Space Adventure Prologue
EPISODE 01 CHAPTER 1: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Well, first off, the ship they're on is called a Astro Megashuttle in a call forward to Rangers In Space! And yes, it was launched by NASADA. Again, another call forward.
The NASADA Astro Megashuttle traversed the sea of stars on its voyage towards Planet Ῥαμνουσία. Planet Nemesis. It is a roaming planet which only approaches Earth once every 170 million years. When Nemesis approached Earth once again for the first time within the memory of modern civilization, an Earth space mission is set up to explore this world with a group of experienced astronauts who were chosen for this historic mission. This particular mission even received extra funding from the owner and CEO of Xanatos Enterprises, David Xanatos. He cited a particular curiosity regarding this planet and he was happy to assist with the mission. No expenses were spared in upgrading The Megashuttle and their astrosuits.
The new style of suits were looser and more form fitting than the old school bulky space suits which made moving easier. They incorporated some armor into the suits along with higher durability which made traversal safer. The new suits could provide them with thirty-six hours of oxygen. 2.25 times the amount that the old style suits could provide. The electromagnetic boots and gloves would allow the astronauts to attach, hang onto and walk on ferrous floor, walls and or hulls of a spacecraft during weightlessness, on top of allowing them to walk around the cabin of a spacecraft.
The suits were ideal for the maiden voyage to this unexplored alien world.
The Megashuttle was no slouch either. It was outfitted with the latest technology and comfort including the Xanatos Tech Artificial Gravity Generator the NASADA Scientists had installed in the ship which allowed them to move about freely while inside the ship.
The plan was simple. Land on the planet, stake their claim, put the flag down, explore, collect some samples and make their reports. Bring all samples back to the Blue Moon Colony for examination and study.
Quick, clean, simple.
What could possibly go wrong?
Zoe Porzio kept her face against the window with a big smile on her face as she stared out at the vast beautiful sea outside. A dark blanket, contrasting with blacks and yellows, and the occasional white, which is shaped as a circle and sometimes a crescent. There are stars which dot the blanket in a intricate pattern. This is space and Zoe couldn't be happier. She was like a little kid going to a theme park. Zoe was practically bouncing in her seat in anticipation of their arrival on the roaming planet. This was going to be the greatest exploration of their lives and she got to be a part of it!
"Someone's had her coffee today." Romeo Bartnick joked.
Zoe turned around to face him. The smile never leaving her face. "Can you blame me? This is a brand new world man and we're the first people in history to check it out! Maybe the last ones ever! Nobody else is with us! This is it! It's all us baby! This is going to be so cool!"
"Professional as always, eh Zoe?"
"I am the very symbol of professionalism my good man."
"Okay everybody!" Martin Babbin placed a handful of cash on a table. "We're coming up on our destination soon so lets place all bets. What do we expect to find and what do we hope to find? I've got $100.00 on aliens!"
"Heh, not much of a bet. It's probably just going to be another barren empty alien planet. We'll step out, make some observations and stick the American Flag in the ground. Quick, clean, simple. So, $100.00 on finding nothing."
"Come on Jerome, where's your sense of adventure?"
"On the ship with the rest of us. I'm just being realistic." Jerome Lonon insisted.
"Heck with it, I'm with Martin. $50.00 on finding sexy green women." Kaiden Kats joked and threw the cash down.
"And just for that, I'm siding with my Jerome." Alayna Laure laughed.
"Must you trample upon my dreams?" Kaiden asked her in a faux offended tone.
"Why not stop now?" She smirked.
"If we run into Spock, I've got dibs. Just putting that out there." Maggie Oliver added in and threw down her cash.
Peter Gisin split his cash into two small piles and put one pile on each side of the table. "I'm hedging my bets. Maybe we'll find something, maybe we won't, we won't know until we land."
"Hey now that's not fair. You have to pick one or the other." Maggie insisted.
"Ehhh to be fair, I never said that." Martin pointed out. "Just that all bets are final."
"Maaan that's messed up. You're making this up as you go along."
"It's your own fault for not asking Mags."
"Fine, fine, you're right." She relaxed in her seat with her legs crossed and her hands behind her head. "But just so you know, don't get too comfortable with your winnings, Pete. I'm going to be taking all of it in our next poker game."
"Bring it on Mags! I'm going to rob you blind!"
"Good luck with that." She smirked.
