The Turning Tide (The Federation Reborn Book 5)
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Rear Admiral V'r'z'll -Bekian Female Veraxin Carrier admiral
Commander Sunil Pizey Chief of staff. Human male, Indian.
Commander T'rll: Staff TAO.
Commander Chi'th: T'clock quartermaster
Lieutenant JG Amhelia Lately: Staff officer of Admiral V'r'z'll.
Commodore Zachery Binks: Black Neocat in charge of the screen.
Horathians:
Emperor: (formerly Supreme secretary) Pyotr (Peter) Ramichov 'Peter the great'
He was in his fifties, but quite fit. He had a red uniform on, covered in gold braid and medals.
Paranoid.
Royal family:
Empress: Irazabeth (red queen) Jabberwocky Ramichov
Dowager Empress: Jezebel Pardoll Ramichov (reference biblical name) -mother of Pyotr.
Note: Pyotr is only surviving child due to court intrigue
Fiona- First wife of Pyotr. Mother of the twins. Assassinated by Jezebel.
Meredith - former consort of Pyotr. Died in a suspicious air car accident.
Crown Prince: Adam-twin to eldest princess (predate by 5 min) Naval officer home fleet Command -First Battlecruiser squadron -Commander Arkangel. KIA
Crown princess consort: Marina (white queen) Stuart -youthful, pale, white hair, black nails and lips. Graceful, soft spoken, seemingly sweet but actually very sadistic under the surface. Highly motivated to become empress.
-younger sister Vashti Stuart
Princess: Catherine Ramichov -Naval officer (Commander turned Captain) Home fleet staff operational officer to Admiral De Gaulte -on Executioner
Prince consort: None currently
Prince: Mason Ramichov -Marine officer lieutenant. Transferred to Star Mauler -Mother died prior to marriage -captured by the Federation.
Princess consort: Dominitia Knowles.
Prince: -Marine Joseph Ramichov -blood brother to Mason. Mother died prior to marriage.
Princess consort: Annia Wong
Prince: -teenager in academy Kevin Ramichov -son of Irazebeth
Princess consort to be: Agnes Rico
Princess: Khali youngest child by second marriage (10) -Khali Judith Ramichov -daughter of Irazebeth
Prince consort to be: KIA now none
Cabinet Ministers:
Prime Minister: -Duke Franklin Lloyd Tucket -Duke of Garth
Duchess Glennis Pardoll Tucket (wife of Prime Minister, XO and true ruler of Garth)
Deputy Prime Minister: -Roland Markov Count of Montycelo
Home Secretary: (minister of internal affairs): -Duke Zilo Pardoll
Minister of War: -Theodore Cruise Rico Duke of Hinata
Joint Chief of Staff:
Praetor of the Navy: -Malwin Cartwright Admiral and Baron male -Dead drop
-vice admiral Lewis Post: Ops officer
Praetor of the Army: -Robert Levot General of the armies Baron of TFP -1 eye.
Consul of the Marquis: -Vice Admiral Ahab Grant Marquis
Minister of Intelligence: -Vice Admiral, countess, female Sabina Newberry, countess of Garth
Minister of Education: -Duchess Suri Pfeiffer of York (a continent on New Horizon)
Minister of Energy: -Connor Mcloyd Earl of North Finagle
Minister of Biosciences: -Doctor Lacie Mengla (black female) -disdains titles. Called Dame
Advisor of Industry: (Vizer): -Elijah Deweter Baron of South Finagle (male)
Quaestor: (Minister of the Treasury): -Anslem Knowles Duke of Marmoreal
Chief Magistrate of Purity and Enlightenment: -Ilosovic Stayne Duke of Horus
-Wears White Nazi like uniform
Minister of Commerce and Transportation: -Lord Fernand Ascot Viscount
Minister of Agriculture: -Cass Suzette Viscount
First Lord of Law: -Lord Su
Minister of Security: (secret police) -Baron Sadam Ghadaffi
-Wears black Nazi like uniform
Herald: (Public affairs): -Sakura Umeki
House of Nobles/Conclave of Nobles/lords
Senate (like Roman senate)
Others:
Doctor Nutell: Head of the Water dweller project. Chocolate skinned male human. Older.
