by Chris Hechtl
Percy: flight engineer. -sent to ground on Harper's flight
Lieutenant Selena White -with husband -on honeymoon in orbit. Air Force staff officer @ L-4 transfers to Olympus -promoted to Major.
Lieutenant Commander Bex Mizu -Korean naval officer on leave at L-4. Transfers to Olympus
Colonel Terra Sinclair -Australian army. staff officer. L-4 vacation. Transfers to Olympus -transferred to corps command field army. Promoted to brigadier.
Wednesday Sinclair -wife of Terra. Australian. former Major. reactivated. Transferred to L-5 staging. DR Who fan. -promoted to colonel.
Lieutenant Portia -pilot, commander of Murtough's shuttle
Tao-ling Si -Taiwan. commander of a Chinese space station in Earth orbit. -naval commander in reserves
Huan Abner -Hong Kong British accent
Lin Mae -Manager.
Miashi Chi -head of relations Chinese station. (hotel manager/concubine pimp)
Major Ziva Yanakov -Israeli in orbit. reservist.
Brigader General Ullen Schlock -Aussie general
Brigader General Lois Martell -British general -returned to service
Lieutenant Jenine Shepard -medical officer staff
Oleg Vert -Pavilon security lead. Stocky man, broad shoulders, long face.
Boomer:Corporal then Sergeant (April 2200) Thomas “Boomer” Aspin medal of honor recipient. Marine ordinance disposal expert. Former K-9. both partners KIA. Bumper recently killed by a traffic accident. Both partners had been neos.
the 1st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group Camp Pendleton
Sergeant Major James Neal-noncom boss head noncom of regiment -survived Judgment day. On leave
General Burk -general in charge of the regiment
colonel Smarlet -colonel in charge of battalion -KIA
Sergeant James Macky: sergeant in charge of company. -KIA
Shaker: private in company
Lieutenant J.C. Parker -daughter killed by small robot. Lives for revenge on machines. Has robotic dolls of all sizes hanging like paper dolls.
Private Polly -skinny female. 4.5feet. Flat chested, short cropped hair. Good scout.
Ruffus -former marine. Recon trained. Smart.
On the farm:
Orlin Aspin: father of Boomer -KIA
Jasmine Aspin: Mother to Boomer. -KIA
Boomer Aspin: See note above
Agent Hallis: Lagroose lead investigator. sent to recover Bumper's body. -KIA
Malo -Lagroose tech -KIA
2 others on team. 1 female, Dru -KIA
Shawn -spear carrier -KIA
Roger Nib-spear carrier Bowman
Molly Grue -greenhouse horticulturalist found in town.
Sora Hanna Jingle -mechanic in town -female lesbian. chocolate skin, frizzy hair. Throw back to old days. -KIA
Tara Hart Jingle -teenage daughter of Sora. Snow white skin with iridescent spiral Celtic tattoo, purple hair red eyes. Elf ears -KIA
Stephani Hart Jingle -mother to Tara, wife to Sora. Estranged. Was on her way back to town when judgment day happened. ended up on farm with Tara. Snow white skin, red and yellow shoulder length hair like flames. Elf ears. -KIA
Cally -woman with a hunting rifle
Jax -hunting rifle sniper. -KIA
2 guys survived -Holland and Grier (Grier has electrical/mechanic training)
4 snowmobiles with carry sleds.
Chica -small mutt.
Brie- female teenager. lesbian. black hair in pigtail ponytails.
Leon -Asian/negro teenager. like a brother to Brie. found Chica
Ensign Ro -USN ensign. Short black hair. Scared kid.
Major Ling -former captain ling of Soldiers of the future story. Travel with Ensign Ro.
Fiben Bolenger IV -Neochimp Lagroose employee and survivor on the ground. Leader of the South American clean up sector.
Clive Newhaven: Neochimp Lagroose Employee and survivor on the ground with Fiben -KIA robot
Pat 'Wash on' Morita -human, Asian.
Boyd Silest -human male, native to Earth Liaison with Fiben's team. -KIA robot
Kelsy 'Babycakes' Nelson -human female. Pavilion employee on vacation. Actually spying on Lagroose. Hooked up with Fiben's crew.
Asa Celi: mother to Imda. Indian.
Steve Brunswick -Donnie partner -KIA robot
Donnie: litter-mate of Ace. Neodoberman gen 1.01. security oriented.
Pepe Oyez :Plumber.
Sparky: welder/cutter
Doctor Harper Collins: neochimp medic. Lieutenant. Also leader of his squad -South west Columbia. Papayan. Hook up with Fiben's crew -promoted to Captain and put in charge of Europe refugees.
Paudrick -human soldier. Harper's squad -KIA
Baxter -human.
Ace -Neodoberman, Harper's squad. Serves as a sergeant.
Copper: young Neodoberman, Harper's squad.
