CHAPTER TWO. TERRACOSMICO. TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR OF THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR.
Oh, so hard to remember the details. One day I felt something strange in my dream — a smell impossible to describe. It invaded my brain and forced my eyes open and my heart to skip a beat. We realized what we had to do. The smell resulted from the collider inside the ship stopping and losing thrust being pulled by the gravity of a small planet while we were asleep. When we climbed up to the surface a stream of fresh oxygen instantly filled our lungs. After years of being inside the safety capsule breathing synthetic oxygen, O2 tasted like ice cream with an unpredictable flavor. It was a miracle for us, but definitely not for our savior. The ship was wrecked. Mechanic was rummaging through the debris as he was trying to find the pieces salvaged from the previous catastrophe. But.. How lucky were we! One in a million; death should have befallen us, and with it — the Decline of a beautiful era of our species’. But it did not happen. This further strengthened our belief that we were destined for a great purpose. On this planet, GALLUX was born. We met the +Terracosmico — extremely intelligent humanoid creatures with a horizontal system of social management. This later became the inspiration for GALLUX. After a while, we learned to understand each other. B16, as Mechanic called her, became our friend. Later during our stay on the planet, she shared with us the indescribable plans of a ship that could plow through space till the end of time. This vessel would hold exactly 10,000 people to explore new worlds, be bold and live in the “now”. The blueprints and plans for the ship were insanely detailed, and it seemed folly that it hadn’t been built yet. But there was a problem. The Terracosmico scientists never learned how to work with particles in oncoming beams, which stopped the construction process. However, we have been able to do it since we were kids. In consultation with Mechanic, I proposed our ship as the base for the construction plan. B16 helped me pass the proposal on to the developers. A few days later, work began.
