- Invitation Status
- Look for groups
- Looking for partners
- Posting Speed
- Multiple posts per week
- 1-3 posts per week
- One post per week
- Slow As Molasses
- Preferred Character Gender
- Male
- Female
- Genres
- Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Supernatural are my favorites.
The year is 3126.
It's hard to believe that this slum was once a thriving world, a green world. But humanity failed to reverse the damages done to their world. It all snowballed from bad to worse after the ice caps melted. The land began to fester under the weight of their garbage, more trees disappeared to make room for fertile farmlands while rivers and oceans grew more putrid by the decade. At some point even the air became toxic to them.
So they gave up on this world. Took their technology and knowledge with them to other planets to do better. And they did. The Moons and Venus and Jupiter have been terraformed, Mars became a new home planet for Humanity, Neptune is where people get most of their water reserves. Asteroids are mined, and even Pluto found purpose as a correctional facility. And Humanity even made contact with a few alien species whose appearances are becoming more and more common as time goes by.
But the story doesn't begin there. It begins here, on Earth. With the ones that stayed behind.
Despite the heavy pollution the natives have managed to thrive, well…thrive may be a strong word. Adapt! Adapt to these conditions.
The Earthlings live in small communities now where everybody shares their resources and tools with each other. Money is no longer of importance here as society has sort of forgotten them. Family, community, and nature is all they care about. And Nature is something these communities will fight over because more green means more food, and better health.
The rest of the time they scavenge the world for recyclables and reusable parts of whatever they can get their hands on.
Today was one of those days where Mary-43 decided to wander through the city with some of the youngsters in search of... Hm. Unknown.
She wasn't sure what she was looking for. It was a very faint energy signal she felt coming from one of the overgrown ruins. So they traversed rusty walkways, wobbly stairs, and dark corridors until they found a warehouse.
Cryo-pods were scattered across the large chamber; most of them empty, a handful used to hold life.
The teens watched her, waiting till the android pointed at the backdoors. The doors led outside the building littered with more junk and abandoned vans. But there between the debris she found it. The one cryo-pod still functioning.
The trio pushed junk out of the way, peering into the glass to spot a figure. "Is it alive?" One of the teens asked.
-"Is it a girl or boy?"
Mary checked the small screen. Miraculously the screen showed signs of life. "Not too sure, it may be a false reading. The older models are fickle."
She motioned for the teens to help her drag the pod inside the warehouse. The wear on this thing made it a bit difficult to open but eventually the lid let out a heavy sigh and as it opened the three crowded the individual.
"Should we poke them?" The boy said.
It's hard to believe that this slum was once a thriving world, a green world. But humanity failed to reverse the damages done to their world. It all snowballed from bad to worse after the ice caps melted. The land began to fester under the weight of their garbage, more trees disappeared to make room for fertile farmlands while rivers and oceans grew more putrid by the decade. At some point even the air became toxic to them.
So they gave up on this world. Took their technology and knowledge with them to other planets to do better. And they did. The Moons and Venus and Jupiter have been terraformed, Mars became a new home planet for Humanity, Neptune is where people get most of their water reserves. Asteroids are mined, and even Pluto found purpose as a correctional facility. And Humanity even made contact with a few alien species whose appearances are becoming more and more common as time goes by.
But the story doesn't begin there. It begins here, on Earth. With the ones that stayed behind.
Despite the heavy pollution the natives have managed to thrive, well…thrive may be a strong word. Adapt! Adapt to these conditions.
The Earthlings live in small communities now where everybody shares their resources and tools with each other. Money is no longer of importance here as society has sort of forgotten them. Family, community, and nature is all they care about. And Nature is something these communities will fight over because more green means more food, and better health.
The rest of the time they scavenge the world for recyclables and reusable parts of whatever they can get their hands on.
Today was one of those days where Mary-43 decided to wander through the city with some of the youngsters in search of... Hm. Unknown.
She wasn't sure what she was looking for. It was a very faint energy signal she felt coming from one of the overgrown ruins. So they traversed rusty walkways, wobbly stairs, and dark corridors until they found a warehouse.
Cryo-pods were scattered across the large chamber; most of them empty, a handful used to hold life.
The teens watched her, waiting till the android pointed at the backdoors. The doors led outside the building littered with more junk and abandoned vans. But there between the debris she found it. The one cryo-pod still functioning.
The trio pushed junk out of the way, peering into the glass to spot a figure. "Is it alive?" One of the teens asked.
-"Is it a girl or boy?"
Mary checked the small screen. Miraculously the screen showed signs of life. "Not too sure, it may be a false reading. The older models are fickle."
She motioned for the teens to help her drag the pod inside the warehouse. The wear on this thing made it a bit difficult to open but eventually the lid let out a heavy sigh and as it opened the three crowded the individual.
"Should we poke them?" The boy said.
