The Adventure Starship 100 year mission is an action fun filled science fiction novel. The 100-year mission is the first in a series for the Adventure Starship. It introduces the Adventure Starship, the characters and their personalities.
The Captain and crew discover that their near light speed engines can provide them with power for shield, weapons and subspace communication. The crew set out to prove that interstellar travel is possible with less than light speed propulsion.
The Crew encounters local aliens, distant aliens good and bad aliens after departing. They learn from them all.
Chapter three is posted below its a short chapter. The book can be purchase on my website www.rodgerdat.com and the first chapter can be read there also.
Chapter 3
A Necessary Celebration
All Senior and Bridge officer are now resting in their
quarters. They have approximately nine hours before
they report back to duty and begin the final engine
shutdown. Rick is in his quarters and he realizes he is
not completely informed on what the plan is. All he
has been told by Darin was “we are going to kick their
ass”. He stands and walks over to the communication
system and signal Darin. (Rick) “Darin, how are we
going to blast the big warship? (Darin) We going to
use the shuttles, you have to help program the
navigation system before they launch. (Rick) Use the
shuttles to blow up the warship… Never mine. I have
a bottle of 50-years old Hennessy Cognac. (Darin)
How did you get it on the ship? (Rick) Don’t worry
about that, I got IT… Look I planned on sharing this
with everyone when we reach Alpha Centauri or
wherever. (Darin) Well this maybe wherever, maybe
you better share it now. (Rick) I got an idea; “let get
everyone together and crash the Captain quarters” You
know it big enough to have a great party. (Darin) Yea
man, he got couches, chairs and tables. We can even
party in the Gym if we have to many people. (Rick)
Man don’t be crazy we only going to get the Bridge
officers, the doctor and the astronomer. (Darin) Hey!
Let get D-Man to get everyone together. (Rick) Yea,
it’ll all be legal, and no one will get in any trouble.
(Darin) Let not call him on the communication system,
let’s just crash his room and convince him.
Darin and Rick show up at D-Man door. (Darin)”DMAN,
WE NEED TO SEE YOU!” the door opens
quickly and D-Man steps out. (D-Man) What
happened? Rick and Darin say to D-Man let step inside
for a minute and they enter his quarters. (Rick) D-Man
we need your help, you and Rod being friends since
grade school, we know you are the only person that can
make it happen. (D-Man) Make what happen? (Rick)
You know we going to meet that warship tomorrow
and kick their behind, I know that. But we want Rod,
China and you to celebrate tonight. Just a thirty to
forty minute celebration. We will make a toast to Rod
and his Bridge crew; we have a fifty-year-old bottle of
Hennessey. (D-Man) You guys are crazy but let do it.
(Darin & Rick) D-Man you the man! (D-Man) I will
call everyone in have them meet here in ten minutes.
We are only going to have a toast and then get back to
our quarters and rest up for this morning.
They all meet and are ready to crash the captain
quarters. Everyone is already having a great time. (DMan)
have everyone to wait a moment at the captain
door. China you going to go in first, we will be right
behind you. This way we will be in his quarters before
he can stop smiling or get pissed. (Everyone) Great
idea D-Man. China get ready to buzz the door and
everyone is closely behind her. Buzz, Buzz, Buzz –
(China say) Rod I need to see you. Everyone can here
Rod coming to the door. The door open and everyone
pile in and say surprise, surprise, surprise. Rod is
stunned and surprise and can’t say a word. He is not
looking very happy, everyone starts to wonder if it was
a bad idea to crash his quarters. China acts quickly she
pushed Rod to a seat and sit in his lap. She not going to
give Rod a chance to get pissed and put everybody out.
(China) Rod, these crazy guys and gals make me go
along with this and now I have to kiss you right here in
front of everyone. She give Rod a small kiss but it
turns into a long kiss. (Rod) Alright everyone this
better be a dam good quick celebrations. Since you all
are here we going to have our morning meeting, after
this celebration. (D-Man) There’s a lot of people here,
everyone can only have one once of Cognac to toast
with.
