Dawn of Hope- Exodus by Dobrin Kostadinov

Author:Dobrin Kostadinov [Kostadinov, Dobrin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter six

Life as One Whole

While we were travelling to that remote and mythic-like place something familiar suddenly popped up out of the blue. Strong light ripped apart the cosmic darkness. It was Iris 1 –the first human-invented machine that had reached such a distant point in the infinite interstellar space. A few decades ago just the mere idea of that ever happening would have seemed like a joke in the eyes of our greatest scientific brains, but it was now a reality. When the ship arrived, it kept some distance from the planet, then its secondary engines directed the course smoothly towards the target. At first, the cosmic body looked like a blue spot, much like the Earth, but the closer the seven brave hearts got to it, the more they realized that it was gigantic new world that they were yet to explore.

‘Slow down,‘ Hiroshi said. They reduced the speed so they could take a look at the cosmic body and run their first analyses.

‘Estimate the solar radiation levels and be on the watch for cosmic rain,’ Roman instructed. They did not detect any dangerous levels. But something else caught the attention of everyone on board–the exquisite beauty that Menoetius and its two massive moons greeted them with. One of them resembled the rocky color of the Earth’s moon and the other one, sprinkled with active volcanoes, was being torn apart by the activity in its womb. All of this was illuminated by a gigantic red sun that looked way too big and threatening even at that distance. The other interesting phenomenon was the second, more distant pale light that came from the white dwarf and flickered in the dark, overshadowing the light of the moon. The distance between Menoetius and the dwarf was approximately equal to that between the Earth and Jupiter. It was not too far way, yet it made its existence conspicuous. Even though they could see it from far away, it gave them the odd impression of being a third moon that shone with “cold” light. That was what made the night so much lighter than the one we had on our home planet.

Leaving aside all those picture-framing elements, the true superstar was still Menoetius itself. Even the background that unfurled behind the titanic planet and the beautiful objects that revolved around the main sun, it could not make the crew take their eyes off of its surface. Experiencing that profoundly enrapturing moment was what the Russian discoverer had waited for all his life. A moment of well-deserved pride and thrill. Right now he was standing before the recently discovered infinite world which was sinister in a way. What were they going to find there, what natural laws were our dear explorers going to come upon? The answer was going to rise before their eyes.

‘Liu, keep us in orbit around the planet. Mila, turn on the receiving equipment and start scanning the surface.’ Ivanov’s voice cut short the instant of enchantment that the beauty of the cosmic body brought.

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