New Fragments

A few have you have asked if Lyle will make an appearance in Book 2...well here you go.

FYI, the Oral Histories are likely going to replace the Blogs in book 2; they're meant to give back-story, but are not part of the regular narrative.

The Rebellion: An Oral History

Lyle Ridgemont, Frosted Flake Company Leader (Interviewed: Scottsdale, Arizona – 22 March 2058)

I was 17 when I was assigned by the President himself to investigate the "rumors" of the rebellion. It wasn't a rumor, of course. It was a fact. But the Frosties refused to tell the public that--Cocos too--but at this point they weren't really concerned with the rebellion.

Why?

They were running the war from a political standpoint. The English Union, Eurasia Alliance, and Western Canada all showed their support and were providing virtually unlimited resources. The Frosted Flakes had the Latin countries, but with most of the fighting in is in the North, no Latin country could send help fast enough--and they were mostly broke. So when the one person that had raised the spirits of the Frosties shows up with Rebels, the Cocos saw it as just another victory. A lot of people, myself included, suspected the Rebellion was being funded secretly by the Cocos.

What did you know about the Rebellion when you were assigned to investigate them?
Two things. One, they were real. Two, they were my ticket to promotion. Like I said, I was 17, so I was still cocky enough to believe everything they told me.

How did you investigate?
Well, like I said, there wasn't really anything to investigate. It was fact. Every time a rebel unit popped up, I was sent to ask questions. But it was really pointless. They were ghost. They popped up randomly and then disappeared. They were better trained then all of us in that respect. In the months of investigating, I caught one. One rebel. He was a kid--I think he was eleven or twelve. Got lost. But he didn't know anything. Just kept saying it was all a lie--didn't even know why. He was pretty banged up by the time I got the chance to interview him. This is all the information I got from him: raised in New Mexico, trained in either New Mexico or Colorado, assigned to a intel unit, but he didn't know what kind of intel they were gathering. Mostly he cried. He got sent across the borders to prison and was the only caught rebel for sometime.

Why did they pick you?
I never asked, but I suspect it was because I knew Dylan. He served under me during the Battle of Disneyland. Heck, he was the reason for my first promotion. I think they thought I could offer some insight. I don't know. Everything changed after the Reuter's Prison Attack.

How so?
I guess you could say it became a grown up investigation. Everyone wanted a piece of that. It wasn't a company inquiry into the possibility--it was a full fledge manhunt. Everyone wanted it stopped. I was replaced by a general and reassigned to a supply depot in Prescott, Arizona. That didn't last long.