by Jeri Dion
Front Matter
Title Page
Publisher Information
Dedication
Authors Note
Note to Reader
Names in Novel and Their Meanings
Drinks and Beverages
Amalthea One Layout
Amalthean Team Members
Enemies
Amalthean Quests
Amalthean Quests One
Beginnings
Questa
Exhaustion
Tom Under Trial
Arrival of the Countess
Pilot From The Storm
Searching for the Greymaren Victims
Searching for the Greymaren Victims
Strike of the Yarrick Raider
The Arrival of Vargons Daughter
Crash Landing on Maldigri
The Tristarcan Power Crystal
Forced Trip to Arkanoss
Generals End and a Newly Elected Chief
The Return of Vargon and Her Outlaws
Blunder Over the Empress
Trouble on Trinott
Back Matter
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AMALTHEAN QUESTS ONE
Jeri Dion
First published in 2016 by
ARTHUR H. STOCKWELL LTD
Torrs Park, Ilfracombe, Devon, EX34 8BA
www.ahstockwell.co.uk
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© Copyright 2016 Jeri Dion
The right of Jeri Dion to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Any person who does so may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to go on and create this novel.
Past and present you know who you are.
Jeri Dion
Authors Note
I would like to point out, that the characters in this Science Fiction adventure novel bear no relation name included to anyone living or dead and is purely the coincidental imagination of the creator.
Jeri Dion
Note to Reader
1 Milon = 3 miles in distance.
Milon is pronounced mile-on
Names in Novel and Their Meanings
Hourons pronounced Hour-on = 70 minons.
Minons pronounced Min-on 70 Cencrons = 1 Minon.
Cencrons pronounced Cen-crons means second.
Dayon pronounced Day-on means a day = 25 hourons long
Weekon pronounced Week-on means a week = 8 days long.
Tomorron pronounced Tomorr-on means next day
Mornet pronounced Mor-net means morning
Level steps – steps between Levels/decks
Drinks and Beverages
Plicetar – Water.
Coffeen – Coffee.
Vardox – Vodka with an alcohol strong content. Just as refreshing and enjoyable at bars and by criminals and Pirates.
Stavern – Champagne like drink can be intoxicating.
Glassene – Glass (this has varied uses in a number of ways one is for holding drinks.
Amalthea One Layout
FRONT DECKS
LEVEL ONE
Organisation Deck
Meeting Centre
Resources Centre
Slazer Emergency Cabinet
Cruiser Emergency Hatch (10 Crew Life Pods stored here)
LEVEL TWO
LIFE DECK
Life Ability Centre
Medical Ability Room
Laser Healing Unit
Isolation
Docking Bay Doors
Medical Supplies Stores
Vacant treatment Room
LEVEL THREE
Science & Agricultural Section
Lab Gardens and Specimen Unit
Experimental Science Room
Saplings bringing on room (for seeds and plants)
Computer Study Centre
LEVEL FOUR
Travelsport Centre (changes to Transpot when Amalthea crashes on Maldigri)
Quarters for the Team Members on this level
LEVEL FIVE
Combat & Training Practice Centre
Armed Combat Practice Centre
Robot and Technical Section
Gym and Sauna Rooms
Shower rooms
Recreational Rooms
Vacant Rooms (2)
REAR DECKS
LEVEL ONE
Escape Pods are kept at the rear of Amalthea One for easy access, so that this enables the team to head quickly from Organisation Deck to their designated Life Pod. (Design layout of Pods was by Marc Dayatso)
LEVEL TWO
Leisure Centre
Drinks and Refreshments can be obtained here, this is where the Amalthea Team meet at first light, for the first meal of the dayon to decide what the dayon would entail.
Slazer Supply Stores
Stores for Blue Midges spare Components.
Male WC and Sanitary Room
Vacant Room
LEVEL THREE
Flight Hanger Bay
Flight Maintenance Unit
Suiting Up Room
Cleansing Room (here the team cleanse after a messy Quest)
Decontamination Centre
Confinement Rooms (used for Criminals being escorted to Questa for trial or for crew that break the rules in duty).
LEVEL FOUR
ENGINEERING DECK
Engine Room
Electronics Centre (serving the whole cruiser)
Engine Access Shaft (for maintenance)
Main Weaponry Centre (incorporating repair centre and shut down for both engines and the cruisers weaponry in emergency situations).
Ladies WC and Sanitary Room
LEVEL FIVE
Interrogation Centre
Freight Hold (for supplies to be shipped to Questa)
Main Food Supply stores (here is where the cruisers food is kept for future placing in the Leisure Centre Micro server).
THIS IS THE DECK LAYOUT FOR THE AMALTHEA ONE.
