That was the day the world changed. That was the day it was decided that no one would ever know what it was like to live on Earth again.
After the human population had finally grown too big and used all of Earth’s resources, while destroying its natural beauty, there was no way to survive. By that point, it wasn’t just a want, but a need to advance our technology enough to find other worlds. Our ancestors were able to find a way to a planet that hadn’t been discovered until the late 3010’s. Now, that time is also known as 0N.W.. We created the new abbreviation for time when we reached a new, fundamental age of humanity. It is like A.D. or B.C. for Earth. Now it’s N.W., which stands for New World. This planet wasn’t even in our own solar system, or even our own galaxy. We spent 749 years flying to this New World, which means over forty generations were born, raised, and died on the ships. Each ship they created could hold the entire population of Argentina, and there were about seventy of these ships. They were connected and it was an easy, ten minute transport from one ship to the one next to it. No matter how many history and science classes I go through, I will never understand how they were capable of making so many huge ships if they were running out of resources to need this new planet in the first place. I guess necessity creates ways to do the unimaginable. Obviously, with so many people, they were dying constantly. Not many people were able to survive all together in those ships.
This photo was taken on December 23, 749 N.D.. I was born seven years later. Our scientists had discovered how to create a habitable dome, almost an artificial atmosphere, around the new planet. Our planet’s name is Zeroeth. The pink soil was found to be even more fertile and nutrient-rich than anything back on Earth. We can grow better, healthier foods that no one ever could have tried on Earth. My father is one of the scientists trying to find new, different ways to make food for us. Originally, my parents are from Australia. The new planet is quite small, and could only fit the populations of about three continents back on Earth. This is why Australia was the only continent allowed to go. The rest were hidden from the truth that everyone in Australia would be migrating to this new, unknown planet. Everyone in Australia was isolated and no one was allowed in or out after it was decided how many could come with them. Over the years of them being isolated, the world began to forget about Australia. This was until the ships finally left Earth. Twenty years later, the sun in the milky way died, and everyone left on Earth died. After we got here, the way the world was run changed forever. Everyone is assigned a job, and taken to be raised and trained in that job when they are seven years old. I haven’t seen my parents in five years. I’m seventeen, but five years after I was taken, there was a false threat and they came to take me home. When the threat was eliminated, they were forced out. I can’t be sure whether I’ll see them ever again. All of the jobs have their own hemispheres on the planet where they stay to keep others alive while doing their job. I am in the adaptation hemisphere, being trained to slowly modify our bodies, and the bodies of future children, to survive on Zeroeth without the artificial atmosphere. Some day, we will be able to survive on our own, and maybe eventually be identified as “aliens” to those who would be on Earth at this time.