The Plattsmouth II

By John Gaukel

The continuing saga of Joan whose dream to captain a starship came true when she became the starship. This is the tale of her first mission with a team of both Humans and quantum people. Joan must learn new skills if she is to save a dying race. her team is as green as she is, but they have the quants to help her, but what do you do when even the quants are cut off?

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Gaukel
• Release date: Jan 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465844736

John Gaukel

John Gaukel is a Physicist, Inventor, Intellectual Property Analyst, Engineer, Business Manager, Poet and Avid Science Fiction reader.He is a hemiplegic, and has taken up Science Fiction writing to extend himself in new directions. – There are more novelettes and poems in progress.

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The Plattsmouth II

The saga of Joan

Author John Gaukel

© January 2012 by John Gaukel

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The Plattsmouth II

The saga of Joan

The Plattsmouth was under way. The Plattsmouth was a typical Quant starship, with minor exceptions. It carried and was controlled by a human crew. All the human team had been implanted with brain implants which allowed them virtual access to the Quants and the AI controls of the ship. This ship was a first of its kind and hopefully not the last. Phil, the head Avatar of the Quant world wanted this to be the norm. Humankind had become too dependent on the Quants, and that was going to change. Phil had taken this path with the humans to drive out the petty jealousy, greed, and inhumanity in man. He saw it as a small price to pay for bringing good to the human race, giving humanity a place in the Universe. If nothing were done, Humanity would destroy itself. He now had to wrestle with the fact that humans were at a turning point, and if he did not re-introduce some degree of normalcy, humans would become non-productive, un-imaginative, and un-creative. Joan and Conway were the seeds to a new future for the human race. Joan’s current endeavor would lead to re-introduction of free trade, self-control, and kindle the flame of creativity.

Up till now, the Avatars were always present, and always able to subvert crime. The instance of crime had dropped to near zero in the last few thousand years. There would be bumps, but Phil had faith in human nature and was sure in the end they would come out of it better for the wear.

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Joan came to the bridge and took main chair.

Status? she asked.

Conway answered back, Some of the crew took the Eagles out for a scheduled exercise. Nothing is happening out of the norm. It was thirty day into the flight and everyone was getting a little cabin fever. They were well out of the galactic plane, and you could see from the images the full size of the Milky Way. You could also see the vast empty space above the plane. I mean very vast and exceedingly empty and black. With the telescope displayed, they could see the vast array of galaxies around them. The astronomers were having a field day; this was what they lived for.

On the negative side, the