Invisible Hijackers

by D Gemcats Purcell

  INVISIBLE HIJACKERS

  Six of Toigan

  To my dear wife, my bedrock.

  Copyright @ Feb, 2021 by D. Gemcats Purcell. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. In such case, contact contact the author at dgemcats@outlook.com

  ISBN 978-1-7372497-0-2

  Table of Contents

  Places and Characters

  Intro to Jonah of Toigan

  Chapters 1 through 21

  Author biography

  Back page promo

  Characters and places

  A Solar system within the same spiral arm of the Milky Way as the old solar system.

  Time period >50,000 earth years (52234) beyond first migrations from earth world to Mars thence beyond using Musk Jr’s primitive steel canister transports to first head out of their Solar system.

  Human inhabited planets - Toigan my home planet - has 2 moons

  - Baclet another planet near by human inhabited

  - Threeme- planet with three moons same sun system

  1st moon, closest Trat with excellent mining good breathable environment,

  2nd moon Buboni smaller thin atmosphere lots of radiation,

  3rd moon Tsatvik has zinbeests predators and vishes which scavengers and are predators with low oxygen 12% and high carbon dioxide

  - Vishnuk exotic lifeforms and off limits to humans

  - Vutu home of vishes and other dangerous predators

  The Main Control Orbital Station (MCOS) is Toigan’s main permanent base in space, gateway on and off the planet and is also a massive manufacturing station using raw materials mined off various moons and other assets. All spacecraft are built there, with the exception of a few designed to go through dense atmospheric conditions.

  Commander Chu is the present main Chief in charge of the MCOS and he rotates with others every six months.

  The Celeste - fastest and newest of Defnet’s spaceplane capable of 0.7 light year speeds with the newest SuperDrive technology.

  Captain Ronald’s Celeste is based at Main Control Orbital Station (MCOS) which is the largest and one of two transit, security and Clearance outpost. It is also a main space manufacturing center in orbit around Toigan.

  Captain Ronald- the Celeste Captain

  His son -Josh, daughter Rona, wife Rosa.

  Lieutenant Kelvik - one of his main pilots and fire control officers.

  Transfer Center at Trat is a tethered polar orbital station for the berthing of spacecraft and transshipment of refined ores and people.

  Trat mining conglomerate- made up of interests from the private sector plus investment from Threeme, Baclet and Toigan.

  Captain Mischa- commander of an interplanetary tug that towed crew quarters modules plus cargo pods between Trat to Baclet transporting people and valuable ores. He is a modern and telepath from Toigan and a nephew of Jongi.

  Baclet main orbit station (BMOS) one of two orbit stations servicing the space needs of Baclet and a major space manufacturing center.

  Baclet main capital - Tivoliville.

  Commander Ross - in charge of the BMOS

  Munchin - Baclet’s Securinet boss

  Martinette - Baclet’s Defnet’s boss.

  Yodel is his sister and they are very close to each

  Yashid - super wealthy businessman and casino owner on Baclet with three kids one of whom is Jimblatt. Yashid is involved with shady deals as owner of the Mobal group and investor in Trat mining conglomerate. Jimblatt was instrumental in his father’s businesses including setting up untraceable accounts for their ill gotten gains.

  Brataslav and Marybeth pilot the reconfigured freighter Marigot now an armed spaceplane under Yashid’s control.

  Madhi pilots the former SanQuentin also a reconfigured freighter for Yashid

  On Toigan the humans are mostly categorized as

  1.Moderns- live up to 300 years and are genetically enhanced with chromosomal telomeric improvements since in utero with special vaccines and gene splicing and encouragement of unique attributes and make up approximately 80% of the population

  2.Noncoms - nonconformist types who make up 19.9% of the population and are often anti vaccination anti enhancement types, who nevertheless have evolved more naturally from original humans from earth.

  3.Badjans - 0.1% of the population are outlaw types who distance themselves from ordinary society and often includes criminal elements from mostly the Noncoms plus a few who were originally Moderns. They often live away from normal society like in the badlands beyond Bahoe district and often prey on their neighbors

  Noncoms

  JONAH’S parents - Jonah Sr and Elma Capri own 600 acre mostly fruit farm in Dudemar. They are followers of Lord Meneer and his 30 disciples.

  JONAH’S older adopted brother MOOG and his new wife Juliana.

  JONAH’s schoolmates and friends- Charlie who created his AI robot FETCH

  and RUSTON whose parents are factory grown meat farmers.

  Nearby villages to Dudemar include:

  Minorcaville - where Moog’s parents farm is located

  Vinceland - 15 min walk away where Charlie lives and where their school building is located.

  Monrepo - nearby village

  City of Pommerose 1 1/2 hours drive away by Jonah’s Dad old smoker car. Jessi lives in the suburbs, and the others of the group of SIX live within the city limits.

  Bahoe- a rural rough former mining region mostly mountainous about six villages away from Dudemar and rumored to be the hideout of Outlaw Badjans.

