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    Quantum Troopers Episode 6: I, Lieutenant John Winger...
    Quantum Troopers Episode 6: I, Lieutenant John Winger...
    Quantum Troopers Episode 6: I, Lieutenant John Winger...
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    Quantum Troopers Episode 6: I, Lieutenant John Winger...

    By Philip Bosshardt

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    Episode 6, Quantum Troopers. Johnny Winger, rescued from the Engebbe dig site, has come under suspicion by UNIFORCE Security of being a double agent. It’s a setup orchestrated by UNSAC, but Winger can’t convince anybody of that. He has to undergo memory trace and ANAD penetration. He passes the test but several troopers in the unit don’t...they’re angels and have to be removed. Winger is depressed by this and wants Major Kraft to authorize a special op to find out where the missing troopers are. Kraft is willing, but needs authorization from UNIFORCE. However, before the op can get underway, a new menace has developed. Red Hammer has used its stolen ANAD technology to create a special angel...a robotic celebrity and messiah named Symborg. He begins to attract millions of followers...a new religion/spiritual discipline called Assimilationism grows rapidly. Even worse, business and political leaders, even sports and entertainment stars all over the world are turning out to be angels. Some kind of mass displacement effort is underway. If it continues, Red Hammer may well wind up running most of the world as their own enterprise...with all the powers and weapons of multiple nation-states at their disposal. Some of the displaced have been disassembled. Others, including most of the Quantum Corps troopers that turned up missing, are incarcerated below ground, below Mount Kipwezi, in Kenya. Kraft approves the special forces mission to locate and rescue them. But the rescue force doesn’t realize there is something stirring in the archaeological dig site at Engebbe, Kenya nearby...ancient ancestors of the race that Red Hammer is in contact with have been released and are moving to prevent the rescue...and continue their global displacement effort....

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    PublisherPhilip Bosshardt
    Release dateApr 29, 2016
    ISBN9781310419744
    Quantum Troopers Episode 6: I, Lieutenant John Winger...
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    Philip Bosshardt

    Philip Bosshardt is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He works for a large company that makes products everyone uses...just check out the drinks aisle at your grocery store. He’s been happily married for over 20 years. He’s also a Georgia Tech graduate in Industrial Engineering. He loves water sports in any form and swims 3-4 miles a week in anything resembling water. He and his wife have no children. They do, however, have one terribly spoiled Keeshond dog named Kelsey.For details on his series Tales of the Quantum Corps, visit his blog at qcorpstimes.blogspot.com or his website at http://philbosshardt.wix.com/philip-bosshardt.

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      Quantum Troopers Episode 6 - Philip Bosshardt

      Quantum Troopers

      Episode 6: I, Lieutenant John Winger…

      Published by Philip Bosshardt at Smashwords

      Copyright 2016 Philip Bosshardt

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      A few words about this series….

      Quantum Troopersis a series of 15,000- 20,000 word episodes detailing the adventures of Johnny Winger and his experiences with the United Nations Quantum Corps.

      Each episode will be about 40-50 pages, approximately 20,000 words in length.

      A new episode will be available and uploaded every 3 weeks.

      There will be 22 episodes. The story will be completely serialized in about 14 months.

      Each episode is a stand-alone story but will advance the greater theme and plot of the story arc.

      The main plotline: U.N. Quantum Corps must defeat the criminal cartel Red Hammer’s efforts to steal or disable their new nanorobotic ANAD systems.

      Uploads will be made towww.smashwords.comon approximately the schedule below:

