Andromeda and beyond

Survival

Now, we were in interstellar space. Away from the influence of the sun, where nobody could find us. Luckily, the auxiliary engine automatically start to work. But our GPS was damaged beyond repair. We looked through all the shelves in the storage area to find something that can guide us. That's when we found a star chart that could hopefully guide us back home. But there was a problem- we never mapped the solar system in it! What were we to do now? We decided to abort the mission and continue exploring the universe for a living. From 150000 light years away, we broadcasted our last message towards Earth- the message said: "Our spaceship has been severely damaged by a gamma ray burst while approaching Sagittarius A. We have lost most of our sensory equipment, including our GPS. This message, though it may take 150,000 light years to reach a human, is our only hope. We hereby abort our mission, and head out into the depths of this omniverse like the Voyager space probes. We will represent mankind and announce our existence to a thousand different worlds. "

We carried on with our course. After escaping the gamma ray burst with terrible consequences, we could only move at 800,000 times the speed of light at max. We tried again. We initialised, started the engines, and reset our systems. We crossed our fingers. It was tense.

Nothing happened.

We didn't know what to do. The spaceship was only moving at the speed of light. At this rate, it will take us more than 2,5 million years to reach Andromeda- the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way. So we gave up, and surrendered to fate. We headed into our sleeping pods and fell asleep, depressed and ashamed of our mistake. I blamed myself for not noticing Sagittarius A earlier, and called myself a fool. At midnight, I woke up. I started to walk around the cockpit, feeling sore and fed up. I walked around and kicked the wall in anger. That's when I learned that I should not lose hope too soon. Another loud bang woke everyone up. When we looked out through the window, our auxiliary engine was back to working at full capacity. We were once again moving at 800k times the speed of light. We clapped and cheered. We planned our exit from the Milky Way and to the Andromeda Galaxy. In a few minutes, complete darkness. The only things that were visible was the lights of the spaceship. We were in a void. We were moving, but where were we going? Nobody knew. I couldn't tell either. We decided to trust hope and let it go. A few hours later, bright particles of dust were seen outside our ship. Where were we? We observed closely and found out that we had made it to Andromeda! My father Alcubierre, I hope he is watching me. I hope he can see the extraordinary work that he has done. Soon, we encountered a binary star. A red giant, and a blue giant- dancing around each other like Ballerinas. Due to the Doppler effect, we watched as they turned from Magenta into blood red. That's when we identified an exoplanet in the new galaxy. Obviously our spaceship was not made to land on it- but we did have a few tools for ourselves. We anchored the ship to the ground of the planet by our new sky anchor technology, and it was official- 10 humans officially set foot into another planet- millions and millions of light years away. We looked down at the murky surface. It was grey and completely obscured by clouds. was this a good idea? Were we safe? I hoped so. When we made our entry with a parachute, and all covered up by our durable spacesuits, we landed over a planet that had a very soft surface- one like quicksand. It was so dark that we could see absolutely nothing. A blinding flash appeared right in front out of our eyes, like a mountain exploding. We quickly realised that we had landed in a volcanically active planet! We look all around us, as bright flashes from erupting volcanoes surround us completely. We had no clue what to do. Soon enough, the dust from the volcanoes obsecured our view, and became so thick that they started gathering together in clouds. Suddenly, there we lightning bolts all over. We realised then that we had made a terrible terrible mistake- we were standing right over a super volcano! After making this discovery, we ran with all of our energy, searching for the space anchor. The bright flashes of lightning that hit the ground made us tremble, and blinded our vision. Suddenly, a big explosion sends us flying. We look down, and see a 150 mile wide supervolcano erupt, as we flew through the skies like a projectile. This marked the ending of three of us. Vice Admiral Luvox was sadly devoured by the supervolcano. The 7 of us grabbed onto the anchor as it dangled down from the sky, and climbed back into our spaceship. We set the power to full and zoomed away from the volcanic planet- and we called this planet "Alcubierre 102a" and left its vicinity for good. Now in Andromeda, and after becoming victims to a volcanic planet, we had it.