Theo -human
Percy -shuttle flight engineer.
Sammy “Sam I am” Siam -copilot
Magnus -pilot
Miguel -native got his face cut up by a bandit
Padre -
Chico- Taco maker
Lion Inez -gardener
Okinawa:
Ochi: KIA
Chi: scout
Hachiko, an Akita created in japan from stolen Lagroose gen 8 canine DNA. conditioned to be very loyal to it's handlers.
Sensie Asuma: Leader of Chi's survival group
Mu: Kage of Earth clan.
2ND Massachusetts militia
Survival group.
Colonel Weaver
Thomas Mason
New York:
Saul Roshenko : Direct action director for luddites. Dirty pool expect. Russian, has ties to russian mob. Black eyes, not afraid of getting hands dirty. Scares Megan. no relation to Mars Roshenko family.
Megan Su Marketing director Luddites. Public affairs. short black hair, brown eyes. -hysterical, mind retreated. treated like an animal, pussy and mouth for pleasure. Tortured and raped by crew then killed before leaving new york.
4 guards from One Earth. Vanna Forchenko, (slim) Pasha (mechanic, gut), Georgy Romov (big but quiet) Olof, Ox, Zencheno
Charlie: gun guy who turned over a gun stash to Saul. -potential threat to his leadership. KIA
Edmund Dadsworth: 'Daddy' Low land Gorilla neo. In charge of security in the ape/dog/cat sectors.
Jamey McGilicutty :Human Chimera who changed himself into a lion hybrid. -team leader sent to Africa Lieutenant then Captain.
Zambo -Park ranger. Swahili. Attached to cat as Sergeant. Midnight black, tall, with white even teeth.
Osbert: Snarf. Created by Genetek as a competitive being to Lagroose. Resented Aurelia.
Eggbert: Snarf One of 3 originals remaining
Oswald: Snarf. One of 3 originals remaining.
Ollie-Snarfer: latest generation of Snarf. Nephew of Osbert. Son of Morris.
Tumagar: Neoselkie walrus (modeled after Thundercats) Beachmaster (Patriarch) of his clan. -team leader sent to Brazil
Sergeant Silm -Tumagar squad noncom. Male human.
Private Olson -Tumagar squad spear carrier. Male human.
Corporal Koko -Tumagar squad JR noncom. Female mountain gorilla.
Selkie:
Eska (inuit means creek) -female
Nerromiktok (Soft to the Touch) -female
Agloolik (Good Spirit) -female
Corazon (Heart)
Bertha -named by a human -elephant seal
Amak (Playful) -female
Malik (Wave) -young bull, son of Tumagar
Unalaq (West Wind) middle aged bull
Duncan: Dalmation neodog. Medic/SAR volunteered to go groundside. -survived attempted landing in North America, went to space.
Ace, hooch, McGruff, Copper, others all security. All go groundside in first wave. Ace noncom. Copper with him on Harper's squad.
Paco Attila Effriam -Russi
an team leader. Sent to Russia. Russian/hispanic heritage. Gang leader. Dirty Dozen. -KIA Ludmilla
Wladislaw -second in command
Vladek -KIA truck.
Jiminez -KIA Ludmilla
Gilpin -KIA Ludmilla
Posey -KIA Ludmilla
Sherman Koit Sawyer -KIA
Pinkley -KIA
Lever -KIA Ludmilla
Bravos -KIA air strike
Yang/Su -squad leaders sent to China
Vasquez, Tia Carmen, and Quartermain. North American squad leaders sent down. Quartermain KIA. Carmen and Vasquez survive to orbit.
Lieutenant Yuli- Platoon leader under General Elliot, Africa
Paul Branson: Brown haired human, drinking buddy of Harper. Hits on women. -killed in first landing
Dau “Chickadee” Mauer: female neochimp
Mayor of Axial 1: Paudric Ross
Mayor of Axial 2 Doctor Cyrus Sing -Asian born in Hawaii.
Mayor of Island 3 Bart Ellington -human. elected leader of the space colonies. (selected by the other mayors)
Kei Nihon
Senator Brakin -Senator with a committee exploring Lagrange points.
Representative Ilia Saigon -California congress rep. Progressive. Korean from LA koreatown.
Representative Evan Montenegro -Texas Congressional rep.
Doctor Chang: Cloning and flash growth expert.
Azul Yousef -leader of middle east community
Senator Akins -Mars
Elliot's team:
Dirk Bently: Human. Bit of a wise ass.
Captain Patrick Paddy Wilson: Improvised tug driver. New England accent. From Cape Cod.
Queen Diane -14 year old ruler of the UK. in space undergoing liver and pancreas replacement when the war broke out. Now ruler of the UK.
President Shantell Sominall-Tenninson -president of Mars. great granddaughter of Latisha Sominall. Married into the Tenninson family.
