Episode I
The Launch
The ship is gargantuan, and a menacing grey in colour . Inside, it is nearly all coloured. It has to cater for five hundred men and women and thirty children. Experts say it is the invention of all time.
With only ten minutes to take off, Commander Burns, and his hand picked crew of five specialists to help on the bridge of the ship, are having their vidipictures taken. These pictures which have animation, sound and are to be shown on 3d viewers around the world, last for about ten or fifteen seconds. The specialists were picked by Commander Burns himself. Ensign Green, the controller of Star ship Arlond. Chief -Engineer Smilie, a man with more degrees in mechanics than the number of planets. Dr. Attwood, the ships doctor and scientist. Chief officer Robertson, controller of the ships tactical systems. Finally, Captain Hall, the Commanders' second.
From the space dock control room, a spaceport controller gave a signal to the captain to board the ship. The crew, with a sense of pride, boarded the ship.
"Ten, nine...", the computer started. Everyone bracing themselves for takeoff. "...Three, two, one" Suddenly, a huge explosion from the engines, and liftoff !. At a slow, majestic speed, the leviathan of space, made it's way out of the atmosphere, leaving scorched tarmac, and winds that would swirl for hours to come around the space dock.
Everyone got up from their seats in their rooms, and looked out of their viewing ports. The sight of the blackness of space and the shrinking brilliance and fragility of the Earth was breathtaking, stealing everyone's hearts. "Right, to your quarters crew, we have long days ahead of us", said Burns. Everyone returned, considering what would happen next.
"Ensign, hyper drive" he said "Yes sir" replied Green. Then with a flick of a switch, the ship went into hyper drive. The drive was a piece of technological mastery. It would send people five times the speed of light from one part of space to another. Thus, giving never-ending possibilities of where you could end up. You could program it to go back to earth or to the last point of arrival.
After several hours the ship had passed into a new system, and everyone had gone to bed. All apart from Burns and Hall. They kept watch at night for any spaceships.
"Commander, I seem to have spotted something on our long range scanners. There appears to be a unidentified ship approaching us, what should we do?" said the Captain " wake the team, put us on to red alert and try and get a communication beam to them" said the Commander.
The crew, their eyes bleary with sleep and armed the lasers for safety, and opened communication line to the aliens.
"Hello, we are Chikes from the planet Chaktata. We are on our way to Earth, we have been sent to destroy it. What is your purpose?" said this huge, green, worm-like creature, seemingly created from every bad 1950's 'B' movie. The ship's language translator making sense of the movements of the strange creatures orifices all over it's head.
"Pardon me", started the commander, "We are from Earth, and if your going to destroy it, you will have to get through us!". With that, the aliens started firing on Star ship "Arlond". It received minor damages.
Without need for orders, Burns's team reacted with the speed of a springing panther, and fired "Arlond's" lasers.
"Should we fire a missile, commander?" asked Robertson.
"Yes" replied the Commander. He had hoped that his first encounter with an alien race would have gone slightly better than this.
A huge purple sphere of energy, twinkling with bright light was grown from deep inside the ship, then spat at the aliens. The aliens' ship was mortally damaged, and on the brink of destruction.
"We came in peace, but your purpose was evil. We have shown you that the Human race will not be bowed by force. Let us meet and see if we can help. Now give us your technological database and ship blueprints and allow us to try and help you" said the Commander.
" All right, we comply, but the rest of our race will be after you" said the aliens, with a twinkle in its eye .
After Dr. Attwood got the technological files, he noticed that they were all about the Earth, saying it will be destroyed. Then a huge explosion occurred. The alien ship was destroyed, along with their cargo and crew. Obviously they would never give away their secrets.
"Well", said the Commander " We have discovered that the universe is a mysterious place, and that peace will not be easy to find, and that we must be friends if we are to combat evil".
With that, the hyper drive was turned on and they disappeared into another part of the galaxy. So the Commander would go on to make the universe a better place, but little did he know of a mysterious evil was creeping closer. But until then, the commander would always think that God was on his side.