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Everything we knew about our own race was a WRONG...
In 2080 man began to colonize the moons and the planets, Mars had been terraformed, discoveries had been made that everywhere we looked in our solar system, there were hints and items that didn't occur naturally. A few years after that, on the fringes of the solar system, was a private organization that wanted to discover the truth. Known as Dancer, the organization had a project running, Project Area 51, named after the most publicly known Top Secret facility on Earth. For the past 43 years their scientist had been designing the Armstrong Drive. It would be the first Faster Than Light engine, named after Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. Dancer would take man to Pleiades and discover the truth.
In 2112, Dancer revealed its Project Area 51. A starship had been built in the shadow of Pluto. On board, the most advanced navigation systems that would take them on the journey to find out our origin of life. Equipped with Sub-light drives of Matter/Anti-matter engines and Armstrong Drive, the ship was a marvel of engineering. Along the Port side of the ship was its name, Icarus. It was a strange name, seeing as how Icarus disobeyed his father, and flew to close to the sun causing the wax on his wings to melt, and letting him fall to his death. Yet this time Icarus would not fail, it would succeed in its mission, to discover humanities origin. Those that joined may not make it back for space held many surprises, and Pleiades was 460 Light Years away. This would be the farthest any human had traveled from Earth. Something could go dreadfully wrong. Still tucked away in its dock sat Icarus, all systems were green, engines operating at one-hundred percent. The crew was ready, and the departing time was counting down. T-minus eight hours till launch....
(Just a side note, I came up with this before watching Prometheus. After watching it, I was highly disappointed with the movie. This in no way is like Prometheus even if the base setting sounds like it. Sorry for the confusion to all of those that have seen that.)
September 1977, a rocket is launched heaven bound, on board is one of the greatest devices made by man, Voyager 1. After traveling beyond the Dwarf Planet Pluto, and entering the Kyper Belt, the unmanned space craft fell mostly silent, yet still relayed data back about the asteroid composition. In 2020 Voyager 1 finally died, its power and fuel completely depleted, thought to drift the Milky Way forever. Fourteen years after that something happened. Voyager 1 switched back on. A signal broadcast to the heavens found its way to the little craft. A trillion to one odds. The source was undetermined, Earth's greatest minds from around the world worked night and day to triangulate the origins of the signal.
In 2037 they finally cracked the origin. The source of it was in the Pleiades system, a multi-star cluster. This led to outside theorist to do some thinking, what if we weren't of this world? That we were manipulated into what we are? How could we be evolved from monkeys? Our brains processed information faster than the greatest of supercomputers, our bodies resilient to most dreadful of diseases. This in time lead to another idea. What if Atlantis, a human civilization so far advanced technologically, didn't originate on Earth but came from the Pleiades cluster? Myths of it said that it vanished from the world in a tsunami, earthquake, and volcanic eruption. After much speculation came about, one man named Isaac Antov released and idea that took the world by storm. He found that the Winterbourne Barrows and Stonehenge fell in line with the Pleiades system. Each Barrow was a star and the entire system of each matched.
The entire Earth now knew…. We weren't alone in the universe. As people searched through records of yesteryear information, they discovered stuff that was even more incredible. Golden gliders that when made into flight worthy models flew surprisingly well. Strange hieroglyphs in Egypt that depicted flying craft similar to jets and UFO's. This further compounded the point. Everything just added up. We were not of this world. Like everything else that gets the world talking, it to eventually died off, yet the signal didn't. No, the signal was always there. And every passing year, it grew stronger and clearer the farther Voyager 1 traveled. Hopes turned into dreams, and dreams were forgotten. Man didn't have a way to travel to the stars.In 2080 man began to colonize the moons and the planets, Mars had been terraformed, discoveries had been made that everywhere we looked in our solar system, there were hints and items that didn't occur naturally. A few years after that, on the fringes of the solar system, was a private organization that wanted to discover the truth. Known as Dancer, the organization had a project running, Project Area 51, named after the most publicly known Top Secret facility on Earth. For the past 43 years their scientist had been designing the Armstrong Drive. It would be the first Faster Than Light engine, named after Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. Dancer would take man to Pleiades and discover the truth.
In 2112, Dancer revealed its Project Area 51. A starship had been built in the shadow of Pluto. On board, the most advanced navigation systems that would take them on the journey to find out our origin of life. Equipped with Sub-light drives of Matter/Anti-matter engines and Armstrong Drive, the ship was a marvel of engineering. Along the Port side of the ship was its name, Icarus. It was a strange name, seeing as how Icarus disobeyed his father, and flew to close to the sun causing the wax on his wings to melt, and letting him fall to his death. Yet this time Icarus would not fail, it would succeed in its mission, to discover humanities origin. Those that joined may not make it back for space held many surprises, and Pleiades was 460 Light Years away. This would be the farthest any human had traveled from Earth. Something could go dreadfully wrong. Still tucked away in its dock sat Icarus, all systems were green, engines operating at one-hundred percent. The crew was ready, and the departing time was counting down. T-minus eight hours till launch....
(Just a side note, I came up with this before watching Prometheus. After watching it, I was highly disappointed with the movie. This in no way is like Prometheus even if the base setting sounds like it. Sorry for the confusion to all of those that have seen that.)