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THE QUEEN OF SWORDS!
A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN
2566 A.D.!
By Jerome B. Bigge
Author's Note
In my first books, "2565 A.D.!", we traveled in our imagina- tions with Dr. Lorraine Duval, a Los
Angeles psychiatrist, and her lovely stepdaughter Sharon from here in the 20th Century through time to
the 26th Century. To the year 2565 A.D. where we found the world had been muchly changed. Where an
interplanetary war had taken place in the year 2047 with the alien inhabitants of the planet Mars. Where
Mankind now lived beneath an alien do- minion in a social order very much like in many ways that of
the Middle Ages, although with some important differences. Here Lor- raine Duval found adventure,
love, and eventually became the Queen of Trelandar, a country covering much of present-day Cali-
fornia. A country part of a larger Empire on the west coast of North America ruled by the incredibly
beautiful golden Darlanis.
And now once again we travel in our imaginations into the future. To a future world where all of
Mankind still lives be- neath the claw of the terrifying Lorr, a race of gigantic ant- like aliens from
another star system. Where our own time is but a half-remembered legend. To the realm of the beautiful
Darlanis Marden, Queen of Sarn, a barbaric Empress of Imperial California! The year being 2566 A.D.,
or 519 A. W. as our heroine thinks of it now as we see it through the lovely eyes of Darlanis herself!
And once again you will make the acquaintance of Lorraine, the greatest swordswoman of the 26th
Century, her lovely step- daughter Sharon Duval, and naturally that evil Bajan Princess you learned to
hate in the first book, Tara Bisan, will have her role to play in things as well others. In other words it
promises to be another rip-roaring tale of adventure just like my first book!
I have been asked: "HOW `LIKELY' ARE ANY OF THE THINGS YOU WRITE ABOUT IN
YOUR STORIES?" Will there someday "be" a "Janet Rogers"? A "World Federation"? "Is there `life' on
Mars?" "Do the `flying saucers' actually exist?" "Could the lightyears that separate the star systems
actually be crossed?" "Could creatures like the `Lorr' actually exist in the scientific sense?" "Is there any
evidence at all for any of this or is it all fantasy?"
First, I consider it quite possible that we will see a "Janet Rogers" and that she will be elected
President of the United States. Janet was an excellent public speaker and she said what needed "saying"
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when the "time was right". There are a number of historical parallels. She was a very "attractive" wom-
an, tall, slim, dark haired, and very "quick-witted" according to what Lorraine writes of her. One
assumes she would have made a very "impressive" political candidate. As for a "World Federa- tion",
who knows? We have the UN now. There was joint military action by a large number of nations against
Iraq here in 1991. I see no reason, especially given "electronic hypnosis", that Janet Rogers couldn't
have become the first world dictator. That part of our future may not be too "far-fetched". We have a lot
of problems that only someone like Janet Rogers could solve for us! Problems I fear that only a true
dictator would be able to solve!
Second, as for "life on Mars", who knows? It is doubtful given what we now know about the planet
that "intelligent" life could have ever evolved on the planet. The best we can hope for here would
probably be single celled types of life more like bac- teria and so forth. It should be noted by the reader
however that Mars would be "easy" to colonize by someone with an "ad- vanced technology" like the
Lorr. We could "colonize" Mars our- selves and there are already "plans" by NASA for doing just that!
Third, as for the issue of "flying saucers", who knows? If you deny the existence of "UFO's", then
what "are" people seeing? One might also consider the fact that most of these "sightings" seem to have
come after we set off our first atomic explosions! Maybe "someone" out there is getting worried a bit
about things! We are not the sort of a race many would like to "share" a solar system with. Especially
not if you know a bit about our history!
Fourth, "starships" of the sort the Lorr used to travel from their solar system to ours are within our
own scientific abili- ties given fusion power, which the Lorr did possess. Granted, we are probably a
century or two from having that sort of "technolo- gy", but it is certainly less "far-fetched" than that of
"STAR WARS" or "STAR TREK". The Lorr starships are in theory possible.
