| TRACE ELEMENT |
An Ethan Cross Trouvaille
An Ethan Cross Trouvaille
Release Date 1.20.2021
INTRIGUE, DECEPTION, FEINT, AND Escape
Trace Element offers a compelling foray into a speculative future where the solution to the world's energy needs exists in 2045 London. Join Ethan Cross a quarter-century from now as he unveils the future history of events unfolding today. Has Parliament hidden a monumental breakthrough from the world? Is this feint the true reason for Brexit? Will Cross foil the plans of a British corporate mastermind who will stop at nothing to protect a secret that will forever change humanity? Cross travels Europe to uncover facts about EV3's ARCELOR while discovering corrupt traces of human nature and the truth about lies. Will science and reason win over the unscrupulous motives of a corporate nation-state? Or will Cross be trapped by the human element of greed and deception? Follow trace elements from Athens, London, Monaco, and through the French Rivera to discover the most remarkable advancement humanity has ever known.
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EASTER EGG
Dark Machine by Paul Oakenfold - Start this song as you begin to read Chapter 14- Dark Machine, page 174. Start as the chapter begins: Cross forced himself to gather his faculties and think, but the urge to flee was too high.
The ORIGIN OF THE STORY
It's hard to avoid asking, what will the world be like in the future? We all do it. It's one reason that science and engineering can be so captivating. We can take any period in history and observe that newer, more advanced technologies will naturally replace older, less useful ideas. It's a constant that is engrained in each of us. Intrinsically, we know new replaces used, young replaces old, the evidence is as natural as seasons change. Progress is made. It's one reason why Science Fiction is so popular. It's a chance to peer into the looking glass and see what may be in store. Often, stories of utopian futures give us hope that the decisions we make today will lead to better times ahead. Alternately, dystopian tomorrows cause us to think critically about decisions society is making now. Stories of dark days ahead can act as a countermeasure, a means for us to consider how to avoid a less fortunate fate.
The TRACE ELEMENT series exists at the precipice of either outcome. It imagines a fait accompli future where today's truths, hidden from the general populace, are revealed twenty-five years from now. It presumes that energy will be the next big technological revolution and explores how it might occur. It asks where will today's big, bold breakthroughs happen? Will there be a monumental moonshot event that our children and grandchildren will look back upon with pride and say, "I was there"? Or will the clean-abundant energy revolution start and remain underground, hidden from view in the annals of the secretive defense industry?
If a quantum leap in technology has happened, what forces will be at play to keep that power from the masses? And why? How will industry and government incubate a monumental discovery? Will it be controlled by a select few corporations and elite individuals as fossil fuels are now? Will greed keep it hidden for private use, or will equity and equality prevail over economic malaise? Will profit-driven corporations allow society to embrace the next great milestone in human achievement? Beyond profit, will they use this power for good, or will they use it for licentiousness? With people across the planet experiencing first-hand the signs of a warming world, The TRACE ELEMENT series imagines a possible utopia emerging from a feasible dystopia; a paradise that could be now, not then.
The TRACE ELEMENT series exists at the precipice of either outcome. It imagines a fait accompli future where today's truths, hidden from the general populace, are revealed twenty-five years from now. It presumes that energy will be the next big technological revolution and explores how it might occur. It asks where will today's big, bold breakthroughs happen? Will there be a monumental moonshot event that our children and grandchildren will look back upon with pride and say, "I was there"? Or will the clean-abundant energy revolution start and remain underground, hidden from view in the annals of the secretive defense industry?
If a quantum leap in technology has happened, what forces will be at play to keep that power from the masses? And why? How will industry and government incubate a monumental discovery? Will it be controlled by a select few corporations and elite individuals as fossil fuels are now? Will greed keep it hidden for private use, or will equity and equality prevail over economic malaise? Will profit-driven corporations allow society to embrace the next great milestone in human achievement? Beyond profit, will they use this power for good, or will they use it for licentiousness? With people across the planet experiencing first-hand the signs of a warming world, The TRACE ELEMENT series imagines a possible utopia emerging from a feasible dystopia; a paradise that could be now, not then.