Chapter 4
A lost colony’s return
“We hath been lost! Now We hath been found!” passionately cried a priest,”By God’s will, we hath been saved, my dearest siblings!” he continued his impassioned rhetoric,”For we hath found an escape from this wretched creation of home! We have stayed far too long! Our resource run dry, our miracles subside, our inventions lost in the deep annals of history! We hath been …” he repeated and continued on with his statement as I continued walking down the blue-lit walkways of glass.
I’m surprised we even have survived as long as we have. 54 years. 54.
Thats our years. And one of our years is 453 days.
Oh well, we have lived here long enough. We’re gonna leave on a ship, which is gonna house the great and powerful Emperor Luna. He’s an okay guy, but he tends to build things out of the shape of human sin. The only reason I assume he might be doing these things for is the fact they look cool, and they seem to hold reference to something that he put it on, like wrath for military. It’s pretty pointless, though...
Generally anyway.
It’s so weird.
And guess what? I’m on board the ship leaving in search of a new home! We used most of our resources on alloys and new different highly stable molecule structures to build our homes, so we used the rest of them to successfully make a 20 person maximum capacity ship.
Out of 8,315,374,835 people on this planet, that ship is the only one going to be able to leave until we find a suitable planet for colonization.
Which might take a few weeks … but, oh well. It’s totally worth it.
What needs to be done, will be done or else we’ll die trying.
I continued to walk down the endless hallways of the Reactor Chambres and I did my best to get out of three, to get to the ship’s sleeping quarters.
The hallways were filled to the brim with reactor cores, uranium, magnesium and a specific bromine compound that’s extremely reactive to platinum and thorium.
|WARNING! WARNING!|
|System failure imminent! Please address and correct the issue, if possible before continuing with work!|
|WARNING! WARNING!|
Oh. I don’t think that’s good at all, but the good side is, is that no one knows this but me.
Hopefully.
|Please address and correct the issue BEFORE continuing with work, thank you|
A klaxxon blared out throughout the sector. The facility I was in was suddenly plunged in red emergency backup lighting, as all the backup lights came on and the power began failing.
|Ship undocking enabled, all scouting personnel are to commence to the boarding area and proceed with boarding the Divine at this time!.|
The craft! It’s leaving!
I teleport aboard the ship and heave a sigh of gratitude as all 20 of us made it aboard.
The autopilot programming had been activated by a panicked Emperor Luna.
Upon having received a status update as to why the ship was activating the launch sequence before the appointed time, I proceeded towards the ship’s command and control centre in order to correct and fix whatever it was that the Emperor had done to prematurely activate the ship’s launch sequence and autopiloting programming .
POV switch:Emperor Luna
I had teleported to the ship, Once I had decided that the whole facility and colony had been left to rot, having exhausted this planet’s metal resources and having decided to set forth in the search of other metal-rich worlds to continue meeting our ever growing needs for metal resources. I looked out the bio-titanium glass windows and saw everyone running about, attempting to fix the problem, but to no avail. They had no idea where the issue was located within the facility.
|Spacecraft leaving space docking station: Activating launch sequence in T minus 13 seconds!|
|Nuclear meltdown imminent!|
I don’t think I should build that many skin-related structures anymore … .
I’ll still build a Wrath Sky-Base, though.
It’s pretty cool, so I’ll still build it.
We need to assess the issue, as of now.
I run to the control pad and smack that launch button, and the intercoms boom with static, and scream the words:
|Launch sequence: Manual launch override engaged! Launching in T minus 5 seconds!|
The ship began to hum slightly.
|T minus 4|
The Divine begins to vibrate slightly
|T minus 3|
We take a seat in the Command chair around which all other stations were arrayed around in a half-circle arrangement.
|T minus 2|
We buckle in.
|T minus 1|
The ship slowly lifts off from the surface of the planet, and the whole ship rumbles slightly. We feel a pulling sensation from the behind us as we continued fighting the gravitational field of our planet. I hear the shaking and slight scrape of the materials and supplies from the bottom of the ship, as it vibrates violently as we commenced with exiting the atmosphere. We are taking on about 7 Gs right now.
| Planetary gravitational pull has been neutralized, transfer to the nearest habitable planet? Y/N|
I press ‘Y’ and the navigation view screen goes dark.
A holoscreen folds down from the middle
A woman in a white jumpsuit, appeared, and stated the exact sentence unto which we all watched and listened.
