Red Rover(Raanana, February 15, 2019) “Red Rover, Red Rover,Send Opportunity over (to Mars)”Was perhaps its final ironical thoughtAs Opportunity's battery ran low,After Martian winds failed to blow offThe dust piled thick on its solar panelsFrom that last...
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Narrative Of Gordon Arthur Of Mars - Chapter 5: The Giddy Limit
Adventures on the H.M.S MinervaI started to run towards the only exit, my feet pounding against the metal sending out further ringing vibrations into the gloom. A swarming cloud of a thousand metallic red and yellow brass insects arose in front of me as I ran headlong into the buzzing...
Narrative Of Gordon Arthur Of Mars - Chapter 4: Silent Running
Finding other Humans alive on the ship...I came to the conclusion that the room must contain an Air Vent, after much searching I found it behind my bunk. I was able to wriggle my body inside, it was very tight and dark. Now that I had dealt with the Droid, I now just had to find a way out of my...
Narrative Of Gordon Arthur Of Mars - Chapter 3: The Room
A fight between a medical droid and a patient...“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.” Queen Victoria 1890. Tiredness overcame me and I drifted back towards the sullen inkiness of sleep. I knew then in my soul that something terrible had overcome the ship and its cre...
Narrative Of Gordon Arthur Of Mars - Chapter 2: The H.M.S Minerva
Two teenagers awake on a ship after an accident....The H.M.S Minerva Flashes of memory: hands pulling me from the wreckage. I dreamed of Queen Victoria floating in her cylinder of luminiferous ether, her black dress billowing slowly in the fluid. The fluid keeping her eternally alive. Her hands pressing a...
Narrative Of Gordon Arthur Of Mars: Long Live The Empire
The British Colony on Mars...Her majesty’s martian colony -- New Victoria in the crown colony of Hellas -- 1917 My name is Gordon Arthur. My father was a well known importer and purveyor of Tea at New Victoria, where I was born. My grandfather was a miner and among the first colonist...