Amalthean Quests Two

Jeri Dion

Description

It is the twenty-fifth century and the Amalthean Quests team is back. Tayce Traun is in command of a new updated cruiser, Amalthea Two, with her former onboard computer transformed into Tayce's personal robotic escort - a Romid known as Twedor. The team travels through time and space to rid the universes of evil and lawlessness. Ranged against the Amalthean Quests team, powerful forces have pledged to destroy Questa and Enlopedia, as they did Tayce's home planet, Traun. The entire Empire of Honitonia is in danger of obliteration. The Witch Queen Aemiliyana has escaped from her prison in the Empire of Lost Traun and her one thought is that Tayce must die.

Sujets

• Science fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 26 mars 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780722348123
• Langue: English

Extrait

AMALTHEAN QUESTS TWO
Jeri Dion
ARTHUR H. STOCKWELL LTD
Torrs Park, Ilfracombe, Devon, EX34 8BA
Established 1898
www.ahstockwell.co.uk




2018 digital version converted and published by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
Copyright © 2018 Jeri Dion
First published in Great Britain, 2018
The right of Jeri Dion to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright holder.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales, is purely coincidental.




For my late dad, who loved science fiction.
For Dick Hall, a man of many writing talents, thank you for your guidance.
Also my laptop, ‘A-mal’, who processed the words.
Jeri Dion



Pronunciations and Meanings of Names in the Book
Amal -pronounced A-mal, short for Amalthea
Romid -robotic original mobile intelligent drone
Stavern -champagne
Level steps -steps between the decks/levels of the cruiser
Vardox -Vodka
MLC -Medical Life Centre
DC -Discuss Centre



Amalthea Two Layout
FRONT AND REAR DECKS
LEVEL 1: Main Organisation Deck
Organisation Centre
DC (Discuss Centre, formally known as the Meeting Centre)
Resources and Study Centre
Slazer Emergency Store and Charge Point
Emergency Hatch for escaping Amalthea Two, which incorporates passage to Life Escape Pods (which are stored at the rear of the cruiser)
Total Shutdown Centre for the whole cruiser.
LEVEL 2: Life Deck
Medical Life Centre (MLC)
Emergency Treatment Room
Slazer Burns Centre (for the treatment of burns from weapon fire)
Dr Tysonne’s Officette
Medical Supplies Store.
Body Scanner Room (for injuries)
Transpot Centre
Docking Bay With Boarding Tube
Leisure and Refreshments Centre
Male Sanitary Room (for cleansing after a Quest)
Female Sanitary Room (for cleansing after a Quest)
Pios Sanctuary Centre
Medical Experimental Lab A (especially for diagnosing diseases)
LEVEL 3: Quarters Deck
Main Crew Quarters (situated at the front of the cruiser)
Tayce Traun, 1A
Marc Dayatso, 2B
Dairan Loring, 3C
Donaldo and Treketa Tysonne, 4D
Second-Rank Officers’ Quarters
Kelly Travern, 5E
Lance Largon, 6F
Craig Bream, 7G
Mac Danford, 8H (note: halfway through the voyage these quarters become Nick Berenger’s)
Sallen Vargon, 91
Aldonica Darstayne, 10J
Jaul Naven, 11K
Guest Quarters
1. Deluca Marrack (team member)
2.
3.
Flight Hanger Bay Entrance
Flight Maintenance Unit
Quest Suiting-Up Room
LEVEL 4: Science And Botany Deck
Garden Dome (rear of the cruiser)
Plant Specimen Growing and Prep Room
Botany Study Centre
Astrono Centre
Dairan Loring’s Officette
Sallen Vargon’s Officette
Medical Experimental Lab B (Larger facility than lab A)
Botany Equipment and Seed Stores.
LEVEL 5: Combat And Tech Level Deck
Combat Training and Practice Centre
Robot and Technical Service Section
Weaponry Design Centre (Aldonica’s domain).
Gym and Sauna Rooms
Shower Rooms for Gym
Recreational Room (for sports)
Weaponry Testing Room
Engine Room
Electronics Centre (serving the whole cruiser)
Engine Access Shaft (for maintenance)
Access Room (for the main weaponry cannons for the cruiser)
LEVEL 5 (REAR): Freight Hold And Interrogation Deck
Interrogation Centre
Confinement Cells 1–9
Slazer Energy Force-Field Doors to Cells’ Control Room
Cruiser Electronic Defence Operational Room
Invis Shield Control Room
Service Area (for shuttles/fighters and other spacecraft)



