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    Galactic Express: Stargazer
    Galactic Express: Stargazer
    Galactic Express: Stargazer
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    Galactic Express: Stargazer

    By Marsell Morris

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    With the discovery of wormholes, the age of deep space exploration and tourism has arrived. The Stargazer, a super space-liner, visits many interesting points of interest, some dangerous, such as a giant black hole in the center of the Galaxy.

    However, behind the actions of two nefarious actors, the Stargazer is set upon a course of destruction, and with time running out, it is not clear the ship can be saved.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarsell Morris
    Release dateMay 27, 2020
    ISBN9780463830994
    Galactic Express: Stargazer
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    Marsell Morris

    Marsell was born in Detroit Michigan in the year of... well, a good while ago. After graduating from Cass Technical High School, Marsell went to work for the Chrysler Corporation as a conveyor loader. Shortly after beginning his employment with Chrysler, he married, and fathered three children. Thirty-one years later, and after having gained the position of production supervisor, he retired at fifty.After retiring, he began playing golf everyday and all day. Having lowered his handicap to near scratch, and winning a tournament at even par, and behind a debilitating injury, he was unable to continue playing. He had a lot of free time on his hands, whereupon, he took up writing as a hobby and time killer and discovered he had talent for spinning a yarn.After pounding out eleven urban fictions, covering everything from drug use, prostitution, gang crime, murder, and romance/erotica, and having always been a science fiction fan from his teenage years, he thought he’d try his hand at writing a Sci-Fi tail, which culminated in his first work “Alien Plot - First Contact” now retitled "Alien Offensive - Nanobot Storm" and its four sequels, and which, at one time before he ran into problems with its publisher, was considered good fodder for production as a movie, not because he is such a great writer, but because of its unique, previously unexplored, plot.He still lives in Detroit, and being a compulsive writer, he spends most of his time wearing out his fourth keyboard replacement, while pursuing what he loves doing — writing more tails with unique story lines.

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      Book preview

      Galactic Express - Marsell Morris

      Galactic Express:

      Stargazer

      A book from the quick read series

      By

      Marsell Morris

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form

      without written permission from the author.

      For more information, write to:

      marsellmorris@aol.com

      Distributed by:

      Smashwords.com

      ISBN: 9780463830994

      The characters and dialogue contained here-in are products of the author’s imagination, and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to an actual person, living or dead, or establishment, existing, or defunct, is entirely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Chapter 1

      The year — 2223

      The place — A healed and prosperous planet Earth.

      The situation — It is a time after the third and, hopefully, final world War of 2117 — a limited nuclear war between the United States and North Korea, after North Korea, while led by a mentally ill dictator, launched an invasion of South Korea. That attack began with a small, tactical, nuclear attack, on Seoul, killing millions. The United States responded by turning North Korea into a green glass parking lot. The collective governments of Earth declared enough is enough, and while realizing that if it had been a nation such as China, or Russia, who had launched an attack on the United States, the world, as it existed, would be devastated with human extinction a grave possibility.

      Beginning in the year of 2119, they, the collective governments of Earth, put together a World wide, deliberative, counsel, assembled to map a strategy though which lasting peace can be attained and maintained,

      Over a five year period, the two hundred member counsel, beginning by ditching the old school edict of military solutions to disagreements, produced a series of measures designed to correct the underlying causes of conflict, and by doing so, forever, end the possibility of another war of any size.

      The World Wide Deliberative Counsel, WWDC, began with the global elimination of, and banning of, any weapons of mass destruction. Local governments could maintain a military if they wish, but that army can not possess any weapon that could kill more than one individual at a time, reverting warfare, nearly, back to the stone ages. And, as a further guarantee against a nation building a possible conquering army, iron clad restrictions on the size of any army were proposed and agreed upon. Never, again, would any nation have a powerful army which could tempt them to aggression upon a neighboring nation.

      Next, came the focus on the elements of general discontents. Beginning with the stamping out of exclusion, assuring justice for everyone no matter their location or creed, anywhere in the world.

      The third component of the proposals brought to the forefront, and what everyone agreed was a cancer on society, that being gender and race inequality. No peoples would be looked down upon, or for that matter, elevated above, any other race, gender, or creed.

      They went on to eliminate wealth inequalities. While realizing a motivation to gain wealth must remain, once an individual, or company, or nation, reached a certain level of prosperity, all riches above that level would be divided up and shared by less prosperous nations, assuring the promotion of economic fairness, and the elimination of complaints of economic disparity. Of course the rich would remain rich, but the disparity between the rich and poor was greatly diminished.

