I’m rather fond of this novel as well. Any time we can see more of the Starfleet Marines is OK by me! 
Star Trek: The Next Generation #57: The Forgotten War by William Forstchen (1999)
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These days he's talking about protecting our grid from solar events.
Lisa Murkowski blocked such attempts as the GRID act--but may be coming around.
His latest book
https://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/review-of-48-hours-by-william-r-forstchen/
Some 48 hours after the next CME, however, an additional and even more dangerous solar event was expected to erupt: a Coronal Proton Ejection, or CPE. (Scientists also call this a Solar Proton Event or SPE.) If this high-energy, lethal burst of radiation hit the earth without the protection of the magnetosphere, it could create what scientists call an Extinction Level Event, or ELE.
Unfortunately, all of these events are actual scientific phenomena, not just fictional creations. Usually a CME and CPE do not occur in the sequence happening in this novel, however. If a CPE hit without a CME or before a CME, the Earth would still have protection. But given the cycles of solar events and the rotation of both the Earth and the Sun, it is not impossible for the sequence to happen in reverse, and in fact scientists think such a “perfect storm” might have happened earlier in the history of the Earth.
http://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?172587-Superflares-on-the-Sun
Lisa Murkowski blocked such attempts as the GRID act--but may be coming around.
His latest book
https://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/review-of-48-hours-by-william-r-forstchen/
Some 48 hours after the next CME, however, an additional and even more dangerous solar event was expected to erupt: a Coronal Proton Ejection, or CPE. (Scientists also call this a Solar Proton Event or SPE.) If this high-energy, lethal burst of radiation hit the earth without the protection of the magnetosphere, it could create what scientists call an Extinction Level Event, or ELE.
Unfortunately, all of these events are actual scientific phenomena, not just fictional creations. Usually a CME and CPE do not occur in the sequence happening in this novel, however. If a CPE hit without a CME or before a CME, the Earth would still have protection. But given the cycles of solar events and the rotation of both the Earth and the Sun, it is not impossible for the sequence to happen in reverse, and in fact scientists think such a “perfect storm” might have happened earlier in the history of the Earth.
http://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?172587-Superflares-on-the-Sun
Not to put you on the spot, but...why?Any time we can see more of the Starfleet Marines is OK by me!
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