MANY YEARS LATER, USING THE POWER AND THE LARGELY REASSEMBLED GALACTIC UNION SPACE FORCES.  THE EMPIRE OF DEATH WAS PUSHED BACK INTO IT'S BASE SYSTEMS.  THE OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE FINAL BATTLE ARE CLASSIFIED, HOWEVER THOMAS DIED IN BATTLE.  BEFORE THE BATTLE HE PASSED THE RED DRAGONRANGER POWERS ON TO THE CREATION KATHERINE.

     THOMAS WAS RESURRECTED WHEN HIS MAGIC INFUSED SOUL RETURNED TO AN ALTERNATE EARTH.  HIS FRIENDS FOLLOWED AND BROUGHT BACK HIS SOUL MINUS THE MAGIC.  USING POWER FOUND IN THE MAGIC TEMPLES A VESSEL WAS CREATED AND WITH TIME A NEW BODY WAS CREATED.  WHILE MAGIC POWER KEPT THE BODY ALIVE AS IF HE WAS STILL THE RED DRAGONRANGER, HE COULD NO LONGER USE MAGIC. HE LATER TOOK UP POSITION IN THE GALACTIC UNION MILITARY.

     AFTER NEARLY 60 YEARS IN THE MILITARY, THOMAS RETIRED AND SPENT THE NEXT CENTURY TRAVELING AND ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIA.  DURING THAT TIME HE EARNED SEVERAL DEGREES INCLUDING HISTORY, ARCHEOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MUSIC.  SEVERAL DECADES LATER, WANTING TO SEE EARTH HE LEFT ON A SEVENTY YEAR JOURNEY BACK HOME.

     ON HIS WAY HOME, THOMAS HAD SEVERAL CLOSE CALLS WITH THE BORG.  UPON RETURNING TO EARTH, THOMAS TOOK UP RESIDENCE IN HIS HOMETOWN.  AS COMMUNICATION WITH THE GALACTIC UNION TOOK MANY YEARS, THOMAS WAS MADE AN AMBASSADOR.   DURING A STANDARD TOUR OF FEDERATION COLONIES THE BORG ATTACKED THE VEGA COLONY.   WITH HELPING THE EVACUATION AND CONTERATTACK, THOMAS WAS GIVEN A BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION.

     THOMAS ENJOYS HISTORY, 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY CULTURE, ANTIQUE COMPUTERS, AND VULCAN HISTORICAL FICTION.