Jethro 3: No Place Like Home (85 page)
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Authors: Chris Hechtl
Thalia:
Muse of comedy: recovered. Rebuilt.
Urania:
Astronomy: science. Found and recovered. Brought online. Assistant to doctor Myers in science and teaching.
Mnemosyne:
Memory computer management Smart AI. Took a lot of her higher functions down to keep system running. Did permanent damage to herself. She has to be reintegrated as each fragment is recovered. She is an experimental civilian AI.
Tribal leaders:
Romeo:
Terran male. Former gang leader. Killed by the Horathians. He had a love interest in Juliet.
Y'ru:
Veraxin, old but wise.
Juliet:
Terran female. Genie descendant. Former gang leader. Killed by the Horathians.
Sheriff Derrango:
Curly handle bar mustache, old, silver hair, beady eyes. Laid back attitude. Has a wife, kids, and grand kids.
Deputy Barney Fife:
Nervous gangly 1st deputy. Terrible shot, very by the book person. The Sheriff frequently uses him as a foil to get others to accept his directives.
General Staff on the station:
Savo and Petunia:
Primate Neo chimp security officer and Neo gorilla space worker. Transferred from Kiev 221
Howi and Shari:
Tribal members. Neo chimps. Both have become welders on the station.
Sparks and Regina:
40s something couple transferred from Kiev 221. Sparks is an electrician, Regina is a SBA training to be a nurse. Regina was killed by the Horathians.
Mr. Freeze and Ezri:
Freeze is a lifetime friend of Sparks. Partner, HAC tech. Ezri is his wife, she is a RN and surgical nurse. 1 adult child left on Kiev 221.
Ralphie and Alice:
50s couple bartenders from Kiev 221. Adult son left in charge of bar on Kiev 221. Own Ralphie's bar and grill and Alice's nail salon.
Gwen, Riff, Torg:
Tauren engineers who transferred to the station from Kiev 221. Torg was killed by the Horathrians.
Doctor Kraft:
Sleeper from Kiev, specializing in implant surgeries. Dr. Kraft is old, a former teacher of implant tech.
Antiguans:
Governor elect mayor Jeff Randall and his wife
: Politically charismatic couple set on changing their world. Two daughters, Ramona/Kylie, age six and four. The Governor like his wife and many other Antiguans lost relatives during the Horathian attack. He has an about face with his former beliefs and becomes a military supporter. He has grown into his role as leader.
Commander Nat'aroka:
Ssilli hypernavigator. Female, old. She had been drafted into military service during the Xeno war. She was placed in stasis when her ship was destroyed. The Horathians recovered her and used her as a slave for some time on the Destroyer Bounty. She was freed with the other slaves by Admiral Irons. She was offered a reserve or honorable discharge, she chose to remain in the military. She received a promotion to Commander. She was transported in Firefly back to Pyrax after the battle of B101a1. Mate of Ensign Tra'l. Transferred with Doctor Martel and the Ensign to Antigua.
Ensign Tra'l:
Ssilli male. Recovered in the booby trapped liner in Pyrax. Very young hypernavigator. He had been a midshipman prior to stasis. He had been transferred to the salt water habitat built into the interior of San Diego. Mate to Commander Nat'aroka. Transferred to Antigua.
IO 11:
Captain:
Crotchety old woman. Hard captain, but beloved by her crew. In her eighth decade.
Vanessa:
Purser of the ship, hard penny pinching witch of a woman.
Emily:
Chief of security and XO of the ship. Blue hair, hard cold temperament. Granddaughter of the captain.
Lessa:
chief navigator.
Shandra:
Chief helmsman. Partner of Jennie.
Jennie:
Assistant chief. Promoted to Chief engineer.
Io:
AI of the ship. First AI created by Sprite.
Doctor:
Female doctor. Mother of Mindy, spent years in stasis after injury.
Mindy:
Teenage goth daughter of the doctor.
Doctor:
Male doctor, shanghaied from Seti Alpha 4. He was returned and resettled there with wife and child.
Deidra:
Chief pilot.
Hibiki:
Junior pilot.
Taki:
chief load master.
Leri:
chief of fuel.
