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New Enceladus - chapter 7
Date: 5/16/2024, Categories: Science-Fiction , Male/Female Males / Females, Romance Author: Limnophile, Source: sexstories.com
... eye on occasion from the dark side of D. Every 11 days, C is close enough to D to be visible for hours, and nearly as bright as the star for several minutes. It warms D by 2 to 4 degrees for a short time. The close approaches may also cause seismic activity due to tidal forces. Ptolemy G is an ice world, with a deep ocean under a thick ice crust. H and J are gas giants, and K is Pluto-like, a relatively small frozen rock." I listed the ten best landing sites on D, or New Enceladus, and again mentioned they may change when we discovered new information. Since lander two was destroyed, we would only need 3 locations. I finished my busy month by staring at Erica's beauty through the window of her tube a moment. We were nearly to our new home and wouldn’t be using cold-sleep anymore. She’d come out of hibernation the next morning, and we’d enjoy our first full day together. I could hardly wait! - August 2271 Ptolemy-1 D High Orbit Mission Commander Rito Mori I read and studied the pre-landing reports from all the department heads. The most frightening thing in the reports was surprisingly from Geology: "There is evidence that sixty to eighty thousand Earth years ago, snow and ice had piled up many kilometers thick near the South pole, until the mass was heavy enough to crack the planetary crust. The resulting super volcano created a cloud of ash and dust in the atmosphere that blocked out light from the star, and caused a two Earth-year long ice ...
... age, wiping out a large number of species. This may happen again, probably several million Earth years in the future." The most immediate danger seemed to be the natives: "The native intelligent species are amphibian in nature, somewhat similar to large frogs on Earth, but the adults have eight legs. They start as eggs laid in shallow fresh water, then tadpoles. We have chosen to call them "Tads", due to this resemblance. Next they grow to two-legged tadpole-like creatures weighing around half a kilogram, continuing to live and grow exclusively in the water. Their next life stage has a long tadpole-like tail, two large rear legs for jumping, and two front legs with three claws on each front foot, used for grabbing prey in the shallows and muddy shore near the water. When Tads reach about ten kilos, they grow a third set of short appendages near the head, having three fingers with five knuckle joints each. These are capable of fine manipulation, nearly as dexterous as human hands. At this stage, they live almost exclusively on land, and have approximately the intelligence level of some monkey species on Earth. The fourth and adult stages are both omnivorous, and consume large amounts of plant material in addition to hunting or ranching food animals. The adults do not provide any care or protection for the young. They join the society when their fourth pair of appendages are fully grown, and they become adults. Their adult stage is reached at about five Earth years and ...