Here we are, gentlemen. Sooner or later, it had to happened, and it has happened. Here we are. The first mutiny in space.
I know, you were looking for the track of the route you have followed to go to the planet we had found and back. Well, stop searching: you will never find it. All the data in the memory of the navigation system of the ship has been cancelled by a time-delayed virus. Yes, we did it, and we had worked hard and fast, to delete those data at the right moment, without damaging the rest of the navigation software . We wanted you to come home, since you wanted it: we have nothing personal against you. But to give you the way to come back here and get us, no thanks. I'm sure you understand.
So, the question is: WHY we did it? Why we remained here? why we had cancelled the data you can use to come back here? Why we have chosen to "mutiny", to separate from Mankind, Civilization and all the rest?
At this point I could start saying something about freedom, "when in the course of the human events" and everything, but I will spare you that. Nothing so noble and highbrow. You know why we did what we did.
Frankly speaking, we don't know why you didn't.
Yes, we understand who among you has kids and a wife, and we understand you too, commander. You had the ship to care of. Responsibility, sense of duty... But ALL the rest?
Yes, we had found a planet who fits for colonization. Breathable atmosphere, optimal average temperature, liquid water and all the rest. A nice planet. TOO nice.
Too nice to let the mankind ruin it.
Yes, as spacemen, we had just to acquired colonizable planets, that is, to verify if the planets who looked like "colonizable" are REALLY so. We don't have to think at what will happen to this planet when the rest of us human will arrive there as a swarm, to turn them in something more "terrestrial". I know, I know. We are paid for that.
But that planet was ALREADY terrestrial. Just like the earth. Not like Mars after the cure or other Terraformed place: like THE EARTH. The Earth as it was many, many centuries ago, wild, but clean. Blue skies as you don't find anymore, on the Earth... Or thereabout...
So we have decided to save that planet. Save it for us. And no one else. Only for us.
It was not what Spacemen are supposed to do? What Spacemen should have had to do? Well, we had stopped being Spacemen. Simple as that.
Oh, yes, captain, you maybe remember where we get out of the hyperspace, at what hub, in what sector we went... But that's not enough, and you know that. There is not a prairie, out there. It's full of anomalies, gravitational, magnetic, you name them... Without some cybermap, the support of a computerized memory, you could pass the rest of your life, fathoming the sector where we are, and never find us anyway. Forget it. Live your life. Told without bad feelings. You are a good chap.
Yes, you know the reason why we had decided to shut the door between us and the Civilization and to throw away the key... You have TASTED it. Ain't it?
Females. Humanoid females. Wonderful humanoid females.
Yes, you can find humanoid females in many other places, all more or less "available", we know... But here, on this planet, there are almost ONLY females.
And how nice, gorgeous they are...
What could become such a planet, if the civilization would reach it? A big whorehouse, likely, ain't it?
Well, let it be OUR whorehouse, if any, right? We deserved it.
We, the spacemen, the "poor beggars in red" of the outer space. Just to make an educated quote.
When we landed and had our first encounter with the locals, I did not believe to my eyes. We know that there were living beings, the sensors had acquired them from the space. But we did not expect THAT KIND of living beings. They could be monsters, giant lobsters running on the ground, even amoebas floating in the air, whatever weird things you can imagine. We have seen many of them, the more you serve in the Spacemen, the more you see "weird" things alike. We all were ready to shoot like hell to anything that could make a false move...
And then... we found ourselves as if we were at a resort's beach. Scarcely clad females everywhere. Very scarcely clad. And smiling!
The strange thing was, they were not scared of us. As if they were quite used to see people in space scafander popping out on their planet.
And as we were going to know, this was quite right.
And as we were going to know, this was quite right.
Once it was clear that nobody had to shoot at someone, the next step was to find a common language (literally). And since a picture is worth a thousand words, they used some pictures of humanoid with something on their head that could only be a space helmet. And all these humanoids, as we could see, were males. Let's say it was the most stressed detail. Ain't it, captain?
So they had understood quickly that we were not Gods. Just another load of males from space. And they were quite happy about it...