Colonyship Stories

Content Warnings: Political conflict / negotiation tension, Disaster survival themes, References to loss during colonization, Medical/quarantine themes, Non-graphic violence / threat of violence, Environmental hazards and predation, (No sexual violence, no graphic gore.) After six hundred years in the dark between stars, the Varidian colony ship Saffron Ark reaches its promised world-only to find it already thriving with human cities, orbital stations, and millions of settlers who got there first. Captain Sareth Venn must keep twelve thousand sleeping colonists alive while confronting an impossible question: Who owns a world-those who claimed it first, or those who survived it first? As diplomacy collides with survival, the Varidians discover that humans didn't just arrive early... they endured a planet that refuses to be tamed-and they're willing to help their unexpected guests. But help has a price. And the "Green Promise" is about to demand one. 87. A colony ship arrives at its destination only to find it already inhabited by humans.

A young man finds out the truth of the true peril the colony ship is in.

In the year 2345, the colony ship Godspeed is already well into her mission to Proxima Centauri B, and then her sister ship the Promise is detected heading their way, adrift and seemingly abandoned. Hayden Eldridge must uncover the secrets of their sister ship and discover the meaning behind the Thirteenth Star.

What would it take for you to give up everything you know and cross 500 years worth of the blackness of space to settle on a new, uninhabited planet? The search of adventure? The promise of a better life? The promise of a hefty salary right now? Or the chance to reinvent yourself completely? Earth's first colony ship, the Neo Kosmo, is set to depart with 10,000 passengers and crew: ordinary people on an extraordinary journey. Along with facing the unique challenges of settling a new planet, everyone on board must fight against their own fears in order to make sense of their new lives. This anthology explores their stories: the challenges, decisions, victories, and failures that mark the beginning of their new lives.

Earth was destroyed over eight hundred years ago. Before the cataclysm, hundreds of colony ships were sent in every direction throughout the galaxy. Each carry thousands of people in stasis pods, enough to start a new civilization on a distant planet. Crews of three on each ship link their minds with the ship's computer and search for a home while the rest of the populace sleeps. Everything had been normal on SearchLight 25. Even though they had scanned dozens of planets over the last eight centuries, each one more disheartening than the last, it had at least been a relatively quiet journey. But now there's a new planet. A planet that could finally be the one. All the previous disappointments could be put behind them once and for all. They just need this last scan to come back positive...