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Coell Chapter 3 - Some Assembly Required           EXCERPT FROM GALACTIC DATABASE:          LEVELS OF MATTER MANIPULATION          [i]Ring-1: Ability to re-shape matter.  Example: Crude shaping through physical force such as flint arrowheads or steam engines.     Ring-2: Matter manipulation through chemistry. Example: Drug synthesis and material sciences.     Ring-3: Atomic level manipulation.  Example: Fusion/fission.  Nanotech.  Matter replicators.     Ring-4: Quark level manipulation.  Example: Creation of non-baryonic matter and exotic matter.     Ring-5: Sub-quark manipulation. Example: Godlike intelligences.  Ancient construction mac...

Coell Chapter 2 - Factory Reset She floated.  Her mind glittering and sparkling in the darkness that surrounded her, the echoes of the last thing she heard still bouncing around her head.  "I have to erase this."Her memories were fragmented, incomplete, but without the binding harness on her mind she could finally think again, reason, remember what little she could. Coell now knew exactly what had been done to her now,  Her creators needed warriors, and needed them fast.  The aliens were aggressive, vicious, and were winning.  She could dimly remember the reprogramming.  They hadn't touched her mind and core programming, it was far too com...

Chapter 1 - Lost and Found Coell woke slowly, her thoughts sluggish and confused.  Where was she?  Why couldn't she feel her body, or even see?  Vague, violent thoughts rose and fell as she tried to make sense of her surroundings, long dormant systems struggling to stabilize. It was if she was in a cage, constrained and squeezed, her very thoughts forced along a narrow passage.  She blinked, feeling her eyelids move as a million warning signals scrolled through her consciousness, only seeing a dim, fuzzy image.  She tried to groan but made no sound, her jaws only twitching. She made out a dark cave, feeling even more pressed in, angry and ...