difficulty.
Not the Great Wall of China but with very much the same purpose.
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On the 22nd. April, 2011, a glorious day, I had set off from Bracorina on Loch Morar on a six-mile round-trip.
A steady climb to 200 metres and the landscape levelled off.
Inland it was rocky, hummocky hills, some boggy patches,
remote lochans and a lattice of rushing burns.
Lochans Stole and Rèpach joined in a narrow neck of water, crossed by stepping stones.
The route continued north-east cutting diagonally up the eastern slopes of Lochan Stole.
No roads, no towns.
Access by boat or foot, to this area.
Knoydart and North Morar, the pristine, rugged
and most isolated area of the 6,000 British Isles.
Its isolation is stark and pure but wonderfully scenic, ethereal, surreal, mystical and magical.
My soul needs topping up with these qualities, now and again.
I will return many times, and certainly soon!
The Barkly Tableland is a rolling plain of grassland in the eastern part of the Northern Territory going into the western part of Queensland. It is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory and covers 283,648 square kilometres.
Tennant Creek _93 LR
Commentary.
Late in autumn, upper Strathfarrar provides us with a pot pourri of colour as the sun starts to decline towards the south-west.
The unclassified, private road snakes its way past Braulen Lodge towards the dammed Loch Monar and Monar Lodge.
Copper bracken, grasses and heathers.
Green pine and flaming larch
oppose the bluey-grey skies
and blueberry blue of distant “Munros.”
Imperceptibly, the track steadily climbs,
50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300 metres.
At ground-level land around Monar
is well over a thousand foot up.
This is high land and feels high land.
But the colours warm the scene and the peace and
the isolation is tangible and therapeutic.
Here, you can walk with God, in God’s country.
Giant sculpture of an Aboriginal people
Situated 123km north of Alice Springs, Aileron is a great rest stop along the Stuart highway. It offers meals, accommodation, fuel and is located close to many historical reserves. The 17 metre tall statue created by Mark Egan that calls Aileron home was erected in 2005 and took 18 months to construct (along with the Hollywood style Aileron sign). The woman and child were then erected December 2008 to demonstrate the size and scale of the man overlooking the small establishment.
Tennant Creek _353 LR.jpg
NEW for Mainframe, opening Jan 20th!
The infinity couch lives up to its name with countless options for assembly! The Outpost version is worn brown leather and grungy metal - perfect for rundown spaceships and farflung cantinas!
There is an adult and a PG version. Adult animations can be previewed at the mainstore, and the PG version is out at the event.
Included in the kit:
-Couch 2 LI - Seats 2 independently, plus couple anims
-Chair 2 LI - Seats 1, plus couples
-Chaise 2 LI - Seats 1, plus couples
-Filler Chair (no anims) 1 LI
-Coffee Table 1 LI
-Short Side Table 1 LI
-Long Side Table 1 Li
-Glow Lamp 1 LI
-Glow Lamp Tall 1 LI
-Corner Wedge 1 LI
Includes a color HUD to easily pick glow color and intensity of the decor pieces.
The seats can function separately, with or without side tables, or be fitted together into a massive club couch! The coffee table also perfectly fits the Holopole without base for adult establishments!
Copy/Mod/Original Mesh.
IN A SMALL UNDERGROUND CRYPT in the Allegheny Mountains lie the mortal remains of a fascinating Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.
Dubbed the “Apostle to the Alleghenies,” Demetrius Gallitzin gave up a life of aristocratic privilege to become a missionary on the farflung American frontier. Mostly forgotten, he’s now under consideration for sainthood.
Poem.
Stark.
Rugged.
Brutal.
Uncompromising.
Awesome.
Wild.
Untamed.
Wonderful.
Old, hard, striated boulders.
Coarse grass.
Hardy Heather.
Lone pine.
Steep, snowy, sinister rock-faced mountainside.
Dramatic.
Moving.
Hostile.
Fantastic.
Glen Cannich.
Magnifique!
