Earth Star Voyager story
A crew of mostly teenagers embarks on a 26-year long mission to visit a planet in another star system as a prelude to colonization.
16 total · 6 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| friendship | major | Jonathan and Beanie were best friends. |
| interstellar space travel | major | The story premise is that a crew of mostly teenagers are sent on a 26-year long mission to visit a planet in another star system as a prelude to colonization. |
| secret crush | major | Beanie had an awkward secret crush on Luz. |
| sentient computer | major | The Earth Star Voyager spacecraft was equipped with a rather touchy sentient supercomputer, named Priscilla. |
| space colonization | major | The story premise is that a crew of mostly teenagers are sent on a 26-year long mission to visit a planet in another star system as a prelude to colonization. |
| speculative spaceship | major | The story is largely set aboard the fusion powered, interstellar vessel Earth Star Voyager. |
| brother and sister | minor | Sally was disappointed to find out that her older brother Vance, who she had looked up to, had become the leader of a band of rogues. |
| coping with the death of a family member | minor | Sally hadn't gotten over her brother having died while serving on the Vanguard Explorer. |
| coping with unwelcome romantic attention | minor | Huxley was made uncomfortable when the ship's sentient supercomputer developed a crush on him. |
| cryogenic technology | minor | Earth Star Voyager crew members took rest in special "cryo-sleep" chambers. |