404 Independent Platoon Battle (b)Log

  The lessons of history Prologue - Teachings of the ancients Mariam suppressed a yawn and tried once again to rub the sleep out of her eyes. It wasn’t that professor Scott’s conference was boring, but rather that she wasn’t used to sitting idly in a comfortable recliner after lunch while someone gave a long speech: she was more at home with listening to recordings from the Outer University of Tunguska while she worked maintenance on the mothership, or while she wrote code - both options were of course out of the question, respectively for lack of a mothership and of a discreet way to open an hacking interface without her Wildcat helmet on.  The mellow voice of the professor carried on, illustrating the endless possibilities of evolution for dangerous life forms in an hostile habitat like that of the Human Edge: "...The perfect organism. Its structural perfection matched only by its hostility… its purity. A survivor - unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality....

  Explosive Rescue Prologue - Laws of attraction The orbital mechanics of a three body gravitational system is, in general, quite complex, and doesn't have an analytical solution; the orbits of the Hueos planetoids, however, could almost always be well approximated considering a two body coupling between Huey and Louie, and then between their center of mass and Dewey, by virtue of the third twin’s much larger orbital radius.  Traveling on this longer distance, engines switched off after a short acceleration burn, the Bring Guns to Bear silently approached its destination: Porto Interplanetário, Huey’s first stop for any Nomad ship in need of repairs and resupplying. They also needed to unload the “legally confiscated” goods from the raids around the smuggler’s moon, and had received a secure channel confirmation that an unofficial Nomad distribution center had been set up in the spaceport to ferry cargo to and from the Commercial Mission. The trip across the system would last ...