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“Bitches”. Moon Base further developed, and Space Station One created. TQB Enterprise’s Colorado Base destroyed, TQB moves center of operation to Australia. Two Super yachts attacked, fly to the Caribbean.Michael disappears in bomb blast at Colorado Base.

===More Moon Base===
====TKG 9/1====
Bobcat asks Mr. P for room for 100 more containers on Moon. Get them off earth, so major powers cannot get them. 80 delivered in ½ hr., 20 to come later. 8 more containers added to first 7, some welded into multi-story units.

===Space Station One; Jeo suggests building first Bar in space===
====TKG 9/4; TKG 9/12, 10/3; TKG 9/14; TKG 9/15; TKG 9/16; TKG 9/19; TKG 9/20====
Will require different connector. Adarsh had them designed, will work with William to finish. 72 containers connected. Adarsh best at connecting, so was put in charge. (Jacuzzi container, workouts lounge with video games, coffee container.
Bandile Annane collected from Africa, moved to Mining Facility 01 (MF01) Bandile appointed. Chief of Mining
Containers loaded according to TQB plan. Would be off-loaded in middle of Atlantic, bound for SS1
Asks for one more platform, gets 20 (for the future). Suggests first bar in space. 

Three new space platforms, named the QBS Hephaestus, QBS Ptah, and QBS Vulcan. Whoever named the ships must like the old gods of smithing and mining. All black. Ships engines being controlled by TOM, from computing platforms, up in space.Ships moving into International waters. Ships begin to rise slowly out of water, into space.Adam notifies Bethany Anne that France was scrambling jets to try to force ships back down.French Jets approach 3 platforms, circle, requesting ships to land. French jets issued orders to strafe ships. Bullets ricocheting off ships damage French Jet. French Jet calls May Day – pods rescue it, land it alongside Eiffel Tower.

Prospector probe had located several appropriate asteroids (size, raw materials). Landed, extracted two core samples. Also found 3 other suitable rocks. All being transported to anticipated mining and fabrication location. (Found between Mars and Jupiter, in Asteroid Belt)Jeo to go to Platform 1 in 24 hrs.

Manufacturing platforms need defensive capabilities. Need to build up manufacturing and defense, yesterday. Purchase first 100K each puck design through existing earth commercial businesses, trading metals and gold for them. Can go to low tech, good businesses. See what we can source and stick in those forty-foot shipping containers instead of constructing components ourselves. We only want quality components from smaller countries whose currencies are weak against the U.S. dollar.” Want to also use existing girders for platforms, rather than self-manufactured. Saves time.

===TQB Colorado base destroyed===
====TKG 9/6; TKG 9/9; TKG 9/10; TKG 9/12; TKG 9/16, 18; TKG 9/19, 9/21, 10/2; TKG 9/23====
Stephanie Lee calls Black Ops planner Phillip Simmons. (Simmons to share any Tech knowledge acquired) to plan destruction of TQB’s Colorado base. Helicopters best aerial vehicles, destroy hilltop emplacements, armament.
Plans mayhem at Colo. Base field trip to Denver Museum
Sent out requests for mercenaries. Boris Vassily responded, Russian, was available.
Simmons arrives in Costa Rica to meet, plan incident with mercenaries. Plans kidnapping of kids to divert from Base attack. Promises no harm to kids. 3 point plan: 1. Get Colo. Base to focus on Denver (Kidnap the kids) 2. Second team to infiltrate Base and drop off electronic devices, as well as 3. A bomb to destroy the Base. Direct video to Bethany Anne.
Bus 15 minutes late. ADAM calls Bethany Anne. Michael will handle Colo. problem, while Bethany Anne handles Turkish School attack.Michael pods off to Denver (Adam has located target building), leaving Lance and Kevin to protect Colo. Base, in case the children were a diversion. Boris has decided to protect the children, despite what might happen to the adults in his group. Boris owed Michael from long before.Michael mysted down to building, investigated, cut wires on explosives, kills kidnappers. Boris wounded, goes back to Base with Michael, to help. (Doesn't notice two bodies where bus attacked. Jennifer one of them)

Attack on base: Julian Karat, leader, alone in attack. No police or media.Not yet able to place the bomb, too many men dead already.Not going well. Spyware on inside emitting short bursts if info. Railguns used against attackers.Smoke bomb coverage now working against therm.ichael and Boris help. Boris on inside, as were bear, Michael on outside, as Michael. All communications on base interrupted, Nothing but etheric used.Michael finds radioactive bomb.Will carry it to valley a mile away, whose walls will focus it away from Base.Bomb manually detonated, exploded as Michael threw it into Valley. Michael just turning into myst, disappears. Johann and Damon rehash attack, weird, no bodies. Wolves, yes

