Cradleland

Cradleland is a story, published on FictionPress.Com, about a passenger airliner bound from New York to Los Angeles that encounters some strange colored lights and suddenly loses contact with air traffic control. Landing on a stone road at the crack of dawn, the passengers and crew soon learn that they have somehow landed on another planet in another solar system far from Earth. The only clue to getting home is uncovering the mysteries of the world.


 * Alien Among Us: It is implied that aliens had secretly visited Earth during the Middle Ages,.
 * Aliens Are Bastards: The ba'thulaz, and still viewed them as such.
 * Ancient Astronauts: The Teventrans' ancestors were  example.
 * : the planet where Delta Airlines Flight 2 landed had been the  prior to the events of the story.
 * Brain Food:  eat brains, and.
 * Casual Interstellar Travel: The means Delta Flight 2 traversed interstellar space is an example of this.
 * Giving Radio to the Romans: Dean Rhodes,, had patented a few inventions, including a Stirling-cycle engine, based on his engineering knowledge. He did not build any radios, though.
 * Hand Wave: When Pedro asks Dean, Dean replies, "Magic".
 * Humans Are the Real Monsters: The ancestors of the Teventrans were humans.
 * The Teventran government orders the military, both on the fear that the natives of Earth  , as they learned that humans from Earth  , and also because.
 * I Choose to Stay: Dean Rhodes chooses to stay behind, because.
 * Three of the passengers- a Mafiya hitman, an MS-13 gangster, and a fugitive- slip away from the camp where they were sequestered to start a new life with Teventra;'s criminal underworld.
 * Improbable Piloting Skills: Pedro landed a 767 on a narrow concrete road, not much wider than the jet itself.
 * Invisible President: The Teventran characters refer to the republic's chancellor, but the chancellor himself does not appear in the story.
 * : The Teventrans' ancestors were this.
 * Ragnarok Proofing: The . Justified as it was in a hardened underground facility,, was made of Applied Phlebotinum , had no moving parts, and had not been used in centuries.
 * Averted with the facility itself, which, while it was still standing, showed signs of decay.
 * Sequel Hook: Three of the passengers chose to stay to make their place in Teventra's criminal underworld.
 * And two children from Teventra.
 * Transplanted Humans: all of the humans on the planet.
 * The Law of Conservation of Detail: While much is revealed about Teventran society, it is clear that Teventra is only a small slice of the world, as other nations are alluded to. Also,  had come from a land across the ocean.
 * We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: The  used the Teventrans' ancestors as manual labor. It is implied that the planet , and it is known that humans were used as a.
 * We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: The  used the Teventrans' ancestors as manual labor. It is implied that the planet , and it is known that humans were used as a.