Amalthean Team Members
Tayce Traun
COLONEL TO THE TEAM
(becomes Stavard)
Daughter to Lydia
Tom Stavard
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
(Husband to Tayce, Brother to Treketa)
Marc Dayatso
COMPUTER ANALYSING TECHNICAL OFFICER
(True Rank Commander)
Treketa Stavard
NURSE
(Sister to Tom)
Lance Largon
QUEST RESEARCH & INFORMATION OFFICER
(Son of Jonathan Largon)
Duncan Leyres
NAVIGATIONALIST & CO-RELEASE PILOT
MIDGE
CRUISERS GUIDANCE AND MAIN OPERATION COMPUTER
&nb
sp; CARGO
TOMS DRONE & ESCORT
(from his ship)
DONALDO TYSONNE
MEDICAL OFFICER
DEAN ADDAMS
CAPTAIN OF DELTALINE 4
QUESTA BASE PERSONNEL
GENERAL JONATHAN LARGON
GENERAL IN CHARGE OF QUESTA
HEAD OF THE COUNCIL
(Father to Lance)
LYDIA TRAUN
ASSISTANT TO JONATHAN LARGON AND COUNCILLOR
(Mother to Tayce)
JAN BARNFORD
SECURITY PATROL OFFICER
INVESTIGATION DIVISION
ADAM BURNFORD
RESCUE MISSION PILOT
(from the Research Colony, where he was an Officer)
CRAIG GLENN
SECURITY MISSIONS OFFICER
DR PACLAN SELLECSON
CHIEF DOCTOR & MEDICAL SURGEON
THE INTERGALACTIC MEDICAL COLONY
(Tayces Doctor)
AIDAN LORD
GENERALS ASSISTANT
LYDIAS FIRST OFFICER
QUESTA
EMPRESS TRICARA
EX INHABITANT OF TRISTARCUS
HOLDER OF THE BLUE TELEPATHIAN CRYSTAL
COUNCIL MEMBER AT QUESTA
(Friend of Tayce and her Mother)
CORDEC PARGLEN
CHIEF DESIGNER & ENGINEER
(of the Pollomoss Weapon)
ADAM CARFORD
GENERALS FIRST ASSISTANT
QUESTA
Enemies
COUNTESS VARGON
Enemy to all she destroyed
SALLEN VARGON
Countesses Evil Daughter
LORD DION
Notorious Leader of the Boglayon Tribe
KARCMAN
Sallen’s guard from KARCLAX
NORGAN
EVIL POWER SORCERER
THE ARKARANS
A GALACTIC RACE
VARGONS OUTLAWS
CRIMINAL RACE
(Joined the Countess and her daughter Sallen to fight against Tayce)
ROBANEA
CONMAN & CRIMINAL
PAYDARGON & SEVEN ASSISTING CRIMINALS
Amalthean Quests
Planetary Information
QUESTA
Headquarters Base
Serving Earthon 2 and Spatial Travellers.
Constructed by Man Power and Machine.
Population 2,205 Men, Women and Children.
Diameter of Base 400,000km.
MICACER
Research,Search and Rescue Colony.
3000 milons across in diameter.
It has an Earthon 2 type breathable atmosphere.
It caters for every aspect of Research.
It also caters for all search and Rescue Operations.
Population + Personnel
Roughly 360.
INTERGALACTIC MEDICAL COLONY
Caters for all Intergalactic Medical Emergencies.
Diameter of Colony.
Seven Square milons.
Personnel 860.
Constructed by Man Power and Machine.
INTERGALACTIC CRIMINAL COURT COLONY
Most Intergalactic Criminal Court Cases are held here.
Constructed by Man Power and Machine.
Diameter of Colony five milons.
Law and Court Personnel 400.
Supported atmosphere environment.
VARGONS LAIR
Home to the Evil Countess.
Diameter 1 milon
Once a dead Asteroid
GREYMAREN SPACE STATION
Originated Earthon 2 Questa Linked.
Purpose – Space Exploration.
Constructed by Man Power and Machine.
Crew Personnel 460.
Diameter four milons.
The station has a supported atmosphere environment.
MALDIGRI
A paradise world environment.
Weather conditions-Tropical .
Diameter 4000 milons across.
Atmosphere-Breathable.
Uninhabited
TRISTARCUS
Home to Empress Tricara.
Planetary diameter 4,900 milons across.
Population 8,000.
There is a city built on its surface.
Atmosphere-breathable.
GENUSLAN 2
The Countesses new hideout.
Atmosphere, breathable and tropical with hazardous conditions
Diameter roughly 1.519 across the surface.
Population-Countess Vargon, Sallen Vargon and 1 Vargon Warrior Army.
TRINOT
Colony/World
Constructed by Man Power and Machine.
Population-5680 Personnel
Operating in the field of Hospitality .
