The Prophecy

The great ancestors would never understand what a 20 year sunrise felt like. Camil had been raised on the Mohammed Population Transporter, and since childhood the nebula surrounding what used to be called Centaurus B (now called Aurocia) has grown larger and larger outside the viewing deck. Originally beautiful as a child, now the glow from the nebula filled the viewing deck with a golden light that could only be described as heavenly. She was somewhat jaded having studied it in school and seen it every day of her life completly unobstructed, the idea of a rain cloud blocking her view of heaven was a foreign concept.

The Mohammed was part of a fleet of population transports that were created to transport life from Earth to other Galaxies. Life on Earth was impossible after the catastrophic industrial accident of 2211. The megacorporation Envirokeep had started the process of cleaning the planet via what was believed to be the safest method possible, solar destruction. The Envirokeep would harvest all the trash from landfills and send them off to be destroyed in the sun. Unfortunately, there was a horrible chemical reaction that occured between the Hydrogen that the sun was burning and the chemical waste that was also being destroyed. However slightly, the chemical nature of the sun changed and this dramatically increased the speed at which it burned through it's hydrogen reserves. This in turn not only increased the UV and Gamma exposure to Earth it also moved the Sun on a fast track to death.

The fleet of ships, the Mohammed, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel were part of the Prophecy Project, an international effort to save the human race. The world was divded and loaded onto the ships which set off on their mission towards what was at the time called Centaurus B. The division was difficult and decades went by before a final tally could be decided. The ships have flown adjascant to each other for 250 years, exchanging passengers between each other on smaller craft, they became the new countries. Unfortunately 100 years ago a war broke out between the Jeremiah and the Ezekial. The intraship government of the Ezekial believed it should have rights to determine the course of it's own ship and those aboard. A civil war insued and a biological attack was used against the Ezekial, killing all passangers aboard and roughly 20% of the surviving human race. It now floats in empty space, forever entombing those who died.

The product of this attack was the installation of one overarching government controlling with an iron fist, the 4 remaining vessells. They vowed never to let humans suffer from such an insurrection and the controlling members have never lost power except in death when their duties are passed to new members who are chosen by the existing members. When the libertarians aboard Mohammed tried a revolution they were quickly subdued by the ultra powerful police state that had been created. Subsequent efforts on other ships were dealt with just as swiftly. Eventually history says we realized the wisedom of The Board and we never questioned them again.