Nu Trilogy 1: The Esss Advance
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Authors: Charles E. Waugh
Copyright © 2016 Charles E. Waugh
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ISBN: 978-1-4834-3831-3 (e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015915227
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Contents
Chapter 3 – Lieutenant Blyleven
Chapter 8 – The Recurring Dream
Chapter 9 – Vice Admiral Bunting
Chapter 12 – The Esss Problem – One Billion Years Ago
Chapter 13 – Emotional Trauma Therapy Begins
Chapter 14 – Fire in the Belly
Interlude 1 – 4 Billion Years Ago
Chapter 16 – The Recovery Challenge
Chapter 19 – Interview with AMC
Chapter 20 – Remembering
Northern Song
Chapter 21 – The Esss Conclave – One Billion Years Ago
Chapter 25 – Double Hull Design Problems
Chapter 26 –
Delta One
First Trial Run
Interlude 2 - 4 Billion Years Ago
Chapter 27 –
Delta One
Major Glitch
Chapter 28 –
Delta One
Field Exercise
Chapter 29 – The Esss Galactic Arrival
Interlude 3 – 3.98 Billion Years Ago
Chapter 32 – The Esss Foothold
Interlude 4 – 3.7 Billion Years Ago
Chapter 34 – HG Rickover Naval Shipyard
Chapter 35 – The Esss Expansion
Interlude 5 – 3.6 Billion Years Ago
Chapter 38 – Party on the Shuttle
Endeavour
Chapter 39 – The Esss Arrival at Sol
Chapter 40 – Lockdown in the Belt
Chapter 42 – The Esss Arrival Preparations
Interlude 6 – 2 Billion Years Ago
Chapter 45 – Manning Shuttle
Discovery
Chapter 46 – New Direction for AMC
Chapter 47 – The Esss Scout Dispatch
Chapter 50 – The Esss First Contact
Chapter 51 – Repurposing the
AMC
Mantis
Chapter 52 – Preparing Initial Report for the Governor
Chapter 53 – The Governor’s Request
Interlude 7 – 66 Million Years Ago
Chapter 55 – The Esss Arrival at the moon
Chapter 56 – Active Laser Scan
Chapter 57 – The Esss Lunar Wrap-up
Chapter 58 –
AMC Mantis
Refit Review
Chapter 59 – Intercept Above Earth
Chapter 60 – The Esss Change the Mapping Approach
Interlude 8 – 4 Million Years Ago
Chapter 61 – Intercept Failure
Chapter 62 – The Esss Map Earth
Chapter 64 – The Council of Eight
Chapter 65 – The Esss Begin Sampling
Chapter 66 –
USpN Raptor
Tries to Engage
Chapter 67 – Fishing Interrupted
Chapter 68 – The Esss Sampling off North Bimini Island
Chapter 69 – Not an Earthquake
Chapter 70 – Collecting Intelligence Data
Chapter 71 – The Esss Sampling the Amazon
Chapter 73 – A Very Short Respite
Chapter 74 – Admiral Brooks and Secretary Miller
Interlude 9 – 1.5 Million Years Ago
Chapter 75 – The Esss Sample Reporting
Chapter 76 – Lake Victoria Warning
Chapter 77 – Rules of Engagement
Chapter 79 – First Sighting over Lake Victoria
Chapter 80 – The Esss Under Surveillance
Chapter 84 – Council of Eight After Action Report
Interlude 10 – 400,000 Years Ago
Chapter 85 –
USpN Mantis
Trial Evaluation
Chapter 86 – The Esss Consolidate Intelligence Data
Chapter 87 – Approaching Jupiter
Interlude 11 – 5,500 Years Ago
Chapter 88 – The Esss Scouts Return to Jupiter Orbit
Chapter 89 – Making Jupiter Orbit
Chapter 90 – The Esss Prepare for Returning Sample Ships
Chapter 92 – Cabin Fever at HG Rickover
Chapter 93 – Intelligence Summit
Chapter 94 – The Esss React to Missiles
Chapter 95 – Measuring Laser Frequencies
Chapter 96 – Boarding the Shuttle Back to the Moon
Interlude 12 – 3,400 Years Ago
Chapter 97 – The Esss Release the Courier Ship
Chapter 98 – Council of Eight Emergency Meeting
Chapter 100 – The
Endeavour
Receives New Orders
Interlude 13 – 2,100 Years Ago
Chapter 101 – Council of Eight Follow-up Report
Chapter 102 – Identifying the Origin of the Aliens
Interlude 14 – 1,500 Years Ago
Chapter 103 – Developing Battle Tactics
Chapter 104 – The Esss Arrival at Earth
