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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Earth, Europa, Donnan entitled After Doomsday.
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conversations.value: After Doomsday: The novel explores events after the destruction of Earth, from the point of view of two returning starship crews, one entirely made up of men, the other consisting entirely of women.\nThe story is set in the early 21st century.\nEven as the Cold War dragged on Earth has been suddenly contacted by the Monwaingi space-faring culture.\nThe technology of interstellar travel is spreading across the galaxy, disrupting one culture after another.\nMonwaing itself was contacted only a few centuries previously.\nAnother culture, the Vorlak, underwent a transition from a stable planetary society to a warlord culture similar to the Japanese Shogunate.\nThe nomadic Kandemirian culture became a hegemonistic one similar to the Mongol Empire.\nEarth found itself on the fringes of a conflict between Kandemir and a coalition led by Vorlak, with Monwaing on the sidelines, actively supporting the anti-Kandemir forces.\nThere is a lingua franca called Uru, which bonds the diverse cultures together.\nThe original speakers of the language may have also initiated the spread of interstellar technology, but the language seems to have outlived, or at least outstripped its originators.\nIn the 20 years since contact, several expeditions have set out, some in borrowed ships, some in ships built on Earth.\nThe ship USS Benjamin Franklin, with an all-male crew, set out to visit the core of the Milky Way — actually an unusual quest by the stodgy standards of the typical galactic culture.\nAnother ship has gone as far as the Magellanic Clouds.\nThe pan-European expedition in the ship Europa, crewed entirely by women, has roamed far outside the local group of cultures.\nThe star-drive technology allows journeys of tens of thousands of parsecs in mere months.\nIn spite of this, most cultures are "stay-at-homes" compared to humans, interacting only with the local group of cultures, known as a "cluster".\nNow the Franklin and the Europa return to find that Earth has suffered the ultimate disaster.\nThe USS Benjamin Franklin, a starship crewed entirely by men returns to Earth, to find the planet consumed by eruptions from within the crust.\nAll life is gone, along with the few outposts of humanity on the Moon and artificial satellites.\nMissiles lurk throughout the Solar System, ready to destroy returning ships.\nUnable to leave a message drone because of the missiles, the Franklin flees to Tau Ceti.\nDiscipline breaks down, the captain is killed, and a nucleus of a new crew forms behind a man named Carl Donnan.\nDonnan is an engineer and adventurer who gave up wandering the Earth for a chance to see the galaxy, courtesy of a Senator who owed him a favor.\nNow he is leading almost 300 men on a quest for other humans, and for Earth\'s murderers.\nChief suspects are the Kandemirians, especially since the missiles swarming through the Solar System are Kandemirian.\nEarth is new to interstellar trade, and a handful of ships have gone out into the wider galactic society.\nThe men realize they have little hope of finding other humans, let alone women.\nThey do have a guide with them, an alien called Ramri from the polycultural society originating on the planet Monwaing.\nRamri is a biped descended from feathered, bird-like creatures.\nSome time afterwards, the ship Europa with a crew of 100 women returns, to find Earth destroyed and missiles roaming the Solar System.\nThey are able to disable one missile.\nA small team boards the missile, including Navigation Officer Sigrid Holmen and her friend Gunnery Officer Alexandra Vukovic.\nThe missile appears to have been manufactured by Kandemirians, although there are symbols in an unknown script scrawled on a bulkhead within it.\nOther missiles approach, and the Europa must leave without addressing the central mystery.\nThe officers confer about where to go next.\nTravelling to Vorlak, Donnan sells the crew\'s services to the warlord, or Draga, Hlott Luurs.\nHis proposition is that the humans will develop new technology allowing a ship to detect the drives of other ships far beyond the usual range.\nDonnan\'s friend Arnold Goldspring is a mathematician who has a host of new ideas for the technology.\nThe detector is just the first one.\nTo prove its worth, Donnan bargains for a Vorlak ship which they will use on a stealth raid on a Kandemirian outpost.\nThe raid is a disaster, and they are captured by Kandemirians.