New Hope

The year is 2327;

After every fall there is a raise, from every pile of ashes a new phoenix can raise. So it was with this world as well. From the destruction and chaos a new step in evolution came and once more proved how fragile the powerful minds are. Slowly times changed, after the first apocalypse things went for worse before it started to resemble something better. Little by little humans rebuilt the once lost home they had. One would think how we could all learn from our past, from mistakes made and mistakes that marked our petty lives, to raise from it and embrace the newly given chance, sadly answer was no.

By the year 2185 it was clear Earth was lost. All efforts to undo our damage had failed. All that it took was the first few methane gas pockets, in the tundra, to be released. After that the whole global warming process snowballed out of control. Everything we tried only seemed to be a temporary fix. Earth was dying, and her blood was on our hands.

Earth's population is around fourteen billion, and rising. Our world is now on the verge of environmental collapse, again. We've tried sending colonies to Mars and the nearby star systems, but the process of terra-forming takes far too long and we could never build enough ships to send everyone to the stars. Our fate looks grim and inevitable once more.

But at least some gripped on the newly given chance, and before the history got itself a repeat, a small group of dedicated minds ventured into deep space to seek our salvation.

At the edge of the asteroid belt was the largest science experiment ever undertaken. It was a particle accelerator that was several millions of miles across. "The Gate", its name marking its meaning - to open a doorway to another Earth. Except this newly given home was out of the solar system reach.

The gate was made of a series of magnets that directed two beams of particles. When it activates the two beams will be fired from a space station. Then after several passes around the magnetic track they are angled to fire at a ring that will open up the gate upon collision. I know it sounds impossible, but this is how the world's best scientists said we could get there.

Today is August 21, 2327 and today is the day we turn on the gate. If this works this it will be the greatest feet of engineering and physics ever undertaken, but if it doesn't it will likely be our last. My name is Lokhe Verlack, a survivor of past, sleeper and now  among "Angels"  to venture into the New Hope.