The Huge Plasma Accelerator

'The leader spoke, an aquaphone taped to his throat. His voice echoed over the commlink in Norman's helmet.

'Ssso Norman, you sseek to make a deal with ussss?'

'Indeed. I wish to obtain a weapon'

'What isss the nature of the weapon that you sssseek?'

'A Huge Plasma Accelerator'

- Extract from "Side Project from Book 1 of the HPA Saga

Description

A fan-fiction story set in the FFE universe around the year 3307. The main story arc involves the theft of a Huge Plasma Accelerator (HPA) and Imperial politics. Various side stories occur along the way, involving fringe characters and stories.

It is written through the point of view of its multiple authors, whose own characters unwittingly get caught up in what was to become known as the "HPA sarrghhaa"

Participants

• Norman Mosser (and crew)
• Jake Sommersby (and Jecht)
• Leif Ericsen (and crew)
• Nomura
• Red Ravens (and Bec, Dreyfus, Marcus etc.)
• Frantic (and some mysterious organisation)
• James K. Winston (and Mack)
• Jannah Berrinh (and Leila Berrinh)
• Rowan Weston
• Ocker (and a band of tyrants)
• Probably a couple more small contributors

Azure Sunset

A Long Range Cruiser owned by Norman Mosser and equipped with a recalcitant Huge Plasma Accelerator. Click Here for the main article.

External Links

GalNET_Terminal Select -Fiction- and HPA for an uncompiled linklist.

Elite BTF has a PDF version of the HPA and HPA2 sagas, along with the "Past Prologue" compilations of what some of the participants did in the between.

FrontierAstro has a mirror of the entire HPA 1 and 2 sagas in pdf format.