Friday, March 02, 2007
Off Armageddon Reef: Second Entry: 330 Minutes Later
Title: Off Armageddon Reef
Author: David Weber
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780765315007
Genre: Science Fiction, Military Fiction, Human vs. Alien war, Post Apocalyptic
Series: ?
Publisher: Tor
Pages: 592
Pages: On: 543
Chapters: Many parts and I-II’s etc.
Chapter On:
Time spent: 370 minutes
Rating: ?
Recommend?: ?
Book continued (added reading hours - normally only spend about 2 hours or so a day reading, if that, but added an additional 2 hours a night to “hurriedly” get through the library book - it is now 1 day overdue).
Book started as described before. 890 years later the personal cyborb/android/robot (or whatever it is) of one of the Lt. Commanders of the Operation Ark fleet is awakened. “She” has the personality, memories, and maybe even the soul (unlikely) of the Lt Commander. The robot is informed of what had occurred (original plan called for planting the colony, and eventually the colony would get to the point when it had a high enough tech basis to resume the fight against the Ghaba (the Ghaba are never going to give up killing all civilizations they find, and, at the same time, the Human and Ghaba tech basis were almost equal when the “final fight” occurred (Ghaba’s are presumed to have won because they have a much larger civilization). Ships were to have been left in the solar system powered down and among asteroids. Ghaba would not have been able to detect them. Operation Ark colonists, when they had the right technology, would fly out and get the ships. That had been Mission Controls plan, but the people they put in charge altered the plan. The mission director and staff (not all) altered the minds of the colonists, and set up a religion which forbade technological advance (their idea was that the Ghaba would not be able to find the colony if no high-tech signals were detected). Then they set themselves up as Archangels. The staff had some prolong life drugs that would have kept them alive for hundreds of years. The first settlers also had some prolong drugs in their system which would cause the “Adams” and “Eves” to live about a 120 years healthy lives (the nanobots in their system would kill any “invaders” in their bodies), while the children of the first settlers would not have those prolong drugs, and would expire in “normal” adult life-span.
As mentioned, 890 years later, the Robot, that later started calling itself Merlin, was awakened. Merlin had some high tech stuff lying around for him (the original personality was female, and is still female, but body was altered so that “he” or “she” would be able to function in a male dominated society). Merlin uses his high tech toys to learn the language and watch the world. After months of watching, Merlin heads toward the nation (kingdom) to which he expects would make the best nation to build up to get the colonists to the point where they could be told of the lies and get them situated to fight the Ghaba. Most of the book covers 890-892 and involves the tensions of the world - secular (nearby enemies try to undermine Chabis (sp?)), and religious (World Church - concerned with distance to Chabis and how rich and innovative that kingdom is becoming). Fight breaks out lead by Church to destroy Chabis (Church leaders in role as Secular leaders of the Temple Lands, not in their Religious Role, though that is a smoke screen).
Merlin helps advance the technological base of Chabis.
Beginning of book: wide spread human race with many space colonies with a tech base higher than 22nd century humans.
Rest of book (so far): 1 world (all other worlds are known to have been destroyed by the Ghaba, except for Earth, which is assumed to have been destroyed) that is at about 15th-18th/19th century tech level depending on the technology in question.
Author: David Weber
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780765315007
Genre: Science Fiction, Military Fiction, Human vs. Alien war, Post Apocalyptic
Series: ?
Publisher: Tor
Pages: 592
Pages: On: 543
Chapters: Many parts and I-II’s etc.
Chapter On:
Time spent: 370 minutes
Rating: ?
Recommend?: ?
Book continued (added reading hours - normally only spend about 2 hours or so a day reading, if that, but added an additional 2 hours a night to “hurriedly” get through the library book - it is now 1 day overdue).
Book started as described before. 890 years later the personal cyborb/android/robot (or whatever it is) of one of the Lt. Commanders of the Operation Ark fleet is awakened. “She” has the personality, memories, and maybe even the soul (unlikely) of the Lt Commander. The robot is informed of what had occurred (original plan called for planting the colony, and eventually the colony would get to the point when it had a high enough tech basis to resume the fight against the Ghaba (the Ghaba are never going to give up killing all civilizations they find, and, at the same time, the Human and Ghaba tech basis were almost equal when the “final fight” occurred (Ghaba’s are presumed to have won because they have a much larger civilization). Ships were to have been left in the solar system powered down and among asteroids. Ghaba would not have been able to detect them. Operation Ark colonists, when they had the right technology, would fly out and get the ships. That had been Mission Controls plan, but the people they put in charge altered the plan. The mission director and staff (not all) altered the minds of the colonists, and set up a religion which forbade technological advance (their idea was that the Ghaba would not be able to find the colony if no high-tech signals were detected). Then they set themselves up as Archangels. The staff had some prolong life drugs that would have kept them alive for hundreds of years. The first settlers also had some prolong drugs in their system which would cause the “Adams” and “Eves” to live about a 120 years healthy lives (the nanobots in their system would kill any “invaders” in their bodies), while the children of the first settlers would not have those prolong drugs, and would expire in “normal” adult life-span.
As mentioned, 890 years later, the Robot, that later started calling itself Merlin, was awakened. Merlin had some high tech stuff lying around for him (the original personality was female, and is still female, but body was altered so that “he” or “she” would be able to function in a male dominated society). Merlin uses his high tech toys to learn the language and watch the world. After months of watching, Merlin heads toward the nation (kingdom) to which he expects would make the best nation to build up to get the colonists to the point where they could be told of the lies and get them situated to fight the Ghaba. Most of the book covers 890-892 and involves the tensions of the world - secular (nearby enemies try to undermine Chabis (sp?)), and religious (World Church - concerned with distance to Chabis and how rich and innovative that kingdom is becoming). Fight breaks out lead by Church to destroy Chabis (Church leaders in role as Secular leaders of the Temple Lands, not in their Religious Role, though that is a smoke screen).
Merlin helps advance the technological base of Chabis.
Beginning of book: wide spread human race with many space colonies with a tech base higher than 22nd century humans.
Rest of book (so far): 1 world (all other worlds are known to have been destroyed by the Ghaba, except for Earth, which is assumed to have been destroyed) that is at about 15th-18th/19th century tech level depending on the technology in question.
