All Comments on 'All That Glitters Ch. 17'

Have been awaiting this chapter. It did not disappoint. 5 stars.

Your action scene detail is very good, and keeps me turning the pages. I suspect we can now hear how the Senator is going to reach his own sticky end, now that the pirates seem to have been dealt with. I presume that someone in the pirate organisation is still there behind the scenes and unravelling that aspect should be something that is aired. Maybe with leads that get Senator Wasim Andjuran arrested?

Well done on an exceptionally good story.

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I am expecting a long and drawn out medals ceremony. Not sure that you need it.

Damn it, who was cutting onions?

Well done, phenomenal chapter.

Beyond Wow, this is the Best Space Battle ever on Lit! I Salute the determination, and VALOUR of all involved. Thank you for this wonderful series. We will be waiting patiently for more. Semper Fi as we U.S. Marines say!

The only complaint I can think of, is having to exercise a gnawing impatience while awaiting another chapter. Your ability to build multiple characters within the story, and mesh their stories together fairly seamlessly, is awe inspiring. Keep it going and coming to us !!

Fantastic chapter of a great story

Great space opera. If the spelling of Valor ET all. is the biggest critical issue it is a testament to the quality of this story. Keep up the good work 5 stars.

Another great chapter, please keep it up. Thank you.

Damn you are a great writer!

I can't get enough of this story!

Thanks for the enjoyment and keep it coming!!!

I look every day for the next chapter! Great story...addicting....fascinating all the stuff you have put in there! Looking for MORE!!!!

outstanding story. keep it up. :)

At least it was. I hop4e you get around to writing more.

Read the whole series in 2 days love it can’t wait for next chapter hurry up I know it’s gonna be good. Thanks

In this universe Special Relativity doesn't exist.

. . Here, space and time are Newtonian right up the light speed. At light speed you hit a wall. The “wall” explains why you can't normally go faster than light speed. Time is not slowed near light speed, events can be simultaneous like on earth.

. . This lets you use far less energy to reach light speed. But, it doesn't change the time it takes to do it. The time depends on the Acceleration you get from the force you apply. There is no talk about negating the effects of acceleration. If this remains so, then about 6 g's is the maximum acceleration a man can stand for very long.

. . For simplicity we can take g to be 10m/sec/sec =10m/sec squared. Not 9.8

. . I saw an article long ago that at 1 g acc. it would take about 4 ship years to reach 90% of light speed in the real universe. Obviously, this is not true in this universe. I wonder why?

. . According the my approximate calculations, in this Newtonian universe it would take about 346 days to reach light speed at 10 m/sec/sec of acceleration (=1.02 g). At 2.04 g's = 20m/sec/sec it would take about 173 days the reach light speed. Further, at 10m/sec/sec acc. in about 346 days you would have traveled about ½ of a light year. At 20m/sec/sec it would take you about 173 days to travel ½ light year.

To Steve150177, yes to all of this, but please note: less than seven decades ago, the same 'wall' existed for flight faster than sound. We 'knew' it was impossible to go faster than sound, until somebody did it. The difference there was that we could see things that did go faster than sound, such as projectiles fired by rifles or cannon.

We cannot see things that go faster than light. But scientists have inferred that such particles actually exist, though proving them is problematical for now. The point of this is that what is impossible now, will not be in future.

As to the issue with gravity, all the ships, platforms, and stations (except the alien station), have gravity plating controlled by computers that can manage gravity during the planed maneuvering of the ship, thus making it very comfortable for the crew even under extreme acceleration. The exception is during sudden, unexpected shifts, such as occur from weapons impacts during battle, which is why all who can be are secured during space battles. Second to all of this is Glitters is a Sci-Fi action story, and anything can happen in science fiction, though I do try to keep it as close as possible to real science. That isn't so that real or wanna-be scientists can berate me for my foolishness, but so that problematical situations in the storyline can still be understood. Take it with a grain of salt, or even a whole shaker of salt. Who knows what will happen in twenty years, never mind 400.

I have no trouble with faster than light movement in sci-fi. It is necessary and so always allowed.

AFAIK, in sci-fi anything is allowed as long as the author says how it is possible. Like John Smith discovered it in 2414, so it's called the JS effect, In TSM John Blake's ship uses the anti-gravity systems to pull people & things toward the front of the ship when accelerating to cancel out the effect of accelerating.

I didn't see any mention of slaves on the pirate ships. We know there were some on the flagship before the battle. There were 800 on the ships in the 1st battle so there ought to be a bunch in this 2nd battle. Some died in the cargo ship that was vented to space, so sorry about that. War is hell.

The other epic story I'm reading here, TSM about John Blake, is far, far worse when it comes to Space Opera that ignores science. Problems it ignores.

1] In the vacuum of space ships can't burn.

2] Crippled ships would not 'list'.

3] Space has 3 dimensions. A 2-D map of a Sector like all Terran Space showing its neighbors would not show every neighbor unless to showed those over and under Terran Space. Also, a fleet would not have 2 flanks, it would have a ring all around going under and over it. Fleets don't fight in lines as a result, they might fight in "walls".

4] Space is big. You can't go slow and avoid being obvious and get anywhere in less than a month. Some serious cloaking would be necessary to sneak anywhere in just many minutes.

5] Ships would be hot, their engines, etc., would glow in infrared light for hours, even with all systems off. A fast moving and glowing thing would be easy to spot with passive sensors.

6] Asteroid belts are mostly empty. They are mostly not near planets, if they were, over 10K years the planet's gravity would pull them into other orbits.

And so on.

We don't see many of these problems here at all.

Steve150177 just suspend your disbelief and enjoy the story. If you want to debate Science vs SiFi. Go to a CON.

This is by far my favourite chapter of this story to date. It is free and fast-flowing, which makes it much more engaging.

My biggest surprise and pleasure however is in the way you made the comms messages so believable, at least for me. As a former Light Infantry radio op, and later a comms engineer in the Royal Signals, the radio procedure you have used is spot on the nail. What was most pleasing was when you used the term 'NO DUFF'. Any radio op, at platoon, company or higher level, knows the importance of those two words and they are never used lightly.

Thank you so much for bringing a smile to a veteran's face, currently in Lockdown and on furlogh. Can't wait to see where this story takes us next.

Just waiting for Major Thom to be contacted by ground control.

Loving the story!

Yes Figriggo, the name was deliberately used. Though if anything, it will be Central Control, vice Ground Control 😀

How do these readers not know what fiction is ? I first learned of it 55 years ago when I was 7 years old . And have been enjoying the impossibilities of other worlds and other beings and other rationale ever since . There is no way to dispute fiction . So why try ? Just read and enjoy . Or get lost .

To pk2curious: when fictional stories are so bizarre that their contents are right out of this world (or the universe), belief in the fictional aspect of the story becomes inevitable. However, when a story line mirrors the existing science to a great extent, as Glitters does, it then becomes almost inevitable that the science WILL be debated. I just take this as my readers actually believing in the story itself. I know, it's self gratifying but what the hell, it gives me goosebumps...

"humorous" is that the funny bone?

I'm continuing to give these five stars, but the grammatical errors, incorrect.or misspelled words art becoming more and more annoying. These stories have been published long enough for corrections to have been made.