Gondar, The Nile States: 2052 AD, (Earth time)
Leaving home and not knowing when, or if, she'd return was nothing new to her. Her parents had been displaced like their parents before them. It was a cycle she couldn't see any way out of, so in a way, to make her ancestors proud, she volunteered for the journey. In her mind the future of humanity depended on this.
The corporate-governments of the world had been bleeding the Earth of it's resources with no regard to the future for centuries now. The privatization of the space exploration industry at once both expanded the field and crushed it's potential to be something beneficial for all. From the Nile States, this was the first "people-powered" intergalactic space flight in history. Continue reading