It is roughly the same size in Diameter as Neptune.
Beginnings
Space could be a lonely and hostile place at the best of times. But especially if you were a lone female twenty-four yearons old and your only companion was the cruisers guidance and main operations computer, that was there to just protect you in any oncoming life threatening situation.
At the age of nineteen it had all started for Tayce Traun. Drastically, one night her home world, ‘TRAUN’ was plunged into a war that had been building for sometime. The peaceful existence of the 17,000 men, women and children of all ages, who lived their every dayon lives unaware they were going to be drawn into such a situation, began. It was a war of possession to the death. Life as a privileged Commodores daughter, was over. Suddenly she faced turmoil and shear dread.
Two yearons of unexpected galactic war passed and most of Traun had been destroyed. By this time Tayce had reached the age of twenty-one. Her parents had called for a private audience in their living quarters below ground. They informed her, they were secretly having an intergalactic cruiser constructed for her safe escape of their surroundings as Traun looked like it was near it’s end. She would be classed as the sole survivor of Traun should she be the only one to escape the final moments of their world. Tayce was devastated at the news and felt like breaking down, but she knew she had to pretend to be brave, it had been instilled in her in her growing yearons to do so. Over the coming monthons it was vastly becoming obvious, that everyone of the home world was going to die in the agonising unsuspecting continuous bombardment, from the evil side in the war. Some had perished already. Two monthons after the cruiser called AMALTHEA ONE was completed, by coincidence the possessors in question trying to get their hands on the paradise beautiful world it once was, the evil Vargon Warriors, made their final devastating ambush of weapon fire at Traun. Buildings, parks, homes and many other special places to the Traunian inhabitants that were left after the previous attacks, took hit after hit and were destroyed in the mass of firepower.
The Vargon Warriors struck their final blow in the dead of night, sending the whole planet into total and utter chaos. People died in their bunks, some being burnt alive unable to escape the sudden attack. Tayce had less than an houron to make it to the Amalthea One, so that she could safely leave what was left of her home. She was dragged away under guard from her Mother and Father’s mansion. The last she saw of her parents was in the falling debris of what was once the most beautifully designed structure on Traun. Marc Dayatso, Tayces Father’s personal aide and Commander, had the final job of making sure Tayce made it safely to the cruiser. He was a tall strong looking man and could more than hold on to Tayce in ducking and diving their way through the turmoil of the falling debris, fires and dying inh
abitants, around them. Upon arrival at the cruisers entrance Tayce tearfully begged Marc to go with her, as they had always been like a brother and sister to each other. But Marc ignored her pleas and pushed her aboard, he had his orders. She turned rushing back to give him a strong farewell hug, thanking him for everything, then ordered him to head for the nearest escape craft. Marc nodded in agreement, but he had obligations to the Commodore, Tayces Father, and once she was safe that was where he was heading back to. Marc raised his wrist communication device and ordered Midge, the cruisers main operations and guidance computer, once Tayce was inside the docking bay doors. To seal the cruiser and leave. Midge could be heard in his childlike male voice above the explosive din and humanoid cries, acknowledging. Marc stepped back and turned to walk away. He paused for a moment to turn and see the Amalthea One lift up off the surface of the bunker floor and head out into deep space. Once clear of the bunker the cruiser went into protection mode and took off into the deep depths of the Universe like a Slazer shot from a gun. Once Amalthea One was clear of what was left of Traun, Midge allowed Tayce to see what was left of the home world, that was once a place to call home. Tayce fought back the tears of anger and hurt at seeing the burning mass, that was once her birthplace, declaring that one dayon she would seek out the Vargon Warriors and the evil Countess and destroy them in a cruel agonizing death, the same way her people died.
In the dayons that passed after Traun was left behind Tayce grew familiar with her new surroundings. Amalthea One. Midge showed her what he was capable of, and the fact that she was on board an exploration cruiser. Also what their surroundings were capable of, the speed of Hyper thrust turbo. This was the equivalent of Mach 3. It was powered by nuclear fission quick reaction engines (four in all), she was a match for anyone or anything that strayed into her path. Amalthea One was not only all speed and protection she was more and one of a kind, she was graceful in flight and shaped like the letter ‘A’ from point to tip, bow to stern. Her capacity was a crew of ten, plus three on board guests if need be. Main operations of the cruiser and many of the weaponry and guidance functions, were care of Midge being main operations and guidance computer. He had been designed by Marc Dayatso with a childlike male voice, with Tayces total welfare in mind. His childlike voice enabled him to communicate with Tayce on a humanoid level. He had also been given a very high IQ enabling him to take on the many on board functions and decisions, without the command of his new mistress, if she was unable to perform what was needed to protect the cruiser at short notice.
