Prequel 2

You can imagine the popular response for a call to get on a spaceship, and travel to a distant planet, leave all tech behind and survive the old fashioned way, with clean air, free water, no environmental alerts and plenty of animals and plants that are edible and the ability to grow more?

There was an overwhelming surge of interest. Guidelines were put in place with global corps each trying to wash off some of the dirt from raping and pillaging other planets with this new clean air and water plan where they were willing to take far less, make far less, and collect far less in order to keep this Eden pristine. The advertisers were having a field day. The base price of a ticket was next to nothing, so they billed it as the poor man’s chance to escape.

In the guidelines only childless couples were welcome; some skill base was needed and had to be certified by three witnesses. Hopeful passengers and pioneers had to pass a Universal Language test, health test, genetic test. Everyone signed the charter agreement which included no births for the 1st year and the enormous cost of a return trip, as well as the money value of the minimums each couple needed to produce to maintain support from EarthCorp. Since couples were needed-the Corporation employed matching software to team up couples based on preferences and skills. Each pair needed one domestic, one provider. The fee for the use of the Matchers was added to the ticket cost. Food for the passage was extra.

Many people met their partner for the first time at the loading docks since they were coming from all over the world. Goods and supplies were packed into either 3×2 meter containers, 3×4 meter containers, or the largest 3×6 meter containers. The containers would be off loaded by drone and could be used for housing as well as supply storage. They were equipped with wheels, were made out of light weight plastic rubber and were surprisingly strong. The first joint project was loading the container for shipping and deciding what would be left behind because of space and weight limitations.