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    Escape

    By Stephen Brandon

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    When economic collapse happens, who takes over. If it's big business, are they after profit or power. What is the individual to do, go underground and look for an escape?
    Infiltrating the Cartels laboratories they find experiments that chill them to the bone. The also find technology that is suppressed. One of these technologies offers them the chance, if they can build the equipment.
    In hidden laboratories of their own, they work feverishly to duplicate the equipment, and hope the Cartel cannot detect the signals it generates.
    Is the grass really greener on the other side? They send a team to prepare a place for their families.
    When their families join them, the signals created by the equipment are detected by a merchant. He diverts from his scheduled route to investigate. This diversion cost him money, so he captures the refugees. In the decadent federation slavery is legal. Selling them will recover more of his expenses, than simply throwing them out an airlock door.
    To increase the slaves value he educates them, and everyone knows that knowledge is power. Curiosity mixed with knowledge causes more problems than solutions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Brandon
    Release dateNov 12, 2016
    ISBN9781370837748
    Escape
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    Stephen Brandon

    I've loved westerns and science fiction since I picked up my first book at the public library. I've been writing on my computer for years. I never planned on any of my stories being published, just to be read by myself, family, and friends. The base journal is on forty spreadsheets with links to about a thousand files of short one day paragraphs plus other stories. {My claim to fame, written by someone else. Thanks.} "As an earthbound retiree, Stephen writes mostly science fiction and short stories. He is a voracious reader and has written for a few years, publishing his stories on Smashwords."

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      Escape - Stephen Brandon

      Escape

      By Stephen Brandon

      Copyright 2016 Stephen Brandon

      Published by Stephen Brandon at Smashwords

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      revised edition, spelling and grammar, 12 Dec 2016

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      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 not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Author's Notes

      This book is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, incidents, and dialogue are from the authors imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or other persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Real and fictional locations are used for background only.

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      Acknowledgments

      My wife has put up with me for over forty six years. Without her support and love I don't know who, what, or where I would be, so I thank her from the bottom of my heart, and I dedicate all my books to her!

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      Table of Contents ~(ToC)~

      Authors Note

      Acknowledgments

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      About Stephen Brandon

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      Chapter 1

      What the hell is going on?

      Don't sweat it boss. One of our guys ran across plans for a gate, only this gate works from the surface.

      What about the control interface. Did they get it too.

      With a big smile Bill answered. "Yup, along with a target file of prior locations explored.

      Boss, you remember the classified memo's, they hinted that the window could only be held stable for a few minutes.

      Yea, I remember.

      Well, one of the whiz kids thinks that if we can align the gate with the rotational direction here, it'll stay open longer. He also theorized that if we didn't match exactly we could drag the window along the surface of the target and just shove stuff through.

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      Three years later in a cavern system in the rockies, everything was ready.

      When they activated it, the pristine wilderness at the other end of the tunnel stunned everyone in the room. Rotate the gate and lets see what's behind it. As it started to rotate the wilderness blurred like the power poles on the side of the road. Rotate faster before we loose it! Dirt started piling up in front of the window and then into the test chamber. Shut it down, shut it down! As the window dissipatedly, the only proof was a pile of dirt reaching ten feet into the chamber with bushes and grass flung around it.

      Pete commented, Call the boss and tell him we had a successful test. Tell him we need a copy of all the gate addresses that the cartel is using.

      Why do you want them Pete?

      Bill, would you want to set up a colony on a planet that the cartel is using?

      UH, no.

      Get a crew together to get this dirt out of here. Send all the vegetation to the lab for analysis.

      ~ ~ ~

      1. 73rd test was successful. Planet with Earth like dirt and vegetation located and

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