Orbit Book 1: Sol

Orbit Book 1: Sol

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Nova Rosalind is 19. Described frequently as "a girl with dark eyes and long, curly, white hair," she studies geography at a college in Alaska in the year 2215. She has an interesting past, one which included joy and pain. When she was young, she loved astronomy, until her love turned on her and the space she once adored took her parents from her. Through the pain of her loss, she changed her interest to geography. When Nova was 15, she would always go with her long time friend, Ariel, to a Nasa headquarters building, where Ariel's dad worked. However, upon a few times visiting Nasa, Nova notices that the company's next project, the Orbit, is without a person to go on the mission. She begs to join the mission, with the idea that she might somehow be able to find her long lost parents during the trip, no matter how much she dislikes space. After Nova begs for the position, Ariel's dad signs her up for the task of taking the Orbit around the local star cluster to take samples from the local exoplanets that surround the 7 stars she plans to visit. In her delight, Nova finds herself booked for the next rocket to Proxima Centauri. After four years of after class training, Nova at age 19 is ready to take the trip of a lifetime at half the speed of light, on a round trip through the local cluster, landing on and taking samples of various exoplanets belonging to these stars when she can. Her adventure brings amazing discoveries and groups of planets we did not know much about.
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