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The life and death of Mona Ann Lisa on the Moon, 32,000 years in the making by George B. (All rights reserved Unpublished work (c) 2016 George B.)


Unknown to the career entangled Mona, a seed change in the political and military leadership had been ongoing for decades and something new was afoot. Previous cooperation between city states that had placed the six orbiting habitats in low earth orbit housing a total of a half million humans was beginning to show some early signs of fractures. The alliance once strong was being weekend by suspicion and bickering. Prior to this point in the 2nd High Human Civilization similar beliefs about human value had been nearly universal. Something had fundamentally changed. Small groups in the elite levels of the Atlantis Alliance had started to practice a form of what we would recognize as religious ceremonies. These ceremonies involved the contact and communication with what was later called Inner Spheres. Mona's culture group had no such practices. These ceremonies were exclusive and normally done in secret. It was alleged these practices culminated in an exchange of knowledge and powers for a contract of some type binding the recipient to some type of duty. (To be continued):