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    Quantum Troopers Episode 12: The Symbiosis Project
    Quantum Troopers Episode 12: The Symbiosis Project
    Quantum Troopers Episode 12: The Symbiosis Project
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    Quantum Troopers Episode 12: The Symbiosis Project

    By Philip Bosshardt

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    Episode 12, Quantum Troopers. After the disaster at Engebbe, where an entire detachment save one survivor was lost, Quantum Corps decides to forge ahead with a plan to equip all nanotroopers with personal ANADs. But the Engebbe survivor has unwittingly brought back an unexpected menace...and there was another survivor unknown to the Corps. As the Symbiosis Project gets underway and troopers are modified to receive their ANADs, an alien master nanobot corrupts the embedded devices as they are being loaded. Only Johnny Winger has gone through this procedure before and he knows only he can pilot a rescue ANAD to stop the spread of this new alien swarm. But he winds up being attacked himself, by the disassembled remnants of one Lieutenant Dana Tallant, Bravo Detachment commander and once a love interest for Winger, once thought to have been consumed at Engebbe. Tallant is now an angel herself, a swarm of disembodied nanobots and she quickly insinuates herself into the troopers being modified. Only Winger can defeat this new threat but he has to engage it on a new battlefield...his own mind. He manages to win a difficult victory but he winds up changed forever...and the Corps’ project to build blended man-machine warriors through symbiosis with ANAD takes on a whole new meaning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilip Bosshardt
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781370888900
    Quantum Troopers Episode 12: The Symbiosis Project
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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 12 - Philip Bosshardt

      Quantum Troopers

      Episode 12: The Symbiosis Project

      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 as a nanotrooper 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

      Infested

      UNQC Western Command

      Table Top Mountain, Idaho, USA

      January 25, 2049

      0700 hours

      For Major Jurgen Kraft, running 1st Nano was like being den mother to a troop of hyperactive, genius scouts, scouts with some serious weaponry at their disposal. You never knew what they would get into next, but at least it would be interesting…and probably deadly.

      Kraft scrolled through the early after-action reports from Quantum Shadow…a full ANAD lost in Tibet…Alpha Detachment violating Chinese airspace and nearly being captured…Bravo Detachment lost at Engebbe…with only one escaping. Kraft pulled up an image of Corporal Ozzie Tsukota, taken from the Nairobi hospital after he’d barely managed to escape the swarm outbreak at the Engebbe dig site. Lacerations and burns, flayed skin on his neck and shoulders…it wasn’t pretty. The CQE had been damned lucky to get out of there alive.

      Kraft knew that somehow some way, the Corps would have to probe Engebbe again, in force if necessary and determine what had happened and why Red Hammer was so interested in the place.

      Now however, Kraft had a bigger issue to deal with. CINCQUANT wanted to move forward with the Symbiosis Project. Some months ago, Johnny Winger had been volunteered to host a full-featured ANAD master in a surgically embedded containment capsule, complete with a quantum coupler in his head to talk to the little bot. Now the Corps wanted all nanotroopers to be so equipped. Blended Man-Machine Warrior, my ass, Kraft snorted. The whole damned thing was a circus trick, a lab stunt and Winger was Doc Frost’s lab rat. Hosting a swarm right under your skin was like hosting a deadly virus, one that could talk and make jokes, and you never knew what the damned thing was going to do next. It could just as easily kill you as save your ass. Even Doc Frost didn’t fully understand all the permutations of what he had created and the learning curve had turned out to be a lot like the side of Mount Everest.

      Now CINCQUANT wanted all his people to have the same thing.

      What the hell am I running here…a nursery? A kindergarten school? We’ve got missions and serious adversaries and the Corps wants me to give every nanotrooper a blanky and make ‘em take their naps.

      Now Doc Frost himself was on his way to Table Top to begin the process. Kraft’s thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a chime on his wristpad. Another Solnet report had just been posted and this one caught his eye immediately….he switched his commandpad to the feed and watched….

      Solnet/Omnivision Video Post

      @anika.radovich.solnetworldview

      January 25, 2049

      1200 hours U.T.

      SOLNET Special Report:

      Symborg Triggers Riots in Boise, Idaho

      Solnet Reporter Anika Radovich reports on the recent angel riots in Boise:

      "Viewing the dronecam footage of the disturbances several days ago, I had several thoughts. First, there is an explosive increase in the numbers of angels…and by angels I mean swarms of nanobots configured to closely resemble human beings…Normals as we have begun calling ourselves, as if anything about this is normal…a nearly exponential increase in the numbers of angels walking our streets. Second, parallel with this increase and in many ways a triggering mechanism, is the growth of the Church of Assimilation and its followers, especially followers of the recently-released Symborg.

      "This report will detail some of the background to this growth. We also hope to bring you a live vid interview with Symborg himself.

      "Many Solnet viewers have expressed concerns about another problem we’ve been having recently…an increase in problems with the Net, both Solnet and WorldNet. Whether worms, Trojans, zero-day exploits, root-level malware, or other viruses, many Solnet viewers have had difficulties accessing the Net, even to view our reports. Our engineers have assured me that Special Report won’t be affected at all…in fact, my engineer here, Stephen Welks, has assured me that everything is under control and that Special Report will be posted just like normal. So let that put your fears to rest.

      "Now to the latest from Boise…as you know, two days ago, one of many Assimilationist rallies that occur every day around the world was held. Symborg himself was on the schedule to appear. And, as

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