General Information #
Author: Mike StortzLanguage: ACTION!
Compiler/Interpreter: ACTION!
Published: Analog #31 (06/ 85)
R.O.T.O.#
At 25. Mike Stortz is the P.D. Librarian for GRASP, the Richmond! Virginia Atari users group. Seemingly unable to find work in the programming field, he is working on about thirty projects at once, including a graphic arcade/adventure game.
1996: Kara Hyke leaves show business after losing out in a disputed Oscar award. 1997: Kara Hyke enrolls at M.I.T. 2010: Kara Hyke discovers semi-matter. 2016: Hyke-Grey effect discovered. 2021: Hyke-Grey drive invented. 2030: Hyke and Grey found Arcadia on Proxima III. 2065: Hamner scout ship attacks Arcadia and is driven off after extensive damage to the city. Work on the shield begins. Today: Hamner fleet attacks Arcadia...
Deep in caverns under Arcadia, fuel cannisters of semi-matter ore to power the city's defensive shield have been cached away against the day when the aliens would return. Composed of mixed-charge matter, hyke (as it is called) is easily persuaded to annihilate itself in the manner of matter-antimatter reactions, but is more easily stored.
Now that the attack has begun, brave volunteer retrievers must don helipacks, fly down into the caves and bring up the ore, so that Arcadia may not fall.