Jane: Nurse. Double chin, matron, stocky.
Mara: Blue skinned genie. Has gills and lungs, long raven black hair, webbed fingers and toes. Wore a cobra insignia wet suit until it was taken away from her.
Emory: Friend. Mate Anita captured. Daughter is also captured. Freed by Federation in Pirates Rage.
Sydney: Daughter of Emory and Anita, captured.
Jamaica: Selkie bull merman, captured.
Anita: Small fish lady, mate of Emory, mother to Sydney, captured.
Rear Admiral Linnaeus Von Berk: Horathian admiral.
Commander Rick Roshou: Admiral Von Berk's chief of staff.
Captain Bordou: Captain of Apache.
Doctor Staten Milgram: Eugenics and brainwashing psychologist.
Major Eichmann: Intelligence officer.
Irma Algresi: Distant cousin to the Duke of Marmoreal. Mousy thin woman. Assistant Deputy IG accountant. Takes her job seriously.
Captain Elvira Varbossa: Raven haired engineer, techno nerd. Protégée of Admiral Cartwright.
Rear Admiral Deweter: section head of production in Buships. His cousin is the lord of Industry.
Captain Quinn: Engineering officer with Captain Varbossa at R&D.
Retribution Fleet:
Admiral Cyrano De Gaulte -Old dinosaur. One of the best strategists however. Above politics. Executioner is his flagship
Berney -chief of staff CMDR Berney Yashanaka
LCMDNR Sedrick Lovato -Intel officer
Lieutenant Jeremy Herod staff navigator
Lieutenant Myron Chekov -staff tactical officer
Wilfred Penning: Admiral's Steward
Captain Chase Couglin: Executioner's flag captain
Captain Lovejoy -convoy commander
Rear Admiral Scott Mueller: Battle line Commander. Oblivious flagship.
Rear Admiral Nioma "wrong way" Wong -carrier commander
Courageous: Captain Juan Clovis
Commander Hans Schnabel Admiral Wong's chief of staff. Male.
CAG: Commander Conrad Giacometti. Male. Leader of Skull squadron
Garth:
Duchess Glennis Tucket: Ruler of the star system. Wife of the Prime Minister. Schemer.
Captain Agnes Ozman: Senior ranking officer in the star system.
David Fin: Aerospace engineer
Ginsu: CEV Audacious class.
Rear Admiral Pascal Akhmetshin.
CAG LCMDR Nitish Schimitt.
Status: Sent to Dead Drop but backstopped in Garth.
Hannah: Carrier
Rear Admiral Rita Einezberg
CAG Merle Guzman
Status: 1st fleet. Reassigned to Dead Drop. Backstopped in Garth.
Dead Drop:
Commander/Captain Magnus Abernly: System commander of Dead Drop. Fat, overlooked. Big time into being a petty obstructionalist bureaucrat. Heavy into graft. Finally promoted to Captain. -KIA
Lieutenant Sri Savenan second command to Abernly.
Ensign Jane Smith -second in command after Abernly left.