Doctor Otto Miter: secretary of the treasury. Economist. Taught at Mars U.
Choji Asazi: Mars Federation Investigation Assistant Director. Big guy, bass voice. Mostly muscle. Squint. Wears a long scarf.
Appendix:
As usual, my blog:
http://cyberforge3d.blogspot.com/
And the Wikia: (Which we will hopefully get around to working on)
http://federation-datanet.wikia.com/wiki/Federation_AI_Historical_Datanet_Wiki
Warfare:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/06/boeing-anti-uav-laser/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijp3-zjTIp0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/12/darpa-harvard-soft-exosuit/
http://gizmodo.com/kill-switches-for-military-weaponry-a-great-idea-that-1630098285
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/18/boeing-and-hacking-team-spyware-drones/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101218082749AAyERs1
AI:
http://io9.com/cool-experiment-puts-asimovs-first-law-of-robotics-to-t-1634921913
http://gizmodo.com/googles-dream-robot-is-running-wild-across-the-internet-1715839224
http://io9.com/we-should-not-dismiss-the-dangers-of-killer-robots-so-1724121965
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
http://io9.com/this-robot-just-passed-a-rudimentary-self-awareness-tes-1718582523
Robotics:
http://io9.com/leading-experts-sign-an-open-letter-calling-for-a-ban-o-1720367895
Space:
http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/8866/where-to-anchor-my-space-elevator
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/21/nasa-iss-gas-station-satellite-inspection/
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-foster-partners-want-to-3d-print-a-martia-1732971874
Medicine:
http://io9.com/our-pets-are-turning-into-cyborgs-1668268176
http://gizmodo.com/meanwhile-in-the-future-extreme-body-modification-1716137979
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/27/microscopic-fish-could-clean-toxins-from-your-bloodstream/
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/17/ibm-wires-up-neuromorphic-chips-like-a-rodents-brain/
Misc:
http://io9.com/10-horrifying-technologies-that-should-never-be-allowed-1635238363
http://io9.com/8-craziest-mega-engineering-projects-we-could-use-to-re-1721978766
http://io9.com/gray-goo-scenarios-and-how-to-avoid-them-1724622907
http://io9.com/i-cant-stop-laughing-at-this-3-billion-lord-of-the-rin-1724002061
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/20/carbon-from-the-air/
http://gizmodo.com/the-future-will-be-full-of-lab-grown-meat-1720874704
Inspiring art:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/fire-16d5a1c7-487a-4abb-b1aa-b7c76f589384
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/titansgrave-runcible
Sneak Peek:
The following is a raw excerpt from Pirate Rage:
Five weeks after they were given the go order, the North Hampton class light cruisers Mikhail Kutuzov and Wanda Lu jumped into the Destria star system 1 light minute short of the the normal jump zone. They probed the star system carefully with passive sensors and recon drones before they switched to active sensors and moved in deeper. “There aren't any ships in orbit. CIC is picking up satellites however,” the sensor officer reported.
“Understood. Guns, I want recon probes sent out in every direction. I don't want to get caught with our pants down around our ankles like Firefly did,” captain Casper Boo intoned. The lieutenant commander was a pure white Neocat with pale blue eyes and an unenviable name. He made up for it by doing his job to the best of his ability. He had Lieutenant Commander Maggie Courtland by date of rank despite the fact that the two of them had graduated in the same class. He had a shade more experience in the hot seat than she did and liked to rib her about it.
The one limited good thing that had happened after Firefly had stepped on it's sword was that the poor showing had been a wake up call to the rest of the military. The gory example of overconfidence made them all think twice and look twice at unknown star systems before they moved in closer. Suspicion and caution was now ingrained into their psyche all over again. No one wanted to fall into the same trap, not if they could help it.
“No sir. Definitely not. Recon shell launch in five sir. We'll need to coordinate with Wanda Lu to get it right.”
“Then do so,” the captain ordered.
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As they moved cautiously through the star system over the course of several days their recon shell reported no sign of enemy ships. There was also no ion trails except old ones in and out.
“They've got a dozen satellites in orbit skipper,” the CIC rating reported when they moved within 5 light minutes of the planet.
“Can we hit them from this far out Guns?” the captain asked, eying the Relgarth TACO.
“I believe so,” the reptile hissed, scanning her instruments. First Lieutenant Warm Blood IXL was very good at her job, and like any good tactical officer she was a bit blood thirsty. She also wanted to learn martial arts with the Marines however she had a bad habit of biting, clawing, and savaging an opponent when in unarmed combat training so they'd banned her. Respectively of course.
“KEW strikes. Hit them from here if you can. Each one you miss means you owe a lap around the ship,” the skipper said. “Fire when ready.”
“Consider it done,” the Relgarth hissed.
“Hopefully right,” the helm rating murmured to his partner. That tail of hers can seriously bruise some shins in passing,” he muttered.