The Starship Avenger Guardian

By William T Underwood, Jr

The chronicles of David, his family, and the last surviving remnants of humanity after the dragon wars decimated the human race. Their story begins on the planet Titan located on the other side of the galaxy from earth, which was wiped out during the great war. The fate of the other colonists that escaped earth is unknown. While intelligent, the reptilian dragons were barbaric predators: they saw other races as a source of food or something to be exterminated.
Our story begins on Titan, teenage David and his friends are growing up to an uncertain future as the environmental conditions worsen. The last few years the planets weather has been plagued with horrific dust storms, capable of stripping flesh in minutes. The 5000 colonists lived on Pegasus, the ship they arrived in. Maintaining a shield that kept them safe from the sudden storms. Life was becoming hard as resources; especially water, were depleted and the storms grew worse; it seemed like Titan was dying.
The death of David's father in a giant dust tornado and his eighteenth birthday is the catalyst that sets in motion the events that lead to him, and his friends leaving Titan in search of a new home and hope for humanity's future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: William T Underwood, Jr
• Release date: Jul 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005113148

William T Underwood, Jr

I'm cajun, grew up in Louisiana fishing and hunting for a living. God called me at an early age but it was a long and colorful journey before I heeded that call on my life, this is my story.

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THE STAR SHIP AVENGER GUARDIAN

Part 1. Screenplay

Introductory

This is the story of the Battleship Avenger, the largest and most powerful battleship to ever be built and the grandson that captains the Guardian class battleship. Fifteen hundred years into the future, a large spaceship rests on the planet Titan on the other side of the galaxy. Earth was destroyed, or so they thought. I am Samuel, son of Susan. I saw most of these things in my 227 years.

The earth people developed hydrogen steel and artificial gravity in 2022. Hydrogen steel is thin as tin foil, but is flexible and strong as 2-inch-thick carbon steel. The ship’s hull was of two-inch-thick hydrogen steel and could withstand a 40-megaton atomic bomb. This new metal was made from liquid hydrogen. It could not stop high radiation but a meteor would disintegrate on impact without any damage.

The ships could form gravity wells in front of the ships, a hundred times greater than earth’s gravity. They could also use this gravity drive to form three different types of wormholes. This new found knowledge brought about a thousand years of peace and prosperity.

The war was started by a reptilian race known as the Dragons; they were a race of hunter pirates of space. They considered the other races a delicacy and their captives were always eaten. This war raged furiously across the galaxy. Earth was persuaded to align with the Arconians. Life in the Milky Way Galaxy was nearly wiped out by this war.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: David in Space

Chapter 2: The Great Escape

Chapter 3: The Galactic War

Chapter 4: Finding the Lost Ships

Chapter 5: The Old Base

Chapter 6: The Pirates

Chapter 7: Return to Titan

Chapter 8: Moon Base Omega

Main players

Grandfather Maximilian Wilson, David Wilson Senior, wife Mary, David Wilson Jr. as Captain, Rebecca, Susan, Dr. Paul, Engineer Dick Johnson, Roger, Blade, Sheriff Stark, Captain Eric of the Pegasus, Grandfather’s flag ship the Avenger, David’s ship Galileo, Defender, Samson, Atlas, White Star. The Nautilus was lost under the sea on Earth. The ship Journey went to Andromeda with Jason as Captain of the old Dragon ship

The Dragons are a reptilian warrior race who thought of themselves as hunters. The Arconians or grays are descended from a frog-like reptilian race. The Arcadians are blond haired, blue-eyed people that live to 500 years. They are psychic and very attractive. They are hybrids created by the Arconians using human DNA. These four, including the earth people, are the only intelligent life in the galaxy.

Chapter 1 David in Space

This story starts when David was a ten-year-old on the planet Titan. He lived in a spaceship called Pegasus, which was a huge star liner that held five thousand people. The people felt marooned; the Great War had killed everyone they knew. The planet Titan was a nice place at first and had two great oases in a large desert. One oasis had both lakes and nice trees with berries and herbs. Where the Pegasus landed it was big, a hundred square miles. The first year it was nice; then it happened. A two-mile-wide iron meteor was zipping by the planet and a smaller meteor about two hundred yards across hit the large meteor with great force. This changed the trajectory of the meteor, sending it on a collision course with Titan moving at 150,000 miles an hour; it was a planet killer. The Avenger was on the other side of the planet and it was late at night in the settlement. Lucky for them, the meteor would hit Titan’s moon, blowing it to bits. For 3 years there were meteor showers from the moon fragments. The planet Titan would now have great storms as the planet slowly died. That is, it died slowly at first, bringing on a period of terrible storms.

They had sent out patrol ships to search the galaxy and found no signs of life. The Pegasus had a shield around it two miles in diameter. Inside the shield was an old battle cruiser where the kids often played. The shields were necessary because Titan’s weather was unstable and fearsome storms often came suddenly.

David’s grandfather Maximilian Wilson passed away from radiation poisoning during the war when David was twelve years old. He loved to set with him and listen to his stories for Hours. David’s father really had his hands full, because David and his friends were always getting into mischief, and it seemed the more dangerous it was, the more it attracted David and his little girlfriend Rebecca. Their gang consisted of Roger, Susan, Blade, Paul and Dick. They enjoyed dangerous adventures like sneaking outside the shield or even transporting up to an old derelict space station.

Sheriff Stark knew the young teens and would like to see them locked up. Stark was a very dangerous man. Anyone who threatened him might disappear. Stark was the third most powerful man on the ship. The top man being the captain who lived in the top half deck, with his girlfriend and 50 androids; some were security and some butlers. Captain Eric was rich with a hoard of food and weapons. Number two was the Constable or Judge; he had a protocol droid and 6 servant androids. He enforced the laws that were