Fan Fiction
This story has been set to a rating of NC-17. Age verification is required to proceed.
Broken Voyagers
Login to add story to favorites
(14 votes, average: 4.79 out of 5)You need to be a registered member to rate this post.
Loading ...
“Do you mean to say, he somehow has something to do with this?” Tina gasped at hearing the name of the Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer; the all-rounder who still to this day could strike fear in the most scientifically challenged student.
“Well not so much as he lived a couple of hundred years prior to when this mechanism is supposed to date from, but it is intriguing to think he could have been the inspiration behind it.”
The two women stayed a little while longer to take in the intriguing artefact. They read and studied the diagrams which the museum had provided to help understand the secrets that the mechanism had so far revealed.
It had taken several years before scholars could make sense of what had been retrieved at the bottom of the Aegean Sea. X-Ray imaging finally revealed that the device could replicate the motions of the heavens, tracking the paths of the Sun, Moon and planets with impressive accuracy.
Bits of wood found on the fragments suggested it was housed in a wooden case. Like a mantel clock, the case would have had a large circular face with rotating hands. There was a knob or handle on the side, for winding the mechanism forward or backward. And as the knob turned, trains of interlocking gearwheels drove at least seven hands at various speeds. Instead of hours and minutes, the hands displayed celestial time: one hand for the Sun, one for the Moon and one for each of the five planets known at the time as they were visible to the naked eye — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. A rotating black and silver ball showed the phase of the Moon. Inscriptions explained which stars rose and set on any date. There were also two dial systems on the back of the case, each with a pin that followed its own spiral groove, like the needle on a record player. One of these dials was a calendar. The other showed the timing of lunar and solar eclipses.
The mechanism could provide accurate predictions of eclipses several decades ahead.
“This thing was a veritable computer, millennia ahead of its time.” Tina interrupted her reading. “Look it even says here that the Mechanism was also used to define the date of the games in Nemea, Delphi, Corinth and Olympia. Bette… that’s the Olympics!”
Comments
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Hi! You one of my favourite writers and i very glad and happy that you returned and finished this amazing story! Thank you very much!
After i reading i leave another comment which will be more about story plot.
Wow Kins this takes care of my weekend reading!
Will comment again when I’ve read it.
Thanks in advance for posting.
SG
So glad you finished this story! Thank you for sticking it out and giving us this story. Loved it
Hi Kins,
So glad to see this story! It will take some time to read it and i will leave a comment after i finish.
Hi, welcom back, Kins!
Thank you for finished this story! Ok, now i’m going to read it.
Hi, Kins
Oh my God, Kins, welcome back, after almost 2 years, it’s been a long time, but reading the whole story now I feel, the wait was worth.
You have given us a quite wonderful and interesting story full of adventures and riddles and full of love of my favorite couple Bette and Tina.
You ended the story in a very good way, but I feel as if I want to know more about them, if Bette gets the funding for her project in Mexico, the wedding, their partnership, what Tina does for a job… and many more things.
I hope we could read more new beautiful stories from you; I like very much your style.
Thank you very much and please, post other TIBETTE stories
P
Ok, i read again this story, this time the whole and i’m ready to leave another comment.
First – thank you again for finish the story.
Second – happy to see happy final -treasure was found, bitch Kelly got lost. And i must say i like how you got rid from her – like in life we can say with 100% probability what happened – or she sank or she was killed by shark.
Third – i like how you described Bette and Tina and love between them. I like it in all your stories (maybe with one exception – in Frozen beginnings i don’t like your Bette during the story, but in final she corrected :) )
So, welcome back and maybe in the future we can see another great story from you? I really hope so.
Hi Kins,
Really enjoyed the read, thank you so much.
A great Story and I loved reading it in one post. As an English Lady I really enjoyed your explanation of Cricket!
I would love it if you would now consider a Sequel with these two characters.
Thanks again for posting.
SG
Welcom back, Kins!
I was a silent reader a long time, but after you finished this story i must register to say – “Thank you for fantastic story! And i hope this story won’t be your last on this site!”
Totaly agree with MissOne – i hope this story won’t be the last from you too!
Hi Kins,
You took us trough a incredible journey! Full of adventures, little clues i tried to catch to find the treasure, the background on the history of those ships and of course the love between Bette & Tina.
I really hope you will continu with a sequel or a new story.
Thank you so much for posting the whole story after two long years!
In-cre-di-ble! Kins, thank you so much for returning to this story and for giving us such a glorious and sweet ending. You’re such a talented writer. What a wonderful plot with astonishing details to the treasure hunt.
I second the previous comments and hope you’ll find the inspiration (and time) to work on a sequel. Maybe Bette’s project in Mexico with a twist with some unexpected traces of a legendary Aztec treasure ;)
Well ive read it at last.So pleased you managed to finish this story.I know how long it was in conception and all the research you did for its authenticity.
A great read.Loved the shark sequence.Found it quite thrilling.
Not as thrilling as the love scenes that you tell so well between Bette and Tina tho ????
Look forward to the next story that you will write for us.
Don’t make it too long a wait tho
C.x
Kins…!!! Yay! It’s really you!!
^_^
First, am so happy to see your name appear again! :) been so long!! So Glad to hear from you! hope all are fine for you and your love one!
Second, OMG…! The Long story at once!! Woohooo… such a great treat! THANKS!!
And third…. LOVE your story! This is so worthy! Appreciate your hard work in researching, plotting, writing and sharing this wonderful story! Your writing style is getting more interesting and fantastic! It’s Long pages but I just can’t stop reading it – well there’s a moment where I wanted to stop reading when that low creature kidnap her (ugh.. I don’t want to spoil the story).. it’s too much for me.. >.<
Again… thanks for sharing your talent here! :) if you ever consider to publish this, do update us here! ;-)
Take care always Kins! ^.^
Just finished reading. It was a fun read. Thanks for the adventure.
Wow!!!! Such rich detail that it feels so true ,.. as if you have near lived these experiences ur self. And along w the romance of it, I learned so much about ship wrecks and diving. Do post it on AO3 as well to get a broader audience… it belongs to stories worth sharing :)