The Spacefaring Diary of an Isekai'd Earthling, Vol. 3

By Collins Lok

The protagonist woke up to find that he was in a light novel situation: transported to another world.
Except this other world is a highly advanced, spacefaring civilization.
He has finally arrived at the ultimate spacefarer goal of the Imperium: become a mothership owner.
On top of that, he has also discovered Earth, his home planet.
What will he decide to do? Go home? Don't go home?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Collins Lok
• Release date: Sep 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005971915

Collins Lok

I'm just a novice light novel author trying to figure out self-publishing.I write just about anything that's fiction. I mean anything. Why not? It's not nice to discriminate, right?

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

THE SPACEFARING DIARY OF AN ISEKAI’D EARTHLING, vol. 3

Copyright © 2022 by Collins Lok

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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of quotations in a book review.

First eBook edition September 2022.

Published by Collins Lok

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PROLOGUE

We finally found Earth, in a galaxy 12 million light years away from Lamiura.

Well, technically, we found the Arecibo message first.

It was a radio transmission a bunch of idiot astronomers beamed from Earth in 1974, trying to broadcast our existence to potentially advanced alien civilizations in outer space.

What? I do think they’re a bunch of idiots, okay?

I’m 100% with Stephen Hawking when he argued that if a sufficiently advanced alien civilization discovers and visits us, there is a high chance of it turning out like Columbus visiting the Native Americans.

It’s not going to end well. For us.

Not all advanced civilizations behave like the Imperium. The Empire has already confirmed that expansionist spacefaring civilizations do exist.

Honestly though, I’m actually kind of conflicted now.

Those 70s astronomers, they’re idiots, right?

But it is also thanks to those idiots that I myself, was able to locate Earth.

I can’t believe this actually worked.

With the Arecibo transmission, locating Earth was easy. We just had to set a search radius of 60 light years from the point of interception. 60 years, because 51 years, plus some buffer. The Solar system itself has been constantly moving all these years too, after all.

I dropped everything and focused completely on the images the telescope fed back, as it scanned the designated search zone, bit by bit.

As the telescope was scouring for the Solar system, I was super nervous.

I was freaking out, big time.

What if I suddenly wake up to find this was all but a dream?

And then, the telescope found a star system with 3 tiny electromagnetic sources at different points around its edges.

Immediately, the names of some famous space probes came to mind. Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons, huh?

Shit. This is actually happening, huh?

And then the telescope honed in on that star system, and quickly found a planet with rings.

Saturn…

And then… it honed in even more, and then…

There it was. The familiar green and blue ball that I regularly saw in pictures.

Earth.

Home.

CHAPTER 1

DAY 219 – 25.12.2025

Looking at today’s date, I believe a festive greeting is in order.

Merry Christmas!

Alright. Moving on.

No, not really. There really is something worth celebrating today. Something worthy enough to take precedence over the fact that we finally discovered my home planet the other day.

I mean, we found and tagged the planet already, and it’s not like she will disappear into thin air, all of a sudden.

The thing worth celebrating is that our mothership… correction, MY mothership, is finally ready for handover, today.

Yes! Finally!

And just in time too. Tomorrow will be the last working day of the year for the people here. If we don’t get our mothership before tomorrow, then it will be next year. Everything shuts down over the 5 transition days period, including the shipyards.

I have decided upon a name for the mothership.

Much like aristocrats having two-worded names versus civilians having one-worded names, I think a mothership deserves a two-worded name too, over a small ship.

Makes sense, right?

At least it makes sense to me, which is all that matters. They’re my ships, I can name them however I want.

I have thought of, and ousted immediately a bunch of two-worded names.

Names like Interstellar Fortress, Monte Cristo, Battlestar Mikasa, Galactic Unicorn…

It’s difficult. Of course, my admittedly terrible naming sense did not help either.

But I finally decided on a name I’m happy with.

The mothership shall be called… Regina Akari.

It’s an Italian plus Japanese name. Regina (Italian) = Queen, Akari (Japanese) = Bright.

Queen of Brightness.

When I decided on the words to use, I had another struggle with choosing either Regina Akari or Akari Regina. In the end, I went with Regina Akari, because it sounds nicer.

It does sound nicer right?

We are now on our way to the shipyard.

The next time I record a log would be inside Regina Akari.

DAY 222 – 28.12.2025

Yes, we’re inside Regina Akari.

Yes, I know, it’s been 3 days.

I’m sure you can understand that only an idiot would prioritize recording a new log entry for his diary over playing with, and getting familiarized with his new 2-million-ton mothership.

And I’m not an idiot, okay?

It’s just me and Victoria right now.