He was absolutely right, give example my mate, Henry Sakes. He went on a terracruiser for fifteen years straight, he came home a billionaire. All his life after that was just party, party and more party, he could organize parties almost once every week. In short his life was secured, done. And in the future, all his money was enough to give his kids leisure time till they are at the age of 30. That is something every parent wanted. Well. Now I'm staring at this red deserted planet. Four hundred ninety seven million light years away from home. Was no easy job. I'll be back at the age of twenty five. That's the time I would marry her! Can't delay it man. I'm twenty right now. But you see, we did not expect what would happen at Planet Orion till we got there. Planet Orion is in the galaxy of Andromeda. Milky Way's closest neighbor. In that journey, we received several strange waves coming from the galaxy. We thought, aliens. Ever since the first flight into space, there has been more than two hundred thousand cases which involves alien sighting. It was common. It became common. Over the years, for more than half a century, humans came to have known of aliens. Sightings started in the nineteen hundreds, and drags its way to the twentieth century and on to the twenty first century. Alien's aren't just science fiction. They are real. Several alien ships have crash landed over the years, thus, making use of their technology, humans made their own spaceships. It isn't much of a conspiracy. In fact, it is the fact. Space is vast, everyone know's that. We learn in our science text books, astronomers found that some planet may be habitable, but we are yet to find it. Since the uprise of a company which was called Entertaiment Industries Corporation, it branched out into other companies namely, Belling Corporation, was established in 2012, Entertaiment Industries Securities Corporation, established in 2013 and the technological and innovation company named Steel & Fibre Industries Corporation (SNF).
SNF was the first ever company to produce spacecrafts, capable of carrying small quantities of scientists, engineers, medics and equipments. The spacecraft was named Beetle, due to its small size, and excellent engine efficiency, and a small compartment to accomodate scientists. The craft was sold to NASA with a nett value of US$ 10,547,890.40. It was the most expensive spacecraft, other than the usual crafts NASA had. The specifications of the ship fitted perfectly with NASA's specifications and due to that, they (NASA) ordered three more ships. The ship was so useful that in the years to come, SNF upgraded the ship to make it a passenger craft. The first ever company to purchase the passenger craft, known as the Butterfly, due to its two front wings which was relatively bigger than the two back wings, which also contributed to the change in wind directions if let's say there is a tornado, is Boeing. The Butterfly could accomodate more than two hundred passengers, seven flight attendants and three pilots. The new destination was set to Moon, at first, for a few months, but before that, Boeing company had a construstion work going on on Moon. It was a sight-seeing destination. The price to go there was expensive, about a few thousand dollars per pax, and that is above ten thousand dollars. The giant corporation which manufactured the Terracruisers were known as the Zhumann Corporation. Zhumann was a stand alone corporation. They manufacture, test and sell their technologies to various companies around the globe. Zhumann made their first terracruiser in the year 2015. It was launched five years later, 2020. After its successful launch, a new company emerged from the NASA, the Terran Command. Terran Command was a facility to train civillians with the desire to venture out to space to do dirty jobs. Terran Command was an institute. It was launched by NASA in 2021. Since its launch, there were as many as two thousand student who signed up for different kinds of courses. I signed up for terraforming. After I did my terraforming diploma, I worked for a year with my superior officer, Sir Veko Lee. He is a Chinese. He was a science astronaut. After helping out with NASA, they recommended him to open a course to teach other students. I was one of the few hundreds who signed up and got a Masters in Terraforming. It was awesome, it took me five years to do Diploma, Degree and Masters. I completed the course when I was 26. After that he assigned me to Centurion-Vorge. It was the oldest terracruiser, the first terracruiser manufactured by Zhumann Corporation. It was rumored to be in service until 2050. My friend I met from the course, Jake Richardson, was on the Mars-Unity. He was there until god knows when. We were both almost senior. I was on board for about five years. I was 27 when I got my first child, Cathy Ellis Jeanne Donson. My wife, Amelia Jeanne Lung was one year younger than me, and she was working on earth, with the NASA institute where they recruit new students to join Terran Command.
