The Sol Empire Volume 8 Origins

Molly Parkinson's recent therapy revealed vivid images of a previous life in Chicago hundreds of years ago. She and her sister and Katya take a trip to Chicago to see if her memories of that lifetime could be true. They find the apartment and Molly remembers the secret compartment behind a wall. When opened it reveals all of the guns and reloading equipment she'd owned, verifying beyond a doubt past lives are real.

That lifetime, she was Tom Durbin, ex-army sharpshooter. The world then was only a few years beyond our present day. Tom watches as the world situation slowly disintegrates. Discover how the coming of another worldwide dark age was avoided. Learn how space flight developed. How the EMAC and MTES systems came about, and who invented the two-man shuttles.

Tom takes a job with the new corporation, Galactic Defense. His position is assassin of those who are doing their best to destroy Chicago, the country, and other world governments. The Governor-Mayor of Chicago attempts to take down Galactic Defense, and succeeds in mutilating Tom.

Along the way, he meets and marries Jenna Sweet, a woman born without arms and who invented the ion engine which powers modern spaceships. They befriend many other unfortunate people who've lost limbs during the collapse of civilization.

Discover the former lives of some of the current characters in Molly's world. See how Tom invents hyperspace travel.