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THE GREENER GREEN BOOK II
THE BALLS BRIGADE
By PETER SOWATSKEY
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Greener Green-Book II - Balls Brigade.
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Copyright 2011 by Peter David Sowatskey Senior, Author.
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Acknowledgement
I am grateful for the input of the members, past and present, of the Beaver Valley Writers Guild, Beaver County, Pa
By presenting new material every week over ten years, I was able to adjust my writing efforts to result in the following story.
If I still made a mistake(s) it’s on me.
If you would like to comment, you can reach me at the address below.
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About me. The Author
I was born Oct 1939--Libra--on a farm in a coal mining area of Westmoreland County (east of Pittsburgh). I was the oldest of six children--two checked out so far. Poor and carefree, we ran the hills and woods in our bare feet all summer long.
When I was about six years old, my father-in his fifties--a life long miner, had several strokes and lost most of the use of his right side along with four Slovak languages. That left our unskilled mother, in her thirties, to provide for the family. The carefree part of our lives went away.
In 1951, we moved to Greensburg, Westm'd County seat, across from an old polo field, Route 119 N. Never saw a horse there.
At fifteen, I quit school to work on a dairy farm, $80.00 a month room and board, to buy groceries for the family left behind. Eventually my younger brothers stepped up, and in 1958 I enlisted in the Army, Military Police, ending up in West Germany, Bavaria, Munich, Augsburg area, 24th Infantry Division for two plus years. I could see the Alps on a clear day.
Discharged Jan, 1961, in Germany, I stayed in Europe for ten years selling encyclopedias and correspondence courses to the military.
Looking back, I can see my writing efforts started doing patrol and incident reports--never enough space on the unmentionable forms.
In 1971, I returned with an English wife and three children to the USA--a different USA than the one I departed from. If you lived through those years you'll understand. If not, it's in the history books how drastically different the country was from 1958 USA. We lived in Tampa Florida and Los Angeles before returning to PA in 1973. There's a local saying, born in PA, die in PA, which may have truth to it.
During the seventies I did three years at The Community College of Beaver County earning an Associates Degree in Administration of Justice (1976). Two years later, I transferred to the University of Pittsburgh and continued my studies in the same field until 1980 finishing the credits required for a Bachelors degree. During that time my wife decided to return to England with her two children. I raised my oldest son--from a prior marriage--myself. Shortly after high school he enlisted in the Army ending up in South Korea.
The local economy--based on steel--went south in the early eighties. Beaver County lost half of its population. I worked with an unemployed committee to help people over that hurdle.
Then I spent seven years as a hermit, continuing my life-long study of meta-physics, which I began at age thirteen after seeing the people in the strict Protestant religion I'd been brought up in, not walking their talk. I initially ran across an ad about the Rosicrucian Order in a magazine I read at the Greensburg Greyhound station--before the manager ran me off. He complained that he wasn't running a library branch for the Sowatskey brothers.
I’ve studied every area of Meta-Physics I've ever run across. I reaffirmed my conclusion--during those years--that you'll walk that last mile to your final destiny alone, so you'd best be on good terms with yourself.
I supported myself doing various blue collar jobs, using the skills I learned in High School Vocational Agriculture class. The fifties farmer, which I'd planned to be then, needed to be self sufficient in any problem area, mostly because farm income--especially in PA--was marginal
In the late nineties, I started writing seriously using old typewriters. Then I ran across the Beaver Valley Writer's Guild and was gifted an old Radio Shack computer. I joined them, presenting something new at every weekly meeting for 12 years plus. To date, Nov 2011, I've published two novels on Kindle and will list three more with them in a few months, four, military sci/fi and a western. There are lots more projects in various stages of completion. I find Asimov's idea of working on more projects than one at the same time flows for me, also. Try it. It might work for you.
If you have any comments, or are a starting writer with difficulties, contact me at [email protected]. I'll be glad to hear from you. Pardon the web site, it's being worked on.
When ordinary efforts won’t carry the day, go whole-hog, all in, hold nothing back.
One gets just as tired defending, as continually attacking, try it!
You’ll overcome.
Highlights of events from book I
In Book I, three Civil War veterans and their ladies are pulled out of 1885 Colorado, shortly before their natural deaths, by the Elders, a group of superior beings, who move freely through time, space, and realities.
One of them, a nurse, Thelma, an Earth native, had the mind set that could be exposed to data and events in different time periods without going crazy. She experienced two hundred years of banging around Galaxies: and returned to her companions on Earth two weeks later (their time) now allowed to access a Seed ship enclosed in a huge vessel called an ARK; after a side trip of twenty years to pick up a skeleton crew. The Civil War veterans, and their families, if any, who were recruited, alive, or their essences, after the moment of their death, were to crew the ARK.
