Escaping imminent death
There were a
great many people who didn’t want the colony of scientists to succeed. In fact,
they concocted fifteen sabotages to prevent the team from reaching Titan. And
due to some extraordinary efforts by the soldiers, the scientists, and the
students, and their AI, all fifteen attempts to stop them failed.
The ship
quantum leaped into the nearby space of Titan, only the captain of the ship
intended to dump all the brilliant teens into space, and torture Colonel Lancaster
to death. The remaining scientists and soldiers would have become slaves. While the captain believed all the students
and scientists were safely locked in their tiny rooms, the little bots quickly
released them and lead them to the hold, where their animals were being kept.
The scientists sent their little bots into ceiling ducts to locate the wiring
for the main controls of the ship, so they could take control of the ship from
the hold.
Then a bot was
sent into the ceiling ducts searching for the scent of Colonel Lancaster. It
quickly located the room Lancaster was lock in and unlocked his door. Then the
bot moved ahead, checking for dangers, as it led him to the hold.
When
Lancaster arrives in the hold, he discovers Scarlett, their fabulous AI, has taken
control of the ship and everyone not in the hold is taking a nap.
Arrival: Titan
By
Liza O’Connor
Blurb
Dangers continue even as the crew of
soldiers, scientists, and brilliant teens quantum leap to space near Titan.
Captain Drake has his own agenda, and it
doesn’t include Colonel Lancaster, or the students being alive for much longer.
Fortunately, the scientists and students are a formidable group to go against.
The attempted takeover is stopped with only one death.
When Scarlett lands the ship on the north
pole near the methane lake, they discover several sentient life forms. They
also learn that the moon, Pan, is actually a ship called the Death Star, mining
minerals in the outer rings of Saturn. Even more shocking—Jupiter is not a
planet, but a disguised ‘eye in the sky’ watching over the mining interests of
a superior sentient planet.
Excerpt
Captain Caesar Drake pointed to a chair. “Strap in and
avoid movement.” He then took his captain’s chair and spoke in his com unit.
“Prepare for transport, at mark of ten.”
As the numbers counted down on the monitor, Drake
glared at Lancaster. “Sorry, but you’re going to have to miss your court-marshal,
because destiny awaits me.”
At the count of one, a bright light flashed before
Lancaster. He held his breath waiting for reality to return. For a very long moment,
he seemed to be in the same instant of time. Then with another flash of light, all
seemed normal, except for the image before him.
On the monitor was Titan, a little over seven-hundred
and fifty-nine thousand miles away from its massive, ringed planet, Saturn.
Titan, a moon most like early Earth, and now the
future of mankind—if they could do what nature had done on its own to Earth.
Otherwise, they would simply die here. But they had a chance, albeit slim, to
succeed, and that was better odds than those left on Earth.
Given the brilliance of the scientists and kids that
were in this ship, Colonel Lancaster believed it possible.
The captain wasted no time admiring their orange fuzzy
home or the beauty of Saturn and her lovely rings. Instead, he engaged the
engines and headed straight towards Titan. After three seconds, he disengaged
the engines and let the ship continue on its own momentum.
“Will that be sufficient?” Colonel Lancaster asked.
His former friend and presently annoyed captain
responded. “Are you capable of flying this ship?”
“No, I’m not. However, I do outrank you, so let’s not
start a pissing war. Survival will require all of our brilliance. I just wanted
you to share your thoughts with me, because you are now a part of this
team…unless you had orders to return to Earth.”
Drake sighed. “No. This is a one-way journey. No
do-overs. We, hopefully, will have sufficient fuel to search for an optimal
landing spot. Otherwise, we’ll land where we can until your scientist can
create some form of fuel that this ship can use. Fortunately, the gravity pull
is quite mild here. So, we won’t need to waste fuel on landing if we land
somewhere that allows for a long runway drift-down.
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About the
Author
Liza O’Connor lives in Denville, NJ
with her dog Jess. They hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet
or snow. Having an adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ,
hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive
with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky
dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid
gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts.
Yet through her entire life, her first love has and always will be writing
novels.
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