The Space Institute E-Book

Johan Olsson

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 105

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

The Space Institute in Strömbäck, Norrbotten inland, Sweden 2019: Agents are exposed to mysterious attacks and strange inexplicable events unfold around Sweden and the whole world. The agents at the Space Institute are tasked with revealing who is behind it, if it is extraterrestrial beings, and then, in such cases, exterminating them. This will be a project that takes place in both Sweden and Finland. After a series of disasters, losses and failures, the team's agents come to the resolution. An exciting but also terrifying story.

Leseprobe

The Space Institute

The Space InstituteStrömbäckSpace InstituteThe story beginsExtraterrestrial activity detectedLelahArriving at the facilityPursuitThe bookThe plans are laid outAmnesiaThe operation continuesThe disasters take holdNew discoveriesThe tension thickensOperation zigma 2 can beginFailuresMobilizationThe attack on the unknownsCopyright

The Space Institute

Strömbäck

Far up in northern Sweden in the middle of Norrbotten lies the small village of Strömbäck. It is an idyllic little village by the lake Åkerträsk, which in winter is covered in ice with a thick blanket of snow on top. There, the residents drive snowmobiles a lot, both for their own pleasure but also to take a shortcut to the slightly larger community of Vedträsk, where there is a small grocery store. The only grocery store in a 14 mile radius. Out on the ice-covered lake, the pimpel fishermen use big, long ice drills to drill their fishing holes down through the ice and sit there for large parts of the day on their folding chairs and pimp fish. They have with them the backpacks with fishing equipment and the almost obligatory thermos of coffee and the homemade sandwiches on authentic Norrland soft flat bread baked in the village's bakery. There, residents make an appointment and bake their own bread in the wood-fired oven. This is a Norrland tradition that has existed for many years, since the beginning of time as many residents call it and joke about. The bread is soft and sufficiently chewy. Like not as soft as regular thin wheat cakes , but a bit more substantial, you might say. A little more chew resistance. And a little half burnt on one side. The bread is eaten with a lot of butter and sometimes a little hard cheese on it. Suitable for acid streaming as well such as the moose steak that the hunting team cut out of the moose after they shot it out in the forest during the autumn moose hunt. Many people in these areas, especially the men, have weapons and hunting qualifications, that is to say they have attended training and shooting training and thus have demonstrable knowledge of moose hunting, can shoot point blanks and handle firearms. The moose hunt is for many hunters the most important time of the year. They hang out in hunting teams, sit up in their hunting towers and scout for moose. Many hunters have dogs, specially trained for moose hunting. The dogs are well taken care of all year round and are many moose hunters' gold nuggets. The hunters prepare the elk hunt by setting up salt rocks for the moose. They carefully plan how the hunt will go. Each hunting team has its own area to hunt. The area concept is quite large but also regulated in Swedish law. There are not many houses or farms in the village. It is mostly fields and meadows around. Lake Åkerträsk is centrally located on the eastern side of the village. The lake also attracts during the summer many people from outside to come to Strömbäck to sunbathe and swim. During the summer, there is also a summer cafe at the largest and most well-visited beach at Åkerträsk, the home village association runs it during the summer with the help of young people from the village. The nearest school is in Vedträsk on the other side of the lake. Some years when the young people in the village were small, many years ago, in the middle of winter, a road was plowed up over the ice so that the parents could take the children to school by car without driving the two miles around the lake. With the shortcut across the lake, it is only six kilometers to the school from central Strömbäck. In this year 2019, there are only 2 families with small children here. The rest of the younger residents are in the middle stage between adolescence and starting a family. So right now there are only a few smaller children in the village. The houses here are typical Swedish older houses, many are red with white knots and have timbered garages and some families have barns and stables on the property. The most common is that the same family and immediate relatives live close to each other or at least on the plots around each other. Some villagers who have moved in have not arrived for more than ten years. However, some young people who studied at university are expected to return to Strömbäck and hopefully start families. As I said, the lake is east of the village. To the west of the village, a deep, large, old, well-grown forest spreads out several miles away. It is a hilly terrain and the forest rises up to a small mountain and on the other side a vast moorland where, by the way, the hornbeam thrives in late summer. South of Strömbäck, the country road runs ahead. It does not enter the village itself, but touches the southernmost farm there. Landsvägen is a substantial asphalted road that is well-trafficked both with cars, road buses and heavy large trucks with large trailers. The country road leads from the coast at Luleå all the way to Gällivare. Strömbäck is roughly in the middle between these larger cities. From Gällivare you can drive on the main road all the way to Kiruna and on to Norway and the city of Narvik. About ten miles north of Strömbäck, the Swedish military has a gigantic practice and shooting range. It measures six miles in width and ten miles in length. What happens inside these areas, which are objects of protection, are extremely secret to the public and foreign powers. Adjacent to the shooting range, the military also has a long, wide runway for military aircraft. With associated staging areas and hangars encased in the ancient rock. Next to the main road south of Strömbäck , for obvious reasons, many military vehicles pass by all day, so no one living in the area takes much notice.

