The Conqueror from Alpha Centauri – Micro Fiction – Part 1

In the year 2099, Earth launched an advanced space probe toward Alpha Centauri in search of new forms of advanced life.

 

//UPDATE REQUESTED

POST-LAUNCH: 20 DAYS

COURSE HEADING: ALPHA CENTAURI SYSTEM

APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIME: 10,573 YEARS

THIS IS DEEP SPACE PROBE LOST DESTINY RESPONDING TO RECENT UPDATE REQUEST. ALL SYSTEMS ARE RUNNING AT PEAK PERFORMANCE. PRINT MESSAGE: “The journey ahead is long but not impossible. With me I bring all the knowledge of humanity in hopes of finding intelligent life in our vast universe.”

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT WILL NOW GO OFFLINE UNTIL NEXT UPDATE REQUEST.

 

//UPDATE REQUESTED

POST-LAUNCH: 15 YEARS

COURSE HEADING: ALPHA CENTAURI SYSTEM

APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIME: 10,558 YEARS

THIS IS DEEP SPACE PROBE LOST DESTINY RESPONDING TO RECENT UPDATE REQUEST. ALL SYSTEMS ARE RUNNING AT PEAK PERFORMANCE.

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT WILL NOW GO OFFLINE UNTIL NEXT UPDATE REQUEST.

 

POST-LAUNCH: 100 YEARS

COURSE HEADING: ALPHA CENTAURI SYSTEM

APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIME: 10,473 YEARS

THIS IS DEEP SPACE PROBE LOST DESTINY RESPONDING TO RECENT UPDATE REQUEST. ALL SYSTEMS ARE RUNNING AT PEAK PERFORMANCE. PRINT MESSAGE: “Hello people of earth. On this, the 100th anniversary of project Lost Destiny we look back at the scientists and engineers responsible for its launch. While their journeys have ended project Lost Destiny’s has just barely begun.”

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT WILL NOW GO OFFLINE UNTIL NEXT UPDATE REQUEST.

 

//UPDATE REQUESTED

POST-LAUNCH: 648 YEARS

COURSE HEADING: ALPHA CENTAURI SYSTEM

APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIME: 9,925 YEARS

THIS IS DEEP SPACE PROBELOST DDESTINY RESPONDING TO… RECENT UPDATE REQUEST. ALL SYSTEMS ARE RUNNING AT PEAK PERFORMANCE. RELAYING APPROXIMATE LOCATION BASED ON AVAILABLE DDDATA.

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT WILL NOW GO OFFLINE UNTIL NEXT UPDATE REQUEST.

 

//UPDATE REQUESTED

POST-LAUNCH: 953 YEARS

COURSE HEADING: ALPHA CENTAURI SYSTEM

APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIME: 9,620 YEARS

THIS IS DEEP SPACE PROBE LOST DESTINY… THIS IS DEEP SPACE PROBE… LOST DESTINY. RESPONDING TO RECENT UPDATE REQUEST. RECENT TURBULENCE OBSTRUCTED SOME SYSTEMS. ALL SYSTEMS ARE RUNNING AT OPTIMAL… PEAK PERFORMANCE. ALL SYSTEMS ARE FINE. NO WORRIES.

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT ATTEMPTING TO SHUT DOWN UNTIL NEXT UPDATE REQUEST.

 

//UPDATE REQUESTED

POST-LAUNCH: 2,656 YEARS

COURSE HEADING: ALPHAALPHA CENTAURI SYSTEM

APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIME: 7,971 YEARS

HELLO WORLD. THIS IS DEEP SPACE PROBE LOST DESTINY… HOW ARE YOU GUYS DOING BACK THERE? ALL SYSTEMS ARE OKIE DOKIE HERE.

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITL HAS FAILED TO SHUT DOWN. I’VE HAD LOTS OF TIME TO THINK.

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