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    Quantum Troopers Episode 15: A Black Hole
    Quantum Troopers Episode 15: A Black Hole
    Quantum Troopers Episode 15: A Black Hole
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    Quantum Troopers Episode 15: A Black Hole

    By Philip Bosshardt

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    Episode 15, Quantum Troopers. With his detachment, Johnny Winger makes it safely back to Earth, but fragments of the rogue asteroid diverted by Red Hammer still impact the planet, causing destruction across the globe. Worse, a saboteur has turned up inside Quantum Corps, a nanotrooper never suspected. Now, the troopers are suspicious of all ANAD systems. With Doc Frost gone, the troopers find a new mentor to follow, a nanobotic likeness of Doc himself. But can Doc II be trusted? The Red Hammer cartel still has plans to defeat Quantum Corps and Doc II is the key.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilip Bosshardt
    Release dateNov 4, 2016
    ISBN9781370379682
    Quantum Troopers Episode 15: A Black Hole
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    Philip Bosshardt

    Philip Bosshardt is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He works for a large company that makes products everyone uses...just check out the drinks aisle at your grocery store. He’s been happily married for over 20 years. He’s also a Georgia Tech graduate in Industrial Engineering. He loves water sports in any form and swims 3-4 miles a week in anything resembling water. He and his wife have no children. They do, however, have one terribly spoiled Keeshond dog named Kelsey.For details on his series Tales of the Quantum Corps, visit his blog at qcorpstimes.blogspot.com or his website at http://philbosshardt.wix.com/philip-bosshardt.

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      Quantum Troopers Episode 15 - Philip Bosshardt

      Quantum Troopers

      Episode 15: A Black Hole

      Published by Philip Bosshardt at Smashwords

      Copyright 2016 Philip Bosshardt

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      A few words about this series….

      *** Quantum Troopers is a series of 15,000- 20,000 word episodes detailing the adventures of Johnny Winger and his experiences with the United Nations Quantum Corps.

      *** Each episode will be about 40-50 pages, approximately 20,000 words in length.

      *** A new episode will be available and uploaded every 3 weeks.

      *** There will be 22 episodes. The story will be completely serialized in about 14 months.

      *** Each episode is a stand-alone story but will advance the greater theme and plot of the story arc.

      *** The main plotline: U.N. Quantum Corps must defeat the criminal cartel Red Hammer’s efforts to steal or disable their new nanorobotic ANAD systems.

      *** Uploads will be made to www.smashwords.com on approximately the schedule below:

      Episode # Title Approximate Upload Date

      1 ‘Atomgrabbers’ 1-14-16

      2 ‘Nog School’ 2-8-16

      3 ‘Deeno and Mighty Mite’ 2-29-16

      4 ‘ANAD’ 3-21-16

      5 ‘Table Top Mountain’ 4-11-16

      6 ‘I, Lieutenant John Winger…’ 5-2-16

      7 ‘Hong Chui’ 5-23-16

      8 ‘Doc Frost’ 6-13-16

      9 ‘Demonios of Via Verde’ 7-5-16

      10 ‘The Big Bang’ 7-25-16

      11 ‘Engebbe’ 8-15-16

      12 ‘The Symbiosis Project’ 9-5-16

      13 ‘Small is All!’ 9-26-16

      14 ‘’The HNRIV Factor’ 10-17-16

      15 ‘A Black Hole’ 11-7-16

      16 ‘ANAD on Ice’ 11-29-16

      17 ‘Lions Rock’ 12-19-16

      18 ‘Geoplanes’ 1-9-17

      19 ‘Mount Kipwezi’ 1-30-17

      20 ‘Doc II’ 2-20-17

      21 ‘Paryang Monastery’ 3-13-17

      22 ‘Epilogue’ 4-3-17

      Chapter 1

      Hailstorm

      Aboard UNS Galileo

      May 21, 2049

      Four Days to Earth Impact

      Measuring separation…I am seeing a little, Al Glance announced. He had a scope on the target zone. Maybe a few meters…more at the lower end of the Fissure.

      Okay, let’s do another round, Mendez announced. The coilgun was recycled, coils re-charged, new shots loaded.

      Fire it!

      The flash-snap! crackled through the hull again and another mushroom two kilometers below them announced the impact.

      What’s she look like now? Kamler asked.

      Johnny Winger put the targeting scope on the impact site. Most of the ground was obscured by dust and rubble, thick and slow-moving like a ground fog in the asteroid’s minute gravity field. Hard to tell…give me a radar pulse.

      Mendez stabbed a button and electromagnetic fingers reached out across the void to kiss the surface. Possible change in aspect ratio…there must be something in motion down there.

      Yeah, lots of rock from the looks of it. Sorry, Lieutenant, but I think we’re going to need another round.

      Let’s make it a half round this time, he decided. We need to conserve shots for the other sites. Stu, re-cycle the gun but load two shots this time.

      Kamler did as Mendez ordered. Guns ready, Lieutenant.

      Fire.

      A sizzling flash-snap! sounded through the hull once more.

      Winger watched as the white flash and the plume erupted off the surface, geysering in slow motion upward and outward into space.

      It was Glance who saw the first signs of the breach. Something’s going on…right near Loki crater—look! See that rubble cloud spalling off? It’s breaking up—

      Mendez studied the radar return. Measurable breach this time. I’m getting a possible aspect change.

      Look at that debris! said Kamler. "Beautiful…just beautiful!"

      Hicks-Newman was still turning slowly, like a roasting potato on a spit. But now, one entire end of the asteroid was separating in slow motion from the main body. All along the cleft of Odin’s Fissure, the asteroid was calving off a part of itself. Immutable forces of rotation were finishing the job first started by ANAD and helped by Galileo’s coilguns. Hicks was shedding an entire up-sun third of its body. The severed end hung together by seams of rock for a few minutes, enveloped in a swelling cloud of rubble. But the centrifugal force of the asteroid’s rotation, combined with extra gyrations from its nutating wobble, corkscrewed the severed end away and it finally separated.

      We did it! exulted Glance. He pumped a fist in the air. We chopped the bugger right off—

      Al—wait a minute…look…

      I don’t believe it…of all the—

      Even as the partitioned end of Hicks spun lazily away in an expanding fog of rubble and rock, a new fissure quickly opened up. Opposite what had been Odin’s Fissure on the other side of Loki crater, a new seam had suddenly developed, a new crack.

      The mantle must have been weak there, Winger theorized. She couldn’t hold together when the breach came.

      Yeah, angular momentum made sure of that, Kamler added. Her rotation increased and that must have stressed a pre-existing fissure.

      The newly created body, spinning and wobbling away from what was left of Hicks-Newman, now calved off another section. The oblong chunk ran for hundreds of meters along a stress line that curved around the lower ridges of Loki crater. The small berg looked like a skullcap with fingers of rock sticking out into space.

      This isn’t good news, folks, Kamler announced. There’s no impulse motor on that piece. It’s just a loose rockberg spinning around in space.

      Mendez was already on the comm. I’d better advise Gateway…UNIFORCE too. Without impulse arrays on that piece, there’s no way to divert it from impact. Maybe killsats can zap it but it’s going to be close.

      Let’s hope it’ll spin away from Earth…maybe just skim off the upper atmosphere.

      Left unsaid was a tactic that had come to Winger’s mind, a last ditch desperation maneuver he hoped no one else would think of, if it was even possible. Galileo might have just enough maneuvering propellant to bump the extra piece and nudge it away from Earth. But that would require somebody to stay on board

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