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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
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Part 2 “LEVEL 3 ALERT! LEVEL 3 ALERT! INCOMING UNIDENTIFIED VESSELS!” Dr. Steve Waxer was suddenly shocked out of a deep slumber by his ship’s alert system. A very LOUD alert system.
“What the hell…” Steve muttered, as he fumbled in the low light for his glasses.
Steve needed the alert system to be very loud in his quarters, for he was a very deep sleeper.
“Uggggghhhh…. I don’t remember scheduling any alert system drills. We must be less than one day away from Earth, how could there be any unidentified craft out here?!?”
Steve dressed quickly, and made his way over to the communications console to contact Dr. Adrian Walcott and Dr. Robert Sar at their respective ships. The level 3 alert represents the lowest possible threat level to a starship. Usually meteor showers, small asteroid clusters, and strange unknown phenomena would set off this alert. However, something didn’t seem right. Unidentified spacecraft this close to the Sol star system was virtually unheard of! Any unknown alien race would usually make contact via Earth’s most outlying colonies, if for no other reason than sheer convenience! If this was merely a system malfunction, a quick call to the other two ships would be the most efficient way of determining so. After all, if the other ships had no alerts, his alert system would obviously be at fault! |
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
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Part 1
Earth has recently completed construction of a massive fleet of spacecraft – starships. This fleet of starships was primarily for defense of Earth and its colonies, and so had little capability for exploration - limited speed and range. In the hopes of rectifying this problem, three scientists decided to work together and develop a new means of starship propulsion. These scientists are Steve Waxer, Adrian Walcott, and Robert Sar. After many years of research, the three scientists develop a prototype for an ion powered propulsion system – the ion drive. This system allows an unheard of energy efficiency which yields the capability for long range space exploration, while providing speeds of travel previously thought impossible. Three special starships are built to allow further testing and development of the new ion drive, each with three pre-production models of the latter. The ships are named IPV Waxer, IPV Walcott, and IPV Sar, after the scientists. (IPV is an acronym for Interplanetary Vessel) The scientists are given command of the ships to continue their research and testing. Dr. Waxer also expands his research to include weapons systems, and outfits all three ships with his new weapon prototypes. |
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