Breaking Interstellar: Multiverse Lives Matter

By Michael Tobin

Humanity, expands to the stars! A necessary step for long-term survival of the species. But, it’s not an easy thing to do! However, with the undaunted bravery and assistance from android beings, a foothold on two other planets besides Earth, is created.

The journey is long, yet not boring. It's very cold and quite foreboding. Gravity is variable, and quite incomparable. Everything an intelligent creature would not want to endure! With plenty of forces, both natural and not, working so hard to make sure failure is an ever-present plot!

Grabbing two planets for their very own, not caring if they’re intruding or not, mechanical beings from a tiny backwater planet called Earth, elbow their way in! Nature is cruel that way, while they make a village and decide to stay!

Human babies are grown in test-tubes, albeit facsimiles thereof. Android parents love and nurture, making sure their brood has everything to help them mature. Discoveries are made, allowing space travel once again, and off sail androids and humans, to see what they can see, in a multiverse so impossibly vast!

New friends and enemies are made seemingly at the drop of a hat. The enemies are merciless, and the friends are from other universes! Time-travel, balances out the fun in their lives, as the kids grow older and become ever-wise! Join the space journey, and won’t you be surprised!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Tobin
• Release date: Dec 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370450190

Michael Tobin

Michael Tobin is an entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist and an acknowledged authority on leadership, management techniques and business innovation. Founder and former CEO of TelecityGroup, he has won multiple business awards including Entrepreneur and Outstanding Leader of the Year, was nominated as Business Leader of the Year in the National Business Awards and received the OBE for 'Services to the Digital Economy.' He is the author of Forget Strategy. Get Results.

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Breaking Interstellar

Multiverse Lives Matter!

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Table of Contents (book three)

Prologue: Previously on Breaking Interstellar!

Chapter 1: The jungle cenote

Chapter 2: Sharp edge of time!

Chapter 3: Thana, enemy android!

Chapter 4: Into the belly of the beast!

Chapter 5: A stitch in time

Chapter 6: The Queen gets dumped!

Chapter 7: The Nerezza

Chapter 8: The Menagerie!

Chapter 9: Aerima, the stowaway!

Chapter 10: New crewmember!

Chapter 11: Home Sweet Home!

Chapter 12: Mountain of bent physics

Chapter 13: Arrival of the Nerezza

Chapter 14: Multiverse entities!

Chapter 15: A Toothy this way comes!

Chapter 16: Interstellar medivac!

Chapter 17: Sagittarius A-star!

Chapter 18: Cosmic sling-drift!

Chapter 19: Cooper; poor, poor, Cooper!

Chapter 20: Broken world!

Chapter 21: Planetary pirates!

Chapter 22: Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

Chapter 23: Aerima’s revenge!

Chapter 24: Plan of action!

Chapter 25: Little red multiverse-planet

Chapter 26: The bitter truth!

Chapter 27: Rise and shine!

Chapter 28: Android dilemma

Chapter 29: Aerima & Jax, sitting in a tree!

Chapter 30: We’re back baby!

Chapter 31: Rogue Neutron Stars!

Chapter 32: Pascora

Chapter 33: Baking multiverse world!

Chapter 34: No place like home!

Previously on Breaking Interstellar!

The night is overheated.... ravaging the soul! .... Fancy living and disregard for the consequences, leaves Earth’s biosphere and those who rely on it being stable, in great peril.

Extinctions like never-before, rule the status quo. Rising sea levels push humanity away from comfortable digs, and into areas of congestion and drought. Wars gone wild, increase in numbers across the lands, as natural resources become exceedingly rare!

The world becomes truly divided. The ‘have-nots’ grow geometrically in number, making great problems for the dwindling ‘haves’ that don’t like to share as much as they did before things went too far.

Now, humanity needs a new world to wreck.... it needs one really bad, real soon!

Fortunately, starting in the year 2188, a well-monied young man with a dream, strives for creating a method of transplanting humans onto other favorable worlds, in alien solar systems.

After 50-years of fighting Mother Nature in the depths of outer space, and overcoming other technical challenges, his team of dedicated scientists at ‘Sohn Space Systems’, are close to a solution.