\nInterrogated by the head of the Kandemirian forces, Tarkamat, Donnan is told that if he refuses to re-create the technology for Kandemir, his crew will die horribly, one by one.\nHe has no choice but to comply.\nThe crew of the Europa travel far beyond the boundaries of the local cluster to one with a vibrant capitalist economy.\nAt Sigrid Holmen\'s suggestion, they set themselves up as "Terran Traders Inc".\nand proceed to amass wealth, hoping to be able to buy or charter ships to search for survivors of Earth.\nSigrid is kidnapped by representatives of a rival trader culture, the Forsi, who resemble heavyset gnomes.\nThe Forsi want to take her away to study, determined to discover why "Terran Traders Inc".\nis able to be so successful.\nShe is in the process of attempting escape from them when Alexandra Vukovic, a former urban guerrilla, tracks her down and uses her skills to eliminate Sigrid\'s captors.\nonnan\'s crew, laboring on one of the Kandemirians\' subject planets, are being carefully monitored to make sure they only work on the drive detection device.\nHowever, the monitoring of the material making up the chassis of the device is less stringent, and they are able to create a dummy copy of a common soldier\'s rifle from seemingly unrelated parts.\nWith this they bluff their way out of confinement, capture real weapons, and eventually steal a starship.\nThe price of this escape is the loss of a suicide squad who hold off the local troops long enough for Donnan, Goldspring, Ramri and the rest to take off.\nRamri takes them to his homeworld, Katkinu.\nLike many Monwaing worlds, this has different and apparently incompatible cultures living side by side.\nThe official Representative of the homeworld on Katkinu is from the Laothaung culture.\nUnlike Ramri\'s culture, this one uses biotechnology efficiently and ruthlessly.\nSpecialized lifeforms, designed to have just enough intelligence to do work, and subservient to the rulers, carry out all labor.\nThere are even altered types of Monwaingi being used as slaves.\nIn the Representative\'s office they are shown a recording of an interrogation of an agent of the merchant culture of Xo.\nIt indicates that Earth was destroyed by bombs sold to two of the minor national powers, and set up as a suicide weapon, to be detonated if either power was attacked with nuclear weapons.\nThe men are shocked, but are still determined to fight on against the Kandemirians.\nReturning to Vorlak, Donnan bluffs his way past Hlott Luurs, who is still angry over the loss of a ship and his kinsman aboard it.\nGoldspring has designed more weapons using the stardrive technology.\nThe basis of the drive is that space is a standing wave pattern.\nWhere interference fringes occur, there is in effect no space and no distance.\nA ship may jump from fringe to fringe and travel from star to star in a short time.\nThe new devices manufacture artificial fringes.\nWith this they are able to distort space-time inside enemy ships, disabling missiles, inducing small thermonuclear explosions, and producing coherent sound waves.\nThis last weapon lets them administer the coup de grâce to the Kandemirian fleet, broadcasting a message which demoralizes the crews, at the same time encouraging the subject races in the Empire to revolt.\nAfter the victory, the news, in the form of a carefully crafted minstrel song, spreads around the galaxy.\nThe song, in Uru, has the title "The Battle of Brandobar", and describes the final battle in a series of quatrains.\nA chapter of the novel is dedicated to a scholarly analysis of the song, teasing out both the story of the song and the calculated structure of the verses, designed to resist alteration as the song spreads from one singer to another along the trade routes.\nIt is through this song that the crew of the Europa, via their trade connections, learn where the USS Benjamin Franklin went.\nOnce the two crews are united, apart from the obvious considerations, they must decide who destroyed the Earth.\nThe men still believe it was the Kandemirians, with the trader story being disinformation.\nWhen they decode the symbols the women found, they realize the truth.\nIt is a base 12 to 6 conversion table to help technicians reprogram the weapons.\nThe missiles are Kandemirian, but the script is Monwaingi.\nOne of the many different Monwaingi societies, possibly the ruthless biotech Laothaung culture, wanted the Earth and saw fit to cleanse it before colonizing with their own biota.\nRamri leaves for his home planet, determined to purge the culture that committed the crime, but aware that his own world might well be destroyed in the process.\nCarl Donnan and Sigrid Holmen can only look at each other and say "What have we done.\n".
