(This is my first story submission. I hope you like it)
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He was only one of few left from a population of ten billion. Like the other scouts, he had been entrusted with ten years of genetic research and development. They had been sent out in various directions from their home planet to find a suitable place to re-populate their race because their planet was dying. The sun that had provided it with life for millions of years was burning up its last bit of nuclear fuel and would soon end up as a burned out shell of its former self. Very soon it would be as cold and lifeless as the rocky moon that orbited the planet. What hopefully would save his race was the fact that the scientists had seen it coming in time to do something about it. Although their advanced knowledge could do nothing about their sun's demise, they had come up with a plan to keep their race from dying out with the sun.
His race had developed space travel but had not really used it for anything more than studying the planets of his own solar system. With his sun's impending demise, all that changed. All of the planet's resources had shifted to improving the range of the small space exploration fleet, and to find a way of carrying the population's genes to a suitable planet to inhabit. To that end, the scientists had enhanced each star ship to be capable of light speed travel, able to reach distant worlds in a search for a new home. Because space on each starship was so limited, there was room for only one of is kind to pilot it. All other space was devoted to carrying the precious cargo of genetic fluid and the devices that would facilitate it's dispersal.
It seemed like an impossible task at first. Find a species similar enough to their own that the genetic fluid being carried, combined with host male DNA, would bind with that of the host species egg cells during impregnation. The host species would treat the developing embryo as its own, raising it to adulthood. The host species would not know that during the maturation process, the alien DNA had already replace the host DNA completely, thus creating a living being from the dying planet light years away. This method had to be accomplished without the host's knowledge, otherwise the host might destroy all the affected young, and the stores of the genetic fluid the traveler carried.
As the traveler reflected upon those thoughts, he realized that he had been in space long enough that by now, his world's sun had died, taking his home planet with it. He turned from his flight console to look back at the cylinders of genetic fluid he carried and vowed that he would not fail in his mission. Also in the cargo hold was the devices that would help implement the plan the genetic material's dispersal.
His eyes returned back to his flight console as he gazed at what he was approaching. Just ahead of him was a promising planet; its soft blue color indicated large bodies of water, necessary for life. His long range scans were promising too. The scans had indicated that the planet had large populations of a species that was compatible with his plan. It had abundant resources and a climate similar to his home planet. With such a positive indication, he made the commitment to execute his plan on this particular planet. Dropping out of stardrive, he engaged the ship's cloaking device and coasted into the planet's darkened atmosphere.
Running detail scans of the terrain below him, he came up with a landing spot that offered the most promise of encountering hosts. It had large populations of the host species of the age of development that would be good for reproduction. He landed on a large land mass that jutted far out into a large body of water. His landing spot was close to the coast that had large stretches of sand leading up to the water's edge.
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Because it was still dark, not many people close to the Florida beach took notice of the brief noise that sounded like a rushing wind. It was spring break and the thousands of college kids were asleep or passed out from excessive drinking. Having landed, the traveler immediately set to work. No one noticed the large modernistic module being set up close to the beach. On two of its opposing sides, there rows of doors. On one side, all the doors had a symbol for host females. On the other side, the doors had symbols for host males.
As the day dawned and the college kids started to come out to the beach, more and more of them noticed the new portable toilets, and were grateful to the city for finally listening, and paying attention to their bodily function needs. As the sun worked its way across the sky, more and more of the college students made their way to the beach. All of them brought great quantities of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Therefore, it wasn't long before there was a need for some of them to use those new public toilets.