Fifth, are creatures like the Lorr possible? The "Lorr" are not "ants". They are not "insects". I don't
know if such crea- tures are biologically "possible" or not. The "idea" behind the "Lorr" is based upon
creatures used by another author some sixty odd years ago where he had gigantic ants on the planet
Venus who communicated by radio. The books are now "out of print", but may be available in a "used
book" store. They are "THE RADIO MAN", "THE RADIO BEASTS", and "THE RADIO PLANET".
One may also look at the "GOR" series by the late John Norman where he had creatures called "Priest-
Kings" that resembled gigantic praying mantises! This is after-all a story written to "entertain", not to
believe.
Sixth, we might consider here that there are a number of "unexplained mysteries" to which "modern
Science" cannot give us any "answers" for. We are still not "sure" where Cro-Magnon Man came from.
There was a definite "jump" in our "evolution". There are "legends" dating back in time of "advanced
civiliza- tions" such as "Atlantis". Could the Lorr have tried colonizing the Earth with their own
"creations" thousands of years ago? In 1908 there was a strange explosion over Siberia much like that of
a large H-bomb. Did some new Lorr spaceship suffer "containment failure" a few miles above the
forests? There is "evidence" of "radiation burns" by those animals living in the area. Those who actually
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witnessed the explosion gave reports that sound an awful lot like witnesses to an atomic explosion of
some sort! Raspa did tell Lorraine that there were two "accidents" with their spaceships. Was the
explosion in 1908 over Siberia one of them? There are Russian scientists who believe that it was a
spaceship!
There is also the fact that there are events occurring from time to time right here on Earth for which
we have never been able to come with any "rational" explanation for. Strange disap- pearances of
aircraft, ships, and people. There is some evidence available that "wormholes" in "space-time" might be
"possible". Perhaps the "Gateways" do exist. There is some evidence for them. There was an airliner that
flew through something strange that caused everyone's watch to be about fifteen minutes slow!!!
Lorraine noted in her books that a Lorr battle-disc was shot down over the area that we refer to as the
"Bermuda Triangle" during The War of 2047 between Earth and Mars! It's entire stock of anti-matter
bombs going off when it crashed into the Atlantic!!! Could there be a "Gateway" somewhere out there
over the Atlantic?
And now if you carefully read all of Lorraine's story, (read it again if need be) you might have
noticed that Queen Tulis seemed strangely "hostile" to the teenage Darlanis when she came home crying
and told Queen Tulis that her brother had raped her! She certainly didn't behave towards her like a real
mother would! There was of course a good "reason" for this, which Darlanis her- self didn't know
anything about, and which will play its own part in this story. And did you notice Aurora's concern over
Darlanis both there on Mars and later on when the Starfire played its role in ridding Trelandar of
Princess Tara's own band of cut-throats? And Darlanis' own little "footnotes" there in Lorraine's story???
(Along with Lorraine's suspicions as to what the TRUTH was here?)
Darlanis is probably more of a "story-book" heroine in that she does "dumb things" and gets herself
into "troubles" that a more "rational" person (like us?) might avoid. On the other hand we wouldn't have
much of a "story" if she did, so I'm happy that she is a "dumb blonde" as it allows me to have "fun" with
her! I suppose that is a part of writing "stories" like these. Of get- ting your character into "fantastic"
situations and then somehow getting them "back out" again. Of sometimes perhaps "amazing" the reader
with "stunts" that seem at first glance "unbelievable" such as Aurora's stepping out on to the surface of
the Moon with- out wearing a spacesuit! Actually however this is not all that "impossible" as it may
sound. She is a MARTIAN, with a different sort of blood than ours, and stepping from an atmospheric
pres- sure of 1.5 PSI to one of zero wouldn't be that big a change! It might be noted here that if a skin-
diver was to breathe pure oxy- gen before making a descent, they could hold their breath for a longer
period of time than they could doing the same with air. I assume that Aurora did much the same. She
states that her own "people" could go without breathing for as long as five minutes!
The reader will note that this story swings back and forth between Darlanis (the major character) and
a number of the other characters in the story. I believe this makes the story more en- joyable even if it
does "violate" ordinary writing conventions.
