Prologue

April 26, 1986
NEAR KIEV, UKRAINE
CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Stunned all he could do was stare at the woman before himself and say, "You'll kill me, I accept that." He wiped sweat from his brow. "But all those innocent people. "He shook his head, eyes saddened from inevitable chaos to come. "Why is this so important?"

"Controlling people to a degree of living, earning a living, legal or illegal is what we do. We keep them inept of spiritual manifestation and growth."

"But why?"

"Their time is bankrupt, as yours is now. We are the enlightened. You, along with those outside of us are barbarians, savages forever lost to the Thousand Points of Light."

A gun pressed against his forehead, from a man beside the woman.

"Thousand Points of Light?"

"Novus Ordo Seclorum (New World Order)" The woman said sternly. Then she started for the front entrance of the building, before ordering one of her men to "kill him."