Bøker av John (Retired from Analytic Practice But Continues to Supervise Candidates Conduct Seminars and Write London UK) Steiner

Surpassing the speed of light remained elusive in the 2170's. However, the trick was to hold still to swap out spatial locations. For Colonel Sumitra Ramachandra, Major Lamarr Fitch, Captain Malcolm O'Connell and the rest of the ISS Mockingbird's crew jumping between solar systems is just the start of their wondrous, sometimes zany and often perilous missions. The future of aerospace defense stretches far above the blue yonder.

Primalocracy Flipsace 10 Testing a new Flipspace protocol, the Mockingbird travels to its most distant mission yet. Derivation Flipspace 11 The Mockingbird is again drawn to the Kuiper Belt, when a mysterious object is triggered by human discovery. may threaten the future of exo-solar exploration. Confluence Flipspace 12 The fate of the Astraeus crew is at last known. Serious questions remain as to why they disappeared. During the study of multiple life-sustaining worlds in peculiar orbits, ground support forces brought by the Mockingbird are attacked. Amid working out the nature and intent of the alien, a diplomatic dispute erupts over access to the discoveries. Colonel Ramachandra and her crew fall back on everything they've learned over the past year to understand what has brought together life from across the galaxy.

FLIPSPACE: Astraeus Event Missions 4-6 Oh Fortuna: Flipsace 4 The Mockingbird is ordered for the Fortuna asteroid. The Fortuna Foreign Relations Office asks NATO and Russian Federation to defend them from RSCI clandestine ops. Lt. Arroyo-Diaz's team are invited to a "friendly" game of soccer with Russian security. Stanley Goddard runs into an old nemesis. Threshold: Flipspace 5 Mockingbird is dispatched to an exo-planet to relieve an outpost team, only to get response from the small wind-blown base. Todd Ash draws animosity from the science team leader. He and Cpt. O'Connell uncover signs of extinct civilizations and what happened to outpost crew. When It Rains: Flipspace 6 The Mockingbird arrives to an exo-solar planet 42 light-years away with a survey team. The science team finds intelligent life on sixth planet. Captain O'Connell's team clash with ISO scientists. Then, a derelict spacecraft is found beyond the planet's moon. How many S.E.T.I. encounters they face is uncertain.

Flipspace: Astraeus Event 1 - 3 Flight of the Mockingbird: Mission 1 Colonel Sumitra Ramachandra and Major Lamarr Fitch are deployed before certification to the ISS Astraeus twenty-two light-years away. Three new members with complicated and enigmatic backgrounds are added to her crew roster just before launch. Branching Out: Mission 2 The ISS Mockingbird is ordered to Kepler 22b to check up on a research on the planet, Kepler 22b. A base established by RSCI is putting profit before the concerns of indigenous life. A distress call from the RSCI base forces Colonel Rama to breach their air defenses to comply with international conventions and save lives. Sol-Side Up: Mission 3 The Mockingbird returns to Earth to mixed public reception. Colonel Ramachandra is kidnapped. Major Lamarr Fitch struggles with command while organizing the ship's crew to get Colonel Rama back. Captain Malcolm O'Connell confronts his past and the legacy of being a reincarnated Xerxes Protocol patient.

FLIPSPACE: Astraeus Event Shades of Jade: Flipsace 7 The Mockingbird responds to a distress call from their sister ship in the Kuiper Belt. With an expanded crew lurk covert objectives. Disaster throws the crew into crisis pushing them all to their limits. Close Encounters For Their Kind: Flipspace 8 Col. Rama is assigned a mission that could violate exo-solar treaties. Among archives are surface changes suggest intelligent life on an exoplanet. Under the cover of a scientific mission, the Mockingbird is loaded for bear. The surface team faces an indigenous species that is aggressive beyond belief. The question is why? Raging Pacific: Flipspace 9 A terrorist group uses a new bioweapon to seize control over a corporate board, and through them possession of Pacific City. The Mockingbird crew is put on alert status. As a biologics expert, Todd Ash is covertly inserted onto Pacific City. Branch rivalry with Marines belies the fact that Earth security is at stake.