by Jack J. Lee
Vampires are basically turbocharged human beings. Their core temperature is much hotter than ours because their metabolisms are so much faster. They are stronger and quicker but they also need more oxygen. It takes about 4 minutes to suffocate a human to death. It took less than a minute for the vampire.
Once it stopped moving, I let it slide to the ground. I almost passed out. I willed myself awake; I still had things to do. I slammed my heel down on its neck just below the skull. I could feel the vertebrae beneath my heel separate and its head flopped loose on to its side. I slammed my foot down again and again. Each time my foot came down, the vampire’s head moved a little further away from its body, and the area beneath my foot got thinner. I don’t know how long it took, but eventually, its head was crushed away from its body.
The room was completely quiet. I sank to my knees. It was either that or fall. I pointed with my right hand to the FLDS Prophet. The guards had told us he was the chosen one because he had been able to kill a vampire in unarmed combat. I laughed “That’s my second vampire, asshole. See if you can match that.”
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Appendix A: How We Built Suppressors (Excerpt from lecture given by Jim Wright to students at Salt Lake Academy)
Suppressors work on the basis of two main principles.
1. An enclosed space muffles sound. If you shout into a bucket your voice is not as loud as it would be if you didn’t have a bucket.
2. Soft uneven tangled surfaces absorb and deaden sound.
Suppressors cause the sound of a bullet to travel through multiple chambers filled with tangled surfaces. When you make a suppressor you have to make it out of heat resistant material. The gas coming out of the barrel is hot and the suppressor works by converting the energy of sound into heat. Energy can only be transformed not eliminated. The most effective suppressors incorporate plastics and rubbers that absorb sound more effectively than metal but if plastic and rubber are used, the suppressor will stop working after a certain number of shots because eventually excess heat will degrade it.
Every suppressor requires two tubes one inner and one outer. For the inner tube we used cut up barrels from rifles that fired a .270 caliber round; we salvaged these rifles from gun shops and peoples’ homes. The rifles we were using fired a .223 caliber round. We wanted an inner tube for the suppressor that was slightly larger than the bullet and the .270 barrel was 0.047 inches larger than the bullet we were using. The inner barrel had multiple holes cut into it. For the outer tube we used a particular straight section of the exhaust system of a Toyota Camry. We wanted to make the suppressors on an assembly line and all the parts had to be identical. We then put multiple spacers/washers along the inner and outer tubes making multiple chambers and filled these chambers with a combination of steel wool and rolled up window screens. The steel wool and rolled up window screen created a rough uneven surface to absorb sound. Since steel wool and window screens were made out of metal they did not degrade due to heat. We had hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of zombies to kill. We didn’t use any plastic or rubber parts. We were willing to trade decreased sound suppression for durability.
Every combination of a rifle and bullet has different acoustics. The hardest part of making a suppressor was playing around with the size of the different chambers in the silencer and right combination of fillers in the chambers to best muffle the sound.
Appendix B: How We Built Vampire Stun Guns (Excerpt from lecture given by Jim Wright to students at Salt Lake Academy)
We made our first Vampire Stun Guns or VSGs out of a lime light, a 12-volt car battery, a transformer, and an inverter. We used a transformer to increase the 12.6 volts put out by the car battery to sixty thousand volts. Transformers only work with alternating current and a battery has direct current. An inverter was used to convert the direct current from the battery to alternating current.
Before the zombie outbreak, all homes in the US had electrical plugs that put out a current that ranges from 115 Volts to 230 Volts. Many of the electrical devices in these homes needed to have the voltage decreased to operate safely. These devices used transformers. In those days every TV or computer had a transformer on the power cord. The transformer is the small rectangular or square plastic box that is on the power cord. These transformers converted the 115 to 230 volt current coming out of the electrical outlet to a much smaller voltage. For example my old laptop computer needed the voltage dropped down to 14.4 volts. The transformers found on TVs and computers worked in the opposite direction that we wanted to go; they dropped high volts to low volts. In order to make a VSG, we needed to go from low volts to high volts. The higher the volts, the more effective the VSG would be as a stun weapon.
A transformer is an extremely simple device. It is based on the following equation:
Low Voltage x High Amperes = High Voltage x Low Amperes.
