Don C. Ciers

I am a grandfather, a retired soldier and Lead Auditor for ISO Quality, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems in several different industrial classifications. I was fortunate to be able to combine more than twenty years operational experience in US Army combat arms units from the squad through battalion level and at the major army command operations level, with my interests in planetary and stellar science, to develop my views on the industrialization and protection of our own home planetary group and eventually the Solar system. My professional development in air/land battle and naval operations doctrine helped me in developing this series of vessel and equipment design concepts, communications, military force structures, weapons categories and doctrinal principals. I have always been a student of geo-politics and military history, I have striven in The Enlightenment Protocols series to chronicle, fictionally, some of the economic, political, cultural and religious factors that lead to aggression and war and how free peoples come together to defend that freedom. Maybe in some small way it can prevent or at least minimize the consequences of some future war. The seven tales from the tribes of the Central Metropolitan Regions asserts man is universal. They tell a part of the story of the march of civilizations in the trans-stellar age from other human tribes' points of view. The series takes place between our present time and the last 400 years of time equivalent roughly to our modern calendar. By Man being universal, I mean the conditions that generated life as we know it are not unique. You will notice, that I focus only on human civilizations and wildlife similar to here on Sol-Earth, but their stellar systems are much closer to one another than here in our spiral region of the galaxy. The series is not Sol-Earth centric, I do not apologize for that.