      It was decided a world wide effort would be directed toward eliminating the causes of climate change.

      Another ban on the promotion, facilitating, or harboring of terrorism was declared. Any nation, or people, assisting any form of terrorism, will be sequestered from the participation in the global economy, while at the same time, travel too or from that region will be highly restricted. This restriction, also, included the manufacture or disbursement of harmful drugs. They decided that any person considered to be a drug lord will be arrested and put to death — no exceptions.

      To assure general confidence in any local government, all governmental officials must be elected to office and will serve limited terms in office. Dictatorships will not be allowed, and a world wide system of eliminating any official who violates the tenants of office, is proposed and accepted.

      And, finally, a world wide health system was proposed, assuring everyone, no matter where they lived, will be able to avail themselves of health care. And at the same time, a global assembly of scientist would focus on cures for cancer and other debilitating, deadly, diseases. A global food sharing was proposed, assuring no nation would ever again suffer the demoralizing, and humiliating devastation of hunger.

      And, almost as an afterthought, while not considering it no more than an aspiration, a global space exploration organization was proposed.

      After the proposals of the WWDC were made public, all nations, particularly, those run by dictators, resisted some recommendations. However, with the greater majority of governments agreeing the proposals would assure global prosperity as well as prevent another nuclear war, those dissenting nations had no choice but to relent. The threat of being isolated from world economics, also, added a bit of incentive to join in on the commitments.

      Now, with less money being spent on trivial wars, and armies, greater economic resources were redirected toward space exploration. In twenty years, the Moon was colonized, and regular trips to the satellite proved very popular. In another thirty years, a small colony is established on Mars to assist with the terraforming of the sister planet. Even though, those colonies were constantly growing, the scientist knew it would take another thousand years for the terraforming of Mars’s atmosphere to be oxygenated enough to be breathable, so in the interim, a temporary, long distance, space explorations base was established on the red planet to facilitate trips there to view, New Mars, as the base was later dubbed, and tours from there into deep space.

      With the greater interest in space travel, scientist were working on a faster mode of deep space exploration, and after learning the intricacies of Dark Matter, and Dark Energy, both, predominate forces throughout the universe, and by combining certain qualities of each, came up with a new mode of long distant, deep space, travel, and dubbed it a, Dark Matter Slipstream.

      During slipstream travel, unlike traditional, linear, space travel, in which a spaceship traveled from point to point, the Dark Matter Slipstream, kind of bent space, but not entirely, like a wormhole would, resulting in a shortened trip, but not as efficiently as a wormhole would.

      Because Dark Matter, Slipstreams, although, faster than advanced, traditional, space travel, only shortened adventures, a faster mode of travel was desperately needed, and vigorously researched by scientist.

      While accidentally creating short lived, small, wormholes, and while refining the intricacies of the Dark Matter, Slipstream, the scientist knew wormholes were the answer to instant space travel. And, although, scientist could create a wormhole entrance on demand, they couldn’t control where the exit would manifest. A ship could enter a wormhole, and come out anywhere in the universe instead of a specific destination. Despite the lack of fully understanding wormholes, and finding ways to control them, which seemed impossible, research on them only increased.

      It took another hundred years, and the loss of many courageous astronaut’s, lives, before wormholes were, finally, mastered, and a trip across the galaxy would take no longer than stepping through a door into another room.

      With the people of Earth truly excited by humankind’s forays into deep space and documentaries of those adventures in great demand, one enterprising company, over a ten year period, presented a new space travel company offering limited trips to Jupiter, and on to the other gas giant planets such as Saturn, which proved to be the most popular, and the not so popular, Uranus, for those that could afford the trips. That new company, called, The Solar Express, found they couldn’t keep up with demand. And with the refinement of wormhole technology advancing in leaps and bounds, those short trips in the solar system became trips to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. It didn’t take long to change the name of the enterprising company to, The Galactic Express.

      Now, with intergalactic space travel possible, while onboard a luxury Superliner, space adventures to various points of interest in the galaxy became in more demand, particularly, to those who could afford them. And to follow the world’s counsel’s mandate that individuals of lesser wealth be accommodated, a raffle is held during which a hundred people of the world’s general population are selected, regardless of wealth, to join the weekly adventures.

      Chapter 2

      Jack Marston, the

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