Three Square Meals Ch. 70

Tefler: :-)

I am so glad you incorporated my cosmedics idea into the story. It is a sure thing to make them all filthy rich.

Time Line

I love the story. !!!
When the story is complete, I would like to download the entire EPIC, ( sorry, but I don't know how to do that).

Comment: Could you possibly add a "Time Line". So much has happened over so many chapters and such a short time period. I tend to loose tract of the time involved in this adventure. The story takes place over several months and so the girls remain teenagers.
Strung out differently it could have happened over several years.

Comment: You have a wonderful editor. !!!

The skin cream

Could be named: Creme' de Lioness--For the beautiful skin you deserve!

A deeper penetrating cream could be named: De Lioness Gravity defying Potion--For the ageless girl in you.

A body soap could be named: De Lioness Smoother Touche'--For your sensual side.

I thought the interdiction

beams were just artificial lumps in space time, people can't jump within a distance of planets till they get outside the safe distances. so all you'd have to do is throw a kink in front of a speeding ship. the interdiction mines in the last battle would just be large gravity generators on asteroids. basically the artificial gravity on ships but turned up to 11. hipsails close enough and its dragged out of warp. and if its a permanent generator, kept out of warp till its far enough away.

Incidentally This is the one point in time that I think wormhole generators would be useful, storywise. allowing John & the girls to escape from a trap.

And the Advertising hook

Finally, a product line that will help you look and be the Lioness of your Pride! With a shot of John and the girls in a playful pose.

Your Killing me here

So what is has her sister become the hard nose pirate queen? Does she not want to be rescued? Is she in trouble or just a tramp archeologist wandering around? I am starting to worry that she is never going to make an appearance.

1hand

I agree totally with you on the interdiction beacons. The inverse of anti-grav generators strong enough to create a planetary level gravity well is all it would take and the ships protection systems would kick in.

@jperk31260

They have her transponder code....she will be found.

Chapter 71 Status update

Hey guys,
I just finished chapter 71! I'll do a bit of editing for a couple of days then release it to my Patreon Page. When all the editing is complete, I'll submit it for publication here, so it'll probably be mid-week next week when it's ready to read.

Cheers

Tefler

Smiles

Whispers PAAATRRREEEEOOOON with a crazy grin.

Anon, Re: interdiction beacons

The Pirates in Ch. 16 were being sold fully tooled military hardware by a corrupt officer. This is (hopefully) not a normal occurrence.

That said, basing plans on the assumption that interdiction beacons are beyond these pirates is probably unwise.

Real!

I don't suppose someone's mentioned that there's a real retired Admiral John Blake of the US Navy. Seriously.

Awesome series this!!

I have really enjoy'd your world!
Keep it coming......
You've kept so many fun plot doors open its great...

71

just finished 70, wow its long. no cliffhanger ;p .

71 next week :)

KUDOHS!!!

Tef, you´re really making it tough to read any other pieces on Lit...setting a standard...excellent as always.

Real John Blake

Wow, that's pretty crazy there's a real retired Admiral with the same name!

I better add the disclaimer about "Any similarities to real persons is purely coincidental, blah, blah..." to save the guy some envious looks! :-)

Tefler

Re: Hellinahelmet

Thanks! It's good to hear I haven't had any dips in the last few chapters. :-)

The Patrons have been responding well to Chapter 71, which is a relief, as it's a bit of a departure from the usual fare. I hope you guys will like it too!

Tefler

I hope we will be able to read ch71 by Wednesday tefler
Btw how big is ch71 ?????

Chap 71

this is 8 pages literotica format.

Hope I'm not stepping on any toes... :)

With the advent of all the Progenitor Gear, have you thought about giving Faye a Cybernetic Body??? Maybe something with a Progenitor "Mind"... I'm sure the girls could design something & then John could build the framework out of Crystal Alysium... This way Faye could "Join" them on some of their "Adventures". :)

Faye Body

Since John has the same powers as Irillith that means that he can join Fey in Cyber Space and connect with her there. Maybe once he defeats his inner progenitor he will be able to take the rest of the girls with him like when he had his astral nightmare.

