IN THE STORMY RED SKY – snippet 11:
Anston, Admiral James, and Daniel’s sister Deirdre had asked if Daniel could find room on the Milton’s books to list young persons–in Kithran’s case, his ten-year-old niece–as midshipmen before the age of sixteen, when they could enter the Academy. If those recipients passed the midshipman’s exam after graduation, their period of early enrollment would count as both time in grade and time in service. For the right officer, that could be a considerable benefit.
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STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 79:
Chapter Twenty-One
“Well, what do you make of it?” Gregor O’Shaughnessy asked with a crooked smile.
“If you’re asking for my professional opinion on how we pulled it off, I don’t have a clue,” Commander Ambrose Chandler, Augustus Khumalo’s staff intelligence officer, replied.
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IN THE STORMY RED SKY – snippet 10:
CHAPTER 4: Xenos on Cinnabar
After the Battle of the Jewel System, Captain Stickel of the Lao-tze had invited Daniel to dinner at his club when they next were on Cinnabar together. Stickel was an able officer and far too senior to snub with impunity, so Daniel had sent in his card when the old battleship arrived on Xenos for refitting in Harbor Three.
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STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 78:
Bardasano leaned back in her chair, obviously thinking hard, then drew a deep breath.
“On that basis, I would definitely recommend bringing Aldona fully inside. Although I also think it would be a good idea to think things over very carefully before we decide whether or not we want to ‘resurrect’ Monica. And to consider it in light of the concerns I’ve already expressed about flying by the seat of our pants.”
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— Edited 18 Feb 2007 –
Well, that was an interesting experiment, but we’ve switched back to internal WP comments. We did enable threading. Thanks for your patience with us.
– Loyal Minion
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IN THE STORMY RED SKY – snippet 9:
Communications ships had the hull and spars of light cruisers, but their armament was sharply reduced. Space that on a cruiser would’ve been given over to additional gun turrets and missile magazines was fitted out as luxurious staterooms. Communications ships were fast, comfortable, and designed to carry high officials on embassies to friendly powers. Just as Woetjans said.
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STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 77:
The gusto with which the Audubon Ballroom had gone after Manpower and all its works had been one more element, albeit an unknowing and involuntary one, in camouflaging the Alignment’s true activities and objectives. The fact that at least some of Manpower’s senior executives were members of at least the Alignment’s outer circle meant one or two of the Ballroom’s assassinations had hurt them fairly badly over the years. Most of those slaughtered by the vengeful ex-slaves, however, were little more than readily dispensed with red herrings, an outer layer of “the onion” no one would really miss, and the bloody warfare between the “outlaw corporation” and it’s “terrorist” opposition had helped focus attention on the general mayhem and divert it away from what was really going on.
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IN THE STORMY RED SKY – snippet 8:
CHAPTER 3: Bergen and Associates Shipyard, Cinnabar
“I’ve gathered you here, fellow spacers,” Daniel said to the officers gathered with him on top of the Milton’s dorsal 8-inch gun house, “because there’s more room and no consoles to get in the way as there would be on the bridge or in the BDC. Besides, we’re going to see enough of Millie’s interior in a voyage to the Veil. That’s twenty-eight days by the Sailing Directions, though I’m hoping we can do rather better if the lady’s as handy as I hope she’ll be with a full rig.”
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STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 76:
Detweiler swung his chair gently from side to side for several seconds, considering what she’d said, then grimaced.
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IN THE STORMY RED SKY – snippet 7:
Huxford turned and fumbled with the hatch controls for a moment before he managed to work them. The dogs disengaged and the hydraulic rams swung the armored panel outward. He stumbled through as soon as there was space for his slender, handsome figure.
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