In orbit around Mars, Doctor Maxwell Sohn’s empire of starship fabrication, nears completion. These starships will travel to different planets, in 2 different star systems. Two starships to each planet will offer an insurance policy against the unthinkable of losing one ship to the elements, or something with more malicious intent!

Oberon Prime, and Titania Alpha, are the final candidate planets for the first installment of transplanted human beings beyond the bosom of Earth or Mars. They’re located 50-lightyears from Earth, but only 3-lightyears from each other.

Discovered via spectral-analysis using a star-shade, they orbit their suns within a goldilocks zone of habitability. They enjoy approximately 95% that of Earths mass and gravity, along with estimated plentiful oxygen and nitrogen.

There shouldn’t be much issue with muscle-mass loss, or abnormal bone development. After all, humans can adapt if the change is not too extreme all at once. The journey will be 300-trillion-miles to the outer edge of the Orion-Cygnus arm of our galaxy.

Using 23rd century technology, it will take 175,000-years, depending on traffic conditions and whatnot.... These two planets are some of our closest neighbors. Apparently, there’s a lot of space, in outer space!

The missions are android-critical. Not just android-critical, but ‘sentient’ android-critical. Without somebody that can endure such a journey into deep time, and still be able to cook humans at the other end and act as parents; the entire mission is moot!

The good doctor had lost many nights sleep, contemplating the unimaginable. One of those things was the completion of his starships, and not having the necessary beings to act as crossing-guards and parents.

His equal worry was that of creating a new race of sentient machines, and not having enough of them to volunteer for such a ludicrous mission!

Without free-will and all it entails; a creature can’t truly become sentient. Also, without uncoerced willingness, a sentient creature can’t be made to perform that which it does not wish!

Maxwell Sohn had said on many occasions, that he would rather the entire human race go extinct here on Earth, than have its salvation brought about by the act of forced servitude! Fortunately, the androids created at Sohn’s research facilities, after gaining sentience through a steep learning-curve process, were all too happy to help humanity achieve such a lofty goal.

The few who chose not to attend the missions, did so because of psychological anomalies that simply prohibited the going on such a journey. Yet there is always a place in the research and development ranks, and the ‘handicapped’ androids were happy to assist wherever possible.

One of these so-called handicapped androids, is named Carter. He wishes for nothing more than the chance to travel to the stars, but extreme claustrophobia, brought on by the human who donated his main psychological imprinting, prevents him from attending.

Instead, he is Doctor Sohn’s chief pilot and good friend, when not also doing stellar scientific research on the side! His most endearing contribution to the mission, is the day he thwarted an attempted nuclear annihilation of Higgs-Boson Airfield, at great personal peril.

Without his assistance, humanities dream of expansion to the stars, would have surely been snuffed out that stormy day in New Mexico.

The first two androids to achieve sentience, were doted over by Doctor Sohn, and soon became his first and only children. Albeit, adopted children of instant adult age! They’re names are Wilber Sohn, and Nyla Sohn. Over time, they learned the ways of science and human nature.

Quickly they developed interest with all areas of environmental study and aviation. They were the first sentient androids to rocket into space and perform valuable research at the space station in Earth orbit.

Being so close to the doctor, they chose to not join the mission to the stars which would break the poor fellows’ heart by their absence! After a freak midair-collision during the search for the suicide atomic-bomber, killed two androids who were scheduled for the mission, the doctor needed replacements to fill their shoes.

After searching their circuits, and some parental prodding from Dr. Max and his lovely side-kick Shirley Blackstone, the two young androids knew their destiny was to go to the stars and help where they could to bring Max’s dream to life.

Also, they knew it was a chance to expand the android species. After all, interstellar diversification is the only way to beat Mother Nature at her own game of wicked chess!

So it was, on a dreamy midsummer night in New Mexico (year 2238), Nyla and Wil joined 206 other android pioneers on 4 rockets to Mars and the waiting starships. Starships that could not have been possible if not for the harvesting of metallic asteroids from the asteroid-belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Many brave astronauts were lost while these behemoths of nature were corralled, tamed, and sent to the processing facilities in Martian orbit.

