Chapter 25 Scouting

• Special Officer Daniel Hawkins was now ready to begin his surveillance mission.
• Yesterday a Transport Hover Ship Class 3 had arrived from some airfield hundreds of miles away in the east. Every time he saw such a ship it brought himself such awe. The way it cruised silently through the air, just feet above the trees and cliffs, reminded him of a ghost. If he wasn’t a Special Officer for the AFR’s Marine’s, he would have loved to be a hover ship pilot.
• The Hover Ships and vehicles of all types in this era had neither propeller, rocket, nor fueled engines. Vehicles ran only on electricity and in the case of Hover Ships, magnetism as well. The details he never really could wrap his mind around, but he understood the basics. The Hover Ships would use solar energy, absorbed from solar conducting paints on its top side, to run its electric motors. The motors then charged super conductor mechanisms that circumnavigated the center of the vessel, of which would then spin at super-fast speeds.