Welcome great readers. Thanks for being here.
The death watch of planet Harappa continues. It is only a matter of months before my homeworld crumbles apart and falls into its sun.
My childhood footprints will disappear, the home I grew up in will become stardust. The places I roamed as a child will be no more.
Thinking about this got me a little melancholy. I’m going to miss the world when Harappa is gone. I haven’t lived there for almost ninety years but it is still my homeworld. It is still where I grew up, I have memories there.
So, I thought I should spend some time mentioning things from planet Harappa.
Today, lets look at how the world was when we humans first got there. When Marcus Johnson firs discovered Harappa from planet Earth there were questions about how comfortable the world would be. He certainly knew that the planet was warmer than Earth and that the orbit of the planet had an unexplainable wobble that was troubling.
We now know that the wobble was caused by the Blue Moon. When the Harvest Day Blast freed the Blue Moon from its gravitational dance with Harappa, Harappa started its death spiral towards its sun.
When Johnson and his two thousand followers landed they found a world that was inhabited by a variety of plants and animals, none of which had evolved to the point of establishing a culture beyond hunting packs. Today we might think about not settling on a planet like Harappa was because we follow the Fordian restrictions about settling new worlds. We don’t go there if there is any complex life. The definition of complex life is a complicated affair and outlined in detail on the EG (the Encyclopedia Galactica).
As it was we couldn’t go anywhere else. The Arc of the New Millennium, the ship that took humans from Earth to Harappa was a one shot affair. It was not able to start another flight.
We stayed, we worked, we grew. We found one small valley that was comfortable enough and settled there. We built towns and cities and made babies, lots of babies.
Tomorrow: Flora and Fauna of planet Harappa.
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
No comments:
Post a Comment