Key To The Artifact: An Agents Of The Emperor Science Fiction Short Story: Agents of The Emperor Science Fiction Stories

By Connor Whiteley

A Great Search. A Large Artifact. An Impossible Find.

Things get ugly quick in the far future.

Doctor Catherine Taylor stands on yellow, pink and purple sand. She searches for an Artifact. Catherine hears the approaching enemy.

The fate of a solar system rests on Catherine.

If you enjoy gripping, suspenseful scifi short stories. You'll love this one!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: CGD Publishing
• Release date: Feb 23, 2024
• ISBN: 9798223641247

Connor Whiteley

Hello, I'm Connor Whiteley, I am an 18-year-old who loves to write creatively, and I wrote my Brownsea trilogy when I was 14 years old after I went to Brownsea Island on a scout camp. At the camp, I started to think about how all the broken tiles and pottery got there and somehow a trilogy got created.Moreover, I love writing fantasy and sci-fi novels because you’re only limited by your imagination.In addition, I'm was an Explorer Scout and I love camping, sailing and other outdoor activities as well as cooking.Furthermore, I do quite a bit of charity work as well. For example: in early 2018 I was a part of a youth panel which was involved in creating a report with research to try and get government funding for organised youth groups and through this panel. I was invited to Prince Charles’ 70th birthday party and how some of us got in the royal photograph.Finally, I am going to university and I hope to get my doctorate in clinical psychology in a few years.

Book preview

KEY TO THE ARTIFACT

Bright crystal shards showered down upon the crisp hard desert ground with bright impressive streaks of yellow, pink and purple in the sand that made the world appear as alien as anything Doctor Catherine Taylor had ever seen. She might have been around for over 90,000 years because of her artificial genetics, medical advancements and rejuvenation treatments, but even this planet was a wonder to her.

Catherine stood perfectly still on a massive, almost endless, desert in the middle of nowhere as the little crystal shards showered down on her long blue trench coat and bounced off her velvety blond hair, when she had wanted to come to this planet to search for an artifact that had been releasing an energy signal, almost calling out to her, she hadn’t expected the world to look like this.

The field was completely flat with only the yellow, pink and purple grains of sand adding any texture, colour or something to see to the ground. There was no wind but somehow the grains of sand swirled, twirled and moved along the ground like there was a current that Catherine couldn’t feel.

Catherine was even more interested in why there was such a strong scent of dried apricots that seemed so out of place considering the nearest