A long time in humanity’s future they want to return home; to Earth. It has changed, for the good, and they find something else living there.
Humanity left Earth a long time ago. They had treated their home planet poorly, and the deteriorating environment forced them to leave. They traveled 189 light years to a faraway world and named it Horizon, respecting the new lives they intended to build. Fortunately, they learned their lessons and treated their new world much better. After over 1,000 years away from Earth, they still revered her and taught their children her beauty. They knew that someday they would return, and they hoped Earth had healed and she would welcome them back. They finally developed faster than light travel and the first place they wanted to visit was the home planet of the human race. When a small crew made the trip, they found that Earth was healed and healthy, but they also found changes that surprised them. When they returned to Horizon, they had more questions than when they left.
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Commander Leopold Harnesy was standing on the bridge of the HSV#2. He was nervous in fact he was scared. The fate of HSV#1 was fresh in his mind. His ship's predecessor was sitting in the same location 5 years ago, and when its commander; Roberta Jenkins engaged the faster than light drive, the ship disintegrated into trillions of molecules. It was obvious what had happened; the calculations were a little off.
The faster than light drive, or the light distortion drive, was supposed to compress the ship and crew's molecules, then a funny thing was supposed to happen. Similar to the adage that 'nature abhors a vacuum' nature also abhors an imbalance in forces at the molecular level. A minor distortion between molecules causes a ripple in the dimension's time/space fabric, and the result is similar to firing an apple seed by squeezing it. For many years science added energy trying to go faster. Then they discovered that when they created a minor distortion between molecules, the forces of the entire time/space fabric within the dimension fought to correct the imbalances. They could use a little energy to focus immense forces. The two main variables were, the rate-distortion was crested, and the amount of distortion which was dependent on the total mass and the distance to be traveled. As the distortion between molecules is increased, it took a finite amount of time for the forces to build up within the dimension. If the local distortion, happened too fast or too much then it would exceed the forces building to correct it. Once that happened the distortion continued, and the molecules separated. That is what happened to HSV#1 and Roberta Jenkins.
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