FREE COHEED AND CAMBRIA: YEAR OF THE BLACK RAINBOW PDF Steve Gorenberg | 97 pages | 01 Feb 2011 | Cherry Lane Music Company | 9781603782777 | English | United Kingdom Year of the Black Rainbow - Wikipedia The story of this chapter was released on April 13th, as a page novel, co-written by Claudio and Peter David, its release coinciding with the release of the album of the same name. Year of the Black Rainbow follows Leonard Hohenbergera scientist, as he fights for revenge against Wilhelm Ryan who has recently risen to power. A summary is given for the book: "Welcome to the world of Heaven's Fencewhere a lattice of mysterious energy known as the Keywork binds and sustains life on a triangular network of planets--from the bleak and hellish Howling Earth to the sparse beauty of Bendelesh. Beneath the Keywork's glow, under the governance of the twelve grey-skinned Mages and the watchful gaze of the winged Prisehumanity goes about its daily life unaffected by the goings-on of the higher powers at work in the universe. Until the day when the ambitious Wilhelm Ryan, newest member to the brotherhood of Mages, acts on his growing discontent at being branded another ordinary Mage, ruling over one lowly Sector. Shrewd and silver-tongued, Ryan launches the Mage Wars: a devastating campaign to win control of the entire Fence and take on the legendary mantle of Supreme Tri-Mage, a position likened to God himself. The story opens on the Howling Earthin medias res of the actual plotline. Coheed and Cambria have been sent there on a mission by Dr. Hohenberger to investigate a sudden occurrence of rapidly diminishing Keywork energy in the area. Coheed and Cambria manage to sneak into a large hidden mining facility by apprehending the guards, taking several of them hostage. They ride an elevator down to the very bottom and discover a huge crystalline structure running from the floor to the ceiling a mile high that is mining Keywork energy. Coheed remarks on the gargantuan size of the structure, saying, " Here we are, Juggernaut. Coheed and Deftinwolf engage in a fight, and it seems Deftinwolf has the upper hand when Cambria blows him away with her telekinetic abilities, saving Coheed. Coheed uses his arm-cannon and Cambria uses her psychokinetic powers to destroy the Keywork-mining structure, releasing thousands of tortured souls from the energy mass onto the surface of the Howling Earth. Cambria is knocked unconscious, and Coheed slings her over his back, running back to the surface to escape the supernatural phenomenon. As he does, Deftinwolf shouts, "You fools! Consider Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow battle lost. Mage Covent Marth is painting a picture of the sky bleeding over his planet. As he does so, Wilhelm Ryan enters his chambers. Marth then tells Ryan that he has sensed great evil from him, and that Ryan is a "harbinger of doom" to the other Mages. Ryan doesn't disregard this, and they walk out into the Pointed Star of Sinosure where Admiral Vielar Crom and General Mayo Deftinwolf fire warning sniper shots at each other's respective Mage. Ryan leaves Sinosure with a vague threat, and Marth comes to realize that this will not end well at all. Time passes and eventually, Wilhelm Ryan decides to take over his neighboring Sector 10 with his newly constructed United Red Army. He demands an Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow with his fellow Mages and publicly executes Mage Rolander Gurash. This served as Ryan's declaration of war and would later be known as "The Gurash Example. He also caused a dispute between Sectors 8, 9 and 11, causing a small civil war between them. With each sector greatly weakened by numerous battles, Ryan found it easy to overtake these sectors as well, taking their respective Mages as prisoners. The specific events were never reported, though Favor was never heard from again. This left Ryan with only one oppostion to his power left: Covent Marth himself. Meanwhile, in a small secluded home on Apity Prime, Leonard Hohenberger confronts his teenage son Joseph about his decision to attend a peace rally against the Mage Wars. Hohenberger reluctantly allows his son to go, remarking to himself in his mind, Not even out of bed and I've already likely screwed up the day. Joseph leaves, and Leonard goes to his greenhouse to speak with his wife, Pearl. Pearl shows him a genetically-altered dragonfly with stinger attached. Impressed, Leonard tells her about Joseph's participation in the rally, and Pearl is outraged. She demands that they stop him immediately, though Joseph has already left. Pearl and Leonard leave their home to find Joseph in the