Now I am married to her. We were married for almost fifteen years now. I'm forty five. Soon I will be a retiree, at the age of 50. I have two kids then. Cathy was the eldest, then is Penelope Jane Jeanne Donson. Now I am on a planet a few billion light years away from home. We have had alien contact in the last few months. Our construstion was almost complete and we were gonna leave that place, after the Space Marines lands on the planet to provide support while the legal firms back on earth sells the properties on this land. Usually a construction that big would cost billions and billions of dollars in profit. A company from Entertaiment Industries manufactured cars, which served as a transport was space travel, a revolutionary achievement during our time. Entertaiment Industries was launched by a man named Benjamin Jokins. He was the co-founder, while I was the one who gave his company a name. Every year he would pay me a loyalty fund of US$ 50,000.00 or in space currency, P100,000. P stands for Promedium. Promedium was the out-of-the-world currency. Without space currency, earth's ecnomy would tumble or brought to its highest where everything would fetch a higher price, in that time, even a plate of rice could cost you US$20. It was sort of inflation and recession. So economists gave the idea to make a new currency. The currency wa approved by NASA. Because NASA was the first ever company to be in space. In a joint meeting held by NASA, other space observers agreed that they need a new currency to battle economy on earth, and thus, Promedium was introduced. Promedium was twice higher than the US Dollar. And four times higher than Malaysia's currency. If you were paid P200.000, you could actually travel to and from Mars with seven of your best friends, with P50.000 to spare. It showed how powerful the currency is. Usually we, who work at the terraforming company is paid in Promedium bills. It goes from P10, P20, P50, P100, P1000, P5000 and P10000. I was paid P10.000 every month. If I could complete my job without any obstruction, my boss pays me an extra P25.000! I got that once, but it wasn't easy to achieve. I need my men's strength to help me achieve it. I payed each of them P50 for helping me. Those whom I told and worked overtime. They were glad! Soon after, nobody wanted it. It was a tough job for them. So they just shushed me aside. But then, I wasn't interested in it anymore. I would rather them take their time. Well, with so much space activity, flight company, RadarActiv manufactured a new radar system which could detect spacecrafts from millions and millions of light years away. It could be enhanced with their radar enhancer if needed. They get mostly from the military. The military was controlling space. They see as much as they can. There were so many things which were changing, new models of space car keeps coming out, some with boosters to travel from here to Mars in eight hours! But they come with a high price. Since every five years earth had recession, the price goes down during the forth year before recession year comes. The military came up with a new squad known as Space Cops. Space Cops works exactly like the earth cops, but they are equiped wih state of the art weaponry and armoury. They drive special space crafts to help them achieve light speed in less than fifty seconds.
The Promedium bill front. The bill is printed and there were no pictures to it because it is not formed by a man, it was formed by NASA. Except that the official logo of Universal Currencies Bank, the bank which prints the Promedium bills and Intergalactic Bank Association, which help to distribute the bills to banks world wide. The promedium bill is not made from normal paper. It was formed with a little metal embed in it. So it makes it a lil bendable, and yeah, which makes it look like a normal twenty dollar bill. Every month, about seven thousand ten thousand in value bills were printed, fifteen thousand of five thousand in value were printed, thirty thousand one thousand bills were printed, three hundred thousand of one hundred bills were printed, five hundred thousand of fifty bills were printed, five hundred thousand of twenty bills and seven hundred thousand of ten bills were printed. It was a total of P247,000,000 worth and if converted to the US Dollar, it is US$ 494,000,000. It was almost half a billion dollars and one third of one billion promediums! Every month the bank issues out these bills to cope with the ever growing of recruits into the company. Not to mention that giant corporation which were giving us tasks to do pays us hundreds of thousands of promediums to commence the project. Some even worth, not some, most of the projects I have done in my experience was worth more than seven billion promediums!
Anyway, it wasn't all about the economics of the world, it was something entirely different. Populations has soared beyond the horizon as it increases drastically. Developers have no choice, but to invest billions in making a terraforming space craft, the terracruiser. After all, if there weren't, where would I be?
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