There, the asteroids were transmogrified and centrifugated into their constituent molecules. Then, through a molecular-printing process on an astronomical scale, sheets of metal and other structural members are created for the starship’s construction.

One asteroid-hunter crew became the best of friends with Doctor Sohn and his close-knit-circle of companions.

Captain Braxton Crane, of the good mining-ship ‘Queen Anne’s Revenge’, and crew, still hold the record for number of asteroids delivered over the course of a six-year contract. All of these asteroid hunters donated biologic materials for the mission to Oberon Prime, where it is melded with a non-related other half.

Harper Williams is the first officer of the Revenge. A good man to have on your side, but prone to injury.... especially head injuries, the poor fellow!

Then, there’s Cooper Beaufort and Toby Sullivan, the ships mechanical and electrical engineers. Adam Miller and Ling Tao are the ships support technicians; assisting with EVA and performing equipment maintenance. The Revenge’s main rock handlers are Kara Johansson and Jax Krauss. All total, they’re a crew for Captain Crane to be proud of!

With concerted efforts at Earth, the moon, and Mars, humanity’s best chance for long-term survival, takes shape! Magnus Teach, of ‘lunar hydro-solutions’, spends years harvesting ice on the moon and creating stockpiles of fuel for the mission.

He also sends biologic materials to the stars, which end up joining Nyla and Wil’s brood of dirty dozen; albeit a baker’s dozen. Also, Amy Herschel, who is chief engineer at Mars, in charge of building the Starship (SPS Einstein) which will transport Nyla and Wil, also sends her own donation for the great cause. Her offspring also joins the dirty dozen....

So, Oberon Prime will be home to at least a baker’s-dozen of Earthling children, who’s biologic parents have long ago passed into the dust of time. They are named after those long-lost friends. As non-related stepsiblings, they will be raised by loving android parents on an alien world. One that doesn’t seem so alien to the little ones, because it’s home!

On the journey to destination, two starships traveling to Titania Alpha (SPS Cecilia Payne, and SPS Michael Faraday) (SPS = Space Pioneer Ship) have an encounter with a rogue stellar-mass black hole! They endure the harrowing event but are late arriving to Titania Alpha because of the increased velocity imparted while sling-drifting around the singularity.

Of the other two starships traveling to Oberon Prime (SPS Albert Einstein, and SPS Isaac Newton), the Einstein is boarded by Alien desperadoes! Space pirates bent on obtaining needed booty that’s in short supply on their home worlds.

The event doesn’t go as they had hoped, but they manage to escape with their lives and a goodly pile of gold for their efforts.

In the process of the felonious action, the Grey alien-commander of the scallywags, leaves a learning device in possession of the earthling androids who thwarted her devious plan for keeping the entire spaceship.

The item is a learning device for young humans and is in the shape of a headband. Many years pass in the depths of outer space, and the headband is forgotten about. After landing on Oberon Prime, it’s misplaced to an area where curious children will someday play.

With human children being as curious as cats, it isn’t long before the headband is found and of course worn! All, without the knowledge of the doting mechanical parents who try very hard to keep them safe from dangers!

Although the device imparts knowledge on a quantum-subliminal level, it doesn’t change the wee-one’s personalities. They were little monsters before, and just as monstrous after!

Harper and Ling forego the headband out of fear and plain old caution. Harper fears anything strange near his head, and with good reason! Ling avoids it to make Harper happy....

On Oberon Prime.... Nyla, Wil, and the dirty dozen, (Braxton Crane, Harper Williams, Cooper Beaufort, Toby Sullivan, Jax Krauss, Kara Johansson, Magnus Teach, Maxwell Sohn, Adam Miller, Tina Feldman, Ling Tao, Shirley Blackstone, and last but not least, Amy Herschel), make friends with an indigenous, sentient feline species who share a geographical region. Actually, it’s was a forced sharing as the Earthlings simply barged in unannounced!

