Buck Gordon

BUCK GORDON-a sci-fi universe by Newmarduk

Buck Gordon was born in 1989 A.D. By 2020, he had become an astronaut and a pioneer in piloting a new breed of spaceships that utilized a new type of gravity-control tech that had been invented in 2017. This gravity control both propelled spaceships through space at speeds approaching the speed of light and provided an artificial, onboard source of gravity for spaceships, space stations, and colonies on celestial bodies with a gravity less than that of Earth. Spaceships powered by gravity-control tech traveled up to 99.999999 percent the speed of light, providing the effects of time dilation, in with time passed far slowly on board a ship than in the surrounding universe. It took a spaceship only a few days tp travel up to one or two light years while one or two years passed by in the surrounding universe. By 2025, the nations of Earth had united under three main governments: the North American Union (composed of the United States, Canada, and Mexico), the Eurasian Dominate (composed of Russia, China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan with the Japanese emperor as a symbolic monarch), and the United Earth Alliance (composed of those Earth nations not within the North American Union or the Eurasian Dominate). Two private corporations dominated the manufacture of gravity-control tech and spaceships: the Astrotech Cartel and the North American-Eurasian Mercantile (called NAEM for short). The Astrotech Cartel and NAEM both also pioneered the development of cold-fusion reactors for electrical power, the cloning of humans and chimeras (animal-human hybrids), artificial intelligence for robots and computers, energy weapons (including the use of lasers and particle beams as well as projectile weapons-both missles and slug-throwing guns-using gravity-control tech), and nuclear dampers (which nullified the detonation of nuclear weapons with a radius of up to six miles in every direction).