Protocol One E-Book

Diego Bortolozzo

• Herausgeber: Delos Digital
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Fantascienza - short story (11 pagine) - The ship moves away, but a strange asteroid enters the system and the crew decides to intercept it.Takeri Ira crew, in search of new lands to colonize, reaches a planet that reflects the “Protocol One” directives.Ground exploration gives discordant results: the supervisor of the implementation of the directives does not recommend the activation of the development program, whereas the chief doctor of planetary exploration believes to have found, finally, the place that their race had been looking for since millennia.While on the background the various persons in charge politically struggle, spaceship commander decides to resolve, once and for all, the vain dispute.The mission is declared over and Takeri Ira prepares to leave the Star System.The small planet gets smaller while the ship moves away, but a strange asteroid enters the system and the crew decides to intercept it.Nominated in the 38th edition of the “Nero Premio” Contest, this short story was selected and published in the anthology “Ceneri del Fantastico”.Born in the Venice province on march 29, 1970, Diego Bortolozzo moves in Lombardy in November of 2007, with Paola and little Alice.His adventure begin with Cronaca Galattica trilogy, whose volumes are now available in e-book format.With Sogno Edizioni publishes the children's book Alice nella pancia delle meraviglie and the graphic novel Andromeda, both in collaboration with the illustrator Simone Messeri. In 2012 he worked with the publishing house as editor of the series Collana 99. With Delos Books publishes short stories in various projects and magazines: in the 365 racconti anthology series, Writers Magazine, Magazzino dei Mondi, Delos, Fantascienza.com. For EDS Edizioni Diversa Sintonia, he edits Creatori di Universi anthology and publishes short stories and novels in e-books. Edizioni Papavero is housing one of his short stories in the first number of the anthology I Quaderni di Fantascienza. Ciesse Edizioni publishes one of his works in the anthology D-Doomsday.From 2012 he's the supervisor of the Settore Editoria ed Eventi Editoriali of Associazione Galaxy and President of the Jury of Premio Letterario Nazionale Kataris. He works with Tiscali, and other portals of the group as web writer and editor of Edizioni Imperium dedicated to e-books publications.

Leseprobe

Diego Bortolozzo

Protocol One

SHORT STORY

Translated by Aurora Torchia

First edition, October 2017

ISBN 9788825403565

© 2017 Diego Bortolozzo

Original title: Protocollo Uno

Translation by Aurora Torchia

Ebook Edition © 2017 Delos Digital srl

Piazza Bonomelli 6/6 20139 Milano Italy

Version: 1.0

Font Fauna One by Eduardo Tunni, SIL Open Font Licence 1.1

Contents

This bookThe AuthorProtocol OneChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3CharactersIn this series

This book

The ship moves away, but a strange asteroid enters the system and the crew decides to intercept it.

Takeri Ira crew, in search of new lands to colonize, reaches a planet that reflects the “Protocol One” directives.

Ground exploration gives discordant results: the supervisor of the implementation of the directives does not recommend the activation of the development program, whereas the chief doctor of planetary exploration believes to have found, finally, the place that their race had been looking for since millennia.

While on the background the various persons in charge politically struggle, spaceship commander decides to resolve, once and for all, the vain dispute.

The mission is declared over and Takeri Ira prepares to leave the Star System.

The small planet gets smaller while the ship moves away, but a strange asteroid enters the system and the crew decides to intercept it.

Nominated in the 38th edition of the “Nero Premio” Contest, this short story was selected and published in the anthology “Ceneri del Fantastico”.

The Author

Born in the Venice province on march 29, 1970, Diego Bortolozzo moves in Lombardy in November of 2007, with Paola and little Alice.

His adventure begin with Cronaca Galattica trilogy, whose volumes are now available in e-book format.

With Sogno Edizioni publishes the children's book Alice nella pancia delle meraviglie and the graphic novel Andromeda, both in collaboration with the illustrator Simone Messeri. In 2012 he worked with the publishing house as editor of the series Collana 99. With Delos Books publishes short stories in various projects and magazines: in the 365 racconti anthology series, Writers Magazine, Magazzino dei Mondi, Delos, Fantascienza.com. For EDS Edizioni Diversa Sintonia, he edits Creatori di Universi anthology and publishes short stories and novels in e-books. Edizioni Papavero is housing one of his short stories in the first number of the anthology I Quaderni di Fantascienza. Ciesse Edizioni publishes one of his works in the anthology D-Doomsday.

From 2012 he's the supervisor of the Settore Editoria ed Eventi Editoriali of Associazione Galaxy and President of the Jury of Premio Letterario Nazionale Kataris. He works with Tiscali, and other portals of the group as web writer and editor of Edizioni Imperium dedicated to e-books publications.

1

The ship began to slow down the approach. All the crew were at their places. Despite the maneuvers had been tried in simulators during the training, and repeated in dozens of missions, spaceship men and women feelings were almost palpable in the air.

This time was different, Roa was sure, this was the right planet.

“Captain, the sensors confirm our probe's results!”

“Dr. Roa, it's not the first time that we believe we have found the right planet” Zinix did not want to delude once again the crew.

“It's true, commander, but we are observing evolved life forms… they seem like dinosaurs.”

“They seem like? Is it your professional opinion?”

Roa blushed due to this small rebuke, but immediately get a hold of herself: the discovery she has just made was too important. They were on a mission from many cycles now, and this was the twenty th… no, twenty fourth planet explored, and in her heart Roa knew they had found what they sought.

“We are in stationary orbit, captain. Now I convey controls to the processor.”

The pilot could finally relax the muscles: the task, now, was finished. Zinix turned his gaze to the armchair left arm, activating the communicator.

“To all the staff, it's captain. We are in orbit. Officials in tactical room. Let's start the rounds provided by Protocol One.”

Each member of the crew had a smile on his lips. It was beginning the more exciting part of the mission, the part for which they were trained, for which they enrolled in Space Marine. In tactical room, in addition to the doctor, captain and pilot, there were lieutenant Adora, chief engineer, dr. Creperi, and chief officer Trico, mission security officer and second in command of Zinix. Everyone at his post, with monitors displaying millions of data, was revising the protocol procedures.

Creperi began to summarize planetary data.

“This planet has about forty multi cycles. Its distance from the star, the stable orbit around it and the presence of its own satellite, suggest the high probability of the development, in the future, of sentient species.”

Everybody glanced up from the monitors.

At last they had found a suitable planet.

Zinix wanted to be sure.

“So, doctor, we have found a planet fitting Protocol One?”

Roa was walking on clouds. The one who discovered this planet was her, the youngest of the crew and the more knowledgeable!

“To tell the truth, captain, I'm not so sure.” Creperi added.

Roa could not understand and intervened in the debate.

“Dr Creperi, my analysis and the computer projections give a probability greater than the 73.6 percent…”