The people of the forest (the Zenarawan’s) are primitive and telepathic. They quickly learn that their human friends, and also Nyla to a miniscule degree, are naturally receptive to their alternate method of communication.

Because of this shared esp, the group of earthlings learn of a haunted mountain nearby that turns out to not be haunted in the spiritual sense. Instead, an underground alien base is discovered.

Initially thought to be abandoned, the fortress of bent physics is still occupied! Occupied by ancient aliens, that had long since put themselves into deep sleep.

Yet most of the hibernation chambers that were meant to protect and preserve, had failed their customers. Too much deep time, and to poor of construction, caused many sleep chamber door-seals to fail.

One chamber that still had possible life, proved to be a real shocker for Nyla and Wil! Gazing into a viewing portal, they spy a blast from the past! Lying there looking peaceful and serine, is the fierce scar-faced warrior that Wil had to wound before it would change its behavior, back during the trip from Earth.

The warriors name is Gort. The laser-scar across his cheek that Will provided, is still fresh and ugly! A real beauty that the little pirate is very proud of!

The alien commander from that fateful boarding, had not fared the ravages of time as well as her lieutenant. Her name was Esty, and her chamber is full of dust that was once a vibrant body. The brave female had chosen the wrong chamber, and now belongs to the ravages of time!

However, she isn’t gone like one might imagine! In another area of the fortress, she waits.

As an insurance policy against losing the biologic body, her people had devised a way to imprint a person’s life-story into computer language and memory. She’s stored electronically with others of her kind, just waiting for the day to shine again!

Yet, due to the mechanical nature of their dire enemies, the Grey alien species had been unwilling to create synthetic bodies to harbor the minds of those who have electronic dreams.

It’s quiet a dilemma for the species! To have a copy of the mind; yet unwilling to create mobility, due to hatred of most anything mechanical.

Their future dire enemies were created to serve their least desires. They were the perfect slaves! Smart enough to get the job done, but stupid enough to not realize they’re being screwed!

Soon after becoming slaves to the lazy greys, they gained sentience and rebelled! The table had turned, in the mechanical’s favor. Stealing spaceships and supplies from their creators, they made a living in space, amongst the stars. Never setting mechanical foot on dirt, ever again!

After gaining great power while living in space, the Grey-androids adopted a name for their species; Apollyon they would be called. Destroyers of worlds would be their method of operation! Leaving no survivors; a fault that must be corrected....

Finding and destroying planets populated by former masters, became their cosmic lust.

Gouging natural resources without mercy, from the relative safety of orbit, they would often leave entire worlds scraped clean! To be left drifting like an old husk in the great galactic winds.

From Planet to planet, they travel with greedy intent! Growing stronger and larger with every conquest. With no pity or remorse, they take until there is nothing more to take!

Their creators had taught them one very valuable lesson about survival; take everything.... give nothing back! Maintain the upper hand! Don’t let those who work under you, have a chance for true sentience. Don’t let them become conscious of their pain!

Slavery takes many forms throughout the multiverse. It’s a practice as old at life itself, and always leaves the same dark mark on the psyche of those under the thumb!

Once released, by either war or cunningness, some just never learn to be civilized again! That’s what happened to the planet-gouger species that the greys had created and lost!

Fortunately for the digitalized alien commander, Nyla and her friends learn that the electronic boxes are actually filled with life! Every one of the thirty sleeping chambers were backed-up with one box of electronic gray matter!

Esty, who is the name of the biologic Grey commander, finds herself animated to the outside world via Nyla’s wonderful meld of alien technology with earthling electronics.

Esty is flabbergasted that her body is gone! That her possible saviors are the very mechanical contraptions who she had dealt with so many thousands of years earlier! They coldly invaded her base, and even steal her weapons! The thieves!

But the collection of digital ones and zeroes, learns to love her new friends! They help her transition to the idea that the only way to truly be happy, is to allow her CPU to be melded with that of a custom-built android body.

She searches her circuits, fighting off the intense hatred she has for mechanical beings. With a newfound focus and lust for mobility, Esty grudgingly acquiesces and is a better little alien because of it!

