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The question has arisen as to why this story interested me. As I have mentioned before, the original story, The Atlantis Crystal, was incomplete and inactive and featured a damaged and dispersed alien object. I've long been a fan of science fiction, but I find too many stories in this genre where an alien shows up somehow and gives the guy who finds it amazing powers in trade for something. I've always been skeptical about how a being or race so powerful and advanced that it can accomplish interstellar travel and manipulate time and matter needs to bargain for some item which can only be found on Earth. (Gold or some mineral needs to be dug up here on Earth, with all the problems that will cause, rather than undetectable asteroid mining? Seems unlikely to me!) RobberBaron's story instead had an alien object which gave the finder powers, but the object was damaged and uncertain of what had happened and why and did not have the ability to rebuild itself without assistance. That seemed like a more realistic bargain.

Teresa gets the full concubine experience and Jack deals with her parents creatively. Enjoy!

Chapter 20 gives us a better look at the Solana family, and what they are facing in the future. I also fixed a typo in Chapter 19. Please let me know when you find them; I am happy to fix them. Thanks.

Not sure how it happened but I had a naming error back in Chapter 12. Fixed. Thanks to therealalpo for catching it. Otherwise, in Chapter 19, Jack has some more fun and Tina is brought to submission. Enjoy!

Got an email a few chapters ago:

"You need to get Jack's head out of his ass and start him preparing for war or its all over. I can't count the number of times he's been told the most important thing he can do is to get the shard to the East, but he spends time securing a promotion in a job he doesn't need and creating a harem he doesn't need when he can fuck any women he meets any time he wants. If he really needs his harem he should have just loaded it on an RV or a private jet and taken it with him. With a mind this keen he's making rubber tires look like razor blades. He's supposed to be a sharp advertising executive for Gods sake, but he can't seem to think beyond the next blow job. With a "HERO" like this I hope you plan a long and slow death for him, it's all he deserves so far, in this war."

I replied that maybe the reader should wait a few chapters. Hopefully by now I have answered the concerns noted in the email. Some people are just too damn impatient!

BTW - I won't discuss whether Jack is a sharp advertising executive. I used to work with ad execs. The thing to remember about advertising is that half of what you spend in ads is wasted, but you never know which half, and neither do the ad execs.