The Space Academy: A Bobby Blinx Adventure (The Blinx Adventures Book 2) by John Sylvain

Author:John Sylvain [Sylvain, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781939803054
Publisher: Tinderbox Books
Published: 2016-12-15T13:00:00+00:00

“Diaz, I’m turning in. You have the conn.” Captain Singh said with a stifled yawn as he made his way to the door that separated the bridge from the rest of the ship.

“Yessir, I have the conn. Have a good sleep, Captain.” First Officer Diaz looked over the view screens and control monitors as she settled back into her chair. She had just arrived on the bridge from a nap in her own cabin so she took a moment to assess their progress.

The Surprise was traveling on a course where the ship could make a Blinx Jump without interference from the gravity fields of Venus and Mars. Space pilots called this a Perplane course. Perplane was short for “perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic.” The ecliptic was the plane in which all the planets orbited the sun. By traveling away at right angles from where the planets were, The Surprise could more quickly get to a spot where a Blinx Jump was possible. It was a case, not unusual in intrasystem space travel, where the shortest distance between two points was not a straight line because it was nearly always more efficient to make a Blinx Jump than to travel the distances between the planets in real space.

Of course, there were risks in making a Blinx Jump. When you traveled to somewhere faster than light could travel, you literally couldn’t see where you were going. For instance, 10 months ago, when Hannah had been the second on The Socrates, they had jumped from a point above the orbit of Earth to a similar point near the orbit of Neptune when the two planets were nearly 3 billion miles apart. It took light over four hours to travel that distance. When they arrived at their destination, space that had appeared empty when they jumped was no longer so.

That had been the beginning of a terrible time.

The green haze came.

Hannah shook her head slightly and the green haze faded away.

Hannah knew she had to keep from remembering what happened that day. It was important not to behave strangely. To behave as she normally would and not to call attention to herself.

So far that had worked out well. Her instructions were clear. She was to go about her life as she normally would, except she was to never eat chocolate or drink alcohol and she was to try to excel at everything.

As a result she was in the best shape of her life, even better than after she first joined the Space Navy. She had quickly risen to Lieutenant and she would soon have her own ship.

That made part of her happy.

The part that was still really Hannah.

The part that sometimes screamed silently to be free.

But the part that was in control was indifferent to the success her newfound single-minded drive had given her. The part that was in control was waiting.

Waiting for instructions.

Or waiting for certain situations.

Now she was on a ship with Admiral Skarr. That meant there was something she was supposed to do at the earliest opportunity.

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