Pierce the Spaceman





Pierce tightened the buckle on his moon belt. He had never seen the fogs of Planet Zarzoo so thick and the high gravity was weighing down his space boots. Pierce’s mission was simple: he was to dive through the sludge pits of Zarzoo and gather Zennon crystals to power the space colony’s defense shields. It seemed simple enough to Pierce, but he had not anticipated a high gravity day and the acid rain was burning through his spacesuit.





As Pierce walked over the toxic sand dunes of the planet Zarzoo, he saw the two golden suns setting. It would now get much colder. Pierce turned on the thermal warming power in his spacesuit as he approached the sludge pits. He checked his oxygen tanks and the levels were green. Pierce thought to himself: It’s time to dive through some sludge, and then he dove into the radioactive green goo of the sludge pits.





Pierce felt that diving to the