Faye

Perhaps faye could reside in vambraces to help when John and his girls are away from the invictus

Vambraces, Feye, and Athnea.

Isn't that where she was when she was introduced, in Irillith's vambraces? She can already move about using her boys and holo-projectors. If they re-engineered the original deck but with more storage to start with she should take one of the boys with them or use the projectors on the suits to start with. Eventually, they could create some artificial skin and she could feel better. Now that I am thinking about it, Athena needs a body too. If her astral body can reside in something then maybe they could make 2 and instead of John going in maybe they could bring Faye out.

jperk31260 and leesub

Welcome to the comments section! Yeah, the issue with Faye getting a body is well discussed in previous chapter comments sections. Having said that, your comments are appreciated.

I am sure that Faye gets fully realized in future chapers.....Right Tefler?

By the way: If you skipped over the comments sections while reading the story you really should go back and read them....some of it is fascinating and really fun. Adds a lot to the story in my opinion. Some really good input by many of the readers.

I think the vambrace idea

is the fifth or sixth separate idea of what happens with Faye

Faye - Again

With the level of technology and the ingenuity already displayed by the crew, there is absolutely no reason that Dana, Rachel and Irillith cannot synthesize a cyborg/organic body that Faye can then use as a physical form. Rachel could create the organic material that would allow the body to feel "human" to both Faye and the rest of the crew; Dana could create the cybernetics that would allow the body to maneuver and act like a true organic; Irillith could create the interfaces and programming for Faye to use as she controls the body. Faye herself could write the programs that would allow her to feel everything the body experiences, since she already seems to be inadvertently experimenting along these lines.

Faye

Thinking about Faye & were Tefler is going with her future I only have one worry . It's evident that she loves & adores John & loves the rest of the girls (now) but worry if she joins with John without the "cum" bond will she be as excepting( not jealous) of the other girls . With her lack of normal human like emotions up till now to draw on how will she feel about sharing him .Ever since the crew started growing it was this early bond/influence that kept things calm among the girls . Even with John freeing them from their compulsion to obey his template for his girls still exits.

I have been reading all of the comments as I went along...

I was thinking along the lines of much more than the Vambraces could empower. I meant a full Cybernetic Body including "Human" type skin, with all of the normal nerve endings. This way, not only could she "feel", but, also join in their little gatherings. I would want her to also be able of fully capable feelings, just like a human is capable of. I would want this body to be fully capable of joining with them on excursions outside of the Invectus, while her mind is still protected aboard the ship, then when she returns shipboard, she could incorporate those with what she has aboard the ship, where she has her "Main" AI Mind.

Bonds

John's bonds with the girls are psychic in nature and the cum is merely the vehicle or focus to allow him to do things. So theoretically Faye would not need the cum but I think she would feel cheated and quite frankly so would I. LOL.

Cybernetic

Are we using cybernetic correctly? I keep thinking Android body? Robotic is a body that is programed to do a task or tasks. Android is self aware and self programming to a certain extent. Cyborg is a human brain and at least partially human body. Holograms are what Faye has now and what John's currant training rooms are created using.

Great chapter

It was a great growth chapter. Sakura has managed to get past "most"(?) of her past problems, and reintegrated her skills with her "new" body.

Back to Faye's body: we need a custom, grown, blank body template. (Hello Dana and Rachel and the Progen tools/lab equipment. Then we'll need a blank cybernetic interface for Faye to access and control/live in the body. "Simple"...... LOL

We have seen how Mael'nerak (sp) created various species. Dana just needs to build the "box" to grow a body in.

I hope you submitted the ch tefler so that we can read it by Tuesday if all goes well

Charles is not going to like his old ship beening sliced and diced to upgrade it!!!
LOL

Re: ms904191

I haven't finished all the editing yet, but as soon as my editors get back to me, I'll go through their suggestions then submit the latest chapter. :-)

Tefler

Hope for Faye

I don't know why, but I've always been fascinated by human/AI interaction potential. I really hope she gets a body some day.

As always though, great chapter, great story. Thank you for the hard work Tef.

ship design ?

