30,000 B.C. Chronicles: Gibraltar

This third installment of the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles is a compilation of journal entries and voice transmissions created by four survivors of a scientific expedition sent back 32,371 years in time. Gibraltar picks up the narratives roughly 18 months after The Team€s stealth trimaran splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean during a moist pause in a glacial age.

After making landfall along the coast of what is now France, the highly trained crew of 97 was decimated to six within two weeks and whittled to four within a year. Cast headlong into a prehistoric world without support or modern tools and weapons, the survivors quickly ingratiated themselves within the local population of Early Modern Humans, Cro-Magnon.

In this installment, our four modern explorers have embarked for the ice fields of the far north. Their native mentor, the storyteller Gray Beard, has offered proof of his interaction with previous time explorers. His walrus tusk carving depicts the Einstein IV, a new-generation timeship. The storyteller claims the rescuers arrived at least 35 years early and eventually became shipwrecked on a riverbank along a northern coast.

To keep peace within their adopted Green Turtle clan, the four surviving Team members have split forces to travel by two very disparate routes. American Captain Juniper Jones and Italian Corporal Salvatore Bolzano journey overland, traveling north with the clan on a route that will take them through what is now France. Chief Botanist Maria Duarte and recreation specialist Paul Kaikane have committed themselves to an ambitious voyage around the Iberian Peninsula. The American couple intends to sail 3,500 miles, from Provence, through the Straights of Gibraltar to a rendezvous point on the Atlantic coast of Brittany.