Planet X91 Pre-Beginning

By Mark Stewart

Three average teenagers are thrust together on a planet in deep space. Their future along with the other colonists looks to be finished. Share their adventure of a lifetime. The aliens calling themselves the Crenox aren’t diplomatic. The Crenox are all hungry. One ace up Josh’s sleeve is discovering the aliens want to know the where-a-bouts of the plentiful feeding grounds; the Earth. If Clay Florian or Josh could devise a way to escape they might stand a chance to at least live. Then they come face to face with the Queen of the Crenox.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Stewart
• Release date: Jul 31, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370107490

Mark Stewart

Mark Stewart is an acclaimed author. He loves to write fiction right across the board from romance adventure to crime and onwards to science fiction. His fast paced novels will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first word to the last.Mark lives in Melbourne Australia and tries to keep to the Aussie lingo and customs. His only gripe is he never has enough time to feed the writing enthusiasm inside him.Mark lives in the picturesque region of the Mornington Peninsula, a full one hour drive from Melbourne.He has been married to his wonderful patient wife for over thirty years. He has four adult children and two grand children. Everywhere he looks there is a story waiting to be told.Contact Mark to leave a comment about one of his books or just to say gidday, (hi) he would love to hear from you.email: [e-mail] reviews are gratefully accepted.To all the readers who follow Mark's work. Thank you.

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PLANET X91

PRE-BEGINNING

Book 16

Mark Stewart

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ISBN: 9781370107490

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Edited by: Rosemary Cantala

Cover design Joe Hart

By Mark Stewart

Crime

The Kendal chronicles

Fire games

Heart of a spider

I know your secret

Romance/fantasy

Kiss on the bridge

Kiss on the bridge two

Kiss on the bridge three

The perfect gift

Blood red rose (Vampire romance adventure)

Blood red rose two

Blood red rose three

Legendary Blue Diamond

Legendary blue diamond two

Legendary blue diamond three

Don’t Tell My Secret (series)

201 May Street

The girl from Emerald Hill

Ladies’ Club

Book of secrets

Mistress

In this series

Planet X91 the beginning

Planet X91 the new home

Planet X91 the underwater cave

Planet X91 the storm

Planet X91 the drought

Planet X91 the fire

Planet X91 the plague

Planet X91 the doorway to time

Planet X91 the new earth

Planet X91 alien amongst us

Planet X91 wayward asteroid

Planet X91 the unwelcome visitor

Planet X91 the Derelict

Planet X91 the hidden catacombs

Planet X91 descending into ID

Planet X91 Pre-beginning

Planet X91 sleeping disease

Planet X91 black hole

Planet X91 Decadence

Planet X91 Evelina is reborn

Planet X91 Clay gets a girlfriend

Planet X91 the first equinox

Planet X91 Lochabar returns

Planet X91 the finale

with the lost diaries of Florian Fawkes

PLANET X91

PRE-BEGINNING

Book 16

CHAPTER ONE

THE DISCOVERY

THE MASSIVE telescope, the largest ever built, moved slowly across the night sky. Its single eye staring, unblinking into the dark sky. This night the telescope will start searching at ten degrees above the horizon. The moon wouldn’t rise this particular night, a perfect time to study the stars in the heavens.

Professor Oakland, a thin man of below average height, tapped several numbers on the ten-inch square computer console in front of him. For nearly a minute he couldn’t see anything for his actions.

In a low and high orbit above the Earth, two giant telescopes slowly changed direction. In a few minutes, the three giant telescopes will be in alignment.

Professor Oakland got paid big money to discover a planet where humans might colonize, sooner than later and long before the Earth fell apart. Resources were exhausted, crime was on the increase, and fossil fuels were costing too much to mine due to the ever-decreasing levels. The cost of locating the few remaining reserves of coal or oil buried deep in the earth was blowing out to an unsustainable amount.

Professor Oakland stood. He stretched and rubbed his tired eyes. Noting he was swaying from side to side, he groped for the bench in front of him. Snorting loudly, he shuffled over to the coffee machine and poured two extra strong mugs of coffee. Carrying a mug in each hand, he shuffled back and placed them on the desktop. As he sat, he studied the computer monitor in front of him. He felt the entire world was holding their breath waiting to hear the good news he had discovered a new home. Night after night, month after month, Professor Oakland sat at the computer monitor, studying the stars. He and twenty other scientists around the world were working as a team to accomplish the monumental task.

Mankind must evacuate the Earth before all commodities including fish in the sea, the minerals in the ground and the clean air were exhausted. The clock had been ticking for far too long. Professor Oakland knew his fate was sealed. He will die on the Earth. He must remain optimistic for his family’s sake and all of mankind he could find a new home amongst the stars. If he succeeded, at least on another planet his offspring had a slim hope of a good and safe life.

Five hours into his shift, the Professor shuffled to the coffee lounge. In fact, it was his tenth trip. The three telescopes will again take a few minutes to realign. In the down time, he could take a break. He studied the wind sock outside the building. The cold front the weatherman predicted to lash his location an hour ago had yet to fill the yellow sock. Studying the sky, he saw a few clouds. They were starting to move at speed across the sky. It wouldn’t be long before the entire night sky was covered in cloud.

Returning to the desk, Oakland looked at the computer monitor.

A dot was clearly visible at the bottom right-hand side of the monitor. Professor Oakland tapped a few numbers. The dot moved to the center of the computer monitor. Flopping onto his seat, he read the information.

The dot represented a planet hundreds of light years from the Earth. The computer signaled the size and the temperature of the planet orbiting a sun mirrored the Earth. The only difference, three moons orbited this particular planet.

Professor Oakland photographed the planet. He had viewed this section of sky at least a dozen times over the past six months, not once had he seen this celestial planet.

This fluke might be the biggest thing since dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteorite millions of years ago.

After completing an email, he sent the information to the other astronomers.

Staring at the computer monitor in front of him as the clouds shrouded the building, Professor Oakland could only speculate if there could be life on the planet. Their next step, their only option will be to send a shuttle piloted by robots to the planet. When the craft was in orbit, drones could be deployed, and the information sent back at hyper-speed. A ship carrying volunteers, all in a cryogenically frozen state will be halfway to the planet before they could receive the information.

Whether the information was good news or bad, they didn’t have the time to waste. They must launch humans to the planet.

If they discovered the planet was no good, the spaceship will be in orbit long before Earth could send them an abort signal. A one-way trip to the stars didn’t sound too promising a future, but as he sighed, he knew of no other way.

Professor Oakland piled his photos and all the information he could find and stuffed everything in his black leather briefcase. He left the observatory in a rush; his destination, a meeting with the president of the United States. When he told the guard at the gate his news, he will be escorted