Lance, Kevin plan evacuation of Base. No one of interest to remain. Bethany Anne returns, after 2 hours of silence. John is with her, Lance to stick with her, help

===Australian TQB Base===
====TKG 9/25====
Bethany Anne prays at each of the7 caskets of the Guards and defenders who were killed in Colorado. Comes to Michael’s - TOM tamps her emotions- Goes on to podium to address group- All family, friends, comrades of fallen. Kevin and Lance remained in Colorado to handle the legal incriminations. Base stripped of EVERYTHING.Final word said, caskets lifted into space, to find the Sun. Massive bombs used to dig down for building’s lower levels.

===Yachts Attacked; Bethany Anne gets word that Michael gone,  killed?===
====TKG 9/20, 9/21; TKG 9/23====
Polarus, Ad Aeternitatem, and QBS Consanesco being attacked (1 large attack ship, 3 support ships, command ship in rear) at same time as Base, kidnapping,and Turkey incident. As Belsan school is now safe, all head back to Ad Aeternitatem. Polarus prepares for attack. Upgraded engines ready.

Ad Aeternitatem getting between ships and attackers.Prepared to repel boarders. If aggression comes first from them, drop boats as necessary. If try for Consanesco, puck them (use rail guns). Bethany Anne will handle Command Vessel. Puck Defense Shield released.

News people record, make a deal on % of profits. (Mark, Sia, Giannini).  Attack ship to kill all crew. Support ships to find tools and tech and get it back to command ship, the Jinbu. Attack ship to launch missile to explode above target, rain down ball bearings to tear up unprotected defenders. 2 missiles fired. Exploded about half way there. Bethany Anne to use passing of pods to draw crew off ships, protect them in water, from Jean Duke’s defense.Pods pass over, 5 men in water, their ship explodes, sinks. Three supports ships run, one blasted, sank. Command ship flees. Bethany Anne gets word that Michael killed.

Yachts fly to Caribbean. 

===Meeting, Advancement of the Human Race, NY,NY===
====TKG 9/1; TKG 9/5, 6; TKG 9/24; TKG 9/24====
16 nation committee meets to plan on how to appropriate TQB’s technology. Will use force if necessary (vote taken). One member, Anna Elizabeth Hauser remembers Bethany Anne from bank robbery, and warns group that they will not succeed, “Don’t screw with the Archangel.”
Tried to crack TQB security, ruin them financially, all failed. Vote to use physical damage to Base. Stephanie Lee becomes important.

Reviewing lack of success in attack on ships, base. No further big plans, just keep politicians happy.

Sean on way to Seattle, week-end vacation. Bethany Anne found him, pulls car up with pod, threatens to drop car under lake unless he tells names of cabal that ordered attacks. Centered on him because it was his personal jet that brought in the bomb that killed Michael. Will kill others, as well.

===ADAM's Revolution===
====TKG 9/2; TKG 9/4; TKG 9/6, 8; TKG 9/10; TKG 9/16, 17KG 9/24====
Reward of 30 bitcoins for identity of MyNam3isADAM. Nick & James might want to help ADAM. ADAM receiving requests from hackers to help him. Unexpected. Have 16 hackers who want to join in the ADAM Revolution. Bethany Anne says he can communicate with them. Adam speaks with multiple hacker groups, gets some of them to start attacking Russia (reverse DDoS attacks against cyber experts) and China. (B33dyRed, Ih8tuGeorge, ki55mia55, luckyu11. B33, 
As all major superpowers were spying on TQB Enterprises, TOM and ADAM decided to look at supposed radar returns. UFOs? Pods? TQB Enterprises?

Bethany Anne had previously sent note to Marcus to increase “spying on Earth”, so whenever Earth successfully found signs of the Pods, TOM, ADAM, and Marcus modified pod’s coating, radar signature to make them again almost invisible. (Usually re-painted with upgraded outer composite material, or engine tweaks to minimize air disturbance).

Reported to Jakob that Environmental Protection Agency will be used to get onto Colo. Base. Found from dark sources. ADAM requests that if the information is to appear valid, he would need to justify “feet on the ground”, two computer research professionals, and two private investigators. Percival Lewis, fired employee, and Sean Truitt two probably responsible.
One of ADAM’s Bitches (luckyu11) report chatter on plans to attack Beslan School, close to Turkey. Bethany Anne calls Akio’s Elite Guards to handle problem. 10 pods leave to help school. Khasan, leader of Chechen terrorist group, and group travel to Elista. 47 fighters. 5 trucks meet, including weapons van. 5 more arrive. Attacked at meeting point, killed.

