"Sooo...where do we go next?" Samantha asked, enjoying her new body.
Sitting in his chair aboard the Impala, Jason stared blankly at the view screen. Vanessa and Samantha stood to his side's while Nano and Danny stood behind him, all silently staring at him. He knew their eyes were on him, awaiting his answer.
"Sialus Ring!" Jason finally said as he threw a finger up.
"Can you scan section 'Q4E1-47B'?" Pelik asked Danny as he caught on to the captain's answer.
Danny angled the ship in that direction and started scanning. The screen flashed to two sets of ice rings, one just inside the other, rotating in opposite directions. In the middle were seven small planets rotating equal distance to each other just inside the inner ring, around a larger planet directly in the middle. Jason stood up.
"Whatever this is, its slowly feeding me information about Farside. Its got me feeling as if I've been here before...like I can almost see exactly... where we need...to..." He trailed off.
He suddenly walked over to navigation and began manually scanning the area, taking over Danny's job. The center planet, almost resembling Earth, showed up on the view screen. The planet had a purplish aura twirling around it as if it blocked the entrance to a wormhole.
"That...is our destination." Jason said sternly as he pointed at the center planet.
"Anomalous!" The Peacekeepers all said at the same time.
"So what's with this one?" Danny asked.
"No one really knows. It was thought to be a rogue moon at first but it has never moved from this position. We tried to colonize it but it was too volatile to even land, let alone terraform it. Scanners couldn't penetrate the crust, which WAS barren by the way, so we just left it alone and marked it as an anomaly...hence the nickname. That was over three thousand of your Earth years ago. Between these rings, Crystallina, and a few other things, no one has really been in this sector since. Considered too dangerous. There's still a lot of unexplored territory in this sector." Kurie said.
They all stared at the screen as Danny activated the lightdrive. A bright blue flash, and the Impala was in stationary orbit above Anomalous.
"That's weird. Thought you said there was no organic life in Farside? Danny asked as he scanned the planet.
"There isn't, it least it wasn't until now. Like I said, there's still a lot of unexplored territory in this sector." Kurie answered.
"Well now there's plenty of it. None intelligent...I don't think, but definitely organic. Plant and animal life..." Danny said as he brought up the different life forms on a split screen.
"Is that a cat?" Vanessa asked as she peered at the screen.
"Yes, actually it is. Felis Catus, although it's the only thing here from Earth. Everything else is from different parts of the universe." Danny answered as he continued scanning. "...There is a subterranean cavern with an unusual reading located here."
He brought the view around to show a green highlighted area at the base of a small mountain range. Jason ordered the crew to move the ship to the area and prepare a landing party. Just as the ship arrived, the proximity alerts went off.
"Sir, gravity well...portside, five kilometers." The helsman announced.
"Back us off." The captain ordered.
The Impala moved away from the forming spacial rift. Just as more alerts went off.
"Sir, they're popping up all around!" The helsman announced a little more nervously.
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Pegasus (Farside Saga Book Two)
Science Fiction"Are we alone?" That question has finally been answered, but the answer was much more than they expected. Testing a new form of interstellar travel called a Stardrive, the NSA Impala was sent to explore Pre-alpha, a new solar system discovered along...
