Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Countdown The Doomsday Playbook Introductions by Rashad Freeman Rashad Freeman. "Ode to the fickle life, but rage against death for the fire burns within all of us."Lenny has been captured by the very people he left to save. The clock is ticking and with his team dismantled they have little hope of survival. The world is in turm. Genesis. Fear the SERE. Five years ago, an alien species known as Aker, invaded the Earth. Billions lost their lives, but eventually mankind fought back and defeated the parasitic intruders. at least they thought they did.Now something much darker and much . Revenge. Everything ends, but not everything dies. Lenny has seen the world crumble before his very eyes. He's lost everything and everyone he's loved, but somehow he's still clinging to hope. But hope isn't want Lenny wants anymore, now he's looking for rev. Out of the Dark. Agnes has lurked in the shadows for too long. She's left a trail of horror longer than the Mississippi River, but she's also made a grave mistake. She left Eve alive. In the third installment of the Agnes McCall Mysteries the hole gets even deeper. Resurrection. Wake up!When Lenny awakes in a strange room strapped to a table he thinks his luck can't get any worse. He couldn't be more wrong.After surviving a nuclear attack, an alien invasion and legions of crazed marauders Lenny has become a human Guinea Pig. Countdown. "Do not go gentle into that good night."Our World is ending. How or why is unknown, but make no mistake about it, we are living on borrowed time. Millions dead in a matter of days, billions in a matter of weeks. Yet somehow through the destruction a. Murky Water. Where secrets lie. After leaving New Orleans and a trail of bodies in her wake,Agnes finds a new home in New York. Shewants to start over, but old habits die hard and secrets are even harder tokill.Now, with a new life and a new love, Agnes seems . Escape. Dead. Abandoned. Left behind.The Nashville civic center is a haven for all of these. Lenny and Rebecca have crossed hell and high water to make it to the rundown sanctuary, but now what? Food is in short supply and their dwindling water source isn't . Love in a Time of Outsourcing. Night Slashers. Blood doesn't wash away. A surgeon that only operates after midnight. An aspiring writer with a past cloudier than the waters of the Mississippi River. A long-lost friend that makes a living disappearing people and a business a. Aftermath. Origins. When Anthony awakes to find himself in a cold dark prison, the stabbing pain in his side and swollen face are the least of his problems. Two of his friends are dead and the fate of the other two is unknown. He's been betrayed by his uncle and left to. Prepped. (Part I Short story Introduction) The world is ending… How or why is unknown, but make no mistake about it, we are living on borrowed time. In the middle of all of this we find Lenny Brewer. He’s an ex-soldier, survivalist, womanizing alcohol. Shadow of Darkness: Volume I of the Creature Kid Series. You have been warned. The human race has been coddled, protected by an ancient species, in a multi-dimensional war that spans centuries. Under this umbrella, the people of Earth have thrived, ignorant of the threat looming just out of sight. This . Xindi weapon. The Xindi weapons were large mobile particle beam weapons designed to cause destruction to planets. There were three weapons built while the design was refined. The weapons were constructed by the five Xindi species in cooperation, at the instigation of the Sphere-Builders, who had informed the Xindi that Humans would be responsible for the destruction of the future Xindi homeworld in the 26th century. The final weapon's primary goal was the destruction of Earth. Contents. Building the weapons. The weapons were designed primarily by Degra, a Xindi-Primate scientist and member of the Xindi Council, and constructed by the Aquatics. Most of the weapons' components were built by the Xindi, but at least one component came from the year 2573, supplied to the Xindi by the Sphere-Builders. ( ENT : " The Expanse ") Another key component of the weapons was the mineral kemocite, which was provided by a refining facility where Gralik Durr worked. ( ENT : " The Shipment ") Research on the weapon was very dangerous. In September 2153, there was an accident in Degra's laboratory. Nearly all of his laboratory was destroyed, and three of his researchers were killed. The loss of the data caused the weapon's development to be set back by months, which induced the Council to consider developing a bio-weapon. ( ENT : " Rajiin ") Probe. The Xindi weapon prototype. The first prototype of the weapon was a small, one-man probe launched against Earth in 2153. It was constructed with