Mission to Planet Earth

                                 Mission to Planet Earth by Jim Holley

    Freda was yelling in excitement.

    “This is unbelievable. I picked up a “ping” from a distant world.

    “Badar”, she exclaimed as she reached out to her commander”,” I believe I can isolate the “ping and can determine where the sound is emanating from, but it may take a little time on finding it’s source”

    The spaceship’s crew had boarded and take off had already safely taken place. There were so many missions, searching in near and sometimes distant worlds.. But these searches were just wild dreams and ever from an actual contact. There was millions of other worlds to explore but now, this one feels like the real thing. The space ship had roared safely into space from their planet Trozo.

    A crew of six, they were veterans of so many missions which were search and finds, but they never amounted to be of anything substantial.    Now, the several space travelers had boarded their saucer shaped spacecraft for this epic journey to another world. But this was different They have long since conquered space travel and had set out on other missions to other worlds seeking life but with no success.

  Trozo  was a friendly world and having hope that somewhere, and always believing,  they would  find another world that supports life in which they could live in peace and harmony together.

    The spaceships crew were veterans of many other space flights.

 The commander, Badar, a highly decorated astronaut who had many missions under him as a senior commander in chief. Among all his current crew, he was well respected.

    Then there was Freda who had charge of the translator, which she thought was the most important job of all, and that being the manager of the translator.

     The translator was an ingenious device developed by the scientist of Trozo, which could interpret and convert anything and everything into an understandable format for all to understand.

    Gorga was the assistant commander who would be in charge of the spacecraft if something were to happen to Badar and if something went wrong.

    Telva was the ships mechanic.

    Lenza had no specific function but he was familiar with all of the spaceships operating procedures, and could be called upon to assist others in the crew where ever he was needed.

    The spaceship itself was round shaped and roomy, and was tall enough inside that the space travelers could move about easily. It had 9 portholes that circumvented the entire spacecraft so the space travelers could observe in all directions around the saucer shaped vehicle while traveling. When the saucer like spacecraft had taken off, it filled the crew with excitement.

   Bada, the saucers commander, had slowed the spacecraft down as they neared the blue like worlds moon and he steered  the spacecraft around from the dark side of this blue planets  moon.   “It had been a long journey but quickly and using mach speed from their home, time passed quickly.. They had developed using a grid system of travel so they could travel nearly the speed of light.

    The view  was getting more clear as they came around from the dark side of this blue worlds moon. It was difficult to observe, as the new worlds atmosphere was hiding it from view. It had much space dust surrounding it and it appeared not to visable.

   “There it is”: Badar  yelled over to his crew”, his voice trembling with excitement but with authority as the spaceship’s commander.

   Though his looks belied his years, command was still in the tone of his voice.  He had rose through the ranks and had become a leader. His voice commanded authority.    Although the craft was now on autopilot, his hands were still firmly holding onto the spacecraft controls as his excitement grew also.

     Badar was an average and young looking human like alien and with blueish eyes and forward ears so when he looked at you, he always seemed to be listening.

      “We are seeing a world for the first time and picking up voices on the translator that their planet’s inhabitants are calling their world Earth.

    “And were now only 97 million miles from this peaceful and blue looking world..” :”

    “Now slowing down and at this speed, we should be closing in on their goal within 3 days” Badar commented

    “How exciting” exclaimed Freda, the spacecrafts translator.

“But our instruments tell us we were here in this area before”.

    Yes, it does. It seems like we were her before

    She was the one who picked up the beep that was sent by the someone. A signal that someone from the bluish looking world was trying to make contact.

    Now It was time to establish contact. Slowing down after travelling at warp speed,, the spacecraft should reach their destination in a matter of days.

    Telnar, the ships 2^nd in command, kept his eyes on the gauges, double checking Badar’s calculations. Although it was Badar’s command, he was trained and ready to take command if needed.

    They departed from their planet Trozo> to their destination, which was in a cluster of stars and worlds, approximately 2 light years away from their world.. It was similar to Trozo’s atmosphere, which also had a light bluish glow which someday they hoped, would welcome other spacecraft from outside their beloved world. Trozo was a peaceful world where everyone loved and respected each other, which it is why they had a problem after containing their excitement as they picked up more voices from this world.

    The crew peered out the evenly spaced 6 portholes in the spaceships body. It would be wonderful to converse with friendly beings from this world and to learn about their planet and its inhabitants.

    Freda was first to sense something was wrong. She didn’t understand how and why there were so many different languages and that they must have trouble communicating with each other. Unlike our world Trozo, we all spoke in one language.

    The blue planet was getting closer.

    The spaceship was closing in on target. The bluish looking world was now, a mere 93million miles away.

     As the spaceship leveled off, more and more languages were sorted out by the translator machine. It appears that each language was that of a  separate people. And they were constantly not agreeing with each

 other.

    As the translator computer received messages, it was able to read and interpret them. It seems like the bluish world is a warlike planet, with everyone arguing with each other. And it appears that wars were a part of this world’s culture, going back in time, for the present and for the foreseeable future.

    Badar, the spaceship’s commander, was hearing all this through his tied in translator. He was going to have to make the final decision. Shall we make contact?

    Now, these beings are threatening each other with nuclear war This is horrible.

    The blue planet,, it seems has man different countries. There are the big powers and the smaller ones.

    The Russians are threatening the United States and the Chinese are threating the United States and arguing with Russia. And the small countries are aligning themselves with the bigger ones. We checked with individuals as in the so called United States and other countries., Their leaders are  and bickering with each other. Seems like nobody can along.

   “We have to make a decision on what to do” Bader said, his voice commanding. “We will vote on it.

  “I vote we go home, and let the earthlings solve their problems or  destroy each other” voiced Telnar, the ships co- commander.,

  “But maybe  they can resolve their problems.” Said Ze

    Badar, on hearing how the comments all went, turned the space ship around and set a course back to Trozo, their own friendly planet. \\\\

    Protera, the ships mechanic was silent through all this but not any longer. “Leave them to destroy each other” he stated. “As much as we would like to help,. It is not our problem”.

  “We have some more information on the” Freda said, her voice tailing off……She  interjected. “it  seems like the blue world’s inhabitants have ventured into space and are threatening each other to shoot down the opposing countries satellites.”

    A lone voice came from the back of the spacecraft. It was Karla, the ships nurse. “ I say leave them be. From our translator device interpretation,” “they have been fighting since their recorded history”.

    “I do not believe the blue world can be saved.” “It is a sad commentary is that the blue planets inhabitants cannot get along’”.

    Karla maybe right. “These beings will never have peace. And we don’t want their hatefulness to contaminate us”.

“Let’s go home” they all said in unison..

OK, but I know now, we are not alone.