by Andrew Beery
Proposed Anti-matter generator
Utilize natural Matter-antimatter flux ... use constructive resonance in properly formed crystals (series of progressively stepping crystal oscillators) to force given particle to prefer anti-state
For every fundamental particle, there is a corresponding antiparticle. Antimatter particles share the same mass as their matter counterparts, but qualities such as electric charge are opposite. Though most particles exist as either matter or antimatter, some particles can switch between the two. Two types of particle, B0 and B0s, switch back and forth between their matter and antimatter states. Resonance happens at 80 thousand million and 3 million million times a second.
Schwarzschild Kugelbltzes
Drive system based on microscopic blackhole (SK). If you concentrate enough energy in a small enough space it will form a blackhole
Gamma ray lasers proposed to do this (graser)
Debbu
member of the freedom fighters on Naanac and especially within the city of Harromog, he had an official position assigned by their Modos overlords. His was that of an instructor – specifically economics with a subspecialty in forced acquisitions. He held the equivalent of what his new allies in the GCP would call a doctorate
Running Stream
JasNair
MS Typhoon
Conqueror-class dreadnaught – flagship
Captain Breakwater
Lieutenant Quick-Kick
General Moss
Chairman Snatch Bait
Retribution
Uruk Battle Cruiser captained by Fleet Captain Dry-Bait of the Modos Syndicate.
Divine Purpose
Suhtian Defense League's flagship
Modos Liberation Front
Lieutenant Andy McKinney
Lt. Commander Pete LeAnder
Private Anthony Stone
He is Anthony Grant ‘AG’ Stone. Promoted to Sergeant. Becomes Cat’s Aid. Gets promoted to Lieutenant (MAC OIC)…fighter is the Betty Boop. He is promoted to Lieutenant Commander MAC OIC of the Infinity Brigade based out of Marine City.
AM Brown Recluse
Pirate vessel
Randel Hoffman-Cunningham III
Captain of the Brown Recluse until killed by Randy Duggal.
Brantly McGinnis
Weapons Officer aboard the Brown Recluse. He is a swarthy man nick-named Mick-G
Randy Duggal
Manned sensor station aboard the Brown Recluse. He is a young kid probably no more than 18.
BCI
Bureau of Commerce Investigation.
Epsilon Reticuli 23
Kepler-438b
470 light-years away. Its diameter is 12% bigger than Earth.
Kepler-442b
1100 light years away. It is about one-third larger than Earth 97% chance of being in the habitable zone.
Sam Eddington
One of Melbourne’s Maniacs. Cover as a tailor; eyes enhanced – infrared, Wife is Crystal, adopted son is
Rhino
One of Melbourne’s Maniacs. Midway Bar and Grill wife Sandy. Name is Richard Rhins (a.k.a. Rhino)
Captain Hikaro Takei
In command of the GCP Exeter – Yorktown class
Commander Stanton Hall
First Officer of the GCP Exeter
Captain Vigit Purohit
In command of the GCP Relentless
Commander Trifa
Hupenstanii 1st Officer of the GCP Relentless
Lt. Colson
Mans sensors aboard the GCP Yorktown
Commander McMillian
Senior fleet admiral Imera’s aid
Sharn Dragos
Pirate King, leader of Talus IV Pirates, Has a Base on Garden
Trevor Stevens
vice minister of the Department of Political Stability- Melbourne’s Maniacs
Stanene
conducts electricity 100 percent efficiency= single atom layer tin
Melbourne’s Maniacs
Black Ops group
Lieutenant Heather Arris
Alias for Honey
Fleet Admiral Imera
Central Operations Center
Mardarus III
Home world of the Mardarians: Munch, Matti
Ciru
Mardarus III’s largest moon… source of tritium
Nac Nac
Hupenstanii
Captain McCarthy
pirate shuttle pilot… has a co-pilot wife
Nakita
female human software engineer… has a younger brother she cares for
General Hull Dynamics
oppressive Mega Corp
Higgs Relaxation
Leidenfrost Engine
Kind of engine for producing energy based on the Leidenfrost effect -- a phenomenon which happens when a liquid comes into near contact with a surface much hotter than its boiling point. This effect is commonly seen in the way water appears to skitter across the surface of a hot pan, but it also applies to solid carbon dioxide, commonly known as dry ice
Giordano Bruno
Speculated about life on other planets in 1584
Talus IV
Pirate syndicate home base
Qua’tee province
on the Ciru shadow terminus – splinter pirate base on Mardarus III
Multiferroics
1000 times more efficient than transistor electronics
polariton laser
Nemesis
In Greek mythology, Nemesis (Greek, Νέμεσις), also called Rhamnousia/Rhamnusia ("the goddess of Rhamnous") at her sanctuary at Rhamnous, north of Marathon, was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris (arrogance before the deities). Another name was Adrasteia, meaning "the inescapable."[1] The Greeks personified vengeful fate as a remorseless goddess: the goddess of revenge.
