Chris Khan

**Chris Khan**

"The kid that grew up on his family farm, and got desensitized to the occasional strange happenings, turns into the next astronaut to leave Earth, and experiences the strangest space journey, along with some new friends." - (summary)

Age in Chapter New Planet: 32 years

Character Profile that I should have done a while ago- here we go…

Why is Khan special?

Chris Khan is a young man that was selected from a group of brave elite astronauts to be jettisoned into deep space to find life supporting planets the name of saving humanity. The program was called the ILP (International Legacy Program) and was advertised as the last push of humanity to reach out to find a sustainable home, as the forces of Earth began to purge out the human race.

Chris Khan was born into a farming family, and grew up at the Khan Family Farm on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, watching the rest of the world race to build some of the tools dedicated for humanity’s survival. Luckily for him, Chris and his family’s farm were protected from much of the chaos of the changing world for a few decades, until finally the entire world turned ugly.

I’m reading this for the first time after a LONG time LOL
and finding it is completely different from what I have in the first draft of the novel
and it is all completely different AND might just be REUSED for an ALTERNATE UNIVERSE VERSION of the story :D

Khan and his family experience an earthquake and are separated. Khan meets General Tau who enlists him in the Academy…. Then Khan spends the next 4 years accelerating past his classmates into the Elite astronaut program (EAP), and then receives the notice he will be “piloting” Vague 9 on one of the deep space adventures.

Khan departs a year and one month after the first astronaut leaves Earth. Khan’s mission will last 900 years, until he would be awoken and prepare for landing on a new planet. He is both excited and torn about his mission- excited for adventure and being the first to discover a new planet….. but depressed that by the time he landed, whole generations of his family would be long dead and gone. He especially couldn’t bear to think of his parents…. The thought of never getting to see them again or take care of them in old age was unbearable to think about. So Khan forced himself to stay focused on the mission. His mission is surrounded by lies… Khan believes he will discover a new planet… His family and the public think he is their last hope and he will be back in two or three years. In reality, he will be returning to the same floating rock that he left 900 years earlier.

Khan struggles to stay on top of the many emotions that bubble up throughout his mission. Thinking about his family and home begins to twist his stomach in knots…. So he distracts himself by constantly thinking about the glorious feeling he will have when he makes the discovery that will save humanity.

Khan finds The Seam on Earth, and then meets Avery. Both of them realize they are still on Earth, but in a different time.

When Khan realizes the truth he tries to leave Earth, however Vague 9 prevents him from leaving because his this is his only mission. Instead he manages to revive an analogue ship and narrowly avoids being hit kamikaze by Vague 9. [:-0]

Whoa whoa whoa WHAT IS THIS.
Orrrrrr LOL maybe this is what happens in an ALTERNATE REALITY :-0
SAVE IT!!! UUUUSSSSEEEE ITTTTT :D
btw                   :D

He escapes Earth and puts himself into cryosleep after selecting random coordinates.

The next novel begins with him awaking from his cryosleep at a new planet.

Khan and Avery have a few things in common. Avery now lives on the Khan farm after the flood happened a decade ago. He notices some strange things about the farm as well, that a few strangers just appear in the fields out of nowhere.

Khan grows up in a happy country farm life, not getting caught up in the panic and fast pace of life in the cities. They live in an area of the country that has relatively low occurrences of natural disasters, until the Flood. Farm life is a wonderful thing, and the only strange thing about their farm is that sometimes random people appear in the fields. Only three or four since Khan can remember, but it is very odd. These are the Shimmer hybrids

Armaedus Khan (father)

Meredith Khan - Mother

Naomi Khan - Sister