by Chris Hechtl
Inspiring Art:
http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-model-of-passenger-sceneries-space/934395
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6B2Px
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/DgmR
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VDJ5Z
Medicine:
http://gizmodo.com/brain-implant-enables-quadriplegic-man-to-play-guitar-h-1770566874
Misc:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilmarinen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishvakarman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Justicia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus
Sneak Peek:
The following is a raw snippet from Jethro 5 Gods of War. (yes I changed the title)
Pete Danvers was nervous, not that he wanted it to show. To anyone else this was just another work day... not that anyone was in the room with him. At least, he hoped not, he thought.
He'd swept the room when he'd used his skeleton key to gain access. The key wasn't registered to him so he knew the entry wouldn't be traced back to him.
Nerves, he thought as he worked. Just nerves, just something to get over, he thought as he slid the pancake sized device in between the mattress and box spring.
He had worked through various assassination ideas while the Neocat had been on base. When the Neocat had left he'd thought he'd missed his opportunity. But a judicious check had told him the cat's gear was still there. He was also still in the database, so he had to be coming back sometime.
His near loss of killing his target had spurred him to action. What action had taken him all of a day to think through. He'd finally settled on a bomb. Sometimes the simplest were the best methods, even if they weren't up close and personal. A remote trigger was out so he had to go with a mechanical one rigged the bed.
Explosives weren't really his thing, he'd learned about them in an assist on another job years ago, so that was another reason he'd kept it all simple. A simple mechanical trigger rigged to the center of the bed. When the pressure plate was triggered by the weight of a body pressing down it would arm the device. When the weight shifted or came off it would set off the device.
It was essentially a mine. Old fashioned, but effective. His used a mix of fertilizer and chemical's he had access to as a janitor. They were pretty common so they would be practically impossible to trace. He'd taped the outside of the explosive with screws and scrap metal to help do as much damage as possible to his intended target.
He needed to get it set up and then out of the room fast. The longer the cameras in the hall were disabled the longer someone had to realize it and wonder why. He unfortunately didn't have the skills to loop the camera feed in the system, that was a blind spot he hoped he wouldn't regret.
He finished setting the trigger between the mattress and the box-spring. A small hole he'd cut with a box cutter allowed him to fish the wire through. The wire would connect to the piezoelectric barbeque igniter he'd rigged. The crystal would generate the spark to ignite the bomb. He wiped the area and wire he'd touched down with a solvent pad and then crawled out from under the bed. His cart was where he left it. He pulled open the box and checked the bomb within.
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Sorry, but the rest you'll have to wait and see when Jethro 5 is released in late 2016!