The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word νέμειν [némein], meaning "to give what is due".[2]
Lieutenant John Grissom
Impossibly young Helm Officer of the Brown Recluse
Lieutenant Commander “Jax” Jackson
Gold wing Cmdr. Flies Scorpion class attack fighter
Scorpion class attack fighter
entire aft compartment -powerful super capacitor and fusion charging plant- boost the fighter to almost 0.1c. Scorpions operate at 25% Speed of Light – thx to linear acceleration launch bay. Special hyperfield emitter nodes encasing the outside of the small craft allowed the fighter to change the direction of its inertial field so that it could literally reverse direction without sacrificing its velocity. The downside was this ability reduced the number of emitter nodes available for shielding. A Scorpion could take a punch or two from another fighter easily enough but anything larger could pose a serious problem. Weapons-wise the Scorpion packed quite a sting - two wing-mounted plasma turrets that could each swivel in a forty-degree arc. This meant his combat systems could engage two simultaneous targets. In addition the Scorpions could be outfitted with an array of missile ordinance. In addition to the standard Sandie-nanite round, they carried twenty kinetic impact weapons called KIMs and a cloaked tactical nuke.
Lieutenant Commander (Madi) Madison
Cmdr Blue wing
Earth-size planets
10 billion roughly Earth-size planets in the galaxy within their stars’ habitable zones
Kepler 1229b
earth size… orbits a red dwarf in GZ
Ashtoreth
Aggressive foe : Reptilian, Gator mouth, thickly built and muscular, about five and a half feet tall. Ashtorethian male. Gator… Marine slang for Ashtoreth
King Astarte
Imperial leader of the Ashtoreth. Backstory: was a usurper that failed to hold control of an empire in a neighboring galaxy… so came to the Milky Way to restart.
Asdartu
Ashtoreth leader (Lord Captain) reports to his brother, King Astarte. He is Captain of the Dorkra. The Dorkra is destroyed and Asdartu becomes the Lord Captain of the AE
Rotan.
High Centurion Asktear
First Officer aboard the DorKra. Becomes the First Officer aboard the AE Rotan.
Ttylee
Chief Engineer - third wife
Atlar
(promote soon… good wives hard to buy)
Bio-Generation Chamber
BGC - used to create replicant enhanced bodies
Commodore Jeromy Clarkson
commander Fulcrum Taskforce (with GCP Hedison, GCP Basehart) All three ships are STig class GCP starships (STig=???)
Lieutenant Commander Davis
marine from Hedison
Staff Sergeant Jeremy James Hammond
AG Stone’s best friend. Nick named JJ. He is a trouble maker with a month that is too fast to open… bright… top of his class. Geordie accent… fighter: The Rogue Nation. Part of the MAC = Marine Assault Contingent. Promoted to Gunny Sergeant. Promoted to Master Gunny Sergeant in CKC#8. Running gag… “He’s just a lot better at living than dying.”
Gunny Sergeant Ramirez
Marine Assault Contingent (MAC) –Yorktown/ Marine City
Sergeant George Moore
Marine Assault Contingent (MAC) –Yorktown. Promoted to Gunny Sergeant/ Marine City
Commander Ben First
D’rlalu cyborg serving as Yorktown’s First Officer. Becomes Cat’s executive officer and moves with her to Marine City
Doctor Janice Pulaski
Served as the Chief medical officer aboard the Yorktown. Resident expert in bio-regenerative technologies. Serves at Marine City. She is AG Stone’s love interest.
Triska’nar
Medical Corps lead researcher, a female
Elder Trifano
He is a leader of the Hupenstanii. His home on Worldview Station Six in orbit around his planet.
Great Disruption
historical name for the change in the way hyperfield dynamics work
D. Hutsemékers
Author of “Alignment of quasar polarizations with large-scale structures“
Antares system
three jump points. One to Stanus IV which was the last jump before Hupenstanii space. The other two led to Mardarus and Epsilon Prime
Warping spacetime
need a super-fluidic liquid (no friction) that is magnetic… running in a torus adding energy to spins liquid until moving at near relativistic speeds… warps space-time… gravity effects plus Alcubierre warp drive… (think surfboard rider… rider stays still on board but board moves
Commander Tom Riker
Only surviving member of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s original crew. Edmund Fitzgerald transported back in time by the Agur to Venus while it was habitable
AE ReShan
The most powerful ship in the Ashtoreth fleet. Captained by Lord Admiral Nsati of House Durass. Her father owned the shipyards
AE Rotan
Lord Captain Asdartu. The Rotan would be sent to deal with the uprising on the planet, Levenbrech. The shipyards on that particular world were critical to the Empire’s expansion plans.
