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President.
Mr. President, it's started. The Chinese are making an all-out effort to
destroy Point Conception.
June 25, 2009, that same time
Point Conception Station
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Geosynchronous Orbit above North America
Captain Bart Wynn surveyed the condition of his command, United States Space
Station Point
Conception. He quickly assessed its defenses against the developing Chinese
attack from his commander's console in the CIC. The Chinese were clearly
making an all-out effort to bring Conception down& and, if he had any say in
the matter, they would fail in that effort.
Captain Wynn had ridden up to orbit aboard one of the four new spacecraft
America had developed for this mission. They were all true single stage to
orbit vessels that utilized a large supply of miniature nuclear explosive
devices to boost them into space. Two of the vessels, the United States Space
Ship (USSS)
Orion and the USSS Nebulae, designated as LSC-D (Laser-armed Space Corvette
Defense) 001 and
LSC-D 002, were specifically designed for the mission of creating and
controlling this space station at
Point Conception. The other two, the USSS Gaspra and the USSS Ida, designated
LSF-RX
(Laser-armed Space Frigate Recon and Exploration) 001 and LSF-RX 002, were
larger, more heavily armed vessels, capable of larger payloads and had been
designed for deep space assignments. All of them were reusable, shuttle-like
craft that were capable of powered landings on the earth once they reentered
Earth's atmosphere.
They were also quite capable of defending themselves in space, and the
payloads that the two corvettes had carried into space were even more capable
in that regard, as the Chinese would discover shortly.
The two corvettes assigned to the station formed the command and communication
modules of the
USSS Conception, while the payloads they carried formed the primary defense
and living modules. The corvettes were a semi-permanent part of the station
and were not scheduled to return to earth for over two years, when they would
be replaced by the next class of craft, which would be more capable and would
take up permanent residence at the station.
The crews would be in place for their entire tour of space duty, scheduled to
last here on the station from twelve to eighteen months. The way Captain Wynn
looked at it, this was war and they had a mission to perform here in
geosynchronous orbit above America, and they would fulfill that mission at all
costs.
The two frigates, the Gaspra and the Ida, after shedding a deceptive external
skin and leaving portions of their payloads here to assist in the creation of
Conception Station, had proceeded further out into space.
They did this by first using conventional fuel and rockets to achieve a
desired thrust that carried them approximately twenty thousand miles distant
from Conception Station, where they then deployed a light sail devices to
first achieve, and then maintain the velocity that would allow them to reach
their objective within the time constraints imposed by their mission planning,
just short of nine months later.
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They would indeed be traveling much further out into space.
As a result, The crews' on the Gaspra and Ida had tours of duty that would
last somewhat longer than the personnel working here at Conception Station,
but they would rendezvous here on their way back to earth eighteen months from
now, after what would hopefully prove to be a successful and monumental
mission.
Their departure using conventional propulsion had been shielded by the
positioning of the station and by their stealthy design characteristics which
would keep prying Chinese or other enemy radar and thermal sensors from
detecting them. Their exotic exterior material was of such a nature that radar
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and thermal energy signatures were either deflected or completely eliminated.
Except when traveling by nuclear pulse thrust, which could be used at any time
to augment their other propulsion capabilities, they would be invisible to
their enemies.
It had been hoped that their departure and continued voyage had been kept a
complete secret from their enemies& and they had been completely successful to
date in realizing that hope.
But all of that was not material to the next few minutes, when the fate of the
USSS Conception and its personnel, and the credibility of the engineers and
designers who had developed it, would hang in the balance. The future of
America's presence in space during the war, and, as would later be recognized,
the ultimate outcome of the war itself would also hang in the balance.
Captain Wynn absorbed the information coming into the CIC. He had long since
understood the reason that experienced naval officers had been chosen to
command the growing number of United States
Space Command (USSC) vessels.
The environment in which he was now operating was much less a flight deck, and
more like the Combat
Information Center of a major naval combatant. In fact, the CIC had been
designed using the principles learned in modern naval war fighting In this
case, the vessel was in space, but he was being tasked with, and exercising,
all of his naval command and leadership experience.
Each of the two corvettes carried two banks of new laser cannons called Laser
Weapons Systems
(LWS) that got their energy from the nuclear reactors that powered the craft
and the station. Those reactors were the latest, most proficient, and most
miniaturized designs that America had ever produced and they were specifically
designed to work in conjunction with the environmental systems, the laser
weaponry, the research systems and the communication and sensory systems that
the corvettes carried
In addition, each of the craft carried two kinetic energy weapons called
Kinetic Energy Defense Systems
(KEDS), which fired depleted uranium projectiles at hyper-velocity speeds.
They used a derivative of the
Hail Storm missile's solid state electronic fire controllers to propel those
projectiles at a variable rate, depending on the engagement.
But those defenses were only a part of the station's defense capabilities. The
defense module had included the provisions and equipment necessary to deploy
the station's two primary defenses.
One of these was a bank of sixty-four Block Vs Standard missiles and the
latest AEGIS radar and software modules to control them, specifically modified
for space engagements. The entire system was known as SPAEGIS. The system,
like its naval and land-based cousins, was designed to control all of the
station's defenses, including those on the two craft that were now a part of
the system.
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President.
