Peter Vindaloo

2007 was another good year for us, 2 Endbringer's dead and 2 new worlds to settle. We were getting better at fighting them and when the year ended there were 11 Endbringers rather then 13. The sheer panic of the bad 5 was finished. It was going to be a long hard slog, a lot of good people were going to die but there was the feeling that we as a species we were going to win. There were of course a few faint hearts. The Saudi's activated the Mecca protocol and moved the entire city to Venus. Which started the Great Migration which made Venus the most populated world outside of Earth.

I'm not going to talk about that, I'm leaving that for the historians. As for the rest of us, we all watched as the british won the dice toss. As an indian I wasn't all that pleased, The UK had a population of slightly over 60 million people, giving them an entire world because they won world war 2, when there were much more populated countries that really needed it, was in my opinion unfair, but they did get that kill so maybe they earned it. In the end it wasn't a big deal we all had the feeling that there would be more worlds, more victories, so let the british have this.

Titan was chosen because the growing heart of the solar economy was the asteroid belt and letting one country control one of the fingers was going to piss people off, the british didn't really fight it. I mean an entire world's an entire world, right? So first Titan was expanded, we did our best to create and terraform the land masses and as you can see this is the end result. The world is dominated by two continents, one in the north and one in the south. Most of the world is ocean, this view just shows the biggest chunks.

The northern landmass is about the size of Europe, Asia, and Australia put together, the soutern one is about the size of the americas. It had lots of arable land, tons of fish, a working ecosystem, and the view... well I have a photo from my honeymoon around here somewhere, ah there it is.

As you can see it was a massive success the next project was personal to me, to all of the indian people on project Phoenix. It was Io or the 'south asian zone', according to the UN. We were not happy at all that the Security Council would be getting planets and not us, very displeased so a compromise was created. The next regional zone would be under our complete and utter creative control, and to make things better we would only have to share the planet with 4 other countries, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, and Sri lanka. We would also get free of one of the continents created, and 3 islands of choice.

I was estastic, this was the biggest thing I would ever do for my people, something I would be remembered and praised for my entire life, this was deeply personal and meaningful to me. It was like that to everyone, and then we messed it up... Here let me show you what I'm talking about.

This landmass to the east, the biggest one on the map, its the size of Asia, Africa and Europe put together this is our land, our dream. See what's wrong with it? Yeah not a lot of green, that green patch there covers an area the size of Europe and North Africa, that's the land that was successfully terraformed initially. It wasn't supposed to be that way, that whole landmass, the whole world was supposed to be green.

You want to know why this happened, why we screwed up the most important thing we would ever do in our entire lives? Look to the east, see that bit that looks like a T-rex's head? That's why. That Little head is a platou the height of the the Mount Everest, it is larger then France, it also completely threw off all of the many very delicate calulations needed to sucessfully terraform an entire fucking planet, all of this because someone thought it would be cool.

Look, there were lots of other creative touches to the worlds, the rule was everyone got one, exactly one addition that was specifically theirs. Just one, the Valentine islands? That was Ironwood's only allowed creative flourish and he understood that. There are mountains carved out to look like contributors scattered all over the place, this was also acceptable, but there were rules in place. You had to submit your option, you had to get it approved and we had to run the numbers to see if it would affect the process.

Well after that... you know what I'm just going to call it what it was, a massive fuck up, we locked down everything to find out who did it. I mean we had run the numbers over and over again. No one who wasn't an indian national had been allowed to work on the Io project. We went over camera feeds, got Thinkers and Tinkers and our best police officers on it and found the culprit. Her name was Pari Verma and she added in a last minute addition to the programming after the final check, without asking for approval, without clearing it with the entire team, she just did that and FUCKED the entire project.

I'm not saying it was a total disaster, the oceans were fine, full of fish, the air was breathable, it was better then Mars by a huge margin, but this was our shining moment and she turned it to shit. Now it was going to take decades, generations to terraform the rest she just screwed over a billion people because she thought it would look cute. So obviously she was fired, then of course she was sent to her trial. There were large masses of enraged people, how dare she humiliate us like this? There was no question of her guilt and she was exiled to Pluto. Not the birdcage. Just a small little island, she would be alone, given just a backpack full of supplies.

Whether she lived or died, no one knows and I honestly don't care, selfish bitch.