by Liza O'Connor
The Captain is Wrong
The students
have rejected the captain’s planned location to land and are suggesting a
better place.
Instead of
landing in the dried lake bed where the Huygens probe landed, the students
insisted the North Pole is where the ship should land. They pointed out, that the most important
issue will be their need for methane. That will enable them to create fuel,
water and oxygen. They know there is methane in the lake on the north pole. The
other lakes they are not certain about.
However,
there were no lakes where Huygens probe landed. So that would be a very stupid
place to land.
Arrival: Titan
By
Liza O’Connor
Blurb
Captain Drake has his own agenda, and it
doesn’t include Colonel Lancaster, or the students being alive for much longer.
Fortunately, the scientists and students are a formidable group to go against.
The attempted takeover is stopped with only one death.
When Scarlett lands the ship on the
north pole near the methane lake, they discover several sentient life forms.
They also learn that the moon, Pan, is actually a ship called the Death Star,
mining minerals in the outer rings of Saturn. Even more shocking—Jupiter is not
a planet, but a disguised ‘eye in the sky’ watching over the mining interests
of a superior sentient planet.
Excerpt
The excited voices of twenty-eight scientists of all
ages came over the com-system.
“Quiet, please,” Lancaster ordered. Total
silence responded. Lancaster raised his right eyebrow at Drake. “The Captain is
putting us into a slow descent towards Titan. Does anyone have any advice that
might assist matters?”
“You’re just trying to cause a riot!” Drake hissed.
“What was the force of the burst to send us toward
Titan?” Ben asked.
Lancaster rolled his hand to get Drake to reply.
“Two point seven seconds at low boost,” Drake
snapped and glared at Lancaster.
“Perfect,” Ben replied. “Are we going to drift
down?”
“That will be optimal, but we’ll have to clear the
haze first.”
“Actually, you don’t,” Ben said. “We can start our
drift as soon as we pass the upper-stratosphere. We won’t be able to see, but
given our entry location, assuming we wish to land on the North Pole where most
of the methane lakes exist, we could start our glide at once. That will get us
over the ridges without re-engaging power.”
Drake frowned. “How old are you?”
“Don’t answer that,” Lancaster ordered. “His age
does not matter. Do you take issue with his advice?”
“No. If we are going to land on the north pole, this
would be the appropriate action. But would you rather not land where the probe
did. That land was very flat.”
Ben spoke up at once. “Beg your pardon sir, but if
you recall, based on the pictures, there were hills and the winds played havoc
upon the probe.”
“But more importantly, we need to land very close to
a methane lake, so we have the ability to create fuel, water, and oxygen at
once. What we brought with us won’t last long. I know the gravity is only
one-fourteenth of Earth’s, but that could still consume more fuel than we have
if later we need to move for some reason. Landing on the north pole is our best
bet to survive.”
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About the Author
Liza O’Connor lives in Denville, NJ
with her dog Jess. They hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet
or snow. Having an adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ,
hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive
with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky
dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid
gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts.
Yet through her entire life, her first love has and always will be writing
novels.
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