The transformer is built around a magnetizable metal core rod, either iron or steel. This core is wrapped with insulation. A washer made out of a very good insulation is placed in the middle of the iron rod splitting in half. Both sides of the iron rod are wrapped with copper wire. If the same amount of copper wiring is on both sides the voltage will not change. If there is a difference in the amount of copper wire between the two sides of the rectangle the voltage changes. In the same way that an EMP transmits electrical energy over distances and through insulation the current in the copper wire wrapped around the iron rod connected to the battery induces or creates an electrical current around the copper wire on the other side of the insulation washer.
The difference in the number of times the copper wire is wrapped between the two sides of the rectangle determines the difference in the change in voltage. The low voltage side has fewer wraps and the high voltage side has more wraps.
Transformers only work with AC or alternating current; this means the current has to move from one direction to the opposite direction in a consistent cycle. All batteries including car batteries provide DC or direct current; this means the electrical current goes in only one direction. To convert DC to AC you need an inverter.
Modern inverters use transistors or semiconductors. Because of the EMP, these types of inverters were no longer available. The lower tech method to making an inverter was to use an electromagnet that is attached to a spring. The spring pushes the electromagnet/spring to one side while the electromagnet pulls this device to the other side. A current turns on the electromagnet which causes it to move against the spring attaching it to another circuit that sends current the opposite direction. The movement of electromagnet disconnects the current going through it which turns it off. This allows the spring to return the magnet back in its original position which then turns the electromagnet back on. The constant movement to the electromagnet and spring back and forth creates a humming noise. As the electromagnet/spring combination swings from side to side the direction of the electrical current shifts directions.
Table of Contents
Prologue: Mark Jones, September 14th, Year 1
Chapter 1: Zutar Probe, October 5th, Year 0
Chapter 2: Mark Jones, September 13th, Year 1
Chapter 3: Mark Jones, September 13th, Year 1
Chapter 4: Mark Jones, September 13th to September 14th, Year 1
Chapter 5: Zutar Probe, January 6th, Year 1
Chapter 6: Art Bingham, March 13th to September 11th, Year 1
Chapter 7: Art Bingham, September 11th to September 12th, Year 1
Chapter 8: Art Bingham, September 13th, Year 1
Chapter 9: Jim Wright, October 8th, Year 1
Chapter 10: Jim Wright, October 8th, 4 p.m., Year 1
Chapter 11: Mark Jones, September 14th, Year 1
Chapter 12: Mark Jones, September 15th, Year 1
Chapter 13: Mark Jones, September 15th,
Year 1
Chapter 14: Mark Jones, September 16th, Year 1
Chapter 15: Helen Hansen, September 16th, Year 1
Chapter 16: Art Bingham, September 13th to 16th, Year 1
Chapter 17: Mark Jones, September 16th, Year 1
Chapter 18: Zutar Probe, October 9th, 9:30 p.m., Year 1
Chapter 19: Helen Hanson, September 16th to October 9th, Year 1
Chapter 20: Jim Wright, October 9th, Year 1
Chapter 21: Mark Jones, September 16th to October 9th, Year 1
Chapter 22: Jim Wright, October 9th, Year 1
Chapter 23: Mark Jones, October 9th, Year 1
Chapter 24: Mike Smith, September 11th to October 9th, Year 1
Chapter 25: Hiram Rockwell, October 9th, Year 1
Chapter 26: Helen Hansen, October 9th, Year 1
Chapter 27: Mark Jones, October 9th to 10th, Year 1
Chapter 28: Hiram Rockwell, October 10th, Year 1
Chapter 29: Mark Jones, October 10th, Year 1
Chapter 30: Helen Hansen, October 10th, Year 1
Chapter 31: Jim Wright, October 10th to November 1st, Year 1
Chapter 32: Hiram Rockwell, October 10th to November 18th, Year 1
Chapter 33: Peter Bingham, October 10th to November 22nd, Year 1
Chapter 34: Jim Wright, November 1st to November 25th, Year 1
Chapter 35: Hiram Rockwell, November 25th to November 28th, Year 1
Chapter 36: Jim Wright, December 2nd to December 20th, Year 1
Chapter 37: Jim Wright, December 20th to 25th, Year 1
Chapter 38: Mark Jones, December 25th, Year 1
Sample of Book II in the Sustainable Earth Series: Death by Revelation