Adam Mayer Browne
ALIEN REFUGEES CLAIM TO BE OUR DISTANT COUSINS!
It is the late 23rd Century. The Sol system is united under a fragile peace. The planet Earth and her local colonies hold fast to their aspirations and dreams, while vast corporations control the commerce and a clandestine group called Space Forces protects the peace.
The recent discovery of an inhabited planet nearby leads the Space Forces to plan an expedition, but renegade humans threaten to stop it. When an alien refugee ship called the Caylaen enters the system, promising a possible end to the conflict, the renegades attempt to sabotage the peace talks.
Three years after the Caylaen encounter, the noble Captain Thomas Casens and the crew of the starship Endeavor, attempt a mission to the alien planet again. Among the crew are the excitable Commander Jason McKee, the analytical Lieutenant Commander Michael Slaton, the computer genius Owen Cervantes, valiant husband and wife Donald and Arlene Benton, and the gentle Doctor Mai Tan Mirson.
When the Caylaen reappears, its crew brings warning of a new threat that could unleash the fury of an alien fleet upon the Sol system and the Earth.
With a clash of alien forces imminent, Casens and the Cohnirri captain Percaak must make a startling choice if the human race is to survive. One man must stay behind and fend off the attackers, while the other chases the rebels who have fled toward the mysterious new planet!
About the Author
Adam Mayer Browne grew up the youngest of five, in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California. His previous published work was his Grandmother’s novel, Blessings Deferred, completed after her passing and wherein he was an editor and ghostwriter in 2005. He also wrote for the Spartan Daily, the highly rated campus newspaper at San Jose State, for a year, and Access campus magazine for another. He is currently finishing up his degree in Journalism there and took an internship at the Metro city newspaper.
He went to high school at Pine Hill, a school for children with learning difficulties. He was born with mild cerebral palsy and Aspergers syndrome, a very mild form of Autism. He went on to the university level.
He earned a BA degree in English in 1998, and a BS in Journalism, pending in 2008, from San Jose State University. He wrote spec scripts for the series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (with Jonathan Yeager), and Star Trek Voyager, both of which were rejected. However, he was encouraged by their responses, and kept trying. He has written scores of original novels and stories, of which this is his first publishable one. He has trained in Jung SuWon Martial Arts, a form of Tae Kwon Do, and has obtained a black belt. His hobbies are watching science fiction reruns and reading scores of books. He will be working on the sequel to this book soon.
April 3, 2275
Alpha Centauri trinary star group—Atreyil system:
The modern age, which came to be called the Cohnirri epoch, was winding down, as it was a cycle of events foretold in the vast libraries of the Consciousness.
On one of the planets near the cosmological center of the alliance, events started that would change everything they knew, and test the histories of the ancients to the very foundations of the Cohnirri and their once captured stellar neighbors.
Three stars burned bright in a solar system about 4.5 light years from Sol, and even though the inhabitants knew humans called their stars the Alpha Centauri trinary star system, the natives didn’t call it that. Three stars orbited each other, whereas the close binary kept a shorter orbit while the third star had a much wider orbit.
The inhabitants of planets in the Atreyil system were in a turbulent relationship with their cousins living on a planet circling the star, Seyvarti. These stars were the central binary pair. The third star, Tentarthi, was in a long period orbit and one planet there supported a colony. The two races were primary members of a vast local group of planets called the Cohnirri Alliance. Tentarthi, the smaller and cooler distant third star, had a colony planet of the two races but no indigenous sentient life forms.
The ruddy orange glow from the distant star cast a red tint across the spacecraft. It had been found in a storehouse asteroid in orbit of a planet in the system. The Litgraa knew that their cousins, the Dargraii, were responsible for obtaining the artifact the humans had launched centuries ago. The Dargraii took it from the nearby solar system nearby 20 years earlier, or else it would have continued to drift in another direction away from them.
Dargraii impulsiveness recently drove some of their scientists to send the humans a signal in several of their chief dialects, but then Litgraa scientists tried to intercept the transmission before it corrupted the rules of their world about not interfering with lesser primitive cultures. However, they were too late to prevent the information sent in the signal from being decoded and interpreted by humanity.
The clean alien lab was underground in a space hollowed out of the rock, with layers of decaying history on top. The city was built under the city that had been abandoned long ago. In sharp contrast to the outside, a desolate wasteland, the lab was pleasant and a thin odor from the filtered air similar to mint, an Earth plant.
Gynatt was a nimble and thin creature of medium height for a male of the Litgraa, the natives of planet Temmjaa. He was born on the Earth date of 2231, so he was 44-years-old. His large elongated head cocked at the sight of the strange relic. He had seen such craft before, having been to numerous worlds, but this one was particularly interesting. Nimble fingers played across the large control bus, and around the dish that was used to transmit over radio frequencies back to the home planet. The etchings and carvings on the probe seemed quaint to him, as most bipeds with similar early space projects he heard about, had sent similar robot probes. However the particular probe, found by a passing Dargraii ship while skirting the Sol system, was clearly fascinating to the Litgraa also.