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: \n".\nThe story is set in the early 21st century.\nEven as the Cold War dragged on Earth has been suddenly contacted by the Monwaingi space-faring culture.\nThe technology of interstellar travel is spreading across the galaxy, disrupting one culture after another.\nMonwaing itself was contacted only a few centuries previously.\nAnother culture, the Vorlak, underwent a transition from a stable planetary society to a warlord culture similar to the Japanese Shogunate.\nThe nomadic Kandemirian culture became a hegemonistic one similar to the Mongol Empire.\nEarth found itself on the fringes of a conflict between Kandemir and a coalition led by Vorlak, with Monwaing on the sidelines, actively supporting the anti-Kandemir forces.\nThere is a lingua franca called Uru, which bonds the diverse cultures together.\nThe original speakers of the language may have also initiated the spread of interstellar technology, but the language seems to have outlived, or at least outstripped its originators.\nIn the 20 years since contact, several expeditions have set out, some in borrowed ships, some in ships built on Earth.\nThe ship USS Benjamin Franklin, with an all-male crew, set out to visit the core of the Milky Way — actually an unusual quest by the stodgy standards of the typical galactic culture.\nAnother ship has gone as far as the Magellanic Clouds.\nThe pan-European expedition in the ship Europa, crewed entirely by women, has roamed far outside the local group of cultures.\nThe star-drive technology allows journeys of tens of thousands of parsecs in mere months.\nIn spite of this, most cultures are "stay-at-homes" compared to humans, interacting only with the local group of cultures, known as a "cluster".\nNow the Franklin and the Europa return to find that Earth has suffered the ultimate disaster.\nThe USS Benjamin Franklin, a starship crewed entirely by men returns to Earth, to find the planet consumed by eruptions from within the crust.\nAll life is gone, along with the few outposts of humanity on the Moon and artificial satellites.\nMissiles lurk throughout the Solar System, ready to destroy returning ships.\nUnable to leave a message drone because of the missiles, the Franklin flees to Tau Ceti.\nDiscipline breaks down, the captain is killed, and a nucleus of a new crew forms behind a man named Carl Donnan.\nDonnan is an engineer and adventurer who gave up wandering the Earth for a chance to see the galaxy, courtesy of a Senator who owed him a favor.\nNow he is leading almost 300 men on a quest for other humans, and for Earth\'s murderers.\nChief suspects are the Kandemirians, especially since the missiles swarming through the Solar System are Kandemirian.\nEarth is new to interstellar trade, and a handful of ships have gone out into the wider galactic society.\nThe men realize they have little hope of finding other humans, let alone women.\nThey do have a guide with them, an alien called Ramri from the polycultural society originating on the planet Monwaing.\nRamri is a biped descended from feathered, bird-like creatures.\nSome time afterwards, the ship Europa with a crew of 100 women returns, to find Earth destroyed and missiles roaming the Solar System.\nThey are able to disable one missile.\nA small team boards the missile, including Navigation Officer Sigrid Holmen and her friend Gunnery Officer Alexandra Vukovic.\nThe missile appears to have been manufactured by Kandemirians, although there are symbols in an unknown script scrawled on a bulkhead within it.\nOther missiles approach, and the Europa must leave without addressing the central mystery.\nThe officers confer about where to go next.\nTravelling to Vorlak, Donnan sells the crew\'s services to the warlord, or Draga, Hlott Luurs.\nHis proposition is that the humans will develop new technology allowing a ship to detect the drives of other ships far beyond the usual range.\nDonnan\'s friend Arnold Goldspring is a mathematician who has a host of new ideas for the technology.\nThe detector is just the first one.\nTo prove its worth, Donnan bargains for a Vorlak ship which they will use on a stealth raid on a Kandemirian outpost.\nThe raid is a disaster, and they are captured by Kandemirians.\nInterrogated by the head of the Kandemirian forces, Tarkamat, Donnan is told that if he refuses to re-create the technology for Kandemir, his crew will die horribly, one by one.\nHe has no choice but to comply.\nThe crew of the Europa travel far beyond the boundaries of the local cluster to one with a vibrant capitalist economy.