Salvador Mercer: Lunar Discovery

“And the reports of the alien signals? The ones we confirmed in Houston,” Jack said.

“Your team was correct. Alien signals were detected from three locations. Mars, somewhere on or near Jupiter, and we are guessing Pluto, though it could be any one of a million objects in the Kuiper belt near the planet—”

“Planetoid, or TNO, Trans Neptunian Object,” Tom corrected her.

The silence wasn’t very long. “All right, Mr. McClain, the planetoid or TNO, then, we should have a fix on it soon enough,” Powers said.

“So what does this mean for us?” Director Lui asked from his seat next to Rock.

“It means, Director Lui, that NASA’s work is just beginning,” President Powers said. “The space race has just begun.”

Halley’s Comet

Sol Solar System

In the near future…

The large comet had an interesting device attached to the head of the cone. The comet was a nondescript normal comet that circled the class G star with eight planets, several planetoids, and millions of asteroids, other comets, and floating rocks and debris, the third planet being a ball of green and blue, covered by over seven billion intelligent humanoid lifeforms.

The comet orbited this particular sun every seventy-six years, and found itself far from the system’s sun not long after its aphelion, when the device attached to it detected the signal from the moon of the system’s third planet. The device processed the signal and then opened a large double-sided door where a triangle-shaped, diamond-looking arrowhead object appeared the size of a small building. The arrowhead object started to glow, and then its tip pointed toward the center of the galaxy in which it was located, pointing at a binary star system tens of thousands of light years distant.

Once aligned, the object’s white arrowhead body started to pulsate as the FTL, or faster than light, signal it emitted began its journey to its maker’s home star system.

Humans had rang the doorbell.

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Salvador Mercer loves a good book. Having read the many works, and enjoyed the many wonderful stories and tales, by many other countless authors, he hopes to share the same delightful experience with those who also enjoy reading a good tale.

Inspired since his childhood by the lunar landings in the late sixties and early seventies, Mercer loved the idea of mankind’s exploration into the cosmos. Alas, our moon landings were never followed up by more progressive manned missions and the idea came to find a way to make our return to the cosmos a necessity and not a luxury. Thus Lunar Discovery was born.

The recent Mars Curiosity mission, as well as Pluto’s Horizon mission, gives a new look into what the future could hold for space exploration, if only we will be so bold.

Mercer is fluent in English, Russian, and Spanish, and loves languages, history, reading, and science. He lives with his three boys, a baby (elf), toddler (hobbit), teenager (orc), and his wife, Masha in Ohio.

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Book and Cover design by Christine Savoie aka ‘Cagnes’ c2015

ASIN: B014IEFS8M

First Edition: September 2015

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