Her Celestial Farm on the Scrapyard Planet (by Kay Lucas) novel Chapter 477

Chapter 477 Planet X.

Chapter 477 Planet X-7

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“So what you’re telling me is Elizabeth said, pointing at the dense scattering of light dots on the star map, her voice barely containing her excitement, “as long as I’m the first one to find it, it’s mine?”

Melton stood beside her, patiently explaining, “Moe precisely, the resource extraction rights for any planet first explored and registered belong to the exploration team. It’s a policy the kingdom put in place to encourage interstellar exploration. Any unmarked planet, whoever completes the exploration registration first gets the priority development rights”

“Including all the living things on it?”

“Including everything on it.” Melton nodded. “Minerals, water sources, vegetation, animals. As long as your can find it and bring it back, it’s yours.”

Elizabeth’s eyes got even brighter.

She turned and faced the massive star map on the wall.

The map was dotted with countless points of light.

The blue ones were developed planets, the gray ones were areas crossed by shipping lanes, and those huge stretches of black were uncharted, unknown sectors of space.

Hidden in all that black were countless wild planets no one had ever set foot on.

And every single one of them was a potential future ranch for her.

“How many of these planets does Seafarm Group hold?” she asked.

Melton had already done his homework. “Around 20. Mostly out in the frontier sectors, dedicated to harvesting meat, eggs, and dairy. The reason they’ve got a lock on 70 percent of the meat market across the kingdom is because of those planets.”

“Around 20…” Elizabeth repeated under her breath, the corners of her mouth lifting. “Then we’d better get cracking.”

Desmond stood off to the side with his arms crossed, his face serious. “Boss, exploring wild planets is no joke. Every animal on those worlds has been mutated and is extremely aggressive. You can’t just send a handful of people out and call it done.”

1. We need to think “I know that.” Elizabeth nodded and walked back to her desk to sit down. “That’s exactly why I called all of you in. this through carefully. For our first exploration, where we go, how we get there, who we bring, what gear we use, one thing at a time.”

The device on the desk projected an even bigger star map, marking the entire sector around Planet A001.

Desmond, Melton, Tiffany, and Skylar gathered around the desk, and a long discussion began.

“Head east,” Skylar said, the first to speak, his finger tapping on a section of the star map. “There are a few unmarked rocky plane over here, with climate conditions similar to Planet A001. If there’s life, it should mostly be land animals.”

“Too close.” Melton shook his head. “This area is too near the main shipping lanes. Even if there were resources, the exploration teams passing through would have picked them clean by now. We need to go deeper.”

Desmond pointed at a stretch of black space at the edge of the star map. “Over here. About seven days’ travel from Planet A001, well off the main shipping lanes, no records on it. Based on the remote sensing data, this planet has an atmosphere, liquid water,

Chapter 477 Planet X-7

kable temperature range. If we get lucky, we should be able to find usable biological resources.

Elizabeth leaned in to take a look. “Does it have a name?”

“No.” Desmond said. “Just a designation X 7”

“X-7…” Elizabeth said it out loud, and then suddenly smiled. “What an awful name. Once we claim it, we’re giving it a real name

Tiffany was taking notes off to the side and said without looking up, “Boss, let’s save the naming for after we get back. First, we need to lock in the target.”

“Fine, fine, fine.” Elizabeth waved a hand, then pointed at another area on the star map, “What about this one? How does this look?”

Melton glanced over and shook his head. “Too far. The round trip would take two weeks. For a first exploration, we shouldn’t be going that far.”

“What about this one?”

“Aeriş Planet. No good.”

“This one?”

“Temperature’s too low. It’s -58°F.”

“Surely this one works?”

“Based on the remote sensing data, there might be large predators on this planet. With the gear we’ve got right now, going there is basically serving ourselves up on a platter.”

Elizabeth let out a sigh and leaned back. “All right, you guys tell me. Where do we go?”

The men exchanged a look, and Desmond spoke up. “X-7. Reasonable distance, suitable environment, manageable risk. It’s the best option on the table right now.”

Melton nodded. “I agree. Remote sensing shows X-7 has vegetation and water sources, and there’s a strong chance of animal life. If we get lucky and find a few species we can domesticate, we hit the jackpot.”

Skylar nodded too. “X-7 sounds solid to me. Seven-day flight, two-week round trip, we pack enough supplies, and we should be in good shape.”

Tiffany pushed up his glasses and started crunching the numbers. “Spaceship, fuel, equipment, weapons, supplies… I ran a quick estimate, and a single exploration run doesn’t come cheap. If we come back empty-handed, we’ll take a real hit.”

Elizabeth was quiet for a moment.

“Then we’d better make sure we don’t come back empty-handed.” Her voice carried that certainty everyone around her had come to know. “Desmond, you’re in charge of putting the exploration team together. Skylar, you handle the spaceship and the equipment. Melton, you’re on intel gathering and risk assessment. Tiffany, you’ve got logistics and supply.”

She stood up and walked over to the star map, her finger landing on that gray planet labeled X-7,