Kaya
Perhaps short of a marble
The Plot
Kepler 22b, or how its people call it - Imber - is an exoplanet almost 600 light years from the original earth. It was populated as a plan to save humanity from its doom on its original planet, in the year 2045.
When the spaceship with the remaining people crash landed on the planet, not many survived.
Ever since, humanity had struggled to keep itself from extinction.
What was supposed to be a safe place, a new beginning, turned into one of their biggest challenges.
The few survivors built small outposts and started to examine the world around them, slowly beginning to enhance their technology. Slightly bigger than Earth, the vegetation and fauna differed vastly.
The radiation the people were exposed to during their long journey and on the planet itself started to slowly take its toll on some humans; while some died from the long-term effects, others adapted and changed.
The ones changing started to gain the ability to see magnetic fields and gained the name 'Pathfinders'.
Those people turned out to be invaluable, as they made navigation on the planet a lot easier. They were trained to use their ability to perfection, and the people slowly started to expand their little colonies, soon exploring the vast planet they now called their home, all thanks to the pathfinders, who could trace and map every inch of their surroundings and always found their way back home.
But the hard training wasn't for everyone;
and one of them left their planet, their home, everything they knew behind, for something she never had; freedom.
On her travel, something went wrong, and so she was forced to put herself in cryostasis to survive, hoping that one day, someone would find her.
A little over 8000 years later, the only heir to House Khumali, Perses, is plagued by constant visions of darkness and freezing cold, a sensation of impending doom nagging at his heart while something seems to pull him away from his safe, sheltered home on the planet Khumali.
When it gets impossible to bear for even just another day, he sets out to follow the mysterious sensation calling for him.
Haunted by dreams of a girl he doesn't know, he follows the voiceless calling across space, until his ship is hit by an asteroid when he suffers another vision that leaves him unable to dodge.
But maybe it was fate...
Barely visible in the fog of a gas giant, he spots another, very old ship.
Hoping to find some spare parts to fix his ship, he docs on to the mysterious ship, just to notice it's running on the power of one last generator working.
Curious, he more or less crash lands both ships on one of the nearby moons of Wallach IX and investigates further;
Just to find one single cryo pod occupied and running, the girl frozen inside awfully familiar...
Hadn't he met her in his dreams countless times?
Kepler 22b, or how its people call it - Imber - is an exoplanet almost 600 light years from the original earth. It was populated as a plan to save humanity from its doom on its original planet, in the year 2045.
When the spaceship with the remaining people crash landed on the planet, not many survived.
Ever since, humanity had struggled to keep itself from extinction.
What was supposed to be a safe place, a new beginning, turned into one of their biggest challenges.
The few survivors built small outposts and started to examine the world around them, slowly beginning to enhance their technology. Slightly bigger than Earth, the vegetation and fauna differed vastly.
The radiation the people were exposed to during their long journey and on the planet itself started to slowly take its toll on some humans; while some died from the long-term effects, others adapted and changed.
The ones changing started to gain the ability to see magnetic fields and gained the name 'Pathfinders'.
Those people turned out to be invaluable, as they made navigation on the planet a lot easier. They were trained to use their ability to perfection, and the people slowly started to expand their little colonies, soon exploring the vast planet they now called their home, all thanks to the pathfinders, who could trace and map every inch of their surroundings and always found their way back home.
But the hard training wasn't for everyone;
and one of them left their planet, their home, everything they knew behind, for something she never had; freedom.
On her travel, something went wrong, and so she was forced to put herself in cryostasis to survive, hoping that one day, someone would find her.
A little over 8000 years later, the only heir to House Khumali, Perses, is plagued by constant visions of darkness and freezing cold, a sensation of impending doom nagging at his heart while something seems to pull him away from his safe, sheltered home on the planet Khumali.
When it gets impossible to bear for even just another day, he sets out to follow the mysterious sensation calling for him.
Haunted by dreams of a girl he doesn't know, he follows the voiceless calling across space, until his ship is hit by an asteroid when he suffers another vision that leaves him unable to dodge.
But maybe it was fate...
Barely visible in the fog of a gas giant, he spots another, very old ship.
Hoping to find some spare parts to fix his ship, he docs on to the mysterious ship, just to notice it's running on the power of one last generator working.
Curious, he more or less crash lands both ships on one of the nearby moons of Wallach IX and investigates further;
Just to find one single cryo pod occupied and running, the girl frozen inside awfully familiar...
Hadn't he met her in his dreams countless times?
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