The Kepler Incident by Saddletramp1956
In 2108, the faster-than-light science vessel USS Kepler suddenly went missing. An intense search found nothing, and the ship, with all 50 hands, was listed as “missing.”
Four years later, a single communications packet from the doomed ship arrived at Starbase One, in orbit over Earth. After verifying the signal source, Star Fleet Command dispatched the USS Enterprise, commanded by Captain Bill Jones, to investigate the situation.
Upon arrival at Wolf 437, a red dwarf star with two planets, Enterprise found Kepler’s damaged drive section. Hoping that Capt. Stewart, the commanding officer of Kepler, had somehow managed to land the rest of his crippled ship on a nearby planet, Capt. Jones sets out.
What he and the Enterprise find on planet Gliese 486c surprises everyone.
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Saddletramp1956 is the pen name of an online author with over 200 free stories on various sites, in addition to his published work on Amazon, Patreon, Substack, and Medium.
A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who has traveled to many places worldwide, he now lives in the Pacific Northwest with his lovely bride of 38 years, a faithful dog, and a very noisy Quaker parrot.
Most of his stories revolve around the themes of justice and making wrongs right. He also enjoys writing science fiction and quirky, out-of-the-box stories that include elements of the paranormal. Saddletramp’s stories are not your “run-of-the-mill” erotica.