The Drowning of Innocence Part 1: A Rocking Cradle

This story would not exist in its current format without the ever beautiful CorbyinOz being an amazing cheerleader, a great friend, and someone who when you say to her "I think the story is getting too complicated", turns around and says "Actually, I don't think it is complicated enough".

Background:

A Rocking Cradle is pre International Rescue and plots an AU version of how the organisation came into existence.

In this AU, the world geo-political scene is much as it is today: countries never united to form a world government nor a global defence force. Powerful individuals, big business and multi-national corporations have more money and power than many governments, but there is little research and development as it is not deemed to be profitable enough by the shareholders of these companies, and a waste of money by many wealthy individuals who enjoy the status quo. As a result, technology has not advanced much past the present day. Where a company does innovate, they are ripe for industrial espionage as competitors look to steal new developments without the research and development costs.

Because of the altered geo-political scene, the timeline for many people in the Tracy's circle has changed resulting in them either not being present in this story or being on a different course and therefore being different people to those we are used to in Thunderbirds canon.

The concept for this story started this story many moons ago (hangs head guiltily…) when Corbyinoz and I sat down in her back garden one sunny autumn afternoon.

Since both 'Home on the Range' and 'Grandma Tourismo', I've had to change a few minor plot points to reflect those episodes. I've decided both Lucy and Jeff grew up at opposite ends of rural Kansas but didn't meet until they could both drive, although Lucy did spend some time in New York as a child.

Ever since TOS my headcanon has always been that Virgil is the middle child, so I'm continuing to stick with that. At the beginning of 'A Rocking Cradle' Scott is aged 12, John 10, Virgil 7, Gordon 5 and Alan is 3 years old.