Jerome B. Bigge
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THE QUEEN OF SWORDS!
A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN
2566 A.D.!
By Jerome B. Bigge
Chapter One
"I'm sorry, Darlanis, to hear about the tragic death of your mother," Aurora, the Lorr's yet beautiful
"ambassador" to Trelan- dar said to me as I had stepped into her richly furnished office there in the
Martian embassy in Trella, the great capital of Tre- landar. The photographs there on the walls showing
scenes that few Earthly eyes had ever seen! Views of Mars, of the Earth as seen from far out in space.
The green eyed blonde tall, regal in her appearance, and strikingly "beautiful". The silvery clinging
jumpsuit she wore also made her look truly "Martian". Her very "presence" here on Earth a vivid
reminder of the Lorr's "power". Those "horrid looking" gigantic "ants" that now ruled all Mankind since
The War of 2047 some five hundred and nineteen years ago. Like most Martians she was full chested
and rather narrow hipped. The effects of life upon a world with an atmosphere far thinner than our own
and with a gravitional pull only 38% that of Earth.
In her eyes I was doubtlessly "nothing" but a "barbarian" as most Lorr Servitors considered those of
the Earth. My royal blue cloak with its silvery silken lining, my long slim sword, the rich golden mesh
of my halter and its matching mid-thigh skirt no doubt gave me quite a "barbaric look" to "one" such as
her raised on a far distant world! I am a tall blonde, 5'10", broad shoul- dered. A "Queen of Swords". My
"caste" is of the Warrioresses. My heart yet with heavy with "pain" from what I had just learned.
Are you?" I "challenged" her back, standing there, looking straight into those lovely green eyes as
she came around her desk to greet me. "Or was she just the `Earther' who raised me know- ing all the
time that I was not actually her child, but just only the `BASTARD BRAT' of her own husband's alien
Martian Mistress!"* * Aurora had been the Lorr's ambassador to Dularn at that time. My father was of
the "intellectual" type while my "foster" mother Queen Tulis was of the Warrioresses and a "barbarian"
by the "standards" that Aurora and my father Prince Paul "saw" her as. Aurora's singing abilities no
doubt "played" their part here too as she is a fantastic singer, and very famous too I might add! To listen
to her sing her "songs of love" is a true experience! I feel very "embarrassed" now writing all this, but at
the time I actually did "hate" her with a furious passion for what she had "done" to me, or whether what
I "thought" she had "done" to me!!!
"Darlanis!" my mother breathed, reaching out, touching my hand, her eyes burning into mine. Tulis
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had left me a letter to be opened only after her death. It had told the entire story, although a "pretense"
had been made by both her husband and Auro- ra that the baby girl used to "replace" a stillborn baby had
been a "foundling". Tulis had, however, known better, having "known" of her husband's "relationship"
with Aurora! My father, the late Prince Paul, having become far too "friendly" with the Lorr's own
beautiful ambassador to Dularn for Tulis' own liking! The Queen eventually becoming too aware of
what Aurora did "mean" to him! That with Aurora he had found a "love" she could never give him!!
"I'm `NOT' your `loving daughter'," I snapped back, my voice as "icy" as the very polar caps of Mars
themselves while my azure eyes burned hotly into hers. Recalling what Lorraine had written there in her
first book of her "adventures" on Mars. Of "what" Aurora had "said" about me! That I was nothing but a
"barbarian" unfit to raise my own child! That had been "why" she had kept my own beloved ANNA
there on Mars with her after Anna had been res- cued from drowning at sea by some patrolling Lorr
battle-disc!
"Darlanis! There's so much you don't `understand'!" Aurora pleaded back, now almost "clinging" to
me! I detested her very "touch" as I stood there facing her, the "fury" blazing hot in- side my body! My
hand now almost with a will of its own seeking my sword's hilt as the "darkness" in my heart
overwhelmed me! For an horrible instant I thought of running her through, even if my own life would be
instantly forfeit for doing such a horrible deed! There being a death penalty for killing a Lorr Servitor.
