The Search for Cleo (The Last Time Traveler Book 4) by Aaron J. Ethridge

Author:Aaron J. Ethridge
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: sci-fi
Published: 2018-01-04T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9: The Christening

“Fortunately,” Robert said as he was pacing off the rough length of his soon-to-be new spaceship-time-machine, “Vox and I managed to pack a whole lot of power in the car. On top of which, we have plenty of room to work in here. That being the case, we should be able to build a ship large enough to keep our up-and-coming suffering to a minimum.”

“What suffering is that?” Morgan asked, following along behind his captain.

“We're going to be flying through the void of space for three weeks before we reach our first stop,” the traveler explained. “After that, it will probably be a few more weeks before we can reach another habitable planet – depending on how fast we can get our new engines to go.”

“New engines?”

“The engines we're going to pick up, Morgan,” Robert replied, shaking his head. “The very reason we're heading for the shipwreck in the first place.”

“You never said that's what we were after,” the young man pointed out.

“You should have been able to work it out for yourself,” Robert asserted, turning around to look back toward the mouth of the cave. “That should be just about long enough I think.”

“How long is it?” Morgan asked with a grin.

“Fifty-five feet,” his companion replied, ignoring the sarcasm.

“Wow! That is impressive!”

“Shut up, Morgan,” Robert demanded, once again shaking his head. “We're going to make it roughly fifty-five feet long, sixteen feet wide, and twenty-four feet high.”

“It's going to be taller than it is wide?” Morgan asked. “Won't that look funny?”

“I don't think so,” the traveler replied, rubbing his chin. “Not that it really matters, one way or the other. The point is that it's going to have three eight-foot-high decks. That will give us the square footage we need, not only to survive, but to not be driven completely insane by cabin fever.”

“What are these three decks going to be used for?”

“The top deck,” Robert explained, “is going to be used for storage and farming.”

“Farming?”

“Yes, farming,” the traveler nodded. “Space travel is extremely dangerous, Morgan. We weren't designed to survive in the void. Normally, this isn't an issue because we're flying around in a huge ship practically overflowing with all the essentials – not to mention the luxuries – of life. That's not going to be the case when we leave Thundera. If anything were to go wrong with the engines, for instance, we might find ourselves in a truly dire situation. We're not going to be able to just hop back to Never Never Land if we end up in trouble. The last thing I want us having to face is starvation.”

“I get that,” Morgan nodded. “What I don't get is how we're going to farm in space.”

“I'll show you when we get closer to that part of it,” Robert assured him. “The middle deck is going to house the bridge, the saloon (where we can fill the empty hours relaxing together), our bedrooms, and a workroom. The lower deck is going to be

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