
A New Beginning
A nuclear apocalypse made the Earth uninhabitable 97 years ago. 13 nations, by that point, had operational orbital space stations circling the Earth, holding an overall population of around 400. One was lost during conflict before the other twelve joined together to form The Ark, forming an alliance so that mankind was not lost forever. Rules were strict, each crime punishable by death if you were over the age of eighteen. If not, you were locked up in one of the Ark's prisons. Humans lived in the Ark for almost a full century before the life support began to fail. Now, with the population at over 2000, they were pushing the Ark to breaking point. In a desperate grasp at hope, they launched a drop ship, carrying the current 100 juvenile delinquents in custody, to Earth. It was a test, to see if Earth was survivable again. But things went wrong. Two boys were killed upon landing after exiting their seats mid-drop and another young man stowed away after shooting the chancellor. All methods of communication died in the crash to Earth, leaving those on the Ark only one way of telling who was alive and who was dead; the bracelets they had fitted to each juvenile. Now the delinquents will have to learn to survive on their own.
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A nuclear apocalypse made the Earth uninhabitable 97 years ago. 13 nations, by that point, had operational orbital space stations circling the Earth, holding an overall population of around 400. One was lost during conflict before the other twelve joined together to form The Ark, forming an alliance so that mankind was not lost forever. Rules were strict, each crime punishable by death if you were over the age of eighteen. If not, you were locked up in one of the Ark's prisons. Humans lived in the Ark for almost a full century before the life support began to fail. Now, with the population at over 2000, they were pushing the Ark to breaking point. In a desperate grasp at hope, they launched a drop ship, carrying the current 100 juvenile delinquents in custody, to Earth. It was a test, to see if Earth was survivable again. But things went wrong. Two boys were killed upon landing after exiting their seats mid-drop and another young man stowed away after shooting the chancellor. All methods of communication died in the crash to Earth, leaving those on the Ark only one way of telling who was alive and who was dead; the bracelets they had fitted to each juvenile. Now the delinquents will have to learn to survive on their own.
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