This is the landing page for the Vaultan Lifeboat, the working title of the novel (maybe) that I am working on. I’ll upload chapters as they’re completed, and you can find them here!
A small alien vessel is discovered in the Solar System. From it, humanity learns numerous advanced technologies, and send out the first interstellar probe. But when contact is lost with the probe, we soon discover that the galaxy is more hostile than we hoped.
Dr. Jules Radikiss, world-renowned researcher and engineer; Sergeant Avery Takenada, hotshot pilot and ranking officer in the Independent Fleet; and Nai, an orphan girl from Ceres, find themselves embroiled in a conflict for the fate of humanity aboard the House of Hope, humanity’s first manned interstellar vessel.
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It began, as so many things do, with an accident. The shuttle was first detected just outside the orbit of Jupiter. It was drifting aimlessly, seemingly as though it had been on course for something and had run out of fuel. The pilot was gone, perhaps ejected in a desperate, but ultimately futile attempt to read more here!
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Prologue Jules The click of the woman’s high heels echoed through the empty halls as she rushed across the dimly lit laboratory. Her destination was the receiver room on the other side of the lab. She had just gotten a call that, if it were true, would change the world yet again. The woman was read more here!
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Chapter 1 Avery “Sergeant Avery Takenada, reporting, sir.” “At ease, Tak. How long have we known each other now?” Avery relaxed from the salute they had taken, but their back remained ramrod straight, and they met their commanding officer’s eyes. “Nearly 8 years, sir.” “8 years, Tak. You were in my wedding. I know you read more here!
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Chapter 2 Nai Ceres, as a rule, never stayed the same for long. The Independent Fleet cycled out its personnel regularly, so the faces one saw were rarely familiar. But the asteroid itself changed, too. 15 years ago, when the Fleet was little more than a band of mercenaries, Ceres had been a radically different read more here!
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