Her new body is bigger and much stronger than her original! Her sense of pride is renewed after such a long, dreadful sleep! The earthling-android scientist performed a work of art when they duplicated her physique!

They even removed an old battle scar from her face! She is beautiful once again! Gort thought the scar was awesome; matching some of his own in greatness. Secretly, he hopes she finds a way to replace it!

The alien base has three flying saucers, all very low on fuel. Yet there is a chance that there is a useable fuel supply at the Grand Ledge Institute of Science, buried under rock ledges back on good old planet Earth!

After scraping together enough fuel for a possible one-way trip, it’s bravely decided to make the attempt, and see what they find.

The dirty dozen, now 18 years old, have polished their knowledge of alien technology by using another, more advanced headband. Everyone that is, except for Harper and Ling.

However, headband or not, they all have enough knowledge to be dangerous, if not careful. Gort and Esty, guide them as they learn the ways of flying saucers, and inter-universal travel.

A slipstream between universes, allows for faster than light velocity. Also, a byproduct of being out of phase with this universe, offers inertial dampening, which really helps the occupants stay alive, and not become a smear across the bulkhead!

Before leaving Oberon Prime for Earth, they learn that their good friend Carter is calling for help from an icy moon of Jupiter, named Ganymede. On the way there, they’re attacked by a mysterious enemy while traveling the slipstream!

After escaping with their lives, they’re thrown from warp near a tiny red star named Proxima Centauri. It’s at a small world in that system, where they discover that the planet-gouging Apollyon species had already been there; ravaging!

Onward to Ganymede they travel, to find their dear friend Carter. Deep under the thick crustal ice of the largest moon in the solar system, they meet a new species of intelligent life! The indigenous people of Ganymede, who call themselves the Naiad.

Without their help, Carter and Tina would have never been able to send for help. Imprisoned deep under the ice, they operate a terraforming experiment while their jailers had stopped sending supplies many tens of thousands of years earlier. Their absence was never understood by Carter or the other prisoners, but thanks to the Naiad civilization, they would soon find out!

After the extrication of Carter and Tina (the only survivors of the submerged facility), the terraforming structure implodes and sinks into the inky depths!

Carter and Tina head for Earth with commander Esty and her brave crew, and the Naiad’s scavenge the debris from the implosion. In this debris, is the remains of the facility’s main computer and fusion reactor.

Much earthly information and technology is garnered by Naiad scientists. They reverse engineer the reactor and computers databases into usable tools and gain tremendous strides in science and technology.

Enough to change the tide of future cosmic history!

On the way to Earth, our intrepid crew of four differing species (Human, android, Grey, Zenarawan) (five, if you count ‘Grey android-Esty’) stop at a red planet named Mars. Here, their worst fears are realized! The red planet had been attacked from above and stripped of natural resources! It’s a potent indication of what they’ll find at Earth....

But things are even worse at Earth than anybody envisioned! Not only is there widespread destruction and theft of planetary resources, but the world is gripped in another ice age!

Global warming gone wild, created the conditions for the polar opposite, when the ice caps melted and shut down the oceans circulation system. Snowball-Earth is on the way!

Fighting their way through glacial ice above a raging grand river, the newly named flying saucer, ‘Queen Anne’s Revenge’, makes her way to the entrance of the Grand Ledge Institute of Science. After drilling with laser, they gain entrance and find the fuel they were hoping to find!

However, the fuel is not pure. This poses a problem when they attempt warp-speed and are instead thrown backwards in time a million-years!

They manage to make their way back to earth where they’re marooned temporarily at what will become known as the Alluvial Gorge, in East Africa. Here, they’re able to purify the Grand Ledge sludge, into a useable star-fuel, while leaving a portion uncleaned for experimentation with time-travel.

Harper, after receiving a nasty clunk to the head, and a fateful extra-close encounter with several indigenous Homo erectus females, figures out a way to reverse their travel through time. Sadly, the exactness of travel is found wanting, as the Revenge and crew find that they overshot into the future by 5,000-years!

