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The most vexing question of the 31st century regarding the 21st: Who-- or what-- was Jerry Staute? a - j r m o o n e y h a m . c o m - o r i g i n a l

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For all the breathtaking technological wizardry available to those of the 31st century, there will remain one mystery beyond their powers to resolve: who (or what) was Jerry Staute?

Roughly a thousand years after his death, the glittering civilization spawned from humanity will look upon his deeds with awe. And wonder how one man could possibly have achieved everything then attributed to his existence-- and yet remained a virtual unknown during his own time.

Those of us actually living in the 21st century can, of course, learn a bit more about Staute than our future counterparts.

Like the fact that a single man didn't accomplish all the things our future brethren will believe. For over the ages, two different 21st century men-- making use of the same name-- became inextricably linked through a series of extraordinary events and coincidences, to create the legacy which will seem so monumental a millennium later.

And yet, the results of their combined actions changed the fate of humanity so dramatically, that even splitting the credit between them barely diminishes the magnitude of their individual achievements.

Below is an illustrated index to accounts detailing the lives of these two men: accounts which sometime between now and the 31st century will be lost and forgotten, resulting in the bewildered amazement of untold future generations.

The journals of Jerry Staute (a.k.a. 'Chance' Staute)					Reference notes on the life and times of 'Chance' Staute and Staute Prime
Crossroads	Young bespectacled geek Jerry Staute comes of age in a wild east Tennessee rural county where oftentimes anything goes Staute's full official name is Gerald Walter Staute.			Another man will use the name "G.W. Staute" too-- only in his case as a pseudonym for authorship of certain works later in life: works which will gain him enormous fame in centuries to follow. As well as lead to some critically important confusion regarding the pseudonymous author and the supercar builder. This second G.W. Staute's acts during life will set into motion events millennia later which will prove vital to the survival of the human race. And involve the first and true G.W. Staute, largely by accident.	The supercar Staute and the pseudonymous G.W. Staute will eventually be distinguished by historians as Chance Staute and Staute Prime, respectively. The biggest difference between the two during their lifetimes will be that Staute Prime will succeed at making a fortune early on, compared to the never-ending financial struggles of the other.
	A small slice of one young rural geek's life
	Passages to a larger world
	A teenage pressure cooker
The original Shadowfast look	How one struggling teenager met one wrecked Mustang
	Of new best friends and old
	Testing the limits
	Pulling the tiger's tail
	Fools rush in
	Ancient mysteries
	So near, yet so far
	The Talladega incident
	To save my world
The Shadowfast supercar driver logs; (the adventures of a real-life outlaw driver and his self-built supercar in 1970s America) Heavily influenced by local racers, outlaws, friends, and family (as well as poverty), frustrated teen Jerry Staute pushes forward in some of the seemingly few avenues open to him for exploration and adventure: racing and automotive experimentation (among other things).	Despite his poverty, Staute manages to transform his 1969 Mustang into a true supercar-- and himself into an expert driver-- who's surprisingly good at improvising on-the-fly (to the frequent dismay of his opponents).
	Slip, sliding away
	Too close for comfort
	One small taste of Hell	Supercar concept sketches #1 Supercar concept sketches #2 Supercar concept sketches #3 Supercar concept sketches #4 Supercar concept sketches #5 RARE SUPERCAR PHOTOS! The Shadowfast super car project: Interior concept sketches
	A call to arms	GET YOUR OWN SHADOWFAST MOUSEPAD OR T-SHIRT! Or wallpapers for your desktop!
	The Daytona 1200	The Shadowfast super car project The poor man's supercar Shadowfast and 1969 Shelby GT-350 comparison
	Wild horses
	The spring break plot
	Blue light special	Shadow's unique gadgets and tricks The evolution of Shadow's gadgetry
	Fast times at Sigma Chi
	Too close to the bone
	No good deed goes unpunished
	Kissing the wall
	When push came to shove
	Shadowfast versus the tornados
	Heartbreaker
