Space Knights: The Arrival by Gregory Samuelson (buy e reader .TXT) 📕

of the Sparrow XIV would land the first Earth ship landed and caused quite a stir. The crew of Eagle I worked hard to establish peaceful relations with the Althorians. They received help in awakening the passengers and unloading them, their belongings and samples of Earth’s animals and plants.

The Althorians were amazed and fascinated by the tales of Earth and seemed very eager to assist the Earth people any way they could. Many political leaders were taken to the capital and soon became advisors to the King of the kingdom they had landed in. They helped establish very good relations between the Earth people and the Althorians. They would not be the major leaders as they had been, but they were soon in their area of expertise.

Others gravitated to areas that they had known back on Earth. Farmers went to the agricultural areas, and business people went to find work where they could fit in and soon became entwined with the local businesses as if they had grown up with them. Even the religious leaders found places to worship. Ministers, pastors, and priests found churches where they could continue in their vocation. They met with the planet’s ministers and learned of the religions there. Both sides found that they were very similar. It seemed that there was a place for everyone. Some Earth people even went to the other continents and the kingdoms there and were just as warmly welcomed. As it usually is, some places were friendlier than others. A few Earth people found that they could even travel to a nearby peaceful world in a system not far from Althora. The people from Earth soon learned that there were several worlds with intelligent beings in this area of the Andromeda galaxy.

This area was roughly divided into those worlds friendly with Althora and those like Boulthora that were enemies of Althora. There were of course some worlds that were neutral. There was also one world that nobody ventured to that was quite vast with only a third of its surface covered by water. It had once had a very good ecosystem yet had been utterly devastated by a massive long forgotten war.

It did not take long for the fate of the Sparrow XIV to be learned as well as the tragedy of the Spartan XV. There was a great deal of outrage from both the Earth people and Althorians at the Boulthorians for the unprovoked attack. In two days however, there was some relief as the first of the Sparrow XIV’s passengers was found. The Sparrow’s chambers soon landed all over the continent. The Sonderson family landed within a mile of the capital city. They were spaced out around the capital but within two days were united together, except Trance. His whereabouts were unknown.

In a couple days the Sondersons were brought to the palace and introduced to the king. The king had learned that Mr. Sonderson had been the person that had found their planet with his father and that was why the Earth people had flown across space. The reason for the Earth peoples’ exodus was also learned and they were honored and told how sorry the Althorians were that the Earth had been destroyed. The Sondersons were the most honored because of Mr. Sonderson’s dedication to finding a new home for his people and leading them here.

After their meeting with the king they were then helped to find a home. It only took them one day to find a house. It was in a small town just five miles from the capital and they were able to move in right away.

Mr. Sonderson found a position at an observatory that was just twenty miles away and with great excitement began work studying the stars and planets that could be seen from Althora. Mrs. Sonderson quickly found where to go shopping for groceries and clothing for the family.

It just happened that there were only two Althorian months left in the school year so the two Sonderson children, Heather, the fourteen-year-old girl, and Sammy, the eleven-year-old little boy, would be able to enjoy extra time off from school and the summer break. They would study some at home to try and get ready for the next school year. Trance still hadn’t been found. He was still seventeen and the oldest Sonderson child. They missed him and wondered where he was and what had happened to him. They held out hope that he had landed safely and was fine, yet it seemed that everyone else from the Sparrow XIV had been found.

The Sondersons were also soon reunited with their relatives. They had a good family reunion with Mr. Sonderson’s brothers and their families and with Mrs. Sonderson’s family, all except Trance. All of the families lived just a couple miles apart. As the reunion broke up all of the family heads promised that they would all stay close and keep in touch with everyone.

Heather and Sammy soon made friends in their neighborhood and were playing with the other kids, just as if they had all grown up together. The Sonderson kids were the center of attention. The Althorian children found them very interesting and curious. One of the most curious things was that they had to basically be given a new birthday. This was most intriguing as in a very real sense they were eons old. A small group of scientists came up with a very clever program to give all of the Earth people new birthdays.

As day followed day and there was no news of Trance, Evan and Eileen had to add Trance to the list of dead or missing from the tragedy. Eileen spent many nights of their first month on Althora weeping and praying. Even without Trance life started anew and the family was soon making friends and learning about their new and fascinating home.

Most fascinating to the Earth people was that the Althorians, as well as many of the other races in the galaxy, were human. There