Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Welcome to the Embyo Spacestation


The huge hanger doors of the secret embyo one, facility whoosh open. Clouds of red dust from the barely habitable planet surface are sucked in by the air currents of 3 transport ships, their engines burning as they drift into the large hanger setting down with a metal on metal clang, the ships are the first personnel and stock shipments, of the new year, once in the doors close, and extractor fans clear the room of sand and dust. Multiple works personnel flood the deck, and begin to do about their routines: refuelling, repairs, loading and unloading cargo.

The multiple access ramps of the 3 ships fold out and down, and a herd of people are ushered of the ships, not all of them human, or here by choice, some are prisoners still in shackles and lead by an armed guard some of these are also new from HQ or other plants. Some are wild creatures of all shapes and sizes and locked in cages, these are creatures brought here to be genetic donators in company’s experiments, though not all the creatures brought here for that purpose so wild and are the first to be taken from the hanger all the same. The embyo tenants have seen it all before. They direct traffic and make sure nothing goes wrong in this manic atmosphere, it would be a major set back to have one break loose and consume half of their new breeding stock,

The atmosphere is now some what quietened; only a few upset captives and a gaggle of volunteers remain, but most of them are likely to become upset as well. As it is announced they are now property of the company, and their new job will be to mother the company’s genetic experiments. Panic rises but the room is covered by automated turrets and armed guards and it seems they have no choice but to be complacent as there finger prints and DNA are taken and filed. Naturally a few don’t submit so easily. But they get done in the end, a set of doors below the control tower open. A couple guard snicker and laugh as the new incubators, as lead through.

(Written by Becky Rickena)