Reason For Vengeance (Dark Vengeance Book 1) by Adrian D Roberts
Authors: Adrian D Roberts
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reached two hundred metres. In perfect synchronisation they swung into formation, pivoted their noses towards the stars and activated their main engines.
With no sign on her screen of Shadow Company being caught by the Gomez government and the ships heading back to base, Valerie relaxed in her seat. Another successful mission complete, with no casualties and few injuries. It was another job well done.
CHAPTER FOUR
This is the definition of true happiness, Valerie thought as she sat at the controls of her Kingfisher aircar. It was a beautiful Saturday morning and the sun was shining in the clear blue sky. The self-tinting wind screen reducing the glare, but more than enough came through for her to appreciate it properly. After months in space, it was particularly satisfying.
Valerie was well used to time in the confines of a starship or in this case a FOB module, but there was nothing like the feel of real sunlight. Particularly from the one in the Olympus system, which was the closest to Sol, humanities birthplace, than any other so far discovered with a terraformable world within the Goldilocks zone.
She had left Mountnessing, the Legion’s main base on the outskirts of Zeus, far behind, travelling swiftly in the Blue zone and revelling in the feel of the Kingfisher. Shadow Company all arrived on the planet together, after completing the debriefings on Furioso. Everyone earning a well-deserved break. They were all off to spend time with family or to blow the pay they accumulated during the mission, which they hadn’t been able to spend.
The March Kingfisher had the functionality of a family vehicle with its six seats and large cargo area coupled with souped up twin turbo charged engines and racing spec aerodynamics. It was more than she could afford on a Major’s salary, let alone her cover identity’s Lieutenant pay. Tom surprised her with it on her last birthday and she loved its speed and manoeuvrability. With the added bonus of her Legion Elite Pilots Licence, she could fly with manual controls up in the Blue Traffic Zone.
With the introduction of relatively inexpensive aircraft, inexpensive if you were one of the Privileged or a Government department anyway, a safe and effective air traffic control system needed to be developed. It would have been inconceivable to expect the general public to be trained to the level of commercial, civilian and military pilots, when aircraft were still relatively rare. It was decided that a coloured lane system would be implemented, with the majority of civilian everyday cars to be under computer control.
Although a true artificial intelligence had turned out to be impossible, an incredibly powerful computer capable of handling the millions of vehicles across a planet wasn’t. The system worked from the ground up into low orbit, starting with Red at ground level. Red was for wheeled vehicles only. Allowing those who couldn’t afford aircars a sense of freedom, by giving any vehicles driven on the roads manual control. Aircars could also be used the same way, as long as they were set to hover with a maximum height of one metre.
Above the red, came the Orange band, used purely for vertical movement from Red into the higher bands, under computer control only. Yellow and Green were the main thoroughfares, both under computer control, Yellow for short journey’s and Green, above the Yellow, for the longer ones, with faster speeds. Blue was the first band allowing manual controls, for those with the requisite licences and also used for the long haul cross continent or ocean flights. Above that, the Indigo band was mainly for the big commercial liners moving workers around the planet. Violet, the uppermost band, was for transferring out of the atmosphere into orbit.
It was almost impossible to override the autopilots hard wired into all vehicles when they were built. Even in the direst of
With no sign on her screen of Shadow Company being caught by the Gomez government and the ships heading back to base, Valerie relaxed in her seat. Another successful mission complete, with no casualties and few injuries. It was another job well done.
CHAPTER FOUR
This is the definition of true happiness, Valerie thought as she sat at the controls of her Kingfisher aircar. It was a beautiful Saturday morning and the sun was shining in the clear blue sky. The self-tinting wind screen reducing the glare, but more than enough came through for her to appreciate it properly. After months in space, it was particularly satisfying.
Valerie was well used to time in the confines of a starship or in this case a FOB module, but there was nothing like the feel of real sunlight. Particularly from the one in the Olympus system, which was the closest to Sol, humanities birthplace, than any other so far discovered with a terraformable world within the Goldilocks zone.
She had left Mountnessing, the Legion’s main base on the outskirts of Zeus, far behind, travelling swiftly in the Blue zone and revelling in the feel of the Kingfisher. Shadow Company all arrived on the planet together, after completing the debriefings on Furioso. Everyone earning a well-deserved break. They were all off to spend time with family or to blow the pay they accumulated during the mission, which they hadn’t been able to spend.
The March Kingfisher had the functionality of a family vehicle with its six seats and large cargo area coupled with souped up twin turbo charged engines and racing spec aerodynamics. It was more than she could afford on a Major’s salary, let alone her cover identity’s Lieutenant pay. Tom surprised her with it on her last birthday and she loved its speed and manoeuvrability. With the added bonus of her Legion Elite Pilots Licence, she could fly with manual controls up in the Blue Traffic Zone.
With the introduction of relatively inexpensive aircraft, inexpensive if you were one of the Privileged or a Government department anyway, a safe and effective air traffic control system needed to be developed. It would have been inconceivable to expect the general public to be trained to the level of commercial, civilian and military pilots, when aircraft were still relatively rare. It was decided that a coloured lane system would be implemented, with the majority of civilian everyday cars to be under computer control.
Although a true artificial intelligence had turned out to be impossible, an incredibly powerful computer capable of handling the millions of vehicles across a planet wasn’t. The system worked from the ground up into low orbit, starting with Red at ground level. Red was for wheeled vehicles only. Allowing those who couldn’t afford aircars a sense of freedom, by giving any vehicles driven on the roads manual control. Aircars could also be used the same way, as long as they were set to hover with a maximum height of one metre.
Above the red, came the Orange band, used purely for vertical movement from Red into the higher bands, under computer control only. Yellow and Green were the main thoroughfares, both under computer control, Yellow for short journey’s and Green, above the Yellow, for the longer ones, with faster speeds. Blue was the first band allowing manual controls, for those with the requisite licences and also used for the long haul cross continent or ocean flights. Above that, the Indigo band was mainly for the big commercial liners moving workers around the planet. Violet, the uppermost band, was for transferring out of the atmosphere into orbit.
It was almost impossible to override the autopilots hard wired into all vehicles when they were built. Even in the direst of
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