Chapter 105 – Monitoring the Alien Arrival
Chapter 106 – The Esss Insertion
Chapter 107 – Galapagos Landing
Chapter 108 – Amazon Delta Landing
Chapter 109 – USpN Monitors the Landings
Chapter 111 – The Esss Begin Monitoring Their Modules
Chapter 112 – Sted’s Unusual Request
Chapter 113 – Council of Eight Receives Requests for Assistance
Chapter 114 – USpN Preparing a Distraction
Chapter 115 – Cam’s Unusual Request
Chapter 116 – Australia Takes the Lead
Chapter 117 – The Esss React Off Australia
Chapter 118 – USpN Reacts to Their Loss
Chapter 120 – Council of Eight Plans Follow-up Action
Chapter 121 – New Plan of Attack
Chapter 122 – The Esss Defend Their Modules
Chapter 123 – Babuyan Island Blast
My thanks to both Editor Kevin Miller for his patient work with this new author and Duncan Long for his outstanding cover art.
I would also like to thank my two sons, Matt and Ben Waugh, for reading my early drafts and making critical suggestions.
Finally, I would like to thank my nephew Robert V. Bauer Jr. for his expertise in the area of robotics and prosthetics.
“We must survive this massacre!” AlvaResh projected to the minds of his pod mates on the scout ship
Harbinger
.
Every one of his Nu companions re-focused their attention away from the destruction of their last colony planet and toward their natural leader. He was young for his role, but that could not be helped. All of the seasoned leaders had long since perished in the defense of their ancient race. The overwhelming and never-ending hoard of Esss battleships had conquered their home world and all of their colonies in the galactic interior. Now they were about to wipe out the last remaining Nu colony at the edge of this outermost galactic arm.
“While the Esss are focused on breaking through our orbital defenses, we must escape. We cannot afford to be followed and hunted down.”
“Where will you take us?” JoZarieh, their seasoned navigator demanded. “How will we be able to survive without the resources of even one world? It would be better to fight and to die with the rest of our race!” He showered their minds with images of them ramming and destroying one of the myriad Esss battleships.
“Remember your place, JoZarieh! I am responsible for you and all the others on this ship,” AlvaResh retorted. “I choose to live and to fight another day, and you will follow my lead! We will find a star system with no habitable planets that is of no interest to the Esss. From there, we can build our own living environment to give us time to regenerate our numbers into a viable colony.”
“And then what will we do against these intractable creatures?” JoZarieh asked. “They are like a wildfire spreading before a gale force wind. They consume everything in their path.”
“We must formulate plans to escape this galaxy, but we cannot do that waiting here and arguing. You will calculate a safe route out of this system and pass the coordinates to MilGravden. She will get
Harbinger
moving in that direction without drawing attention to us.”
“Too late!” MilGravden projected with alarm. “Three Esss battleships have just broken rank and are accelerating in our direction. If we are going to escape, we must leave now, and at our top speed!”
“Head for the Void,” AlvaResh ordered. “They will not be able to follow us for long. With their short lifespan, they will die if they try.”
“But that will commit us to your intergalactic trip without preparations! We may never reach the next galaxy before we all die,” JoZarieh complained.
“That is true,” AlvaResh replied with humility. “But at least we have a chance of making the crossing and saving our race. A small chance is better than none at all.”