Space Institute

In Sweden, the state has a defense force. It is ultimately controlled by the Ministry of Defense with the Minister of Defense at the head. Under the defense are also several different ones organizations that work for Sweden's security and protection against foreign power. Among other things, the military intelligence service, the military intelligence unit, the defense research unit and the education unit. There is also an organization that few know about at the moment. The Space Institute. It is not a public organization that has the space base in Norrbotten, but this is a completely secret and classified organization which is also linked to an international worldwide network with which the space institute cooperates closely. The Space Institute came into being when other major powers began to discover strange anomalous activity involving alien traffic with unknown aircraft over the territorial areas of their countries . It could be that the public called in tips about strange craft, shadows, light phenomena in the sky but without any air traffic control or reconnaissance center seeing them on the radar screens.

It could be civilian pilots who reported unknown craft or in some cases the countries' air traffic controllers saw craft on the radar,

but no pilot or scout could see the craft out in the field with their own eyes in the places they appeared on the radar. The problem was also that the great powers began to suspect each other, it was suspected that the other countries were researching new weapons and new aircraft or missile-carrying drones. There were also reports of downed military planes, where the pilots ejected by rocket chair to fall to the ground by parachute, simply disappearing, both the aircraft and its pilots. The pilots then turned up dead with mutilated bodies, missing body parts, badly burned and with the appearance of being stuck rigidly in convulsive postures. At military secret facilities, strange behavior appeared on the staff. In connection with military exercises, quantities of paper documents and electronic data storage media also disappeared top secret information. The strange staff also disappeared in the same vein. Due to the fact that the military powers of  many countries began to understand that it was a visit  to our Earth by extraterrestrial civilizations ,  state space organizations were established which were  connected in international worldwide networks.  Together, this network is called the Space Institute in pure Swedish. The facility in Strömbäck North of Strömbäck in  the forest, inside the small wooded mountain there is a  barrier. High barbed wire fences with dense rows of razor  wire at the top along with electrified wires. The yellow signs with the text "Protected object, access prohibited without permission" are placed at regular intervals on the outside of the fence along with large signs warning of the electrified fence that is supposed to keep people away from the area. A paved road of three kilometers leads from Strömbäck, almost down to the main road, and up to this area.  At the entrance through the fence, there is a solid gate that should be able to withstand a full-sized, fully loaded truck driving straight into the gate at a speed of one hundred kilometers per hour. Cameras are everywhere along the fence. Three hundred meters in behind the fence the paved driveway disappears under a huge light beige concrete gate. Thirty meters high and as wide. The mountain towers above the concrete gate. Just a few meters above the gate grow moss, lichens and a little further up low bushes and higher up forest. A red light sits next to the gate and is always on except when the gate is open, which is only when a vehicle is about to drive in or out. The staff has another entrance a little to the right of the main entrance. Inside the rock room there are twenty floors. All looking down from the entrance at ground level. Each floor is the size of a normal football pitch. The floor numbers start with zero at ground level and then one, two, three as the further down into the rock room you get. The floors are connected by huge, high-speed elevators that can accommodate vehicles as large as a full-size heavy truck without a trailer. There are also smaller lifts for staff and those lifts go up and down even faster. When you  stand in those elevators, you almost lift off the floor of  the elevator car as the elevator accelerates downward. The shell protection of this gigantic military complex can withstand an atomic bomb detonated directly over the roof of the facility. In the facility, there are gigantic sleeping places for all staff on floors three and four food stores and drinking water reservoirs. There is also a health care department that has staff with all the skills and also equipment that full-sized university hospitals have. The plant has three hundred and fifty employees right  here in Strömbäck. All in military service, no civilian employees. Around the world, the Space Institute has one thousand military employees in its operations. The head of the Space Institute in Sweden is called Agneta Andersson and is forty years old, a tall, fit, well-traveled woman in her prime.  Highly educated and highly competent and experienced in military service abroad. There is a research unit here at The space institute in Strömbäck and the manager there is called Bo Conradsson. A gray-haired, soon-to-be- bald, slightly overweight, short man of sixty.

Well educated abroad at university for six years, professor of space science and expert on chemical substances, brain functions and also professor of biology. He is a healthy but overintelligent person. High performer, possesses enormous capacity and is eminently suited to this post. The intelligence department at the institute works to look for extraterrestrial activity and also look for extraterrestrials and extraterrestrial technology around Sweden when reports come in that something observed that is not normal. The head of intelligence is called Karl Johansson and is forty-five years old, slim and fit, tall and with shaggy hair. He is also a former military commander, military police and has also worked for the regular military intelligence service in Sweden. The agents that Johansson has at his disposal are currently Vladimir Zorac, Carl Schmitt, Dorian Stevensson, Codan Vesterlund and Mi Roslan.

The story begins

This Tuesday morning the alarm clock rings early at Vladimir Zorac's home. This morning he is in his own home, a small wooden cabin outside Norway