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Nu Trilogy 1: The Esss Advance

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Copyright © 2016 Charles E. Waugh

 

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ISBN: 978-1-4834-3831-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015915227

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Contents

Title Page

Acknowledgements

Prelude

Chapter 1 – Quick Turnaround

Chapter 2 – The Captain

Chapter 3 – Lieutenant Blyleven

Chapter 4 – Sparks Fly

Chapter 5 – The Accident

Chapter 6 – First Awakening

Chapter 7 – Second Awakening

Chapter 8 – The Recurring Dream

Chapter 9 – Vice Admiral Bunting

Chapter 10 – The Newsies

Chapter 11 – Career Options

Chapter 12 – The Esss Problem – One Billion Years Ago

Chapter 13 – Emotional Trauma Therapy Begins

Chapter 14 – Fire in the Belly

Chapter 15 – New Legs

Interlude 1 – 4 Billion Years Ago

Chapter 16 – The Recovery Challenge

Chapter 17 – Back Into Shape

Chapter 18 – Job Alternatives

Chapter 19 – Interview with AMC

Chapter 20 – Remembering
Northern Song

Chapter 21 – The Esss Conclave – One Billion Years Ago

Chapter 22 – Transition

Chapter 23 – Cam’s Office

Chapter 24 – Assembly Room

Chapter 25 – Double Hull Design Problems

Chapter 26 –
Delta One
First Trial Run

Interlude 2 - 4 Billion Years Ago

Chapter 27 –
Delta One
Major Glitch

Chapter 28 –
Delta One
Field Exercise

Chapter 29 – The Esss Galactic Arrival

Chapter 30 –
Scorpion

Interlude 3 – 3.98 Billion Years Ago

Chapter 31 – Logistics

Chapter 32 – The Esss Foothold

Chapter 33 –
Scorpion
Encounter

Interlude 4 – 3.7 Billion Years Ago

Chapter 34 – HG Rickover Naval Shipyard

Chapter 35 – The Esss Expansion

Chapter 36 – Jessica

Chapter 37 – Trepidation

Interlude 5 – 3.6 Billion Years Ago

Chapter 38 – Party on the Shuttle
Endeavour

Chapter 39 – The Esss Arrival at Sol

Chapter 40 – Lockdown in the Belt

Chapter 41 – The Newsies

Chapter 42 – The Esss Arrival Preparations

Interlude 6 – 2 Billion Years Ago

Chapter 43 – Reactivated

Chapter 44 – Message to Cam

Chapter 45 – Manning Shuttle
Discovery

Chapter 46 – New Direction for AMC

Chapter 47 – The Esss Scout Dispatch

Chapter 48 –Sted’s New Billet

Chapter 49 – Passing in Space

Chapter 50 – The Esss First Contact

Chapter 51 – Repurposing the
AMC
Mantis

Chapter 52 – Preparing Initial Report for the Governor

Chapter 53 – The Governor’s Request

Chapter 54 – The Newsies

Interlude 7 – 66 Million Years Ago

Chapter 55 – The Esss Arrival at the moon

Chapter 56 – Active Laser Scan

Chapter 57 – The Esss Lunar Wrap-up

Chapter 58 –
AMC Mantis
Refit Review

Chapter 59 – Intercept Above Earth

Chapter 60 – The Esss Change the Mapping Approach

Interlude 8 – 4 Million Years Ago

Chapter 61 – Intercept Failure

Chapter 62 – The Esss Map Earth

Chapter 63 – The Newsies

Chapter 64 – The Council of Eight

Chapter 65 – The Esss Begin Sampling

Chapter 66 –
USpN Raptor
Tries to Engage

Chapter 67 – Fishing Interrupted

Chapter 68 – The Esss Sampling off North Bimini Island

Chapter 69 – Not an Earthquake

Chapter 70 – Collecting Intelligence Data

Chapter 71 – The Esss Sampling the Amazon

Chapter 72 – The Newsies

Chapter 73 – A Very Short Respite

Chapter 74 – Admiral Brooks and Secretary Miller

Interlude 9 – 1.5 Million Years Ago

Chapter 75 – The Esss Sample Reporting

Chapter 76 – Lake Victoria Warning

Chapter 77 – Rules of Engagement

Chapter 78 – The Esss Warning

Chapter 79 – First Sighting over Lake Victoria

Chapter 80 – The Esss Under Surveillance

Chapter 81 – Weapons Free

Chapter 82 – The Esss Respond

Chapter 83 – The Newsies

Chapter 84 – Council of Eight After Action Report

Interlude 10 – 400,000 Years Ago

Chapter 85 –
USpN Mantis
Trial Evaluation

Chapter 86 – The Esss Consolidate Intelligence Data

Chapter 87 – Approaching Jupiter

Interlude 11 – 5,500 Years Ago

Chapter 88 – The Esss Scouts Return to Jupiter Orbit

Chapter 89 – Making Jupiter Orbit

Chapter 90 – The Esss Prepare for Returning Sample Ships

Chapter 91 – The Newsies

Chapter 92 – Cabin Fever at HG Rickover

Chapter 93 – Intelligence Summit

Chapter 94 – The Esss React to Missiles

Chapter 95 – Measuring Laser Frequencies

Chapter 96 – Boarding the Shuttle Back to the Moon

Interlude 12 – 3,400 Years Ago

Chapter 97 – The Esss Release the Courier Ship

