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Chapter 1

Go west young man

I hate the Earth. With that said my story begins. In February of the year 2917, I turned 22. Being a college student at the university, I did what we always did...had a party. Parties today are so damn lame on Earth, considering life in general hasn't been the same on this planet since the 22nd Century. The beer sucks, the booze sucks, and you're better off drinking Chlorohol. They say that shit makes you stupid, and may induce blindness or a stroke, but we're young and we don't really give a shit. None the less, my party was thrown for me by my roommates. We had quite a showing considering the size of our dorm room to the size of the crowd. There had to be at least 70 people. Lots of music, lots of tainted Chlorohol drinks, and lots of girls. I kind of figured I was going to get laid, never thought several times. Unfortunately these things you would hope to keep away from letting you future fiancé finding out. She caught me dead to rights during the party, screwing her best friend. That would reward me with this nice shiner and the Fred Flintstones lump on my noggin. At first I didn't care at 2 o'clock in the morning, but then again I didn't care about shit after that 'cause I was out cold.

Woke up at 10 AM on my birthday, and 3 hours late to class. I was pissed as hell as my stupid roommate stayed glued to the video screen watching some damn disaster shit. I'm trying to get dressed and fight the angriest headache in all of mankind. None the less, Rusty, my roommate, told me to stop...there no class today....probably not for the next few weeks. I asked what happened, and that's when I saw it. A crater that rivals ones made on the moon right here near Laredo. I slowly come to recognize it was the fusion plant they built; when it went it vaporized everything for a 30 mile circle. Luckily, we were some 70 miles from Laredo, but my thoughts were of mom and dad. Our house was some 15 minutes' walk from the plant. Calling them on the Com-link was useless, so instead I sat around watching all this unfold, how over 500,000 people are now all dead...vaporized in their sleep. All I could do is sit and watch and nurse a Chlorohol beer. By 1 pm more stupidity on my account, taking the lev car to Laredo...yeah...I'm not the sharpest tool in the tool-shed today. Never made it off campus as I whizzed around at 60 miles per hour, seeing it's only 25 on the whole campus. Make thing worse I got pulled over by the State Police.

Driving while Intoxicated is not tolerated by any means in the 30th Century, especially here in Texas where they STILL have a death penalty...The usual charge is 18 months but I drew some support from my uncle who got me a lawyer. In return he got me...9 months in a tank facility. A stinking wretch hole of place just from the vomit that seemed to be a product they produce from all the drunks they haul in. My Uncle Henry was mad as hell at me considering his sister, my mother, was dead, as well as the fact that he and his wife and kids were all the family I had left. He said I better use this 9 months and think about my life instead throwing it away. I have no mother to run to, and don't come running to his doorstep unless I have a gift for dinner. I chuckle about that..."A gift for dinner"...where I ended up that seems to be their motto. That was February 23, 2917 the worse day of my life; the day I came to realize I hate Earth. I hate this planet, the people, the food, and the booze.

The Earth use to be a paradise 8 centuries ago. It was taught to us since grade school how in 2029 a giant asteroid threatened to crash into Earth, killing us all. Our governments were inept, ill-prepared, and quite feeble with this problem, so they did what they always do...threw money at it. They tried plan after plan after plan to divert the rock, which was the size of New York City Metropolitan area. Soon, people kind of realized...we're gonna die, which started 100 years of trashing this planet into this dismal gray ball of yuck. Cattle died, Crops died, weather got worse, Presidents, Prime Ministers got assassinated, overthrown or simply walked. It wasn't until 2136 the militaries of the world final had enough. Like everything when soldiers stop getting paychecks, then it's time for a global military coup. I'm not talking buck privates not getting paid; I'm talking Generals and every rank below. None the less, they stabilized the world of then only 7 billion after all the death, disease, and panic for a rock that had diverted its course. Seems no one cared to hear the scientist claims the Asteroid danger has ended...they were too busy panicking for the end of the world...FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS! People are fucked up...today we eat this Soylent paste shit. We replaced gasoline with Chlorohol, developed fusion reactors that were to be a safe alternate to Fission reactors...Yeah....we see that worked out well. Seems once every 25 years or so, one of these reactors goes horribly wrong. Millions die and life goes on, or so they think. I could go to one of the 7 colonies in the solar system but what for? The same problems exist there and those without it are closed to residents because they have a limited number of food sources. It one thing to hate Earth, it's another to leave it.

