The Journey Home
The Starship Odyssey. A culmination of over a century of unified labour of the entire world. Six miles long, with a volume of 26 million cubic feet of interior, the Odyssey was designed to house a crew indefinitely, providing for food, water, all the technological supplies that that crew would need, and the ability to self-repair through automated robotic systems.
In the early 2300s, physicists discovered that the Sun was showing signs of going nova. Eighty years later, it was confirmed. The Sun would go nova sometime in the next ten thousand years. The United Earth Council therefore, commissioned a series of generational survey ships to be built, with a mandate of finding new earth-like worlds. The Odyssey was the first of these ships.
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Its photonic drives had the ability to accelerate to near-c speeds, and suspended animation was provided for the crew. Still, the search took decades. The first-generation crew lived and died on-board Odyssey. Their children continued the search.
Then, catastrophe struck. During a full crew meeting, a meteor storm blew a massive hole in the secondary hull. Within minutes, the second-generation crew was killed. The only crew-members to survive were a group of third-generation crew, little more than infants at the time. Quickly placed into suspended animation, they were left until adulthood while they received the subliminal training they needed to pilot the ship.
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