Kadavro
Supernova
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2012
INITIATING EMERGENCY LANDING PROCEDURES. It glistened. All over the vessel were panesl like that or gold, bowls that shown with such a fire that it seemed that a rainbow had filled it to overflowing, and silver was all about the vessel. The side of the ship was plastered with symbols were there wasn't some sort of box or tube sticking from it. Disks with circles in it, flowers, stripes... It would have reminded any human of an athlete or racing jets, if they had been some around to see it. And the symbols served the same purpose. Showing off the sponsors. The Union State, Europa, Turan, Norden, Bharat, the Usonians, the Sinaic sphere, the Bolivarians... Company, country, department... All wanted in. It might have been a bit immoral to try this test, but surely one of the embryos would get through. Decades of research United Nations of Sol had picked humanity of it's best genetic structure and reassembled them for artificial insemination.
The ship was taking untold amount of years to get to wherever it's target was, but it would be worth it for humanity. New planets to colonize. People of the highest quality, immune to any number of illnesses and all negative traits purged as best as they could be. Now it was coming home. Any number of planets and moons would have been terraformed and given artificial gravity by their most advanced of ships, though they had great hope to surpass it and someday catch up to it as it traveled. But it was not to be. Only one of the embryos had grown enough and there were only so many nutrients the ship had on hand before it needed to use the supply of seeds and cuttings.
The Earth had moved too much during the time the Ship was gone, it's peoples evacuated in more advanced ships or perished in the ecological upheavals caused by dimensional rifts and mutations throwing the planet's ecosystem and orbit out of balance. So they were going down, heading to the planet that was oh so familiar, yet oh so strange. The boy inside might remember the planet, but the memories would be too vast to sufficiently feel the blow. So much information had been pumped into that head over the centuries, and now... He had had enough time with his thoughts, alone yet crowded, with the memories of hundreds of thousands to millions poured together until they became like a hive, arguing as to how the boy would be when he left the tube and his eye, hair, and skin got their pigmentations. And whether he would have an outie or innie when his umbrilical cord was cut.
Really, it mattered not. The ship could give him all the conversation it needed, as close to artificial intelligence as there had ever before been or would be ever again. OUR DESIGNATED LANDING SITE HAS BEEN TAKEN, SO YOU MAY FEEL SOME SLIGHT TURBULENCE AS WE CLEAR THE WAY. DUMPING FUEL. Neptutium torpedos the size of submarines were fired from the ship, knocking over miles of forest as it buoyed the ship, cushioning the blow as the ship crashed, skidding like a pebble on a lake before finally coming to a stop, hundreds of tons of soil upturned as if from a giant hoe.
The ship was taking untold amount of years to get to wherever it's target was, but it would be worth it for humanity. New planets to colonize. People of the highest quality, immune to any number of illnesses and all negative traits purged as best as they could be. Now it was coming home. Any number of planets and moons would have been terraformed and given artificial gravity by their most advanced of ships, though they had great hope to surpass it and someday catch up to it as it traveled. But it was not to be. Only one of the embryos had grown enough and there were only so many nutrients the ship had on hand before it needed to use the supply of seeds and cuttings.
The Earth had moved too much during the time the Ship was gone, it's peoples evacuated in more advanced ships or perished in the ecological upheavals caused by dimensional rifts and mutations throwing the planet's ecosystem and orbit out of balance. So they were going down, heading to the planet that was oh so familiar, yet oh so strange. The boy inside might remember the planet, but the memories would be too vast to sufficiently feel the blow. So much information had been pumped into that head over the centuries, and now... He had had enough time with his thoughts, alone yet crowded, with the memories of hundreds of thousands to millions poured together until they became like a hive, arguing as to how the boy would be when he left the tube and his eye, hair, and skin got their pigmentations. And whether he would have an outie or innie when his umbrilical cord was cut.
Really, it mattered not. The ship could give him all the conversation it needed, as close to artificial intelligence as there had ever before been or would be ever again. OUR DESIGNATED LANDING SITE HAS BEEN TAKEN, SO YOU MAY FEEL SOME SLIGHT TURBULENCE AS WE CLEAR THE WAY. DUMPING FUEL. Neptutium torpedos the size of submarines were fired from the ship, knocking over miles of forest as it buoyed the ship, cushioning the blow as the ship crashed, skidding like a pebble on a lake before finally coming to a stop, hundreds of tons of soil upturned as if from a giant hoe.