Evacuated
Copyright© 2016 by angie65
Prologue
Science Fiction Story: Prologue - They almost missed the warnings, but when realisation came, they knew what must be done. But could they evacuate an entire planet?
Caution: This Science Fiction Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Romantic Heterosexual Fiction Science Fiction Post Apocalypse Space
The warnings had been around for a couple of decades – or more, the seismic activity, sinkholes popping up all over the place, volcanic incidents, even the apparent global warming.
They were all signs that the planet – as a whole, was heading towards a major event.
And the people realised almost too late what that event was going to be.
The planet was about to grow!
The outer surface would crack open – like an egg, and the inner lava would pour out, causing the planet to increase in size.
The force of the event would give it a jolt as well, and the hope – the fervent hope was that that jolt would move it just a little bit further from the sun. Any closer and it would mean the eventual demise of the planet, since if it did move closer then the increase in size and the closer the proximity would cause the sun to drag it into the fiery ball.
Oh it would take centuries to that – but it would still be a death sentence for the planet earth, and the people of planet earth so did not want that, for their birth planet ... even if they could not stay on it.
Because of course, the event would destroy absolutely everything on the surface; even the bottomless oceans would not be immune to such a violent act.
The hot surface would eventually cool, and harden, and the rich minerals would maybe one day encourage re-growth – providing that there was water...
“We estimate twenty to fifty years,” the chief scientist sniffed as he read his notes. “We realise that it’s a wide estimate, but of course long before that most optimistic time frame, the planet will become almost uninhabitable ... the earthquakes and weather events, the air itself – it will become so poisonous that it will all become too much for anyone or anything to survive on the surface.”
He looked around nervously at the people gathered.
A world meeting – the first of its kind, where the leaders – the leaders of all countries were gathered in one place – at one time, to hear and decide together, what – if anything must be done.
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