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    Quantum Troopers Episode 13: Small is All!
    Quantum Troopers Episode 13: Small is All!
    Quantum Troopers Episode 13: Small is All!
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    Quantum Troopers Episode 13: Small is All!

    By Philip Bosshardt

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    Episode 13, Quantum Troopers. Quantum Corps has a new mission: the Chinese are on the Moon at Copernicus Crater and they’re excavating something furiously just outside their base. Johnny Winger and the troopers of 1st Nano are given a recon mission: find out what the Chinese are doing and whether Red Hammer is on site guiding the excavation. But what the troopers find is something they never expected: a direct link to an offworld race of bots called the Old Ones. Red Hammer can’t be allowed to acquire this link. The recon mission evolves into something much more violent as the nanotroopers engage a massive alien formation erupting from below the lunar crust. Johnny Winger faces his greatest challenge and will be changed forever by the encounter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilip Bosshardt
    Release dateSep 23, 2016
    ISBN9781370770069
    Quantum Troopers Episode 13: Small is All!
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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 13 - Philip Bosshardt

      Quantum Troopers

      Episode 13: Small is All!

      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

      Moonglow

      Farside Observatory

      Korolev Crater, the Moon

      February 3, 2049

      0700 hours (Universal Time – U.T.)

      Nightfall at Korolev Crater came abruptly, too abruptly, thought Percy Marks. He stared out the porthole of the SpaceGuard Center and watched the shadows drop like a black curtain across the face of the crater wall. Korolev was a massive place, fully four hundred kilometers in diameter, with stairstep rim walls and a small chain of mountains inside. Like a bull’s eye on a target, the crater lay dead center in the rugged highlands of Farside, forever banished from the sight of Earth.

      Percy Marks watched the black creep down the crater walls and ooze across the crater floor like a spreading stain. Somehow, it seemed so depressing…another two weeks of night with only the stars for company. Cosmic grandeur, my ass, he muttered to himself. Give me a beach in the South Pacific and some native girls and I’ll tell you a thing or two about cosmic grandeur.

      Marks was pulling late shift today…tonight…whatever the hell it was. Tending the radars and telescopes of Farside Array, scanning sector after sector of the heavens for any little burp or fart worthy of an astronomer’s interest. The High Freq array had just gone through a major tune-up last week and it was Marks’ job to give her a complete shakedown for the next few days.

      At the moment, she was boresighted to some distant gamma-ray sources somewhere in Pegasus…where exactly he’d forgotten.

      Marks took one last look out the nearest porthole and begrudged the final wisps of daylight before Farside was fully enveloped in the nightfall. At that same moment, he heard a beeping from his console and turned his attention back to the array controls.

      What the hell…

      Percy Marks looked over his boards, controlling the positioning of the great radars out on the crater floor and the optical and radio telescopes that accompanied them. He quickly pinpointed the source of the beeping…Nodes 20 through 24…the south lateral array…seemed to be picking up some anomaly.

      He massaged the controls and tried to focus the array better, get better resolution on the target. SpaceGuard didn’t beep without reason. Then, with a startle, he realized the anomaly wasn’t coming from SpaceGuard at all.

      It was coming from Greta. The ground sensor net. It was coming from the Moon itself.

      A quick perusal made the hairs on the back of Percy Marks’ neck stand up. The system displayed a list of likely targets, based on satellite imaging and known sources. He scanned the list, mumbling the details to himself.

      Hmmm….latitude 9 degrees, 57 minutes, 28 seconds north. Longitude 20 degrees, 46 minutes, 8 seconds west--- Just as he was about to consult the catalog, Greta threw up a map.

      Inside the crater Copernicus, near side. Other side of the Moon. A point source of energy had just spiked. Probably a moonquake, but Marks noted visuals from satellite imaging….a small dust cloud or something had erupted. Maybe a volcano…but surely not on this slagheap of a world.

      Marks studied the details. This one’s a doozy-- his fingers played over the keyboard, bringing all of Farside’s instruments to bear on the new source. The seismic spike was showing up in all bands now: P waves, elastic modulus off the scale. Whatever it was, it was shallow and continuing. Something was banging the old Moon around like a drum.

      He stared for a moment at the swelling surface cloud that had erupted on the screen in front of him. A dozen satellites were already slewing every imaginable instrument toward the phenomenon. Must be one hell of a source.

      Before he could decide what to do next, Marks was interrupted by the sound of a door opening…it was Max Lane, the shift supervisor.

      I heard SpaceGuard got something-- Lane was short, big moustache, squat legs of a former weightlifter, now going soft in the Moon’s sixth-g.

      Marks showed him the readings. "It wasn’t SpaceGuard, Max. It’s Greta. One bigass quake, as far as I can tell. I’ve got it designated Delta C. Epicenter a few dozen kilometers south of Copernicus center. Surface effects too…dust, landslides, I’ve already seen crater walls slumping. Big sucker, too. Blasting out P waves like there’s no tomorrow. See for yourself."

      Lane bent to the screen. The Chinese base again…third time this week. What’s it called?

      "Tian Jia…Heavenly Home. Probably doesn’t feel so heavenly right about now."

      Lane studied a seismic reading of the shock. The old Moon’s ringing like a gong. What the hell are they doing over there? Do we have any sat imagery of the place?

      Marks pulled up the latest. Nothing good. The base’s sited inside Copernicus. And there’s that excavation nearby…scuttlebutt says the Chinese call the area the Tombs…lots of underground tunnels and lava tubes around there. Nobody knows what they’re digging for.

      Any blasting?

      Marks shook his head. "Negative. All of these tremors are P waves, sideslip

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