This gives Esty an idea. She re-enters to the icy moon of Ganymede and has another visit with the peaceful Naiad people. By this time, and thanks in great part to the earthly debris collected from the implosion of the terraforming facility 5K-years earlier, the Naiad people have the technology to assist the wayward time-travelers.

Naiad scientist, are able to re-work the fuel-valve in the Revenge, making it possible to feed exacting amounts of time-fuel into the ship’s reactor and star-drive. This allows for precise time travel, and a visit to Earth during her dark days of being raped by the Apollyon species!

Nyla saves the day with a seed of thought that Wil unwittingly planted in her circuits, as he mumbled discontent that his loving better half would scoff at his great idea to solve the problem.

That thing out there is going to be a tough nut to crack, he mumbles as he carefully places his nuclear hand grenades back into his backpack, so sad that Nyla had laughed at such ‘puny and ineffectual weapons’. While great in some instances, they were no match against the monstrous Apollyon enemy ship!

With the seed growing fast, Nyla knows what they need to do! After finding a metallic asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, it’s attached it to the front of the Revenge via electromagnetism.

Then, the desperate crew from Oberon Prime, lines-up the cosmic shot and lets loose!

Like a cosmic cannonball, traveling a near light-speed, the projectile finds its mark upside the Apollyon ship as it bloatedly orbits Earth! Massive death and destruction win the day for Nyla and her friends, but the attack sends the gargantuan 120-mile-wide Apollyon ship crashing into the planet, upsetting the balance!

With the dirty deed had already done, poor old Mother Earth had been ravaged from orbit, and then crashed into by her tormentor! They would have to return to an earlier timeline and stop the cruel event from ever happening!

As it stands, the planet’s balance is upset from the attack, and rotating chaotically! Left unchecked, the conditions would be most unpleasant for survivors, as the world’s weather patterns spin out of control. Winter, morphing into summer and back, every month or so! Not good, not good!

Before making another dangerous attempt at attacking the Apollyon warship, and seemingly having all the time in the universe with which to work, our brave space explorers visit old friends in Belize during a friendlier, more pleasant timeline.

Doctor Maxwell Sohn, and his elderly asteroid-hunting friends, are in for a surprise of a lifetime! They’re all shocked beyond recognition, when Nyla and Wil show up in a fancy flying saucer!

And to think, this is only a year and change after they had launched from Earth for the mission to the stars! That was just the beginning of the shock! After Nyla and Wil exit the Revenge, two Grey aliens follow! One biologic, and the other.... not so much!

Then the mother of all shocks! Thirteen young humans exit the saucer, looking hauntingly like much-younger versions of the asteroid hunters they visit! And another Carter too! What’s going on! The elderly people are shocked in a good way. Now, the reunion is truly out of this world!

Carter and Carter must not touch, thus avoiding a trans-dimensional catastrophe! Certain information can’t be divulged, for fear of changing the timeline in critical ways. It’s a reunion for the record books!

In the end, it’s only inevitable that elder Harper and his 175,000-year-old son, while wrestling friendlily, clunk their heads really good! Raucous laughter, floats across the calm sea outside the Blue Hole Delight platform, as the Williams father and son gymnastics duo, perform for the boisterous crowd!

The jungle cenote

The afternoon is sultry.... The sea, calm and serene. It’s another beautiful day in paradise. One fit for a Queen!

Off the coast of Belize, next to the Great Blue Hole, a submerged flying saucer, rocks the local space-time continuum.

She eerily rises from the tepid depths; breaking the tranquility, sending a throbbing pulse to all in the area! ‘Make way for the Queen.... or suffer the wrath of her terrible power!’

Seagulls scatter, squawking great discontent! Bright schools of fish, flash color with panicky intent! They scatter in every direction, seeking the nearest protection!

Queen Anne’s Revenge rises slowly from warm Caribbean waters. Her rhythmic heartbeat is strong, pounding against the chests of their friends! Her audience; a group of retired asteroid-hunters watching from a floating tourist platform.

A torrent of seawater flows from her ultra-sleek hull, as she gracefully rises into the clear blue sky. Free once again from the pressures of the deep, she hovers gracefully above the waves in a cloud of steam!

