Chapter 15: About Face

We received a distress signal via our ( Out-Of-Body ) OOB lookout subspace listener, Flosam. The distress call is from Hope Island. They request extraction. Rescue. I feel obligated to turn around and go get them. We are three months into our one year voyage to a different unkown star, we believe has a water world. During these three months, approximately four years have passed on Paradise, the planet that the Hope Island colony is established on.

Turning as tight as we can at this velocity will take us a week to reverse course, but it would take longer to decelerate to a near stop and re-accelerate on the reverse course.

We will rescue our colonists if they can survive another four years until we arrive. For us, it’s mere months.

This voyage and story isn’t over, not by a long shot. I do want to hear whats happening on Hope Island. We’ll let Brenda tell her story while we are enroute to them.

Hope you’re enjoying.

Yob