![]() ![]() ![]() It was salvageable, if she could find a computer to replace her navigation system and discover a way back up through the interference. Its digital face was blank, destroyed by the electromagnetic storm that had wiped out her ship’s computer - the worldwide, unceasing, interference storm in the upper atmosphere she’d been sent to the ground to investigate.Ĭaroline surveyed the wreck of her ship. ![]() All she had to do was try not to die on entry, find the terraforming team. But on a backwater like Earth, she had a chance to make a name for herself and be left alone. It was a volunteer mission that hadn’t had a single volunteer until Caroline. She sat down, her back against the dented hull of her ship, as her head spun and the wind cast her hair about. The world smelled too strongly of everything that wasn’t chemicals and plastics and oils and metals. The colors were more than she could handle. There’d barely been life left at all on Earth before the terraforming team, yet everything around her was green and gray and brown. Where she came from, light was harsh and honest and undiluted by atmosphere. She blinked, blinked again, then rubbed her eyes. All around her, the sunlight was unnatural and soft, filtered through ozone and clouds and canopy. Humanity had escaped its ruined cradle and scarcely looked back. No one had set foot on Earth since the terraforming team had arrived thirty years prior. ![]() Her ship thundered into the ground, and Caroline stumbled out from the wreckage into a bright haze of ivy and trees. ![]()
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