New Enceladus - chapter 7 - Sex Stories

New Enceladus - chapter 7

... the thrusters!" As the rockets ignited, they incinerated Oskar and flung his charred remains into space. He was a true hero. He gave his life to save us all.

We had a ceremony to honor him and took a day off for people to recover from the loss. There would be some confusion caused by four of the first boys born on the planet all being named "Oskar", including my oldest son.

The incident inspired me to put more effort into my own work. I couldn't heroically save the mission, but I was determined to make sure we would have safe landing spots, near the resources we needed.

We orbited several of the planets for a few days each and sent scout drones to investigate. I double-checked our information, before sending my initial report to the Commander.

"Star Ptolemy-1 is a blue dwarf 39 light years from Earth, with ten planets, A through K.

A is a Mercury-like world, very close to the star. It rains molten antimony, lead, and arsenic. Its ocean is molten iron and nickel, with an atmosphere of mainly lead vapor. The surface temperature about 1,900 C.

B is Venus-like, with a temperature near 500 degrees, due to a runaway greenhouse effect.

C is rocky, with no water or atmosphere, and a temperature of 200 degrees.

The three planets in the habitable zone are D, E, and F.

E and F are both rocky and cold, like Norway or Alaska on Earth. Life on E or F would be possible, but difficult.

Ptolemy-1 D has been named New Enceladus, in honor of the colony that ...

... produced most of our fuel, and the hundreds of tons of Osmium used in our reactor shielding. The Ptolemy-1 D year is 4.5 earth days long. It has no moons and is tidally locked, so it does not rotate. It has no light / dark cycle. The North pole faces the star and is hot, 60 degrees C, with constant daylight. Planetary gravity is 0.6g, with an average surface temperature 3 degrees cooler than Earth. The Chemistry department has advised us the atmosphere is breathable, with more oxygen than Earth, but lower air pressure. It has a single shallow ocean on the North / light side, with salinity 1/10 of Earth's oceans. It’s not quite drinkable, but could easily be filtered.

There are many freshwater lakes and thick vegetation near equator, and a large number of rivers and streams carry rainwater to the ocean. There is a large mountain range with several volcanoes on a small continent in the north, which is very hot and dry.

The South pole is always dark and nearly as cold as Antarctica. It's a flat, frozen desert, getting less than ten centimeters of snow per Earth year. Most storms and precipitation occur near the equator.

The Chemistry department has noticed signs there may be intelligent life, but no radio signals have been detected. If there are intelligent lifeforms on the planet, their technology level could be anything from stone age to early industrial. We need more information about them, before finalizing our landing sites.

Ptolemy B and E can be seen with the naked ...