Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Born in space a few months before reaching the planet where she’d spend the next 19 years of her life, young Rozi became a space hero before she could even talk.
An uncharted group of meteorites hit a colonists spaceship that was on it’s way to a new planet rich with minerals and room to breathe.
For hours the crew and passengers worked feverishly to patch holes and adjust oxygen levels and when the excitement had died down a baby girl was found sitting on the last dangerous hole from the meteorites, her swaddled butt had prevented the air from being sucked out of the cabin to the relief of everyone.
How she had escaped from her crib and found the hole to sit on was a mystery, but she looked very pleased with herself!
Giddy from their brush with death, the crew of the colonists ship gave baby Rozi the highest honor it could bestow, that was the official title of “Space Hero“.
On land the title was a curiosity and sometimes a conversation piece, not too amazing considering the multiplicity of achievements the human race provided for people to oooh and ahhh about, but in space it carried weight, in a potential life and death situation you wanted a hero nearby, or just to know there was one on board and because of this, ’space heros’ were given free passage and preferencial treatment on all honest spaceships.
Perhaps it was just wishful thinking but whenever a captain announced the presence of an official space hero on board to his passengers there was always a sigh of relief…
Rozi grew up and adapted to being a ground-hog in the colony, her space legs remembered only in her dreams, and she eventually joined the newly built university as an art student.
Her beauty, intelligence and general fearlessness made her a natural leader and she was elected as the student government representative for the art department.
She took the duty seriously and when the news that the Giant Killer Space Robot, a poorly named peice of space-junk, a derelict and aparantly, alien, vessel that had fallen into the planets orbit, was to be opened to the public for tours, she lobbied for and ultimately organized a trip to it for her fellow art students.
What happened when they arrived on the gleaming alien ship would astound all that heard of it.
Amazingly, for the first time since it was discovered, its lights powered up and engines hummed with metallic power.
Creative energy was the key, the military and scientists had a little of course, but not the burning intensity of art students and that is how Rozi and her friends were asked to find out what they could about the spaceship and eventually commissioned to pilot it into the unknown!!!
Cast includes Rozi, the space hero(Captain).
Gemma the guinea pig trainer (Rozi’s baby sister, a stowaway that saves the day every other episode).
Kassy, Gemma’s friend, along for the ride but charming in her own right.
Daz the phony space pirate(formerly bitter, dying, asshole of an old man who neglected his artistic side until a black hole transmuted his dna back to that of a young man and he had the chance to live again, as an artist in a spaceship full of hot art chicks (hey it’s my story, I’ll write whatever I want!!) after the crew of the GKSR found his diabled craft floating in space).
Muffin Man (Second in command, solid, dependable, constantly embarrased by the girls..), and many more!!
This story is printed in Go B Zine summer 2008 issue!
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August 11th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Hi! Stumbled across this and I was smiling my head off as I read the post. I’m believing in an alternate reality this actually happened. Fun!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:53 pm