Galaxium
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Mankind's future lies among the stars, but what kind of future will it be? Forged in Freedom or shackled in servitude?
When a simple diplomatic mission goes awry, fifteen year old Jason Starchild, born and bred to serve as pilot aboard the Usirian battlecruiser Ramses, will discover the answer depends on who controls the galaxy's greatest natural resource... GALAXIUM.
With his every move controlled and monitored by a mysterious security agent, can Jason break free long enough to change his fate... or will he die trying?
Jason Starchild, genetically-engineered and trained to be a starship pilot, begins his first assignment aboard the Usirian battlecruiser Ramses. Hailed as a bright, capable young man destined for greatness, things begin to go terribly wrong as soon as he is on board. What should have been a simple diplomatic mission becomes a life or death struggle just to survive. But when it becomes apparent the future of the galaxy is at stake, Jason's fate is the least of his worries...
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Galaxium - Matthew Ballotti
Galaxium
By Matthew Ballotti
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Copyright 2012, 2014 by Matthew Ballotti
Published by MWB Entertainment
© 2012, © 2014
2nd Edition © 2014
Smashwords Edition
Cover art provided by AJ Birch at OfficialPSDs.com under a Creative Commons Public Domain License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) and modified with titling by Oobatuba.
Editing by Oobatuba Consulting
This is a work of fiction. All characters and events depicted in this book are fictional and any resemblances to real people or events are purely coincidental.
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To all those who relentlessly pursue freedom and the cause of freedom, those who know what it is to be truly free and independent and those who wish to see man's spirit set free. To all those who remain eternally vigilant and do their best to enlighten the enslaved who don't even realize they are enslaved. To all those who have come to the realization that in order to live free you have to allow others to live free. To those who understand the pursuit of empire and subjugation harms all, I dedicate this work. To a bright and glorious future for humanity.
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Galaxium
Introduction
Fade in. The first image is blurry, shades of white and blue. There is movement. The camera focuses and we see a microscopic view of an ovum being pierced by a needle, fertilizing the egg. It becomes obvious this is no normal fertilization as tendrils sprout out of the ovum and its processes become accelerated. The first of the opening credits begins and continue throughout the following scenes.
The cells inside the ovum begin to divide at a rapid pace, quickly transforming the ovum into a blastocyst and then to an embryo. The camera zooms out and we see the embryonic blob resides in a Petri dish held by a scientist clad in medicinal white and wearing a face mask. The scientist empties the agar in the Petri dish into a larger container.
Inside the container, we see the embryo's acceleration continued as it becomes a fetus. It grows quickly in flashes of accelerated time, becoming a fully-formed male baby that is removed from the vat by another doctor. As the doctor holds the crying infant, the camera zooms in on the newly-delivered baby and we see a machine stamp/tattoo the child with a serial number and the words Starchild, Jason
onto its skin.
Cut to a collage of short images from the child's life beginning with the infant lying in an incubation crib among dozens of other similarly engineered children, receiving clinical, sterile feedings by machines while a medical team monitors their care.
He's a toddler now, being taught with advanced holographic computers while emotionless, tablet-carrying staff members dressed in white continue to monitor them. A stern-looking older man in a military uniform, an Admiral, watches the child with great interest.
The man in the military uniform remains in the background of the boy's life as the scenes of childhood continue. The boy is now a pre-teen in a classroom situation with other young children dressed in the same uniform. They are being trained to obey and put through harsh physical and mental drills where the boy excels.
We see flashes of other upper-level military officers taking interest. The boy is now receiving military training, taught to fight and to survive. His teachers smile and nod their heads as the boy satisfactorily completes increasingly difficult tasks. There is no longer any evidence of the military officer who had taken an interest in the young man.
Now the boy, in his early teens, is wearing an advanced set of virtual reality headgear, piloting a virtual ship and terminating holographic targets with ease. He graduates at the top of his class, proudly standing on a stage in front of his classmates as he receives honors and accolades.
The last of the opening credits appears. End of opening music score. Cut to main titling.
GALAXIUM
Fade to black.
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Act 1, Scene 1
Fade in. Jason Starchild proudly reports to his first assignment, directed by various personnel to where he must go. The camera follows him as he walks through a series of corridors and eventually enters a tube car
, the future equivalent of a high-speed elevator.
Jason Starchild exits the tube car and enters the bridge of the battle cruiser Rameses. He takes a moment to take in the large room and the people in it.
Up front, toward the viewscreen, is a single chair with a display in front of it, the pilot's control seat. Behind it are two more chairs with displays, one for navigation and one for tactical. Behind those, in the center of the room, is a large, comfortable seat where the captain sits. Behind that,