As they dont seem to use the gym now they can get a bigger pool for jade ?

andya

I am thinking the additional hard points will just be added with Shaped Crystal Alyssium injected into the substructure of the ship....and/or Dana's inertial negation devices will be added to the cannons and mass drivers to counter any recoil with just some minor beefing of the base. What I am expecting as well: a gatling configuration on a gimbal base for the Gauss cannons to increase fire rates, provide auto-tracking and reduce overall size. Increased power to the rails with design upgrades should also improve tracking/speed/lethality. Can you imagine the resultant devestation of a combined cannon fire rate of 600 rounds a minute with a penetrating/explosive ordinance?

ship design

Plrus
i had the same thoughts to start with but if they slice and diced the ship they can have a full deck as a hospital for the doc another deck for engineering and room for a big research for both. You have to think but the hull playe that slid away from gun ports if he's still trying to be friendly looking.
adding 2 or 3 decks is only adding 25'-40' in height might need a few feet in length for new guns and recoil buffers and then added side width for extra ammo storage (ammo making in engineering with auto feed to storage areas)
while thats going on might as well better fun places i.e. bigger pool

yes

the gym function has really moved over to another room where Johns sword training takes place, so extending the pool wouldn't be bad. (apart from the extra tonnage of water when maneuvering)

andya et al

I hear you. And I am actually a big proponent of just making another ship and crewing it with multi house, white haired, Maliri.

Problem that has been pointed out is maneuverability issues. Being able to duck and weave and have half of the ordinance miss you equates to having a ship that is twice as strong to begin with. Now if they can keep the manuverability then a larger vessel makes perfect sense and could be very doable.

A coordiated attack with two vessels as capable or with one even more capable than the Invictus would be a fleet engagement level of power projection with just two ships. Add in the cannon improvements I suggest and you are talking about a REALLY scary ability to project power....ESPECIALLY with worm-hole stellar drives.

ship design

I'm not saying make it 3km long by 1 km wide and high.
adding 50' height and width add 100m long wont change how it moves by much they can add a few more retro's to help spin it, dont forget they done away with most the bad stuff people here keep saying why it cant be gone.

We earth poeple have next to no knowledge on how things can work on a spaceship, yes we have theory's on this but until we have grav plates and anti-grav we can not say for sure what can or cant be done

andya take a deep breath dude! lol

If you read my posts you know I have been all over a larger ship due to the need for more hard points on the ship for cannons. But Dana has evidently found a way to hang lots of extra cannons on the Invictus and still keep the mobility.

Would I like to see a whole ship made of 10 folded Crystal Alyssium that has multiple hulls with seperate shields between them, primary, secondary and tertiary shields, fore and aft four barrel singularity drivers that all operate off of one singularity, 20 rotary gauss cannons on turrets each capable of 600 rounds per minute, fore and aft Nova Lances, 50 gimbaled pulse lasers, 20 beam lasers, improved (Danafied) thrusters all over the hull to keep the manuverability, an Olympic sized pool, expanded play, weapons, manufacturing rooms, etc, etc. etc.. Heck Yeah!

AND!

Why, for goodness sake, has no one decided a seperate shield around a power core or distribution node or the Bridge is a good idea? Heck, even in Star Trek they had that idea....and we KNOW area force fields are in use in Tefler's universe!

Cyborg vs android vs robotic

Cyborg is part organic body but also part robotic programmed to obey the organic part, Android is full on robotic body with an intelligent mind behind it that can reason, a robot with a robotic body is just that, a robot, programmed for various tasks but not sentient.

Re: PLRus (Shielding power core and/or bridge)

I agree about the bridge. I really don't understand why the Sci Fi convention is to put the bridge in one of the most exposed positions on the ship. (well, I kinda do, but...) It's not like they're looking out windows to steer.

