The Star Series
Book Two of Seven
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Planet earth: The two first students had made all arrangements to travel to earth, and their families had gathered at the space terminal to bid them farewell. There were general scenes of goodwill, but their parents were fairly emotional although they were confident their sons would be safe on earth. After all they were descended from the original settler to Orbsey, and there were still lots of family connections on earth should they be needed. The interaction between the two planets had been extensive for almost two thousand years, and earth was still protected by Orbsey; the only ones that knew that, though, were the Kauri tree spirits in New Zealand’s far north.
The two men were very excited and couldn’t wait to leave! The journey to earth had become well travelled over the centuries; many Orbseyns with relations were living there, or just tourists wanting to have the personal experience of spending time within an ancient-to-them culture. The actual travel time had been reduced to four days, including the time spent in the terminals. The unloading time on Earth was very quick, because there were no terminals and all passengers had to beam themselves down to the planet’s surface. On arrival they would then be able to beam themselves to where ever they wanted to go. The students had agreed they would first go to New Zealand and introduce themselves to the Kauri spirits, and then move back to the first century AD and begin their studies from the time of Julius Caesar and the Roman conquest of Egypt.
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There are many people living on Earth who have come from a distant planet called Orbsey—and others who have come home. The price for the return trip was all memory of their time on Orbsey, but even their technology can’t fully eradicate all memories. So many experience small glimpses of what could be a dream of their past lives on an alien world, but they are afraid to speak of them, for fear of being ridiculed. But the hidden burden of their experience cannot be denied.
Stolen from Earth and forced to serve on Orbsey for at least five years, these lost children of humanity struggle to rebuild their lives upon their return to Mother Earth. Taken for research purposes, they were the subjects of Orbsien studies on the very human predilection for violence. But despite the methodology, the motives were noble: the scientists of Orbsey want to find the cure for violence. But two thousand years of observation and research have failed.
Now, two Orbsien students have been given a grant to travel back in time to do a full-time study on Earth. These young aliens take human wives and settle into Earth culture. When they devise a plan to return to Orbsey with their wives, their plans become complicated by temporal issues: can these women from Earth’s past adjust to life in its present—let alone the future on Orbsey?
These students risk it all in the name of love—proving that some things are universal after all.
About the Author
Vincent Havelund has worked in the financial industry around the world. For five years, he served as a church-sponsored missionary in America. His lifelong interest in the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life inspires his fiction. Now retired and living in Australia, he has grown children and sixteen grandchildren.