BSG / Lensman - The Immigrant Problem

[ffutures]

I forgot to post this here - a 200-word BSG / Lensman novel crossover, originally written for Starbug's First Contact round robin on Twisting the Hellmouth.


The Immigrant Problem

by Marcus L. Rowland

Kimball Kinnison was eating lunch when he felt the malevolent mind at another table. Thoughts... no, memories... of genocide, and an approaching armada that would wipe mankind from the galaxy. He reached out with his Lens and contacted Port Admiral Haynes. "Android fleet coming in hot, fast and stupid, approach vector..." He went on for nearly a minute, describing the Cylons as he dragged details from the blonde's mind.

"On it," Haynes replied.

27,260 control stations activated, turning the solar system into a giant vacuum tube, the sun its emitter. For ten seconds the sun dimmed, most of its energy diverted into a single beam of radiation.

"That's it," thought Haynes, surprised. "No force fields, they're vaporised. We won't need another shot."

"Almost right," Kinnison responded. "One loose end here, probably a few more to track down around the system." He drew his DeLameter and fired a needle of energy into 6's brain.

"Is that it?"

"According to the android there's a refugee fleet heading this way; they need to be stopped and searched for more infiltrators, and there was something about their leader being a drug addict. Better treat the whole fleet as suspects..."

"Just what we need, more zwilniks..."

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Author's note: E.E. "Doc" Smith's Galactic Patrol were firm believers in peace through superior firepower, and their weapons included the Sunbeam, the entire output of the sun diverted into an energy beam, planets that could be thrown at an enemy attack at FTL velocities, and the "negasphere," which appears to be a controlled black hole. A "Zwilnik" is a drug pusher. There is very little similarity between the novels and the Lensman anime film.

Comments

[xxmagex.livejournal.com]

Bravo, nicely caught the tone of the Lensmen series.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

Pretty spiffy. I suspect something similar would happen if the Cylons ran into one of Larry Niven's Protectors :)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Might take a little longer though. Unless it was near the Ringworld defence sysytem, of course.

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

Yeah it would really depend on how long the Protector had had to build up his resources. I've had a plot bunny about Giles becoming a Protector for several years now. I asked Larry Niven at a Con if it was ok to write fanfiction based on his works and he said ok as long as it wasn't that "slash stuff." I've written the first draft for the story and will post it after I've made a few more tweaks.

[kayshapero]

Yeah, that sounds about right...

Ever see Randall Garrett's hilarious parody, "Backstage Lensman"?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yup ;-)

[armb.livejournal.com]

> "negasphere," which appears to be a controlled black hole

I thought it was the "planets that could be thrown at an enemy attack at FTL velocities" upgraded to anti-matter planets, but it was a very long time ago that I read any of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman says "In some respects its properties resemble antimatter; if brought into contact with normal matter mutual annihilation results, releasing an enormous flood of energy. But it differs from antimatter in that it absorbs light so that it is utterly black; and tractor and pressor beams have reversed effects. Perhaps a negasphere is better described as having properties of both negative matter and negative energy."

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I can't explain the bloody thing - it's sort of antimatter, sort of a black hole, and sort of weird.

They used "dirigible planets" too - basically planets from solar systems far enough away that their base velocity relativ3e to our solar system was more than C. Use the inertialess drive to move them to various locations and keep them "parked" until needed, then just move them to where their vectors will smash them into the invading fleet and turn off the inertialess drive.