"You're `despicable'!" I snapped, "And I thank Lys too that I don't have to ever `deal' with you or
even see you again!" I snarled, recalling how this woman, my "mother", had taken my own daughter
away from me! Then raising her as if ANNA was her's!* * Lorraine writes in her book that I "forgave"
Aurora for that. BULLSHIT! I "accepted" it solely for Anna's sake as I didn't want to make "trouble"
just then! I didn't want to "hurt" Anna by "attacking" the woman she had learned to love. I also didn't
want to see Sharon get "embarrassed" with me by making a "scene" right there before everyone! I do
have my "pride" as an Empress!
"Darlanis," Aurora begged, weeping now, the tears starting to run down her cheeks, "I only `wanted'
for you what you never could have had on Mars...!" I wasn't interested in "what" she had "wanted" for
me or why! I told her so too in no uncertain terms, using certain words that my friend Lorraine uses
when she is very angry. I think Aurora "understood" them. I really did- n't much give a damn just then
either after what she had done!
"Go back to Mars and stay there, you Lys-dammed Lorr bitch!" I snarled in fury, yanking open the
door, slamming it behind me! Leaping into the saddle of my unicorn as soon as I got outside, the hot
fury in my body driving away the "chill" of the late De- cember day. The bright decorations of
Christmas now meaningless! So far as I was concerned there was nothing left to "celebrate"!
"You look like a `thunderstorm' about to `strike'," Lorraine observed with a smile as I returned to the
palace that had once been "mine" not that long ago. The smile curving the thin lips of the Queen of
Trelandar leaving little doubt that she "knew"!!! Lorraine is a tall slender muscular brunette, perhaps the
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great- est fighting woman who has ever lived in any era Man has existed! Near by at her side Jon
Richards, her husband and Prince-Consort.
"You Knew! She Told You!" I snapped back, well aware of the relationship between Aurora and this
amazing woman from the past! For an instant I felt an insane "fury" that she too knew of this! "AND I
THOUGHT YOU WERE MY `FRIEND'!" I screamed, half drawing my sword, my azure eyes hot with
frustrated fury that she too KNEW!!
"Drawing on me won't accomplish anything," Lorraine spoke in level tones, motioning back those
with her, their hands on their own weapons. Among them the noticeably pregnant Lady Sanda Ta- len,
Prime Minister of Trelandar, Lorraine's "second in command". The very same woman who had led a
successful REVOLUTION against me only some months before! The woman who had "used" Lorraine
to take Trelandar away from me! Another damn bitch like my mother!
"Sharon doesn't `know', does she?" I breathed softly as the Queen of Trelandar closed the door
behind herself a moment later. The black of her flowing silken dress leaving no doubts that she was truly
"of" the Warrioresses. Sharon is Lorraine's stepdaugh- ter, my own foster daughter, my Imperial
Princess, my "heir" to the throne of Imperial California should anything happen to me. I saw those dark
eyes meet mine, knew that Lorraine "understood" as no other could have "understood" just then the
"PAIN" I suf- fered! Knowing that I was the bastard "brat" of some MARTIAN!!!
"I wouldn't advise keeping it a `secret' from her," Lorraine advised, her midnight hair like a rich
black mane falling to her shoulders. "The `trust' that she now has in you is something very important to
her." I nodded, understanding, accepting the drink that the Queen of Trelandar now poured for me. I
supposed it wouldn't matter to Sharon if I was "ILLEGITIMATE" or not. It might, however, to a number
of others, especially my own enemies! This was certainly the sort of thing the newspapers would enjoy!
Darlanis Marden, Empress of California, the illegitimate daughter of a Woman of Mars. What a field
day they'd have with all that!!
"I suppose Aurora told you all the `lurid' details," I said, sipping at the drink she'd given me, strolling
over to the win- dow, looking out at the city, the harbor there in the distance. Trella is built somewhat to
the south of the ruins of Los Angeles which form its northern borders. The ruins are said to be inhab-
ited by that which is "mu", not "hu" like most life. Lorraine once saw such a creature, a horned, scaly
creature like a cross between a man and reptile. It is the general policy to kill such things whenever they
are found lurking near human habitation. It being commonly believed among the Peasants that they steal
and eat human babies when they can find one untended by its mother. The same belief with some
justification is held by the Nevadas who live on the other side of the Sierras from California, I add. I
tend after my own "experiences" with such creatures to believe that it may be true. Those who captured
me certainly had every intention of gutting me out and roasting me over a fire for food!
