A Stream of Stars...: Starcracker
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Vecron, and Veritraan Prime wage a game of Go. Openly, reconfiguring both the Falcanian and Morningstar peoples, so that they might become Lords of the Universe. Humanity’s future isn’t human and the Falcanians and Morningstars are tools to that end. The Falcanian Shotar has been assassinated and the Star Chasers have begun to rise up. A new player, Eden Rhys enters onto the gameboard, yet to her complete frustration, Eden discovers herself to be everyone else’s pawn.
Rodney C. Johnson
Rodney C. Johnson lives in Westbrook, Ct. with his two beagles, Zoey and Bentley, plus the family cat Gretchen. He enjoys reading and writing. He considers himself a “Foodie”. His love of Science Fiction was driven by Star Trek and Frank Herbert’s classic work DUNE.In his free time, Rodney C. Johnson is an avid collector of books, new or used. Mostly Science Fiction books (Sci-Fi), but he will read anything, provided it catches his interest. It's not about the genre - it is about if the author paints a vivid picture with his words.
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A Stream of Stars... - Rodney C. Johnson
A Stream of Stars…
Starcracker
A Neo-human Miniseries
Sequence #1 (Neo-human 3.1)
Copyright by Rodney C. Johnson
V1.0
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Table of Contents
A Stream of Stars…
Series Note
Epigraph
Prologue: Sterner Stuff
Chapter 1. The Fallen
Chapter 2. The Specter of Veritraan Prime
Chapter 3. Mecha Girl
Dramatis Personae
Terms of Interest
Also By...
About The Author
Series Note
A Stream of Stars…, Miniseries is intended to be the conclusion to those plots begun in the Neo-human books, Starblade, and Among Bright Stars.... You have here, in Starcracker, the beginning of the end. I have done my best to make sure this trilogy is stand-alone, as is practical for the material. That being said, it is picking-up threads, begun in other books. If you’re previously acquainted with the Neo-human ‘Verse, welcome back! But if this is your first foray into my world of Robots, Mecha, and fabulous winged humanoids, I hope you enjoy it.
Epigraph
Chew, if only you could see what I have seen with your eyes.
-- Roy Batty, Blade Runner
Prologue: Sterner Stuff
[Numai. May 9, 2019]
Allahu Akbar, death to all abominations!
The Kalashnikov, SR-70 Taigan Pistol was an exquisite gunmetal-gray curve. A radical departure from the gunsmith's classic AK-47. Semi-automatic, the SR-70 Taigan's four heavy barrels fired a scatter of bullets, that hit with an explosive concussion.
Sikh soldiers, appointed by Raj Naresh Singh, to escort his Falcanian guests, who visited in order to inspect rebuilding efforts which they helped spearhead of the city that before World War III and its destructive bombardments had been named Mumbai. The Sikh, during the abrupt rumble of gunfire placed themselves between the lone attacker, shoulder to shoulder, beside Falcanian Drakorian Guard, ThunderStrike battledroids, and Valküri.
Nadia pushed past her own bodyguards, both Mecha and Valküri. During the salvo of gunfire, among those struck were her husband, Sharr Khan. Drakorian Guard immediately secured their Shotar inside an armored vehicle. Nadia noticed her Papa, Father-Creator, Dr. Turhan Korelia go down in a second hail of ammunition and realized Turhan lay dead, his stylish shimmery blue Nehru jacket reduced to a spatter of blood and gore. Probably the only thing that saved her husband, Nadia concluded, was that Sharr Khan chose to wear his formal armor.
Ignoring urges from her Valküri, to seek cover and the hulk of battledroids that placed themselves between she and the attacker, Nadia advanced on the enraged Muslim, who apparently wasn't too keen on the genetically engineered Falcanian presence.
Bullets shredded Nadia's babydoll sundress, slammed hard against her bulletproof body, leaving Nadia practically naked. She moved forward, unbound. Lissome tan synthetic gynoid chassis, turned impenetrable. Heads-up display zeroed-in on the assailant. Almond eyes glistened, bright-blue incandescence.
Wrenching the gun away, Nadia crumbled it and threw the broken SR-70 Taigan Pistol aside. For a moment, she considered the confused assassin. Evidently dumbfounded to discover Nadia to be more than flesh and blood. That's because, Nadia had been manufactured of sterner stuff. Her embryo hammered from raidun90. A material comprised of no scant quantity of moissanite – Silicon carbide -- Machine, given flesh.
The market street turned suddenly noiseless.
Nadia grabbed hold of Turhan's murderer by his face, forced him onto his knees. Though he tried to fight back, her superhuman strength could not be matched by no less than that of her Morningstar brothers, or sisters. Lost to overwhelming grief, Nadia's next movements were reflexive. Crush! The slightest pressure of her delicate, precision fingers and the assassin's skull cracked. Killing him in one agonizing, bloody instant.
17 Years Later
Chapter 1. The Fallen
My Morningstar children call me Vecron, the Blue Ghost. Falcanians denote me as Ishbol, Guardian of Char's watchtower. I stalk the electrical-quintessence, and exist within infinite, in-between space. Messenger of The Prime, by my skilled hands, did I recall It's Kraksang back from oblivion. Now, the 'Sunroids' once more walk the Universe, albeit in a different configuration. You need only know me to be representative of that which is holy illumination.
--- Concordance of Vecron Prime
[Falcanian Mobile Command Platform. January