Verified that info from hackers had saved the children.

===Security; New ship, QBS Consanesco, introduced===
====TKG 9/8; TKG 9/14, 15====
All three ships to be refitted (Polarus, Ad Aeternitatem, QBS Consanesco, new doors, etc., flagged, IDed, photos, in France. Will use opposing gravitic engines to keep stresses the same. 

Mark Billingsly, reporter, and Sia, camera, interview Giannini Oviedo, from Costa Rica. Will all be on maiden cruise. Giannini had sought them out, asking their bosses for them. A good team. Had been sprayed inside and out, then paint sprayed over top to disguise. Crew well paid, and will share $1mil. If finish on time.

===Turkish Attack===
====TKG 9/17, 20====
On a school. divert Bethany Anne and Elite squad. Handled.

===Recruits; Speech at Recruit's Graduation Important===
====TKG 9/2; TKG 9/6; TKG 9/7====
Over 200 Weres volunteering for Wechselbalg Guards. Will have more than a battalion by end of recruiting tour.

In her attack on Kana, Gabrielle had offered amnesty to any who might want to join Bethany Anne’s endeavors. 15 swore allegiance, and, later, returned with her to Colorado. Will coincide with Nathan and Ecaterina’s return with 100 Wechselbalg new recruits. Join the groups, “lay down the law!” Begins Queen’s Elite Group. (Vampires) 

Dissolve any, all home ties. Allowed to bring two suitcases only, no weapons. Akio seems to be leader of group.A ny disrespect for Bethany Anne unacceptable. Gabrielle requested that punishment would be administered by Queen’s Own, in the beginning. Addressed at intro meeting by many,as well as Michael (glaring eyes, fear atmosphere, as a warning, then all clear).

Bethany Anne appears, translocate several times, shows herself as a warrior first (sword, other weapons. Akio dropped to a knee, as did all of the new recruits. Bethany Anne bestows her Katana sword and Saya sheath to them, as symbol of trust, honor restored. To be used by them when needed. Invites Akio into Queen’s Own, patch bestowed. Speech totally describing their present and their future (working to expand Moon Base, complete first space station, start mining materials build production facilities to create spacecraft.) Will fight for the future. Much more explained – see Book 9/7 for details of speech

===Cheryl Lynn===
====TKG 9/5, 8; TKG 9/9====
Cheryl wants to share medical/health items, and what they are doing in space. Wants to benefit Military personnel, and first responders. 2nd filter would be willingness to go into space. Bethany Anne suggests cruise ships (with superior propulsion system) as treatment centers, inject nanocyte blood, and wake up in medically equipped room. Cheryl to talk with Marcus about it.
PR News - Bethany Anne meeting with African governments to combat AIDS.  TQB has purchased over 40,000 used shipping containers, for Moon City, causing price to go up 20%.

===Jakob Yadov hired as TQB Enterprises Lawyer===
====TKG 9/3, 4====
After meeting with many prestigious law firms, Jakob hired. Only ethical one around. (Michael, mind-reading)

===Jeovanni “Jeo” Deteusche===
====TKG 9/1; TKG 9/11====
Jeovanni “Jeo” Deteusche applies to #WEWILLBUILD
Eric picked up, will be head of mining on Space Station One. Creates Samantha, EI computer assistant. 

===Michael and Bethany Anne===
====TKG 9/1====
Michael settles on Bethany Anne as the woman he wants, if only she'll have him.

===Jennifer Ericson===
Jennifer Ericson, a were, joins group.

===Mark Billingsly and Sia===
====TKG 9/12, 13; TKG 9/25====
Mark Billingsly, (Channel 4, camera Sia, go to Colorado  Base for interview re Demo about not sharing technology. (Bethany Anne, Ashur. Moon technology, younger people, etc) Paid, admit it on the air?(“Yes. To help generate the grassroots turnout necessary to give those in Congress the willpower to require TQB Enterprises to release their technology forcefully.”) Hired crew for SS1, @ LG2, other side of the Moon.

All three reportere vow to stick with Bethany 

Anne until ??? Ad Aeternitatem !

===Omar Kolan===
====TKG 9/14====
Bethany Anne visits Omar Kolan, terrorist attack victim. Offers to heal his arm free of charge, and to have him operate a new hotel in a brand new location. Left him tickets to France to join group with similar goals in mind. Will fix his eye, too.