Thank you for reading my story, I hope that you enjoy it. Love Mica xx, Yorkshire England.
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PROLOGUE:
Life was very different to what had been imagined it would be just a few hundred years ago. An asteroid called Apophis had hit New York devastating Old Manhattan. A pandemic had erupted a few years later and had roared around the world killing over fifty percent of the population, and then a massive category seven hurricane had ripped through the southern United States and the eastern seaboard leaving an almost total trail of devastation and destruction. Birth rates had plummeted and humans were in short supply.
Those events had been two hundred years ago and now mankind was rebuilding, restoring and progressing to a new future. New Manhattan was thriving, the Eastern Seaboard now a destination for the rich, who built large homes believing that the catastrophes of before would not strike in the same place twice. Governments as the Old World knew them no longer existed. The territories, countries and states all still existed, but now the world was run by mega conglomerates who paid no mind to the old ways of democracies and socialisms.
The biggest of all of the conglomerates was Synth Inc who made the Synthetic robots that had helped rebuild our world after so much devastation, and who had helped build the off-world colonies who sourced most of the raw materials needed. A Synth didn't need the same atmospheres as a human and could survive greater temperature extremes, it just needed to recharge at the end of a day.
The issue now for mankind was continuance of homo sapiens. Homo Synth was now the majority on Earth, and almost entirely the majority off world. Their realism made them almost impossible to tell apart from humans, and now that they had harvested human eggs and placed them in the Synths, they were giving birth too. It was all very different to life in the old days.
FUTURE:
It was a day that I could travel, one of my allotted days that I could leave my residence and meet other people. Whether they were real or not, was a moot point, who could tell whether the man shagging me was a Synth or not? I couldn't, and in fact, I had no idea if I had ever shagged a real man or not, probably not, there were so few of them left. I loved shagging and to be honest I never even wondered if he was a man or a synth.
I sometimes wondered, when I looked in a mirror if I was a real human. Could I tell, were the synths so good these days that they didn't know they were synths? If I couldn't tell if the man shagging me was real, how could I tell if I was or was not? I pinched myself, it hurt. I pricked myself; I bled. But then, so did a Synth, they were that real. Even a Synth could get pregnant these days, that one differential now gone.
I was about to scan the socials and look for a hook up when my Personal chimed. An incoming message. I was required at the Head Office. A pod was on its way to pick me up. This was unusual, so few people actually went in to work these days, machines and Synths built everything, and machines didn't need supervision, everything preprogrammed by the conglomerate Quantum Computers hidden away deep under mountains, protected from even the worst disasters.
No one knew where the offices were or where the computers were, we just knew that they were, it wasn't hidden knowledge, it was just unnecessary knowledge. I slipped a toga on, the standard wear for everyone these days. Climate was controlled, no more devastating hurricanes were allowed, no more floods ripping communities apart, everything was controlled, and in a warm even temperature, a simple toga was the only clothing needed.
My Personal chimed, the Pod was outside. I went out, my residence automatically locking down after I left, not that there was any cause, no one stole anything these days, there was no point, everything was free. The Pod door was open, I got in and sat down and as soon as the belt tightened around my waist, the door shut, and I could feel movement.
No windows in a Pod, there was no use for them, they simply conveyed you from where you were to where you needed to be, sight-seeing was irrelevant. We travelled for around an hour, whether it was in circles or a straight line I could not tell, I had no way of knowing whether Head Office was nearby or a long way away, or even if it was underground. It was not knowledge that I needed.
The Pod stopped and a door opened. I stepped out. I was inside a building, that much was obvious, walls surrounded me, in fact it was impossible to see the entrance that the Pod must have used to gain entrance. A door opened and arrows, blue arrows, lit up on the walls showing me the direction to walk, I followed them and soon found myself in a room with two chairs. I sat in one chair and waited.
A door opened and a man entered, he looked old, and I guessed he was probably human, although even the newer Synths aged, to blend in better.
"Mica." His voice was deep and rolled around the room.
"Yes," I answered.
"I am Milo."
"Okay."
"Do you know where you are?"
"Synth Inc HQ I assume," Synth Inc being the conglomerate that I was employed by for my one day per week of required work.
"No."
"Oh, okay, may I ask where I am then?"
"Yes. You are in a private facility, not owned by the conglomerates. Let's call it Embarkation."
"Embarkation? Okay. Why am I here?"
"You are here because you are human, you are in fact one of the last humans on Earth."
"Oh. Okay I didn't know that; half the time I wonder if I am not a Synth myself."
"Yes, a common feeling these days, but I assure you that you are one hundred percent human, human female.
He paused and then continued, "we are leaving Earth. We want you to come."
"Where to, why?"
"Tau Ceti. We have established a colony there on a planet we call New Hope. No Synths."