“What a tricky job the angels will have on the last day! They will have to pick up God’s truth in farflung places and surgically remove it from hearts where previously it had lived alongside darkness!”
-Hans Von Balthasar
The Worlds End pub Knaresborough Yorkshire sited across the road from Mother Shiptons Cave near to the River Nidd where there is a petrifying well which has been a tourist attraction since 1630
Ursula Southeil (c. 1488 - 1561) , the legendary soothsayer and prophetess who exhibited prophetic and psychic abilities from an early age, writing prophecies in the form of poems, not much different than the cryptic Quatrains of Nostradamus
The first publication of her prophecies, which did not appear until 1641, eighty years after her death, contained a number of mainly regional predictions. this was followed by another edition in 1684. This stated that she was born in Knaresborough in a cave and was reputed to be hideously ugly. The woman who delivered Ursula', spoke of a smell of sulphur and a great crack of thunder as the child came into the world.
In 1512 aged 24 she married Toby Shipton, a local carpenter, near York Some say she had bewitched him, as she was too hideous for him to be attracted to her. They lived in Knaresborough, he died 2 years later.
Ursula had told fortunes and made predictions throughout her life. They lived in Knaresborough, but had no children, Her power to see into the future made her well known not only in her home town but throughout England.
Her legend was passed on through oral traditions, perhaps sometimes embellished. Many of her visions came true within her own lifetime
In subsequent centuries her predictions alluded to the tthe defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 , he Great Fire of London in 1666 - Samuel Pepys whilst surveying the damage to London caused by the Great Fire, in the company of the Royal Family, discussed her prophecy of the event.
She also prrdicted the Dissolution of the Monasteries. This led to the redistribution of the wealth and land held by the monasteries to the emerging middle class and the existing noble families.
Also modern technology - planes, submarines, telephone / internet etc
"Then upside down the world shall be and gold found at the root of tree
All England's sons that plough the land shall oft be seen with Book in hand
The poor shall now great wisdom know great houses stand in farflung vale all covered o'er with snow and hail
A carriage without horse will go, disaster fill the world with woe.
in London, Primrose Hill shall be In centre hold a Bishop's See
Around the world men's thoughts will fly quick as the twinkling of an eye.
And water shall great wonders do how strange. And yet it shall come true.
Through towering hills proud men shall ride no horse or ass move by his side.
Beneath the water, men shall walk shall ride, shall sleep, shall even talk.
And in the air men shall be seen in white and black and even green
A great man then, shall come and go for prophecy declares it so.
In water, iron, then shall float as easy as a wooden boat
Gold shall be seen in stream and stone
In land that is yet unknown. and England shall admit a Jew
You think this strange, but it is true
The Jew that once was held in scorn shall of a Christian then be born.
A house of glass shall come to pass in England. But alas, alas
A war will follow with the work where dwells the Pagan and the Turk
These states will lock in fiercest strife and seek to take each others life.
When North shall thus divide the south and Eagle build in Lions mouth
Then tax and blood and cruel war shall come to every humble door.
Three times shall lovely sunny France be led to play a bloody dance
Before the people shall be free three tyrant rulers shall she see.
Three rulers in succession be each springs from different dynasty.
Then when the fiercest strife is done England and France shall be as one.
The British olive shall next then twine In marriage with a german vine.
Men walk beneath and over streams fulfilled shall be their wondrous dreams.
For in those wondrous far off days the women shall adopt a craze to dress like men, and trousers wear and to cut off their locks of hair
They'll ride astride with brazen brow as witches do on broomstick now.
And roaring monsters with man atop does seem to eat the verdant crop
And men shall fly as birds do now and give away the horse and plough.
There'll be a sign for all to see be sure that it will certain be.
Then love shall die and marriage cease and nations wane as babes decrease
And wives shall fondle cats and dogs and men live much the same as hogs.
In nineteen hundred and twenty six build houses light of straw and sticks.
For then shall mighty wars be planned and fire and sword shall sweep the land.
