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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39 – Strange orders<br />
The commander of the rescue vessel "RA-1" once again earnestly<br />
urged July to insist that Peter was brought back to the spaceship.<br />
She should not obey and should not land on the dangerous and<br />
unknown planet.<br />
But you heard it! Peter had an accident! He is injured and waiting<br />
for me...<br />
This accident appears to be quite strange to us... And it is strange,<br />
too, that Peter whenever he comes on continues to repeat the same<br />
sentences over and over. This allows for the assumption that they are<br />
recorded, as if he would not speak them himself...<br />
If he is in danger, I will do land there even more so! You heard it,<br />
as often I asked to send Peter out there, the answer was: it's not<br />
possible, we can't do.<br />
Well, so we will land, and you'll be waiting up here.<br />
No... No. If something happens to you, I can't rescue you. But if<br />
something happens to me, you can notify the rescue station and<br />
order, if necessary, a fleet of a hundred ships here!<br />
You are stubborn, one cannot talk to you. So act as you see fit.<br />
And indeed, July took preparations for the landing. She checked<br />
all instruments and adjusted everything according to the orders of<br />
the Central Control of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>. There were about forty hours (two<br />
days on <strong>Oxygénia</strong>) until the landing.<br />
We draw your attention to the fact that any changes to the<br />
descend angle and the speed as well as the appearance of any other<br />
ship would activate the system of our defensive missiles at once...<br />
I've acknowledged that changes to the descend angle or the<br />
speed..., July repeated obediently.<br />
After the command "land" is given, the radio communication will<br />
be cut off. As soon as your spaceship touches down at our planet, a<br />
committee to pick you up will get on its way. Before the committee<br />
arrives, the locks of your spaceship mustn't be opened. Leaving the<br />
cabin would be life threatening and is forbidden for that reason. You<br />
will wait inside until we open your spaceship! We repeat: After the<br />
command "land" is given, the radio communication will be cut off. We<br />
order you to not send radio signals of your own. In the landing zone,<br />
the establishing of a radio communication isn't possible... So, once<br />
again... Wait patiently inside the cabin of your spaceship...<br />
And Peter... Will Peter come to pick me up, too?<br />
After the command "land" is given, you activate your auxiliary<br />
drives...<br />
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