All Things Real

By Talee

The Power Colors Saga is a series of books based on the people and governments of these realms. Many worlds and consequently many societies and adventures occur in these books. The adventures range from wars and governmental intrigue, to everyday life on worlds where technology does not work, and the use of the power colors and extrasensory skills is the only way to accomplish many critical tasks.
Follow the lives of Torl, Lia and Seala as they change the fate of humanity and the lives of all the descendants of Arth.

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This text is dedicated to helping make sense of the people, places, and things that make the Power Colors Saga unique and different. It is organized into sections for People, Places, The Mastery, and Everything Else. Also at the end of the text, there are a few maps of solar systems discussed in the books. You will find information here that is not necessarily contained in the books, so keep this text handy as you read through the tombs of the Power Colors Saga.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Talee
• Release date: Apr 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476271309

Talee

A dedicated reader and writer, I have always loved a good character. Heroic magicians, iconic warriors, and everyday people who overcome adversity are what I seek in both my reading and my writing. Some of my favorite books are Andre Norton's Witch World series, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders, and Christopher Stasheff's Warlock series. I like to take characters that are believable and show how they overcome long odds to succeed, or simply adapt to their environment to accomplish happiness for themselves and others.For me, writing is just like reading, I may know how the story is going to eventually end, but the joy is in the journey that unfolds day by day.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to all those who have supported my efforts by buying my books and especially those who provided reviews encouraging others to buy my books.  I write for you, and am happy that you find my works entertaining.

A special thanks to my wonderful wife who has been patient with me as I spend hours developing the stories.  She listens patiently as I speak of the adventures and twists of the plots, and encourages me when I grow frustrated.  Olga is a true partner, and I constantly wonder at how blessed I am that she chose to spend her life with me.

This book is dedicated to my grandchildren who hopefully will enjoy reading all my books someday.

This text will be a living document growing over time and expanding as stories unfold.  It is my intent to have it remain free or at least very inexpensive so that you can keep the most current version by your side at all times.

Foreword

Long before time was reckoned in terms of months and years, there was only one planet on which mankind existed.  That planet was called Arth and was in a constellation known as the Milky Way.  Eventually mankind developed technology and clawed their way into space, first reaching the other planets in Arth’s solar system, and then beginning to reach out to other solar systems.  Eventually, history says Arth became over populated and needed to expand onto other planets to reduce the overcrowding.

Historians theorize that the scientists of Arth initially found four planets that they believed had viable atmospheres capable of sustaining an oxygen rich environment where humans could live.  They named these planets Barth, Carth, Darth and Earth, and sent very large starships filled with specially trained survival experts on missions to find and settle these planets.  Most of the planets were thousands of light years away, so they would be settled by the descendants of the individuals that had been loaded onto the starships.  Before the settlements could be confirmed, however, there was a world war on Arth and during that war, records were lost and destroyed, leaving the exact locations of those original planets unknown.  Only one, Earth has been rediscovered, and the others are believed to have failed.

Many millennia later, Arth once again launched into space, this time with faster than light starships, and through the use of talented power color users, almost instantaneous communications.  In the second expansion, the multiple nations of Arth agreed to divide the reachable solar systems into four sectors, one for each of the major nations.  These sectors became known as the Abas, Frin, Haas, and Tali sectors and eventually became independent realms in their own right, once Arth was conquered by the nation that owned the rights to the Abas sector.

For a very long time, power users in these sectors were virtual slaves, closely horded as irreplaceable resources needed to facilitate command, control and governmental communications across the huge areas of space that made up the sectors.

Even after technology was developed to allow communications across those distances without the use of the power users talents, the status quo was maintained with all the governmental bodies hording power users as their personal resources.  Every child born was evaluated and monitored for signs of talents in the areas of power color manipulation and if they were found to have such talents they were quickly shipped off to government training and monitoring centers.

In the Tali Sector, it even became common practice to breed power users in the hopes of creating a new more powerful breed of power users.  But as always happens when one group of people are kept as slaves of another, an uprising occurred, and power users won their freedom in every sector.  The Tali sector was the first to grant freedom to power users and as a result many power users from the other sectors escaped and immigrated to Tali, giving it the highest concentration of power users in the end.  Frin was the second to allow freedom for the power users, then came Haas and finally Abas.

Still for many years power color users were treated as second class citizens, and their abilities discounted as freakish.  Finally, three rose up working their way through the education system and earning respect for their education based knowledge.  The leader of the three was a woman named Trali; the other two included a soldier of great renown named Teal and an heir to the high administrator’s office named Rhea.  These three started a new kind of revolution converting the largest university in the Tali Sector into a joint skills university where the talents of the power color users were added to the knowledge of the scientists and educators, creating a massive explosion in innovation and creativity.  In a few short years the Tali Sector produced cures for many diseases previously thought to be incurable, followed immediately by innovations in technology that so far surpassed the capabilities of the other sectors that they rapidly became the wealthiest and most powerful sector.  And in the process, the three founders took over control of the government as well.  Teal and Rhea were married and controlled the administrative and military branches of the executive, while Trali was elected to the high council and eventually worked her way into the most powerful position in the legislative branch of the government, known as the Speaker of the High Council.

Seeing their success, the other sectors went in two totally different directions.  In the Frin Sector, the power users took over many of the universities and developed new innovations based solely on power user capabilities, quickly outpacing the Haas and Abas sectors and becoming the second wealthiest sector overnight.

The Haas Sector for the most part ignored what was happening in the Tali and Frin Sectors, continuing to see those who could use the power colors as useful freaks, nothing more.

But in the Abas sector, there was a revolt among those who could not use the power colors, and a group known as the anti-witch consortium formed a church called the Church of Norms which spread like wildfire across the sector.  This church taught that those who had special talents and abilities that ‘Normal’ people did not have were evil spawn of the devil and should be shunned and pushed out of their society.  On many planets rumors quickly spread of those with extrasensory talents or abilities in the area of power color usage, being tortured and killed to purge society of their evil.

Eventually, the government of the Abas Sector was taken over by members of the anti-witch consortium and laws were passed making it illegal to use the power colors or extrasensory talents, and these offenses were punishable by public execution.

A few years later, the Church of Norms began popping up across the Hass Sector and within a few more years the anti-witch consortium had taken over the government of the Haas Sector as well.

In the meantime in the Frin Sector a Srin Master (one of the highest level of talented power color users from the Tali Sector education system) named Sawtan seized control of the government of one of the solar systems and began his quest to take over the government of the Frin Sector.

With the governments of the four sectors being so diametrically opposed to one another, it was just a matter of time until they began to fight over control of all the sectors.  As in all known history, the tides of power shifted and shifted again, and eventually the four sectors became one.  But before they did, the elite of the Tali Sector sent settlement ships out once more into a new area of space, this time armed with much of the technology that none of the other sectors