Ohio’s former governor and ex-president Rutherford B. Hayes, now ORPHAN’s commander, put his undercover agency under its first 'CLASS-A EMERGENCY!'

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​Several hours earlier, Thomas Edison, the most famous man in the Western World, held the international debut of his two newest products at Columbus’s Metropolitan Opera House.   FYI: It occupied 127 North High Street until it burned down in 1892.

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His audience included two former presidents, several dozen of the nation’s greatest inventors, 1200 fans, and 600 reporters. Around four thousand more fans lined that pony-poop-covered street for three blocks south, to the Neil House Hotel.

 

His first product reveal, “The Light Cannon” (1st spotlight), went wonderfully.  It debuted during this musical featuring ‘The Buckeye Beauties,’ six beautiful local song and dance girls.

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Edison’s next reveal, his Electro-Wonder-Stagecoach, sent drool dribbling down the chins of 19th-century nurds.

 

Why? This was the world's first stagecoach with a dome light.

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The first twenty were lined up behind the music hall’s stage door. They would be revealed in a parade after the show, transporting the (illuminated) VIPs to the after-party at the Neil House.

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The sexy (for 1885) musical “Ladies Come First,” written by Sara Kilbourne, the Buckeye Beauties’ leader, naturally placed these six gorgeous girls in the lead coach.  

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As these lovely ladies waited in their rolling wonder for the VIPs to board the others, theirs suddenly took off like a bat out of hell.

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Two minutes later, it vanished into Columbus’s Union Train Station complex.

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From inside ORPH Six, a low-slung, weapon-packed locomotive (secretly earth’s fastest vehicle), ORPHAN agents Lemont Freeman, Colin Mclaughlin (Sara’s manfriend), and Nicola Tesla track the girls to New Orleans.

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Unintentionally, like an action-packed version of “Q” from James Bond movies, Tesla created these rail-rockets, as well as whatever gadget Mclaughlin and Freeman need on the fly.  

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Painted white with red crosses, ORPHS (Orphan Ambulances) just hid in plain sight. They were (supposedly) racing along the nation’s rails, rushing emergency medical aid to the 1.7 million orphan children Europe was dumping into America’s open arms.

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​​​They track the girls to a palace in New Orleans.  However, they are happily under the (herbily enhanced) spell of the world’s wealthiest narcissist, the crazy handsome Tyberious Maximus Cross.  The beauties weren't going anywhere, well that is what they thought. 

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While trying to figure this out, the agents swipe a folder from Cross’s floating office, aboard his Maximus V (the swiftest and most beautiful ship on the planet), and discover his dastardly plan. He is about to have his version of the Confederacy win the Civil War, 20 after losing.

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For over a century Cross Shipping International operated the largest fleet of cargo ships on earth. Even in 1885, this company's most profitable division still provided slaves to the world.  

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​​Three years earlier, his spies (The White Knights) stole 17 notebooks from the newly arrived Nicola Tesla. His engineers rapidly weaponized over a dozen of Tesla’s designs. At Cross's secret compounds in Cuba and the 36 Caribbean Islands he owns, thousands of his slaves had just finished building an enormous arsenal of remotely controlled weapons of mass destruction. 

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After winning the Civil War, he planned on restoring slavery nationwide. 

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Trying to save democracy from this self-absorbed madman, who claims he has more money than god, suddenly became the mission.

 

Tesla and a navel engineer stuff one of ORPH 6’s secret electric drive units into a 20' foot steamboat allowing the team to race across the Gulf to find, infiltrate and hopefully clog up Cross's enormous compounds. 

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If you like wild spy gadgets, weapon-packed speed machines, tyrants bent on domination, monstrous henchmen, sexy ladies, and sarcastic super-spies attacking secret military compounds single-handedly, the  Southern Cross is for you.

Wise created one of the two primary characters, Lemont Freeman, for Lebron James to play after he retires from the NBA. However, Mr. James has not yet been notified of his future.​

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An Entertaining Future for SW Columbus

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The novel version of The Southern Cross will be divided into 12 cliff-hanging TV episode scripts (2 chapters each). Each episode will be storyboarded as a comic book. Animated video versions with voice-overs, sound effects, and music will be produced for international attention at YouTube and other web-based forums.

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Printed comic books should only be available in person at Upper (SW) Columbus businesses. However, since they are not intended to be thrown away, these will contain long-term messages from Upper Columbus businesses, like car dealers, restaurants, stores, and entertainment establishments.

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​CGI Movies and TV show episodes (all also produced in Upper Columbus) are the ultimate goals for these "ORPHAN" and “POSTAL” Agent escapades.

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Coming hopefully in 2023, "POSTAL" will duplicate ORPHAN's monthly format to have some serious action spying in the roaring 20s. The Secret Service just upgraded ORPHAN's old weapon-packed Orphan Ambulance Trains (ORPHS), with tricked-out aircraft flying the U.S. Air-Mail logo. 

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FYI-In 1927, the US Postal Service did build its Midwest Air-mail airport directly across Sullivan Avenue from the secret underground headquarters. It remained their central air-mail hub through 1936. 

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POSTAL is not just ORPHAN'S first fly-boys, sexy ladies, and of course, evil villains bent on world domination. President Coolidge decided that America's secret agents were lazy, so he makes most walk a daily route as mail carriers. This fixed his major post office staffing issue, but...

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