"Heads up everybody! This is your Captain speaking! Everybody drop what you're doing and suit up! We're coming up on Nemesis! Repeat! We're coming up on Nemesis! We are approaching an alien planet everybody! This is not a drill! It's time to suit up!" The crew of the ship dropped everything and ran to put on their spacesuits. They took off their clothes in their respective locker rooms and got dressed in their jumpsuits before entering a set of capsules attached to the walls. The capsules glowed and shined and beeped as the suits were formed up around them. In a flash of light the suits were energized and solidified around the astronauts!
Once the astronauts are all suited up they exit the capsules and hurry across the ship to check out the Cockpit.
"Have you found it? Have we finally found it? Are you serious?"
"Oh yeah." The pilot beamed. "This is definitely it....and it is utterly gorgeous."
The crew looked out the window at the alien world they were approaching and were starstruck. The planet was so beautiful it was shimmering! Light was radiating off of it and illuminating the stars around it! It was a beautiful, gorgeous, amazing, astonishing light that they couldn't help be drawn into. It was so hard to believe that this gigantic diamond was traveling the stars lighting up the void of space wherever it went! The color didn't register on the normal spectrum of light as they registered it but they didn't care. It was so beautiful.
"We have to land on it." Maggie spoke up in awe.
"We have to land on it." Kaiden repeated.
"Look how beautiful it is. We're the first people to land on this diamond." Zoe whispered.
"It's so beautiful." Romeo sighed.
"I can't wait. We have to land on it." Hubert replied in awe.
Paisley could only stare at in silent amazement.
"So beautiful."
"Amazing."
"Look at it."
"We have to land on it."
"We have to land on it."
"We have to land on it."
"We have to land on it."
"We have to land on it."
"We have to land on it."
Dora.....
They exited the cockpit and got strapped in while the captain called it in. "Mission Control! This is Megashuttle to Mission Control! Come in Mission Control! We've found it! We're approaching Nemesis now!"
"Hear you loud and clear, Megashuttle! Take your time and be careful with your landing! This is a once in several lifetimes opportunity."
"Loud and clear, Mission Control and don't you worry! I live for this!" He expertly guided the ship down to the surface of the roaming planet. They entered the beautiful gorgeous shining atmosphere and they flew through the green clouds down to the surface of the planet. It blew their minds. While they were expecting a barren empty wasteland, what they got was a field meadow! A wide flowing field of grass was just sitting there! Sure it was overgrown, an alien world wouldn't exactly have a lawnmower, but like they cared! It was life! Life on an alien world! Even if it was just plants! Imagine what else they could find! They HAD to land there now! They just absolutely had to!
The pilots flew the ship around to take a tour of the planet before they landed the ship. It's better to not have to worry about any surprises after all.
They took their tour of the planet. It was unlike anything they had seen before in their lives. Life on an alien planet. Lush green healthy life! They were the first humans in history to ever see it! Maybe the first in thousands of years to come who would see it! They were going to be famous! This was the greatest discovery in the history of mankind! All they had to do was land, explore, take some samples, plant the flag, take some photos and boom! FAMOUS! They were going to be rich! They could ride this for life!
"Control? Are you seeing this?"
"Oh*bzzzt*seein.*bzzzt*is*bzzzt*com*bzzzt*throu*bzzzzzt!*
"Control? Control are you there? Come in!"
"Might be some kind of interference. I'm going to go ahead and run the toxicity check."
"Good idea. I mean we're going out there with suits on regardless but it's still important to check."
"Oh of course."
Every 5th grader knows, from the biology school lessons, that water, air, and even earth itself contains and gives life to a thousands of viruses, bacteria, and microorganisms. You can breathe in bacteria, or virus, and be dead in a seconds. If our own homeworld contains such deadly and often invisible to naked eye organisms, it seems logical to propose they can meet something like that or even deadlier on the new planet they are going to explore.
The co-pilot pressed a few buttons and hit a few switches and the ship began scanning and analyzing the toxicity levels of the planet and atmospheric composition and whether or not there would be potential dangers.
The ship continued flying around while the machines did their work. Eventually the analysis finished. It was fairly clean but there were unknown elements in the atmosphere that the machines couldn't identify. Good thing they had airtight armored spacesuits! After all, an alien planet might look beautiful but who knows WHAT could be out there? They weren't going to run around without their suits or risk taking their suits off like idiots! A "scan" can only detect things that it knows to look for. Hardly foolproof.
