Dannel Playdon

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## Family Members

* **1st Wife:** Cadee**†**
* **Betrothed:** Jerez

**Unnamed parents**

**Cousin:** Oakes

* Year End 2788
* Full Circle
* The Real Jerez Rivera
* Deltan Escape

## Biography

**Dannel Playdon** is a research archaeologist and the lecturer of Asgard 6, the Foundation course in which Jarra is enrolled.

### Personality and Characteristics

Playdon is very conservative and responsible. He takes his duties as Lecturer seriously and enforces the Asgard Morality standards in his classes. Despite his strictness, he is always willing to make arrangements for students who need help.

Playdon is Stasis Qualified (known as Stasis Q), which enables him to open up the stasis boxes that his dig teams find during their excavation work.

### Early Years

Per Janet Dannel's parents were from Osiris, but when he was a child, they moved planets, within Delta Sector, often for their work. His actual birth planet is unknown, nor does he consider any planet in particular as home, except perhaps Earth as he has lived there the longest. His parents are living on Osiris.

Dannel was born in Delta Sector. At the beginning of series Jarra guesses his age to be around 30, later in the series he mentions that he will start his rejuvenation treatments in the next year, which seems to start around the age of 30.

In 2777, When attending his own pre-history classes, he was on the same foundation course with Rono Kipkibor and Stephan of the Cassandra 2 research team. Rono, Stephan, Dannel, and another classmate started a historic rock-and-roll band. Dannel plays the drums.

Dannel was married to Cadee. In c.2785 Cadee was killed during an earthquake at the California Rift Dig Site when a localized tremor caused one of the legs of the island they were working on to collapse.

## Summary

### Year End 2788

*Year End 2788* is now part of the Earth Prime collection and no longer appears on the author's website.

It is the end of the year 2788 and Playdon's foundation class has finished. This is the time of year that causes Playdon the most problems with depression as a result of his wife, Cadee's death, so he spends it with friends. This year he joins the Cassandra 2 research team at the "Field of the Cloth of Gold" historic site.

He learns that a Deltan father is blackmailing and threatening other Asgard lecturers to prevent Fian his son from studying history. Since Playdon is believed to have a clear record, he is asked to take the student. He agrees, but receives a threatening call from Fian's father. Fian's father has found an irregularity in Playdon's records where Playdon had two conflicting work postings at the same time. Further in the story, it is implied that this blackmail will not work since Playdon was doing top secret Stasis Q work for the Military at the time.

### Earth Girl

The year begins with new batch of students for Lecturer Playdon's pre-history foundation class, designated Asgard 6. Playdon knows that there are at least four problem students (including the main character Jarra) and this will be a difficult year.

Playdon suspects that Jarra does not want to be a student and has some disruptive motive for being on the course. At first he tries to make Jarra falter in her Military kid cover story, but Jarra successfully navigates all of his challenges. As a result, Playdon starts to believe that Jarra really is from the Military. Playdon's attitude also begins to change when he realizes that Jarra has the same passion he has for pre-history. When Jarra helps rescue his friends on the Cassandra 2 research team, he recognizes her as a genuine student and stops testing her. However, throughout most of the book, Playdon is never quite sure if Jarra really is Handicapped or from the Military.

### Earth Star

When Jarra and Fian are drafted into the Military under the Alien Contact program, Lecturer Playdon loses some of the control over them that he would normally have had. Jarra and Fian are able to tell Playdon some details about the Alien Contact program because Playdon has taken the Stasis Q Security Oath.

When the Military decides to evacuate Earth's population to the Ark caverns, Playdon decides to join the evacuation rather than portalling off-world like most of his students. Playdon is aware of the real reason for the evacuation but cannot tell his students who decided to evacuate to Ark.

He assists Jarra as a deputy site leader during the alien artifact excavation. He along with Asgard 6 Team 1 participate in the final excavation to the alien tunnel.

### Earth Flight

During the skunk juice attack, Playdon gets Jarra to emergency medical treatment. He then arranges for Asgard 6 to transfer to the California Dig Site even though foundation classes do not usually work there. This is painful for him since his wife Cadee died on the land rafts four years ago. He decides that it is time to face his past with his Cassandra 2 friends' support.

Playdon is present at Jarra and Fian's betrothal ceremony.

After Fortuna's planetary defenses are shut down, Playdon announces that he will lead a Fortuna excavation team with some of his former students. At the end of the book, he receives a medal for his work in the alien artifact excavation.

### Earth Prime

#### The End, and the New Beginning

*The End, and the New Beginning* is part of the Earth Prime collection and is told from Jarra Tell Morrath's POV.

Lector Playdon attempts to shift Jarra from thinking as a student to a member of a research team. He also arranges for Asgard 6 to get basic skyscraper training from Cassandra 2.

He is present at Jarra's Next of Kin memorial ceremony and visits his wife's grave beforehand.

#### Twenty Seconds in Ark

*Twenty Seconds in Ark* is part of the Earth Prime collection and is told from Dalmora's POV.

The Military calls Playdon's team and Cassandra 2 in early for possible excavation work on Fortuna. Dalmora privately apologizes to Playdon for her disrespectful behavior in Ark. Playdon is willing to put this incident behind them and remarks that Dalmora has grown as a person.

#### Full Circle

*Full Circle* is part of the Earth Prime collection and is told from Dannel Playdon's POV.

This story occurs two days after "The End, and the New Beginning". Playdon has been up all night making arrangements for those in Asgard 6 who will not be joining the Earth Prime team. After he presents the Earth Prime team members with their foundation course certificates, he decides to visit Jerez from the Cassandra 2 team and try to ask her to start a relationship.

More of his past is revealed as he talks with Jerez. Playdon acknowledges his mistakes in his past marriage and lets Jerez know his boundaries and on what he is willing to compromise. Jerez agrees to start a relationship and they decide to register a Twoing contract in Epsilon Sector.

#### The Real Jerez Rivera

*The Real Jerez Rivera* is part of the Earth Prime collection and is told from Jerez Rivera's POV.

To prevent the newzies from reporting their relationship, Dannel and Jerez portal to the planet Galahad in Epsilon Sector to register their contract. Dannel learns more about Jerez's past and present on the journey there. They decide to have a Betan betrothal to reduce the pressure of renewing contracts and that Dannel really liked the "open ended" symbolism.

## Trivia

* His dig site impact suit is a turquoise.
* He plays the drums in "Rono and the Replays", historical Rock band.
* He is a fan of the vid series *Stalea of the Jungle*, which he thinks is a secret, but everyone on Cassandra 2 and most on Asgard 6 already knew, but they don't know why, which is because of her lack of clothing.
* During his and Cadee's wedding ceremony, Dannel excavated a stasis box that contained six fish. Rono insisted on cooking the fish but no one ate any of them since they were probably hundreds of years old.

## See also

* Asgard 6
* Alien Contact Program

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 403). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 34). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Girl (Earth Girl series Book 1) . Pyr. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ *Full Circle* Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 299). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
5. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Flight (Earth Girl) (p. 58). Prometheus Books. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* *Earth Girl (Earth Girl series Book 1)* (2015)
* *Earth Star (Earth Girl series Book 2)* (2014)
* *Earth Flight (Earth Girl)* (2015)
* *Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1)* (2020)