  Moderns

  JESSI’S parents- Jace and Susan Wentworth both professors. He can translocate his body, is a weak Telepath, has done some space travel and has created very advanced AI simulator software to prepare others for space travel.

  Susan is a stronger Telepath ( mind reader, psychic communicator)

  Other than Jonah of the SIX who is a Noncom, the others are all Moderns. Other moderns of note, include:

  Amalae - a pilot of dashers (agricultural drones) who first scouted the brilliant and unexpected talents of Jonah Capri at the age of 5, when he took her console and flew her dasher effortlessly.

  Amalae’s boss and his associate - Mr. Morgan and Mr. Waple, who had come to assess Jonah themselves and make initial contact with the power brokers in the society who could train Jonah.

  Badjan

  Gooch - Badjan Outlaw leader who lived in the hills around Bahoe

  Ednet - Toigan’s mostly AI artificial intelligence based system of providing basic standardized and advanced Education at home and at school premises.

  Defnet - defense network for planet of Toigan interplanetary outward looking

  Securinet - multiplicity of police type, coast guard and satellite plus drone surveillance network for villages, cities and thence globally to protect all citizens.

  Playernet - intraplanetary games and competitions from village to global online.

  THE TEAM SIX

  JONAH CAPRI- a Noncom 6’0”, who has special intrinsic telepathic powers to both read and influence other’s minds plus is able ‘to become one’ mentally with electronic and electrical circuits thus able to troubleshoot problems and commanding them to his will. Lately, he has grown after the Immersion and interaction with the other five to sense remote electronic/ electrical power and magnetic energy from a distance. Heavily tanned dark outdoor type used to farm work, hunting and fishing in Dudemar.

  JESSI WENTWORTH - 5’8”, met and bonded telepathically with Jonah during the Immersion, a gorgeous chocolate hued big eyed young lady also with expanding powers. Jonah and Jessi are ne
wly-weds from just months ago.

  MADER - 6’2”, inventor, brilliant who has already contributed to technology for speeding up interplanetary transport raising speeds to 0.7 of a lightyear using transmuted energy from space itself whether from magnetic auras, varied kinds of electromagnetic radiation of all spectrums using AI with special collectors mounted on spacecraft or traditional sources like fusion reactors. He has the ability to mentally bond and interact with all types of AI systems thus commanding improved efficiency. He can send charges of energy into both living systems like plants and animals as well as inanimate objects, being able to sense their energy potential. Also evolving powers. Tall, very dark, with strangely blue eyes. Similarly recently married to a member of Team Five named Adrianna.

  CHERESE -5’2”, telepath, telekinetic able to move objects and people, senses gravity and has antigravity powers. Recently married Arthur from Team Five.

  DILLION - 5’8”, strong interest in agronomy with an incredible sense of smell, already has programmed AI sniffer technology for police work and perfumery industry. Some telepathic ability and growing his repertoire of abilities. Grew up being a neighbor of Cherese and is a close friend and confidant of hers. Moonfaced, slit eyed, thick dark long hair and pale skinned as well as chubby. His love interest is a Noncom neighbor of Jonah’s called Mehia.

  MATT - 5’10”, power to detect vibrations of all types, sound waves in air water and land, infrasound in all mediums as well as magnetic variations with growing telepathic and other powers. He is super friendly and the entertainer.

  The Six - together combined powers to be able to think speak to each other, translocate their bodies, draw in energy from many sources then concentrate it and beam it back elsewhere. They also began to enjoy faster healing and discern invisible cloaks as they bonded and trained together drawing on each other’s known and latent strengths.

  Council of Scientists representatives

  CHOKA-telekinesis and JONGI telepathy

  Their Director of Security for all of Toigan- Mr. Ronald BREECHER -cloaker in chief and teleporter, weaker telepath.

  Proxima Centauri is more than 4 light years away from our sun and is in the Alpha Centauri Tri-Star system and has Proxima b as one of 2 planets so far discovered.

  Traveling at 25-100 miles/Sec away from Earth and Mars with stops in the Oort Cloud and beyond to reprovision their fuels water and other supplies, it took our early humans more than 1000 earth years to get to the Proxima Centauri system and plant their first real colony. Their technology focused on fusion reactors involving the ejection of subatomic and atomic particles using electrical and magnetic forces at very high velocities thus pushing their interplanetary crafts at high speeds allowing humans to conquer more territory faster. They were able to gallop ahead from then on, with spread a further 20 light years beyond in Man’s quest for adventure, discovery and wealth.

  JONAH of TOIGAN

  Toigan a planet 20 light years located further out on the spiral arms of the Milky Way compared to old earth.

  On our planet of Toigan, there are regular folks making up 80% of the population called ‘Moderns’, who participated in society fully; there were ‘non- conformists’ who chose to avoid enhancements both of a genetic nature and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based programming plus body and mental arming, some even were anti-vaccination. On Toigan they were called ‘Noncoms’ and there are a tiny percentage of people mostly the noncom background who are called ‘Outlaws’. They often live rough off the land as scavengers, kidnappers and murderers though less than 0.1% of the population.

