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A group of people in modern space suits, had an unassuming conversation while awaiting decontamination.
"Damn, I'm ecstatic, staying in that space station that is more than a thousand two hundred and seven light years from Earth. And we are still in the orbit of a totally unknown planet, what these guys in the government have in mind to send us here! "Said a man with a large, robust build, his skin was dark and he wore dreads.
"And there we go again, you haven't stopped talking since we woke up. We all knew very well, where they were going to send us, so stop complaining and start adapting. "Said a woman who appeared to be the leader of the group. She had short black hair around her shoulder, she had a face that exuded absolute seriousness.
When the chamber where they were finished decontamination, they passed through a highly resistant iron door that led to another chamber, where oxygen was already in circulation. All five of the space station's new crew members took off their suits and began to wear sturdy clothing made of black and blue sticky material.
All five were directed to a conference room, where the entire original crew of five hundred people awaited them.
The five crew members went up on a kind of stage where they were visible to everyone in the room. After a few seconds a man with pale skin and piercing black eyes climbed onto the platform and began to give an introductory speech. The man who appeared to be no more than fifty years old, in fact exuded very strong pressure as if he had lived for centuries.
'He must be very important. No one but the bigwigs on Earth has the merits to do an age extension process' thought Jimmy. In the year 3000 the earth gave a boom in technological advances and this greatly accelerated the process of terraforming Mars. But not everything is flowers, the colonists on Mars began to have a patriotic feeling for the 'red' planet and this led to a war between Mars and Earth. After two years of an exhaustive war, the leaders of the two planets decided to sign a truce. And then the war took the same direction as the old cold war, and the two leaders focused much of their attention on terraforming other planets and thus increasing their power.
And that takes us to the Abellarde space station that currently orbits the planet Kepler-22b.
"Well thank you all for being here and forgive me for taking your precious time," said the old man. "My name is Christopher Becker, and I'm in charge of the Abellarde space station. The leaders of the Terrestrial Confederation judged me to be the most prepared for a space mission of this level and this size, the Terrestrial Confederation invested trillions of dollars for this expedition and the failure is not acceptable and any mistake, whether small or medium, will cause severe punishment. Today our last and most important new crew members arrived. Said Captain Becker, pointing to Jimmy and four others.
"I will make a brief presentation and everyone will resume their posts, as time is literally money. First Major Kristen Becker, she specializes in space warfare strategies and will help me run the station. According to Sara Ripley, she is an extrabiologist personally appointed by Professor Vern, she will lead the Life Identification team. Third, Officer Jimmy Burn, who will be appointed as the station's head of security. Now everyone is back to their posts, the date of the first expedition will be released in a few days. "Captain Becker finished saying.
When everyone in the room left, a black-haired woman arrived and stood by Captain Becker's.
"Officer Burn, this is Lisa Hampton, she will be your assistant," said Captain Becker before leaving with Kristen and the others.
"Hi, pleasure, I'm not going to say my name because you certainly already know," said Jimmy to ease the awkward mood between them.
"Hello, officer, I hope you are kind to me. "Said lisa making Jimmy's mind travel. Although Jimmy is not very young, he is also not very old, but he has devoted much of his life to becoming increasingly competent in the field of research, and this has led him to sacrifice much of his social life. So he had no experience with women. "This way, boss. "Said lisa, starting to walk through a series of corridors, until she reached a large room.
In the room there were many projection tables, the central one with a projection of the entire station. Jimmy noticed several dots of different colors in each position of the season. Some were moving through corridors and others were simply standing still. But that alone was impressive and expensive.
"This… looks like paradise! "Said Jimmy with eyes shining. "It would be theoretically almost impossible for someone to try something against the season !. "
"You are right in one thing, boss, that it is almost impossible for anyone to try to sabotage our station. But we don't have to keep only human beings in mind as possible harmmakers. "Said Lisa, unable to hide the contempt in her voice. Jimmy noticed but shrugged. "We are not only in an unknown space for more than a thousand light years from home, but we are also orbiting a totally unknown planet that can house beings that surpass us humans, both in intelligence and in technology" finished Lisa.
'Wow, it looks like I'm the subordinate here !. It seems that I have to put some people in their place !. Thought Jimmy
"Okay, you're right, but I'm only here to oversee your work from time to time. My skills will only be shown for real if there is a need for some investigation "said Jimmy