"I `suspected' such ever since she seemed so concerned about you there aboard the Ronda when we
rescued you from the pirates," Lorraine answered, joining me there at the window, the silver links of her
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neck-chain gleaming against her skin. "Especially considering the fact that Tulis `disowned' you,
something that no true mother would have ever `done' to her own daughter regardless of what that
daughter had said that her brother had done to her."
I suppose it is to Tulis' "credit" that she never made these things "public", although how many would
have "believed" them is another issue, considering the "relationship" between her and me! The fact that I
was of "Martian" parentage would have been hard to prove, although there is a slight difference in my
blood type from what would be usual and normal for a woman of Earth origins.
"There was a `time' when I `needed' her, `anyone', just to take me in their arms and let me know that
I had at least one friend in this world, even if it was only a Lorr Servitor who had let herself get `carried
away' emotionally with an Earthman," I wept, my hands clasping the sill of the window there before me.
I felt terribly ashamed now of what I had said to Aurora. True, I had ample reason to feel that way, but I
had behaved just like a "barbarian", no doubt now confirming my mother's opinion of me!
"And "what" would you have felt like, knowing that you were the illegitimate bastard of a Martian?"
Lorraine challenged me in reply. "That you were nothing more than the result of a woman's emotional
`infatuation' with a man she'd never be able to marry?" "Relationships" between the Men of Earth and
the Women of Mars being considered generally "unthinkable" by most of both worlds!
"Aurora should have never `kept' my Anna," I answered back, changing the subject, knowing that
Lorraine spoke the truth now.
"I think she wanted `what' she could never have," Lorraine replied, "A `part' of the little girl she'd
given up years be- fore. The child that she now wanted back after it was too late." I could "understand"
that. Anna had been a "replacement" for me. I have done the "same" with Sharon, as Lorraine has with
Gayle. Both of us "seeking" what we had earlier "lost". Gayle and Shar- on do look like "sisters", as
does Anna too, surprisingly enough! All three being blue eyed, "blonde", and very pretty young women!
"She `substituted' Anna for me?" I asked, Lorraine nodding. In the 20th Century Lorraine had been
much like a Priestess here. Her profession had been "helping" others "understand" themselves.
"You both turned out to be women any mother could be proud to call hers," Lorraine smiled back,
changing the "subject" just a bit. I supposed it was true. I was quite "proud" of my Anna. Of "An'na of
Mars" as Lorraine and others now often called her. At least Aurora had done a good job as a mother of
raising her!
"And you are the finest example of `Cro-Magnon womanhood' that I've ever seen," Lorraine now
smiled, sipping at her drink. I wasn't too "sure" that she wasn't "insulting" me as Lorraine likes to "do"
things like that at times to me. I suppose because she feels somewhat "inferior" to me due to her looks as
compared to mine. She is actually quite "attractive", and I am sure that her husband, Jon Richards, finds
her quite delightful as a wife!
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"And just `what' does that `mean'?" I "challenged" her back!
"The Cro-Magnon's were perhaps the finest example of `Stone Age Man' that we know of," Lorraine
smiled in reply. "They were tall, robust, and truly of a `race of warriors'," she then added.
"And I am just a beautiful blonde barbarian," I smiled back, understanding the "implications" here of
what she had just said.
"There is something to be said for barbarians," she smiled. "We of the past forgot our ancestry, what
made us what we were."
"But there have been times you have `recalled' it," I said. Lorraine is perhaps the greatest Warrioress
who has ever lived.
"I fear I am not a `civilized' woman," Lorraine admitted.
"One can become `too civilized'," I smiled back in reply.
"Perhaps those of the past did so," Lorraine agreed.
"We will not `repeat' such mistakes again," I said.
