Weekly pics--round 3
I'm following a writing-type theme this week. Just to prove that the Cold Witness facility really did exist, here are two photos of it.
This was taken sometime in the 1970's, when Cobra Mist was operational. Note the large steel blockhouse in the foreground (which features prominently in my book), plus the huge array of radar masts. The array actually covers an area approximately the size of the nearby town of Aldeburgh. This photo was taken from the top of Orford Castle. I found it on a Google search, and I haven't a clue where it comes from, so if anyone owns the copyright of it, I apologise in advance.
And this is a photo of the facility taken a couple of months ago, by me, on one of my treks through the Sudbourne Marshes just the other side of the river from Orfordness. The radar array is no longer there, but the BBC World Service took over the site in about 1992, using the blockhouse as their headquarters. A number of radio masts were erected on the foundations of the old AN/FPS-95 site.
Okay, time for a little more info on Project White Light. Basically, it'll be set in 1989; Christina Elmwood will be the main character, and she'll be conducting research into artificial intelligence and human/computer interface at the secret research facility of Bawdsey Manor (mentioned in Cold Witness). I'll be using many settings, characters and themes from the first Cold Witness book. In essence, Christina left Cold Witness after the catastrophic disaster of 1980, and went to the University of East Anglia to study Computing Science. She then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work towards her PhD. In the course of this research, she made some astonishing breakthroughs that attracted the attention of the NSA, who already have their eye on her due to her involvement with Cold Witness. She is transferred to the rotting underground facility of Bawdsey Manor with a small research team, and ordered to finish her research ... but along lines she doesn't like very much. Her experiences have made her a dedicated pacifist, firmly against PsyTron weaponry. Now the NSA want her to contribute towards the very technology she wants to see obliterated once and for all.
In essence, things will go wrong. Very wrong.
Muahahahahaha!
(Edit--I might not be in much next week, as it's the Half Term hols. I'll turn up for a quick update whenever I can get online. If not, I'll see you in a week or so! -AR)
Second photo (C) Alex Roddie 2003
I'm following a writing-type theme this week. Just to prove that the Cold Witness facility really did exist, here are two photos of it.
This was taken sometime in the 1970's, when Cobra Mist was operational. Note the large steel blockhouse in the foreground (which features prominently in my book), plus the huge array of radar masts. The array actually covers an area approximately the size of the nearby town of Aldeburgh. This photo was taken from the top of Orford Castle. I found it on a Google search, and I haven't a clue where it comes from, so if anyone owns the copyright of it, I apologise in advance.
And this is a photo of the facility taken a couple of months ago, by me, on one of my treks through the Sudbourne Marshes just the other side of the river from Orfordness. The radar array is no longer there, but the BBC World Service took over the site in about 1992, using the blockhouse as their headquarters. A number of radio masts were erected on the foundations of the old AN/FPS-95 site.
Okay, time for a little more info on Project White Light. Basically, it'll be set in 1989; Christina Elmwood will be the main character, and she'll be conducting research into artificial intelligence and human/computer interface at the secret research facility of Bawdsey Manor (mentioned in Cold Witness). I'll be using many settings, characters and themes from the first Cold Witness book. In essence, Christina left Cold Witness after the catastrophic disaster of 1980, and went to the University of East Anglia to study Computing Science. She then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work towards her PhD. In the course of this research, she made some astonishing breakthroughs that attracted the attention of the NSA, who already have their eye on her due to her involvement with Cold Witness. She is transferred to the rotting underground facility of Bawdsey Manor with a small research team, and ordered to finish her research ... but along lines she doesn't like very much. Her experiences have made her a dedicated pacifist, firmly against PsyTron weaponry. Now the NSA want her to contribute towards the very technology she wants to see obliterated once and for all.
In essence, things will go wrong. Very wrong.
Muahahahahaha!
(Edit--I might not be in much next week, as it's the Half Term hols. I'll turn up for a quick update whenever I can get online. If not, I'll see you in a week or so! -AR)
Second photo (C) Alex Roddie 2003
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