Ten minutes into the celebration Rod stands to get
everyone attention. First I would like to thank
everyone for your work, dedication and your
accomplishments. Also I would like to remind
everyone we only been out of space dock for three
weeks and already traveled 50 billion miles. This crew
feel like it been together for years and we will be in the
future. I want to take this opportunity to address our
status. While I don’t know what will happen tomorrow,
I know for a fact that this crew will be together for a
long time and will accomplish great things. This
doesn’t mean that you don’t have anything to fear, it
does mean that you should be confidence about what
we are doing and our mission.
As of this moment the Adventure Starship will not
pretend that alien don’t exists like the UES would have
us do. If we had listen to that nonsense we wouldn’t
know that big warship is on course to our location.
Now is the time to let everyone know what we are
going to do about it and how we will going to get ready
for it. A few of my officers and I have a great plan for
our defense. We have been reluctant to talk about it
because we wasn’t sure that it would work. Well we’ve
all in now no matter what.
A short time ago I told you that we would not be
able to use the shuttles because they have to be
reconfigured and that true. Our shuttle of amazing
they can fly in space, land on a planet and take off
again and return to space. Even the Adventure
Starship can take off from a planet several times and
return to space. They can do this because of the near
antimatter substance they use to blast off as in the old
days. Some of you may not know but this is the
resource that we obtain from the asteroid belt. Some of
our greatest scientist and engineer have work a lifetime
to do something with this stuff. Well Tommy, Darin
and I have figured something out, we’ve going to let it
blow up. Everyone else has worked to keep it from
blowing up and that proved almost impossible until a
short time ago.
Now everybody Ready your glasses for the toast. (Rod)
“Success to the Crew! Success to the Mission! And
many more celebrations.” (Rod looking at time
display) We have exactly seven hours and seven
minutes before we start our activities. Thanks for
coming, Thanks for the celebration.
“NOW EVERYONE RETURN TO YOUR
QUARTER AND PREPARE FOR TOMORROW.
THAT IN ORDER!”
Every one quickly leaves and returns to their quarters.
Rod and the officers feel very relaxed now. Feel like
they have accomplished a great task. Everyone
enjoyed each other company and strengthen their bond
with each other.
Rod felt a sense of satisfaction knowing that his crew
was ready willing an able, but most of all they believed
in the mission and they trusted Rod to complete it
safely for everyone.
The Adventure will be completely vulnerable during
some periods of the shutdown. Rod felt like there was
always an option to save everything an everybody. I
will just think through everything completely and look
for the best options. Most focus has been on the big
warship and very little on the paper tiger.
The information about the paper Tiger came through
non-official communication with Ariel aliens. The
paper tiger aliens acquired propulsion and weapon
technology more sophisticated than they were capable
of managing and maintaining. They were not
knowledgeable enough to operate it correctly either.
They were fortunate enough to acquire this technology
but they fought among themselves and pretty much
destroyed everything. There was several world wars
on their planet, but that didn’t stop them from trying to
conquer other aliens being out in space. A lot of times
they appeared to be lost in space, some aliens thought
they were just wandering trying to find their way back
home.
There was a simple modifications they
couldn’t make. They could not fire their weapon unless
their shields were down. Their shield had to be down
for ninety seconds when they fired. Because of this,
their ships had been damage or destroyed on every
occasion they attacked someone. However their
weapon was very powerful and they couldn’t resist
using it.
Rod decided to have Ariel people report to her
on the bridge during the engine shutdown. Any
information that we get might be helpful; also I have
officially thrown out that rule about not
communicating with aliens.
Rod walks over to the communication system and
signal D-Man. (D-Man answers) Captain is everything
all right? (Rod) Yes everything is alright but I want
you to setup a place on the bridge for Ariel civilians.
Make sure they are out of the way and instruct Ariel to
handle all their communications needs. It will no
longer be consider illegal or non-official to
communicate with aliens on this ship. It will be a
violation for any alien communication anywhere
except the bridge though. I want you to be in charge of
that communication and decide what if any can help
us. (D-Man) Will take care of that right now Captain,
now we making some sense we will use whatever
resources we can to make our mission successful.
(Rod) Thank you D-Man, Rod out.
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