The enemy, IL ANNU KI, fourteen foot tall giants, with a membrane in their foreheads, who had (behind the scenes) long since enslaved Earth, interfered with their recruitment activities.
Thelma, now not having the luxury of gradually gathering forces, brings her immediate companions from a 1885 mindset to the level of technology existent on the ARK. They, and the non-Earth people Thelma gathered, resolve to do away with this enemy.
To accomplish this, they enlisted the aid of: The Rangers, a group who tries to bring order to the Universe; the Brenesi, a people who Jill, a Second
Federation Marine championed; the Essences, a group of immortal beings; the Second Federation leaders; the Regs, eight foot tall bears with human like faces, hands and feet; and the AI s, a tall thin created group who were the stewards of an ancient Germanic construction/manufacturing/shipyard complex.
After a successful battle in the Reg solar system (despite many causalities), the local ANNU KI were destroyed.
Afterward, the AI complex relocated through time to the Reg solar system and placed a shield around the system's home planet.
Captain Rafe Berger; one of the original six, while en-route back to Earth, learned from the AIs the actual complexity of the task facing him and his forces, that they could not defeat the ANNU KI with their present bodies. Thelma, (who had remained on Earth to command forces there), upon learning these facts, asked for volunteers for a special mission. Everyone on ARK IV, Rafe's ship, volunteered.
In the middle of the above events, Rafe, through regression, learned he had been part of a Terra Forming mission from the planet Phaeton (now our asteroid belt) to stabilize early Earth.
All events had a special immediacy. Before 2050, Planet Nebu, on its epileptical 6,000 year orbit out beyond Pluto and back, again threatened Earth with magnetic field distortions, earthquakes, and destruction from 200mph plus wind storms.
PRELUDE TO BOOK TWO
XO RAFE BERGER: COMMANDING ARK IV EN-ROUTE TO EARTH FROM THE REG WORLD. COMMANDER BETTY TRILL- ESSENCE, EXPLAINING ORDERS FROM THELMA ON ARK I PARKED ON EARTH BETWEEN THE ICE AGES
Betty said, “Very well. Here is the short form. Thelma needs a steady supply of freshly mined gold that hasn’t been influenced by any sort of wave activity, or chemicals. Why, you don’t need to know just yet, but you can imagine all you like. She has back tracked a supply coming into the banking stream from 1854, out of Sante Fe. The person responsible for this operation is a Marshall Jason Dillard, or as he now calls himself, after a close brush with death, Pierre La Fuette. He has many people about him. Their histories aren’t classified. They will be brought to you on paper and ink of that period. Dillard/La Fuette is about to embark on a mission to kill a Senor Constanza who was behind the attempt to kill him. Dillard/La Fuette made it look like the attempt was successful and has bought a few weeks. You are to go to his residence in Sante Fe, 21st of September, 1854, and help him kill his enemies in the most gruesome way possible. We want to establish an aura of invincibility around him. That’s to keep anybody from coming around his sphere of influence and asking questions. You have a supply of Grouper Wagons so use them. We want him so indebted to us that he will sell his gold to no one else, though we will give him a good price. When I’m gone from this room, you will remember that we want the gold to manipulate the Earth’s banking systems. Questions, Rafe?"
“No. I can see already how it would be best handled. I’ll take along M.Verdai to watch my back. She has different opinions and ideas, I’ve learned.”
“However you see fit. A non visible Frigate will collect any dead. The second part of this operation will actually take over the Earth’s banking system as a means of influencing political policy. We’re going to start about 1,000 AD. So you will next meet with your Military Intelligence Commander to tell him to train his men as Bankers and stock brokers. Thelma wants any one of them capable of walking into a World Class Bank of any era and being capable of taking over. You’ll also want to meet with General Niken to have him set up a transportation system for the Intel people. Now, nothing smaller than a Frigate, has time slip capabilities, change that. If he needs something larger, he needs to say so right now. He is cleared for access to the archives in ARK IVs seed ship. He will be implanted whenever he enters it. Have him print out what he wants, as his memory of what he accessed therein will be cleared every time he exits. Only Thelma has unlimited access. That’s the way the Elders set it up. They also set up a series of small Banks around the world in different times. Who knows why? Maybe it was someone’s hobby, or something. The trained Intel people will be going into these existing Banks. Stress how to handle every task in a bank, including janitor. Essences will implant them with the appropriate language when they have definite assignments. Do you have any questions?”
“Not yet.”
