Eleven ships carrying animals, tools, clothing, grain and other supplies set out on an eight month voyage. The supplies are sufficient to last two years, plus the journey time. Also aboard are approximately 1,300 passengers, about two thirds of whom are convicts. The rest are officials, soldiers, the ships crews, plus a few wives and children. The destination is Port Jackson. The landing signifies the beginning of a mass transportation movement to start a prison colony. The aim is to relieve overcrowding in the jails back home. The year is 1788. It is sixteen years after the HMS Endeavour landed on the east coast of Australia.
Eleven ships carrying animals, tools, clothing, grain and other supplies set out on an eight month voyage. The supplies are sufficient to last two years, plus the journey time. Also aboard are approximately 1,300 passengers, about two thirds of whom are convicts. The rest are officials, soldiers, the ships crews, plus a few wives and children. The destination is the Gale Crater. The landing signifies the beginning of a mass transportation movement to start a prison colony. The aim is to relieve overcrowding in the jails back home. The year is 2028. It is sixteen years after the Curiosity Rover landed on the surface of the planet Mars.
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Written for Trifecta Challenge, week fifty. The word is YEAR (noun), used in the context:
Nice mirroring there! I like the symmetry and the unexpected twist of the futuristic echo. Humans never change and were we to colonize the moon that is what would happen. History is written by the victors, and they have short term memory loss, so it keeps repeating itself through the centuries!
ReplyDeleteVery creative. I enjoyed reading this.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought the first paragraph was about a spaceship. Imagine my surprise when I got to the end and found the *second* paragraph was the spaceship! (:
ReplyDeleteI can think of a few more people I'd like to send. I, too, liked the mirroring. Nicely written and detailed.
ReplyDeleteNothing changes, does it? And we never seem to learn. We just expand our reach. Though, that said, it worked out ok for Australia so maybe the same will happen on Mars. Great take on the word!
ReplyDeleteI like the parallel between Australia and Mars. It seems we keep looking for places to dump the problem citizens. Australia turned out okay, maybe Mars will as well. Once Mars is filled up, I wonder where they will turn?
ReplyDeleteHard to imagine what that must have been like; even harder to imagine what would happen if we repeated it on Mars! Interesting thought.
ReplyDeleteOoo, interesting. And not totally farfetched. Nicely done.
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