The capital of Pangea Empire was called Pangae. It was funny that the founders were very poor in naming and just interchanged the last two letters. Pangae was located at the central point of Pangea. Its was thousands of kilometers squared.
The capital hosted more than a billion people. This was made possible due to the following factors. There were storey building that could span even five kilometers in the sky. The tallest being 5.5 kilometers.
The second and most important factor was advancement in technology. Those who lived in these storey buildings were referred to as those of the Second Class. There was the First Class that lived in the sky.
Floating cities spanning hundred kilometers. The cities were about six kilometers above the ground. Also, the palace was in one of these floating cities. Not many could afford the high cost of living in the floating cities and ended up as being second class.
As things stood, in the near future, the second class were the ones who would be left on Earth after first class left for Mars. Almost everyone was saving enough to buy tickets to Mars.
Transport modes had changed after a pact that had rendered petroleum illegal. Only hydrogen run engines were used. At the moment, everyone was tuned in to see what the emperor had to say.
It was months later after the launching of the Path Finder X, the Emperor was live and giving detailed information about the first settlement to take place in mars. Everyone had their eyes glued on either their phones or screens. No one would want to miss such a thing.
The Emperor explained how they had created Space Travellers. A single Space Traveller could carry a thousand people together with their goods. He explained of how they had successfully cleaned the air in Mars.
He explained the availability of water and land for agriculture. He explained the requirements to get to mars. The flight itself was worth a fortune but no one had any qualms with it.
As long as they could leave this damned planet, they were okay with everything. He explained that the first fight in the Space Travellers was to start the next week. Those who had bought their tickets hurried and in one week, they were settled in mars.
The rules stated that once you leave Earth, you were supposed to stay in Mars for five years to earn a ticket to fly back to Earth. No one had any plans of ever returning actually. Job opportunities in Mars were infinite.
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By 3200 a quarter of Earth's population was in Mars. That was like ten billion people. One could have thought that that was the end of space exploration but that could be said to be rash.
In the past thousand years humanity had learnt of ways to increase their lifespans. At the moment, the oldest one could live was a thousand years. The Emperor who was in his youth of 130 years was now 242 years old.
His ambitions were soaring across the sky. There were more than million planets in the entire galaxy. He wanted as he grew old, to have conquered the entire galaxy. In this year, they were planning to conquer five planets.
He did not want to be just an Emperor of two planets, he wanted to become the Emperor of the entire Galaxy and have kings placed in each planet. At the moment, they were launching both the Path Finder X and the Path Seeker X on the five planets.
With the experience of conquering Mars, the five planets were conquered in two months and cleansed. People from Earth and Mars were allowed to enter the planets. In a hundred years, over 30 planets had been conquered.
The population on Earth hd been reduced to a quarter. In the year 3700, the last Space traveller left earth. The population was left at a number below 500. In the past years, they had all assembled and now lived in one area.
Also, all communication from Earth to the headquarters was cut off. The floating cities fell and also the remaining technology was destroyed. No internet and no machines.
After 100 years, they were completely forgotten and they also had stopped remembering about the existence of the outer world.
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In the rest of the world things were different though. The Emperor appeared to be in his mid sixties. New rules had been set. Every family was supposed to have a minimum of ten children after ten years of marriage.
The law obviously encouraged polygamy. The Emperor who was leading them all had five hundred wives and several concubines. He was a man every man looked up to.
Every man wanted the prestige of having more than a hundred wives. The law stated that if the man was married for ten years and they had not reached a minimum of ten children, they were supposed to pay a fine.
In the past 600 years, the population had rose to several trillions. The age for a girl to get married had been lowered to sixteen. Men could marry even at fifteen as long as they could successfully plant a seed.
With the rising population and advanced tecnhnoloy, there had been invented new modes of interplanetary transport. Teleportation. Every planet had at least several hundred Teleport Stations.
With the rising population, conquering planets was now a competition. Everyone who thought they had a shot in conquering one joined the Path Finder or Path seeker Forces.
Depending on the group and one's potential, they would be given their own Path Finders or Path Seekers as captains. This work was usually done by the youth. That is everyone below four hundred years.
The older ones were out there conquering dangerous planets. They were referred to as Special Path Finders Forces. They mainly compromised of the millitary. For one to join the military, they had to have gone through either the Path Finder or the Path Seekers Forces.
Only several thousand planets had been conquered. The Path Finder or Seeker Forces conquered planets given to them by the higher ups. Through one's merit, they would be given one they could conquer.
Dangerous planets had various creatures such as beasts. Others were habited by human like creatures. In the search, they had only come across ten planets with the same constitution as Earth.
They were not habited though. The major advantage in conquering the other planets with different constitutions as Earth was the fact that the creatures there or their inhabitors would die.
This made conquering them super easy. As long as one managed to change the constitution, they had conquered the planet. Since Planet Earth had been forgotten, the conquered planets were now referred to as SAFE.
The distance between the Alpha team and planet Earth had turned to several light years. It would take almost 500 years to reach them using Path Finder X. With the new invention of Teleport Stations, it could take approximately one year to reach them.
This was because the teleport stations could only reach a distance of planet to planet. They were currently working on Major Teleport Stations that could cover the distance of even a billion light years from each other.
This was only possible with the Marked Territories. Also, the ony communication language had turned to English. Almost all the other languages had been forgotten. The emperor was always few planets behind the Alpha Team.
He was usually the one to personally command the conquering of a planet. He was also having a new project undertaken. This was surely a game changer.
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Also, medicine had once again reached a new level and the lifespan was now at 5000 years. The term youth was changing to anyone below a thousand years and the Special Path Finder Forces were of those of the age of above two thousand.
Once one reached one thousand years, they were forced to retire from the Path Finder or Seeker Forces and settle down for a thousand years. This was a must for everyone. During this time, they were supposed to marry or get married.
Then there was going to be a thousand years of procreation. The emperor really was serious about filling the multiverse. It could be said that in one thousand years, the population would rise to an uncountable number.
Things suddenly took a turn in the year 4100. A new prototype was created. It was a biological computer program that was supposed to raise human intelligence and capabilities to more than 10,000×.
This program gave humans efficiency like those of robots and superstrength exceeding the Path Seeker X. At first, they had created only ten. The first ten were for test and their efficiency was as expected. Then there was the creation of new 1,001 prototypes.
The extra one, was the best they could award to the leader of the Alpha Team. The technology in this one was so advanced and its cost was enough to run the entire empire.
These prototype were named Entropy but that secific one was named After Entropy...