The New Genetic Woman Project or Nuegua, created by Sean Landesten, Alathea Radford, and Maria Alvarez Sepulveda (aka ‘Pink Tamale’) can be considered to have come into birth during the One Hour War of September 15 2110. The project, later called the Nuegua Homeland, was the eleventh-hour attempt to create a new kind of human society, integrated into the desert ecology of northern Arizona, by the use of the Cactus Mothers. Hidden away in the Christmas Mines near Superior Arizona, Nuegua successfully defeated the Sky Wanderers DNA-destructor weapons, only to find itself marooned on the Empty Earth.
The main story– the Summer People, can be said to begin sometime in August of 2528, although Nuegua was not actually discovered (long after it was abandoned) in August of 2578.
Nuegua. A world we engineered. A way of life we never imagined.
Nuegua Timeline for November 9 2013
| Anno Domini Date | Chapter | Story Line: Nuegua Book One: The Summer People | Characters & Setting |
| September 1 2578 | No Mercy In The Cathedral | Annihilation of New Spaniard colonists in Chihuahua, Mexico. Flagellentes spread a rumour that it is the work of Dona Dina (Dianire Redourine) |
Priest, Lieutenant & New Spanish Colonists; Dianire Redourine & The Warrior Guild.[Outskirts of Chihuahua Mexico Ruins,] |
| September 15 2578 | Meeting At The Green Lake Room | Representatives of all the peoples of the Empty Earth meet at Carlsbad Abbey’s Green Lake Room at the request of the Queen of New Spain: New Spaniards, Apache, Hopi, Navaho, Comanche, even the Western Bandits. News of the Chihuahua massacre is relayed, and a possible cause is unearthed from the Abbey archives. |
Queen of New Spain, Abbot of Carlsbad Abbey, representatives from New Spanish nobility, Apache Traders, Hopi, Navaho, plus Western Bandits, & a surprise guest [Carlsbad Abbey] |
| September 15 2110 | The Sixty-Minute War | Betrayal of Earth by the Sky Wanderers; beginning of the Empty Earth period. | Sean Landesten, Alathea Radford, Maria-Alvarez-Domingo, CEO of Sky Wanderers,various thugs and military types.[Phoenix Arizona, Age of the Gringos] |
| December 25 2110 | Creation of Nuegua | Death of Sean Landesten, Alathea Radford, Maria Alvarez-Domingo (Pink Tamale) | Sean Landesten, Alathea Radford, Maria-Alvarez-Domingo, CEO of Sky Wanderers,various thugs and military types.[Phoenix Arizona, Age of the Gringos] |
| August 31 2516 | Desert Frigate | Defeat of Western Bandits at Socorro; rise to power of Carlos Sepulveda (King Carlos) | Western Bandits under Seamus Espinoza; Family Sepulveda under Maria: Bennedetto (son), Carlos (nephew), Constanza Baca, Alejandro Baca, various Mestizo servants. |
| September 1 2521 | Mothering Day | Acceptance of Rintiala & Dianire into Guilds of Healers & Builders; rejection of Berylia into Guild of Healers | Alathea, First Sister Among Firsts; Rintiala, Dianire, Berylia, Oldest Healing Sister, various First Sisters of the Three Guilds. |
| August 1 2528 | Ghost Sickness | Entrance into the Sanctuary at Camelback Mountain; Elevation of Rintiala to First Sister. | Alathea, Rintiala, Finds-Water, Hunts-the-Ruins, various Western Bandits and Apache Police. |
| September 1 2528 | Furniture of Paradise | Attempt by Rintiala & Dianire (with aid from Ariana) to utilize the Birthing Mothers to save Tianara’s baby; successful, but with disastrous consequences. |
Rintiala, Dianire, Ariana, Alope, Tianara, Alathea, virtual Sean Landesten. |
| September 15 2528 | Trader’s Bazaar | Proclamation by Rintiala of free pre- and post- natal care for all Apache women; opposed by Apache Traders | Rintiala, Dianire, Ariana, Alope, Alathea, Hunts-The-Ruins, Finds-Water, Berylia |
| October 1 2528 | Cholera Among The Jicarilla | Hunts-The-Ruins runs off with Ariana, to bring Nueguan Healing to the Jicarilla in New Spain, Introduction of the plot to eliminate the Jicarilla, engineered by King Carlos & Alejandro Baca. |
Hunts-The-Ruins, Ariana, Long Jumper, various Jicarilla and Mestizo (underclass of New Spain). |
| November 1 2528 | Business at New Alcazar | King Carlos convinces Ariana to re-think her situation, takes her into his care | Carlos Sepulveda, Ariana Tiala, Dona Immelda (sister of Maria Sepulveda), Long Jumper, Navaho grandmother and children. |
| November 15 2528 | Treasure at Ramada Los Alamos | Ariana successfully unlocks the Sky Wanderer’s vault at Los Alamos, making New Spain unimaginabley rich & powerful; King Carlos proposes marriage to her at the ball celebrating her success; she accepts.Turning point paragraph at end: a group of pilgrims passing by Los Alamos, infected with Laughing Sickness. |
Ariana Tiala, Sergeant Garcia, King Carlos, Leader of the Flagellantes, various Kings Guardsmen, Dona Immelda. |
| December 1 2528 | Laughing Sickness | Opening of Los Alamos inadvertently unleashes a plague on New Spain; Flagellantes blame King Carlos. Infiltration of Rintiala into New Spain by Finds-Water, death of Finds-Water, meeting of Family Sepulveda and Rintiala, when Benedetto is returned to Soccorro. | Rintiala, Benedetto Sepulveda,Maria Sepulveda, Finds-Water, Constanza Baca, various Mestizo servants. |