      Episode # Title Approximate Upload Date

      1 ‘Atomgrabbers’ 1-14-16

      2 ‘Nog School’ 2-8-16

      3 ‘Deeno and Mighty Mite’ 2-29-16

      4 ‘ANAD’ 3-21-16

      5 ‘Table Top Mountain’ 4-11-16

      6 ‘I, Lieutenant John Winger…’ 5-2-16

      7 ‘Hong Chui’ 5-23-16

      8 ‘Doc Frost’ 6-13-16

      9 ‘Demonios of Via Verde’ 7-5-16

      10 ‘The Big Bang’ 7-25-16

      11 ‘Engebbe’ 8-15-16

      12 ‘The Symbiosis Project’ 9-5-16

      13 ‘Small is All!’ 9-26-16

      14 ‘’The HNRIV Factor’ 10-17-16

      15 ‘A Black Hole’ 11-7-16

      16 ‘ANAD on Ice’ 11-29-16

      17 ‘Lions Rock’ 12-19-16

      18 ‘Geoplanes’ 1-9-17

      19 ‘Mount Kipwezi’ 1-30-17

      20 ‘Doc II’ 2-20-17

      21 ‘Paryang Monastery’ 3-13-17

      22 ‘Epilogue’ 4-3-17

      Chapter 1

      Double Agent

      Engebbe, Kenya and Table Top Mountain,

      Idaho, USA

      November 4, 2048

      10:45 p.m.

      Johnny Winger fought back the rising tide of panic by following an old atomgrabber’s trick: reciting the Nanotrooper Code of Conduct….

      "Nanotroopers don’t leave any troopers behind…nanotroopers fight only the enemy…nanotroopers don’t harm those who surrender…."

      He found that by repeating well-known phrases and verses—the Nanotrooper’s Code, favorite songs and nursery rhymes, pieces of well-known speeches—he could occupy his mind enough to keep from dwelling on the fact that he was completely lost in some kind of historical simulation of an alien race, seemingly lost in space, with no way out.

      After he grew tired with that, he started describing what he was seeing, sort of a personal log of sights and sounds.

      Well, there are a lot of stars, to begin with. Stars and galaxies and things I have no idea what they are. Spirals and pinwheels and barred spirals and blobs and globs of stars. I keep wondering about that black hole or singularity or whatever the hell it is over there to my right…what role does a black hole play in a sim…why put one in a sim at all? It has to mean something….

      ***converging on a --***

      The snippet of chatter came through his quantum coupler like a bad dream. What the hell was that?

      ANAD…ANAD, is that you…ANAD, what channel are you on? ANAD--?

      For several minutes, he cycled through his coupler channels, trying any comm he could find. Nothing. Not even static. Then:

      ***-ports ready in all respects…ANAD to…ggghhu,anlhdlbc…ANAD operating as before…anyone there?***

      Winger would have leaped for joy if he hadn’t been floating in the middle of interstellar space without so much as a hypersuit on.

      ‘ANAD…hold on…ANAD…wait a minute…let me tweak this—" He adjusted the coupler gain…damned quantum crap…adjusted the entangler circuit…then, the voice of the little bot came in loud and clear, as if he were right inside Winger’s head.

      ***Johnny Winger…good to hear your voice--***

      ANAD, where the hell have you been?

      ***Physically, resident in the containment capsule, of course…right where you put me…I had a coupler malfunction, then my processor went offline…I was drifting…just drifting…then I was in some kind of crystalline lattice, solid-phase structure, but arranged differently…Johnny, there’s more to the coupler than we realize…***

      Winger was just glad to have some company. I was going looney out here…wherever here is…ANAD, we’ve got to figure a way to get out of here….what were you saying about the coupler?

      ***The quantum coupler has functions we were not aware of…I saw that in the lattice I was in…it was like I was inside a coupler, operating at quantum scales…entangled, superposed, fluctuating at the edge of existence…it was weird***

      Winger was intrigued. I’m sure…what kind of functions? What are you talking about?

      ***Well, you know what a quantum coupler is supposed to do?***

      In a general sense, yes.

      ***Remember this?*** ANAD played a snippet of vid, showing Dr. Irwin Frost explaining the coupler’s design to Winger…only a month ago at Northgate U.

      Frost diagrammed his explanation on a board. The coupler allows ANAD to send extremely large bandwidths of information of all types—all senses, such as visual, olfactory, audio, tactile as well as direct sensing of the molecular environment—directly to a special hypersuit headset that connects with the proper sensory channel of the wearer or directly into a special ANAD junction inside the wearer’s skull, a sort of server that routs the data stream to the corresponding lobes of the brain.

      "You mean I could see…sense…exactly what ANAD senses?"

      Frost nodded. "In a way. You and ANAD will be coupled in a quantum sense…exchanging entanglement states, to use the correct wording. ANAD now has a quantum coupler and multiplexer embedded in his processor core. The quantum states that represent what he senses go through this coupler to an interface, which will be part of your implant. This interface will disentangle the quantum state signals from

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