6/22/2023 0 Comments Brave earth prologue alphaHe waited, helpless, while the ship hurled on and the warning klaxons sounded their three beat sequence.Īfter interminable moments he heard a click and a hiss, and then a storm exploded beneath him. His brain signaled alarm but his heart and muscles, held in near stasis, would not respond. He stared up through the curved top of the cryocell, willing himself into the open spaces of the ship, trying to force his fingers to move. He could feel the ship shaking beneath him.Ī shadow passed over him, and then another. A wave of dizziness washed over him and his vision blurred into a sea of blue, red lights flashing in the distance. Someone, unauthorized, moving around the ship. Thinking, hoping, that when he woke again, it would be to the sight of Alpha Centauri's primary cresting the rim of a new planet, a new world.īut now.something was wrong. His last memory of laying down in glass and feeling the blue tide rise to swallow him, forty years and a moment of darkness ago. The massive cryobays with their rows of sleeping crew, the white-suited cryotechs moving ghostlike among them. Visions returned to him: the long rough cylinder of the ship, floating above the chaos of Earth. I should be first.įirst out of the sleep. I am the Captain came his next thought, sharp and coherent. More movement, seen through layers of frost and glass. A deep cold pressed down on him, crushing his bones to ice. He tried to lift his hands and could not, tried to speak and felt his throat turn to fire. A sense of threat, darkness eclipsing his vision, and the distant sound of warning klaxons. Alpha Centauri Mission on its way to the new world.Ĭontents ©1998 Firaxis Games, Inc. Journey to Centauri is an episodic tale that details the splintering of the U.N.
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