Vesta Images courtesy NASA, JPL and CalTech
created during the Dawn Mission
Welcome to
Vesta - the Books
A good read with very big ideas
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Space Colonization Solutions
Bring Life to the Universe
Bring the Universe to Life
WELCOME TO VESTA - THE BOOKS
A VERY GOOD READ WITH BIG IDEAS
These novel are for young people of all ages.
Welcome to Vesta, hard fiction stories full of humor. A fun read. An engaging tale set during mankind's colonization of the solar system, sprinkled with nuggets of life’s experience. None of the ideas are impossible, but many are new. It is written with a certain pragmatic optimism that only surviving the future can bring. Vesta is about standing upon the foundations set in the past, the struggle to survive today, and the quest to grow into the future.
Vesta contains a message: Given guidance, opportunity and responsibility, people thirteen years old can successfully become adults. Many of the ancient culture allowed this, and today’s society is doing our youth a disservice by not allowing competent individuals becoming adults with full rights at that age.
In addition, a road map as it were, is included, suggesting a path that today's people could take to strengthen mankind's chance of future existence. By colonizing the solar system, humanity and life itself is given additional assurance of not only survivability, but for the opportunity to achieve our potential.
Although nothing in life is guaranteed, if we work hard, and work together, we have a chance, which gives Reason for Hope. Hardworking pragmatic optimists like their chance.
Our story begins on Vesta, some thousands of years into the future. It has taken longer than expected to settle the Solar System, but life in the asteroid belt is in full swing. It appears that many dreams of the past have been realized: Earth’s economy and environment are stable, and it is a time of prosperity. The population of the Belt Federation is almost twenty times that of earth, expanding rapidly with almost unlimited space and free energy.
The Belt is a magical place to grow up, there are wonders everywhere! Artificial intelligence is no longer artificial, and the Races of Man are splendid indeed! There are Mechmen, genetically modified Spacemen, Hivemen, eMen, and Borgmen, all living within the society of the Belt. Do you want feathers, blue fur or a tail? Done! Do you want instant access and memory augmentation? Universal traits! A new Religion of Hope is raising its head! Old Religions are remade. Do you want harmony and a strong society? Join a hive! Do you want independence and individual responsibility? Be a Cowboy in your own ship/habitat in the outer reaches! Dress as you please and have anyone, or no one, as your friend. There is Freedom in the Universe!
It is also a time of dark secrets and creases. The Races of Man do not naturally trust each other, and suspicions are an undercurrent. There is a federation Space Navy on patrol, and cops and robbers back home. Unconfirmed sightings of ghost ships are the stuff of legend. Concentrations of strange Mechs lurk in the orbits of the Gas Giants. Hidden in the Kuiper are stories of dark dealings, pirates and slavery away from the light of the sun, and the Cowboys are too independent to care. There is Freedom in the Universe!
This is a story of a few young people, Jon and W0ody, Cat and the Blue Brothers, KaiLin and Abs: Coming of Age on Vesta.
“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program,
it'll serve us right!”
– Larry Niven
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
Niels Bohr
The Shadow’s tenor increased slightly. “Vesta is in extremis, sirs, and we need every bit of help we can get. You two criminalists are being drafted into the cause, because … because we have to use every avenue of exploration we have, and you, Wild Bi1l, have a reputation of thinking outside the box to the point of being reckless, but capable of getting results.
“Why, I have actually watched your gig at the IMP, the hook in the joke about the prostitute, dirtman and aardvark was pure genius. How your mech brain works is anybody’s guess, but perhaps you can unlock the mystery of the threat.
“And you sir, our Earthman, our dirtman, our unaugmented human, a babe as it were. You are a loose cannon. What are your capabilities? What could you contribute? On the surface, nothing, nothing more than a child, yet, of all the resources Earth could have sent in response to our request, they sent you, an unknown, from the rustic Northwest of the America’s, named after a heroic historical figure from that region.
“What can you do? I have no clue, but one of the Sphinges recommended that I throw you, a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, that I throw you into the fire. What you can do, I don’t know. But it can’t hurt. We must act! The very existence of our people is being threatened by the HOB!”
Life is a Gift,
In our Uncertain World,
The Future is not Guaranteed,
However, if We Work Hard Together,
We have a Chance, and that is
Reason for HOPE