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Challenge 045
Story title: Pillars of Creation
Author: Ingvild
Word count: 279
Rating and warnings: Safe for everyone, unless you’re an astrophysicist who winces at a layman’s vague attempts at being credible.
Characters and/or pairing: None.
Summary: A bit of worldbuilding from the beginning of the space colonies.
For the newly-born space colonies, it soon became clear that they couldn’t depend on Earth to send all the resources necessary for all time. The people who left for outer space were largely pioneers who wanted to try to survive without constantly having to turn to Earth. Doing so would put them in a subordinate relationship to the planet they had left behind.
While things like soil and food remained a problem until they could get the agricultural colonies up and running, there was an obvious answer to the problem of getting different gases and dust – extract from the space around them. Residue was being flung from nearby nebulae, meteorites were there for the picking.
However, there was the question of how to safely get to it. Spacesuits offered too little protection, and space shuttles were not manoeuvrable enough. The answer became something in between – build something like a spacecraft, but formed like a suit. And so the first mobile suits were created.
They did not look like the later war suits did – they were nowhere as humanoid. But they served their function, and the scientists and metallurgists of the space colonies soon found that extracting raw materials before they entered the atmosphere of a planet yielded some rather unique properties.
So the colonies prospered, and with technology a necessity for life out there, they were soon far ahead of the ones left behind on Earth.
This did not make it into the Earth Sphere-dictated history books. Mobile suits were weapons invented by the Alliance, and the Colonies were always nothing more than dependents on the Earth that had given birth to them, wholly and without effort from others.
Author: Ingvild
Word count: 279
Rating and warnings: Safe for everyone, unless you’re an astrophysicist who winces at a layman’s vague attempts at being credible.
Characters and/or pairing: None.
Summary: A bit of worldbuilding from the beginning of the space colonies.
For the newly-born space colonies, it soon became clear that they couldn’t depend on Earth to send all the resources necessary for all time. The people who left for outer space were largely pioneers who wanted to try to survive without constantly having to turn to Earth. Doing so would put them in a subordinate relationship to the planet they had left behind.
While things like soil and food remained a problem until they could get the agricultural colonies up and running, there was an obvious answer to the problem of getting different gases and dust – extract from the space around them. Residue was being flung from nearby nebulae, meteorites were there for the picking.
However, there was the question of how to safely get to it. Spacesuits offered too little protection, and space shuttles were not manoeuvrable enough. The answer became something in between – build something like a spacecraft, but formed like a suit. And so the first mobile suits were created.
They did not look like the later war suits did – they were nowhere as humanoid. But they served their function, and the scientists and metallurgists of the space colonies soon found that extracting raw materials before they entered the atmosphere of a planet yielded some rather unique properties.
So the colonies prospered, and with technology a necessity for life out there, they were soon far ahead of the ones left behind on Earth.
This did not make it into the Earth Sphere-dictated history books. Mobile suits were weapons invented by the Alliance, and the Colonies were always nothing more than dependents on the Earth that had given birth to them, wholly and without effort from others.