RAW SOURCE: Maf: A Brief History of the "Original Colonists" — Part One

URL: https://perryjones.medium.com/maf-a-brief-history-of-the-original-colonists-part-one-1c322828c823 Published: Jul 12, 2022

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187,000 people — 70% randomly selected across Earth, 30% engineers, scientists, artists, and leaders — board 15 football-shaped shuttle ships around the world, each hundreds of feet tall. Each shuttle carries 20,000 people up to permanently join the Ark Royal, a 6.5-mile-long, just-over-a- mile-wide ark ship in Earth orbit, for a full capacity of 300,000 refugees.

Built by "Vee" of the LMT Corporation; cost estimates range from several hundred billion to over $3 trillion. Construction took over 10 years for the ark plus 15 shuttles. Tensions between nations had run hot for ~20 years without full-scale war, though proxy wars had occurred between Western democracies and a Russia/China-led bloc. Vee believed World War Three was coming and would likely go nuclear, ending all life on Earth — so he built the Ark Royal to preserve life, customs, culture, and history.

Shuttle locations: South Africa, western Egypt, near London, two in Canada, three in the USA, Australia, Vietnam, Brazil, India, Japan, Spain, and the "Philadelphia," 208 miles southeast of Moscow. Each nation's military guarded its shuttle, supplemented by LMT-hired security.

As launch approached, huge crowds gathered hoping for last-minute selection, despite the worldwide "Great Lottery" having closed months earlier. Fighting broke out 11 days before launch; riots at all 15 sites 5 days before. Near Moscow, the Philadelphia site's crowd grew past a million; food and sanitation collapsed, people began dying in dozens. Vee ordered "Launch in 24 hours" — leaving many lottery winners behind, since no ship (besides the fully-loaded Philadelphia) was at capacity.

A rumor of the early launch leaked; the company publicly denied it. Early morning of the fourth day before scheduled launch, military helicopters swept in at each site — some carrying lottery winners to board, others evacuating engineers/technicians to safety. Near the Philadelphia, crowds broke through military/police cordons; the resulting fighting and stampede killed thousands. At 9 AM, all 15 ships' engines ignited; the Philadelphia's launch flames killed another 9,000 people at that site.

The Kremlin, skeptical from the start, ordered all 15 shuttles destroyed starting with the Philadelphia, then the Ark Royal itself — despite this likely triggering World War Three. Six ballistic missiles were launched at the Ark Royal; U.S. Space Force destroyed 3, the British 1 more, and the remaining 2 missed, detonating harmlessly in empty space. Three Russian "battle shuttles" (one turned back with a malfunction) closed to 300 miles of the Philadelphia and fired 12 conventional missiles total. American and British defenses destroyed 7; 1 lost thrust and fell back to Earth; the remaining 4 (2 aimed at Philadelphia, 2 at Ark Royal) continued. Two struck the Philadelphia, destroying it — 20,000 killed. Two struck the accelerating Ark Royal. Captain Patrick McHenery radioed Houston: "No damage," repeated for confirmation. Houston replied: "Good sailing — and God speed." The Ark Royal successfully escaped Earth orbit.