"We will not allow `them' to `disarm' us," she smiled.
"As Janet Rogers did," I smiled back, now enjoying this.
"One of her two `mistakes'," Lorraine answered. Her "other" was the failure to realize the "necessity"
of population control. Lorraine walking over to a rack of fencing foils, tossing me one. "I need the
`practice'," she smiled, facing me, going to "guard". "And you're the only one who can give me a `good
fight' anymore." Lorraine's skill with a sword such that none could face her now.
"I could say the `same'," I smiled, taking a better grip of my weapon, then with a grim smile curving
my lips I suddenly forced her back with a series of violent slashing attacks, Lor- raine as usual merely
"defending" herself against me for the mo- ment. She is extremely "deadly" with a blade, and so utterly
"lethal" that I'm forever grateful to Lys that she is my friend, for I have no doubts any more of the
consequences were she not!
"There's a lot of `hate' pent up in you," Lorraine smiled, her defense impregnable. She is not
"invincible", but few have ever "stood" against her blade to blade for more than just a few seconds! Our
foils ringing together as I tried "every trick in the book" to break through that awesome defense of hers!
Lor- raine having an "answer" for everything that I tried against her! She is no doubt the greatest
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swordswoman who has ever lived too.
I tried a "combination" of tricks, but whenever I thrust she was either "on guard" or just "not there",
Lorraine being a woman who depends a great deal on "footwork" when she fences with me! I am
"stronger", but she is "quicker". We are well matched too!
"You're not `concentrating' on what you're doing," Lorraine warned me with a grim smile, suddenly
going on the "attack", her slim fencing foil a blur that it took all my abilities to meet, a grim smile on
those thin lips as she drove me back with her at- tack across the room! Forcing me to "concentrate" on
my defense!
"You shouldn't have called Darlanis a `Cro-Magnon'," Sharon said to Lorraine as the four of us had
dinner together that night. Lorraine's own foster daughter, Princess Gayle being with us. She is the
younger sister of Maris, the new Queen of Dularn. I "felt" better now after I'd been able to "work off"
some of the "fury" that had been held inside me. I had eventually "lost" to Lorraine, but that was to be
expected. I had told Sharon "all", feeling that she should know the "truth" about the "issue". Lor- raine
had "hinted" to Lady Sanda that we wished to be "alone". There is little "love" between Lady Sanda and
me. I once killed her sister in a sword duel, and "won" the country of Trelandar by it. Sanda's sister,
Queen Paula of Trelandar, died in her arms. Such painful "memories" are not easily nor quickly
"forgotten".
"She `is' one, however," Lorraine smiled. "Her bone struc- ture, her height, features, all indicate that
she is exactly the sort of a woman who stood beside her own mate and fought the sab- er tooth tigers and
great cave bears of the Neolithic Age perhaps thirty thousand years ago." I found the "thought"
appealing too. I am the sort of a woman who expects to be "more" than a "wife".
"She's the daughter of Queen Tulis and Prince Paul," Gayle interjected. "I don't see how you think
she's the same as women who lived thirty thousand years ago." I smiled to myself. Gayle of course had
no way of knowing that I was actually Aurora's own daughter formed from a brief illicit relationship
between her and the late Prince-Consort of Dularn now some forty five years be- fore! And that Aurora,
like all the women of Mars, was a Cro- Magnon, or at least a "descendant" thanks to the Lorr and their
"tampering" with human genes! Unlike the Cro-Magnons, however, the women of Mars are mostly
"blonde", for what reason I don't know. Aurora once told me that the Lorr visual sense finds women
with "blonde" hair more "pleasing", although Lorraine differs, saying that it is due to their life over the
ages "underground". They do find Earth's gravity, the "glare" of the sun, unpleasant. The Women of
Mars usually shielding their eyes with dark glasses.
"Like to celebrate New Year's back home?" I asked Sharon. I wanted to get back to my own "home".
Away from Lorraine and a certain Lorr ambassador who had once long ago given birth to me on a world
that is only a point of orange light in Earth's sky!
"Is it `colder' there?" Sharon asked, giving me a smile.
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