city. The scene shifts to the rally that Joseph is attending. Red Army soldiers have opened fire on the protesters and hysteria has broken out. Confused and frightened, Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow tries to run, but he is shot in the gut. He dies a slow and painful death, obsessing over the fact that his shirt, given to him by his mother for his Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow, is ruined. Pearl arrives on the scene to save him, but Joseph dies in his mother's arms. Marth and Crom command their troops to open fire on the tower, destroying it within minutes. Marth enters the shattered remains of the spire, believing Ryan to be dead, but Ryan has used a secret teleportation technique to escape the falling tower. Ryan surprises Marth and quickly kills him, putting an end to all resistance against him. Pearl is devastated by the loss of her son and Ryan's victory in the Mage War. She blames Leonard for letting him go to the rally and ultimately holds him responsible for Joseph's death. She says that her family will never be whole again until Ryan is dead and Joseph will know peace. Ryan makes a speech to the masses, stating that God has not protected them and that Ryan is more powerful than God himself. He tells his men, "Let the cleansing begin," ordering them to release a massive spray of alcoholic drinks into the city, inebriating the population. The entire city goes into a drunken festival for the Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow and basks in Ryan's supremecy. It is a vast ebony band, stretching across the sky with no beginning or end. Smoke tendrils extend out of the celestial body, and it seems to be comprised of nothing but emptiness and it shows no sign of going away any time soon. Ryan notices this as well on Apity Prime, and people all around the Fence begin to say it is a sign from God either approving or disapproving Ryan's regime. They all learn to call this unexplained phenomenon, " The Black Rainbow. When Leonard persists that it is the work of God, Pearl snaps and says that God does not exist, otherwise he would have been there for Joseph, been there to stop Ryan. Discouraged, Leonard leaves his house and walks to the spot in the Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow forest where Joseph was buried. He speaks to his son's gravestone when he is visited by a Prise, who tells him that he has been chosen to stand against Wilhelm Ryan. The Prise tells Leonard that he will need three beings with extraordinary powers to stand against him. Leonard must create three beings through Artificial Cellular Generation. Seeing what this has done to you I'd give you anything--everything--if only I knew you'd take it. This hand, this hurt I'm flirting with disaster. Leonard Hohenberger and his colleagues, Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow. Inaid and Dr. Stockmeyer, begin work on the K. Inferno is designated the leader of the Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow. Coheed is given brute strength, seven machete blades that can protrude from and retract into his left arm, and a right arm that can transform into powerful pulser cannon. Cambria is outfitted with the Prise DNA, giving her special psychokintetic Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow. After a training exercise with Cambria and Inferno at Dr. Hohenberger's home, Coheed encounters Pearl Hohenberger, who tells him he is not real. She tells him he is an artificial being, and this surprises Coheed. He does not know the difference between artifical and real. This leads Coheed to skepticize about Dr. Hohenberger's true intentions. Ryan states that it must be the Prise's doing. When Deftinwolf asks if they should reconstruct the project on the Howling Earth, Ryan tells him, "We will do nothing until I know precisely what we are dealing with. The Project can wait, General. The Keywork isn't going anywhere. For that matter, neither is The Black Rainbow. Crom respectfully declines. On one occasion, in the month that passed, he would actually confront them face to face and attempt to simply blow Knowledge and Beast out of existence, firm in the belief that there was no creature upon Heaven's Fence of which he was not master. Such a tactic had worked on other foes, including Marth. Knowledge, the Beast, and Inferno--KBI, as they would be referred to in whispers througout the Fence--were not beings spawned of anything natural. Crafted from varied components including DNA supplied Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow the celestial Prise, they were beings upon whom Ryan's abilities proved ineffective.