Fool's Gold (The Wandering Engineer) (106 page)

“Crew
salute!” Mayweather ordered. They came to attention and saluted.

“God
speed Admiral,” Shelby said quietly.

“Hear
hear,” Firefly and some of the bridge watch murmured. Janice had tears dripping
from her eyes. Destiny flashed and then was gone.

“Carry
on,” Mayweather said softly.

“We'll
do our best,” Shelby replied.

The End.

Author's afterward:

Yup,
sorry folks, I know that ending leaves a bad taste in your mouth, (and mine)
but I had to find a nasty despicable way for the Admiral to be run out of town.
That fit the bill. And yes, a little free foreshadowing, it
will
haunt
him for a while. It will also turn up in some of the other books in this
universe.

I've
been sitting on this book for a while. Mainly to give my proof readers time to
read it... But also to get the cover art done. :)

You
should see book 3 Destiny's choice out soon enough. And keep an eye out for “
Jethro
goes to war
.” That was finished a couple months ago, and I'm just cleaning
it up and working on the cover art before I hand it off to be proofed.

Appendix and References:

The
following links are to online references I used in the making of this book.
They are in no part the ONLY references I used however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Iron_Works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipyard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonaceous_chondrite

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeohzt4/Seaflags/customs/trads.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

http://koutanagamori.deviantart.com/gallery/