Stories from Terragrand Volume 2 Of 7: Volume 2 Of 7

What does it take to survive on a new planet?Even if a new planet’s environment is terraformed before humans arrive, it cannot support a modern society right away. A limited number of people, transporting a limited payload of materials, must go it alone in a vast and unforgiving wilderness. Multiple missions landing near one another can pool their resources to increase their chances of survival. Regardless, the earliest arrivals are certainly doomed to struggle through decades of hardships and comparatively primitive lifestyles. Many will sacrifice their lives before any fledgling population has a chance of taking root in an alien world. This is the grim reality.The voyage through outer space to get to the new planet is a separate nightmare. Distances between Earth and the nearest survivable planets are staggering. During the trip, people must endure a cramped, weightless environment for very long periods.In low gravity, human bodies don’t feel that they need strong bones or muscles anymore. All space travelers suffer a loss of bone density at an alarming rate. In addition, their hearts no longer need to work hard to pump blood, so they physically shrink.In addition to the toll on physical health, mental health is also a major concern. People embarking on missions to new planets know that they are abandoning Earth forever, with no chance of returning. Mind-numbing isolation and the looming uncertainty of survival will haunt everyone forced to exist in the cold, weightless environment. It’s enough to drive anyone mad.Populations wishing to colonize new planets like Terragrand addressed these obstacles long before departing Earth. However, history shows time and again that even the best laid plans can go wrong. In the instance of Terragrand, nobody anticipated a planet of such magnitude or the endless maze of continents that grace its surface.Please feel free to read the descriptions of the other six volumes of Stories from Terragrand before deciding to embark on this epic journey into the vast unknown. This is an important decision, for just moments after you depart Earth’s orbit in your deeply time-delayed vessel, the only world you’ve ever known will be long extinct. Read more