THE GREAT SHIP ABOVE

THE GREAT SHIP from planet x

SHORT STORY BY MARCUS ALLEN CLAY

 

                   On a decent planet called “Planet X” thirteen leaders of thirteen great nations are having a meeting. Something of great horror is coming and they must prepare. After life times of consuming their planets natural resources their planet is finally dying and something must be done about. They thought they had time to fix things and bring their planet back to natural order, but they were wrong. The only thing they can think of is to take those they feel is most important to another planet to start over. The leaders decided they don’t want their people to panic and start more chaos than they control. So secretly they will build a great vessel taking only the thirteen leaders, a few scientists per leader and some slaves. That night each nation prepared it greatest explorers to search the galaxy for a planet with the two main resources needed most. Those resources were gold and water. Travel at the speed light through hyperspace each explorer found a one or two planets. There was one explorer who found a great planet freshly created but it was too far away for the time the explorer was given. Days became weeks. The leaders started to become restless and worried. Maybe the explorers some found out what was happening and decided to just leave the leaders behind. A few more days went by on this large planet and the explorers started to return. The leaders are more relaxed and please to hear the news the explorers had to return. They were curious about the planet that was beyond their solar system the one that was too far to be explored. The thirteen leaders had another secret meeting the next day. They thought a great plan to save themselves but first they had to send a top-secret explorer to this decent planet they heard about. Time was coming near for the death of their planet, so they had to act fast. They tried to secretly send a stealth vessel out with the planet noticing but one citizen started to notice all the ships flying out. That one citizen started researching and started telling stories about how the planet was dying and the leaders along with the wealthy was going to leave the planet.

                   At first the leaders didn’t care. They figured it’ll past and the people on the planet would forget and go back to their lives. But over time it didn’t past and with news from the top-secret explorer the leaders got worried again. To get the citizens minds off the planet dying and ships flying out the leaders needed something greater for the people to talk about. What was greater than death of young citizens. The leaders paid highly elite assassins from each nation to start killing young people in hopes that people would start to forget. With great effort and in short time it worked. With the people of the planet focus on the killings the leaders started gather up resources for the long trip across the stars. Not knowing how long it would be or how much they would need the leaders took everything they could. One month went by and the explorer finally returned. What news did they have? This planet so far away and so new was rich in the two resources they wanted. It mostly water and gold were everywhere.

                    It took 120 days for the massive vessel to be built. Each leader had a section with its own environments. The leaders pick out a section of the planet for themselves and they were very excited to see that the planet was like theirs. With the help of the scientist they will make this new planet perfect. Before the leaders left the planet, they made sure to leave someone else in charge of their nations just long enough to keep the people from being chaotic. The workers that worked on the massive ship was killed right after their DNA was collected to create slaves on the new planet. The time has come, and the ship prepares to take flight on this journey to a new beginning.

 

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