The future has reached the Pacific.
After Operation WOTAN, the USS Gerald R. Ford finally leaves Europe and carries its knowledge directly to Washington. Some of what the Americans know can shorten the war. Some of it belongs to industries that do not yet exist. And some of it is already becoming obsolete as history changes around them.
Then another modern warship appears.
JS Haguro, DDG-180, is a twenty-first-century Japanese Aegis destroyer with a crew raised in the democratic Japan that emerged from World War II. In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Navy is waiting for them—and not everyone aboard Haguro agrees on which Japan deserves their loyalty.
A mutiny gives Imperial forces limited access to the ship, its operators, and fragments of future doctrine. They cannot recreate the twenty-first century. They do not need to. Better fighter direction, knowledge of coming operations, modern damage-control methods, and a handful of irreplaceable weapons may be enough to change the Pacific War.
Ford cannot reach the western Pacific quickly. Farragut and Vermont race ahead through the Panama Canal while the carrier takes the long route around Cape Horn. Their magazines are shrinking. Their aircraft are wearing out. And every battle teaches 1943 how to fight them better.
Meanwhile, Germany is learning a different lesson from the future: not how to copy a miracle, but how to improve the science and industry it already possesses.
In the Bismarck Sea, two warships named Haguro—separated by eighty years—are moving toward the same battle.
The future has already changed the war. Now the war is beginning to change the future.
Genre: Thriller
After Operation WOTAN, the USS Gerald R. Ford finally leaves Europe and carries its knowledge directly to Washington. Some of what the Americans know can shorten the war. Some of it belongs to industries that do not yet exist. And some of it is already becoming obsolete as history changes around them.
Then another modern warship appears.
JS Haguro, DDG-180, is a twenty-first-century Japanese Aegis destroyer with a crew raised in the democratic Japan that emerged from World War II. In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Navy is waiting for them—and not everyone aboard Haguro agrees on which Japan deserves their loyalty.
A mutiny gives Imperial forces limited access to the ship, its operators, and fragments of future doctrine. They cannot recreate the twenty-first century. They do not need to. Better fighter direction, knowledge of coming operations, modern damage-control methods, and a handful of irreplaceable weapons may be enough to change the Pacific War.
Ford cannot reach the western Pacific quickly. Farragut and Vermont race ahead through the Panama Canal while the carrier takes the long route around Cape Horn. Their magazines are shrinking. Their aircraft are wearing out. And every battle teaches 1943 how to fight them better.
Meanwhile, Germany is learning a different lesson from the future: not how to copy a miracle, but how to improve the science and industry it already possesses.
In the Bismarck Sea, two warships named Haguro—separated by eighty years—are moving toward the same battle.
The future has already changed the war. Now the war is beginning to change the future.
Genre: Thriller
Used availability for Alexey Terletsky's Pacific Sentinel