Solar Warden

Icarus Part 9

Three weeks later the training was done. Some more meetings happened and the Icarus was back from its exploration mission. Samuel and his team and some of the other SW teams were here on a window, showing the landing pad, to witness the approach of the ship.

The stars were good visible. However, it took quite some time to spot the ship coming out of the darkness. First it was the missing of more and more stars until finally it came into the range of the landing lights. The lights were on the side of the big area directed into the sky. The starship was huge. Even that Samuel knew the specs it was still impressive. A spaceship bigger then modern naval carriers with a length of over 350 meter and a beam of about 200 meter. The main part had a beam of about 90 meter. But there were left and right two wing like attachments where the hangars for the spaceplanes were integrated. The ship touched smoothly down like it would weight nothing. Then the hangar doors opened and also a gangway expanded from the base to the ship to make a connection for resupply and personal transfer. The starship now in its size was bigger than the tiny Moon base installation. Contrary the Moon base itself was a lot bigger then what could be spotted on the surface. But compared to the ship it could not match the height nor the size of the length.

While Samueland the others would be transferred to the ship in the next hours the leadersof each SW team had a final briefing with the general and the captain of theship. So Samuel and most of the others went to their locker to put the suitson. While Ryan went for the briefing room.