A man who could very well be a real-life counterpart to the emperor in "Basecraft Cirrostratus" makes what may be the defining speech of his career in the very place that inspired that story, the USS Yorktown.
The plane you see there, the Fertile Turtle, was one I had lunch next to as a kid back when it was parked by the snack bar on the hangar deck.
I feel sick... The story I published five years ago is now closer to reality than it's ever been
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