
Unlike the Governors Dahlgren and Toulouse, who were open to Jack’s philosophical viewpoints, Governor Wilhelmina Scharnhorst believed in taking back the domain of the Earth in the name of progress, at the expense of all else. Jack could count on additional assistance from a friend named Kirgo, and he was at least on good terms with two of the three Governors who set policy for the nearby “City in the Sea” (a.k.a. He had the help of several allies, including another Mechanic named Mustapha, a beautiful scientist acting as ambassador for the people of far-off Wasoon, and a juvenile dinosaur named Hermes that Jack had raised from the time its mother was killed. As a personal preference, he chose to do this from the seats of a collection of modified Cadillacs. Jack Tenrec, a member of the old blood “Mechanics,” fought to preserve the philosophy of his people called “The Machinery of Life.” Acting as an ecological freedom fighter, he strove to maintain the balance between mankind and nature so that the two could live in harmony. Only the remnants of civilization survived in isolated tribes, while dinosaurs repopulated the Earth. By the 26th Century, mankind’s destiny hadn’t gone exactly as planned.
