Knights of Malta
he island had been known to history for thousands of years and is home to the oldest megaliths currently known on our planet. Great sea faring civilizations had risen and fallen within its site as well as upon its shores. Phoenicians and Carthaginians were the ancestral breed of the current residents, with a smattering of Italian and other Mediterranean stock thrown in for flavor. Just shy of 400, 000 people were packed onto the 300 plus square kilometers called Malta. Our attention will not be focused so much on those inhabitants of the surface of the island, instead let us consider those inhabitants of a series of tunnels and capsules hidden beneath present day Malta.
In the eleventh century A.D. an event occurred in the Church, most of us ‘heathens’ have only learned about during the history classes of our formative years. In 1054 the Church was split into an eastern branch (Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem) and a western branch (Rome), called the ‘Great Schism’. Simultaneously an organization, of a more military bent was chartered to guard the Church proper. Two major ideals were tasked to this fledging organization. The first was to locate, pursue and protect those objects of ‘divine significance’ to the Church and the second was to monitor and record any instances of ‘beings of divine power’ that had been known on occasion to visit our realm. This group of men and women from eleventh century Europe were chartered as the Knights of Malta. History contains vague rumblings of this most secret of orders and to this day the vast majority of the world has no direct knowledge that the order exists. Historians more often then not debate the existence of the Knighthood based on the fact that the island was a Muslim stronghold during the time of the ‘Great Schism’ and was not of significant Christian character until controlled by the ‘Knights of the Order of St. John’ from the late sixteen through late eighteenth century, well beyond the rumored time of the original charter. However the order was in full bloom by this time and has been the most funded and most requested post of the Church.
Sequestered far beneath the island, beneath even the Mediterranean itself is housed the Operations Center for the Knights of Malta. Much like a metropolitan subway center with a central hub and radiating branches the physical aspects of the Stormcenter follow a similar pattern. Dozens of transmat tubes extend in all directions away from a central point and terminate exactly one mile from said center. Each is connected by a trasmat device to a similar tube one mile in length leading to the destination. The intervening distance, when used as transport, is covered by a science fully understood by only a handful of men and women. Destinations include the five ‘seats’ of the church, training grounds in Tunisia and the Far East, Washington, D.C., several European capitals and other locations known only to the Knights themselves.
The Stormcenter itself is a single observation room surrounded by ancillary rooms needed for support. Banks of video screens containing video feeds or textual information associated with those feeds occupying every square inch of wall space save that necessary for ingress and egress to the room. In the center of it all is Bishop, the name and title of the individual currently answerable for all that goes on relating to the Knights of Malta. Through means of advanced science and genetic gifts, Bishop is able to receive input from the banks of monitors and issue the appropriate orders to insure that the will of the five member ‘Council’ is obeyed.
At his beck and call are hundreds of thousands of operatives worldwide with a working capital well into the billions of dollars in training, equipment and liquid funds. Some are active others are not and still others are ‘asleep’ until such time as the Church feels their particular talents are needed to fight the ongoing war against the Adversary and his infernal minions.
A recent upswing in residual aura, that energy expended by a being of divine creation, has put the Stormcenter and by extension Bishop into a state of high alert. The higher then normal readings have been centered in and around the ‘city’. It is known that several fulltime residents of the ‘city’ are of interest to the Knights of Malta and the five members of the Council, but recently an increase in aura has been detected as well as the sighting of several immortals. The Watchers, being the organization responsible for maintaining vigilance over the immortal beings in the world and not normally of interest to Bishop’s organization, had informed The Knights of the increase in immortals in the ‘city’.
Several times throughout recorded history such increases simultaneously in the expenditure of aura by divine beings and higher then usual numbers of immortals in one place had been encountered, most recently in the early twentieth century in the Siberian wilderness. This most recent event was catastrophic in its consequences and evidence of the energy expended in the battle now warrants a careful eye be kept on those beings possessing enough power to repeat the occurrence.
In the eleventh century A.D. an event occurred in the Church, most of us ‘heathens’ have only learned about during the history classes of our formative years. In 1054 the Church was split into an eastern branch (Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem) and a western branch (Rome), called the ‘Great Schism’. Simultaneously an organization, of a more military bent was chartered to guard the Church proper. Two major ideals were tasked to this fledging organization. The first was to locate, pursue and protect those objects of ‘divine significance’ to the Church and the second was to monitor and record any instances of ‘beings of divine power’ that had been known on occasion to visit our realm. This group of men and women from eleventh century Europe were chartered as the Knights of Malta. History contains vague rumblings of this most secret of orders and to this day the vast majority of the world has no direct knowledge that the order exists. Historians more often then not debate the existence of the Knighthood based on the fact that the island was a Muslim stronghold during the time of the ‘Great Schism’ and was not of significant Christian character until controlled by the ‘Knights of the Order of St. John’ from the late sixteen through late eighteenth century, well beyond the rumored time of the original charter. However the order was in full bloom by this time and has been the most funded and most requested post of the Church.
Sequestered far beneath the island, beneath even the Mediterranean itself is housed the Operations Center for the Knights of Malta. Much like a metropolitan subway center with a central hub and radiating branches the physical aspects of the Stormcenter follow a similar pattern. Dozens of transmat tubes extend in all directions away from a central point and terminate exactly one mile from said center. Each is connected by a trasmat device to a similar tube one mile in length leading to the destination. The intervening distance, when used as transport, is covered by a science fully understood by only a handful of men and women. Destinations include the five ‘seats’ of the church, training grounds in Tunisia and the Far East, Washington, D.C., several European capitals and other locations known only to the Knights themselves.
The Stormcenter itself is a single observation room surrounded by ancillary rooms needed for support. Banks of video screens containing video feeds or textual information associated with those feeds occupying every square inch of wall space save that necessary for ingress and egress to the room. In the center of it all is Bishop, the name and title of the individual currently answerable for all that goes on relating to the Knights of Malta. Through means of advanced science and genetic gifts, Bishop is able to receive input from the banks of monitors and issue the appropriate orders to insure that the will of the five member ‘Council’ is obeyed.
At his beck and call are hundreds of thousands of operatives worldwide with a working capital well into the billions of dollars in training, equipment and liquid funds. Some are active others are not and still others are ‘asleep’ until such time as the Church feels their particular talents are needed to fight the ongoing war against the Adversary and his infernal minions.
A recent upswing in residual aura, that energy expended by a being of divine creation, has put the Stormcenter and by extension Bishop into a state of high alert. The higher then normal readings have been centered in and around the ‘city’. It is known that several fulltime residents of the ‘city’ are of interest to the Knights of Malta and the five members of the Council, but recently an increase in aura has been detected as well as the sighting of several immortals. The Watchers, being the organization responsible for maintaining vigilance over the immortal beings in the world and not normally of interest to Bishop’s organization, had informed The Knights of the increase in immortals in the ‘city’.
Several times throughout recorded history such increases simultaneously in the expenditure of aura by divine beings and higher then usual numbers of immortals in one place had been encountered, most recently in the early twentieth century in the Siberian wilderness. This most recent event was catastrophic in its consequences and evidence of the energy expended in the battle now warrants a careful eye be kept on those beings possessing enough power to repeat the occurrence.
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