Defying the Prophet: A Military Space Opera (The Sentience Trilogy Book 2) by Gibson Michaels Page B
Authors: Gibson Michaels
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seconds. Therefore most laboratory gloves do not provide adequate protection from it, as it is readily absorbed through the skin. I merely purchased a company that manufactures NMR devices for the medical field, so obtaining dimethylmercury was not difficult with the proper regulatory credentials. I think we should hold on to that company for a while, as we can export these medical research devices and then route them back to the Confederacy.
“Agreed. When do you think Aneke will begin displaying symptoms?”
In about five months, he should begin exhibiting loss of balance, numbness in his extremities and slurred speech — eventually feeling quite ill and later, a pronounced effect on his hearing and vision. When he finally goes into a hospital to get the symptoms checked out, they’ll find mercury in his blood at 70-100 times toxic levels. It will already be much too late to save him. Sometime around three weeks after symptoms first appear, Aneke will fall into a coma from which he will never recover. Death will then occur within weeks.
* * * *
Mystic Fleet Shipyard, Helix Nebula
Late July, 3862
The crews at the Mystic Fleet Shipyard, hidden near the Green Star within the Helix Nebula, just outside of Sextus space, worked around the clock repairing what damage they could to the ships from the Confederate 3 rd Fleet. Admiral Eileen Thorn was pleased to discover that the overhauls to the majority of the nine old battleships towed from Haven Alliance Fleet Reserve Facility at Conn were nearly complete. The recent arrival of several hundred new spacers, who had recently completed their initial ratings training, enabled Thorn began conducting cross-training to integrate these new spacers into her fleet. She primarily assigned these green crewmembers, along with a spattering of senior and mid-level ratings, to crew her destroyers, while reshuffling assignments throughout her fleet and utilizing volunteers from amongst the fleet retirees at Mystic, to put experienced, if only skeletal, crews aboard the battleships.
Thorn also dispatched fighters carrying messages ordering Confederate Fleet Marines stationed at Louisa and Bama to load aboard transports and to rendezvous with her at a designated set of coordinates, five light-hours out from her target. When everything was finally ready, the repaired and replenished Confederate 3 rd Fleet sallied to surprise Grant Loggins at Tensee.
* * * *
Chapter-7
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression, for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. — Thomas Paine
The Maylan System
The Planetoid Discol, City of Waston
August, 3862
Alliance Press (AP): Waston – News Release (08/01/62)
Alliance Press has received multiple unconfirmed reports of a major battle between Federal and Confederate forces occurring recently within the Maylan system. Despite multiple attempts to confirm these reports, there has yet been no acknowledgement by either the Fleet or governmental sources. AP sources state that three Federal task forces, comprising a full fleet, under the command of Vice Admiral Myron Brooks, was heavily engaged within the system’s asteroid field, where the Federal fleet’s numbers advantage could not be fully exploited, with a single Confederate task force, reportedly commanded by the infamous Southern pirate, Benjamin Stillman. While reportedly on the verge of dislodging and destroying Stillman’s raiders, Brooks’ fleet was suddenly crushed after the surprise emergence of an entire Confederate battlefleet behind him, under the renegade Fleet Admiral Roger Kalis, resulting in yet another disastrous defeat for the Alliance Federal Fleet.
* * * *
Commander John “Bat” Masterson was infamous throughout Alliance Fleet Headquarters for two things — his legendary lack of military protocol and his uncanny sixth-sense , which enabled him to make intuitive leaps, denied mere ordinary
“Agreed. When do you think Aneke will begin displaying symptoms?”
In about five months, he should begin exhibiting loss of balance, numbness in his extremities and slurred speech — eventually feeling quite ill and later, a pronounced effect on his hearing and vision. When he finally goes into a hospital to get the symptoms checked out, they’ll find mercury in his blood at 70-100 times toxic levels. It will already be much too late to save him. Sometime around three weeks after symptoms first appear, Aneke will fall into a coma from which he will never recover. Death will then occur within weeks.
* * * *
Mystic Fleet Shipyard, Helix Nebula
Late July, 3862
The crews at the Mystic Fleet Shipyard, hidden near the Green Star within the Helix Nebula, just outside of Sextus space, worked around the clock repairing what damage they could to the ships from the Confederate 3 rd Fleet. Admiral Eileen Thorn was pleased to discover that the overhauls to the majority of the nine old battleships towed from Haven Alliance Fleet Reserve Facility at Conn were nearly complete. The recent arrival of several hundred new spacers, who had recently completed their initial ratings training, enabled Thorn began conducting cross-training to integrate these new spacers into her fleet. She primarily assigned these green crewmembers, along with a spattering of senior and mid-level ratings, to crew her destroyers, while reshuffling assignments throughout her fleet and utilizing volunteers from amongst the fleet retirees at Mystic, to put experienced, if only skeletal, crews aboard the battleships.
Thorn also dispatched fighters carrying messages ordering Confederate Fleet Marines stationed at Louisa and Bama to load aboard transports and to rendezvous with her at a designated set of coordinates, five light-hours out from her target. When everything was finally ready, the repaired and replenished Confederate 3 rd Fleet sallied to surprise Grant Loggins at Tensee.
* * * *
Chapter-7
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression, for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. — Thomas Paine
The Maylan System
The Planetoid Discol, City of Waston
August, 3862
Alliance Press (AP): Waston – News Release (08/01/62)
Alliance Press has received multiple unconfirmed reports of a major battle between Federal and Confederate forces occurring recently within the Maylan system. Despite multiple attempts to confirm these reports, there has yet been no acknowledgement by either the Fleet or governmental sources. AP sources state that three Federal task forces, comprising a full fleet, under the command of Vice Admiral Myron Brooks, was heavily engaged within the system’s asteroid field, where the Federal fleet’s numbers advantage could not be fully exploited, with a single Confederate task force, reportedly commanded by the infamous Southern pirate, Benjamin Stillman. While reportedly on the verge of dislodging and destroying Stillman’s raiders, Brooks’ fleet was suddenly crushed after the surprise emergence of an entire Confederate battlefleet behind him, under the renegade Fleet Admiral Roger Kalis, resulting in yet another disastrous defeat for the Alliance Federal Fleet.
* * * *
Commander John “Bat” Masterson was infamous throughout Alliance Fleet Headquarters for two things — his legendary lack of military protocol and his uncanny sixth-sense , which enabled him to make intuitive leaps, denied mere ordinary
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