In Book one, Dark Moon
Rising, of the The Unborn Galaxy series, you were introduced to JILL, the
Joint International Lunar laboratory, on the Moon’s near side, setting inside Mare
Insularum, the Sea of Islands. Here you witnessed the horrific and unprecedented
lunar quake that sent one of the habitats, and eight humans, plummeting into a
sub-lunar world fraught with danger, and complicated by the gambit of human
emotions, frailties, and lusts, all seeming to conspire to end their lives. And
then they encountered the lost alien colony.
In my second book, The
battle of Broken Moon, you watched as the survivors of the quake fought to stay
alive and evacuate the base. You saw their efforts thwarted by traitors, and an
invading force from space.
In the coming third book, look for some subtle clues that
will point toward the series finale.
The third story in the series starts on JILL, with a mystery
that dates back to the Apollo 15 Moon mission of 1971, and the mysterious
photographs of what appeared to be a large cylindrical shaped spacecraft, lodged
in a crater on the far side of the moon.
Then came the top-secret Apollo 20 mission which took place
in August of 1976. The Apollo 20 mission objective, according to Mission
Commander William Rutledge, was to land in proximity to the cigar shaped alien
craft, spotted by Apollo 15, and then conduct a detailed survey and
exploration.
A Saturn V rocket was the launch vehicle, and the Apollo
space craft made the trip, and landed on the far side of the moon where two of
the three astronauts, one American, and one Soviet, explored the massive alien
craft before returning to Earth.
Their findings were so startling, so unnerving, so
explosive, that the entire mission was buried, and both the Americans and the
Soviets agreed to deny the mission ever existed.
But the films and photos remain on file, and on line, for
any to see…to this day.
The story, the cover up, the controversy, the conspiracy had
long been forgotten when a series of extraordinary events on the lunar surface
caused a reexamination of the record.
Captain Cristóbal "Chris" Salazar, a career Air
force officer, who had trained for years for the Mars mission suffers a devastating
blow when he was passed over and thus prevented from joining the Mars crew. He
is cast into a deep depression, but when offered a posting on the Moon…he
grudgingly accepts.
Arriving on JILL almost a year after the great quake, Chris
is made the pilot of a Lunar Eagle, a small low orbital vehicle designed for
transport, and survey work.
When the “anomaly” begins, he is selected, because of his
skill as a pilot, to fly an Eagle to the event site, and launch a probe.
The probe sends back telemetry and images that shock the
scientific community.
As a result, the military want to destroy the anomaly. But
instead another, more sophisticated, probe is ordered delivered into the
mysterious event.
When asked, Chris volunteers for the dangerous return trip.
This time the unimaginable happens. He is drawn into the event horizon and
vanishes from sight, off sensors, and into an adventure both horrifying and
wondrous. He will face great malevolence, monstrous creatures, zombie like humanoids,
evil magic, and worse yet, his own demons.
Chris will also find a treasure worth more to him than even
his life. To possess this paragon, he will forever sacrifice his chance to
return home, Across a Sea of Stars.
(Take a look at the pictures and film footage of the alien
craft by looking on YouTube for “Apollo 20 William Rutledge”)
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