US Air Force Commander Matthew ‘Matt’ Drax leads a group of three jets on a reporting mission about the result of the nuclear strike.
Suddenly he finds himself crash-landed in an ice landscape, attacked by human-sized two-legged rats (Taratzen) and rescued by a Stone Age tribe.
Christopher-Floyd was not just a comet, but also a kind of space-arc, which resulted in increased evolution and the appearance of completely new life forms on Earth.
Remaining spots of civilization (former government shelters or underground hideouts) are tainted and show a perverted version of their today appearance.
At the same time, Quart’ol discovers that the Hydrites of this world are forced to fight ruthless gladiators... Lucy Guth Simon Borner In 2009 the German publisher Bastei Lübbe gave the readers of the dime novel series Maddrax a roleplaying game.
The entity realizes what it has caused to Earths life forms and calls its Daa’muren servants together to leave the world.
Maddrax faces an even graver threat ... Matthew ‘Matt’ Drax is Jet Pilot and Air Force Commander.
His last mission in the world of today is to report the try of the ISS to prevent the catastrophic impact of the Christopher-Floyd comet on Earth by nuclear force.
When two legged human sized intelligent rats called Taratzen attack the group, Maddrax begins to realize, that he is ‘not in Kansas anymore’.
Later Maddrax discovers, the alien invaders flee an enemy from outer space (STREITER-WANDLER) who – if it finds Christopher-Floyd in the Solar System – will destroy planet Earth.
Living in a barbarian world, Maddrax is regularly forced to solve critical situations by using whatever tools are on hand.
As a running gag, Maddrax is shown as exact look-alike of the MacGyver actor on the title pictures of the pulps.
After being imprisoned along with his teacher in the remains of Africa, Daa’tan breaks free and finally forces his father to kill him.
After the impact he thrusts the emergency button of his seat and is thatfor partially responsible for the crash landing of Drax's jet.
The Archivare are watching a multiversum of parallel earths that was created when an unguarded invention of the Hydree, the Flächenräumer, started to shatter the reality in pieces.
For the emigration the Hydree installed a kind of permanent interplanetary transporter beam, causing not only changes in space but also in time.
Because nobody stayed on Mars to use the off – switch, millions of years later this invention caused the aircraft of Commander Drax final mission to jump into future instead of being destroyed by the shockwave of a comet-impact.
The Nosfera order of Millan (a settlement at the ruins of today's Italian Milano) came under the influence of a time traveler who called himself Jacobo.
Jacobo tried to fulfill the changes, the Daa’muren have begun with inbreeding and crossbreeding, hoping he can create a super – race destined to world domination.
This storyline is slightly mocking about the 2012 phenomenon as it gives a real exotic explanation why the mayan calendar ends in 2012 and why it really means apocalypse.
The tribes high priest gets a mysterious arm wrist that cannot be removed and gives him access to a magic portal into another space (see Archivare).
They decide to shatter the parts of the machine over the land and dissolve all connections to what has happened by destroying all their writings (that's because we today think, the Mayan had no script) and to let all calendars end at 2012, as a warning what could come.
With the help of Rosa and her autistic brother Manoel who is the only one who can really see in the space of the Archivare they manage to destroy the machine finally in time before the comet can take aim on Earth.
The Archivare are satisfied that this world (in contrary to the one of Maddrax) is saved, so they can continue to watch and to take samples of human developments.
It begins some time before 2012 when Earth decides to send a crewed mission to Mars including means to start terraforming.
In Germany "Dokk" is working illegally with inhuman experiments on a new version of the hibernation drug causing even worse side effects.
While emperor de Rozier is away his power hungry paladins, ignorant children and starving peasants begin to bring another version of the French revolution to life.
The survivors of the hibernation show (except very low state of decay) all behavior of classical ‘slow zombies’, including the fact that minimal traces of the drug are sufficient to cause the side effects.
Hard times follow as the astronauts try to establish terraforming, decide about their society (dictatorship or democracy) and fight against unknown Martian diseases ...
The landing party is attacked by primitives and has to learn that even advanced technology is useless, because their bodies are not able to withstand the conditions of the blue planet anymore...