First Spaceship on Venus story
After finding an ancient, long-buried flight recorder that originally came from a spaceship, apparently from Venus, a human spaceship is dispatched. The crew discovers a long-dead Venusian civilization that had constructed a device intended to destroy all life on the Earth prior to invasion. Before they could execute their plan, they perished in a global nuclear war.
10 total · 5 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| attack from outer space by a powerful conquering enemy | major | A long-dead Venusian civilization that had constructed a device intended to destroy all life on the Earth prior to invasion. Before they could execute their plan, they perished in a global nuclear war. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | An international crew went on a harrowing voyage to the planet Venus. |
| nuclear holocaust | major | A long-dead Venusian civilization that had constructed a device intended to destroy all life on the Earth prior to invasion. Before they could execute their plan, they perished in a global nuclear war. |
| the dangers of unfettered scientific advancement | major | The Professor, upon his return to Earth, explained how Venusian science went beyond the Venusian's ability to control it and that they were destroyed by their machines as a result. |
| Venusian extraterrestrial | major | A mission to Venus discovered evidence of a long-dead civilization there. |
| artificial gravity technology | minor | The Cosmostrator used artificial gravity to keep the crew members from floating around. |
| robot helper | minor | The Cosmostrator crew brought along a small robot helper, called Omega, that could talk and play chess and moved about on treads. |
| space station | minor | There was a space station, called Lunar 3, on the Moon. |
| speculative spacesuit | minor | A Cosmostrator crew member complained about how heavy his spacesuit was while on the Venusian surface. |
| what if I found myself in a zero gravity environment | minor | The Cosmostrator experienced what it was like to float around on the flight to Venus. |