NOVEMBER NOVEL STORY IDEA # 6 STATION 3 MARS

 

NOVEMBER NOVEL STORY IDEA # 6

STATION 3 MARS

 In 2125, the population of humans on Earth reached 31 billion souls along with 3,031 scientists and colonists, men, women, children, and a few pets living on the Moon and Mars. The colonies were self-sufficient when it came to power, water, food, and air. The monthly supply ship to the moon made life tolerable for the 2,713 residents. Station 3 was a different story. They had all the life systems working, but the 318 residents still depended on the Moon’s quarterly supply ships for expanding their footprint.  

The scientists on Station 3 Mars were the first to detect a massive meteor heading toward Earth. The World Space Agency Command Center on Earth projected that the meteor would pass by the Moon. However, the safety of the Earth was in question.

WSA scientists on Earth determined the meteor’s present course would bring it close to the Earth’s North Pole but not hit the Earth. Astronomers in New Zealand and China disagreed. Their calculations had the object hitting in a barren region above Norway.  

All scientists agreed that the meteor, now called M3 was a significant threat to life on Earth. The director of the WSA and the commander of the Meteor Defense Network met in private with the US president. They assured the president that by working together, WSA and the MDN would to divert the meteor from its path and protect life on Earth.

The US President, spoke on a world feed in which she recommended that the people of the world not panic but take the precaution of stocking up on emergency supplies and where possible, identify potential shelters where they could go if the need arose. As a precaution, the WSA scheduled additional ships to send supplies to EC2 and to S3M. 

In the weeks that followed, as grocery stores’ shelves emptied and the cost of building materials for Bomb shelters skyrocketed, wealthy travelers started booking accommodations in cities above the Arctic Circle in order to have a front-row seat to view M3 as it passed closest to the Pole on December 14.

On November 27, when the Meteor Defense Systems failed to divert the meteor off its course, there wasn’t adequate time to implement a second defense, because there wasn’t another defense. Rather, weeks later when the meteor hit Earth, the majority of humans died watching their TVs.

The few who survived were below ground in shelters that were unaffected by the mile-high tsunamis that swept around the world for weeks. Months later when they emerged, they found a lifeless, barren world that would take centuries to recover, if it ever did.

Violence, starvation and suicide were the primary causes of death among the surviving humans on Earth. The fate of humanity fell to the 3031 colonists on Mars and the Moon.