Another of my old projects from the 90's, but I changed some things that everything fits better into the current time period.
"Messenger Salvation"
In 2011 the NASA probe Messenger orbits the planet Mercury and starts the
survey of this small planet in our solar system. While everything goes well for
months, the probe discovers a mysterious object on the surface of the planet later
that year. NASA is not able to determine what it exactly is.
More than 20 years later the so-called ABFA, the Authority Board for Astronomical Incidents,
is founded after a probe discovers another foreign object on Mars. This time it is able to
scan the object more detailed, and high-resolution pictures reveal the object as an
artificial one, possible also from alien origin. Comparisons with pictures and probe information
from Mercury provide the same result for the object on Mercury.
In 2047 the object on Mercury starts to transmit a foreign periodic signal, and at the same time
different probes within the very outer solar system stop to send information. Rough
pictures of the Hubble-III space telescope reveal another alien object taking a course right
into direction to Mercury. The ABFA is alarmed and starts a secret mission trying to reveal the
intentions of the unknown intruder. All what they know is that the object on Mercury seems to
be the source for all.
A crewed space mission to Mercury is planned, but time seems to be too short to arrive in
time on the planet before the alien object does.





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