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    Forming A System: Forming A System, #1
    Forming A System: Forming A System, #1
    Forming A System: Forming A System, #1
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    Forming A System: Forming A System, #1

    By Andrew Uphoff

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    Rey Lionhart grew up on a series of space stations known as the Gaiaforming Initiative. Each station was designed to create a new planet in a solar system. Growing up around so much tech led her down the path of science. Now, she enjoys a cozy life sipping Pumpkin Lattes as Chief Quantum Ley-Engineer on Station 3. At least it was cozy until a Pangean Justiciary shows up to audit the entire project.

    Using her Augmented Reality implant and her knowledge of Ley-Lines to help the Justiciary figure out why Déjà Vu has become so common. What does Déjà Vu have to do with extra-dimensional beings? That's what Rey wants to know.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Uphoff
    Release dateMay 2, 2018
    ISBN9781386720485
    Forming A System: Forming A System, #1

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      Forming A System - Andrew Uphoff

      Copyright © 2014 Andrew Uphoff

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      I hate my job... I've always hated it. Even if I am the smartest and most talented quantum mechanic on all the stations, I hate it. Why do things always pile up like this?! Hanging my head, I saw my only companion working on a panel beneath the steel mesh grating below me.

      Probably because you let them... That's Yuri. He's an older guy, probably his mid forties. Russian descent, so not much to look at, but he's taller than me. I could never figure out if his short hair was actually brown, or if it was just always caked with grease.

      He wore jump suits a lot, as mechanics are wont to do. You know, no one asked you.

      I guess I'm not that much shorter than him... I'm not much of a looker, but I do catch guys staring at my boobs. Even when I look at them I still don't get it... They're not that big. Maybe it's my hair that turns them off. The tom boy look never did sit well with most guys. That and most guys prefer blond over black hair. I wonder should I dye it?

      No, I like it the way it is...

      Maybe it's because not one of them can carry on an intelligent conversation. They don't have to talk about Quantum Mechanics, I mean who wants to talk about work outside of it? But seriously, how hard is it to grasp a simple concept like relativity? Most people on this station probably don't even know that the entire rotation of the installation was calculated to match the expansion of the universe! Well, it's probably for the best...

      Taking time to court a man would be just that, taking time... I've got too much work to do anyway.

      Looking down at Yuri, something caught my eye on the readings panel of my augmented reality, or AR, interface. Another message. Poking the message marker on the AR screen in front of me pulled up an encrypted, and unlabeled message. I pulled my head up so I could focus better, but it didn't help much. Not the first message like this..

      Actually, I've been getting a lot of them. All of these damn messages are getting frustrating. I've never liked being teased. Yuri clanked his tools against the grating of his Harrier Platform. Pretty cool little machine actually. It allowed him to move throughout the Ley-Crystal room with ease.

      I never liked working in the Ley-Crystal room... Except that's where my office is.

      The office was pretty much the grating around the massive encasing of the Ley-Crystal. It was like working inside of an egg shell with a big red shiny crystal floating in the middle. Aside from the grating that circled it around the center of it's height, the only other part of it was the couple exits and maybe the visitors area on the other side which I couldn't see anyways.

      Either way, the crystal wasn't attached to the grating, so for a good five meters in front of me there was nothing but empty space... Empty space that when looked out at revealed the bottom of the room that was at least fifteen stories below. Not exactly easy to work staring at that all the time. That's why I created the augmented reality interface to do my calculations. It was a little bit slow, but it included a quantum encryption for every transmission. Still better than using the terminals set to look right at the crystal, and also right towards the massive abyss.

      All around me is steel, shining from the dim red glow of the Ley-Crystal. The damn thing is huge, but when you're trying to create an entire planet you've got to have a good sized base. I keep telling them they need to install some florescent lighting but they're worried about the light waves interfering with the integrity of the Ley-Connections.

      Umm, Excuse me? Did you write and publish a peer reviewed and accepted thesis on Ley-Line integration theory? So how would you know more about connection integrity than me?

      Oh, right... That's the kind of thinking that drives people away. I know I'm kind of a snob, but

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