Nimbus Stadt

Eugene Patrick Ruisi

Description

A story set in the future of an alternate world in a vast city where the struggles for life, truth and freedom still occur.
In the future of an alternate world, Nimbus Stadt was a vast municipality on the continent of Vespasia. Only 115 miles away from the famous city of Polyxenburgh, Nimbus Stadt was a city where many immigrants to Vespasia first started their lives. One such immigrant was Taddeo Orzelli, a man who struggled at first to make ends meet. Taddeo struggled against the nativist policies of the native born Vespasians and their anti-immigration legislation in Vespasia.
A different man, Jarvis Vassalle, the grandson of immigrants, struggled to find meaning in a world of dark secrets and wonderful hidden mysteries. Both of these men and their comrades will have to seek the truth while combating the machinations of a secret elite who will stop at nothing to achieve their malevolent goals. In the end, both Taddeo and Jarvis will meet their destinies in Nimbus Stadt. This is the sequel to Polyxenburgh.

Sujets

• Science Fiction
• Religión
• Sicilian people
• Russians
• Religion
• Family
• Drama
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 30 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663247971
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Also by Eugene Patrick Ruisi
Interstellar Monitor ( 2003)
Interstellar Monitor: Hestia’s Bravest ( 2006)
Interstellar Monitor: Pantheon of Fates ( 2009)
Polyxenburgh ( 2013)
Interstellar Monitor: The Forsaken Multitude ( 2017)
NIMBUS STADT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
EUGENE PATRICK RUISI
 
 
 
 
 

 
NIMBUS STADT
 
 
Copyright © 2022 Eugene Patrick Ruisi.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-4794-0 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-4797-1 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022921408
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date:  11/28/2022
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Interlude One
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Interlude Two
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Epilogue
Prologue
In a world spherical in shape was a continent known as Vespasia. On this continent, near Lake Hibernia, was a city known as Nimbus Stadt. A city of great prestige and power in the Confederated Republic of Vespasia. It was a city with five boroughs: Cygnus, Chantal, Metaxas, Klevbrook and Dextra. The Borough of Metaxas was where the city government presided from, and also where downtown Nimbus Stadt was located. The city had two rivers: Pherris and Cygnus. The city had existed for nearly 2,300 years, and now in the year 2214 ARC, or the year 5207 AD according to the Antiquated Gregorian Calendar, Nimbus Stadt was a vast municipality of power and technology.
Nimbus Stadt was a diverse city with many religions practiced and languages spoken. The major religious groups in Nimbus Stadt were as follows: Triune Catholics, Arian-Cathars, Nestorians, Druids, and Norse Pagans. The major ethnic groups were Bavarians, Prussians, Anglo-Saxons, Poles, Northern Italians, Greeks, Irish, Spaniards, Portuguese, Russians, Armenians, Dutch, Scottish, Welsh, Sicilians, Neapolitans, Austrians, Hungarians, Swedes, Danes, Norwegians and Carpatho-Rusyns. There were other ethnicities that were a mix of the above mentioned and other groups that were smaller in numbers.
Over a hundred languages were spoken in Nimbus Stadt, but only three were recognized for government and commerce. Those three languages for government and commerce were Vespasian, Triune Latin and Esperanto. The city in the year 2214 ARC was going through difficult times. The nativist policies of the Vespasian government were discriminating against immigrants to Vespasia and Nimbus Stadt. The Native Born Labor Law was in full effect, and made it hard for immigrants to find work. Also many native born Vespasian men and immigrant men alike were veterans of the Herculean-Lemuric War. Many men both native and immigrant lost their lives in that war, or limbs, health, wealth or family. That war also cast a shadow on Vespasian society in general and Nimbus Stadt in particular. It was a time in the city when people were desperate and angry, and looked to new possibilities and old ones.

