The Catherine Kimbridge Chronicles #8, Replicants Page 21

  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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