Setting the scene introducing characters and organizations because corporations are people too
- Chapter 0 - A Breakthrough (Original)
- Chapter 0 - A Breakthrough (Rewrite)
- Chapter 0 - A Breakthrough (Combined)
For decades the temperature increased and the polar ice caps melted until the change in climate could no longer be denied. Research and on GMO's and low water farming and ranching techniques.
- Global Warming
- Melting Polar Ice Caps
- Drought Killing Crops
- Reducing available livable land mass
- Creating new overgrown rainforests
- And new alpha predators
Building on technologies first introduced by Space X in 2018 colonies on earth and mars are created where advanced subspace communication and low gravity construction and warp field generation research progresses rapidly
- Warp Probes
- Subspace communications
- Orbital Communities
- The Mars Colony
- The Mars option (Terraforming)
- Robot assistants
- Genocide to save food
Building on the advances in orbital construction and robotic assisted surface construction an interstellar FTL warp field spacecraft is constructed in orbit. Construction time and cost is reduced through the use of space elevator technology.
- Recon / Infrastructure ship with room for 1000 leaves 2 years earlier
- 10 more ships room for the 10,000 each
- Built in space due to massive size
- The construction site space station
- Space Elevator to lift parts to space
- Artificial Gravity for passengers
- Zero G storage in central fuselage
- Warp Drive
The recon and infrastructure team will depart one year before regular citizens. They setup the subspace communication transmission station in orbit then land and begin construction on the Genesis habitat module and space elevator. Everyone wants to escape but there are only 10,000 seats per year available on the destiny spacecraft. 1,000 crew and staff are selected for each launch 2 years in advance, the remaining 9,000 are randomly selected by lottery but sorted for equal diversity.
- Need for diversity
- 1000 family members including crew for recon ship
- 10,000 citizens for each destiny space craft departing every 12 months
- 5,000 selected by skills and diversity
- 5,000 lottery winners
- Physical and mental health
- Necessary skills
Crew arrives at space station 3 months before launch. Zero G launch at impulse. Engage warp drive. Faster than light travel.
Low G life. Food and Nutrition. Recreation and Entertainment. Hygiene. Love and Life. Malfunction or Sabotage. Unexpected Loss (Death). Religion / Spirituality.
The Destination. How far / How fast. Navigation. Slow down. Orbit.
Landing craft(s). Orbiting Spacecraft as space station. Communication link with earth. Touchdown location. Crash Landing (or challenged landing causing damage to lander). Surface to orbit communications. Change in Gravity. Surface transportation. Surface communication.
Atmosphere. Flora and fauna. Birds and Insects. Fish and mammals. Humanoid inhabitants. Size and strength.
Damage to the Orbiter restricts warp travel. Scavenged parts restrict high bandwidth long range communications. Food lost in Orbiter explosion reduces available reserves (introduced in chapter 5).
Lack of food. limited communication with earth. Struggle to survive. Housing. Government. Food Production. Power Generation. Solar power. Hydro