All was quiet, until suddenly there was a rush of sound. Taddeo Orzelli awoke instantly from his sleep as a roaring train passed outside his window. He got his bearings and remembered he was at home in his small apartment on the Lowery, just outside of downtown Nimbus Stadt. The train passing outside was the Thirteenth Avenue El. He noticed he was fully dressed, and he realized he must have slept all night after Dr. Luigi Queico had given him some very powerful cough medicine. He felt better from it. He looked around his apartment. It was a narrow apartment with walls that had not been painted in decades. The width of the apartment was about seven feet, and the length of the apartment was ten feet. He was lying on his bed right by the window. On the other side of the room, but near him was a small cabinet for clothes. There was also a small night table with some papers on it, and even scrapings of some food he had from the night before. Above his bed was a picture of San Giuseppe or St. Joseph in the common tongue.
Taddeo sat up in his bed, and wiped his face. He noticed his shoes on the ground and put them on right away. He then looked farther into his apartment, and recognized his tool box on a large storage case that had his personal effects in it. The storage case was four feet in height and one foot in width. On his small desk he saw the clock, and whispered: “Shit.”
The clock read half past four. He was running late. He quickly put his suspenders over his shoulders. He stood up and put a small gray hat on. He took a wad of cash from an old candy box. In the wad of cash he had a total of two aurei, the equivalent of fifty denarii. He also took five denarius coins with him and put them all in his pocket. He stood up and went to his front door, which was at the end of the apartment. He unlocked it and went into the hallway. He didn’t see anyone outside. He quickly took out his keys and locked the three locks on the door. He walked down the hallway and passed an old Eastern European woman muttering in a Slavic language. He made it to the first floor, and passed an old fellow with black sunglasses on and a cane. He was sitting by a radiator and just sat there calmly. Taddeo walked out onto the front stoop and passed a couple of young men talking. He went down the stairs and was on the street in the Lowery. The shade of the Thirteenth Avenue El above him cooled his senses. He began walking north towards Delaney Street. He passed people from various walks of life: Old people, young people, well-to-doers and bums on their last legs of desperation. He even passed a paper boy who was shouting about the various news items of the day. Taddeo might have paid for a paper, but he was in no mood to waste what little money he had.
For immigrants like himself, the Vespasian economy was a vast economic system he was unable to access. This was because the Vespasian government had passed a bill that all Vespasian born citizens must receive a job before any immigrants to Vespasia could receive work. This draconian law had hit immigrants like Taddeo hard. He was born in Sicily and had some work when he first came to Vespasia, and had worked at some factories in the city of Traustburgh. However, once the bill was passed in 2204, work became scarce for immigrants like himself. Because of this hardship in getting a job, he couldn’t afford anything anymore, and had to preserve what cash he had.
That was why where he was going now was so important. He would receive the benevolence of a good friend in Klevbrook. He reached Delaney Street and went downstairs into the Lowery Subway Station for the train to Klevbrook. He paid the denarius fare and waited for the train. The lights were dim in this station but just enough for him to see. A few bums were on the platform, and even a few poor workers as well, in addition to families who had come to Metaxas for the day. It was Sunday after all, so it was a laid back time. Finally a train bound for Klevbrook rumbled into the station. It was black in color with many vertical windows and a rectangular roof on the top of it. The lights on the front were on, and it had a clacking sound as it entered the station. The train finally stopped and the doors opened. Taddeo entered the train car, and found a seat on the train as did everyone else.
The train started moving again and left the Lowery Station. Taddeo sat there and just noted the other people. He saw a little Irish girl with her parents prancing around near their seat. He saw an old Druid moving back and forth, and reading a book that Taddeo assumed was religious. He also saw an old Polish lady in the corner of the train praying silently with rosary beads. The train stopped at Issex Street and a lot more people got on board. The train became crowded and some people were forced to stand, but Taddeo wasn’t going to give his seat up for anyone. He sat there quietly and tried to not notice anyone. He looked out beyond the windows and could make out the trolley terminal for the trolleys that went over the Burgess Bridge. The trolley terminal was adjacent to the Issex Street Station and the trolleys were underground, but the trolleys went above ground once they l