Molly:
Clydesdale class freighter
Captain Faith Meikle:
Scottish, former chief engineer of Io 11. She had been injured just prior to the Admiral's arrival. In Gaston orbit she had been restored to full health after a long time in stasis. She served as chief engineer (Scottish accent and all) for several years before taking the Captain's post on the newly built Molly. The ship had a skeleton crew.
12 survivors from Kiev 221.
My blog:
http://cyberforge3d.blogspot.com/
Jory's Federation Military Network Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/582559128466667/
Wiki:
http://federation-datanet.wikia.com/wiki/Federation_AI_Historical_Datanet_Wiki
Goodlife Guide:
Bast:
http://io9.com/this-could-be-the-first-animal-to-live-entirely-inside-1561810195
Medical:
http://www.dvice.com/2014-1-27/scientists-tag-brain-molecules-watch-them-become-memories
http://io9.com/breakthrough-could-lead-to-functional-artificial-skin-1512390126
http://io9.com/how-medical-nanotech-will-change-humanity-forever-1476398307
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus
Misc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_ship
http://www.dvice.com/2014-1-31/build-your-own-street-legal-car-60-minutes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barry_(naval_officer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumeyaay_people
http://www.dvice.com/2014-1-31/beginning-practical-laser-warfare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park
http://www.dvice.com/2014-2-24/us-armys-ar-headset-give-soldiers-iron-man-vision
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awards_and_decorations_of_the_United_States_military
Books:
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George Church and Ed Regis
Effects of Directed Energy Weapons by Philip E. Nielsen
A Civilian's guide to the U.S. Military by Barbara Schanding, PH.D.
NCO Guide 9th Edition by CSM Robert S. Rush
The Basic Training Guidebook by Sgt. Michael Volkin
Light Infantry Tactics For Small Teams by Christopher E. Larsen
Naval Ceremonies, Customs, And Traditions, sixth edition by Connell & Mack
The following is a snippet from the short story Meat Grinder in Multiverse 1:
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Like a great explosion the fleet exited hyperspace and took up formation. Tendrils of plasma tumbled off into the dark reaches of space. Hyper exits were a truly spectacular sight to see, with an explosion of light and plasma, but that explosion also emitted enough gravitons, neutrinos, and tachyons to form one hell of a beacon the Admiral mused grimly as he sat in his chair.
He had changed into his battle suit a half hour before exit, so wouldn’t have to leave the bridge to suit up. The strident alarms of Condition One echoed through the compartments. Red strobbing lights pulsed the battle stations condition at the top and bottom of each bulkhead.
He turned to the view screen and used his implants to call up a status report. A hologram erupted before him, swinging out as it showed his fleet and all other ships as the sensors picked them up. The enemy was deeply engaged with Task Force Six point One, with savage fighter battles all over the area clouding it and making detailed scans almost impossible.
Not bothering to try to track the fighters, he turned to his aide. “Mark, get me a status report from Admiral Rogers and General Benn. Also get our Intel people to download the specs from Roger’s Intel group, I want more details on the enemy for our people as they go in.” Lieutenant Mark Roberts nodded to this as he jotted it down on tablet.
“Sir Do you want an enemy status report as well?”
Annoyance flickered across the admiral’s face, but he quickly suppressed the biting remark with a tight “Give.”
Swallowing, the Lieutenant cleared his throat and began. “So far our tracking and the upload from Task Force Six point One confirms a total of one hundred enemy fighters, with six fleet carriers, two dreadnaughts, sixteen cruisers, twenty three frigates, and what appears to be two hundred disk shaped drones. So far we have discovered that the enemy ships are difficult to lock up at any distance beyond twenty kilometers, so fighters are having to go in with guns.”
The admiral grimly tapped his implants and called up the stats. “Sir it is turning into a real fur ball out there, without the long range edge, our fighters are getting chewed up. The enemy has better ECM and shields then we do, however our fighters are faster with longer legs and thicker armor,” the Lieutenant reported.
Nodding, the admiral called up the fighter files and compared them. Holos of the enemy fighters appeared. He silently ordered his implants to send the file the Lieutenant just read off to him as well as the technical stats of the enemy to the squadron Commanders. He made certain that the CAG and each of his pilots got an update as well. Roger's people had gone in cold, but his people would have the benefit of their hard won experience.