Mr. President, it's started. The Chinese are making an all-out effort to
destroy Point Conception.
June 25, 2009, that same time
Point Conception Station
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Geosynchronous Orbit above North America
Captain Bart Wynn surveyed the condition of his command, United States Space
Station Point
Conception. He quickly assessed its defenses against the developing Chinese
attack from his commander's console in the CIC. The Chinese were clearly
making an all-out effort to bring Conception down& and, if he had any say in
the matter, they would fail in that effort.
Captain Wynn had ridden up to orbit aboard one of the four new spacecraft
America had developed for this mission. They were all true single stage to
orbit vessels that utilized a large supply of miniature nuclear explosive
devices to boost them into space. Two of the vessels, the United States Space
Ship (USSS)
Orion and the USSS Nebulae, designated as LSC-D (Laser-armed Space Corvette
Defense) 001 and
LSC-D 002, were specifically designed for the mission of creating and
controlling this space station at
Point Conception. The other two, the USSS Gaspra and the USSS Ida, designated
LSF-RX
(Laser-armed Space Frigate Recon and Exploration) 001 and LSF-RX 002, were
larger, more heavily armed vessels, capable of larger payloads and had been
designed for deep space assignments. All of them were reusable, shuttle-like
craft that were capable of powered landings on the earth once they reentered
Earth's atmosphere.
They were also quite capable of defending themselves in space, and the
payloads that the two corvettes had carried into space were even more capable
in that regard, as the Chinese would discover shortly.
The two corvettes assigned to the station formed the command and communication
modules of the
USSS Conception, while the payloads they carried formed the primary defense
and living modules. The corvettes were a semi-permanent part of the station
and were not scheduled to return to earth for over two years, when they would
be replaced by the next class of craft, which would be more capable and would
take up permanent residence at the station.
The crews would be in place for their entire tour of space duty, scheduled to
last here on the station from twelve to eighteen months. The way Captain Wynn
looked at it, this was war and they had a mission to perform here in
geosynchronous orbit above America, and they would fulfill that mission at all
costs.
The two frigates, the Gaspra and the Ida, after shedding a deceptive external
skin and leaving portions of their payloads here to assist in the creation of
Conception Station, had proceeded further out into space.
They did this by first using conventional fuel and rockets to achieve a
desired thrust that carried them approximately twenty thousand miles distant
from Conception Station, where they then deployed a light sail devices to
first achieve, and then maintain the velocity that would allow them to reach
their objective within the time constraints imposed by their mission planning,
just short of nine months later.
Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html
They would indeed be traveling much further out into space.
As a result, The crews' on the Gaspra and Ida had tours of duty that would
last somewhat longer than the personnel working here at Conception Station,
but they would rendezvous here on their way back to earth eighteen months from
now, after what would hopefully prove to be a successful and monumental
mission.
Their departure using conventional propulsion had been shielded by the
positioning of the station and by their stealthy design characteristics which
would keep prying Chinese or other enemy radar and thermal sensors from
detecting them. Their exotic exterior material was of such a nature that radar
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and thermal energy signatures were either deflected or completely eliminated.
Except when traveling by nuclear pulse thrust, which could be used at any time
to augment their other propulsion capabilities, they would be invisible to
their enemies.
It had been hoped that their departure and continued voyage had been kept a
complete secret from their enemies& and they had been completely successful to
date in realizing that hope.
But all of that was not material to the next few minutes, when the fate of the
USSS Conception and its personnel, and the credibility of the engineers and
designers who had developed it, would hang in the balance. The future of
America's presence in space during the war, and, as would later be recognized,
the ultimate outcome of the war itself would also hang in the balance.
Captain Wynn absorbed the information coming into the CIC. He had long since
understood the reason that experienced naval officers had been chosen to
command the growing number of United States
Space Command (USSC) vessels.
The environment in which he was now operating was much less a flight deck, and
more like the Combat
Information Center of a major naval combatant. In fact, the CIC had been
designed using the principles learned in modern naval war fighting In this
case, the vessel was in space, but he was being tasked with, and exercising,
all of his naval command and leadership experience.
Each of the two corvettes carried two banks of new laser cannons called Laser
Weapons Systems
(LWS) that got their energy from the nuclear reactors that powered the craft
and the station. Those reactors were the latest, most proficient, and most
miniaturized designs that America had ever produced and they were specifically
designed to work in conjunction with the environmental systems, the laser
weaponry, the research systems and the communication and sensory systems that
the corvettes carried
In addition, each of the craft carried two kinetic energy weapons called
Kinetic Energy Defense Systems
(KEDS), which fired depleted uranium projectiles at hyper-velocity speeds.
They used a derivative of the
Hail Storm missile's solid state electronic fire controllers to propel those
projectiles at a variable rate, depending on the engagement.
But those defenses were only a part of the station's defense capabilities. The
defense module had included the provisions and equipment necessary to deploy
the station's two primary defenses.
One of these was a bank of sixty-four Block Vs Standard missiles and the
latest AEGIS radar and software modules to control them, specifically modified
for space engagements. The entire system was known as SPAEGIS. The system,
like its naval and land-based cousins, was designed to control all of the
station's defenses, including those on the two craft that were now a part of
the system.
Each of those Block Vs missiles had a small tactical nuclear warhead and a [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]