Science Fiction Story
Time: Post Apocalypse 85
Setting: Colony X/1999 at La Grange Point 2
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undisclosed location on Earth
Characters:
15-year-old Colonist Juni Darlain
19-year-old Machiavellian Expansion Hegemony (M.E.H.) Lieutenant Tori Yuki Ichimura
Science: La Grange Points: In simple terms, a pocket of gravity between the Earth and Moon where an object such as a space colony could remain at a fixed position relative to the Earth and the Moon. La Grange Points L1, L2, and L3 are stable perpendicularly to the Earth-Moon axis, but should something interfere with the line-up, the points would loose stability. Those are points of unstable equilibrium.
The points L4 and L5, located at equivalent distances from the Earth and Moon are points of stable equilibrium. Should an object at either point be displaced, it would return to its original position.
As for the Colonies themselves, artificial gravity is created by the perpetual rotation of the Colony upon its axis using the centrifugal effect.
To knock such an establishment from its position (a Colony of unstable equilibrium would be the ideal), first the rotation of a Colony is increased. Then, the balancing mechanism is destroyed, hurtling the Colony towards Earth.
Plot: Most of Earth's citizens had migrated to space colonies after World War IV rendered the planet nearly uninhabitable because of a severe decline in animal and plant life. Earth managed to regain some of its former life and power with help from the Colonies, but the Colonies continued to look down on the Earth as only a minor nation. The Colonies wanted to rule the Earth. A war sprung up between the two powers in the 84 p.a. (Post Apocalypse).
As a last-ditch effort, the Imperial Space Unified Nation (ISUN) decides to drop a Colony onto Earth. Such an impact would bring about a nuclear winter. ISUN chooses a defective, poverty-stricken third-world Colony in the less stable L2 cluster.
The inhabitants of this Colony are blissfully unaware of this decision until the gravity in the Colony increases and their meager technology malfunctions. Juni, just one of the many residual war orphans, takes it upon herself to right the Colony before it's sent hurtling into Earth, but all her efforts seem hopeless until she receives a cryptic message. With the help and guidance of Lieutenant Ichimura who offers her instructions through computers she's hacked, can Juni save the Colony and Earth from a Second Apocalypse?
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[A/N: The assignment was to write a science fiction story with real scientific facts. Also, you had to include yourself as a character to show how you would react. Graded for science and literature combination. And, NO, I am not the main character. If I was, I would have gotten lost in my house and everyone would have died.]
Tribute to: Gundam Wing, X/1999, and Trigun.