When Captain Jay Shackleton of the cartography starship Abhysal finds himself and his crew thrown across the galaxy, he has no idea how they are going to get back home to earth. Although his five-member crew are gifted space travellers and scientists, the situation seems hopeless. However, their luck seems to change when a seemingly friendly alien trade association, the Squeltrems, picks them up. In exchange for their technical knowledge, they'll be able to hitch a ride back to earth. This seems to be a good deal, and the crew starts full of enthusiasm for the development of new subspace technologies together with their new Alien friends from the research department. Until they realize that the peaceful Squeltrem Association is not so peaceful after all and that they are space pirates who like to plunder whole planets. As if that is not bad enough, another species is in the process of hijacking planets to steal their resources… Set in the 24th century, Fabienne Gschwind's «Star Map» is an epic science fiction adventure novel that will captivate readers and transport them to another world. For anyone who is a fan of classic sci-fi mixed with a cast of intriguing characters, science and comedy, this is the perfect read. Add it to your arsenal today.
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Fabienne Gschwind. Star Map
Star Map
What happened in the last 400 years
About space travel
The Cartography Starship
The Mission
The Crew
Life on the Abhysal
The Abhysal
Subspace Hazards
The Vortex
There is someone
The Squeltrem
What to do with Aliens
First Day at Work
The Prototype Buoys
Peculiarities of the Chrismaxes
The Deadline Approaches
Real Members
Religion
First Sunday
Space Pirates
Baltrak
New Friends
A New Home
The Emergency
Celebrations
Morchen's Problem
Ten Weeks
Lex and Morchen
Racking Until the Last Second
The Attack
The Answer
The Pillage
Even More Looting
Jay’s Promotion
Who Gets the Power?
Full Speed Ahead in the Abyss
Simon Grows Up
The Death
Jay’s Return
Vacation on the Planet
Galactic Walk
Captain of a Battle Cruiser
Where is Jay?
Holy Shit
Making Plans
Simon and Kiki
Milos Prototypship
First Epilogue
Four years later
On the Road
Archans and Tollans
The Destroyed Planet
Outhouse Alien
Outside the Galaxy
Encounter
Cat and Mouse Game
Kiki and Simon, Again
Excuse me?
The Lighthouse
Storage Room 13A-6Z
Scattered Radiation
The Squeltrems
Preparations and new weapons
Getting Defense Ready
Planet in Subspace
Short Break
Slaving Away Until the End
Beginning of the End
The Battle
Drone Collection Action
Gone
End
Last Epilogue
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The beginning of faster-than-light space travel is dated to the mid-21st century. It all started with burnt chocolate muffins:
It was in a small apartment shared by two junior physics professors. Marinella Fregara was a dark matter expert. Marie-Louise Häberli was a theorist and advocate of quantum string theory with its ten curved and bent dimensions.
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His fate was predetermined, at the age of 16, he was to be relegated to the "plastic waste team". There were all those whom the brain scan classified as a danger, but without ever having committed a crime. They lived in a luxury resort on the Kerguelen Islands, from where they cleaned Antarctica of thousands of tons of plastic waste produced by mankind in the 20th and 21st centuries.
That same year, he was flown there for summer vacation. The people were all nice and he had a chance to talk to the dozens of men who had also been banished for having a pedophilic streak. They all, but really all, affirmed that they were innocent and would not hurt anyone. They all claimed that the brain scan had not worked and that they had tested falsely positive.
