At, the year 2105, humanity still hadn't conquered the space, like many brilliant scientists predicted.
And unfortunately, our mother earth was exhausted - from us, humans. Earth, had only enough resources to last us humans for the next century at most.
A new government was formed, the united world federation, or UWF for short. UWF did a good job, they managed, to make every lazy ass human go to work, a new rule became the foundation, of this new society – 'You dont work, You dont eat'.
Many were unhappy about this, because money now meant nothing, for your work you got work points, and for them you bought anything you needed, and to get WP you needed to do everything, with your own hands, so the rich began to riot...
Like that, the first UWF war began, but it didnt last long - the previously poor quickly forced the old rich bastards to their knees, this new system, was the best system the humanity has ever used.
The results could be seen clearly, fat people became a rarity – only those with genetic diseases that made them fat were fat, and even these individuals had enough muscle, to not be bothered by their weight. Statistics of people sick with mental diseases such as depression, anxiety disorders, anger management problems and many more were forgotten. The length of a persons life increased, as our scientists finally have proved, that the more you exercise the longer you live is true. And as every single person was working, all having a common goal - to survive, to stay alive all the differences disappeared, they were remembered more like jokes. There no longer were black or white, there only were the people. Almost an utopic society.
Unfortunately, even this was not enough, to make mother earth recover. Not, with this amount of people living on it, the efforts still helped, more than doubling the time remaining, for humanity. And drastic measures, had to be taken. But there was no one willing to do it.
It was then, that they came, and they came, with a solution. It was cruel, it was inhuman, but it was effective.
Boiders, a humanoid race of aliens, came to earth, after witnessing our efforts to fix our planet, to improve ourselves, to conquer our differences. They came without any warning, their spaceships dropped gas bombs on earth. There were no explosions, those gas bombs looked like they were harmless. Our people laughed at these silly aliens, though some were a little concerned by this act of war, yet in the end they never attacked us again, just left a station in our orbit, that was watching earth. At first, we didnt really understand, only after some time did we began to see, the consequences of those gas bombs. And it was hearth breaking, it was beyond cruel.
The humans, that were weak, had some genetic diseases or were stupid, became sterilized. This forced sterilization, happened to 70% of, the earths population. Women who were affected couldn't have kids, men's seed became too became unable to impregnate women. It was a silent death to many people.
Boiders, didn't make any contact with us after then, until ~ 80 years later, when almost all of the sterilized, were dead. Now, when only those unaffected by the gas and their descendants were left, they decided to contact us.
This first true contact as we now call it was a really awkward one. Or so they say. They came, to us bearing gifts now, not weapons of mass annihilation. Boiders newer apologized for what they did, now was there any need for an apology, we all understood that they did what was needed to be done. As they explained to us, the planet was more important than any other single species.
The gift, that they brought us was technology. Maybe basic to them, but to us it advanced almost all of our science fields hundreds of years forward. This gift allowed us to advance out of nuclear power onto the more efficient power sources, like energy crystals and many more.
In time we got to know a few more races, we were still unprepared to go to space ourselves, yet we were already making alliances, and trading agreements – our earth had quite a bit to offer to these other races – from our fertile lands, where we could grow the delicacies they loved, to renting land for their training, experiments or whatever else they wanted to do. Usually we rented islands, that were artificially made, that we later destroyed, once the contracts were up.
A few hundred years later, humanity was out in space, not far, but in space nonetheless. Humanity was mining asteroids in our own solar system, the rule “you dont work, you dont eat” was still present, but capitalism has returned together with the space age.
This is how, the space age of humanity began.
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=== Somewhere on earth. ===
Doors to my room slowly opened, with a silent creak, as if protesting a little, a small layer of dust got raised up a few centimeters above the ground. Trough, that small gap, a small golden ray of light fell on the floor. From the light, the room was now seen a little more clearly. An old wooden desk was near the left wall of the room, with a few antique paper books on it, there was an even older ink pen close to it. Besides the desk, there was just as old book shelf standing, filled with books and some new data crystals.
On the other side of the room, there was a mirror hanging on the wall with a gray colored metal wardrobe standing close to it. A few small dumbbells could be seen close to it, they too were covered with a small layer of dust.
At the end of the room, on the wall there were many posters of big, muscular men, a few posters of old sports cars, a few posters of girls, and one big picture of my family. Below the posters was my bed, with me, currently in it. I was sleeping peacefully while the doors were slowly opening.
My mother slowly entered my room, and sat down on the side of my bed.
“Baby, it's time to wake up” - she slowly woke me up.
“Just five more minutes mom... please...” - a murmur could be heard from me.
“Alright, alright but isn't this, your big day? - She asks me in a gentle tone.
“It is...” I sigh, and start to get up slowly.
Five minutes later, in the kitchen, my father looks at me and smiles, while putting his morning holo news away.
“Ha! Just look at our boy Naria! Already twenty one.- my father sighs for a moment.- how fast you grew up, it is as if yesterday you were just a small boy... “
I smile to my father. Yeah, I have just turned twenty one, with dark hair, gray-blue eyes, a little wide and long nose, rather full cheeks, and a gentle smile on my face, at the height of 176cm with a little excess weight, I am one of those guys, that you would call just above average.