| December 15 2528 | Western Bandits | Ariana’s healing powers are used to drive the Western Bandits from Albuquerque, their last bastion and home. King Carlos unites New Spain & is the most powerful ruler in the Empty Earth; preparations for the Grand Wedding. Western Bandits are officially declared Enemies of New Spain, agreement reached with Apache Police for WB elimination. |
Ariana, Captain (formerly Sergeant) Garcia, Seamus Espinoza, King Carlos. |
| December 27 2528 | Warrior Guild | Alathea and Dianire decide that both Ariana and Rintiala have been captured by slavers, and organize a new Warrior Guild to rescue them, vehemently opposed by the Apache Traders and Apache Police. Berylia, First Sister of the Guild of Gardeners, plans an alternative strategy with the Apache, one that will see the end of the Guilds of both Healers and Builders. |
Alathea, Dianire, Berylia, various First and Second Sisters of the Guilds. |
| December 28 | The Remaking | Rintiala now permanently altered genetically, begins mass healings of plague victims, Flagellantes form a Catholic cult around her, believing her to be Maria of Agreda. |
Rintiala, Maria Sepulveda, Benedetto Sepulveda, Constanza Baca, various Mestizo servants. |
| December 31 | Sister’s Brooch | Infiltration of Sante Fe (New Spain) by the Warrior Guild; The Grand Wedding is followed by Assassination of Ariana, and indiscriminate murder of Dona Immelda and various Mestizo servants. | Ariana Tiala, Dona Immelda, various Mestizo servants. |
| Anno Domini Date | Chapter | Story Line: Book Two: I Will Tread The Earth Once More | |
| No Time | LIghtning & Earth Mother | Creation Myth of Clan Tiala | Lightning (Sky Wanderer) & Earth Mother (Nuegua) declare everlasting war upon each other. |
| January 2 2529 | The Allegiance | King’s Guard & Apache Police put aside their rivalries to quash the Nueguan Warrior Guild, which has fled Santa Fe, heading south. King Carlos is informed of the miraculous healings at Socorro; he deduces that is the Dianire’s goal, to abscond with Rintiala and head back to Nuegua. This does not happen, because the Apache Police cut her off, using methane-powered trucks (against New Spanish religious beliefs, that allow only horses). Even while attempting to put aside rivalries, most disagreements develop. Rintiala & Benedetto flee Socorro, attempting to return to Nuegua. |
King Carlos, Alejandro Baca, Long Jumper, various King’s Guard and Apache Police. |
| January 5 2529 | The Galiuro | Dianire leads the Warrior Guild into the most dangerous place known on the Empty Earth: the Galiuro Wilderness, dumping ground of failed Nueguan technology. First battle with the Allegiance; Warrior Guild cut down by half, escape only with the help of Yassah. Alope decides to stay behind with Yassah; only she can work with the Wild Mothers. |
Dianire, Duji, Alope, Yassah & Shassah, Carlos Sepulveda, Alejandro Baca, Long Jumper. |
| January 7 2529 | The Armoury | Dianire finds a Sky Wanderer weapons depot at the most southern border of Nuegua; Warrior Guild is attacked by Western Bandits, and reduced to only Dianire, Duji (her brother and betrothed to Rintiala) . Deploys Sky Wanderer weapons; Western Bandits call a truce, and a counter-Allegiance. |
Dianire, Seamus Espinoza, Duji, Alope. |
| January 10 2529 | Guild of Gardeners | The Allegiance destroys an entire village of Gardeners in an attempt to lure out Dianire; Nuegua is now broken. Berylia uses this disaster to her advantage; the Allegiance is shattered; her warnings of Dianire and Rintiala have proven true; Berylia proposes mass marriage of all Nueguan women (regardless of Guild) to Apache families as restitution. Dianire escapes back to the Healing Temple at Clan Tiala, just after Rintiala and Benedetto have arrived. |
Alejandro Baca, Long Jumper, Dianire, Berylia, Rintiala, Benedetto. |
| January 13 2529 | The Healing Temple | Final battle between and among all the parties: Apache side with Guild of Gardeners; Western Bandits with Dianire; Kings Guard outnumbers the rest by five-to-one. Rintiala arrives and uses her abilities to protect the Healing Temple; she fails because the Kings Guard dynamite with San Carlos Dam, flooding Clan Tiala. Only Alathea and Duji’s bodies are recovered; Rintiala, Dianire have disappeared. |
Rintiala, Dianire, Benedetto, Carlos, Alejandro, Long-Jumper, Alathea, Duji. |
| February 1 2529 | Catching The Swarm | Dianire does the one thing that no one expects; she uses Sky Wanderer vehicles to transport Rintiala and the last of the Tialan boys and girls back to Soccorro; all of them must choose whether to stay there or disappear with Dianire into Mexico (unknown territory outside the boundaries of the Empty Earth). They all choose to leave, not trusting New Spaniards. Rintiala, now pregnant finds herself confronted by King Carlos with his demand/request: “Give me your baby, and I will let you go free”. |
Rintiala, Dianire, Carlos, various Nuegua children & Mestizo servants. |
| September 15 2578 | I Will Tread The Earth Once More | Assembly at Carlsbad is shocked by the story unfolded; at the end it is revealed that Queen Ariana the Beautiful is the daughter of Rintiala, or Dona Rina, Healer of Children. Hunts-The-Ruins revealed as eyewitness author of the documents. They begin to leave the Abbey grounds just as a space ship is seen high in the late afternoon sky, beginning its’ descent. The Sky Wanderers have returned. |
Queen of New Spain, Hunts-The-Ruins (remade), Abbot of Carlsbad. |