David Sakmyster
The Prometheus Objective
The Pharos Objective
The Mongol Objective
The Cydonia Objective
The Tesla Objective
Jurassic Dead (three novels)
Blindspots
Escape Plans
Final Solstice
N.D.E.
Crescent Lake
Silver and Gold
Twilight of the Fifth Sun
Second Coming
Returning Character List
Caleb Crowe — Current leader of the Morpheus Initiative (now merged with the government black-ops Stargate Program). Reluctant psychic and former professor who had been drawn into his family’s obsessive quest for a fabled treasure beneath the legendary Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria. Caleb discovered the truth about his father’s fate and the sacrifices he had made to ensure his son would be the one to find the hidden vault of knowledge, the books secreted away and protected — including the Emerald Tablet, an ancient artifact of immense power.
Phoebe Crowe — Caleb’s sister. At an early age and while on an adventure with their mother, she followed Caleb into a tomb where she suffered an accident and was paralyzed, for years confined to a wheelchair — until later cured by her guilt-ridden brother and the medical secrets retrieved from the Pharos treasure. A strong remote-viewer in her own right, she has taken on the mantle of leadership and training; although now married to Orlando Natch, and with newborn twins, her responsibilities have shifted.
Orlando Natch — early member of the Initiative and a strong remote-viewer (in favor of electronic free-drawing over the convention pencil-and-paper route), he was instrumental in the hunt for Genghis Khan’s tomb in the Mongol Objective. Orlando is a big-time gamer and fan of all things geeky and cool, which is a reason he’s felt blessed to have Phoebe in his life.
Xavier Montross — Caleb’s half-brother, Montross has a slightly different talent than some of the others, as his ‘visions’ are more tailored to his own mortality; he often sees direct threats sometimes years before they happen — haunting him into action to prevent them from coming true. Initially he was a member of the Pharos hunt, but then went rogue to steal the Emerald Tablet (correctly envisioning that it could end not only his life, but the lives of everyone on the planet). Soon after, he reveals his identity — as Caleb’s half-brother, and works with the team to stop the larger threat. He had to sacrifice himself to do so but was able to swap his consciousness (his soul) into the body of their defeated enemy, Mason Calderon — and now wears his shell, fooling the world and exerting influence on behalf of the Morpheus team.
Diana Montgomery — Xavier’s love, she is not psychic, but has a lifelong fascination with forbidden knowledge, having worked at the Smithsonian and followed her father’s obsession with incongruous evidence of ancient artifacts in places where they shouldn’t be (such as the Grand Canyon’s rumored trove of Egyptian treasures, where she met Xavier). Currently working at NASA, she’s helping Caleb and the team pierce the mysteries surrounding artificial structures and (possibly) alien architecture discovered on the moon, Mars and elsewhere…
Lydia Gregory — Caleb’s wife, deceased. She died tragically (and accidentally) as Xavier Montross breached the traps guarding the Emerald Tablet, which Caleb had hidden without Lydia’s knowledge under their own modern lighthouse in New York.
Alexander Crowe — Caleb and Lydia’s teenage son and strong psychic in his own right. He had to grow up too fast, despite Caleb wishing for a different life for his son. He feels immense guilt at his mother’s death.
Aria Greenmeyer — Alexander’s age, Aria was rescued from a terrorist group in Afghanistan, who had been using her to operate invisibly; her talent is that she ‘shields’ her presence and those around her from the sight of remote viewers.
Nina Osseni — A former skilled agent and assassin, she had worked for the former head of Stargate, infiltrating (and murdering members of) the organization known as The Keepers, and then forcing Caleb to help them solve the riddle of the Pharos. Grievously injured, she had been in a coma in the Stargate facility, where she gave birth to twins… Caleb’s sons Jacob and Isaac. She has the power to touch a psychic and not only encourage their visions but see them herself.
Jacob Osseni — Of the twins born to Nina, Jacob is the only one left. Caleb was unaware of the twins, his own sons, as Nina had been presumed dead. She held a major grudge against Caleb for not seeking her out, or even using his senses to know he had other children. In the absence of their parents, Jacob and his brother Isaac were adopted by senator Mason Calderon, who used their remote vision abilities to eliminate enemies and set the stage to nearly destroy all of civilization.
Mason Calderon — Former senator who had pursued the path of the Enemy, attempting to clear the world of humanity. His spirit form was annihilated in battle with Xavier Montross, who then was able to take over Mason’s body and assume his identity.
Edgerrin Temple — the most recent head of Stargate. He stepped in after the demise of George Waxman and aided the Morpheus team as a means of penance for crimes against Caleb and his family. He later handed the reins over to Caleb to run the organization.
Victoria Bederus — New recruit to the Morpheus Initiative, leading a ‘shadow remnant’ team of untested psychics who had escaped capture by government agents.
Where we left our heroes at the conclusion of The Tesla Objective…
Nina, Alexander, Aria and Jacob were headed to the Micronesian island of Nan Madol, following the scans of their new psychic recruits who believed the second Emerald Tablet — an artifact of immense power — had been hidden there in the ancient past.
Xavier and Caleb had been captured during a government raid on the Stargate facility. They’d been duped by a psychic soldier named Boris Zeller who had the ability to create false visions in the minds of remote viewers, fooling them at every turn. Caleb eventually found a way to turn Boris against his masters, defeat them, and save himself.
The masters… they were the so-called Custodians, who were once human but had become something more, almost completely spiritual and outside of reality. Most tended to have no interest in humanity any longer, but some remained… with other ideas.
After Orlando’s capture, they believed he could become one of them, and began the process to rip his spirit from his body. He became untethered and dangerously close to losing his identity, but still held some shred of humanity and a lingering bond… for his children and for Phoebe. When he realized they were using him to locate his children (safely hidden away after the raid), he sought to return to his body.
The world had turned on psychics after the revelation of the extent of their powers and their use in government programs. However, the true aim of their enemies wasn’t to shut down the program, but to influence Caleb and the others into believing they had no choice but to activate a worldwide defense mechanism that genius (and fellow remote viewer) Nikola Tesla had designed. An electromagnetic shield erected around the earth, intended to protect against asteroids and the like. When it was revealed that a comet was coming, one that could destroy half the life on the planet, Caleb ignored his doubts and any alternatives, and used his power to activate the shield.