“Time, really does fly by honey...” My loving mother agrees, to my father.
“Oh, come on you two, lets just enjoy this day!” I say, to my parents.
A small sign, of sadness almost instantly appears on my parents faces, but just as fast it disappears.
“Right, right so, come on eat some breakfast with your old man.” father says.
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=== Somewhere on earth, almost at the same time. ===
“How is it developing?” a powerful voice asked another man.
“Just as you planned elder, there are no disturbances so far.” was the reply.
“Good, better keep it that way, or you wont be leaving here alive.” the elder threatened.
“Yes elder.”
“Very well, then I shall be going, I have an important role to play.. Hahahaha...”
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=== Back at Spikes home. ===
The breakfast were good, Spike was back in the garage, checking his ride, a nice new bike, powered by the Boider technology crystal this thing was a marvel of engineering- an electrical motor for each wheel, magnetic wheel locking blocks, advanced glide systems, micro-magnetic jump control and integrated shielding system from bad weather, that also could protect the user from a few shots if they ever came. It truly was a beauty – Spike called her “Lady Blue”, because of the color.
He issued the start program, in a second a system check ran – all green. Shielding system deployed, a small humming sound could be heard now coming out of the bike, a smile ran across the face of Spike...
'Oh, this is going to be such a good day he thought...'
Slowly, enjoying every second he left the garage and went for a ride at the maximum speed allowed. Yet, as soon as he left the law zone, and entered the so called “Wastelands” he initiated free mode. It was illegal, it allowed him full access to the bikes power, and if he was caught he would be in big trouble... but he didnt care, the feeling when you are going at a speed when the world seems to shrink into a single point, was all that mattered, the knowing, that if anything went wrong you would die was thrilling, and Spike was living for such moments.
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=== A few hours later. ===
Spike was slowly returning to the city, now enjoying the wind passing around him. His next destination a was to go to his beloved, his fiancee Mersedessa.
As he arrived at her home, we saw an unusual sight, there was his grandfathers car and guards, standing near the entrance to Mersedessas house. Spike simply greeted the guards and entered, they just nodded at him. Inside he found more of his grandfathers guards, a bad feeling entered his heart, what could have happened he thought, but calming himself he continued to the sitting-room. As he neared the doors, he heard sounds as if someone was struggling, yet the guards seemed not to notice anything and just as usual just nodded at him.
When he opened the doors... his world stopped... There he was his most beloved grandfather, fucking his fiancee, and she was moaning in pleasure. Spike stood there shocked at the sight, and they continued, not noticing him.
His mind blanked out, tears started to flow from his eyes, he was betrayed...
“How, why... “ were the words, that left his mouth.
His grandfather turned to look at who was speaking, seeing him there he had a surprised expression on his face but only for a fraction of a second, before he took Mersedessa into his arms and sad down, while still in her.
“keep mowing you slut.” he said into her ear and then looked at Spike.”Sorry, that you had to see this my dear boy... ahhh good girl... “
“Why grandfather... WHY?! SHE IS MY FIANCEE!!!” Spike finally came back to his senses, still shocked he yelled at his grandfather, but as he started to shout two guards entered and without words restrained him.
“ah, boy dont shout... you see I just couldn't resist this pretty girls voluptuous body... but you know me, a head of the King clan now leaving his wife and remarrying a young girl like Mersedessa would be a scandal... do you get it?”
Spike was still looking at him shocked and dumbfounded at his words.
“Oh, my boy you are so dense... You see I have nothing to hide – Mersedessa was my plaything all along, you could say she was sold to me by her own father, for money and power... But you know I just cant have a mistress because of my status.. So she will marry you, and so she will stay close to me! Now isnt this wonderful?... oh, dont look at me like that... you dont really love her, no do you? Hahaha it cant be! Hahaha you really do love her! Ahahaha... such a silly boy.. okay, boys take him out, I have some stuff to finish here. “
And he was dragged out... midway out of the house his senses began to come back... he was just a toy, a simple pawn... his grandfather wasnt the man he thought he was. His thought and feelings were swirling inside of him, boiling and slowly molding into something else.. he didnt know what yet, but he had to leave, leave this place, this house this city, this country.... this planet... and his mind, that was desperately looking for a way out of this mess of a feelings and thoughts that he was right now, found it... the answer was Space...
Spike freeed himself from the hands of the guards and rushed to his bike, jumping on it he powered it quickly. Before the guards could stop him... he had already activated free mode, still inside the city, but he didnt care Boiders, police wahtever... Fuck them all, now all he wanted was just to be gone. And he had a destination right now. Going at a speed that everything around seemed like a blur his steel lady roaring like an enraged beast he was driving towards the spaceport.. the Boiders spaceport. There was one ship, that could take him out of this fucking planet – “the King” his grandfathers frigate. And he was going to use it to run away from here.
But he wasnt so lucky.. the security system of the spaceport picked him up, and activated defense systems to counted illegal trespassers, he was already inside the ship, booting it up, he knew every part of the ship, after all he always traveled with his grandfather and learned to pilot from him, whenever he could.
Spike ignored the warnings, he received from the Boiders system and left the spaceport. As son as he was away a little and was going to relax... it all went to hell. The defense system finally started to attack the ship, it didnt take long before he was shot down...