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File Available: A.C.E. Project

File Entry: 00003

Subject: A.C.E. Project

Time Stamp: 10.15.550AW <2nd Age of Industrial Revolution 0230-0550AW>

_"Mankind once touched the Moon and walked her dusty corpse. They took bold steps to circle around our Mother Earth like angels in the night, among the sea of stars. Mankind was just one step from prime apes. Humarans are leagues ahead of Mankind. Man touched the Moon, but we will touch the stars!" _

~Rabdul Narafte, Astro-Physicist, Keeper of the N.A.S.A. Archives, A.C.E. Pioneer

_"The gods once challenged a man to greatness; dangled the wonders and glories of the heavens before his nose and the awesomeness of being on high. So Icarus built his wings of wax and feathers and dared to do what no other man could do. Reach out and touch the gods to only crash back upon the Earth in folly. We have ships of metal and wings of rocket fuel. Like Icarus, we reach for the gods and hope to crash upon the planets of the divine." _

~Joseph Phoenix, Space Engineer, Assistant Keeper of the N.A.S.A. Archives, A.C.E. Pioneer

We had trapped ourselves on a mausoleum of what was once Earth reclaiming the husks of former nations to live in houses that still radiated with deadly radiation that we could hear it clack and rattle in our own modified hearing. Slow headway was made in reclaiming old Australia from the radioactive ash. On 12.25.0250AW the New Australia Territories was formed. What was left of North and South America was surveyed in 0260AW. The Argeno-Brazillia Territories were soon founded on 6.4.0270AW upon what was left of old Brazil after the Mutant Purge of 0265AW. The New World Territories formed on 7.11.0345AW on the only land left above sea level; old Colorado, old Kansas, old Oklahoma, A fraction of old Texas, old New Mexico, old Nebraska, old Wyoming. On 8.10.0380AW the Oregonia Territories formed on the island made of old Oregon and old Washington.

During the span of 0450AW to 0500AW trade meetings of the New Territories of Earth <N.T.E.>, expeditions were promised to push into what was left of old Europe and old China to report what was left and available to colonize. These expeditions were known as the Eastern Horizon Exploration Promise that brought in three new territories. The Saxon Coalition of old United Kingdom, old Ireland and the remnants of old France was founded on 3.13.0510AW. The Tundra Union of vast radioactive wastelands of old Russia, old Mongolia and parts of old China was founded on 11.19.0520AW. The Horizon Territories was by far the most prolific addition made up of old Japan, old Philippines, old Indonesia and most of old South Africa which was all that remained after the Continental Shift of 0525AW sunk most of Africa below the murky ocean waters. The Horizon Territories finally joined the New Territories of Earth on 1.20.0550AW.

With such a rapid expansion of Humarankind and fearing the possibilities of conflicts erupting even given the best intentions and nightmares of WWIV, the N.T.E. Trade Meeting of 2.10.0550AW that recognized the joining of the Horizon Territories and bringing an end to the Eastern Horizon Exploration Promise enacted a worldwide petition for all territories to sign. The Bare Arms Pact of 0550AW was signed by all seven territories <New World, Oregonia, Argeno-Brazillia, New Australia, Saxon Coalition, Tundra Union and Horizon Territories>. The Bare Arms Pact stated that any violent conflicts between Humaran territories would only be conducted by the savage fighting of hands, claws or teeth and that any fire arms of any kind were to be accounted for, ammunition reported and their uses relegated to city defense during mutant attacks and not to be seen on the field of battle against other Humarans.

For all of our efforts though, vast archives to access and the tools and technology we had saved from mankind's stupidity, the peace pact and expansions out in the world for living, we had come to realize the wars of old had put Earth on permanent life support. We continued to rely on the industrial sized replicators of Terra Exodae for all of our food and water. Any creatures still alive or edible are so mutated and irradiated that they would consign the eater to a lengthy and painful death. For all the use of the Logan's Matrix, no gene combination that was healthy and sustainable could allow Humarans to eat irradiated food or drink irradiated water. We can handle the toxic air but only for so long before having to breathe scrubbed air from respirators.

Several industrial replicators were constructed in Argen-Brazillia and the New World Territories received their own replicators in five more years. Natural resources in the form of minerals, metals and more are harvested, processed and put into building new infrastructures, the hardening process introduced into Humaran DNA made resisting radiation saturated grounds and buildings easy to live in. But this was all a fools' game. We could only delay the coming dilemma. Without a new means of edible foods, the gene samples we have will eventually wear out from the heavy uses we've placed on them. Our one and true hope now for survival is to leave our planetary prison and hope to find new worlds to live on or terraform to suit our needs.

That hope rested on Rabdul Narafte in answer to his questions about making Humarans resilient in space. He was a brilliant astro-physicist who poured over the N.A.S.A. archives and attempted to recreate manned flight and space travel. It's been one hundred and fifty years and we now have flight restored back to us like neglectful teens being handed a license once more after abusing the privilege to drive. Several unmanned flights into space had been successful fifty years later as Rabdul Narafte engineered a new, stable fuel source proving a less chaotic reaction than the liquid rocket fuel of our ancestors. Seven orbital flights on three space shuttles, N.T.E. Hope, N.T.E. Horizon and N.T.E. Oedipus went up to test how space affected our new Humaran attributes.

The initial stress tests and zero-g analysis show extreme promise. Perhaps a few more adjustments to the Humaran DNA Matrix using cuttlefish and particular frog strains and we could endure space and set our eyes on a new home. A dedicated team of engineers picked by Rabdul Narafte and lead by Jeremy Phoenix, Narafte's protégé set out to work on designing terraforming technology to make any planet we found to be inhabitable by Humarans. This dream and ambition was funded generously by Delutek, a company started by Robert Deluwith capitalizing on the skills of many survivors that could use replicators to handle the finer pieces of technology and circuitry. It was hypothesized that with samples from the Gaia Vault loaded onto say, a colonizing ship any planet or planetoid would let us survive. Thus began Joseph Phoenix's dream on 5.12.0540AW. The Adaptive Colonization from Earth <A.C.E.> ship was set into motion to be designed. The A.C.E. ships were to take in, ferry and deposit Humarans among the stars to continue living in many new ways.

Recruitment of future colonists and flight crews for this endeavor began; preparations and training ran often side by side all the while this dream ship was designed, built and tested. To date, 100,000 future colonists out of Earth's growing population of 3.5 million Humarans are ready to venture into space for new homes. Headway continued on adapting, expanding and improving the N.T.E. space shuttle designs to help establish satellites and orbiting training centers for the A.C.E. Ships. Regretfully at the time of this entry, Joseph Phoenix will never see the stars up close or walk upon a new Earth. He was killed on 11.2.0550AW when an industrial replicator blew. Investigations proved sabotage. Some things never die in a species regardless of how many face lifts it receives. The urge to have and hold power and to deny freedom is strong in Humarans just as it was in Humans. War had begun in earnest. Humanity rears its ugly head again.

~Andrew Herwitz, Humaran-Sage Upgrade, Terra Exodae Archivist, 3rd Order of the Word~

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