Earth: Final Conflict - the First Series Storylines

The Companions said they had only peaceful intentions. As world
leaders welcomed these aliens, they helped us solve some of our
most pressing problems. They asked nothing in return but our
friendship. (Truth) Companion popularity and devotion soared.

They established diplomatic relations with all the nations of the
world. Companions were sent to every major nation to act as
ambassadors overseeing human and Taelon relations. The Companion
assigned as ambassador to North America was Da'an. From a Taelon
building rivalling other monuments in Washington, D.C., Da'an
worked closely with humans.

William Boone became Protector to Da'an and Director of
Interspecies Relations. At the same time he was recruited by an
underground Resistance group who felt the Companions had deceived
humanity and were on Earth for some dangerous, unknown purpose.
Boone's search for the truth uncovered that Da'an's FBI attach‚,
Ronald Sandoval (implanted with a fully operation CVI) was
responsible for the death of his wife. Boone began working for the
Taelons while trying to uncover the truth for the Resistance.

This commitment was complicated by one of the Taelon technological
gifts. A Cyber-Viral Implant (CVI), implanted in all of the
Taelons' close associates, increased their mental capacity in
amazing ways, but also ensured that they worked only for the good
of the Companions.

Boone's pilot for the Taelon interdimensional shuttles, ex-marine
Lili Marquette, was also his main contact with the Resistance
movement. Through her, Resistance sympathizer Dr. Belman, who
pioneered the integration of Taelon technology in the medical
sciences, gave Boone the benefits of the CVI without reordering
his priorities.

As his distrust of the Taelon motives grew, Boone discovered that
the general population had become so enamoured with the aliens
that a church had been formed, The Church of the Companions,
hailing them as messengers from heaven. (Miracle) The Companions
encouraged this devotion and used it as an opportunity to enhance
their public image as well as conduct further experiments on
humans.  Boone also found that the Taelons had been using human
prisons as experimental laboratories. (Avatar) As he helped to
recapture an escaped test subject, Boone learned of a Taelon myth
that foretells ominous things for their species.

Boone came to further distrust Companion motives as he discovered
that they put a man's life in danger simply to conduct a
heart-breaking test of Boone's CVI-enhanced loyalty. He also
learned that the CVI had given him false memories that caused him
to doubt even himself. (Old Flame)

On what seemed to be a routine mission studying an outbreak of
mental illness in a small Amish town, Boone and Lili discovered an
alien probe that was studying life on earth in general as well as
the different ways of killing humans. (Float Like A Butterfly)

During the broadcast of the World Bowl, the leader of the
Resistance group, Jonathan Doors came out of hiding with hard
evidence of experiments by Taelons on humans, and urged humanity
to follow him in fighting the Taelon "occupation" of Earth.
(Resurrection) The Taelons put their own spin on events, but some
public suspicions were aroused by Doors' revelations.

The Resistance's fears were heightened when the Taelons used their
influence to cancel an international human mission to Mars.
(Horizon Zero) Boone was called in to hunt down one of the
disappointed astronauts, Paul Chandler, who stole a Taelon shuttle
and completed the mission anyway. On his way out of Earth orbit,
Chandler discovered that the Taelons are building a colony on the
back-side of the moon, which they had kept secret from humanity.

Another gift that the Taelons' assistants use is a bio-engineered
weapon called a "skrill." As Boone tried to recapture an escaped
skrill, he discovered that skrills are in fact the remnants of a
sentient alien species that had fought against the Companions.
(Scorpion's Dream)


Da'an had to contemplate escape by means of a Taelon suicide
ritual when a group of marines kidnapped him. (Live Free or Die)
They held him ransom for their comrades who disappeared in Taelon
experimentation. Boone engineered a rescue, but one of the Marines
was fatally wounded as they escaped with the Resistance.

The Resistance continued to study the alien probe found in the
Amish village, but it slipped out of their control and killed
several people, nearly destroying the Resistance headquarters.
(Scarecrow Returns) Its activity alerted the Taelons and Da'an
disabled it, but thanks to Boone, did not discover the Resistance
headquarters.