\nAt Sigrid Holmen\'s suggestion, they set themselves up as "Terran Traders Inc".\nand proceed to amass wealth, hoping to be able to buy or charter ships to search for survivors of Earth.\nSigrid is kidnapped by representatives of a rival trader culture, the Forsi, who resemble heavyset gnomes.\nThe Forsi want to take her away to study, determined to discover why "Terran Traders Inc".\nis able to be so successful.\nShe is in the process of attempting escape from them when Alexandra Vukovic, a former urban guerrilla, tracks her down and uses her skills to eliminate Sigrid\'s captors.\nonnan\'s crew, laboring on one of the Kandemirians\' subject planets, are being carefully monitored to make sure they only work on the drive detection device.\nHowever, the monitoring of the material making up the chassis of the device is less stringent, and they are able to create a dummy copy of a common soldier\'s rifle from seemingly unrelated parts.\nWith this they bluff their way out of confinement, capture real weapons, and eventually steal a starship.\nThe price of this escape is the loss of a suicide squad who hold off the local troops long enough for Donnan, Goldspring, Ramri and the rest to take off.\nRamri takes them to his homeworld, Katkinu.\nLike many Monwaing worlds, this has different and apparently incompatible cultures living side by side.\nThe official Representative of the homeworld on Katkinu is from the Laothaung culture.\nUnlike Ramri\'s culture, this one uses biotechnology efficiently and ruthlessly.\nSpecialized lifeforms, designed to have just enough intelligence to do work, and subservient to the rulers, carry out all labor.\nThere are even altered types of Monwaingi being used as slaves.\nIn the Representative\'s office they are shown a recording of an interrogation of an agent of the merchant culture of Xo.\nIt indicates that Earth was destroyed by bombs sold to two of the minor national powers, and set up as a suicide weapon, to be detonated if either power was attacked with nuclear weapons.\nThe men are shocked, but are still determined to fight on against the Kandemirians.\nReturning to Vorlak, Donnan bluffs his way past Hlott Luurs, who is still angry over the loss of a ship and his kinsman aboard it.\nGoldspring has designed more weapons using the stardrive technology.\nThe basis of the drive is that space is a standing wave pattern.\nWhere interference fringes occur, there is in effect no space and no distance.\nA ship may jump from fringe to fringe and travel from star to star in a short time.\nThe new devices manufacture artificial fringes.\nWith this they are able to distort space-time inside enemy ships, disabling missiles, inducing small thermonuclear explosions, and producing coherent sound waves.\nThis last weapon lets them administer the coup de grâce to the Kandemirian fleet, broadcasting a message which demoralizes the crews, at the same time encouraging the subject races in the Empire to revolt.\nAfter the victory, the news, in the form of a carefully crafted minstrel song, spreads around the galaxy.\nThe song, in Uru, has the title "The Battle of Brandobar", and describes the final battle in a series of quatrains.\nA chapter of the novel is dedicated to a scholarly analysis of the song, teasing out both the story of the song and the calculated structure of the verses, designed to resist alteration as the song spreads from one singer to another along the trade routes.\nIt is through this song that the crew of the Europa, via their trade connections, learn where the USS Benjamin Franklin went.\nOnce the two crews are united, apart from the obvious considerations, they must decide who destroyed the Earth.\nThe men still believe it was the Kandemirians, with the trader story being disinformation.\nWhen they decode the symbols the women found, they realize the truth.\nIt is a base 12 to 6 conversion table to help technicians reprogram the weapons.\nThe missiles are Kandemirian, but the script is Monwaingi.\nOne of the many different Monwaingi societies, possibly the ruthless biotech Laothaung culture, wanted the Earth and saw fit to cleanse it before colonizing with their own biota.\nRamri leaves for his home planet, determined to purge the culture that committed the crime, but aware that his own world might well be destroyed in the process.\nCarl Donnan and Sigrid Holmen can only look at each other and say "What have we done.After Doomsday: The novel explores events after the destruction of Earth, from the point of view of two returning starship crews, one entirely made up of men, the other consisting entirely of women.