FTL: A SpaceX Story
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Last published Wed, Apr 25, 2018
In the near future, the ISS receives a strange docking request from an unknown spacecraft. Meanwhile, SpaceX, has been celebrating the successful test flight of the new BFR. In light of a series of strange events, Elon Musk's plans for Mars colonization and terraforming are likely to be completely permutated.
Partly inspired by the soundtracks of Interstellar (2014), which are linked in some chapters to set the atmosphere (pun intended).
*This short series is not an affiliate of SpaceX or Elon Musk. Any events depicted in this story is purely fictional and not intended to represent or portray similar events, persons and their beliefs. Any similarities of implicit circumstances are coincidental.
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