Tag: Speckles Lovell

They assigned us rooms and sent us to them, probably so we could process everything they told us. But how do you process something like this? Realizing you are one of the only humans left in existence… it’s a lot to take in. I did say I didn’t leave anyone behind when I left to come to this new galaxy. But still. All those people… I knew I wouldn’t see those people, but I had thought earth would just be full of new ones and would thrive, but now…

Over the next few days they kept us informed, according to them the planet we were floating above was uninhabited, and had oxygen. But there was life in this galaxy. I had expected that, I mean, we can’t be the only beings to exist. Those aliens… though I guess we were the aliens now, had an ambassador from each species, that basically oversee the whole galaxy. The scientists who ran this program were trying to get permission to settle the world. One of the species seemed to be for it. They knew what it was like to lose their home, their people. But it was being a rather difficult situation trying to convince the rest. But we couldn’t float in space forever… we needed solid ground.

All I had to do was go to sleep, I’d wake up centuries later in this new amazing galaxy. There was only about a dozen of us going into cryo. They told us we’d be monitored regularly, as several technicians would wake up for their own cryo sleep to make sure everyone was okay. I wasn’t scared. Sure I was a little worried how they were going to put my cat into cryo with me, but I had a feeling it would all work out.

Only, none of us volunteers expected the sort of shock we’d get once we were there. When we were all being brief, they told us a handful of people would be going ahead of us, they’d arrive at least a few decades in advance in order to settle a world, build a place for us to live as we navigated our new lives there. That was all great, but when we walked into facility… their faces were grim.

The first thing I noticed, was what I saw when I looked out the window. We definitely weren’t on some beautiful planet. We were in some big fortress they built in space. I thought that was why they looked so upset. Maybe settling a world didn’t go so well, but everyone who came here with me was about to get one help of a wake up after sleeping for centuries.