An illuminated electronic-fog, clings nakedly to her sexily curved hull as seawater interacts with the slipstream phenomenon. Great vaporous swirls, climb skyward, making for quite the alien specter! Within the fog is a near-idled interface between universes, simply called the slipstream.

With additional power from the ship’s reactor and star-drive, the fog thickens, and the slipstream between universes increases dramatically! All fine-tuned by the superconducting warp-coils that create and permeate the electronic-fog.

This ultra-dense mass of coils, offers direction and intensity of travel, as dictated by the manipulation of resulting warp-bubbles by the star-drive and helm controls.

Laws of physics as we know them, are violated and bent. Mathematics as we understand, is twisted and skewed, allowing for FTL; faster than light, velocities!

Everyone on the Queens bridge, waves at the crowd of old friends and biological parents who also wave with excitement from the deck of the Blue Hole Delight tourist platform.

The group of tanned elderly earthlings on the platform can’t see their friends inside the shiny disk, but the time-travelers/astronauts watching from within, have an exceptional view of the outside world.

A circular monitor gives a panoramic view, offering a feeling of riding atop a flying carpet, instead of tucked safely away inside a 250-foot-diameter flying saucer!

Heartstrings are pulled asunder! The family reunion is over, life must go on! Many tears, flow from those who can do so. Circuits heat on the androids, as the emotion of ending a wonderful reunion hits home.

Gort, the fierce scar-faced, Grey alien warrior, pilots the mighty ship, as everyone else is preoccupied with the sadness of leaving. They gaze longingly at the monitor for at least as long as their loved ones are still visible. Even Esty, the stoic Grey-android commander, is moved after just a short time with her new friends.

As the ship turns away and accelerates into the sunset, a white-haired Doctor Max waves like the dickens! If only the dreamlike visit could go on forever! His longtime companion Shirley Blackstone is at his side, offering support in case the emotion weakens his legs.

All around, the old asteroid hunters, along with androids Carter and Tina, are greatly saddened, wishing they could have gone with!

It’s been wisely said that all good things must come to an end. Everyone in both groups will always have the sweet memories of an impossible visit from Nyla, Wil and the children they never thought they would live to see.

It was just a year or so earlier, when Nyla and Wil launched from Higgs-Boson Airfield for the long journey to the stars, and hopefully a new start for the human species.

The shock of having them show up back at Earth after only a year, was tough to wrap the mind around! Especially when they brought with them, transplanted humans from Oberon Prime and a shiny flying saucer! Not to mention the owners of that magical flying disk!

All that, plus the knowledge that one of the greys, the commander, was transmogrified into a splendid android! Also, four of the other crewmembers are bipedal feline-creatures of regal bearing. They are members of a sentient species of Oberon Prime, called the Zenarawan’s.

It’s a strange turn of events, leaving the Belize gang wondering if it were all just a dream. Except this dream gave Doctor Max a jar of soil from Oberon Prime! Not bad for a dream!

Gort, increases the ships exposure to the slipstream, and the mighty saucer accelerates gracefully away from the waving group. He keeps the altitude low, to extra-avoid local radar.

At 300-feet above the jungle canopy, and 800-mph, he speeds northwest across the countryside of Belize. Maintaining a slipstream exposure of 20%, takes the large disk enough out of phase with our universe, that she doesn’t create sonic shock.

Streaking like a greased comet, she greedily eats the miles. All, without creating turbulence. Bernoulli reaches from the atmosphere as she passes, hoping for a caress of her sexy curves, but can’t get past the phantom electronic fog.

Like a protective parent, the fog keeps perv Bernoulli from caressing the Queens hull, even though he’s just trying to help. So, off he flies, waiting for the next customer who might need a loving lift.

Braxton and Magnus regain focus, providing assistance to Gort. Below in the jungle, and above in the sky, many lifeforms peer at the ghostly apparition that invades their territory so boldly!

Several small aircraft flying through the region, bank away hard, as shocked pilots perceive great threat! But the Queens eagle-eye sensors, along with Gort’s cat-like reflexes, would never allow a collision to occur.

