Oxygénia
In the year 3069, space farer Peter MacGulliver who is used to a happy life on a healthy and clean planet Earth strands on a planet which environment is completely ruined by heavy pollution, where there isn't even any oxygen left in the atmosphere and where billions of humanoid beings have to live with gas masks and rationed oxygen for their whole life – Oxygénia. On his long way to escape this living nightmare, Peter has to get to know all three major layers of the society of Oxygénia: Trunk Bearers, Rememberers and the "upper ten thousand" (one hundred lineages with one hundred members), the last ones living in a literal paradise and sheer luxury on the expense of all others. There are also some refugees and renegades amongst the Rememberers... can Peter escape Oxygénia, get back to his spaceship and his wife who is waiting there for him? This novel is a grim dark vision of what can very well become of Earth if mankind goes on the way it has done for the last few centuries. Today, there are already structures on Earth similiar to the dreadful "Oxygénia Trust" with its one hundred lineages, "elites" who don't bother about the fate of billions of other humans; there is pollution and climate change which is both very well capable of turning Earth into Oxygénia if our species doesn't change the set course very soon. See what the future might be like, and let's hope and take actions that it's not too late already, that we still can get off the path we're on to now – the path to Oxygénia.
In the year 3069, space farer Peter MacGulliver who is used to a happy life on a healthy and clean planet Earth strands on a planet which environment is completely ruined by heavy pollution, where there isn't even any oxygen left in the atmosphere and where billions of humanoid beings have to live with gas masks and rationed oxygen for their whole life – Oxygénia.
On his long way to escape this living nightmare, Peter has to get to know all three major layers of the society of Oxygénia: Trunk Bearers, Rememberers and the "upper ten thousand" (one hundred lineages with one hundred members), the last ones living in a literal paradise and sheer luxury on the expense of all others. There are also some refugees and renegades amongst the Rememberers... can Peter escape Oxygénia, get back to his spaceship and his wife who is waiting there for him?
This novel is a grim dark vision of what can very well become of Earth if mankind goes on the way it has done for the last few centuries. Today, there are already structures on Earth similiar to the dreadful "Oxygénia Trust" with its one hundred lineages, "elites" who don't bother about the fate of billions of other humans; there is pollution and climate change which is both very well capable of turning Earth into Oxygénia if our species doesn't change the set course very soon. See what the future might be like, and let's hope and take actions that it's not too late already, that we still can get off the path we're on to now – the path to Oxygénia.
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27 – Council at the king<br />
While Peter, plagued by uneasy thoughts, waited in the palace of<br />
the Successor, there was another concerned council in the palace of<br />
Benefactor XIII. It had only four participants: the king himself,<br />
prince Warrior, the Successor; his brother prince Valiant and<br />
Bighead, the chairman of the council of the Hundred Lineages.<br />
Somberly, the king listened to Bigheads report.<br />
In <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s history, it had been countless times to bring down<br />
lifeforms or liveless things from space. The cosmic defensive system<br />
of <strong>Oxygénia</strong> automatically activated when a foreign object<br />
approached its airspace. Bighead very politely reminded His Majesty<br />
that this had happened for the first time during the reign of<br />
Benefactor IX. It had been the first time to bring down a lifeform<br />
unharmed from space. It had been subjected to a biological<br />
examination. Today, it could be viewed, preserved, in the<br />
cosmological section of the National Museum in Oxygenville... "Back<br />
then, the Council had enacted the law considering <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s space<br />
relations. If I may remind about it...", Bighead said.<br />
The king nodded. Bighead pushed a button. On the gobelindecorated<br />
wall of the throne room, the text of the law appeared:<br />
§ 1. The space surrounding the planet belongs to <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s<br />
sovereign territory.<br />
§ 2. Every intruding foreign object – spaceship, lifeform or<br />
liveless object – is to be considered as an enemy and to bring down<br />
to <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s territory for the purpose of closer examination.<br />
§ 3. In case of an emergency, our automatic missile system can<br />
destroy the intruder to <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s airspace.<br />
§ 4. If the approaching lifeform or the liveless object does not<br />
pose a threat to <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s existence, the launch of a protective hull<br />
is ordered which brings the intruder down to our planet unharmed.<br />
§ 5. If it proves to be an unknown object of lifeless matter, it is to<br />
be subjected to physical and chemical examination under all<br />
circumstances.<br />
§ 6. If it is a higher lifeform, the chairman of the administration<br />
board decides whether:<br />
a) it will be brought into a servant city (also called city of the<br />
Trunk Bearers) for memory erasure,<br />
b) after an extensively detailed brain examination of the<br />
lifeforms abilities – after according programming – it is to be<br />
brought to <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s profit in a City of the Rememberers,<br />
c) biological examinations on it should be ordered.<br />
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