The Men Who Saved The Future
Based of the notorious yet ludicrous Turkish 'Star Wars', 'The Man Who Saves The World'
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Chapter 1: Crash landing
It's been a millennium since humanity have abandoned Earth, in the year 13055 HE (Holocene Epoch), or 1000 PE (Post Exodus). A great cataclysm has struck their home world, Earth, just as they arrived to Alpha Centauri. Communications to the Solar System was disconnected immediately when it happened, followed by the mysterious disappearance of their scheduled cargo ships. Back then, they're too far away from home to be able to investigate. They settled on the planets there, and founded a new settlement for mankind, Nova Terra.
They faced hardships as they build a new home for themselves, with little resources and specialists, they made use of what they could find, and were forced to relearn everything. But as they began to settle on this new world, their home world was slowly forgotten. Earth is nothing more than a myth, and countless legends arise about humanity's origins.
It was fairly recently, a few decades ago, that they have sent probes to investigate Sol, their home star. Their probes mysteriously vanished as soon as it reaches between Mars and Venus. Based on the last footage found, it was clear that Earth was nearly destroyed by an unknown evil. Who is that great evil, and what are its origins?
Now, a few brave men are to be sent to Earth. They have one mission, to investigate the origins of this great evil, and eliminate it.
Comrades Zapad and Roger, flew their multipurpose spacecraft, the 'Antares X' as they embarked on a journey to Earth from the Rigel Kent space station on the edge of Alpha Centauri star system. The duo feared the great evil, but the still boldly face their perilous journey back to Sol. While they spent a huge portion of time in suspended animation, those few moments awake were the fuel for the inner fears of those two brave cadets.
"Zapad, you know that we might not get back to our space station. This could be our last trip"
Roger, the astronaut, voiced his concerns as he programs the spacecraft to switch to manual pilot when arriving at Mars orbit. Zapad attempts to calm Roger down.
"Chill out, Roger. We're not that terrible, or we could not have been enlisted to this mission"
Zapad leaves the cockpit, heads for the food dispenser, and gets a glass of Vodka and Citrus. The food dispenser molecularly produces the drink and pumps the lime green carbonated drink into a plastic packet. He sips his beverage, and smiled.
"Ah, nothing's more relaxing than a glass of Vodka and Citrus. Would you like to drink something?", smiled Zapad with pleasure from the taste of the synthesized alcoholic drink. The food dispenser has always served its purpose, capable of producing any food and beverage using an algal-bacterial-yeast complex to synthesize molecular compounds and processed into foodstuff.
"A glass of Whiskey and Root Beer, please"
Zapad gets another plastic pack containing a deep brown carbonated drink and returns to the cockpit. Rodgers sips the drink using a straw as he looks closely at the window of the cockpit as he saw the asteroid belt passes towards them.
"Any minute now, we're heading towards the inner system. Soon, we'll reach Earth within landing distance. Let's suit up, and prepare to manual piloting, we won't have much time when we passed Mars"
Zapad and Roger head to the crew quarters and began changing their uniforms for their planetary exploration suit, built for exploring nitro-oxygen atmosphere planets. The limited recordings from probes doesn't indicate any disturbance with the planetary ecosphere, so breathing in its atmosphere is possible. When they're all suited up, they head to the cockpit to find their ship has passed through Mars.
"Get ready, Zapad. We're going manual pilot, probes had disappeared from that point onward. We must be careful"
Roger steers their spacecraft, navigating through the countless debris as the spacecraft heads towards Earth. Zapad aims the microwave turret and shoots down incoming debris. The duo were having a rough time navigating the messy space, and had a feeling that something was very wrong.
As their spacecraft got closer to Earth, Rodgers saw the ruins of the International Space Station, torn apart from the cataclysm.
"Zapad, look! That's the former International Space Station, where our forefathers began their journey to Alpha Centauri. Whatever that great evil is, it must have pure destruction"
Just as Zapad watched the relic of their former space station in awe, he noticed a small, sharp debris heading toward them.
"Rogers, watch out! Incoming debris!"
It was too late, the debris flew past them, and has pierced the hull of the spacecraft. The craft is starting to lose power, and began free-falling towards the Earth. Roger steers their spacecraft towards safety, passing through the atmosphere as the spacecraft burns up due to friction. Zapad looks for a safe spot to crash land. As the spacecraft was heading towards the former Central Asia, Roger steers their spacecraft to a landing position, and prepared to crash land.
When their spacecraft reaches the surface, it crashes, drifted for another 50 kilometers before stopping. The astronaut and the cosmonaut were shaken and stirred.
"Ugh, we probably shouldn't have drunk any alcohol"
"I swore that we are not drunk at all"
"Anyway, we better leave the craft, and see whether we can fix this damage"
Zapad and Roger left the spacecraft to inspect the damage cause by the debris. The looked into the hole caused by the debris, and saw the fusion generator was damaged, with the reactor containment unit broken, pierced by the debris. The deuterium and tritium tanks are also pierced, leaking tritiated and heavy water.
"Oh Stalin, the fusion generator is broken, and the fuel tanks' leaking. With that much radiation, we can't possibly repair this craft"
"We must abandon craft, take everything that we can salvage. There's a rover inside the craft, load our equipment inside, and head for shelter"
So, they packed up their belongings, and embarked on a journey, to uncover the mysteries of the fallen Earth, and to defeat this great evil. Armed with their trusty thermal-electric-kinetic combination pistol, their diamond edged titanium tomahawks, and their multi-tool pocket computer, the astronaut and the cosmonaut began their greatest adventure yet.