2609

2609 saw Professor Bernice Summerfield continue to have adventures working freelance. A clone of Summerfield was the President of Earth. (AUDIO: Venus Mantrap, PROSE: Predating the Predators)

Dated events
In February, Bernice left Peter Summerfield on Fomalhaut XI while she led an archaeological expedition to the Blood Citadel of Alukah for the Fomalhaut Museum of Forerunner Artefacts. She was accompanied by Mungo Cripps, Crayfish, Shabbir, Parvesh, and Davina. Upon entering the Blood Citadel, the expedition accidentally woke Olena, an ancient Alukahite vampire, and all save Summerfield were killed. Olena hypnotised Bernice and used her to escape Alukah. For the next four months, Olena masqueraded as Bernice's granddaughter "Elanore Summerfield" while slowly draining Bernice's life.

On 18 June, academics began gathering at the First Colonial University of Murigen for a conference on vampirology. Imogen Tantry, Antonio Finlay, and Luke Duke arrived on Murigen after a two week voyage from the St Francis Xavier University on Earth. Olena used Bernice Summerfield to get into the conference.

On 19 June, Emanuel Valeriani claimed to be a ganuine vampire while delivering the inaugural talk of the conference.

On 20 June, Antonio Finlay gave a talk on the spiritual ontology of the undead and Bernice Summerfield gave a talk on her expedition to Alukah. During Bernice's talk, she temporarily broke her hypnotic conditioning and attempted to escape Olena.

On 21 June, Krisztina-Judit Németh gave a talk on the Haemovorax pathogen. (PROSE: Predating the Predators)