Rebirth Eclipse

Chronicles of the Alliance - Book IV

Rebirth II

Novel 4: Eclipse

History

Like the second novel in this series, I actually wrote some of it back in August of 1991. Those first few paragraphs lasted in one way or another with the Epilog showing up in Cleric's World Clerics World and then being repeated a bit in Second Encounter.

Titles and History

I started out with this being called The Eclipse Incident, but that didn't sit well. Finally, it was one of my readers who suggested I call the novel Rebirth. The more I thought about it, the more I agreed that it fit the story.

It still does, despite splitting the story into two novels (with very little modification). So now I have Rebirth I: Matthews and Rebirth II: Eclipse. Somewhere along there is the rebirth of the Drac as a race and Stollack as well, but I won't spoil it for all those who haven't had a chance to read about this one.

Call it a coming of age story of sorts, but without any of the baggage that usually accompanies such stories.

I enjoyed writing this story, a lot. I finished it before I finished The Stormy Island Incident. There were things that happened in here that are, well, words fail me here, so I'll use the word "special" but that doesn't do it either, not when you're talking about the end of the feared Coceedn codat.

Organizations

ADF (Allied Defense Force)
ADS {Allied Defense and Security)
Intercorp
Transspace

Ships

ADF Eclipse

Races

Drac
[Coceedn]
B'ron
[Zurth]

Characters

Allied Defense Force

Geoff Haiku Scott, Admiral, ADF Drac Contingency
Kypter, Zurthian Yardsmaster, Sentious Shipyards

Other

J'or
Qwait

ADF Eclipse

Jules Ann Stollack, Captain ADF Eclipse
Francine Jacks, Lieutenant, Assistant to Captain Jules Ann Stollack
Stanley Theodore Walker, Commander, Executive Commander ADF Eclipse
Kathleen Howard, Doctor, Chief Medical Officer, ADF Eclipse
Kell Hollob, EdSys Historian, assigned to the ADF Eclipse
Anton Durbov, Drac Security Captain, ADF Eclipse

Shift 1
Nikki Olsen, Lieutenant/Tactician I, Shift Tactician, Shift 1, ADF Eclipse

Shift 2
Judith Thompson, Commander, Shift Commander, Shift 2 ADF Eclipse
William Stancer, Lieutenant/Senior Tactician, Shift Tactician, Shift 2, ADF Eclipse
George Helmsley, Chief, Shift Communications Officer Shift 2 ADF Eclipse
Elor BAnn (B'Ann), Lieutenant, Communications Officer, Shift 2, ADF Eclipse
Marc Wilson, Chief, Shift Gunner's Mate (Radar) Shift 2 ADF Eclipse
Ellio Barto, civilian. Inducted by request into the ADF. Lieutenant, Navigation Shift 2 ADF Eclipse

Shift 3
James Matthews, Lieutenant/Tactician III, Shift Tactician, Shift 3, ADF Eclipse
Kristi Yates, Lieutenant, Communications Officer, Shift 3, ADF Eclipse

Shift 4
Lynn Braaksma, Lieutenant/Tactician III, Shift Tactician, Shift 4, ADF Eclipse

Created April 22, 2007
Updated March 31, 2008