War World X: Takeover
Table of Contents
TO WIN THE PEACE, Frank Gasperik and Leslie Fish
THE RAID ON PURITY , William F. Wu
MARCHING ON POLAND , Leslie Fish
MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES , A.L. Brown
THE COMING OF THE DINNEH , John Dalmas
BUSINESS AS USUAL , John F. Carr
POUND-FOOLISH , Charles E. Gannon
POLITICS OF MELOS , Susan Shwartz
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Created by Jerry E. Pournelle & John F. Carr
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War World I: The Burning Eye
War World II: Death’s Head Rebellion
War World III: Sauron Dominion
War World IV: Invasion!
CoDominium I: Revolt on War World
WAR WORLD NOVELS
Blood Feuds
Blood Vengeance
The Battle of Sauron
New War World Volumes Edited by John F. Carr
WAR WORLD: Discovery
WAR WORLD: Takeover
WAR WORLD: Jihad! (forthcoming)
War World: The CoDominium Takeover
A War World Anthology
Printing History
Two of the stories, Coming of the Dinneh and Politics of Melos, first appeared in CODOMINIUM: Revolt on War World, edited by Jerry E. Pournelle and John F. Carr, and published by Baen Books in 1992. The remaining eight stories were written especially for this volume and are new to the War World series.
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Copyright © 2011 by John F. Carr
Original Cover Art—Copyright © 2011 by Alan Gutierrez
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Once again, thanks go to Jerry Pournelle for allowing me to expand and create new stories in the War World/Empire of Man future history. Secondly, I’d like to thank Don Hawthorne for all his support and enthusiasm for the War World series over the years.
Special thanks go to Larry King, who also maintains a great CoDominium website, for keeping the CoDominium Time Line and for his continuity work on this volume. I’d also like to thank Stephen Shervais for all his help with the War World author’s bible. And, to Dennis Frank, Archivist at St. Bonaventure University.
Also, I owe a debt of gratitude to Victoria Alexander for her editorial assistance and proof reading.
I’d also like to give thanks to all the members of the Copyediting and Post-Proofing Team, Dennis Frank, Doug McElwain, and Larry Hopkins.
A big thank you goes to Alan Gutierrez who, as always, did a wonderful job on the cover art.
| 1969 | Neil Armstrong sets foot on Earth’s moon |
| 1990-2000 | Series of treaties between the United States and the Soviet Union creates the CoDominium. Military research and development outlawed. |
| 1995 | Nationalist movements intensify |
| 1996 | French Foreign Legion forms the basic element of the CoDominium Armed Services. |
| 1998 | The Church of New Universal Harmony founded. |
| 2004 | Charles Castell is born. |
| 2010-2100 | CoDominium Intelligence Services engage in serious effort to suppress all research into technologies with military applications. They are aided by zero-growth organizations. |
| 2010 | Habitable planets discovered in other star systems. Commercial exploitation of new worlds begins. |
| 2020 | First interstellar colonies are founded. The CoDominium Space Navy and Marines are created, absorbing the original CoDominium Armed Services. |
| 2020 | Great Exodus period of colonization begins. First colonists are dissidents, malcontents and voluntary adventurers. |
| 2028 | Creation of the Humanity League. Sponsored by the ACLU, Sierra Club and Zero Population groups. |
| 2032 | Haven is discovered. |
| 2040 | CoDominium Population Control under the aegis of the Bureau of Relocation and Bureau of Corrections begins mass out-system shipments of involuntary colonists. |
| 2041 | Edwin Hamilton discovers the first shimmer stones on Haven. |
| 2042 | Hamilton sells the location to Dover Mineral Development and is paid a fortune to keep secret the location of their planet of origin. |
| 2043 | John Christian Falkenberg, III is born in Rome. |
| 2043 | The 26th Marines, Company C, Third Battalion is dispatched to Haven to stop criminal gangs from taking over the colony. |
| 2052 | The Shimmer Stone Rush. When the location of shimmer stones becomes public knowledge, it leads to a “rush” of shimmer stones miners. |
| 2055 | The ConDominium Bureau of Intelligence orchestrates a revolt by a band of imported criminals, which ends in disaster when their attack on Jamesport fails and their leader, Jumo, is killed. |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TO WIN THE PEACE,
Frank Gasperik and Leslie Fish
THE RAID ON PURITY
,
William F. Wu
MARCHING ON POLAND
,
Leslie Fish
MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES
,
A.L. Brown
THE COMING OF THE DINNEH
,
John Dalmas
BUSINESS AS USUAL
,
John F. Carr
POUND-FOOLISH
,
Charles E. Gannon
POLITICS OF MELOS
,
Susan Shwartz
From Stephen Ulrich’s
An Informal History of the CoDominium Marines: the Good, the Bad and the Unbelievable.
New Washington Press, 2088.
26th CoDominium Marine Regiment
(Garrison, Provisional)
In the early CoDominium the Marines were an integral part of the CoDominium Armed Services (CAS). They played an important role in keeping peace both on Earth and off-world. The Marines owed their allegiance not to the CoDominium, a vague political entity on distant Terra, but to their Regiment and band of brothers. The CD Marines were the linchpin, along with the CD Navy in keeping the peace on far-flung worlds, as well as at home. For the Line Marines the predominant organization is the regiment, while for the Garrison Marines it’s the battalion. “The Fleet is our Fatherland” and “No politics in the Fleet” are the mottoes of the Line Marines.
At the top rung of the CoDominium Marine Corps are the Fleet Marines. Next come the Line Marines and under them the Garrison Marines. The latter come in descending flavors including pure constabulary or police units such as are kept in reserve for use on Earth. However the bottom rung are the Provisional Regiments also known as Transport Units. The nomenclature comes from the French. An ad hoc unit was called a
unit du marche
. In theory they were supposed to be groupings of recruits and replacements formed into temporary units to shepherd them to the front. During war time, higher command would often grab these provisional units as units to meet some pressing emergency. Such units existed for months or at most a few years. Some would find themselves permanently on the order of battle (OOB).
The 26th Marine Regiment took its color and unit’s lineage from one such famous French example
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Régiment de marche du Thad
(RMT, “
Ad hoc Regiment of Chad
”). It was a proud regiment with a noble history. The same could not be said of the 26th. Regimental HQ is a few aging officers and senior NCO’s getting the last few years for their pension on Luna Base. They do the personnel and accounting work for the scattered companies.
The company for the world Haven was formed by this process. The 26th was tasked by Fleet HQ to provide a garrison for Haven. As was usual this was done in response to political pressure with no prior planning and no addition to the Fleet budget for the expense. Sufficient cadre was found by the usual expedients. First officers and NCO’s of the appropriate ranks were culled from men between assignments, to minimize transport costs these were men either already on Luna or at Wayforth Station.