  ‘Noncoms’ therefore make up roughly 20% of the Toigan population. Since they eschewed some, if not all of the benefits of their advanced society, they generally ended up being relegated to less cerebral and more menial occupations. Often this involved vegetable farming and protein manufacturing as well as other occupations within the service industry. Lots of their youngsters as they grew into teen years however, opted for the enhancements. That meant that those noncoms were already often lagging behind in their competition to reach their maximal potential, as they would have missed the early genetic enhancements available in childhood to the moderns. Occasionally, because of natural mutations a kid from the ‘Noncom’ group, proves to have innate gifts. I am Jonah and I am one such kid.

  My father Jonah Sr and Mom Elma Capri are simple folks coming from a long line of farmers, growing fruits and honey, supplementing their income by hunting and fishing. We are also Meneers worshipping the Lord Meneer and his disciples, all 30 of them. We all follow the moral code of our faith dutifully and mostly participate in society. Since I could remember, maybe around the age of 5, when my father had to call in the flyers with their remote controlled dashers to spray the orchards due to an infestation of locooms that were destroying the farm and one of them called Amalae allowed me to handle the console, I wanted to be one! I got to help program the flight path skirting around the hills and large trees. The lady flyer Amalae was amazed at my inherent skills and told my Dad that I should be given some training. She told him that even among the enhanced moderns as she was, it would be unusual to have a kid of my age show this much talent. My Dad thinking that maybe it could prove beneficial to him and his fellow farmers in the long term was pleased, though he was personally against all that genetic and surgical enhancement that the Moderns allowed on their children.

  I remember praying to Lord Meneer for my dad to allow me to become a flyer. You see, all I had to do was simply look at the console and somehow mentally command the dasher to fly up down and sideways as I looked at the topographic map on the little screen. Even Amalae had to control it by a ‘little joystick’ as she called it. Somehow I could in her presence, just seem to know what she herself would have commanded the dasher to do. She never could understand, how without training, that I could have known how high to fly, how much of the chemical flow rate to allow and how to change flight pattern based on wind changes. I never did let her know exactly how i did it. She begged my Dad to allow me to be taken to the advanced training programs, so that they could test me. Obviously she must have alerted the authorities as to my incredible ability, since over the years she and others from the education department made regular treks to meet my Mum and Dad to see for themselves my abilities.

  Anyway my Dad needed me at the farm as I was their only natural child and their second helper alongside Moog, who they had adopted at age 1 before I was born. His parents had died in an accident on their farm in Minorcaville. Moog was already aged 11, a big brother compared to me at age 5 when the dasher incident occurred. We lived far away in a rural township of Dudemar, in the heart of fruit growing country, very comfortable with the routines of farm-life, taking my schooling mostly at home via Ednet plus one or two days physically attending school.

  Thankfully my parents were not extremist in their views and believed in vaccinations for us all, although they did not like genetic enhancements. Those enhancements mostly entailed shots with viruses that would splice beneficial DNA into a person’s cells so that it became part of a person’s genome. They allowed most of those for me once I turned 10, when I expressed my wish to have it. Moog wanted no part of that in his body. But then, Moog didn’t want to become a Flyer and certainly had no interest in becoming an interplanetary explorer! That last dream I did not share with my parents until age 11! I guess I have always been a bit coy and tight lipped about my desires around everyone. Maybe it was because I could somehow know what they were thinking, before I opened my mouth! I had that ability to connect to others minds, for better or worse.

  Jessi and I (Jonah) now formerly married mates, met during the Immersion which is like a super charged college plus adult maturation education stuffed into our brains in under a week using the most up to date technology, two years ago. Along with Matt, Mader, Cherese and Dillion we developed an amazing bond thereafter. We then went on a Quest which molded us into a cohesive team called Six, managing to dramatically increase our special abil
ities and talents. We worked together to bring down four major Badjan Outlaw crime syndicates on Toigan and committed together to working for Defnet as a group to deal with interplanetary problems. Along the way while in training we met another similar group called Five. So far four of us in Six have found love, gotten married, Cherese, Mader, Jessi and I. Cherese is married to Arthur of the group Five. Mader is also married to group Five member Adrianna

  CHAPTERS

  1.The Call

  2.Shipping Up

  3.The Celeste

  4.Mischa Crashed on Tsatvik

  5.The Hijack

  6.Locating the Crash

  7.The Rescue

  8.Locating the hijackers

  9.The Kill Zone

  10.Baclet Main Orbit Station

  11.Yashid’s Spy

  12.Welcome to Baclet

  13.Yashid

  14.Martinette and Munchin

  15.Unraveling the Syndicate

  16.Professor Wainscot

  17.Closing the trap

  18.Ambush the Hijackers

  19.Interrogation

  20.Back to Toigan

  21.Mission complete Funtime

  1. THE CALL