When pictures seem alive with movements free when boats like fishes swim beneath the sea,
When men like birds shall scour the sky then half the world, deep drenched in blood shall die.
For those who live the century through in fear and trembling this shall do.
Flee to the mountains and the dens to bog and forest and wild fens.
For storms will rage and oceans roar when Gabriel stands on sea and shore and as he blows his wondrous horn old worlds die and new be born.
A fiery dragon will cross the sky six times before this earth shall die
Mankind will tremble and frightened be for the sixth heralds in this prophecy.
For seven days and seven nights Man will watch this awesome sight. The tides will rise beyond their ken to bite away the shores and then the mountains will begin to roar
And earthquakes split the plain to shore. and flooding waters, rushing in will flood the lands with such a din
That mankind cowers in muddy fen and snarls about his fellow men. He bares his teeth and fights and kills and secrets food in secret hills and ugly in his fear, he lies to kill marauders, thieves and spies.
Man flees in terror from the floods and kills, and rapes and lies in blood And spilling blood by mankinds' hands will stain and bitter many lands
And when the dragon's tail is gone, Man forgets, and smiles, and carries on to apply himself - too late, too late for mankind has earned deserved fate.
His masked smile - his false grandeur, will serve the Gods their anger stir. and they will send the Dragon back to light the sky - his tail will crack upon the earth and rend the earth
And man shall flee, King, Lord, and serf.
But slowly they are routed out to seek diminishing water spout And men will die of thirst before the oceans rise to mount the shore. And lands will crack and rend anew You think it strange. It will come true.
And in some far off distant land some men - oh such a tiny band , will have to leave their solid mount and span the earth, those few to count,
Who survives this (unreadable) and then begin the human race again. But not on land already there but on ocean beds, stark, dry and bare
Not every soul on Earth will die as the Dragons tail goes sweeping by. Not every land on earth will sink but these will wallow in stench and stink of rotting bodies of beast and man
Of vegetation crisped on land.
But the land that rises from the sea will be dry and clean and soft and free of mankinds' dirt and therefore be the source of man's new dynasty.
And those that live will ever fear the dragons tail for many year
But time erases memory You think it strange. But it will be.
And before the race is built anew a silver serpent comes to view and spew out men of like unknown to mingle with the earth now grown Cold from its heat and these men can enlighten the minds of future man to intermingle and show them how to live and love and thus endow
The children with the second sight. a natural thing so that they might grow graceful, humble and when they do the Golden Age will start anew.
She also said ” The world shall end when the High Bridge is thrice fallen”.
The High Bridge at Knaresborough has fallen twice so far….
The life of a Core World mercenary differs greatly from that of their counterparts on in the Rimward worlds. In the Core, mercenaries work in tandem with elite military forces and have to be just as advanced in tactics and technology. Rimward mercenaries take a more basic, fundamental approach, often preferring brute force and superior numbers over anything else.
The Hound-hand mercenary band started off as a Core group. In a world of slick, efficient and professional soldiers-for-hire, the Hound-hands were violent, ferocious and without mercy. Demand for their services dwindled rather quickly, and so the group packed up their equipment and moved operations to the wild west of the Galactic Rim.
Farflung from the sensibilities of Sol and the other Core worlds, the Hound-hands and their almost eponymous ship were never in more demand. Combining a high-tech edge with a violent, pragmatic approach. The pinnacle of Hellhound's armament is the underslung Praxis 'Shieldshearer' Anti-Proton cannon: able to wipe out the outdated energy barriers of most old fashioned enemies.
Manufacturer/Model: Hibashyi Type-7 Military Courier [heavily retrofitted]
Length: 19m
Crew: 3 pilots, upto 14 mercenaries/prisoners
Weaponary: 2 x Heavy Rocket Launchers [wing mounted, pod stored]
1 x Praxis Anti-Proton Cannon [underslung]
Defences: NebulaNova-class Shield Generator. Duranium Armour Plating.