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Approaching Regulas 5, we were somewhat stunned at the sight of the Planet's Atmosphere seemingly ablaze with intense Light and Colors. All around our ship the vivid shrouds of Plasma exploded through prismic flashes...
Once through the Cloud Tops and below the glaze of Lights, we prepared to land at the Brezlin Spaceport. We were anxious to land and egress. Since the Queval Jump Point, our journey to Regulas 5 still required a long , deep voyage...
The uniqueness found in each new distant Planet visited are the Colors and Hues of different Atmospheres and different skies. Atmospheres One represents our latest mission, an Archaeological/Science journey to an Ancient landsite...
Due to expected severe storm activity, Airborne transports were prohibited. Surface transports would have to suffice. During our trek to this prehistoric locale, the Skies above us were constantly in change. When the light of the Twin Suns...
On the Third night of our journey, the twilight skies darkened and we observed the incredible presence of what the inhabitants called 'Storms In Low Orbit'. The lower atmosphere seemed to shudder and quake as if the Sky would explode all around us...
After the frightening experience, the Skies cleared and we watched the Horizon speckled with Iridescent lights. The Winds stir up small jewel like stones and they flicker as the float back to the ground. Normally all over the landscape...
Atmospheres Three recalls our last leg of the journey to Freydea. As we entered the low Desert area, the heat and radiance of the Twin Suns became most apparent. The entire 5 thousand square miles of sand and rock have a tepidly dry presence...
Near the end of the journey to the excavation site, we traveled through a Hill laden Rain Forest region. It was an awesome beautiful landscape filled with vast Alien Wildlife and truly exotic plants and flowers...
When we arrived at our destination everyone was completely exhausted. I laid down to rest in one of the Shelter Tents and fell quickly to sleep. For some reason I began to Dream of Titan Station, near Saturn and the Titan Jump Point...
Still Dreaming, my mind was in conflict as I reflected on the experience of my Wife leaving to return to Earth. A familiar sadness overcame me and the dream drifted towards the shade of a Nightmare...
On the ridge we found an entrance to a Enormous and partially exposed underground cave. Inside were the remnants of a vast and very old modernistic Alien City. Encompassing almost the entire Cavern...
The reason of our mission lay a few hundred yards from the entrance. Holographic like Images and Wall engravings - not primitive by any means - were discovered there and seemed to suggest a long ago visit by these Cave dwellers to our Planet Earth...
) After a few days we began to realize that these inhabitants had not only traversed to our Solar System, but had done so very long ago. Both our Chrono-tests and the Rugulan's Science dating methods put their interactions with Earth...
This was clearly at one time a very advanced society, capable of Deep Space Travel and possibly of Colonization of other distant places. Earth was 40 Light Years away, yet it seemed they had voyaged there many, many times...
As our Starship drifted into this uncharted debris field, we blamed a navigational error and began a manual course correction. But there was no error, a SuperNova of a local Star had devastated the surrounding Galacitical domain.
Contact was made with the Benarh system. A dark, rarely visited,over-mined system of 7 planets tucked around Binary suns. We arranged for an emergency landing at a Space Port on Mudra Dakonn.
Almost the entire population lived underground in immense, partially open caves. In the large Rejev was the enormous towering Tree Of secrets.
Around the tree, rain fell from the opening in the rocks above. An eclipse of the planet's largest Moon brought with it an early twilight.
In order to arrange for parts and repair of our ship, we would need to travel underground to another Space Port far from our landing site. We traveled over a frozen underground sea filled with Shadow swimmers.
Nearing the Xomago Port complex, the airtrain began to slow down and soon we were above ground. We noticed several other Spacecraft had been forced down by the same events we had encountered.
The repairs and adjustments took about Nine Solar hours and with the help of our Antarian engineer friends we were flight worthy in a short time. Still the problem of navigation through the Magnetic disturbances produced by the Supernova remained.
Some planetary environments had been rendered hostile by the Supernova explosion. It was estimated that over Two-Hundred systems had been engulfed in this Magnetic Storm. Atmospheres on many worlds had become terminal.
As Terrans,our Human Nature makes us Creatures Of Habit. Survival is extinctive and expected, though the dangers were obvious and direct. Somehow a certain feeling of confidence, strength and faith remained with us all.
Lift off to Sub-Orbital was uneventful and precisely at time-set the Four Varium engines fired. In seventy seconds we were traveling 56,000 mlies per second. Through the static we listened for any sign of Intelligent Noise.
From sheer exhaustion I collapsed on my cabin's bed and fell into a deep sleep. Before long I began to dream I was on a Lost Planet and in the middle of a gossamer clearing stood The Tree Of Secrets.

