Book 3 - Chapter 18
Spaceship Excalibur
Destination: Mars
Mars, a planet that for centuries has been the subject of humanity's dreams… and they were almost there. It felt surreal to be the firs...
2020-12-16 11:16:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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Book 3 - Chapter 17
The S.U. Space station
Rivendell
Elizabeth's head was still spinning from the decision she made a few hours ago. She was happy to say yes, but it still hit her like a freight train out of nowhere. In r...
2020-12-13 11:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 16
Earth, New York City
UN Headquarters
The silence in the UN General Assembly great hall was oppressive and tense. Michael’s face did not show any emotions, yet his heart was drumming in his chest.
... 2020-12-09 11:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 15
Transporter 001
Rome, Italy
Michael climbed into the transporter and said they could leave Rome, when Al interrupted, “we need to make a quick stop in the city.”
“Whatever for?” Tyron ask...
2020-12-06 11:51:45 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 14
City-Ship Ascension
Geostationary orbit
It was quite a somber and quiet group that returned to the Ascension. Everyone was thinking about the incredible story they’...
2020-12-02 11:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 13
The S.U. Space Station
Michael and the others stood in that room for a long time, yet not one of them would have left it for anything in the world.
This was a momentous and earthshaking revelation, and echoes of it wer...
2020-11-29 12:08:23 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 12
The S.U. Space Station
“You gotta be freaking kidding me!”
The first one to react was Al; the others gawked at the image with looks of dumbfounded amazement and shock. In their defense, it was a completely improbab...
2020-11-25 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 11
City-Ship Ascension
Geostationary orbit
It was the morning of the next day and Michael had got up late, once again enjoying the luxury of his own bed. Not that anything was wr...
2020-11-22 11:08:39 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 10
The S.U. Space Station
Quarantine level
Nobody could go to the Ascension without a long stay in quarantine, the City-ship was in a precautionary lockdown. Moreover, Elizabeth and the others we...
2020-11-18 11:43:27 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 9
Earth, United Kingdom
Chinese Embassy in London
Li Yuen looked at the piece of paper in his hands, his fingers squeezing it so tight, there was a danger of ripping it apart. The last orders he received...
2020-11-15 10:42:51 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 8
Transporter 001
Destination: Al Anbar Desert
A hot, dry desert wind was making dust devils dance in the distance, as the lone transporter landed in the middle of nowhere.
Michael had asked Max to...
2020-11-11 10:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 7
Al-Qa'im, Iraq
“Allahu Akbar,” Abdul al-Vasir said to the group of people gathered in his house.
Well, it was now, after the previous owners were disposed of. They dared to have such lavish dwellings when people we...
2020-11-08 11:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 6
Earth, London
Richmond Park
Elizabeth thought that this was what hell on earth looked like, as she carried another sick child into their transporter.
From the moment Michael decided that they wou...
2020-11-04 10:45:29 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 5
Al-Qa'im, Iraq
Abdul al-Vasir knew that the time of his rise to power had come.
No more listening to others, and blindly following the commands of those who were unworthy of his God's grace.
Ever since their lead...
2020-10-31 11:32:16 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 4
City-Ship Ascension
Central Park
A week later, Michael was having a lunch date with Elizabeth in the park.
There were so many people doing the same, that the place was g...
2020-10-28 11:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 3
City-Ship Ascension
Conference Room
“Can we go?! Can we go! Can we go?!” Al said while jumping in his seat, just like a little kid.
That was Al’s reaction when Mic...
2020-10-24 11:11:49 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 2
City-Ship Ascension
Geostationary Orbit
A few days later, Michael was just finishing with that day’s paperwork, which was now mostly in electronic form since he took Elizabe...
2020-10-21 10:34:52 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Chapter 1
Spaceship Excalibur
Low Earth Orbit
Michael was drinking a cold beer while sitting in a pilot’s chair on the Excalibur. It was no longer needed for it to be hooked ...
2020-10-17 10:22:35 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 - Prologue
Earth, North American Continent
12,900 Years Ago
Gray dark clouds covered the entire sky and sent torrents of acidic rain, dirty with ash, to fall onto the ground. Leaning against a big boulder, a lone...
2020-10-17 10:19:48 +0000 UTC View PostBook 2.5 - Epilogue
Thus, I end the second tome of my personal logs. If you managed to get this far, it means I didn’t destroy your very existence on account of your impudence.
So many momentous things happened recently, that I feel all our lives will go thro...
2020-10-14 10:41:35 +0000 UTC View PostLog Entry #50: Challenger Deep
My search for the secret hidden in the depths of the Mariana Trench never stopped from the moment the map became available. I learned every bit of information about the place, watched videos of cameras dropped down below, and even went through all...
2020-10-14 10:39:45 +0000 UTC View PostLog Entry #49: Backyard Cleaning
Some people say that space is empty—they are delusional.
Ok, maybe in broader terms, it can be considered that the space is mostly empty (with occasional planets, stars, black holes, and a few rocks here and there) but if we are l...
2020-10-10 10:29:52 +0000 UTC View PostLog Entry #48: The Garden
It was decided from the start that we would need to be food self-sufficient in space.
That is not such a hard thing to do with the level of technology available to us. All you essentially needed is oxygen, sunlight, water, and the nutrients ...
2020-10-10 10:27:52 +0000 UTC View PostLog Entry #47: Decisions & Consequences
I am getting ahead of myself, which can happen when one has so many different things to do and not enough time to write his thoughts down.
Before Philip Cain went on his historic exploratory mission into the unknown, we made some announcemen...
2020-10-07 10:19:09 +0000 UTC View PostLog Entry #46: The Head Of A Snake
Castle Regnum in Switzerland was the target, and it was a hard nut to crack.
Not by its size, even if it was rather imposing, but for its security which was on the side of clinical paranoia. For God’s sake, they even had the Swiss...
2020-10-03 10:24:18 +0000 UTC View PostLog Entry #45: The Culprit
It was like one of those big jigsaw puzzles that require just one more piece for everything to fit together, or like a game of Jenga where one stick can make the whole tower fall down.
When Agent Martin sent that message to be picke...
2020-09-30 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostLog Entry #44: Life Goes On
One part of me thought that with medical nanites, funerals of loved ones would not be something I had to deal with. At least not for the foreseeable future. How wrong could I be?
Here I was, giving my own father a space burial when I e...
2020-09-26 10:01:25 +0000 UTC View PostLog Entry #43: Independence Day
After those five long days, he finally opened his eyes, and I had to tell him that our father was… dead.
Michael did not take it well; neither did I for that matter. (Part of me is still feeling that emptiness inside, the sensation of some...
2020-09-23 10:24:58 +0000 UTC View PostLog Entry #42: Kick You When You Are Down
Five days—that is how long Michael was under, and there was nothing I could do to change it.
The physical injuries his body had suffered were fixed and he should have woken up days ago, but he remained in a coma.
I made a recording o...
2020-09-19 05:42:54 +0000 UTC View PostLog Entry #41: My Father
It started simply enough, a great opportunity for our media campaign, too good to miss actually, and then…
We let our guard down, thinking that now that the Ascension was out of their grasp, we were safe. Besides, it was such a re...
2020-09-16 10:07:15 +0000 UTC View Post