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    The Path: To The Stars, #5
    The Path: To The Stars, #5
    The Path: To The Stars, #5
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    The Path: To The Stars, #5

    By D.W. Patterson

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    The Path: A Novella

     

    Trilons were dying and no one knew why. The Rigan bureaucracy was at a loss. None of the scientists could discover the reason.

     

    It fell upon a Rigan researcher, a curious Trilon and their growing friendship to find the reason behind the deaths.

     

    And then a secret hidden for five hundred years was revealed.

     

    The Path is a novella set in the future (2490s) and is a story in the To The Stars Series which is set in the much larger Future Chron Universe.

     

    The Future Chron Universe consists of 9 novels, 1 short novel, 15 novellas, and 8 short stories.

     

    Hard Science Fiction - Old School.

    Human-Generated-Content.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD.W. Patterson
    Release dateMay 20, 2023
    ISBN9798223908197
    The Path: To The Stars, #5

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      The Path - D.W. Patterson

      To Sarah

      1

      Forty million laticks was a long way to go for a job, but Siones had signed up anyway.

      It isn’t too bad, he thought.

      The environment of this new world was similar enough to the homeworld of Riga that it allowed working without any bulky support system, just a heavy coat and re-breather was all that was needed when outdoors. And if you were lucky enough to work in the cab of a ground moving machine you could be quite comfortable.

      The only problem was the bosses. They wanted everything finished yesterday and scheduled you to work six diurnals on, one off. A difficult schedule for anyone to work and still get enough rest. Thankfully for Siones, the machine was automated and when using the satellites it could do most of the job without his input. But that made staying alert even harder.

      The machine was working the end of the clearing, preparing to turn - when Siones' head nodded. Almost immediately a cacophony of alarms sounded. Siones was drowsy and confused, he hesitated to halt the machine. That hesitation had consequences. He felt a bump.

      The machine stopped immediately once commanded by Siones. He grabbed his coat, put on his re-breather and exited the cab; a few more seconds and Siones was down the ladder. He saw the construction foreman running towards him.

      Siones looked at the front of the machine; no damage. One side, then the other - no damage. What could have caused the alarms?

      "Siones!" shouted the foreman from behind the enormous grading machine. Siones ran to the rear of the machine and saw the Trilon, sprawled and compacted into the soil.

      What happened? demanded the foreman. Didn’t you see him?

      I didn’t, said Siones. He must have come out of the brush here at the end of the clearing. How could he not see something as big as the grading machine?

      I don’t know, said the foreman, but I do know that you have just delayed the project another day. We will have to wait for the scientists to investigate and they are never in a hurry when one of these Trilon is involved. If this continues..., said the foreman as he was walking away, we’ll never keep the project on schedule. There goes the bonus for sure! he yelled over his shoulder.

      2

      A lot can be lost over the centuries. Civilizations just aren't that good at remembering. And over a period of a thousand years, all can be lost.

      Jean Jackson was enough of a historian, history was one of her doctorates, not to trust much written about the past. Still, everything written about the lost expeditions intrigued her. The expeditions had been sent out to establish a base on the exoplanets of the Trila 4-685 system. Not to be confused with the closer Trila Draconis system where the rogue AIs had once setup.

      Two expeditions had been sent out almost one hundred years apart with the First Dark Ages intervening. One hundred carefully chosen colonists plus the crews of the two wormhole driven fusion ships disappeared, never to be heard of again and no one ever found a clue as to their outcomes.

      Jean hoped to be the first to unravel the mysteries. She had the appropriate background with degrees in History, Anthropology and Physics.

      Her space habitat, Muir 3, circled the solar analog star HD 147515 which was known locally as Scorpius Midloth or just Midloth. Midloth was forty-two light-years from Earth. Muir 3, a twin cylindrical design, was over fifty kilometers long and ten kilometers in diameter. Pairing cylinders with a rigid end scaffolding between and spinning in opposite directions had the advantage of shedding the moment of inertia and easing the station keeping effort.

      Jean had an office at Midloth University where she was a young tenured professor of thirty-five years. Unusually young for tenure but in return the university did get a professor that could teach in three departments.

      Jean knew a little about

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