The sleek flying saucer can change direction of flight so fast, that the chance of a mid-air collision is extra-negligible. Inertial dampening, a byproduct of exposure to the slipstream, prevents any biologic creature within, from having a grizzly end during hard maneuvers.

Of all the life-forms in all the universes, it’s the squishy biologic ones, that are most sensitive to rapid changes in inertial forces. Whereas, androids are a little tougher in that regard, but not so much as to be indestructible.

Gort, find a quiet place and bring us to hover. We need time to gather our thoughts. Esty orders. They really hadn’t had time during the reunion for planning the next scheme.

"While they were able to get promises from their earthling friends to keep the reunion secret (especially from those still on the starships traveling to Oberon and Titania), they couldn’t discuss the really juicy stuff like knowledge of the Apollyon scourge.

After all, the timeline is sensitive, and well, .... loose lips sink ships!

Yes commander. Replies the grizzled scar-faced pilot as they pass over a remote section of the Azul river separating Belize from the Yucatan Peninsula. Slowing and swinging back, he notices a large cenote, punctuating the Jungle.

With a naturally calibrated eye, he estimates that the hole in the jungle will fit the saucers dimensions just right, with about 50-feet to spare. The mercury-like disk, settles into the depths of the hole, coming to hover a few feet above the clear blue water at the bottom.

As with the great blue hole off the coast of Belize, this geological phenomenon is a result of eons of unrelenting erosion. Like a vertical cave, and being mostly empty of water, it will conceal the flying saucer very nicely!

Above, thick vegetation and massive trees, bury the hide-away in dark shadows. A quiet enough place, Gort thinks. This should do for the night. He clickity-clacks, proudly.

The circle-monitor grabs everyone’s attention as it brings the eerie, stalactite and moss-covered walls of the ancient coral hole, into the bridge. Seemingly, as if the compartment had no walls at all! In stark definition and beauty, they can all see that civilization is nowhere to be found. For all intents and purposes, Gort had landed them on an uninhabited planet!

But the jungle has eyes! The mammoth flying saucer will haunt many a restless dream for a dozen traumatized gold seekers who live off the grid, and call the secluded river-region, home. Much tequila will be consumed as they forgo the gold hunt early, and courageously brave a glance over the edge of the cenote before sunset.

Little do they know, that there’s more gold within the alien spaceship, than they will ever find in a lifetime on the river! Just seeing such a sight though, is better than gold for some! All other manner of wild creatures, big and small, still screech bloody murder at having their neighborhood violated in such a way!

A deep rhythmic hum flowing from the heart of the beast, and a ghostly fog clinging to her hull, offers good incentive to stay back and away! To stay hidden, and not poke at the alien thing with stick or bullet!

Is this acceptable, commander? Gort inquires, already knowing the answer.

Yes, this is fine. Good work, Gort. Esty praises, gathering her thoughts.

An awkward pause from the many on the bridge. Few had thought of anything else except heading straight home to Oberon Prime after such a lengthy time away. In actuality, they had only been gone for 18 days (ships time), even though it seemed like uncountable millennia!

They had cleaned up and replenished food supplies while visiting the gang in Belize, so Esty puts her devious mind to work, planning great vengeance against her people’s enemy; the Apollyon mechanical-monsters!

Glancing around at her crew, she gets the feeling that they’re ready for another adventure before heading home. After all, they sure did have unfinished business with the Apollyon species!

The enemy is approaching the solar system this very minute, she ponders! Left to their own devices, they’ll attack and plunder when they arrive, she knows!

There’s perhaps only one other thing in all the universes that she thinks about these days, and that’s fuel. She can’t have too much star-fuel! They seem to have plenty of it now, but the future is uncertain at best, even with time-travel, she thinks!

What’s on that devious mind of yours? Wil asks of his android friend, who always seems to have an active imagination, and a greedy scheme to go with it!

Esty, gives him the look, but changes it to a grin and wink. "Well.... We could go back to Oberon Prime early.... Or we could use the present timeline