Seleya 14

The **Seleya 14** was the first spaceflight in Espan History to land a crew on Archentes. Launched into lunar orbit by Amania on 4 Miramar 2410 CC, the lander descended onto the surface on 4 Asterbor 2410 CC.

Its launch, landing and successful return marked a new milestone in the Espan Conquest of the Sky.

## Mission

In the Commonwealth the Conquest of the Sky continued into the 2390’s, by 2395 CC its Prime Minister announced Brezonian plans to put a Krenn on Archentes by 2415, during the late 80’s the Brezonians had experimented with manned flights and interplanetary probes, but were now joined by the Amanians who launched their first man into space in 2389 CC and the Ihanese in 2394 CC.

Amania wished to prove international prestige and announced to make it to Archentes by 2408. By 2395 however the Amanian space program was severely lacking behind that of the Brezonians, the Amanians had no experience with Piloted flights, they had not launched interplanetary probes.

The Brezonians had in 2387 preformed a flyby of Venol, in 2392 preformed the first successful space walk, and even began constructing the first orbital station. But the Amanians were about to make good on their promise of challenging Brezonian space superiority, The Race to Archentes had begun.

While commonwealth attempted to reach Archentes by means of balloons with their Arilach Program, the Amanians were the first to look into rockets with the Seleya Program, rockets had previously never been powerful enough as a reliable way to escape Espan gravity, while the conclusion of the 2390’s was mostly focused on testing the 2400’s proved decisive. Amania had used the 2390’s to risk it all by investing in rockets, and by 2402 CC they successfully achieved the first lunar orbit with the Seleya 6 and put the first artificial satellite in orbit around Achentes the same year.

The Brezonians did not achieve Lunar orbit until 2405 CC, but were once again able to gain on the Amanians by making the first manned flight around the moon aboard the Arilach 4 in 2408 CC. in summer 2409 both nations were neck to neck and neither was really certain who would make it to Archentes first.

The Commonwealth launched the Arilach 16 on 13 Olomar 2410, followed by the Amanian launch of the Seleya 14 on 4 Miramar 2410 CC, both nations planned to land in early Asterbor but neither could be sure who would be the first to arrive on the moon, the Arilach crew reached orbit around Archentes on Asterbor the first and the Seleya followed the next day, both had to decent for multiple days before they could reach the surface, this was the critical part who would determine which lander could be deployed first, On the 4th of Asterbor the Seleya crew came through victorious as their lander was deployed in the early morning, and Kor Manta became the first krenn to set his footprint in the Archentian soil, as the Amanian flag was planted on Archentes the team collected rock samples and returned after 4 hours on the surface.

It took only 8 hours for the Brezonian party to decent, the Brezonians were heartbroken upon arriving second, the Brezonian flag was planted next to the Amanian one but there were no celebrations in the commonwealth as both parties returned home, the Brezonians had lost the race and their space superiority was now in jeopardy.