The Next Day: A Norse Tale
Prologue
Two ships were leaving the ruined and flooded Planet Earth, or as it was commonly referred to by outsider races, ships were called the Lif and the Liforaiser. Ragnarok had occurred. Humans were leaving Midgard for the solar system's asteroid belt. Scientists, engineers, and the like had been planning and working on asteroid belt colonization since before it was necessary, but now, we were making it because we had too.
The gods could not help us now, save for the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni as well as some other young gods. Before, the gods would help us out when we needed it, or sometimes just when they felt like it, but now that most of them had died nobly in combat, they were just gone. Man refused to give up though. And it seems we were not alone. The Lif and Liforaiser were making their destination.
They were surprised to find a welcome party. Dwarves. If any other race would survive, it would be them. Their technology was advanced, and had great attention to detail. They had modified the landing post to be basically flawless. The dwarves are supposed to be invisible creatures, but, dwarves being dwarves, they figured out how to make themselves visible with the combined powers ofenchantments and technology.
"Hello, mortal crew, we give aid," the dwarves were not the best at English, but they did speak Old Norse fluently, a language known by a few humans. Now that there was no sun, the dwarves were starting to build an empire, now that they could leave the underground of Svartalfheim, which was actually the underground of Mars, safely . The humans replaced their need for the sun with several high powered heaters, lights, and hot-cooked meals, for added measure.
A single earth year later, 3 human cities were constructed in the asteroid belt, as well as 5 farming centers each. It would have taken longer if not for the dwarves. The only livestock the humans had taken with them other than small creatures were dairy cattle. The seemed to do exceptionally well in space actually. The Dwarven Empire continued to colonize, now interested in the moon's of nearby planets. Some humans would join their colonies as well.
Now begins a new age of legend
Prologue End.