Ahem!
Anyway, they found an empty gravel clearing and slowly touched the ship down. Mission Control was still on the fritz so they would just have to get in touch with them later.
The Captain landed the ship and relaxed. He smiled. Finally. After all this time they'd landed on it. Nemesis. They were the first people ever to land on this gorgeous land! They got out of their seats and stepped out as the crew were standing up out of their own seats.
"Alright everybody! We are HERE! We are on Nemesis! It is time to explore! However! This is not a field trip! Nobody goes off alone! Nobody leaves the group! Nobody takes off their helmets! When coming and going from the ship, you wear your suit and you wait for decontamination! We stick together, we follow protocol, we follow the rules, and everybody goes home! Am I clear?"
"SIR YES SIR!"
"Good! Now grab your gear and follow me. We'll leave the ship single file. Wait for the spraydown and exit the ship in a single organized manner. I'll grab the drones. Let's move out people!"
"SIR YES SIR!" The crew replied in unison and began grabbing their gear. This was the discovery of a lifetime. They were going to do this right!
It was beautiful. It was incredibly beautiful. Even through their suits the beauty of this alien world was captivating. It drew them in and once they stepped off the shuttle they could only stare out at this magnificent alien world for a solid minute before they were able to speak again. "Hot damn. We're really here....someone...someone say something."
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Maggie chimed in while planting the American Flag in the ground. The crew saluted it before continuing.
"You know that isn't what he meant to say right?"
"Details, details. We're here so lets get to work!"
The Captain let the drones fly up into the sky where they would be able to observe and map out the area with the info being fed into their helmets HUDs. While they were flying in the sky the crew started working on collecting samples. Using their tools they begin gathering samples from the grass, rocks, soil, flowers, etc and placing them in containers and bringing them back inside. Every time they went inside and came back out they went through disinfection procedures and did the same for their gear and containers. Once they finished gathering samples from one area they flew the ship to another and repeated the process. It was a slow and gradual process but it was the best way to do it. Slow and steady.
Meanwhile the drones continued to fly through the skies of Nemesis giving the crew a bird's eye view of the planet's luster! They even found a couple of rivers where they scooped up the alien water for collection. Most importantly, they kept their freaking suits on throughout the entire process!
"This is so amazing!" Zoe squeed. "Alien water on an alien planet! I cannot wait to get this back to the labs!" She placed it in a containment unit on the ship.
"What'd I tell you honey? This planet is a money pot!" Paisley laughed and they clasped hands. "We're going to be rich and famous after this!"
"I'm going to be taking a looong vacation to the Bahamas after this. How about you?"
"Saaaame! I'm going to be living it up until our next mission!"
"Just remember guys. It's all about the work and exploration." Romeo reminded them.
"Yes sir!"
"So where are we going to next?"
"We've got so much already....but a few more won't hurt." The Captain shrugged. "Let's see...the drones are currently...oh. Oh Wow. Oh My God."
"What? What is it?!" The crew asked in excitement.
"Look for yourselves. We just found an alien structure."
The crew checked the HUDs of their helmets and they saw exactly what he was talking about. A large towering temple like structure in the middle of the planet. It was composed of strange material the likes of which they had never seen! It was a bizarre temple that resembled a spiral pyramid of sorts with a large Z on the front of it! The drones tried to fly in for a closer look but they started sparking and shaking while the video started getting static until the drones suddenly fell from the sky!
None of the astronauts paid this any mind though! Their eyes were transfixed on the temple in all its splendor! They could feel themselves drawn to it in awe!
"We have to go there." The crew said together in unison. "We have to go. We have to go. We have to go." The pilots returned to their positions while the crew got strapped in!
"Just look at it! We absolutely have to check this place out! How could we NOT?! This is the greatest discovery in the history of mankind! We could be on the verge of discovering intelligent alien life! This is going to be amazing!" The pilots got the shuttle up in the air and flew towards the temple. "Listen! I'll get us as close as I can but we'll have to hoof it afterword. We can't risk crashing the ship!"
Maggie groaned and rubbed her head.
"Mags? Are you feeling alright?" Martin asked her.
"Y-yeah...fine. I think I'm just a bit overwhelmed is all." She closed her eyes and rested in her seat. "This is going to be incredible. The greatest discovery in the history of mankind everybody. I'm sure it'll be okay. Right?"
Dora
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