Gaea's Chosen: The Mayday Directive
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Commander Gemma Bryant left Earth knowing full well the man selected to be her mate couldn't stand the sight of her...
Chosen to lead Gaea's Ark, humanity's first deep space settlement ship, Gemma is awakened from 19K years in stasis to find her mission gone horribly wrong. They're off course and missing crew, and for the remaining Chosen, the world they've landed on is far from uninhabited.
Supplies are short and cabin fever is growing. As if she doesn’t have enough to manage, a humanoid species is unexpectedly claiming her crew's attention. They're unbelievably fast and beautiful, but are they friend or enemy?
Gaea's Chosen: Ten men and ten women traveling 20 light years across the galaxy to settle a new world. The chance of disaster far outweighs the chance of success.
Cara Michaels
Cara Michaels is a dreamer of legendary proportions (just ask her about the alien pirate spaceship invasion). Her imagination is her playground and nothing is quite so much fun for her as building new characters and new worlds with at least an edge of the fantastic. She's writing whenever the opportunity presents itself and can typically be found tinkering with half a dozen projects. Occasionally all at once.She calls Florida 'home' when she's not busy swearing about giant bugs and humidity. She has one super-cool fiancé who doesn't (usually) mind the hours spent writing, editing, writing some more, and editing a lot more, one son with aspirations of becoming either a great wizard or an artist, and three cats who enjoy sleeping on her works in progress.
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Gaea's Chosen - Cara Michaels
Gaea’s Chosen:
The Mayday Directive
Cara Michaels
Thank you to these amazing folks who took a good story and helped craft a great one.
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Gaea’s Chosen: The Mayday Directive
By Cara Michaels
Copyright 2011 H.L. Carmichael
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Awareness came quickly, but physical control? Not so much. My nose itched and I couldn’t convince my hand to reach up and scratch it. Every attempt at movement felt unnaturally suppressed. Dreams mixed with memories, my brain sifting through the tangle, looking for clarity. Gaea’s Ark. Stasis.
Oh, right. That explained the slow physical responses. I was on a ship in deep space, waking from a state of suspended animation. Now I knew how a frozen hunk of still thawing meat felt.
Both my ship and its governing artificial intelligence bore the name of Greek mythology’s Earth goddess. Before leaving Earth, we’d dubbed this central room of Gaea’s Ark as the Cocoon. In this place we slept, patiently awaiting the right time to emerge and establish mankind’s first hands-on deep-space settlement.
My waking meant we’d either reached our destination, or something had gone wrong.
I’d barely gained control of my eyelids when a small printer near my head spewed something likely official and important. I blinked until I could make out the crew status register. Absently, I scratched my nose, relieving the persistent itch. Huzzah, progress. Challenging my motor skills, I reached for the report and tore it free. My still-focusing eyes skipped down the list.
Bryant, G. R. - active
Cho, P. L. - retired
Danes, J. B. - dormant
Faison, I. N. - dormant
Tomei, F. M. - dormant
Wasser, V. E. - retired
Retired?
My eyes stumbled over the word. I knew the lingo, so I got the active part—that was me—and dormant—those still sleeping. I appeared to be the only one the A.I. had woken so far.
My stasis-fried brain struggled to interpret the meaning of retired.
Reviewing the list more closely, I read each name this time, and saw seven of my twenty-man crew listed that way.
Gaea?
I called. The A.I. didn’t respond after three tries. Odd. Had she powered down? Maybe she hadn’t woken me after all and automated protocols had kicked in for some reason. I pressed a manual system access button in my pod. Voice print identification, Bryant, Commander Gemma Rae. Initiate A.I. sequence, authorization Bryant-seven-five-one-four.
Authorization acknowledged. Good morning, Commander Bryant. A soothing female voice answered me, broadcasting over discreetly placed speakers, seeming to come from nowhere and everywhere at once.
There you are.
I rubbed a hand over my face and yawned. Is it morning?
Unknown, Commander. I have been dormant.
I noticed. Check your systems, Gaea. What is our current position?
Unknown. Internal data error.
The feminine voice hiccupped, waking me fully. That’s not a good thing.
Gaea,
I said slowly. Seven of the crew are listed as retired on this crew report. Please explain.
Cho, Donnell, Hernandez, Myers, Seitz, Terneus, and Wasser are no