[ST Ref: PT-B1-C17_241028: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Seventeen: “Nice” – Meeting in Nice]
Nice, France, features in Chapter Seventeen of Barrie Cameron‘s first book, ‘Star Island‘, of his ‘Planetoid Trilogy‘ novel, published by Seaswell Publishing and available from Amazon.
Meeting in Nice
Deric and Artume Project’s MiniAXE team travel to Nice in search of answers. But will their meeting in Nice with DAC executives throw light on the mystery of the artifact? Will it help Deric with his investigation into Rebecca’s disappearance?
DAC is Artume Project’s prime construction contractor for the MiniAXE apparatus in Nevada and also the multi-billion Euro AXE project scheduled to be built on the Moon.
Project Crisis
The bosses of both Artume Project and DAC know that the disappearance of the physicist threatens to derail the AXE project. Without some answers to the MiniAXE test event the international backers of Artume Project may lose confidence and withdraw from the dark energy ( * See Note on Dark Energy below.) research project. It is in the interests of all parties to resolve the issue.
Was Rebecca’s disappearance an illusion? If so, for what purpose and how could it have been engineered? And where is she assuming that she is still alive?
Deric and the rest of the investigation team are baffled by the event and are searching desperately for answers.
( * Note: while Dark Energy is featured in this science fiction novel, the novel does not attempt to explain Dark Energy.)
Investigation
Deric had been engaged by Artume Project to investigate the MiniAXE test event. But he has never experienced such a difficult investigation. The evidence seems to defy belief, or rather the lack of evidence. He hopes that the DAC executives will be able to assist with his inquiry.
The Old Port of Nice
Deric finds that the beautiful setting for the meeting in Nice, France, belies the seriousness of the situation. The meeting with DAC is to be held on DAC’s private corporate yacht which is presently moored in the Old Port of Nice. While Artume Project owns and designed the MiniAXE test apparatus, which is the first phase of the much larger AXE project, it was DAC that built MiniAXE for Artume. DAC has played, and continues to play, a very important engineering role in the construction of both projects.