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Log Entry #40: Ground Control To Major Tom

Space, the final frontier… 

Actually, space happens to be an extreme and unforgiving environment that can kill you in an instant. Seriously, it may be a frontier, but it is a uniquely intolerant place for the unprepared.

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Log Entry #39: One Ring To Rule Them All

We had long conversations about governing and the political system our new nation should use; it was one of the most difficult decisions we ever made. 

People need to be ruled, and that is a fact.

I know, that idea does not agree ...

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Log Entry #38: Rough Ascension

To be caught with your pants down—it is not a nice feeling.

We needed half an hour at most to make a reasonably safe liftoff, but that was time we did not have. No amount of wishing could produce those minutes, especially when one...

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Log Entry #37: The Jig Is Up

They had found almost everything about us… and it is bad.

Have you any idea how it feels to drop the ball, to screw up, letting everybody down. There are a few of you that know exactly what I mean… it sucks, doesn’t it?

Dr. Nikol...

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Log Entry #36: A True AI Is Born

Just when you think that nothing could genuinely surprise you (and I mean one of those surprises that shake you to the core), you discover that you have been so very wrong.

This was one of those surprises you dread, like finding a six-inch t...

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Log Entry #35: Much Ado About Nothing

So many things happened in a relatively short time, my head would be still spinning if I was my old self.

First was when Dad decided to have a chat with me. All things considered, it is not a big thing to have a heart to heart conve...

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Log Entry #34: Stop! Hammer Time!

Sometimes you just need to reach out and touch someone, and if that someone is a group of terrorist fighters… all the better. Well, it entirely depends on how you do it, and how fatally they are touched.

Albert Einstein s...

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Log Entry #33: The Cures

No matter how much I know, and the amount of knowledge I absorb, I am still amazed at certain aspects of this world. That goes double if you look into the micro world. There you can bear witness to the infinite complexity of life itself a...

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Log Entry #32: Get The Ball Rolling

 I guess what Michael had was an awakening of sorts. I do not mean a spiritual one, but the one that comes when you become sick of certain things and decide that a paradigm shift is in order. Amassing all that money was a means to an end, a t...

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Log Entry #31: The Heist

When someone tells you that you need to pull the biggest robbery in the Earth’s history… how do you respond? Well, despite the calm expression on my hologram’s face, I wanted to dance a jig.

As you may have noticed, I like taking money...

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Log Entry #30: A Just Response

  Not everything can be fun and games, building things and going forward. Besides, there are those in this world who tend to spoil your fun by the simple act of existing.

When I saw the first satellite images of corpses inside the ...

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Log Entry #29: Planning For The Future

OK, this is just a quick entry, because I am pressed for time right now. But I needed to note down a few words since I am so excited about the possibilities of a certain thing I put into motion. If it works out (and I don’t see why it shouldn't)...

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Log Entry #28: Plastic-Fantastic

I love recycling; it is the best shortcut in the world. Do I even need to explain why? Never mind, I’ll give you a short summary.

Normally you have to go through too much trouble to get the materials you need from the ground and l...

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Log Entry #27: If You Build It, They Will Come

 Since I dealt with that pesky volcano, it was time to concentrate on the reason why I decided to rent an island. The original question was how to build a spaceship that is three miles in circumference without anybody being the wiser? It was ...

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Log Entry #26: Max Versus The Pagan Island Volcano

Go big or go home—that is why I got myself an island. Well, it is not technically mine, since it is only leased for a period of two years, still…

I see myself more AS a custodian of this tropical paradise for the foreseeable fut...

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Max’s Logs Vol. 2 - Prologue

To whom it may concern.

You are back, accessing this second tome of my logs. I do hope you still have all the right permissions or that insatiable curiosity of yours could be your undoing.

When all is said and done, if you were not det...

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Book 2 - Epilogue

Main Asteroid Belt

(Between Mars and Jupiter)

Uncountable numbers of rocks were making their circular path through space; it was an eternal dance that had begun when the Solar System was still young. F...

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Book 2 - Chapter 25

City-Ship Ascension

Geostationary orbit

Entering his office Michael could see a pile of paperwork on his desk. He stood in front of it and wondered how it happened that he was...

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Book 2 - Chapter 24

City-Ship Ascension

Geostationary orbit

It was time for Alice to wake up, and the entire inner circle was present, waiting for her to be brought out of the artificial coma. He...

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Book 2 - Chapter 23

City-Ship Ascension

Central Park

In the following weeks, things settled down on the massive City-ship; the people went on with their lives and worked hard to make this place i...

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Book 2 - Chapter 22

Switzerland, Castle of Regnum

Philip Cain was sitting at the head of the table in the ‘High Council’ meeting chamber, dressed in the Primus regalia with a black mask on his face. What’s more, for the first tim...

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Book 2 - Chapter 21

Aboard transporter 001

Destination: Cain’s Mansion

It was a dark and stormy night, perfect weather as far as four men in a transporter flying down to Earth were concerned. The lack of moonlight was t...

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Book 2 - Chapter 20

City-Ship Ascension

Geostationary orbit

Michael woke up in a strange place and for a moment, he was not quite sure where he was. His eyes saw an endless black expanse with tho...

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Book 2 - Chapter 19

City-Ship Ascension

Geostationary orbit

Once again, Michael was sitting behind the desk in the conference room, waiting for the arranged time to join the videoconference. He w...

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Book 2 - Chapter 18

Washington, D.C.

Underneath the White House, Presidential bunker

It has been days since he had last seen the Sun and the sky. Consequently, the bright morning light hurt his eyes for a moment, before h...

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Book 2 - Chapter 17

City-Ship Ascension

Geostationary Orbit

Since there was no sun on the ship to regulate night and day cycles, it was somewhat arbitrary when one day ended and another began. Th...

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Book 2 - Chapter 16

City-Ship Ascension

Geostationary orbit

They were still discussing the name of the new ship and some of those radical changes that awaited them in the future, when Max closed ...

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Book 2 - Chapter 15

Washington, D.C.

The White House, Oval Office

Philip Cain gritted his teeth; the amount of anger he felt expressed itself when he stabbed the historic desk with his fountain pen, marring its surface. H...

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Book 2 - Chapter 14

Washington, D.C.

The White House, Oval Office

Acting President Philip Cain was sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and was using his considerable willpower to prevent himself f...

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Book 2 - Chapter 13

USS Destroyer Nicolas Rigolio (DDG-978)

Destination: Pagan Island

Commander J. Brown always considered himself to be a man of integrity, his long career had no embarrassing sm...

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