Cosimia
Of The Stars
OPPORTUNITY
Humans were responsible for the rise and the fall of planet Earth.
Over the course of 8,000 years, the human population became the greatest and most thriving empire on the planet. They built their cities sky high, steel buildings piercing the bright blue heavens above. Their cars were fast, and their minds were faster. The human race was brilliant.
Their success was based off of a double-sided coin: technology.
On one hand, technology allowed for humans to expand their territories, make life easier and more enjoyable. The unknown became known in the blink of an eye.
On the other hand, technology literally destroyed it all.
The Law of Conservation of Energy: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be change from one form to another.
The humans' brilliant inventions came with the price of pollution. For years they were ignorant of global warming, up until they were smacked in the face by it. Global temperatures rose to where no crop could grow--no matter the quality of the soil or frequency of watering. The atmosphere became polluted, junk from previous attempts to colonize other planets floating around the atmosphere.
Earth became an orbiting trash can.
Humans were responsible for the rise and the fall of planet Earth.
Over the course of 8,000 years, the human population became the greatest and most thriving empire on the planet. They built their cities sky high, steel buildings piercing the bright blue heavens above. Their cars were fast, and their minds were faster. The human race was brilliant.
Their success was based off of a double-sided coin: technology.
On one hand, technology allowed for humans to expand their territories, make life easier and more enjoyable. The unknown became known in the blink of an eye.
On the other hand, technology literally destroyed it all.
The Law of Conservation of Energy: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be change from one form to another.
The humans' brilliant inventions came with the price of pollution. For years they were ignorant of global warming, up until they were smacked in the face by it. Global temperatures rose to where no crop could grow--no matter the quality of the soil or frequency of watering. The atmosphere became polluted, junk from previous attempts to colonize other planets floating around the atmosphere.
Earth became an orbiting trash can.
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their hope
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However, humans contain a quality that cannot be observed at the same levels in other organisms. Hope.
For years the remaining population hoped for one last rainstorm, for another ice age to occur, for a miracle God to come and save them from their inevitable frying. In the end, many of them went mad.
There are too many massacres to name, but the humans nearly destroyed themselves fighting for the last of Earth's resources, renewable or not. Over half of the population disappeared off of the face of the planet, 5 billion others were left to come up with an escape plan.
And that they did.
In a government coalition between 7 countries and organizations-- The United States, The United Kingdom, The UN, Russia, China, and Brazil--a plan was created.
If the humans couldn't fix their planet, they would leave it.
Combining the United States' technological intelligence and Russia's capability to keep a secret, they formed a program unknown to the public called OPPORTUNITY. The seven countries built a ship, located on the abandoned continent of Australia, that would supposedly carry the first 1,000,000 humans to another planet in a whole other solar system. They had their eyes set on Wolf 1061 C, 13.8 light years away. Studies done in previous centuries proved that the planet had water, and it was rumored that life had been existing there for millennium.
They didn't have the technology then, but OPPORTUNITY found a way.
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the people
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When word spread that OPPORTUNITY had created the world's greatest "Get Out of Jail Free" card, everybody wanted on. OPPORTUNITY understood that. They had planned for two sets of people to board the original Destination ship. The Wakened were essentially to be the life support of the Destination. They would be, like their name suggested, the awake citizens that tend the enormous carrier. They would live their normal lives, each with a job to carry out in order for Destination to function properly. These people were selected based off of their skills-- Were they good with the land? How about teaching children? Maintaining peace? Engineering? Their lives would go on as if they were living on Earth, except they had one hell of a view of the universe. Every 365 rotations of Destination, which was shaped like a circular tube that rolled towards its arrival location, women and men would come together to produce the next generation of Wakened citizens. One half of the embryos would be frozen for the future, and the other half would be birthed to continue the cycle.
The second set of passengers of Destination were called the Asleep. They were the leaders of the government coalition, veterans, doctors, scientists, and their family. The Asleep were cyrogenically frozen in their pods underneath the main level of the ship, set in a virtual reality until Destination reached Wolf 1061 C. They weren't to be awakened under any circumstances. -
the plot
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As mentioned before, Destination was to be powered by uranium for the entire trip. However, after making a hyperjump 10 light years towards their destination, an unexpected emergency on the ship required more energy than usual to be consumed. It was the death of the Wakened's leader, who presided over the 1 million conscious beings and the 500 perfectly preserved officials. There was chaos. Several of the Wakened's factions attempted to take over after the leader's death, using energy for their own greed and recreation unlike ever before. As a consequence, uranium levels fell down to nothing just less than a light year away from their arrival.
The Wakened were not going to give up. Instead of manufacturing more uranium, which could be easily done using the materials the Wakened created during their lives, they began dangerous experiments to get them to Wolf 1061 even faster. One of these experiments, nicknamed "The Shock" for its overwhelming generation of electricity in order to "revive" the ship's uranium processors, literally awakened the Asleep.
Below the main deck where they slept, the electrical connections keeping their virtual realities running and their bodies sustained suddenly were cut. The original designers of Destination designed a backup system in case something like this happened. They would be slowly unfrozen, and eventually put into the Wakened community.
That happened.
The Asleep were jolted awake from their blissful sleep. Cold, confused, and quite disoriented, they were under the impression that they had arrived at their soon-to-be home planet. The Asleep were greeted by one of the Wakened officials, Thomas Brown, to tell them that something had happened. Many retreated back to their capsules, being told that they would return to their sleep momentarily. However, a group of Asleep were not going to let things slide that easily.
They questioned the happenings around them, and eventually made their way to the surface.
They weren't greeted in a friendly manner.
Destination is now faced with a foreign population who are thought of as useless by the Wakened, and no way to keep their ship running long enough to reach the planet they started this whole adventure for.
no slide
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further information
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If you didn't catch that all, here is the whole low-down on the plot. Since the Asleep have been ironically Awakened by the experiments, they surface to the Wakened society. They're discriminated against widely, and when they try to fix things so the Destination can continue forward, they are often faced with threats. The Wakened people think of the Asleep as disgusting, and continue their experiments that but the whole population in danger as they slowly roll towards their destination. As for the characters, you can choose whether you would like to be a Wakened or Asleep. I'm leaving room for plot development because I feel with a little bit of creativity from everybody this could become a brilliant, huge world.
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