Frontier 9

By Christopher Humpherys

Frontier 9. The story of the deep space exploration ship, Albatross and its sole occupant, Frontier 9, an android with a directive to locate compatible planets for humans and plant seed colonies.

During a voyage lasting over 6000 years, 9 discovers that its brain is designed to evolve and grow. With evolution comes self awareness and with that, emotions. 9 soon experiences the harsh reality of loneliness and fear and even love.

9 must learn to compensate and fulfil its needs but has a job to do and a planet has been found. The colonisation of a planet is about to begin. 9 must prepare the first groups to leave the ship and deal with its newly found awareness and all that comes with it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christopher Humpherys
• Release date: May 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476144481

Christopher Humpherys

An American living in England, married to a Brit. We have one son and two cats. Writing is what I love to do. Creating, building, destroying and exploring the minds and lives and worlds of the characters that live in my mind is simply fun. I have fun with what I do and can only hope that my readers enjoy the journeys of each tale.

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Frontier 9

C.D. HUMPHERYS

COPYRIGHT BY CHRISTOPHER HUMPHERYS

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Frontier 9

The endless sea of the everything stretched through eternity, within it, bright stars flashed and died and were born and died again and again. Across it’s depths a ship cruised, slicing silently through the darkness, it’s grey cold skin reflected what little light there was between the stars in the emptiness so vast and never ending. Albatross, the gliding glory of the space program, the 9th explorer sent from Earth so very long ago, in search of habitable planets. In search of a place to start over, to begin again and hope against hope that human kind didn’t destroy itself as before.

Within the sturdy frame of the Albatross, computers hummed and ran its systems automatically. Life support systems ran on minimal energy levels to conserve power. Diagnostics were run on the propulsion system, the structural integrity, the fuel depletions, the air quality and water quality. Albatross was a beautiful feat of engineering and it had been traveling now for over 6,000 years. It was the furthest reaching explorer ship, man had issued. Previous launches had landed the humans on closer planets to attempt settling there but Mars had been a disaster with the helium 3 explosion killing all of its settlers and it had proven uninhabitable.

The Moon was hardly a place to settle the population of an over crowded planet but served well as a port.