	Breaking up	The Chance of a Realtime (science fiction novel) Jerry Staute is abducted by time travelers and spends months hopping across eternity and witnessing the technological wonders of the far future, before being returned home again with no memory of the events (he will regain the memories 18 years later). Staute is both kidnapped and returned in the year 1972-- being absent for only a few hours, so far as he or any of his fellow inhabitants of 1972 could tell.	Staute's abduction takes place during the span otherwise documented in Breaking up.
	Liars and traitors and bears	The ultimate science fiction novel for geeks	Prologue: Critical mass	Timeline of future history
	Black and blue magic	A science fiction dream-- or nightmare-- which may someday engulf us all	Something different
	Ring of fire		Learning the ropes	Selected perspectives on the future
	Over the edge		Drafted
	Daytona 2.0: Between a Ferrari and a hard place		Navigator
	What goes around...		Contact
	Nowhere to go but up	The real life aspects of the Shadowfast super car	The farthest reaches
			Baptism by fire
The Moonshadow flying wing pilot logs	Staute decides to go airborne to seek his fortune, in an experimental craft he designs himself.		Putting a genie back in his bottle
	Great balls of fire		Inner space wars
The poor man's airship	First flight		Sol mate
	A whole lot of shaking going on		Fractures
	Air command		Not to be
	A ghost of a chance		A fantasy of chaos
	Surgical strike		Descent into chaos
	Playing with fire		Hell and the human spirit
	The Orson Welles gambit		The terror
	Moonshadow versus the Hornet		The taking of Amphitritium
	Lights, guns, action		The siege of the seventh palace
	The maiden of the mountains		The battle of Belphi station
	In over my head	The real life aspects of the Moonshadow airship	Me, myself, and a nano eye
			Bad bad boy
Special solutions for special problems: Chance Staute's entrepreneurial case logs	Shaken but unbowed by the trauma of his most recent experiences, Staute returns to the skies with a vengeance in an all new aircraft.		Bright lights, hard vacuum
	The Dart pilot logs		Return to origin
	Lost and Found (Thanks Rafe!)
	Dream team
The 'Chance' Staute fate-storm logs	Finally, after 18 long years, Staute regains the memories of his time-traveling jaunt-- and sets about collecting the spoils of his strategic victory over his kidnappers.				Staute Prime and the first immortal artificial intelligence
	Treasure hunt
	Power training
	Shadowfast the living
	Missing links
	Billions to one
	The mystery sheriff gambit
	Time enough for love...				2071 milestone: the best of Staute Prime's A.I.s is now the equivalent of a human pre-schooler-- who suddenly faces an adult serial killer.
		The Pearsall saga Thanks to Jerry Staute nearly single-handedly driving the Kerguelen out of Sol system and towards the galactic core, humanity survives several more centuries-- eventually allowing the intrepid space explorers of Al and Liz Pearsall to launch towards the core themselves, as but one team among many seeking to lay claim to the raw resource riches of the galaxy, and thereby acquire their own fortunes. But Staute's earlier vanquishing of the Kerguelen from Sol-- combined with the Pearsalls ultimately becoming the frontrunners in humanity's race to the core-- means the more successful the Pearsalls are, the closer they come to encountering the same threat Staute faced centuries before. Only this time the Kerguelen will be considerably further advanced, technology-wise.	Of course, the Pearsalls will only have to worry about the Kerguelen if they make it past some other challenges first...	2270-2330: the second wave of private deep space explorers leave the solar system
			The Battle for Pearsalls' Grit (part one)
One man's adventures in the great beyond All great runs must come to an end; and Jerry Staute had gotten just about the best run he could have asked for in life-- despite being desperately unhappy and stressed out during most of the span. For in dying he had also finally convinced the Kerguelen to give up Sol system to humanity, and head towards the galactic core. And best of all, Staute had managed this without humanity ever learning of the enormous danger it'd been in-- thereby also preserving the future timeline Staute had seen during his months onboard the time-traveling vessel Pagnew.	But unfortunately for Staute, the eternal rest he so desperately craved was not to be. At least not from simply dying. For it turns out there is an afterlife after all-- at least for some of us. And saving the world qualifies you for even bigger jobs...		The Battle for Pearsalls' Grit (part two)
	My first day in the afterlife		The rehabilitation of Al Pearsall
	The fearless heart		For the love of Liz Pearsall
	The Dreamtime		Crawlspace: gauntlet to the galactic core
	Return to tomorrow
	The heart of the beast
					3000-3450: Some small progress in time warping/travel technology is made