TheDarkestDark

By the end of 23rd century, Earth civilization reached high technological level, while facing serious social problems. Resources became scarce following humanity growing in number five times in comparison to early 21st century. Despite scientists coming with various ways to save the world, including colonization efforts, degradation continued. Number one candidate for colonizing - Mars - required 300 years to be fully terraformed and only selected people could live under domes. Humanity needed a more solid plan - one that would bring results and bring them sooner. Following continuous surveys of space systems, a planet similar to Earth has been found - two times bigger than humanity's home, this new discovery was a true breakthrough. However, more detailed researched showed that about 20% of the planet is taken by an alien megacity surrounded by a powerful force field. New information caused a huge uproar among scientists involved, especially after no signs of life encountered and no response to various means of communication. After several years of observation, the city was considered abandoned. Having analyzed the data, numerous governments agreed on a joint effort to send and expedition to reveal the turth about the city and establish the very first colony on that planet. With the biggest ship made of five modules, over 5,000 strong crew set off on most important mission in humanity's history. John Marlow, a scientific officer and one of many deployed for the expedition, sets on a journey which will challenge his knowledge about the Universe and humankind's origin.

The New Gaia

Way before leaving Earth, we knew how hard this mission would be, and that it will put us to many tests. It was obvious that numerous dangers were awaiting us, things we could not expect to happen in our craziest dreams.


Accidents during construction, then problems on Mars. None of these could not stop us from continuing the expedition. Despite all the problems, we pushed on and on, towards another boundary, never passed before by humanity.


Unfortunately, the longer something goes well, the bigger probability bad things may happen. Life is not that easy for every next day be successful, that's what karma or fate is, people call this differently. The fact is not everything goes as we want it to be.


Once we finally reached accelerator rings and entered the tunnel, many of us felt the worst was over now. And I would've really liked for this to be the case. However, leaving the tunnel turned out to be a much more problematic process than anyone would have expected - even the rings placed on the other end did not help us to keep the ship on optimal course.


According to calculations, Future was supposed to fly with a stable speed, though I'm not sure if the term speed was proper in this case. After all, we had no orientation points, and we could only trust the readings.


Theoretically, everything worked properly, but once we reached the exit point, the power output was set incorrectly in relation to rings on the other end. Even though the captain reacted immediately, our ship got dangerously close to one of the planets in the outer belt. As a result, we got caught into its gravitional field, causing damage to two of the modules.


Due to proper maneuvers, we managed to leave the field and avoid more severe damages, but the size of the damages ended up being serious enough to force higher-ups to put the ship into a drift on the planet's orbit to make repairs needed for continuing the flight.


Unfortunately, we've come upon a serious problem. Resources were needed to make the repairs, but these in ship's storage's could not suffice.


2nd April, 2296