Chapter One
Once on a galaxy far away, there was a planet just like ours, filled with people of all sorts. Eventually there came a time when they were low on luck.
Oh, there was a time when glorious empires had existed, when there was peace and prosperity. In those days there were no computers, cell phones, TVs, or cameras. And there was little evidence if you screwed up because of this. You just moved on to a new place and a second chance.
But now people were prisoners of their own cleverness. Drones followed you around, everywhere were cameras and videos, GPS, tracking devices, and endless disappointing phone calls and emails that were only spam. People took to living fantasy lives on social media, as the world grew colder and colder. And truly, even social media wasn't always warm. No, the day had come when the wood was dry, and many longed for the days when the wood was green. And indeed, the world was more dangerous. They had decided to run this world with nuclear energy, and of course, in their sloppiness they had soon had meltdowns which caused poisonous radioactive fallout throughout world, but especially in the more developed parts. Wars and plagues and crime increased. And then the world went through an asteroid belt, and began to first experience near misses of collisions, and then collisions with larger and larger asteroids.
And so it was that some turned their minds to time travel. What if people could just go back, as many as wanted to, to the time when the world was young and new, unspoiled and spreading before man with welcoming arms and plenty of pristine land? Theoretically it was possible. Instead of trying to relocate on a far away planet, they tried to go back to another era.
to be continued
Once on a galaxy far away, there was a planet just like ours, filled with people of all sorts. Eventually there came a time when they were low on luck.
Oh, there was a time when glorious empires had existed, when there was peace and prosperity. In those days there were no computers, cell phones, TVs, or cameras. And there was little evidence if you screwed up because of this. You just moved on to a new place and a second chance.
But now people were prisoners of their own cleverness. Drones followed you around, everywhere were cameras and videos, GPS, tracking devices, and endless disappointing phone calls and emails that were only spam. People took to living fantasy lives on social media, as the world grew colder and colder. And truly, even social media wasn't always warm. No, the day had come when the wood was dry, and many longed for the days when the wood was green. And indeed, the world was more dangerous. They had decided to run this world with nuclear energy, and of course, in their sloppiness they had soon had meltdowns which caused poisonous radioactive fallout throughout world, but especially in the more developed parts. Wars and plagues and crime increased. And then the world went through an asteroid belt, and began to first experience near misses of collisions, and then collisions with larger and larger asteroids.
And so it was that some turned their minds to time travel. What if people could just go back, as many as wanted to, to the time when the world was young and new, unspoiled and spreading before man with welcoming arms and plenty of pristine land? Theoretically it was possible. Instead of trying to relocate on a far away planet, they tried to go back to another era.
to be continued
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