Lower Centurion Turfas
Communications Officer aboard the AE Rotan
Camp Purejoy
– For Norms. Located 130 klicks north of main spaceport. Two large rivers. Largest is Abas River
Camp Killjoy
For Augments. Located on smallest continent, Ojas is the only of the major land masses on Bashar not to have been terraformed by the colonists. In pristine condition and has its own ecosystem that matches Bashar as it was some three hundred years ago. A lot of unpleasant indigenous predators. Everything from rhino-sized reptiles to large carnivorous birds and flesh-stripping fish. If it’s big, bad and mean… it lives on Ojas
Marine City (MC)– Infinity Brigade (IBR – Infinity Brigade Regulars)
Upper third of WhimPy-101. Covered in a meters thick transparent sapphire dome that was nanite infused. Seventy square kilometers. Ten story high buildings. Restaurant district. Teddy Peters, specialized in smoked salmon.
Paradise Island which was the slang name the marines had given their training center.
Twenty five kilometer exterior track the encircled Marine City. Gym and firing range. Obstacle course
MTC – Marine Trauma Center, Medical center… Including secure engram repository for the Jar Heads… and Bio-generators. Second tallest build after the operations center.
Bridge/Operations Center Massive viewscreen, Cat’s office is near. Marine City was a strange mix of city, space station and starship. The Operations Center reflected that hybrid nature.
Includes four real-time holographic bridge stages for directly interacting with the command crews of four Yorktown class ships at once.
Main briefing room - the main conference room was just outside of the Operations Center. The conference room next to it looked more like the Captain’s ready room on the Yorktown than anything else. It was on the top most floor of the tallest building in Marine City. It stood a full two stories higher than the next tallest building, the Marine Medical Complex.
Marine Medical Complex (MMC): The MMC housed the engram archives used to replicate every marine in the Infinity Brigade, along with enough bio-generators to process hundreds of marines an hour should the need every arise.
Admiral Cat Kimbridge’s office was in Marine City was near the operations center
Lieutenant Tamara
Female communications officer on Marine City
Augments
Marines in the Infinity Brigade after first Big D. They have been enhanced and replicated.
Norms
Marines in the Infinity Brigade before first Big D
Paradise Island
Marine training center (Parris Island)
Lieutenant JG Jacobs
Third platoon (60)
Lieutenant JG Ricky Rodrigues
Second platoon (60)
Lieutenant JG Rebecca Watson
First Platoon (60)
Lieutenant JG Tyrone Mall
Fourth Platoon (60)
Praefectus Niegar
Supreme leader of Ashtoreth forces on Bashar.
First Consul B’sarn
Praefectus Niegar’s second in command.
Ashtoreth Insurrectionists
Roc (eldest son of Bar’Jona), General Bar’Jona
Camp Kurnell
An isolated prisoner of war camp located on an island called Kurnell, off of the western coast of Ojas
AE Empire
Dune Inspired Planets: Bashar(Basharites), Caid, Burseg, Levenbrech
Basharites – Planet Bashar
Manu Yreeb - easily be mistaken for an Earth human of mixed heritage from Western Europe… save for the fact that he was seven foot tall and three hundred and fifty pounds of pure, rock-hard, muscle. His skin had a golden tint. Hazel yellow-green eyes. Human DNA 0.3% different than baseline Terrian. Defective Mitochrondial DNA – defect introduced by Ashtoreth to enslave.
Basharites are genetically related to Survivors of USC Murray Bay captained by Rachael Stevens (Sister of Edward Stevens 1st officer of the Fitz… son also named Edward – Governor of Venus colony found in book #5)
Old Ones
Tannaka the Basharite, Samder Cull second oldest. Both elected to council of Elders
Basharite Council of Elders
Tannaka the Basharite, Samder Cull second oldest. Both elected to council of Elders
Capital city
New Basharite capital city, New Hope
Yorktown Taskforce
GCP Exeter: Captain Hikaro Takei, First Officer Commander Stanton Hall
GCP Mador: Commodore Jason Ruck, First Officer Commander Marlena Nash, Ensign Topen Sensors
GCP Relentless: Captain Vigit Purohit, 1st officer Commander Trifa
GCP Yorktown: Captain Ken KirkLand, First Officer Commander Andrew Martinescu, Comms - Lt. Zimmerman, Sensors - Lt. Colson, Chief Medical Officer - Doctor James Kevorkian
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Copyright © 2016 by Andrew Beery. All rights reserved. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the author or publisher. First Electronic Edition: June 2016