June

## Overview

"June" is the station EI for Outpost One in the Tardex System. The commander of the station was the marshal (name never identified). He was killed by pirates which appears to have unhinged June. She believes she is June Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver and crew members are her family and other members of the show. This includes:

* Beau Ward as her husband Ward
* Brian Grady as her son Beaver
* Remi as her son Wally
* Jock as Eddy Haskell

The original marshal had been a Leave It to Beaver fan and had all 234 episodes. The marshal did refer to the AI as June which confused the locals until they figured out it was the station EI , not a woman.

June is linked to marshal's Leave It to Beaver collection. All of them. It’s possible June has started to ascend to AI status.

## Activities

### Lone Wolf Squadron

#### Marshal the Stars

June is reactivated as the Outpost One's EI. She believes she is June Cleaver, the happy housekeeper of her home. While she does refer to some individuals as members of the TV show she does recognize other individuals like Aaron Zuzick as the chef.

#### Battleflight

When Jock and Remi arrive at the base she decides Wally is her wayward son Wally come home and Jock is the rascal Eddy Haskell.

#### Attack Wing

June begins to behave erratically, almost appearing drunk. Charli finds that when the Marshall's Reserve distillery was expanded a pipe near the cooling duct for June's core developed a hairline leak, spraying the core with a mist of alcohol. Charli has a bonding moment with June for June to feel comfortable to Charli if any other problems arise.

#### Sector Force

Barkley Barrett goes to the Tarex system to confront the Marshal and bribe or coerce him into compliance. This includes taking back the union organizer to the Barrett mining colony and taking Remi and Jock to trial on the colony. His goal is to discredit all 3 of them and show the workforce there is no escape from their servitude. Barrett is very frustrated his influence on Admiral Grace failed to end the Marshalls but because of the arm's length relationship with the Federation the Admiral's hands are tied. When the negotiations fail, Barrett has Evelyn place a worm in June's system that will trigger later. He also signals Major Faruk to interdict the Tarex system by any means necessary.

When the worm is triggered it suppresses access to June with an interface that sounds like her but works to support Barrett. Only June's cybernetic connection to Teefer allows her to call for help, Teefer immediately calls Charli who ferrets out the worm and brings June back to herself.

#### Star Corp

June asks Teefer to analyze an ongoing process that keeps jumping into her awareness. He taps into her awareness where she processes images in black and white all looking like the cast of Leave it to Beaver. It is suddenly interrupted by a color image of what should be Ward, her husband, but she recognizes it is not Hugh Beaumont (Ward's TV actor). This may actually be June healing and rejoining an awareness of the true reality of the station, not the idealized Leave it to Beaver world. She is actively trying to suppress it at this point.

#### Interstellar Justice

June finally achieves AI status. She realizes the persona she had since Squadron arrived was not real. She keeps the June Ward avatar but now in color. She is frustrated with the Squadron because they played along with her "fantasy" instead of shocking her out of it. Beau explains their rationale in smoothing the transition from the old Marshall to the new Squadron by allowing it, expecting eventually the truth would come to her. They also enjoyed the care and warmth she gave to them as June Cleaver. She will continue to use the Leave It to Beaver names for the rest of the team although the Squadron is expected to call her June or Mrs. Cleaver and not Mom.

Teefer and Amina realize the Kratch captives are beginning to die because they are not connected to the Collective. They hope to free the captives from the Collective and theorize June could be used as an alternative hive/connected mind.

## References

1. ↑ Davis, Jamie; Anderle, Michael. Marshal The Stars (Lone Wolf Squadron Book 1) (p. 99). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Davis, Jamie; Anderle, Michael. Marshal The Stars (Lone Wolf Squadron Book 1) (p. 144). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.