Team Members of Amalthea Two
Tayce Traun
CAPTAIN
Marc Dayatso
COMMANDER
Dairan Loring
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER / ASTRONOMER
(New member)
Lance Largon
QUESTS RESEARCH INFORMATION OFFICER
Kelly Travern
NAVIGATIONALIST
(From Greymaren; new member)
Mac Danford
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
(New member)
Craig Bream
COMPUTER ANALYSING TECHNICAL OFFICER
(New member)
Nick Berenger
REPLACEMENT COMMUNICATIONS CHIEF
(New member)
Deluca Marrack
QUESTS ASSISTANT
(From the Planet Marrack; new member)
Donaldo Tysonne
DOCTOR / LASER SURGEON
Treketa Tysonne
MEDIC / NURSE
(née Stavard, Tom’s sister from Amalthea One )
Aldonica Darstayne
WEAPONRY SPECIALIST
(New member)
Sallen Vargon
SCIENCE TECH
(Sallen is the evil daughter of the Countess, but she has undergone a memory-reprogramming procedure and has been given a new identity with no recollection of her old past; new member)
Jaul Naven
SCIENCE, MEDICAL AND BOTANY OFFICER
(New member)
Twedor
ESCORT AND ROMID TO TAYCE TRAUN
(Formally Midge, the guidance and operations computer on Amalthea One ; Romid = robotic original mobile intelligent drone; new member)
Amal
FEMALE GUIDANCE AND MAIN OPERATIONS COMPUTER
(Link-up to Twedor; new member; Amal, pronounced A-mal, is short for Amalthea )



Amalthean Quests Update
At the end of the first voyage, when Tayce didn’t know if she could go on without Tom, her husband, the team and cruiser were called back to Questa unexpectedly. The future looked unsure for all the members for the vastly recognised Amalthean Quests team, even though they had been classed as Legends of the Universe. In 2418 the team were disbanded by new council ruling, by a man everyone despised, namely Layforn Barkin, who was at this time in charge of the new man-made sister colony to Questa, Enlopedia. Barkin, as many addressed him, because of the disrespect they had for the man, had the Amalthean Quests team disbanded on to new assignments without further word. Hence the Amalthean Quests team fell apart. He claimed that the Amalthean Quests voyage was taking up too much funding to be kept operational, and as he had to make cutbacks it was wiped of the face of the universal map. The Amalthean cruiser was placed in an area known as ‘out of service’ and shut down at Enlopedia, pending a final decision on what to do with it. Councillor Lydia Traun was furious - she had managed to gain all but one vote to keep her daughter’s Amalthean Quests crime-orientated voyage continuing.
In 2420 Layforn Barkin after his unpopular conduct with the people of both Questa and Enlopedia made a fatal error of duty in his cutbacks, assigning 200 newly trained cadets in their late teens on a dangerous and life-threatening assignment, where safety was not what it should have been. All 200 young people were sent to their deaths, horrifically. This finally was the turning point for Lydia Traun, when the other members began to see Layforn Barkin for what he was. A power-happy and dangerous councillor with no regard for life or duty. He was sentenced for his misconduct and sent to live out the rest of his dayons on a remote penal colony
Layforn Barkin was replaced by Waynard Bayden, Jonathan Largon’s friend and someone that knew a lot more about running a colony such as Enlopedia. Soon he put the harmony back where it belonged, in the every-dayon existence of what both colonies stood for and what the late Jonathan Largon had built up over the yearons’ peace and justice. One of the things he reinstated was the Amalthean Quests voyages. Everyone was pleased at both the colonies that life was returning to what it should be, and many congratulated Waynard when they saw him in the city square, as he checked personally on buildings and duties that went into restoring what life should be. That had been closed down or cut back. As for Amalthea One, he gave orders for it to be taken out of where it had been placed, stripped back to its bare frame and redesigned, but still keeping its sleek ‘A’ shape. Craig Bream, a young expert in the field of computer design and technology, was placed in charge of removing all of Midge’s computer circuitry, character memory and voice and placing them into a brand-new design of a free walking-talking escort-type robot, that was classed as a just over three-foot high Romid with a new name, Twedor. Twedor was given the same friendly characteristics that he had when he was guidance and main operations computer aboard Amalthea One, so he could become Tayce Traun’s new companion. He would also protect Tayce in any dangerous situation. Top construction designers in the fields of engineering, weaponry, interior electronics and quarters design worked around the clock to restore the sleek design with an up-to-date feel that was to become Amalthea Two. As the cruiser was Tayce’s to begin with, many of the chiefs in the relevant teams working aboard the cruiser welcomed her input. Craig Bream worked with her also, as there was to be a high-frequency link-up between Twedor and new female guidance and main operations computer named Amal, pronounced A-mal, short for Amalthea.
For Tayce life had been hard after the death of Tom Stavard, but she had had a good friend on Questa in Jan Barnford, now chief of the Security Patrol Division. He and Tayce had become firm friends and she had helped him on many an assignment until she felt that she could return to a life of indepen