Although Boone and Sandoval were usually at odds, when Sandoval's
CVI broke down his true loyalties returned.  (Sandoval's Run) He
threatened Da'an and escaped from the hospital to rescue his wife
from the mental institution where he had placed her. Boone had to
recapture Sandoval and bring him back to work for the Companions,
or risk his own true feelings being discovered.

Boone and Sandoval got an unusual assignment in Ireland (Secret of
Strandhill) where they searched for information left by a Taelon,
named Ma'el, who came to Earth thousands of years ago to study
humanity. Lt. Beckett, the assistant to the UK Companion, who also
had a CVI and skrill, assisted them. When they found the ancient
messages, Ma'el urged the modern aliens to leave Earth and never
return. The Taelons decided to ignore these warnings. The
Resistance was outraged to learn that the Taelons actually had
contact with us for centuries.

Meanwhile, Boone discovered that the Taelons were still
experimenting on the marine who was injured in Da'an's kidnapping
rescue. He was being used to "de-evolve" a Taelon named Rho-ha as
the Taelons experimented with human emotions of rage and violence.
The death of a human at Rho-ha's hands eventually put him and the
experiments into the spotlight.  (Pandora's Box)

An "invader" into their common consciousness (the Commonality)
further upset the Taelons. They determined that the invader was a
talented psychic as well as threat to the commonality and ordered
her death. (If You Could Read My Mind) Boone raced to save her,
but was too late. As she died, he discovered, via mind-transfer
technology, that the Taelons altered humanity's evolution
thousands of years ago by giving them psychic abilities.

The Resistance stepped up their attacks against the Companions by
having their computer genius, Augur, plant a computer virus into
the alien systems. (Wrath of Achilles) But they find that Augur
didn't fully predict the ramifications of the virus. The
Resistance watches helplessly as human systems, tied into Taelon
technology all over the world, begin to fail. Lili and Da'an
formed a close friendship as they struggled to survive a shuttle
crash caused by the virus. Ultimately the Taelon Mothership
arrived to undo the damage that the virus had done. Humanity
hailed the Companions as their saviours, much to the chagrin of
the Resistance.

As Lili worked to save the Resistance from a dangerous new Taelon
weapon, she had to face the death of her estranged father. (The
Devil You Know) But even more disturbing, she discovered that the
Taelons have the technology to transplant someone's consciousness
into another human's body - and that her father was one of the
first people to undergo the experiment.  Finally the American
justice system brought Rho-ha to trial for the murder of the human
he killed while experimenting with human rage. (Law & Order) The
media circus that resulted provided the Resistance with a
world-wide audience for their warning message about Taelon
experimentation. Based on discourse given by Boone, the human court
decided that they didn't have the right to sentence Rho-ha to death
for his crimes, but the Taelon synod expected him to sacrifice
himself, and Rho-ha willed himself to death.

As more Taelon technology became widely used on Earth, Boone
discovered that the Companions were using a rapid transit system
to gather human test subjects -- focusing especially on humanity's
most powerful, influential, and intelligent people. (Through the
Looking Glass)

When an alien virus threatened both humans and Taelons, Boone and
Dr. Belman raced to discover a treatment. (Infection) With the
help of his CVI and unexpected help from Da'an, Boone risked his
life to create an antidote that saves both humanity and the
Taelons.  Later when the Resistance discovered where the Taelons
had taken the alien probe that was in their headquarters, they
mounted a mission to destroy it and the vital resistance
intelligence that it had recorded while in resistance possession.
(Destruction)

At the close of the season, a new alien with the ability to possess
the human body, Ha'Gel, was discovered on Earth, putting the
Taelons at risk. (The Joining) Boone and Sandoval hunted down
Ha'Gel, but not before he (in Sandoval's Body) mated with Lt.
Beckett. In a final confrontation, Boone tried to make an alliance
with Ha'gel against their mutual enemies, the Taelons. But as the
police burst in, Ha'Gel was purged from Sandoval's body by a skrill
blast, and Boone was seriously injured. Boone was taken back to
Taelon facilities for treatment, and Da'an's rival, Zo'or, took
that opportunity to kill(?) Boone, and blame it on his injuries.

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