![]() You’re pretty comfortable and satisfied with life. “How much of the planet do we actually see? There’s the crash site and what else? I don’t think anyone here knows,” he teased. “But, people who have gone there all say the same thing: It’s a dead planet.” “Helios is more alive than you think, right down to the soil.”Īnaella reclined in her seat with a grimace, cocking her head to one side, and scanning Minos from head to toe as he leaned in the doorway. He looked out passed the private study room to the empty library front desk. Minos held up his hands in surrender and slowly backed up toward the doorway with a pasted smile. ![]() “Stories about the first wreck on Helios.” What are you looking for?”Īnaella slipped her hand off her chest and exhaled sharply. You could have just knocked instead of creeping around.” Minos was standing behind her with a mischievous grin. It was from there that the first ships since Hermes passed through the Gemini Belt and landed on Minos.Īnaella popped up from her chair and let out a yelp. Waystation developed as an enclosed community until enough supply came to begin the trek forward. More unforgiving than even the most desolate Milky Way planet, the terraforming processes seemed hopeless until telescopes found a Goldilocks planet beyond Helios. Nearly a century after the crash, a ship landed in Waystation to build a colony. The public accepted the catastrophe as truth and voyages out to Helios were halted for half a century while aeronautic agencies shored up spacecraft designs and communication systems. The Hermes was ordered back to Earth but a rescue mission was not mounted. Photographs and audio were shoddy, attributed to magnetic interference. It was never clear how close to the crash site Hermes came. ![]() Transmissions to earth came from Hermes, which was positioned within the Belt and relaying messages to Earth on carrier probes. Reports from there detail a suspected asteroid storm that damaged critical ship systems. The USS Poseidon had spent nearly twenty years in space, trailed by the USS Hermes, before coming within 93 million miles of Helios. I’ll find it.”Īnaella poured over old volumes detailing the first voyage through the Gemini Belt nearly 500 years ago and subsequent crash on Helios to the first years on Minos. Let me know what you find out on your end.” “I’m meeting Felix to look at the metal we found. “If there are people living on Helios, then maybe it’s worth looking at how they got there,” Kane said. ![]()
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