“Thank you for boarding the ship of requisition: the Divinity. The hip new way of getting places faster! It’s better and more efficient than our previous spacefaring models!” she stated happily. “Now back to what I was to say! You are going to a new planet! Your soon-to-be new home! Be safe, be defined, be great.”
I watched as the holographic screen blipped out of sight.
I continued on the subject, after I looked at the Planet Array.
The most beautiful solar system came into view on the Planetary Habitation and Industry Holo Panel.
It showed me a great amount of resource, and … a single ship. Well the ship’s early warning system only detected a minor trading ship sized craft out on the planet 3rd from the sun … . Aside from that, the planet right next to the sun, has a metric ton of carbon, the sun itself is currently in the red giant phase of the star’s lifecycle… so it contains a ton of iron apparently.
Three’s a lot of iron, and a lot of carbon and other elements in that sun.
And we need carbon and iron to make steel and carbon for the construction of the walls of Astral-E technologies…
Yeah, we could harvest the sun, and the planets within this system.
One of the planets have been identified as nearly entire carbon … with a hyperdiamond core.
And another supports a low-level civilization and an extremely high tech being of unknown origin with technology that matches and maybe even surpasses ours!
We have found a solar system on which we could build a civilization and expand our civilization and industry to the edges of the galaxy!”
We celebrate, joyous of the opportunity presented before us.
But someone asks, ”What’s out there?” It was Wrekkx. (Rah-eh-ex)
“Three’s a planet primarily composed of carbon in which hides a hyperdiamond core. The habitable planet contains sapient life, though their technological level is abysmal, though it may be possible to strike up a trade relationship with them, and more resources in the star of the solar-system, and possibly more! We must live here!”
Wrekkx walked up to the Holo-Panel, and looked at it. He had a look of odd satisfaction and surprise, because it had been a long time since we had been close to such a large amount of resources. Wrekkx had a suit to which looked alike to all of the others, red and blue with a slight tinge of his job colour. Grey.
He’s a miner, or mining engineer. Either one.
I slammed my hand down on the panel, where the solar system is, and it ported us three within a few seconds.
“When we get to the living planet, we’ll build a fortress, and call it …” I didn’t know what to call it.
After a few moments, Wrekkx said, “How about a vote?”
I responded with a ‘sure,’.
“Let’s vote, and then put them into my robe pocket. I will not vote, for I generally name these things.”
It took a couple minutes, but everyone voted.
“We have two major names out of the five decided. Vanaar, and Tefillin Town,” I yelled throughout the ship. “Raise your hand for Vanaar.” 17 people voted.
“Vanaar it is,” I said. Without a doubt, this’ll be Jamestown all over again.
We’ll all die this time, though.
| Time skip|
We had landed on the planet. I need some rest. And Vastaan seems tired as well.
We need sleep. Wrekkx seems absolutely fine.
The goldman seems restless. I asked what he would like to do.
“Yup” he says, happily.I noticed that of which he can walk faster than any of his kind.
He’s even more useful than before in this case.
I have counted the races.
Race Count Sheet:
4 Gold men
4 Coal men
4 Silkmen
2 Treemen
6 royal men
2 middlemen
I walk back to the construction of the first Mountain quarters. The mineshaft colony now exists in the name of Vanaar.
Updates will continue on the fortress as our technologies advance, and grow through the universe. The multiverse even hopefully, to which we will not scavenge but control as one. Rebuild society as we-
I was interrupted by a knock on the steel Vault Door we built to protect us from the outside world.
Another knock resounded throughout the mining entrance subterranean city.
Wrekkx walked up and answered the door. He wasn’t wearing his suit, which enabled me to finally get a look at him.
His skin was smooth, black with little white and gold speckles, possibly from mining. His skin was made of plates of coal, which is why they’re called coalmen. He had a small outre ridge that went all the way up his spine, making him slightly aerodynamic when running and rolling.
He seemed to have just come from mining in the carbon mines. We also seem to have found a new metal, that has a new form of element. We call it Vanaarium.
It seems to have a smaller quantum structure, more than the average atom. The atoms are made up of something imma call quantum cubes, because there are seven cubes in each atom, but the strange quarks and up quarks and down quarks don’t exist here.
My fingers were tipped with the Vanaarium, as well as gold. The tips were an alloy created from the melding of the two different metals.
I had a feeling of intense curiosity as Wrekkx opened the door.
And what awaited on the other side of the door was a mystery to the eye.