I was thinking about the idea of shielding the power core a few days ago, and I came to the conclusion that there wasn't much point. Better to put that extra shielding power on the outside and prevent the damage that way. By the time an enemy had drilled deep enough to cause a core breach, your ship is already fucked anyway.

i have a few thoughts about the maneuverability and the change in ship.

maneuverability of the ship can be increased by increasing the number of retro thrusters around the ship.this can be seen during the trankan battle(ship are bigger and heavier but out maneuvered invictius) the ship can be bigger and heavier but it will not loose its maneuverability if we increase the number of retro thursters.

by slicing and dicing the ships we are creating weak points that will cause damage to the ship when used with tranakan engines.so better to create the hull with no welding.which will take time to create considering the psychic power of alyssa and john.

if we add multiple shields then we need minimum gap between them to prevent them from cancelling out each other.

multiple armour no problem.it can be useful in stopping the shells from penetrating deeper into the ship.

shields for power nodes and power distributors is not useful at all considering the size of the ship can the size of the nodes.it is like flying a helicopter over a football stadium and trying to hit a football instead of trying to bomb the whole stadium.
and the shields should be small in size to be inserted around the node without causing disturbances to other system so instead of wasting the power we can use it to power the outer shields

hitting the power nodes is seen when calara hits them(she is able to hit the retro thrusters and nodes due to higher marksmanship skill which is due to johns enhancement).but others (non enhanced shooters) will try to overload the shields try to hit the bridge.thus if your enemy is trying to hit power node and power distributors then either they are foolish enough to expose themselves to enemy fire without firing back(they aim only for the nodes instead of other bigger targets) or they are able to accurately hit the nodes and are actively trying to prevent loss of life or trying to finish the fight as soon as possible.

i noticed that nobody mentioned increasing the number of power cores.heck if the size of invictius is going to increase then better to add more power cores.one for weapons,one for shields and engines.instead of trying to share the power of a power core between the weapons and shields and engines.

if dana is going to add hard points and add singularity drives then mostly she can add a new power core and its distributors to help invictius more weapons and shield.

given the size of invictius and its new inertial drives,maneuverability increasing the pool size wont do much harm to the maneuverability given the current maneuverability of invictius she will be able to maneuver other ships if they try to cross her.

bridge position

it is the basic idea from ships(water based ones not space which do not have sensors only primitive radar compared to sensors in space ship) that captain,navigators use the bridge to see outside and maneuver the ship.in this,placing the bridge in exposed place is sort of a weak point given how much senor it has so they can move the bridge to a place inside the ship so as to protect them if they dont mind missing the view of stars,planets.

if the ship loses its shield and is vulnerable to enemy fire then only bridge is exposed,until then they are safe from the enemy fire.if u lose ur shields then u are already put the nightlocks inside ur mouth.only way to prevent death is to spit it out aka get ur ass away from A/O and come back if ur shield is full generated back.

thus it does not matter much where the bridge is situated if u lose the shield u are fucked.

dana has soo many upgrades planned before rescuing tashana then i wonder how much upgrades will be done if a progenitor history expert is rescued.

strip the ship bare.
take all networks offline.
upgrade servers.
add more weapons hard points.
add singularity weapons,gauss cannons,heavy cannons.
change power core.
change FLT drives.
add one more power core.
put the armour back after shaping it some 7 to 8 times(they have enough time to do it like 5 armour plates each person (john,alyssa,eradele) each day).
so much to do after returning to ship yard.
waiting for that chapter

Bridge positions

Well, it is nice to be able to look out the windows in John's office, and the briefing room. The main bridge could be out in the open, like it is, for convenience's sake.

You COULD have a secondary "combat" bridge where battles are fought from. Of course, you would have to have time available to get to it before the fight starts.....

Or maybe, the main bridge "sinks down" to an interior level during combat. Nah.... too difficult. But neat :p.

Well, they way the Invictus is coming along, I think the bridge is pretty safe right now. I would assume that all the exterior windows/ports would be covered in combat. I think BSG had armor plates that closed over the bridge windows.

I am starting to wonder what Edraele has in store for John and Co when they get to Genthalis Ship Yard for they're upgrades. Maybe she has had a new ship built that the Invictus can just slide into/dock with. Or one big enough that it just pulls into the hanger.... LOL

@vn7199 re Multiple power cores

If you had been reading the comments you would have seen a few chapters back when one of the main topics was a need to increase the size of ship they are using that multiple power cores was one of the improvements suggested. I, myself, suggested using five or six core I think it was. If I remember right It was one for life support, engines and manoeuvring, one for the nova lances, one for mass drivers/rail guns and medium range weapons, one for short range weapons and one for the shields.