Captain’s Log : AU 32<\/p>\n
Location : Ship in stable orbit around the 3rd planet from the Star , AS 1575X , in Andromeda Galaxy<\/p>\n
Purpose : On scout missing to look for the planet suitable for settlement<\/p>\n
It has been\u00a032 years since humanity had escaped the planet Earth for good. Centuries of civilisation depending on the natural resources meant that by 23rd century , surface of the Earth resembled the cities\u00a0after World War 3. Mighty Jungles and raging rivers had disappeared from the face of the earth , only to remained as display sets in the art museums. Winds blowing at near Cat 5 hurricanes swept\u00a0everything on the surface with relentless energy.<\/p>\n
In desperation , mankind came together\u00a0to build the spaceships the size of the cities and went out to space one by one. I was just barely a teenwhen my parents pulled me onto one of those ships. Leaving Earth , I could see the the surface as no different from the sister planet , Mars. Barren , brown color of sand from Saraha has taken over majority of the surface with the Oceans no more than small lakes. Once a blue planet , third rock from the Sun , had became a dust ball.<\/p>\n
Over the years , some of those ships went to settle at planets near the Solar System with a few of them on the moons of the outer giants. However , the ship I was on was destined for the one specific location in Andromeda galaxy. The planet found to be most similar to the Earth itself. It was orbiting its Star\u00a0almost exactly\u00a0the same Orbit as\u00a0the Earth orbiting the Sun. It\u00a0also\u00a0radiated with chemical components\u00a0necessary for life as well as signs of liquid water on the surface.<\/p>\n
The journey itself had been a hard one. Many of us\u00a0died on the way but we persisted and now we are less than 1 year from the planet we had travelled nearly 30 years for.\u00a0I , myself , had\u00a0rose from the deckhand to the\u00a0rank of Captain in those\u00a0years.<\/p>\n
“All look\u00a0goods Captain. Shall we land? ,” asked Dio , my chief scientist on the scout ship.<\/p>\n
“Any\u00a0signs of intelligent life? ,” I asked again.<\/p>\n
“No\u00a0Captain, if any intelligence down there,\u00a0they would be\u00a0no more than the animals\u00a0we used to\u00a0put in the zoos long ago, ” replied Dio.<\/p>\n
“Ok. Then lets land near the green patch at the center of island there , ” I put my finger on the glass pointing exactly where I wanted the ship to land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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