This was recovered from an old CD that I found with some of my stories - Its QUITE unfinished as is everything else I seem to write.
CENTURI
Ver .01 Major editing Yet to be done
Beginning and Forward Done
Spellchecking not done ....
THIS IS NOT A FINISHED VERSION
Copyright 2000 Andrew Nye
Stars, the gates of freedom for all mankind where the brightest they had ever been. The new atmosphere of mars, removed of the dust and the dangerous concentrations of carbon monoxide that had existed when man had first visited the planet, allowed the first astonomers of earths furtherest settlement to view the galaxy in a whole new perspective. Space travel was still slow and clumbersome, but now very cheap. Large space-liners soared across the night sky in orbit around the planet, loading with materials never found on earth. Debris from the last catestrophic collision between two huge space liners prompted the foundation of the Planet Shield Corporation, that ran the huge shields that protected mars from falling materials, had bought out the martian economy until the Global United Federation bought them out. Mankind was at peace, ever since the institution of the American Bussiness Corporation and its subsecuent name change to Global United Federation, mankind has had no politics to prompt wars.
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The year was 2099, an unbiased artificial inteligence computer served the world and its colonies. Mankind was marveling at its own existance, a new deep space drive had been created by the collective efforts of all of humanity. The creative and scientific minds of mankind had been effeciently and effectively aimed toward the creation of the CENTURI project. A large ship that would be sent to colonise the planets of Alpha Centuri.
Fully equiped to synthesise any atomosphere into becoming breathable by humans, and start another Mars like Colony, that would eventually become totaly self sufficent, it was the biggest endevor to be carried out by mankind. In charge of the project was an exact copy of the AI running on earth.
Three men and Three women were in charge of ensuring that the AI was making rational decisions, throughout the duration of the trip. Additionaly 3000 Setlement experts and their equipment were onboard.
They thought they were ready to greet the stars, they never knew how wrong they were.......
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2099 December 28th - Monday 9:36PM
Aeolis was finishing his days work, the last of the data-uplinks had been sent to the data storage computer, tomorrow they could initialise GENOS, the copy of the earth based GAIA AI. Aeolis was the main creator for both. He still rememberd the quest to find a name for the computer who had asked him what it was to be called. Running through the ancient greeks vocabulary he found the greek word for Earth, GAIA. The sister computer was going to lead mankind into deepspace and leave behind a legacy of human conflict and resolution as such it was necessary for a appropriate name.
He again was lucky to find what he had wanted in the greek archives
GENOS was a group of families that claimed ancestory to a common clan. In four days he would be shooting across deep space, along with 3005 other people. Leaving behind the blue skys of Earth and the endless plains of photosynthesising plants on Mars.