Submission 1 inspiration: Genesis
Between the layers of clouds and ions, high in the atmosphere, is the incubation level, where the first seeds of life were planted. The seeds were a concoction of enzymes, particulate heavy metals, elemental gases, and amino acids. They were sent in thousands of carefully engineered capsules, carrying the human hypothesis about what created the beginning of life. It was sent to test a hypothesis, but also sent as an attempt to play god. It was sent to create a saviour for life as we know it.
Manmade genesis imploded 200,000 light years away from the Milky Way's Earth, at 4 p.m. WST (World Standard Time), on January 24th, in the Gregorian 2310. The Earth's atmosphere was livable, but inextricably different from the climate that mammals had come to dominate over the past few thousand years. The dust of human manipulation swirled visibly in every layer of strata, and no technology had been developed, no viable ideas had been formulated that allowed the light of the sun to pierce through to ground zero—the crust of land that had once been the seat of Earth's life and the location of Earth's original population.
Capsules were designed to implode in clusters using atomic implosion to simulate the heat of Creation. No one knew what kind of life they would create, if life was created. But the outcome of the experiment didn't matter. It was just another thing to try, in a laundry list of things that had already been tried.
On earth, life continued to thrive, but the process of "natural" selection was now an endeavor almost solely manipulated by the entire human race. If we could capture it or cultivate it, it would live. If it was elusive, it would die.
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