Quest - Chapter 14
Saturday, November 21, 2009
In the aftermath of the attack at the welcoming ball, the Crew of the Quest and the Earth governments go after the Terrorists.
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Disclaimer: Joss, Fox, Universal Own em’. I’m just playing. No money being made. The situations come from my own twisted mind as do my original characters.
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AN: Sorry for the delay. My muse went on vacation and didn't leave a forwarding address. Also. Warning for some bad words in English.
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Quest-Chapter Fourteen
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“How's Clay?” Sara asked Quest's doctor.
“He'll be fine, Sara,” Sherry Lee replied, “Bullet was a through and through to his left upper arm. He just wont be turning any wrenches for a few weeks.”
Sara Bryant nodded, “Good thing we brought Derrick on before we left.”
“Your father is no slouch either,” Sherry chuckled, “Or yourself for that matter.”
“I'm trying to keep Dad from working too hard on this trip,” Sara sighed, “He's not a young man anymore.”
“I wasn't a young man when you were born, Kiddo,” Allan said as he entered Quest's Infirmary.
Sara's cheeks darkened slightly, “Dad...”
Allan put his arm across his daughter's shoulders, “It's okay, Princess. Just yanking your chain a bit. And you do know that if you need me... just ask.”
Sara smiled, “I know... thanks, Daddy.”
Allan couldn't help the grin on his face when Sara called him Daddy.
“Babe?” Jeff said as he entered the infirmary, “Rachel is back with the shuttle.”
Sara looked at her husband and nodded, “There's no chance this hwoon-dahn can't get loose?”
Sherry answered, “If the report I got from the surgeons in Montreal is accurate, Mr. Chan won't be able to do much. One of the rounds that struck him, severed his spine at the L-1 vertebrae. Chan won't be able to move or feel anything much below his kidneys.”
“Good,” Allan snarled, “I detest terrorists...”
“What about, Mom?” Sara asked. Knowing about her mothers short stint as a Dust Devil after the war for independence.
“Your Mother thought she was continuing the fight. Wasn't until she saw what was really happening did she quit,” Allan replied.
“It is kind of shaky ground we're on here, Dad,” Sara said.
“Not our figh
1 Jump = “Time delay is two minutes.”
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3 Jumps = “Eight hours,” ?
Rail guns
Chapter 6
Therefore when the two, one hundred and fifty pound stainless steel,
mass driver rounds fired from Quest's pair of rail guns.
Traveling at a combined ship and gun velocity, nearly a quarter of the speed
of light struck the small frigate. 186,000 MPS/4= 46,500 MPS= 167 Million MPH
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“Do you know what happens to a limestone mountain when you hit it with sixteen,
five hundred pound, stainless steel projectiles traveling at mach twenty?
Mach 20 = 20*600 = 12,000 MPH
a bit slower.
As reference Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact 60Km/sec = 37MPS = 134,000 MPH
Good story, details vary.
There is a dust cloud a few light years out that obscures radio signals. The FTL Cortex can penetrate it but it takes a while to build up the data picture before it relays to the next node.
"My story and I'm sticking to it" (I admit that screw up)
Rail gun velocity (In the chapter, Quest nails the frigate, it's at full burn and hauling ass. combine the normal mach 20 plus muzzle velocity with the ships... Bang!
Pounding the mountain.... Quest is in geosynchronous orbit above earth, all you get is muzzle velocity minus atmospheric friction... Mach 20 is 'about' right.
As for pounding the mountain, I'm referencing a short story written by Tom Clancy where a single bunker buster 4500 pound bomb can penetrate a Limestone Karst.
I figure hitting a similar geologic formation with rail gun fire will take out most of the mountain.
In the 60's, Kelly Johnson wanted to make a "Kinetic" bomber out of the SR-71. dropping a tungsten projectile weighing around 1000 pounds from 80,000 feet at Mach three would hit the target like a small nuke.
The Air Force thought it was too sci-fi. Go figure.
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