Subject: [FFML] [FOREWARD/TIMELINE] Endless Nights
From: "Tempest-" <Omicron@sprynet.com>
Date: 4/11/1998, 6:37 PM
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                                 FOREWARD

	I saw the whole of the El-Hazard OAV series between March 3rd and
March 11th, 1998.  After watching the first two tapes on March 3rd, I
decided that instead of ending the Full Circle series in Tokyo, I'd end
it in El-Hazard.  In the week that followed, I wrote the first few
parts of 'Endless Nights'.  After watching the final two tapes, I
nearly trashed this entire work.

	Why?  El-Hazard was perfect.  No, it was better than perfect, it was
complete.  It touched a part of me that had been untouched for a long
time. It was a magnificent work.

	I write fiction about anime not because I can or because I know the
story well enough to do an extension, I write it because I feel it can
be improved.  When the animation stops and I still feel there is a
story to be told, I tell it.  It's a NEED to finish; a need to make
what is incomplete, complete.  I am told that this need is referred to
as a 'Muse', but I wouldn't know anything about that. :)

	All that considering, why have I written this?  If it is not for
El-Hazard, what could it be for?  Why did the 'muse', bite?  The
answer: Full Circle.  IT is incomplete, and no matter how many episodes
I write of the Tenchi Muyou episodes, it will never be complete.  So
I've written this because the 'muse' has told me to make an extension
of Full Circle, not El-Hazard.

	So when you read this, please understand that El-Hazard, in itself, is
complete, and this story is for the purpose of ending a saga that has
gone on long enough.  So, drink a toast with me for the final story,
and by that I mean, the end of the timeline, of the Full Circle Saga.

Adam Christopher Leigh
March 15, 1998

                         * * * * * * * * * * * *
                               Dedicated
                           To Chris and John,
                          My modern day idols.
                     May the world never forget you,
                           For I never shall.

                                Cheers.

                         * * * * * * * * * * * *


                          HISTORIAN'S TIMELINE
                               (ABRIDGED)

9250 b.c. - Barbaricca is sealed away.
1963 - Masamichi Fujisawa is born.
1974 - Adam Christopher Leigh is born.
1977 - Makoto Mizuhara is born.
     - Katsuhiko Jinnai is born.
1978 - Nanami Jinnai is born.
1980 - Pluto contacts Adam and tags him.
1995 - Makoto Mizuhara, Masamichi Fujisawa, Katsuhiko
       Jinnai, and Nanami Jinnai are sent to El-Hazard.
???? - Eye of God activated and used on invading Bugrom
       forces.  Said forces are devastated.
1996 - Adam arrives at Tenchi Household.
     - Events in Full Circle: Tenchi Muyou Episodes.
     - Mizuhara returns to Earth.
2004 - The Vampire Wars in Tokyo.
     - The First Earth Defense Force is secretly formed.
2010 - The EDF becomes pro-active, renamed Planetary 
       Defense Force.
2012 - Adam Leigh marries Washuu Hakubi
2034 - Mass Recruitment attempts by PDF.
2050 - Destruction of GENOM.
2069 - Barbaricca is released.
     - Multi-simultanious eruption of worlds Volcanoes
       renders planet unable to support life.
     - World evacuation.
     - Adam disappears during evacuation...