Seers

by Horatio Jaxx

When flight 129 returns from the past, it is soon learned that its passengers and crew have comeback with an ability to forecast and shape future events. Soon after that discovery, the Department of Homeland Security realizes that policing malefactors who can see into the future is a task best performed by officers who can do the same.

3. Synopsis and Blurb

Synopsis:

After a gravitational-anomaly washes through the solar system, flight AA129 out of San Francisco disappears only to reappear eleven years later unaltered by the passage of time. After a few days of quarantine, the bulk of the passengers and crew are released, but 4 remain behind for 6 weeks of observation. Shortly into their extended quarantine the 4 discover they can peer into the future and manipulate it. They also learn that their ability to see and affect future events is encumbered when two or more of them peer into the same or adjacent times and spaces. The DHS considers recollecting the 1-29ers, as they are now called, but that action is foreseen. Many of the 1-29ers go into hiding. Policing the 1-29ers becomes the job of the newly formed DHS Seer Security Force and its team of 1-29er officers: MIT Prof. Ethan McKay, FBI Analyst Peyton McKay—Ethan's sister, Air Marshal Noah Kane, and Dr. Jean Kumar.

Professor Ethan McKay's genius level mathematical brain coupled with his foresight makes him adept at peering into the distant future and at unscrambling visions distorted by multiple 1-29er minds focused on the same area of time and space. Agent Peyton McKay's exceptionally disciplined, organized, and mathematical brain coupled with her foresight enables her to detect abnormal deviations in the shifting patterns of commerce across a broad spectrum in the near future. Air Marshal Noah Kane's razor's edge alertness to the here and now coupled with his foresight enhances his close quarter combat skills to the extent that he can defeat or evade nearly any threat. Dr. Jean Kumar's attentiveness to details, precision thinking and tenacious concentration along with her foresight makes her a surgeon without peer.

The task of the DHS Seer Security Force is made even more complicated by foreign governments and criminal organizations seeking to acquire 1-29ers for their own uses. A growing antipathy for 1-29ers by the public becomes an added problem. The foresight of 1-29ers affords them visualization into hundreds of potential future timelines, and that in turn gives them the capability to steer down the timeline of their choice. The use of that ability by some 1-29ers to do harm to people they dislike nurtures a general hostility towards them all. 1-29ers are soon demonized as witches, sorcerers, and agents of Satan. Multiple bounties are put on the heads of 1-29ers, some want them alive, and others want them dead. Safety for 1-29ers is dependent upon how well they conceal what they are or by the protection given to them by a sympathetic association, a friendly government, or a criminal organization.

While working to regulate foresight abuses and to arrest foresight criminals, the 1-29er DHS Seer Security Force officers wrestle with the disruption their new existence has created in their personal lives. The 1-29ers' ability to usher in an injurious fate to anyone within their awareness incites fear in the people around them. Friends and family members of some 1-29er Seer Security Force Officers choose to hide them or what they are to avoid being shunned by the societies they enjoy.

Blurb:

When a missing flight returns from the past with passengers and crew all gifted with clairvoyance, a new agency is quickly formed to protect the present from people who can see into the future. It's the mechanics of the high concept in the movie "Next" with the gravity and texture of "The Rook" or "Debris" packaged into a unique crime drama.