The Return to Mother Earth

The return to Mother Earth.

PROLOGUE

It is three thousand years into the future. The earth is barren and almost empty. So we were told.

The wars of the early part of the 22nd century destroyed more than seventy-five per cent of the world's population. In a matter of 5 years, the earth's population fell from seven billion people to less than ten million people. Some nationalities were lost forever. Slowly the population was dying out. This miracle that was humanity made from star dust, was coming to an end.

If not for the immense talent of the Australian Astrophysicist, Professor Adam Eveson, humanity would have ended. When all seemed lost to the world, he found an answer, he found a way to live in space, to produce a living environment equal to that of the planet Earth. He showed the scientific world how to create gravity and an atmosphere in a vacuum, out of nothing or so it seemed. When he disappeared, the Australians blamed the Chinese, who in turn blamed the Americans, who then blamed the Russians who in turn blamed everyone for blaming them.

What was meant to be the planet's salvation was about to be lost.

In keeping with the missing Professor's wishes, in case of his death or his sudden disappearance his work with all its details, charts, drawings and step-by-step guide to produce a living, working environment in space, was freely shared with the whole world, every country, every University, every government agency had the same information.

Simultaneously.

Some nations built their own stations, and other countries grouped together and built a joint station. It was a total separation of humanity. Each went their own way.

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Chapter 1 - The Royal Family, The Parliament, and The Republic's System of Government.

The Republic is the largest living platform orbiting the old Mother Earth. It is a vessel that is a hundred miles long forty miles wide, and only 3 miles in depth. A giant rectangular orbiting space station. The workers or labourers are known as or referred to as Unionists, it is an unkind term for manual labourers who were building the platform continuously. The working area is open to space and the interior is protected by two walls. The first one is a solid airlock protecting the Oneprecenters from the labourers and the harsh elements of space. It was called the Borderline for some far-off lost reason that no one could remember. In the timelessness of living in the Republic, it was always best not to ask too many questions about the past.

The other is more elementary but still safe enough for the labourers to rest between their working shifts. As long as they kept their working suits on and fully charged, to protect them from the radiation attacking them from every direction and any stray grains of star dust called meteorites from the many mining stations further out beyond the moon.

The Onepercenters who man and control The Republic are all Caucasian, who worship the trinity, the one true god in 3 parts. Their god is the oldest living god known to man, but only the very privileged can worship their god. That was what they were taught from the time they could be 'educated'.

They were also taught not to ask 'WHY'.

Their Royal Family had also been worshipped from the very first days of The Republic. They were the first family in the end days of the wars on Earth. Since that time it has been one continuous line of succession. From father to son, always a King.

The Republic is governed by an elected Parliament who answer to the King. Every order, every law, every suggestion or recommendation was sent to the King before it was voted upon, he made the necessary amendments to them before they were returned to the Parliament to be voted upon and then sent back to the King to be endorsed by his Royal seal.

Only those over 25 years old, male and who have sworn their allegiance to both the Royal Family and The Republic may vote.

The patriarchal society was harmonious in general, but the Royal Colonial Memorial Protectorate (RCMP) were used to quell any unrest. The last known unrest was over 700 years ago, due to a Royal command that only a select few were entitled to be regenerated. Over time, the Royal decree was expanded upon as it was found to affect the reproductive genes of those males who were put through the process to revive their tired old bodies. It came to light that the Royals were not immune to reproducing offspring who were less than perfect. The concept of terminating any unborn child was illegal and had been since the Royal command number #0001-00001.1A dated in the first year of their Lord.

It soon became apparent that the birthrate of females to male's ratio had to be controlled. 1:3 females were sent away or 'born blue', this was to ensure that the males always outnumbered the females. Females were to marry before their 18th celebration (Birthday) they could marry no more than two men at once and had to reproduce within the first 3 years of their marriage, if they were found to be infertile, they were sent to live with the labourers on their station named RLCS (Royal Colonial Labour Station) and then numbered after the year it was commissioned.

On the RCLS reproduction was not monitored nor regulated. Their habitats were congested, dirty, and noisy and were known as burrows, but the people there were happy. They didn't regenerate, they lived a full life expectancy, and they also hung onto their ancestry.

Openly they obeyed every rule, law or 'recommendation', sent to them from the Republic. The RCMP patrolled each RCLS and answered to a Parliamentary Commander on the Republic. The labourers were as smart if not smarter than most who lived on and in the Republic. They were as committed to keeping the Onepercenters in their domain as the Onepercenters were in keeping the labourers out of the Republic.

No one who lived in the Republic ever journeyed to any of the RCLS. In their eyes, they never needed to. They monitored everything, every home, every school, every FCP (food collection point) every workshop and everyone.

The society on the Republic is well educated (or indoctrinated) to believe that they are direct descendants of the greatest 'country' that was on the old Mother Earth, it was the wealthiest, the most humane, and an equal society, more so than all of the many other countries on the planet. They believed in equality and fairness everyone was treated equally. Their country was the envy of the whole planet.

that was what they were taught and that is what they believed. Everyone on and in the Republic was happy and contented, but sometimes, no matter how perfect something is, some people are just not satisfied.