Galactic Brigade: Freezing of Hope
By Dan Brock
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It's a race against the clock for the crew
of the Starship Angelica as they battle to
regain power before their engines shut
down completely.
While on the surface of the ice planet
Purgatory, a small group of humans from
the ship rush to find out who (or what)
were the cause of the life readings they
picked up before they freeze to death.
What is it about this frozen wasteland
that the evil robotic Hadesians hoped to
gain by leading them there.
Dan Brock
Dan Brock grew up in Kent, Washington loving science fiction and fantasy stories. He loved watching movies and TV shows with space ships and laser gun battles. He started in elementary school by writing a story called The Freeze Ray which the school published for the library. Unfortunately, the book was lost and the story only remains in Dan’s mind. Over the next several years, he’s written various other stories. Somewhere in there, he began writing poetry and scripts for stage productions, many of which have been performed by a professional theater group. At one point, he had a book published of ghost stories and tales of paranormal encounters that he wrote with some input from his brother that he’s currently working on redoing. In addition to writing he is also an accomplished musician, stage actor and artist. He runs an art production company, a Christian record label and now a publishing house. Dan currently resides in Auburn, Washington with his wife.
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Galactic Brigade - Dan Brock
Galactic Brigade – Freezing of Hope
2016
Copyright © 2016 by Dan Brock
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.
First Printing: 2009
All characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Cover and interior artwork by Dan Brock
ISBN 978-1-329-83878-9
Sword Stars Publishing
Auburn, WA
www.dtmenter.com
Printed in the United States of America
To lovers of outer space science fiction. I would like to also give an honorable mention to Gene
Roddenberry, George Lucas and Glen Larson whose worlds have inspired me to create the Galactic Brigade galaxy.
For my angel, Elizabeth
A Message from the Author
This is an updated reprint of the story Galactic Brigade in Somewhere Out There published by Publish America. The Publish America version had many errors from the publisher in it that I wanted to correct. I also wanted to put it out as a standalone book in the Galactic Brigade series.
Roughly translated, this book is how the story was originally supposed to be. I would like to thank you for taking the time to read the first book in the series, and hope that you enjoy it along with future installments.
Dan Brock
January 13, 2015
Galactic Brigade – Freezing of Hope (the story)
It was a rather routine evening aboard the Starship Angelica. Lieutenant Commander Elyza sat alone in the card game casino in the officer’s lounge. He was playing Solitaire, but was not entirely with it. He wished that his best friend, Ensign Twila, wasn’t on duty tonight. He would have liked to spend some time with her. But he knew it was against the rules for him to be on the bridge just to talk to her while she was on duty, so he would have to wait until she finished her shift to see her. As the best card player on the ship, he won game after game. Time began to drag on and on, and Twila was still on duty for another two hours. He finally quit after twenty-two straight wins and decided to go over to the video arcade on the other side of the lounge. On his way down the hallway, he noticed something rather odd. About 3/4 of the way down the hall, there was a crack on the left wall in the shape of a door. It was strange that he’d never noticed it before.
This is odd,
he said to himself. I wonder what it is.
He began searching for a way to open it. After about forty-five minutes of trying, he was just about to give up and dismiss it as his boredom messing with his mind. When suddenly he saw what looked like a small box out of the corner of his eye. It was down at the end of the hall; up in the corner. He quickly rushed over and seeing it was in fact a box made to look like part of the wall, took it down. When he opened it he saw that there were six keys inside. Then he noticed that on the secret door, about waist high, there was a section of about a square inch that was just a little bit shinier than the rest of the wall. He managed to open this section of wall to find a keyhole. When he tried a key, the door opened to reveal a small room about the size of crewmembers quarters. Judging by the dust content in the room, he concluded that no one had been inside in a long time. He went in to have a look around, and began dusting some of the things within the room when an idea struck him. He pushed the speak button on his wrist communicator.
This is Lieutenant Commander Elyza calling Communications Officer Twila, come in please.
He was met with a reply of static. He tried again several times with the same result. Then, from a stroke of curiosity, he stepped back out into the hall and tried. This time he was met with a more friendly reply.
Lieutenant Commander Elyza, this is Communications Officer Twila, please state the nature of your business.
Hello Twila, can you do me a big favor and meet me in the officers arcade after your shift?
He replied.
It was good just to hear her voice. It was a good weapon against his boredom.
"Elyza if the admiral finds out that I’m making a date during my shift, I’ll stand a very good chance at getting demoted. So this better be good," she was whispering to try to avoid being overheard by the admiral or commodore.
Just be there. You won’t be sorry,
Elyza insisted.
He ended the transmission and went back into the room. He wanted to know why he couldn’t transmit from the inside. Upon careful inspection, he realized that the walls were magnetized on the inside. And the magnetic field made it impossible to transmit in or out of the room. Which meant that scanners couldn’t penetrate the room either, which really added to his plan.
There was an old fashion computer on a desk that was in the corner of the room. After about fifteen minutes