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Reading Order:
Time line of the Engineer Universe:
Chronological reading order
Founding Series:
*First Steps
Stepping Stones Founding Stories 1
To Touch the Stars
The Island of Moreau -Short Story Multiverse 2
Bumper and Boomer -Short Story Multiverse 2
The First AI War
Cornerstone: Tales of the Founding of the Federation 2
The First Terran Interstellar War 1 Desperate Defense
The First Terran Interstellar War 2 Waking the Sleeping Giant
The Good Ship UFSP Lollipop-Short Story Multiverse 2
Higher for Higher -Short Story Multiverse 1
Siren Call -Short Story Multiverse 1
Ragnarok series:
Wandering Engineer:
*New Dawn
Fools Gold
Jethro Goes to War
Destiny's Choice
Ghost Station
Jethro First to Fight
Plague Planet
13 Degrees of Separation
Pirates Bane
Lewis and Clarke -Short Story Multiverse 2
Jethro No Place like Home
Ghosts From the Past
---Federation Reborn----
Bringer of Fire and Light -Short Story Multiverse 1
Battle Lines
Jethro Recruiting Drive
Pirate Rage
Tales of the Federation Reborn 1
Retribution
Horatio Logan Chronicles: 1 Enemy of my Enemy
Jethro 5 Ares God of War
Shelby Logan Chronicles: 1 Convoy
Horatio Logan Chronicles 2 Court-Martial
The Gathering Storm
Multiverse 3 short stories
Semper Fidelis short stories
A Piece of the Pi short stories
The Turning Tide
Epilogue
Murphy noted his sister leaving the Dead Drop system and moved to intercept her. When she tried to dodge, he flickered quickly into her path and then stopped.
“What?”
“Well, hello to you too, sister dear,” Murphy said, voice burbling as he waved his tentacles about. “Having fun, are we?”
“I don't know what you mean.”
“I mean making a few changes to the variables. Like that missing destroyer. Or the damage to the other one.”
“Are you certain you or one of your gremlins didn't do it?” she asked as she tried to move past him.
He floated into her space once more. “You know me better than that,” he said.
She stopped dead. “I don't know what you mean. It must have been something else then. Not everything is up to us you know. Contrary to your much-vaunted opinion of yourself, we're not omnipotent. We just appear that way to those who don't understand us.”
“Right. And you are trying to change the subject.”
She spun for a moment and then paused. “Really!” she said indignantly. “Of all the nerve!”
“Cute. Well?”
“Did you notice Gwildor has taken an interest in the energy from the nova?” she asked. “They are finally noticing it. It took them long enough. I'm curious if they'll figure out what we've done with it. Or I should say when. Gwildor is another one of your Eternia games, right?”
“Again, you are trying to change the subject. Mom never let me get away with that. Nor did you for that matter, at least not for long. But, to play your game, yes, I noticed. I notice a lot of things.”
“Really? Like what?” she asked. “I thought you were too full of your own games to pay attention to other things? Like things that don't concern you?”
“Oh? How about this one. I noticed how you played favorites. Like I said, I wasn't the one who made that destroyer get lost. Or the 101 other shenanigans that you've been playing at. You've been dabbling in my field, sister dear. Welcome to the dark side. I've been watching you, awed by your fall. There, I admit it.”
She paused for a long moment there, drifting silently in the void.
“Well?” he asked, curious if she'd deny it. “Virtual cat got your tongue?”
Finally, his sister started to move again. He fell in place beside her. She opened a slip stream and the two of them slipped into hyperspace and began to move along the rebuilt pathways. “I am so tired of seeing these bastards have their way,” she finally said quietly. “They've had the luck too long while we've been distracted. They've slaughtered millions. They've spread their misery for centuries. Its past time something was done about them.”
“Hence Irons?” he prompted, amused by the turnabout. Usually she was calling him out on one of his many “pranks.”
“You know that wasn't just me. Other factors were at work there,” she said crossly.
“Agreed. I'm just surprised you are coming down from your vaunted perch of neutrality,” Murphy replied.
“Ah. This from the guy who didn't interfere much in the battle either? There were plenty of places you could have caused mischief.”
“I don't know what you are talking about,” he said with as much dignity as he could muster.
“Sure. Pull the other one,” his sister accused. “You and I both know you could have made things come out differently just like I did.”
“Maybe,” he said. That was as close to an admission of agreement as she was going to get though.
She exited hyperspace. He followed. He wasn't surprised that they had crossed the breath of the galaxy. What was surprising was what she'd brought them to. He followed her until she fell into an orbit around the star system. Together they looked on to the blackness devouring a world. “They are running out of time,” she murmured.