Description
So, whether you care about it or not, we live in an unimaginable cosmos. We sit in an inconceivable galaxy of a hundred billion blazing stars commonly termed the Milky Way. A mind-blowingly vast group of similar galaxies is blandly named a cluster. Further out, an impossibly immense collection of galaxy clusters is drily designated a supercluster. Yet thankfully our very own supercluster home is beautifully named Laniakea: an ancient Hawaiian word for immeasurable heaven. Well, aloha Laniakea! At the epicentre of Laniakea sits the official and mysterious Great Attractor governing everything - including space, time, and the politically incompetent Galactic Core. Captain Sennai cares a little because his ship and its hapless crew patrol Laniakea's eastern edge, and as a developed narcissist he mostly craves more power and a Galactic Fleet to govern. But then Sennai's ship is boarded by an 'Almighty' elder accompanied by an indifferent robot with a speech impairment, to set the Captain on a curious mission: induct a naive new world into the Galactic Club aided by the universe's strongest beer. You see, this ignorant world has inexplicably evolved too fast and is about to blow itself up. On September 1st 1983, Nelson Staff sat on this world and firmly in the not caring camp. Partly as he is no astrophysicist, but mainly because his very best friend Duke just vanished after being tracked by men in hefty sunglasses. Meanwhile, Tina Reagan has just been made redundant and cares only about escaping her northern roots. In his search for Duke, Nelson knocks on Tina's north London door, leading to both being swiftly abducted and bundled to a secret complex beneath Yorkshire's Dark Peak. Neither can call for help nor share their experience, because the early '80s were a time without mobile phones, internet, or social media. Except... for a very select few. And yet everyone should care an awful lot, because they are all about to come together and meet their maker.
PROLOGUE. 1969, A MOON LANDING
