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13 Degrees of Separation

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by Hechtl, Chris


  Audrey Halfston, black hair, yellow dress, green bonnet. 40's. talker, user. used Irons to talk about stuff and charge him for drinks.

  Snorphlax: gashg sewer engineer of New Chicago

  Appendix:

  My blog:

  http://cyberforge3d.blogspot.com/

  Jory's Facebook Group Federation Military Network:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/582559128466667/

  Federation aliens spinners 1:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-A4JIU494

  Military:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_system

  http://www.usmcpress.com/heritage/usmc_slogans.htm

  http://www.dvice.com/2013-4-9/us-navy-gonna-deploy-frikkin-lasers-2014

  http://www.dvice.com/2013-8-9/fully-automatic-gauss-gun-has-3d-printed-guns-running-scared

  Medical:

  http://io9.com/how-to-build-an-artificial-womb-476464703

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiprioninae

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_(biology)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejuvenation_(aging)

  Other:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Boys_(Peter_Pan)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipyard

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(mythology)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy

  Rough Timeline of Books and Stories:

  Founding of the Federation time Period:

  First Steps

  To Touch the Stars (forthcoming)

  The First Terran Interstellar War (forthcoming)

  The First AI War (forthcoming)

  We The People (forthcoming)

  Gottenburg time period: (AKA the Xeno war)

  Sparks (forthcoming)

  The Wandering Engineer Time Period:

  Leonardo

  New Dawn

  Fools Gold -Jethro Goes to War

  Io 11, The Last Round Up

  Destiny's Choice

  Salvage

  Ghost Station, Jethro 2 First to fight start, Barkeep

  Yard Dogs, Adventures of Nohar PI

  Plague Planet -Special delivery

  Eternia, A matter of breeding, Hauling Frieght

  The end of Jethro 2

  Message in a bottle. -Jethro 3 No Place Like Home-beginning (forthcoming)

  Cali and the Wolves

  Pirate's Bane (forthcoming)

  Ghosts of the Past (forthcoming)

  The New Federation time period:

  New Dawn (Forthcoming)

  The rest you'll have to wait and see!

  Sneak Peek:

  This is a tiny raw snippet from Wandering Engineer 6 Pirates Bane:

  “Admiral...” Phoenix said over the channel, noting an odd return on the lidar.

  “Not now. I'm busy,” Irons growled. “What ever it is, it can wait,” he growled, pulling on the hinge.

  “I'm afraid not admiral,” Phoenix began, sending out a pulse. There was no return. The AI thought about it for a microsecond and then sent a rapid fire series of pulses, these aimed at the local moon. The intent was to ricochet them, to get the pulse to bounce off the moon to the odd object to get a scattered return. When the AI got the return a half second later he acted.

  Sprite got the data stream from Phoenix as Irons kept working doggedly on the hinge. He felt his arm morph and his suit kick as he turned. “What the hell?”

  “Defender, get the admiral inside now,” Sprite said, dropping her voice into a cool soprano of command. “Phoenix, time?”

  “Under five minutes,” the AI replied. “I can't get a solid number. Whatever is coming it's good.”

  “Someone want to tell me what the hell's going on?” Irons snarled, fighting the AI for control of his suit. “Commander!”

  “Get inside now Admiral. Incoming!” Sprite said.

  “Shit, now you tell me,” John snarled, no longer fighting the AI. “Meteor?”

  “No!”

  “Sprite...”

  “No time Admiral! Phoenix roll ship ten degrees. Brace for impact!”

  “If it hits, I don't think it will. Rolling ship now,” Phoenix replied.

  “What is it?” The admiral asked, looking up over the hull. He could see something now, something black and not running any running lights. She was briefly silhouetted against the gas giant beyond.

  “Ship. Some sort of ship or other object. It's under stealth. Cancel that, stealth is dropping! It's a...”

  You'll have to wait for the rest. Hopefully I can get back to writing it so you can see it by Spring of 2014!

 

 

 


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