Hi All,
The main impetuous of space exploration was due to the
events of 2025. In that year Britain was struck by a series of small asteroids,
which while devasting to several towns and cities, was just a harbinger of
things to come, for an asteroid twice the size of France (or Texas) was on its
way to Earth and the UK would be ‘ground zero’ for this catastrophe. The British, Americans and Europeans had secretly
known about this and had prepared a shield device, which seemed like something
out of science fiction. Unfortunately in that year, the POTUS, recently elected
on an American first ticket and having already pulled America out of NATO, decided
that the shielding would be used for America and America alone. The Europeans
in a huff, also declared that they would develop their own shielding technology,
quickly followed by Russia and China who had been canny enough to spy on the Americans
and reverse engineer the technology. This didn’t stop remainers from trying to
re-join the EU, which the French firmly said ‘non’.
The British had half feared that this would happen and had
prepared for it. The resulting coalition of nation unity, saw the entire British
economy put onto a ‘total war’ footing, the end product of which was a cone
shaped space orbital that the press quickly dubbed ‘the 99’, for its similarity
to this popular British Ice Cream and today is a civilian populated station of
10 million. The ‘flake’ was in fact a massive rail gun, attached to a particle accelerator,
which it would hope would shoot a beam of antimatter into the asteroid, destroying
it. Plan B was to build a generational Star Ship, in case the whole of the UK
was obliterated.
The plan went half
right. The beam successfully hit the asteroid, but split itself into 2 parts
and did succeed in slowing down the descent into Earth’s atmosphere. One part
of the asteroid crashed into North Sea, stretching between Newcastle in the
North and the Wash in the south and jutting out as a far as Dogger bank, the
other crashed 3 miles past the isles of Scilly. After the devastating Tsunamis
had passed, Europe & America avoided this catastrophe as they had fully activated
their shields, the asteroids increased
Britain’s land area from 95,000 square miles to 300,120 square miles. The
asteroids created new mountains and valleys, opportunities for mining, but also
agriculture as the Basalt rock contained high amounts of potassium, phosphate,
water ice and magnesium, enough to create extremely fertile soil.
In any event, this whole saga drove the main nations of the
Earth to consider that they too needed orbitals & star ships. When the Martians, an ancient race of multiverse travelling
canines similar to Labrador Retrievers - who had used domestic dogs as ‘decoys’ to observe
humanity- decided to reveal themselves
and the true state of their planet,
landing at Horsell Common , the rest is as we say history.
Because humans, amplified with social media of the 21st
century, have an attention span of goldfish, the ability to travel between the
stars and meeting numerous civilisation was no longer a newsworthy event. In
fact humans were more interested in
cultural wars, or maybe just war, often
dragging poor old Johnny (or Jane) Martian into the whole affair.
As discussed previously Shakespearian Brummie had become the
primary method of communication between aliens and humans. The resulting
attempts by the Woke blob to rewrite Shakespeare for the ‘modern audience’ was
dented by the discovery of handwritten original Shakespeare documents that had
been found in an attic on one of the new estates of Dogger land.
While the British Isles was now a part of the Interstellar
government called PUB (Planetary Union of the British), the UK joined as a
whole. This meant that the devolved governments of Wales, N Ireland and Scotland
continued in a semi- autonomous fashion rather than being members in their own
right. So the UK government was pressured
by the Welsh and Scottish to flog these off to save their NHS which was at the point of bankruptcy. The English,
Northern Irish, and the rest of the PUB had adopted a modified version of the
French healthcare system, but the Welsh
and Scottish had continued to fund their Healthcare via direct taxation. As Shakespeare
was English, the Socialist- Celtic nationalists running Wales and Scotland didn’t
care about the sale of English history
to keep their failed socialist version of healthcare creaking along. The Scottish
and Welsh had an ‘opt out’ clause
allowing them to continue the old way of funding healthcare, but because of
backlogs many Scots and Welsh frequently crossed the border to obtain quicker
and more up to date treatment, which resulted in those governments being billed
for said services, which predictably they couldn’t afford & hence the need for
cash.
The ability of the Celtic nationalists to force the UK
government’s hand was because the Labour government at the time was dependent
upon their votes at Westminster under a ‘coalition of chaos’. After much debate and legal wrangling, it was decided that the UK would indeed
auction the documents in public auction.
The inevitable protestors were by and large peaceful and patriotic Brits who didn’t want to see their heritage sold to billionaire Johnny Alien, but as ever with these things, it became hijacked by extremists of the SNAG (Security Nationalist Action of Great Britain). This invited a counter set of protestors from the left and again the extremes took over and it ended up being dominated by ARSE (Anti Racist Socialist Empowerment). Both sides had come prepared and were armed with everything from baseball bats to Air rifles and pea shooters and a unedifying public brawl occured, ended by the Federal authorities. The auction's higest bidder was the Albion Roman Commonwealth who paid in gold $120 billion for the papers....
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