In 2161, Hokusai arrived on Durus, having traveled there from Earth. For a
second, a select few native Durune were excited. This could be an opportunity
to return to their roots. By then, however, most people considered Durus to be
their home, and as bad as it might have been, they wanted to fight for it,
rather than just leave. They did not know much about Earth, but there seemed
to be no reason to put it on a pedestal. By 2170, however, these sentiments
had shifted, because of the change in population. There were plenty of
Earthans there who were unwillingly sucked up by the Deathspring. And they
told stories to the Durune about how much the Earth had changed; how much it
had improved. Nearly all of the refugees wanted to go back home, but now even
some Durune were starting to feel the same way. After having failed to receive
help on this front from the salmon battalion, these hopefuls needed a new
plan. When a ship called The Elizabeth Warren arrived, hope was sparked once
more. Unfortunately, the Warren wasn’t here to rescue all of the refugees.
They were there to bring back one person, and her mother. Before she died,
Andromeda had a child with her wife, Saga Einarsson, and a donor father named
Camden Voss. Both of the latter two came to this planet during the
Deathspring, but were kind of just planning to stick around, even after
Andromeda’s passing. Étude Einarsson was a special little girl, who was
destined to help a lot of people on Earth. She was born to be a Savior, one in
a class of salmon whose responsibility it was to save lives by being
teleported to people by the omniscient powers that be. The people sent
to retrieve her had no choice. They couldn’t leave without her, and they
weren’t able to take extras. While the Warren was a lot larger than Hokusai
Gimura’s one-seater, it was still only designed for a crew of six. A few more
could fit, but it would make it more cramped, and three of those slots were
going to be taken by Saga, little Étude, and Camden. Well, the Durue
didn’t entirely understand this, and even those who did didn’t care that much.
People were growing antsy, and some were starting to feel entitled. Sure, the
ship couldn’t accommodate hundreds of passengers, but that wasn’t relevant. It
only needed to hold the one person who felt they deserved it the most, and
that person couldn’t care less whether any other person felt that they were
the one most deserving instead. It would be a few more years before the ship
was ready to go, partially because it took some time to locate the Einarssons,
partially because two of their crew members had some strange scheduling
issues, but mostly because of an uprising that delayed the departure. Until
then, life in Durus became a little heated, and some were worried that the era
of peace they thought they had just ushered in wasn’t going to last very long.
They needed someone to calm them down. They needed a new mayor of Aljabara.
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My name is Nick Fisherman III. It's not my real name, but that's not because I'm trying to hide from my former agency, or something. I named myself after someone I've known for most of my life, and he chose it in honor of his late best friend. I took up writing when I found myself failing 8th grade science, and realized I might never reach my dream of becoming a biochemist, a meteorologist, and a quantum physicist. I started developing my canon after a scouting trip to an island inspired what I thought would be my first novel. I founded this website upon the advice of many people, who told me I needed to get my work out there, and not wait for an agent to accept my manuscript. You can expect one new story every day. Weekdays are for microstories, which are one or two paragraphs long. They're usually only thematically linked, so you won't have to read one to understand another, but they do sometimes tell a combined story. Sundays are for my continuous longer story, The Advancement of Mateo Matic, which I started in the beginning, and won't end until 2066. Saturdays are for long series, most of which take place in the same universe as Mateo, and add to the larger mythology.
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