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

A lot is happening since the evacuation from the damaged Future. We've lost many human beings already and the count continues to grow. As if that was not enough, equipment received a lot of damage and we are still unable to get in touch in any of the disconnected modules.


Currently, we are sticking to our temporary camp - that is, the one set by the group I ended up with. Everyone is slowly adjusting to this new planet, trying to rebuild our equipment and obtain resources required for further action. At this point, conducting research is not an option, but colonists already started preparing for establishing the settlement, though I doubt they will go with our current location, despite it being quite secure since the place was selected by military personnel.


Fortunately, air here is much cleaner and has more oxygen than on Earth. There is also a plenty of water in the area and we have secured a lot of food to get by. Still, based on our experiences so far, we cannot expect surviving will be easy.


Personally, I'm relieved this many people made it, because it gives us hope. Then again, we are scattered around the planet without means to contact each other - for now at least. Slowly, but surely, construction of basic appliances is proceeding well, though soon we will have to send our scouts farther and farther away in order to obtain missing resources.


Our survival is possible for sure. Being able to complete the mission and return to Earth is another thing. After spending so much time on the surface, most of us expected to already get any kind of information, contact or sighting of the Future's modules. I've mentioned that there was no contact and that's because of the state of our equipment and magnetic interference common on the planet, but with the size of each module, we should be able to see the lights even from the surface, and nothing of the sort happened.


Given the amount of damage the ship received, it was obvious modules won't be able to move as fast as smaller pods, and everyone expected them to reach the orbit later on - however, the longer it was taking, the more people were gossiping about the worst case scenario of modules getting destroyed.


Honestly, I'm still hoping this won't be the case. Nevertheless, here on the surface, we have no means of helping there in any way, so all we can focus on right now is surviving. Anything else can wait for when we get accustomed to the new environment and settlements are secured enough for us to resume our main objectives.


Personally, I would love to explore the planet and investigate all these interesting pieces of aliens' ancient technology, but there are much more important things for me to do right now. Hopefully, it won't take that much longer.


21st January 2297