Chapter 98 – Council of Eight Emergency Meeting

Chapter 99 – The Newsies

Chapter 100 – The
Endeavour
Receives New Orders

Interlude 13 – 2,100 Years Ago

Chapter 101 – Council of Eight Follow-up Report

Chapter 102 – Identifying the Origin of the Aliens

Interlude 14 – 1,500 Years Ago

Chapter 103 – Developing Battle Tactics

Chapter 104 – The Esss Arrival at Earth

Chapter 105 – Monitoring the Alien Arrival

Chapter 106 – The Esss Insertion

Chapter 107 – Galapagos Landing

Chapter 108 – Amazon Delta Landing

Chapter 109 – USpN Monitors the Landings

Chapter 110 – The Newsies

Chapter 111 – The Esss Begin Monitoring Their Modules

Chapter 112 – Sted’s Unusual Request

Chapter 113 – Council of Eight Receives Requests for Assistance

Interlude 15 – 200 Years Ago

Chapter 114 – USpN Preparing a Distraction

Chapter 115 – Cam’s Unusual Request

Chapter 116 – Australia Takes the Lead

Chapter 117 – The Esss React Off Australia

Chapter 118 – USpN Reacts to Their Loss

Chapter 119 – Hitching a Ride

Chapter 120 – Council of Eight Plans Follow-up Action

Chapter 121 – New Plan of Attack

Chapter 122 – The Esss Defend Their Modules

Chapter 123 – Babuyan Island Blast

Chapter 124 – The Esss Get Serious

Postlude – The Nu Get Serious

Acknowledgements

 

My thanks to both Editor Kevin Miller for his patient work with this new author and Duncan Long for his outstanding cover art.

I would also like to thank my two sons, Matt and Ben Waugh, for reading my early drafts and making critical suggestions.

Finally, I would like to thank my nephew Robert V. Bauer Jr. for his expertise in the area of robotics and prosthetics.

Prelude

 

“We must survive this massacre!” AlvaResh projected to the minds of his pod mates on the scout ship
Harbinger
.

 

Every one of his Nu companions re-focused their attention away from the destruction of their last colony planet and toward their natural leader. He was young for his role, but that could not be helped. All of the seasoned leaders had long since perished in the defense of their ancient race. The overwhelming and never-ending hoard of Esss battleships had conquered their home world and all of their colonies in the galactic interior. Now they were about to wipe out the last remaining Nu colony at the edge of this outermost galactic arm.

 

“While the Esss are focused on breaking through our orbital defenses, we must escape. We cannot afford to be followed and hunted down.”

 

“Where will you take us?” JoZarieh, their seasoned navigator demanded. “How will we be able to survive without the resources of even one world? It would be better to fight and to die with the rest of our race!” He showered their minds with images of them ramming and destroying one of the myriad Esss battleships.

 

“Remember your place, JoZarieh! I am responsible for you and all the others on this ship,” AlvaResh retorted. “I choose to live and to fight another day, and you will follow my lead! We will find a star system with no habitable planets that is of no interest to the Esss. From there, we can build our own living environment to give us time to regenerate our numbers into a viable colony.”

 

“And then what will we do against these intractable creatures?” JoZarieh asked. “They are like a wildfire spreading before a gale force wind. They consume everything in their path.”

 

“We must formulate plans to escape this galaxy, but we cannot do that waiting here and arguing. You will calculate a safe route out of this system and pass the coordinates to MilGravden. She will get
Harbinger
moving in that direction without drawing attention to us.”

 

“Too late!” MilGravden projected with alarm. “Three Esss battleships have just broken rank and are accelerating in our direction. If we are going to escape, we must leave now, and at our top speed!”

 

“Head for the Void,” AlvaResh ordered. “They will not be able to follow us for long. With their short lifespan, they will die if they try.”

 

“But that will commit us to your intergalactic trip without preparations! We may never reach the next galaxy before we all die,” JoZarieh complained.

 

“That is true,” AlvaResh replied with humility. “But at least we have a chance of making the crossing and saving our race. A small chance is better than none at all.”

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