the assistance of the Sphere-Builders, who provided at least one component from the future. The pilot was a Xindi-Reptilian personally selected by Commander Dolim, a Reptilian representative on the Xindi Council. Arriving at Earth through a subspace vortex, the probe fired a particle beam which cut a destructive swath from Florida to Venezuela, killing seven million people. The probe subsequently self-destructed, the debris landing in Central Asia. The wreckage and body of the pilot were recovered by a Vulcan transport and brought to Starfleet Command for analysis. Acting on intelligence provided by the Cabal's mysterious benefactor, Jonathan Archer – captain of Enterprise NX-01 – quantum dated the fragment of the probe provided to the Xindi by the Sphere-Builders, proving that it came from 420 years in the future. ( ENT : " The Expanse ", " Azati Prime ") Test weapon. The second prototype within its launch platform. The second prototype in the Calindra System. The second weapon prototype was unmanned and test-fired in a "proving ground" in the Calindra system inside the Delphic Expanse, under the supervision of Degra himself in December 2153. When not being used, this prototype was housed inside the Xindi launch platform. During the test it was intended to destroy a small moon of a gas giant within the system. The test did not go as planned, as the weapon's materials had been sabotaged by Gralik on behalf of Jonathan Archer and instead part of the moon broke up. The weapon was subsequently stolen by the Andorian warship Kumari . The Andorians had hoped to take it home to use as a deterrent against the Vulcans. It was destroyed when T'Pol entered the activation codes and issued an overload command. The Kumari jettisoned the prototype before it exploded, but the shock wave caused significant damage to their power and engine systems. ( ENT : " Proving Ground ") V'Las later used recorded footage of this test to justify preparations for a preemptive strike on Andoria to the rest of the Vulcan High Command, conveniently failing to mention that the Andorians had been prevented from studying it. ( ENT : " Kir'Shara ") Primary weapon. The weapon core prior to destruction. The final version of the weapon was substantially larger than its two predecessors and was designed to be manned by a skeleton crew. The interior of the weapon was mainly hollow. The exact core, however, contained the control area, where the weapon could be activated, fired or repaired. The only known way to deactivate the weapon was to invert a series of conduits in the proper sequence to cut power. Explosives could then destroy the core of the weapon. ( ENT : " Twilight ", " Proving Ground ", " Countdown ", " Zero Hour ") The eventual weapon was constructed in secret on Azati Prime, though when Enterprise discovered it there, it was moved to the Xindi Council planet. ( ENT : " Azati Prime ") When it became apparent that Captain Archer was becoming successful in convincing the Council to delay the attack on Earth, Commander Dolim's forces, working in concert with the Insectoids, hijacked the weapon. They also kidnapped Enterprise linguist Hoshi Sato and brainwashed her into decrypting the third activation code. ( ENT : " The Council ", " Countdown ") Enterprise , along with forces of the Primates, Arboreals, and Aquatics, attempted to stop the weapon from entering the vortex to Earth, but were repelled by a Reptilian and Insectoid fleet. The Reptilians and Insectoids were assisted by the creation of numerous anomalies by the Sphere- Builders, and one ship of each race escaped into the vortex with the weapon. The Insectoid ship was very shortly destroyed by the Reptilian one, however, when its commander questioned Dolim. ( ENT : " Countdown ") The Xindi weapon is destroyed. The weapon emerged in Earth orbit ten hours later, but very close behind it was the vessel of the late Degra, manned by Enterprise personnel including Jonathan Archer, Malcolm Reed, and Hoshi Sato, as well as a MACO squad. The Kumari ran interference for Degra's lightly-armed vessel, enabling the Enterprise team to board the weapon and destroy it by overloading its reactor. Captain Archer was initially thought killed in the attempt while Dolim's ship was destroyed by the Kumari . ( ENT : " Zero Hour ") In an alternate timeline where Archer was infected by interspatial parasites, Enterprise arrived at Azati Prime after the weapon had already been launched. The Xindi destroyed Earth with it before proceeding to wipe out most of the rest of Humanity. ( ENT : " Twilight ") Appendices. See also. Background information. Script depictions. In an ultimately excised line of dialogue from the final draft script of "The Xindi", Degra stated, " The new weapon is far more complex " than the probe which attacked Earth.