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“The Long Journey Across the Galaxy”

After hearing the hiss and click of the last hibernation tank as it pressurizes and seals in his shipmates, Harrison Daniels quietly lifts his lid and makes sure everyone is frozen in their pod…

In 31 years when they finally reach the asteroid belt they’ll wake up, but for now the coast is clear.  He has the room to himself.

As there’s no oxygen being pumped into this part of the ship (since everyone is meant to be in their tank, frozen for the journey), Harrison quickly grabs a spare oxygen mask and climbs up onto the round windowsill overlooking the galaxy.

He’s not sure why he snuck out of his tank, but as he watches the distant field of stars stream by as the mining ship rockets along at lightspeed, he’s glad he did.

His mind struggles to comprehend the enormous scope of the galaxy stretched out before him, and while he feels a deep connection to it all, it also leaves him feeling totally insignificant.  His problems, his worries… they couldn’t matter.

Thinking back, Harrison realizes he’s never actually been alone his entire life.  Family, spouses, friends… and in 31 years when they reach the belt, he’ll never have a moment to himself.  All he has is this, right now.

He tells himself that he has to do this again, somehow… for longer than just a few hours.  It’s nice.

But, he has responsibilities still, and everyone will notice if they arrive at the asteroid belt and he’s the only one who has aged the 31 years (not to mention, he has no food— the hibernation tank is meant to nourish him as as they travel).

Taking one last long look out the window, Harrison gets back into his tank, and goes to sleep.

Originally Posted 10/10/2012

(A very special thanks to Kyle Harter for giffing this for me!)

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“Finally, a Reason”

For all of her 19 long, arduous years on this Earth, Madison Bancroft has hoped that she projected an aura of mystery… a cynical world weariness well earned over a lifetime of hardship and struggle.

Unfortunately, she has grown up in the suburbs, to a happily married upper-middle-class couple who always tell her she can be anything she wants and that they love her, and simply has had too pedestrian and easy of a life to pull off the moodiness she strives for.  Blast it all!

So as she watches the alien attackers fly in over the purple hills from the view of her childhood home’s spacious wrap-around deck, all Madison can do is smile… FINALLY, this is her chance to have something actually bad happen.  FINALLY, there is a reason.

Unfortunately again for young, striving-to-be-dark Madison, the rest of the world is going through the same alien invasion, so once more her experiences are pedestrian and not resulting in the “seen it all, been through worse” demeanor she hopes for.

Ugh!!

Originally Posted 9/12/2012

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“The Long Journey Across the Galaxy”

After hearing the hiss and click of the last hibernation tank as it pressurizes and seals in his shipmates, Harrison Daniels quietly lifts his lid and makes sure everyone is frozen in their pod…

In 31 years when they finally reach the asteroid belt they’ll wake up, but for now the coast is clear.  He has the room to himself.

As there’s no oxygen being pumped into this part of the ship (since everyone is meant to be in their tank, frozen for the journey), Harrison quickly grabs a spare oxygen mask and climbs up onto the round windowsill overlooking the galaxy.

He’s not sure why he snuck out of his tank, but as he watches the distant field of stars stream by as the mining ship rockets along at lightspeed, he’s glad he did.

His mind struggles to comprehend the enormous scope of the galaxy stretched out before him, and while he feels a deep connection to it all, it also leaves him feeling totally insignificant.  His problems, his worries… they couldn’t matter.

Thinking back, Harrison realizes he’s never actually been alone his entire life.  Family, spouses, friends… and in 31 years when they reach the belt, he’ll never have a moment to himself.  All he has is this, right now.

He tells himself that he has to do this again, somehow… for longer than just a few hours.  It’s nice.

But, he has responsibilities still, and everyone will notice if they arrive at the asteroid belt and he’s the only one who has aged the 31 years (not to mention, he has no food— the hibernation tank is meant to nourish him as as they travel).

Taking one last long look out the window, Harrison gets back into his tank, and goes to sleep.

Posted 10/10/2012

(A very special thanks to Kyle Harter for giffing this for me!)

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“Finally, a Reason”

For all of her 19 long, arduous years on this Earth, Madison Bancroft has hoped that she projected an aura of mystery… a cynical world weariness well earned over a lifetime of hardship and struggle.

Unfortunately, she has grown up in the suburbs, to a happily married upper-middle-class couple who always tell her she can be anything she wants and that they love her, and simply has had too pedestrian and easy of a life to pull off the moodiness she strives for.  Blast it all!

So as she watches the alien attackers fly in over the purple hills from the view of her childhood home’s spacious wrap-around deck, all Madison can do is smile… FINALLY, this is her chance to have something actually bad happen.  FINALLY, there is a reason.

Unfortunately again for young, striving-to-be-dark Madison, the rest of the world is going through the same alien invasion, so once more her experiences are pedestrian and not resulting in the “seen it all, been through worse” demeanor she hopes for.

Ugh!!

Posted 9/12/2012

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“Falling Through a Gas Giant”

His spacecraft having clipped itself upon Jupiter’s dim rings (which led to a series of cursing due to the fact that he always forgot that Jupiter HAD rings), Leon Morrow finds himself sucked into the gas giant’s powerful magnetosphere.

While Jupiter is MANY times the size of Earth, it is nearly entirely comprised of hydrogen and helium, so as Leon passed through the ammonia cloud cover and struck the ‘surface’ of the planet, he simply kept going.

The swirling sea of gasses engulf him as he falls deeper and deeper through the body of the enormous gas giant…

As the days pass, Leon can feel the atmosphere become thicker, almost like a dense ocean of squishy liquid gas, and his descent has subsequently slowed down somewhat.  His protective spacesuit has somehow managed to withstand the extreme gravitational pressures for now, but the star-like heat and unfathomable radiation readings are taking their toll on his frail human body.

Since no one is sure if Jupiter even HAS a core for Leon to hit and finally die, Leon theorizes he will just keep going and going, circling the layers of the planet as he falls, until he finally succumbs to the radiation poisoning.

As he wakes up sometime during the third week, his face melting and sickness coating the inside of his helmet, his infoscreen beeps out a happy reminder jingle that today is his birthday.

Posted April 3rd, 2012

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“It’s Still a Pretty Thing”

Young Henry Stanley gazes out the giant picture window and watches the landscape of the Earth below slowly rotate past as Henry’s homeship orbits along with it…

He tries to imagine what life would have been like down there; having been raised on one of the several city-sized ships that now house humanity, he has never actually set foot on ‘real’ ground. 

The idea of walking on a planet is quite foreign to him, actually, and while he’s seen movies of it actually seeming commonplace, it’s still hard to wrap his mind around it.  It almost seems primitive.

After a planet-wide salting of the Earth by the Robots during the final stages of the 3rd to last nuclear war (with the last nuclear war being one nuclear war too many), the planet ultimately died and what was left of humanity had to take shelter in enormous spaceships that orbited the Earth, safely out of range of the massive radiation that had seeped into the Earth’s core.

Staring down below, though, Henry thinks to himself— even though the Earth’s atmosphere is poison, the land toxic, and its not capable of supporting life for many millions of years longer… the Earth is still a pretty thing. 

From far enough away.

Posted 2/18/2012

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