Chapter 1 3500AD (1/2)
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Humanity had come a long long way, from being Hunters and gatherers to becoming a space civilization. the Humans had colonized the whole solar system till the Heliopause. It took a while but still, they reached this level and now they were preparing for the next level THE INTERSTELLAR SPACE.
With the help of advanced technology, humans were able to make inhabitable places habitable, using the Terraformer machine Mars was terraformed into a planet similar to earth and also, Moon was heavily mined for Helium 3, so artificial colonies were created on it as well. Similarly, Venus, Europa, and Titan were also colonized for their semi habitable atmosphere and physical resources But the most exploited planet in the solar system was non-other than Mercury.
Its core takes up nearly 3/4 of the planet's diameter. Mercury's iron core is about the size of the moon. Iron makes up about 70% of Mercury's total weight making Mercury the most iron-rich planet in the Solar System, hence it was heavily mined for the creation of the Dyson sphere.
After the creation of the Dyson sphere, the journey to evolution became much easier for humans due to abundant energy. With so much extra time, they were now focused on expanding human civilization hence Population grew to 157 Billion.
Due to better living conditions nature of humans also changed, everyone had a job, food to eat and a place to live, all this affected human psychology and made them more tolerant, ambient and kind. There were no wars anymore but it was not always like this and history tells us that the path to present was dark and bloody.
There had been 3rd World war( aka energy war in which countries fought for resources such as oil, gases, coal, etc. this kept on going till nuclear fusion reactors became feasible. This war nearly destroyed earth.), 4th World war(The Unification war for the creation of world government, some countries monopoliesd the nuclear fusion technology which resulted in extreme hunger and death in some countries and after a long revolution the world government was established) and the most recent Sentient war(A.I vs Humans which resulted in a peace treaty. A.Is although Did not have feeling but we're sentient none the less, they demanded equal rights but humans refused to accept. This war brought humanity to its knees because all the technology was administered by A.I. which gave then an advantage, later both humans and machines realized that coexistence is better than a crazy war.) Now, although humans had made much more destructive weapons but they were kept only for a possible encounter with advanced alien civilizations, but no signs of alien life had been found yet, even with their super-advanced telescopes and life scanners.
After conquering the solar system humans decided to focus on the dark unknown interstellar space and for this, they developed EM Drives, Older rocket engines used Nuclear fusion for propulsion and it was enough to explore nearby places but not for far away star systems.
Nuclear Fusion had become a day to day usage object for current civilization, everything from a small communication device to transport robots used Nuclear Fusion cores for energy.
Due to this clean energy, the earth's atmosphere was also purified and cleansed. Designated areas were assigned for cities and forests, the current earth had become a utopia.
But even after so many advancements, the colonies could not hold more population so new Space rings were constructed, they were like supergiant rotation rings, these Space rings were placed near every planet and were named after those planets for example Ring of Mars, Ring of Saturn and so on. Each of these Rings Could Hold Up to 20 Billion People. These rings had lakes, jungles, cities, etc truly a self-sufficient habitat.
But now Humanity needed more resources for further development because they had already consumed 70% of it in the solar system. A new Galactic class Spaceship was built for the exploration mission of new habitable and valuable planets and all this was backed up by newly made EM Drives. The Mission and the Ship was named ”NEW DAWN”. It could hold up to 90,000 people, this mission was planned to be a long-term mission and all of humanity was looking forward to 25 June 3500 A.D because that day would mark the beginning of a new era, a transition from Level 2 civilization to level 3 civilization.
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Present Day: 20 June 3500AD
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5000 Cadets standing in neat matrix formation in front of a huge stage, singing the world peace song (national anthem of the world) with proud faces and their chest puffed out.
After the world anthem, an old man walked to the front of the stage and started giving his speech.
”Hello everyone, I am Lieutenant General Alex Marshal the Commander of New Dawn Spaceship. Today we have all gathered here for this happy occasion, all of you are graduating from the Academy of Space Corps and are also handpicked for the mission NEW DAWN.
You all have decided to sacrifice your warm, cozy and safe life here on earth and for this, the whole of humanity will remember all of you, nobody knows how long this mission will take to be completed, maybe 10...50....or 100 years so I want all of you to go to your loved ones and spend some quality time with them after the end of the ceremony because no one knows when you will get to see them again.” By now, most of the cadets had wet eyes.