Chapter 6 | Lookin' straight into his eye

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Kristen can feel the eyes and interests of so many companies now.

Maylander, the Union Government, Raythean...

She wonders if investments will start flowing her way as the Satellite began to successfully place itself higher and higher.

Maybe she can go forward with Pioneer Project that Rhine Labs has been working on for so long?

The engineers and scientists in the room were dumbstruck with awe, each of them letting this historical moment finally be recorded on tape. The 2 moons of Terra glimmered, some cameras turning to face the massive sun that was giving them life.

That gave them life for as long as they knew her, yet for how much of it were they not able to properly experience thanks to the Fake Sky which had persisted above the skies of Terra for so long.

Now they can properly see the big flaming mother that was the sun.

All the sensors, instruments, and cameras on the things came alive, followed by communications instruments that Rhine Labs hopes that they can use gain some money from companies who want to try and spread across the globe.

But that'll have to be negotiated.

The scientific community was losing their minds as they started to get readings, pictures, and a view into a sky that no longer shifted and changed every day.

Instead, what they got was a beautiful opera of stars, decorated with cloudy like formations, and celestial bodies NEAR Terra that shimmered like beautiful ornaments.

Each photo was priceless, that data drive where all of it was going was becoming the most valuable artifact in the scientific community.

Kristen smiled as she goes and sees more screens, the cameras focus on the sun, other instruments going to work and gathering more and more data.

Of course, the reporters had questions and they had tons more to follow, something Kirsten was not liking as they got more and more persistant.

She can't deny that what she is seeing is further justification for that project and she was already hearing the Union Government coming knocking on her door and demanding that she takes some more investments...

Oh that would be lovely, she thought, getting more money to continue my journey...

A scientist scanned the camera around and she was struck awe by how clear the photos were coming through. "Wow..." she muttered, as she snapped some photos of the moons, ready to study the hell out of them later.

Control felt more pride swell as the scanners and sensors started to bring in data on what the Fake Sky is.

It will take time to decipher it, but they will eventually figure out what this mysterious structure that surrounds their world is.

More footage started to come, and the reporters were starting to get asked to leave.

Kristen watched as the engineers unleashed a small drone that began to propel itself away from the satellite, heading to the left of the sun.

The heat and the radiation began to bounce off the drone, the instruments on the thing going wild.

The Satellite tried to keep a connection with it, for it was on a very long wire that should hopefully last for a bit.

Kirsten went away for a moment, going to find a phone as the reporters were getting louder and louder.

She goes to a silent corner of the control center and began to ring the government, a smile on her features as she wanted to hear what the senators on the other side had to say.

As she did that, the drone began to peak around the sun, the cameras zooming in on anything they could see.

"Hmmm?" an engineer noticed something, seeing faint glimmers in the distance. He turned on his infrared and began to zoom in.

As Kirsten continued to talk with the government, the control room got more excited, as the Engineer began to show that there was another planet out there, and it had plenty of water.

They were able to spot it to the left of the sun.

More discoveries to get people more excited about the Pioneer project.

The reporters and press began to leave, satisfied. Companies are likely to start calling Rhine Labs to see if they can use the communications suite on the thing to start beaming their advertisements and their broadcasts to areas across Terra.

Once the news gets out of course.

As Kristen hung up the phone, she turned and noticed a team that was noticeably silent.

The people that was handing the communications suite that was on the satellite.

"Is something wrong?" she worked up to ask, heading over to the group. Heading to the lead engineer who had his headset on and was seemingly listening to something.

"It's..." he sets it down, "Nothing." He gets up and starts leaving.

Kirsten had no idea why he was acting like that, but she shrugged, smiling at everybody, turning on the announcement system, "Congratulations everybody," she starts, with a broad smile, "We have made history."

And that is when the control room went up in cheers.

Though they celebrated that day, Kirsten was always confused as to why the communications team was a little... off...








As they walked away, the headset was still plugged in.

And it was still receiving...








"...3rd base, it's good! There goes the Runner!"

"...bring the Enterprise back over to the Belt..."

"...this is Silicon Cargo, we just received our shipment..."

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