Capítulo 5 Modelado de un edificio de tres niveles
5.3 Materiales
5.4.3 Análisis modal espectral
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STRANGE BED
STRANGE BED FELLOWFELLOWSS (19 April 3081)
Erod’s Escape [ISAP] – In six decades covering interstellar news, I’ve had the opportunity to see some very momentous occasions. My first assignment was for the wedding of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner. I was there when the Star League was reborn and barely escaped Tharkad when it collapsed into the fires of the Jihad. And in all my years reporting this is one of the strangest events I have ever born witness to.
As unlikely as a FedSuns/Concordat negotiated peace was, few believed it would ever happen while the TCSVendettastill sailed. Not only did the Calderon Protectorate bring this about, but they did so in a way that appears to have satisfied all three parties—and, in the process, created perhaps the strangest Federated Suns military command in history.
TheVendetta was placed in high geosynchronous orbit over the Calderon Protectorate capital of Erod’s Escape. The crew is TDF caretaker crew—none having served with her during combat—while two-thirds of the marine quarters are occupied by Protectorate peacekeeping troops. The remaining marine quarters were given over to guest quarters. The quarters are to house official observers, who have full access to the ship and ensure that she does not cross closer to Federated Suns than the Pirates Haven Cluster. A small handful of these observers come from the Republic of the Sphere, the new nation born from the pan-Inner Sphere Coalition. The majority of the observers, however, are from the Federated Suns Navy.
I was there when the officers of the FSN arrived to take up their duty post. Under the command of Rear Admiral Elias Biggs, the Suns’ officers floated through the boarding tube from their docked DropShip. As Admiral Biggs came into view, the Taurian band played the Federated Suns naval honors and theVendetta’s fore and aft naval lasers alternated to offer a fifteen-gun salute. As Admiral Biggs shook Commodore David Percy’s hand I was struck by one overwhelming thought:
The TCS Vendetta is likely to go down as one of the oddest military commands in history.
RECONSTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION
Many worlds and lives lay shattered by the Word of Blake Jihad (and the side conflicts that accompanied it). Political alliances, even those forged in the fires of war, remained strained both between realms, and within them. Weakened restrictions on anti-shipping actions and the damage to the hyperpulse generator network left many worlds in the dark, slow to receive goods or news.
With so much infrastructure damaged, the postwar Inner Sphere teetered on the brink of economic and political chaos that would have made the Free Worlds League’s official disbanding
seem downright orderly. At the same time, the morale of the populations throughout the various realms fell to disastrous lows as more and more news of casualty figures came in.
Fortunately, even before the fighting settled down across the Inner Sphere, the healing process was already begun. In the hardest hit areas of the Terran Protectorate, Devlin Stone’s Coalition and the Geneva Trials on Terra brought hope and a semblance of justice in the aftermath of the war. Elsewhere, state leaders took stock of their realms and began efforts to reorganize and regroup, letting their people know the worst was past and— hopefully soon—that order would be restored.
CAMELOT SUMMIT OPENS CAMELOT SUMMIT OPENS
(12 October 3079)
New Avalon [FSNS] — To those who doubted New Avalon would ever recover from the years of Word of Blake occupation, Princess-Regent Yvonne Steiner-Davion has but one thing to say: “I hereby open this Camelot Summit and take the first steps into the future of the Federated Suns!”
While the average citizen is undoubtedly excited by the festivities that will coincide with the summit—including the exclusive Princess’ Ball on Tuesday and the Citizens’ Revelry on Friday—Princess Yvonne faces some tough challenges in the week ahead, as she and her top officials hammer out the many details of the hard road to recovery that lies before the realm. Already, speculation runs rampant in the streets and some gambling establishments are taking wagers on just what policy changes will be announced in the upcoming days.
High on anyone’s list for discussion must be the Taurian situation. The obvious tensions between Princess Yvonne and Duchess Angela Hasek have placed the swift resolution of this war in doubt. Whether Yvonne will be able to rein in the Capellan March in accord with her public wishes to wind down the fighting remains an open question.
The increasing military adventurism in the Draconis March poses a similar problem for Duke Tancred and how he will choose to handle it. Reports out of Robinson say that the March Lord’s cousins, Dukes Jerome and Mordecai, are reluctant to give up the independence they’ve enjoyed these last few years. Both men are expected to attend the summit.
The Camelot Summit sees a number of dignitaries appearing on New Avalon’s social circuit for the first time. Chief among these are General Raymond-Roger Marsin, fresh from fighting pirates in the Outback and rumored to be in line for a major promotion, and the newest darlings of the media, Amanda and Isabella Hasek, the daughters of the late Duke George. The girls have been sighted on several outings with young Prince Harrison and are already becoming a favorite subject of paparazzi and the public interest.