“An Essence will be assigned to every ten year period from 1,000 AD onward to the end. They will monitor and advise through whatever type of communications system you set up. The ANNU KI already has a world banking system in place. You will be in a constant battle with them. They don’t play with many rules. We will play with no rules at all. If we tear societies apart, it's all the same to us. The dust may settle in a more desirous manner, from our point of view. We will stop any wars that they try to start, as nastily as possible. That will vex the ANNU KI no end. Are you getting the picture?”
“Yes. What do I do after Sante Fe?”
“You’ll be going to Australia, about 2012, to interrupt the functioning of an ANNU KI gold supply route. The active ANNU KI ship is near Ayers Rock. A second ANNU KI ship is embedded in Earth, maybe additional ones, but we don’t presently know where. I know 2012 is after your personal time, but you’ll get a thorough briefing. Do you think you’ll have enough to do?”
“Yes, I’ll put the whole Intel battalion into a Time Drop bay later today.”
Rising, Betty said, “That would be a good start. We’ll have to do dinner when you have time.”
“Would that be this century, or the next?”
She just smiled and gave me a non platonic kiss and left.
Damn, did I have things to do, ‘Molly, Sally, get Klinster and Niken over here.'
Niken got here first, being just down the hall. “What can I do for you?”
“Betty was just by with messages from Thelma. It was a long winded session, which I’ll share with you, as we go along. Klinster will be here any moment and I have to brief him. He’ll have to go into a time drop along with his men. So for now, I just want you to go into the Seed Ship. You’ve been cleared and you’ll know how to search for what you want. You need a type of ship which can be readily fitted for Time Slipping. Figure you’ll need berthing for 1,000 personnel. You’ll need capability to insert small groups, no more than twenty, unseen, into a hostile environment. The unseen part you’d better talk to M.Verdai about. You will have cover by Frigates but I’d like to keep them high up for reasons of secrecy. Is that enough to start a search on?"
“Sure, I’ll be back when I have it.”
“If you’re undecided bring several printouts. You’ll have to bring everything out on paper, because you won’t remember the time inside, security.”
“Not unusual, later.”
He wasn’t gone ten minutes when Klinster came in with his E/XO, a fellow named Roland Trinstein. He said, “Molly suggested I bring Rolly along. What’s up?”
“New orders. Thelma wants your Battalion to become bankers. The plan is to establish banks; initially using the ones the Elders have in place, to cover the time from 1,000 AD to the end. Your people will need to be able to walk into any bank within that time frame able to do the janitors job to the presidents job. These banks will also sell or buy stock and security certificates. They'll also issue insurance, any kind, so you will have to know those fields also. How much time to bring your people up to those levels?”
Trinstein spoke first, “Three months, basic knowledge.”
Klinster said, “Three and a half months.”
“Fine, the material will be gathered, and lecturers pulled from the crew. You will go into a four month time drop. We’ll set up a sphere around your quarters at a ratio that your elapsed time here will be only one week. Don’t worry about languages or culture adaptation. The Essences will provide an overlay upon assignment. Niken will handle transport. Develop a communication plan which will work over time separations. For emergencies a Frigate will never be far away. If you want to hire local security, do so. The desired result will be a capability to influence political and commercial events, thereby savin
g lives. Advanced technology will be inserted as you advise. I would start with costless desalination to irrigate Australia. You have to arrange the specifics. We don’t care whose apple cart we upset. The ANNU KI already controls your competition, so run them out of business. Your people will also have to know the re-insurance business. You can see some possibilities to prosper there, I’m sure. Do you have enough details?”
Klinster said, “Reinventing the wheel would be easier. But my fellows are bright. They’ll get it done."
I said, "A platoon of Essence Ensigns will sort out any study difficulties. They have the very best study technology. Are we finished?”
They nodded, I said, “See you in a week.”
They put on painful smiles and walked out talking a mile a minute.
'Molly, Sally, monitor them, and expedite matters, please.'
A short time later M.Verdai came into the dining room after hanging her uniform vest in the foyer. She was loosening her cuffs when I spoke; “I’m expecting Niken any moment.”
She continued unbuttoning and rolled the sleeves up a few turns while saying, “He’ll just have become used to half dressed junior officers. I’ll bet he’s seen a lot of them, probably undressed a few.”
“But none whose chest goes so far out and so pleasantly rounded.”
“Well, do something to it. Why the hell is Niken here anyway? Never mind, I’ll get it from Molly. I’ve been working with Betty and she has my preceptics far enough up to receive telepathic data streams. Give it to me, Molly.”
Her eyes glazed over, but shortly cleared. “You’ve been stirring, quite deeply, haven’t you? Damn, it is a broad stride, isn’t it?”
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