Re: RI May 2018

From	ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written
Subject	Re: RI May 2018
Date	2018-08-19 16:32 +0000
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In article <1b89e28c-a0b8-47ad-a712-dbccf07493e6@googlegroups.com>,
 <tsbrueni@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 9:22:54 PM UTC-7, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> Species C1764: Book 1 of the Eridani Series 
>> by C.G. William  
>> https://amzn.to/2sugrsM
>> 
>> Thanks to Kade Green in RASFW for pointing out this series!
>> 
>> The Earth/Mars war is over.  Both planets are scarred, but the weaponization
>> of anti-matter has made the cost too high for both sides for hostilities
>> to continue.  Now as a symbol of the restored peace, both homeworld and
>> colony will participate in the first experimental FTL jaunt, which will,
>> as a planned consequence, use up both planets' remaining anti-matter stores.
>> 
>> With Mars's greatest pilot, Lt. Malcom, and Earth's greatest scientist,
>> the sociopathic, Susan Calvinesque, Dr. Lincoln, on board, the experimental
>> ship "Longboat" does in fact make the strange-matter/anti-matter powered
>> jump across the Solar System faster than the speed of light.  And, with the
>> symbolism accomplished, and the sub-rosa purpose achieved, it seems this may
>> be the last FTL flight for many years as the governments of both sides
>> would rather reap the peace dividend and start erasing the planetary
>> scars of war rather than follow up the historic flight.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, the choice is not really in their hands, and other eyes have
>> been watching events in the Solar System.  Normally, the Empire enjoys a
>> leisurely schedule for the sterilization of Class C species, and in fact
>> based on their previously measured level of civilization, species C1764 
>> is not on the schedule for another few hundred years.  It is just bad luck
>> that an Imperial patrol ship is in position to read emissions of what
>> seems, impossibly given the presumed tech level, to be anti-matter reactions
>> in the system inhabited by C1764.  The Regent must be informed immediately,
>> and if the High Scientists' analysis that C1764 has discovered a method
>> of FTL which can expand the Empire faster than pushing out tachyon navigation
>> buoys on STL flights, it must be had...  at any cost.
>
>So Earth & Mars would have to produce more antimatter fast!

Ah, but both Earth & Mars have destroyed their antimatter production facilities
and used the last of the antimatter for the celebratory FTL flight..

Or so it would seem.
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RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-04 04:22 +0000
  Re: RI May 2018 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-04 11:02 -0700
    Re: RI May 2018 ted@hotrod.bn02868.foressc.wayport.net (Ted Nolan) - 2018-06-04 23:21 +0000
    Re: RI May 2018 "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> - 2018-08-18 20:08 +0000
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  Re: RI May 2018 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-06-04 14:39 -0700
  Re: RI May 2018 D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-06-05 12:50 +0000
    Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-05 17:39 +0000
  Re: RI May 2018 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-07 09:21 -0700
    Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-07 16:52 +0000
      Re: RI May 2018 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-07 14:20 -0700
        Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-07 21:25 +0000
          Re: RI May 2018 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-07 14:56 -0700
      Re: RI May 2018 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-06-07 16:46 -0500
        Re: RI May 2018 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-06-08 13:58 +0000
          Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-08 17:01 +0000
            Re: RI May 2018 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-08 10:30 -0700
              Re: RI May 2018 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-08 17:34 +0000
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