Stepping down onto Actaeon was simultaneously thrilling and underwhelming.
It was thrilling because this was a new world, one that I had never been to before and never experienced, and now I was free to walk across its surface. Sothing that I had only ever dread of back in my ho universe.
Now, yes, there was the fact that I had already been walking around Prespian City for over a week, but in my mind, that didn't really count.
For a start, I hadn't actually walked around on the surface of the planet where Prespian City was located. There wasn't even a surface to walk on, thanks to the water world nature of the planet.
For a second thing, I hadn't flown there in a spaceship. I'd just kind of woken up there one day. It didn't have the sa thrill as getting in a ship, flying to a place, and then leaving the ship to explore it. That was so real sci-fi stuff right there.
However, yes, it was also underwhelming.
Birds wheeled through the air, squawking just like seagulls on Earth did. Maybe close up they'd be a little bit more interesting to look at, but from a distance, they didn't really give much to be inspired by.
Green grass lay on the floor of the park that we were standing in, which was complete with fun rides like a slide and a roundabout.
Above us hung one solitary star, a little bigger and darker than the one I was used to back in my own universe, but all in all not that interesting.
Even the sky was blue, which was a good thing because it ant the atmospheric makeup of the world was breathable without the use of so kind of respirator but was a bad thing because it was just so standard and basic.
My first ti flying to a new planet, and it basically just felt like I was back on Earth.
Okay, that was a lie, it didn't feel like I was back on Earth.
Without the manna cores of the gabuilding's on Prespian City, I was forced to endure the standard gravity of this world, which turned out to be just a little bit stronger than Earth's on gravity on account of the planet being a good bit bigger, if slightly less dense.
What that left feeling like was heavy and grounded, not exactly how you wanted to feel when exploring a brave new world.
"What's up Jacob?" Asked Fal, my Lyrin friend, as we watched another group of ten thousand settlers flash into the open grass of the park.
"I guess I'm just a little underwheld," I replied, grateful that one of my friends had dropped the formality. "I've only ever been to two planets, the one I was born on and the one that Prespian City was located on. This world is a lot like the one that I was born on. I guess I was just hoping for sothing a little bit more interesting."
"I can understand that," Fal said, giving a friendly pat on the shoulder. "Still, at least all of these people will have a nice, boring and safe ho to live in for the foreseeable future."
That was true. While I had been told that Prespian City was one of the most well-defended places in the galaxy, I was quickly finding out that the statent may have been more of a hotown pride kind of thing rather than sothing based on actual fact.
Sure, Prespian city had been protected by the gravity of all those moons and the ocean below it, but Actaeon actually had a defence grid projected way out into the system.
Unless the ship was cloaked there would be no way anything could get anywhere close without triggering an alarm, and from what I knew it was pretty much impossible to maintain a cloaking field while travelling through subspace.
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