The Belarian Initiative

This book is a novel approach to the age-old "Earth Meets Alien" story. The totally benevolent, highly advanced Belarians want the people of Earth to continue their mission of seeking life throughout the galaxy.

A quantum leap in spaceflight capability set the Belarians on a journey, the scope of which even they did not realize for many years. Warp drive, having been a scientific theory for more than 2,000 years, became a reality. The Belarians were now able to explore vast volumes of the galaxy in only a few hundred years. But the galaxy is too vast for just a few dozen ships to explore. The scope of the "Belarian Initiative" needed to be greatly expanded. The new Initiative provided for the design and construction of 500 multi-generational, warp-driven starships. The paramount goal, the "Prime Objective," was to find intelligent, benevolent life with which the Belarians could communicate and share cultures and technology.

The year is 2008 and Bill Weller, a 46 year-old NASA engineer at Kennedy Space Center, is about to meet an alien, Capt. Kroy, who will offer him an unbelievable opportunity. The Belarians have selected him to become the next Captain of the Belarian starship. Why did they choose him? What makes him qualified to Captain a 10-mile diameter starship? Who will he choose to help him? What adventures await him and his new Senior Officers?

Bill Weller and his 12,000-member Earth crew will explore the Milky Way Galaxy and discover the "Fountain," an artificially created system of 7,000,000 wormholes leading to millions of galaxies throughout the universe. Will they find the aliens who created the Fountain? Where are they now? What artifacts and clues did they leave behind for others to find?

Join Bill and his Earth crew as they explore the Milky Way Galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, many strange and beautiful planets, and must deal with missile attacks and political turmoil here at home before beginning their mission.