A Greater Interest: Samair in Argos: Book 4 by Michael Kotcher

Author:Michael Kotcher [Kotcher, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure, War & Military, Genre Fiction, War
Amazon: B01J0DWPOG
Goodreads: 31211900
Published: 2016-07-23T04:00:00+00:00

Tamara was looking over the latest reports on the various defensive satellites and platforms that were coming online around the three biggest pieces of FP real estate. Each location now had at least six of the Mark 2 platforms, which carried a complement of twenty missiles, as well as four double turbolasers that would easily find a home on a ship as big as a heavy cruiser. All of them were tied into a command and control net, extending the sensor range of the various stations. The shipyard and the mining station (which was back up to 80 percent capacity now) each had six and the Kutok mine had eight. Well, eleven in a pinch. The three “heaters” were also reasonably close to the gas giant and were close enough to tie into the defense net. Of course, using the heaters would completely screw the melted steel ball project, which still had another month to go before it would be time to start spinning it to change it from a big ball of steel to a big plate of steel. The Mark 2s were static defenses, which made the admin council less nervous and (not that she actively sought it out) Councilor Hroth had personally sent a note to FP’s offices stating her approval given what had happened at the Kutok mine.

There were four more days before the Councilor could be gracing them with her august presence, and Tamara wasn’t exactly sure how she felt about that. It wasn’t as though she was going to have to bunk with the she-wolf, since most of Tamara’s time was spent aboard Moxie-2, but the days where Tamara had a free hand to do as she wished here in the outer system were just about over.

Well, it was good while it lasted. She gave a sigh and gave a glance over to the two other displays that were active. There were two programs up; as she was multitasking on three different things at once. In addition to her daily amounts of paperwork (which was never ending), she was watching the code for her new Engineering AI compile. The program wasn’t quite to a self-sustaining level yet, but the fledgling AI was nearly there. Perhaps it would be ready by the time the Councilor arrived. It would certainly be quite the coup to show the government official the newest member of the First Principles’ family.

The third project was the plans for the new company replicators and control implants. It was this third project that that was the most troubling. Tamara had built plenty of replicators in her time, first in the Navy and then once she awoke from her long sleep. But those were tried and tested Republic style devices. This was the first time she’d ever designed, programmed and built one from scratch. She’d sent the initial designs and control code to Ka’Xarian and his team over at the shipyard to go over everything and continue with the coding. She was confident with the encryption, it was just the control subroutines that needed tweaking.

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