While in the Tank, I met some people from the colonies. They seemed to think Earth was some kind of mecca. I guess they read out of date information from the 24th Century. Seems they knew so little, and at the same time too much of what to expect. Burnt out cities, overcrowding, disease, pestilence, and most importantly, no food. Other than fish, our world of bounty has turned into our own Trash can. Then again, the fish is beginning to taste bad as well. Around July, I caught hold of one of them infomercial on the Entertainment monitor in the hall. Some guy dressed up like Horis Greeley telling us to "GO WEST YOUNG MAN...TO WEST-STAR CRUISES". In the end he was romanticizing the adventure of exploring strange new worlds that we have begun colonizing some 300 years ago. Most of them were inhospitable butt jokes like Darwin VII. Might as well live in a zoo than that stink pit of an old nature show. But he mentioned Cerces IV. Cerces IV sounded like one of those magical lands that Edgar Rice Burroughs dreamed up. A world of humans that are part animals.

No shitting, half-animal like anamorphic life forms. I heard some strange shit about what we humans labeled "Proto-Humans". It seems back in 2029 when we were facing that end of the world bullshit, the nations put there brightest minds together to save something of humanity. Some rocket scientist developed the world's most powerful rocket engine in 2025, and some were saying build a giant space ark and save humanity. The tightwads of the world out ranked major minority (every one that wasn't as powerful as them), and instead funded Project Cerces. It was a space probe that cost an excess of $325 billion. It also carried the so called most important thing in the world. An entire library of every animal species on earth, packed on top of a rocket like a giant sperm. As I told you...humans to me are stupid. Anyways they launched super sperm into space. That engine was so powerful it rocketed the probe at .99915 the speed of light. Now if you're not a rocket scientist, let's just say that mother fucker was fast. And for the next 300 years it remained the fastest thing any man ever built.

Well anyways, it made it as far as outside of our solar system some 53 years later, and then...silence. No one knew what happened to her, nor did they really give a rats-ass. If anything it ran into an Asteroid, or got swallowed by one of those Black Holes. But the fact was it ran for a hole alright, what else you expect a rocket that looks like a sperm to do? A Worm hole, which took it a distance of 768 light years in the wrong direction. When it came out some 32 hours later it was in what we call the Cerces system. Actually it was system Ranis 2988, but they made this probe into its own hero and started naming high schools after it so what the fuck.

Well, it got to the 4th Planet, and Cerces thought it made it to its destination. Sure, it was a lot bigger than what it was looking for, and it had 2 moons instead of 3, but I guess they programmed this probe with what the fuck software. So it decides, let's seed this egg, and began its re-entry to add our DNA to this young planet with Earth like conditions. Nope...that was too easy. First the Payload wouldn't release, and then the rocket wouldn't shut off. So now we have a kamikaze sperm about to fertilize a planet, if not kill everything on the planet as that engine I told you about was the first fusion drive engine.

What happened next can best be described as the egg has been fertilized. Yeah, it crashed, made a big crater and threw up rock, lava, and its payload all over the planet...and about 10,000 rads of radiation. Now I always learned radiation is a bad thing to us humans, but not to this planet, or it was a fluke. As my queer science professor would say, "The explosion started a chain reaction planet-wide that literally changed the dynamics of life on that planet. It destroyed its life, and replaced it with the genetic samples that were inside it". Yep...it fertilized an egg. It took 150 or so years but by 2275, there were Proto-Humans on Cerces IV. By the time the first Earth ship came to Cerces IV there were over a billion of them. The land was rich of wheat, corn, and livestock. Hell, they even have fish. Decent tasting ones.

In the end I had my mind made up I guess, when I get out in November, I'm going to Cerces IV.