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A Future of Exploration

         The earth is but one planet, the tiniest speck of our galaxy and even smaller part of the universe. Since the launches of our first satellites, the idea of exploring beyond our atmosphere has been a constant one. In the present, we’ve sent people to the moon, to the International Space Station, and we’re looking forward to both going back to the moon and going farther to Mars.
         Forty years in the future, we’ve gone far past that. This is a future where we have been able to set aside our differences and come together. War is no immediate threat and we have changed our ways to help the earth to the point where climate change is not at all a problem and we were able to reverse our negative effects on the planet. Even other earthly problems, like world hunger and education issues, have largely been addressed and continue to be. For the past few decades, our focus has changed to the stars around us.
         Efforts at exploring space have become forefront to almost everyone. Most governments have joined a council for the express purpose, pooling money and resources. They have encouraged innovation from both private companies and those government-owned, who now work together far more closely than before. The sheer number of brilliant minds that have come together to work on these projects have meant that technology has advanced leaps and bounds in fairly short time periods. It started with the first manned mission to Mars, then a lunar colony (followed by a Martian one). Missions to the rest of our solar system followed, but the breakthrough in faster than light travel and communications was the real jumping off point.
         Within a few years of FTL tech being put to use, missions went beyond the boundaries of our solar system. We humans are a curious species, so naturally we wanted to know about what laid beyond. The mission priorities at this point divided between those systems closest to us and those that held potential ‘Goldilocks’ worlds, so to speak.
         This scene is the depiction of one of those early worlds. The planet earned the designation Metallum, more obvious than clever, as various metallic elements were abundant both in the planet’s crust and the plants that lived there, from shimmering mosses to shining flowers to sparkling trees. Though we have not made first contact yet, many believe it is inevitable in the long run.

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