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The Man from Little Arcadia

When I was in graduate school, I met the first man from Little Arcadia. I will never forget those obsidian eyes and the deep terror that awoke within me. Little did I know at the time that this interaction would become one of the most defining moments of my young life, one that would sculpt my future. In those days Little Arcadia was not filled with Lightkeepers like it is today. It was a rough, isolated manufacturing hub in the outer layers of the void city, very different from how it looks now. The man I met, Theseus, was the first of his people to habituate what is now unequivocally a Lightkeeper neighbourhood and stronghold. When they were brought in from Arcadia system, the Lightkeepers, or Arcadians as they would refer to themselves as, were kept in a long quarantine in close orbit with Terra Duomo ; monitored for unknown pathogens they could have carried with them, and to confirm their immune systems would be able to handle the much wider bubble of humanity waiting to meet th
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Kate Dellars by Kiara

  H istory  October 27 3030    Hello I am Kate Dellars and I live on the planet Nectorania. I am a Nectorite. Nectorites have to drink and/or eat at least one nectarine a day so that my brain gets juice to work. Before I get into detail about myself let me tell you about my planet. On August 24 2020 Hugh Aculees (the founder of our planet) was awarded the best brain transplanter in the world. So Nasa asked him to go on the next mission with Clob and Roug. The next mission was on the 25 of August 2020. Little did Hugh know, the ship would crash. When he woke up from the crash he realized that he was on a planet that was earth like. It had no creatures on it. So he made a brain from the supplies he had and tried to form a body with it. It did not work out well. But a few days later he realized something strange about the creature he made. It looked like she was eating nectarines. One every day. Then they ran out of them. She almost died. He started to grow nectarine trees. She ate the ne

In the Black: Third Sheffield Compilation

Audio Clip #7 “Last week our golden gods left us. No more ceremonies, no more dancing, no more singing. Morale has wavered but not broken. For most of us at least. Actually, it feels like a haze has been lifted… as if the weeks of chanting with and praising those fluorescent beings were a dream. Gamma Draconis looms larger and larger on our horizon, metaphorically speaking. We are all focused on the advent of starting a new life there. Of honouring our past lives as well. Of honouring Dave. How could I have forgotten him so easily before…” * Captain Sheffield does not speak for a few seconds and audibly wrings her hands. “A haze… a dream.” *here there is a knock on the cabin door, and Captain Sheffield speaks briefly with a crewmate. Audio is muffled and inaudible. Captain Sheffield returns to the recording after 1 minute and 15 seconds. “That was Jorge. He’s worried about Liz. She has not been doing so well since our golden gods left us. Where the others have begun focusing

In the Black: Second Sheffield Compilation

Audio Clip #4: “Well I have not made one of these in awhile. Just over 2 months since my last audio message home… making it nearly 3 months since our journey. It feels like a lifetime ago, a different Ariana Sheffield grew up in Bristol, a different Ariana Sheffield studied aerospace engineering at University College London and met …” *audio is a confused muttering, Captain Sheffield sounding confused and trying with difficulty to remember something. “… right. Dave. At the pub. How could I have forgotten that? He will be long dead when this message reaches Earth , so at least he will never know his wife almost forgot him.” *audible chuckling . “A different Ariana Sheffield...”   Audio Clip #5: “We are much closer to Gamma Draconis now, and our guardian angels have been with us the whole way. More of them joining every day! Our new home is looking more and more beautiful. New scope and sensor data support our initial claim that it would be life-supporting. Maybe by the t

Tectonia #3 – Waves of Wonder

The taste of stale peanut and salt filled her mouth. It was verging on grotesque. Alexis Athena popped another handful back. Then a second, and a third. The peanut snacks were a convenient distraction from the latest scenario on Tectonia . Chewing also helped to drown out Captain Baxter’s and Jen Marshall’s latest argument. “They have been back and forth for over half an hour now,” she whispered to Ezra. “I can’t keep track,” Ezra whispered back, while flipping his greasy hair and adjusting his glasses. “Which one wants to head home now?” The chief engineer’s voice raised above salience, surging out from the din in the Mainframe Domain , “…and I will be damned if I end up like Orisa and the other explorers in my lineage. Leaving to some planet or system and never coming home. Without a word. I want to make it home to Po, and that means not getting crushed and becoming an exotic snack for some alien mega-birds.” And they said us scientists were indecisive… “I think Jen does no

In the Black: First Sheffield Compilation

Transcripts from captain’s log on the Soothsayer [civilian science vessel, 3 rd generation]. Speaker is presumed to be captain Ariana Sheffield , British astronaut and solar radiation specialist from the 24 th century. Voice and video data were received by satellite outposts on Charon over a 2-month period during September, 2512. The Soothsayer disappeared while in close solar orbit on May 31 st , 2358. Transcripts herein document the events that followed, and the presumed fate of the Soothsayer ’s 6 crewmembers.   Audio Clip #1: “Sss..something happened. We were collecting data on a fairly standard solar flare… and then it was just gone. It was all gone, the sun, Earth , Mars , the Milky Way . Gone. At least that was what we thought at first. Then Jorge called all of us to the observatory deck. The stars and landmarks weren’t gone, they were wrong. It was us who disappeared.” *no talking for 37 seconds. Audible crying and sighs of grief from Captain Sheffield . “We were

The Prison Planet - La Carcela

  The Landing   Jaison Blackwell decided quickly the only way to survive his life sentence was to only think of himself.   It didn’t matter whether he was guilty or not he was gagged, shackled, drugged and shipped off within in minutes of his conviction.   The Justice system was skewed towards the rich and powerful.    If he could have paid for a better defense maybe just maybe.    Once convicted there was no appeal, there was no sentencing or leniency.   All crimes got the same sentence.   It made things simple.     It didn’t matter any more.   He had only a few minutes before his pod would open and then he would face the unknown of La Carcela.   He thought that maybe it would have been cleaner to have just been put to death.   But in The Global Dominion, there was no capital punishment.    It was too messy to kill someone as a punishment.    Letting them kill themselves on this forsaken planet was the GD’s version of humane treatment.   GD considered the trip to La Carcel