Onto a Sea of Stars Quotes

“Okay,” said Oggy. “What did they mean by asking you about being an afronaut?”
Beaumont frowned at the statement. “We’re in space and things have not changed that drastically from two hundred years ago.” The old vet paused. “We are in space and we,” he said lifting his hand and showing it to Oggy. The boy smirked. “We, are the workers, the laborers. They,” Beaumont said, raising his chin in the direction of the three men on the opposite side of the compartment. “They, are the bosses, the managers. So, in this power structure they found a way to label us.”
“We are afronauts,” Zuzu said with a disgusted look and a finger pointing to her hair. “They are astronauts.”
“That don’t sound right,” said Oggy.
“Right or wrong, it is what it is,” Beaumont said.”

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Onto a Sea of Stars
Mark Sneed
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― Mark T. Sneed, Onto a Sea of Stars: The Adventures of Christian Drake and The Unintentional Space Pirates

“You are the much talked about afronaut leisure class,” said the mustached and shifty eyed third stranger with a knowing smile. “Were you injured?”
“What is an afronaut?” Oggy asked his sister, in a whisper. Zuzu shushed Oggy. Beaumont gave his nephew a cold side eye.”

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Onto a Sea of Stars
Mark Sneed
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― Mark T. Sneed, Onto a Sea of Stars: The Adventures of Christian Drake and The Unintentional Space Pirates

“As I told you, I ain’t your mom or your dad. I’m your uncle,” Beaumont said. “I ain’t going to babysit you or your sister. I ain’t got time for that or your foolishness. We are nowhere near Mars, and I can’t just drop you off when you act up. You have to respect me and trust me. In that order. Otherwise, we are going to butt heads again and again until you learn that I’m not to be played with or we find your mom.” Beaumont took a breath and studied his niece and nephew. “You get me?”

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Onto a Sea of Stars
Mark Sneed
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― Mark T. Sneed, Onto a Sea of Stars: The Adventures of Christian Drake and The Unintentional Space Pirates

“How do you do your dealings with all these... notorious individuals and their shenanigans with their less than legitimate business dealings?” McGee asked. “I just don’t see how this,” McGee waved to the cantina. “I don’t get how this works without bloodshed?”
“It works because, despite what the IGF and media wants to suggest, most criminals are not hiding in the shadows or lurking in dark corners. They are where people are. The most populated area in the six-planet area is controlled by IGF and the Gee Force. The bad guys ain't going to be found in deep space. So, the “criminals” return to the six-planet areas and need a safe haven and place where they can do their business with a fair hand,” the short, cropped hair man said as they entered the cantina and the space where dozens of tables were filled with men and women space adventurers, explorers, pirates, freebooters, and the like drinking, gambling, talking, eating, and snickering about things. “They come here.”

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Onto a Sea of Stars
Mark Sneed
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― Mark T. Sneed, Onto a Sea of Stars: The Adventures of Christian Drake and The Unintentional Space Pirates

“The goal of education, to me, is to challenge, question, educate and reveal. You, and everyone, should have beliefs but you should hold them so sacred as not to be willing to consider a new thought.”

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Onto a Sea of Stars
Mark Sneed
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― Mark T. Sneed, Onto a Sea of Stars: The Adventures of Christian Drake and The Unintentional Space Pirates

“In space and on Mars the explorers seemed to unconsciously duplicate the problems found on Earth.”

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Onto a Sea of Stars
Mark Sneed
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― Mark T. Sneed, Onto a Sea of Stars: The Adventures of Christian Drake and The Unintentional Space Pirates

“The Martian history was not too different from that on Earth. The only exception was that people left the satellites and went to the surface of Mars and eventually after extensive construction found their way under a dozen domes on the red surface of the red planet. There, in the constructed safety of a domed environment the new Martians began to pollute and poison Mars as they had Earth. Garbage was a real problem. The consumption of foodstuffs created waste.”

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Onto a Sea of Stars
Mark Sneed
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― Mark T. Sneed, Onto a Sea of Stars: The Adventures of Christian Drake and The Unintentional Space Pirates

“Justice was swift and unbending in space”

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Onto a Sea of Stars
Mark Sneed
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― Mark T. Sneed, Onto a Sea of Stars: The Adventures of Christian Drake and The Unintentional Space Pirates