Project BEYOND (TheFakeZ3nu)

== The Beginning of the Project ==
In the late 2030's , Earth's conditioned have severely worsened. More wars rupture throughout the planet causing several people to die , as well as refugee crises. Global warming is at it's height despite attempts to alter it. Floods swarm coastal cities leaving many poor and homeless. Intense droughts occur and forced people to abandon their lands. However, hope was achieved. In 2040, researchers from Germany created a chemical called Faust-1. This chemical was proved to be efficient in combating global warming and reversing the effects. However, one may not use something directly without knowing the side effects.
Faust-1 was first spread across Europe and North America. However, things took a turn. The chemical did combat climate change, the temperature did cool down a bit, coastal cities which are flooded are now draining, but then, everything went cold. There was a rapid expansion of ice, and it's too late before experts know that the chemical if used too much can drastically reduce the temperature. Snowstorms, snow fall and blizzards soon rampage throughout the Northern Hemisphere. People were trapped in buildings. Flights above fall to the ground due to severe weather. The ocean freezes overnight, trapping a lot of ships. The catastrophe lasted for about several weeks before everything began to recover a bit.
People came out to find that the landscape is full of snow and ice. Farmlands were destroyed by snow, so does food supplies. There was a massive famine throughout the Northern Hemisphere. A new ice age has just begun, and experts said that wind currents are bringing the deadly chemical Faust 1 down to the equator. It is a matter of time before the whole world freezes.
It is 2041, in the freezing United States, NASA realized that the world is in impending doom. If they don't want to die in a freezedown, they need to escape Earth. So along with the last remaining space organizations on the planet, they all teamed together formed a plan to save humanity. And that was Project BEYOND. 
== The Proposal ==
With the project now ongoing, the lead organization, NASA, needed to propose which planets the humans will settle on temporarily until the effects of Faust-1 are gone. They chose a total of 7 candidates for colonization, those are Venus, Mars, Europa, Titan, Encleadus, Ganymede, the Moon and finally Callisto. The BEYOND team begins planning designs of spacecraft that will carry the humans there and resume mankind's journey. 
Mars and the Moon do already have colonies, the Moon has the Artemis colony, which is the size of a small city, and is self sustainable. Mars has the Vanos colony, located near Mount Olympus and is the size of a football field. It is not self sustainable and had to rely on a constant flow of supplies from Earth. There is also the NISS (New International Space Station), a newly built space station by NASA which was built after the last one got abandoned in 2024. The NISS fully relies on a constant flow of supplies, since it recently finished.
BEYOND plans to expand these bases to suit more humans and become fully self sustainable. Rockets will be sent there to deliver supplies and building materials to build new bases. A total of 3 missions to the moon and 4 to the NISS are planned in late 2041 and is all expected to run at the start of the year 2043, as according to worldwide estimations, all missions must run fast because the Faust-1 will be expected to completely engulf Earth in ice sometime in the 2060's-2070's. Humans need to act fast.
== 2043: The First Missions ==
=== The NISS Missions ===
By 2:00 P.M. January 3, 2043, the first mission of the BEYOND project, Forerunner 1, launched from the Kennedy Space Center. The mission was to bring more parts and supplies , including more crew habitats, solar panels, and a prototype centrifuge to simulate Earth like gravity to the NISS. Upon arriving at the NISS, the astronauts there quickly disassembled it and unloaded the parts and the supplies. By then, the BEYOND team started sending more rockets into the NISS and by February 5, the NISS was expanded by 25% and it now could host more human astronauts. A campaign in the human community began, which would allow every normal citizens , to register in the BEYOND program as astronauts , so bit by bit, the human race could be slowly moved into space. By now, the chemical Faust 1 has reached the northern tip of the Saharan desert and near Mexico City, thus mass evacuations in these areas had just been conducted. A mass construction of launch sites and space stations in the Southern Hemisphere is also undergo by the BEYOND team. Many worldwide funds are diverted into spacefaring technology, with many countries' military being reduced and scrapped to make way for more resources.
=== The Moon Missions ===
At the middle of 2043, BEYOND begins constructing more rockets, and launching their first Moon mission, Savior I. Savior I was to carry astronauts, who were registered in the BEYOND astronaut program to the moon A few weeks after that, Savior II launched, carrying more astronauts and supplies for the expansion of the Artemis moon colony. Savior III was launched shortly and carried more people and also prototype technology ( boreholes, hab complexes, and launch sites ) to help humans in further development of the Artemis colony. 3 months later, the colony has experienced a increase in development, the colony now has a functional sewer system, indoor farms and tons of residential places. The Artemis moon administration also made way for the development of the first outer space mines, mining valuable moon mineral to use as building materials for the colony.
=== Planned future missions ===
By now, the lead organization NASA is deciding to reuse it's decades old spacecraft concept, the mighty Sea Dragon rocket, to help carry more humans into space, and lifting heavy and giant cargo(especially infrastructure for moon bases), and it will eventually be used create a new cradle for human life on the Moon. And after discussions by the BEYOND council, the Sea Dragon idea was approved, and soon, NASA along with the help by other countries started to gather resources for the Sea Dragon. The ESA was planning to develop an artificial warp drive to go to other planets faster, and with the work of the CERN, they started a project to create the first warp drive. The Russian Space Agency has planned 5 missions to mars, the Indian Space Agency planned a mission to the Jovian moon Europa and the Canadian Space Agency is preparing to build a new space station in the orbit of the Moon.
== 2044: Missions to Mars ==
=== SpaceX's missions ===
SpaceX, led by Elon Musk has led all the previous missions to mars and collaborated with NASA in making the Vanos colony in Mars. In February of 2044, SpaceX planned a brand new mission, named Vigilant I to mars carrying more items essential to the expansion of the Vanos colony. It was ran on July 2044, and it will also see the use of the first prototype nuclear-powered rockets made by SpaceX, which can reach Mars in only 5 months. Upon landing at the launch site in the Vanos colony at December 1 2044, in it's cargo bay part was then relaunched by a starship to the upper atmosphere, where it was picked up by a satellite which will bring back the cargo bay to Earth because SpaceX was maximizing reusing parts and other stuff from their missions, to prevent the loss of resources, because due to Faust-1, Earth's resources are being depleted in numbers, many mines and oil fields are now frozen.
=== NASA's missions ===
NASA, the lead organization proposed a mission to Mars too, it will still use the old SLS, but it is fitted with a new, more bigger and human friendly version of the deep space transport module , that will bring selected astronauts that are registered in the BEYOND program to Mars. A total of 3 missions like these are proposed, all under the name of Hope I , Hope II, and Hope II. They are all then launched at the same date in April 18th, 2044, and soon, after the DST's docked in the NISS, it was filled with supplies and began it's journey to Mars. All 3 DST's arrived in Mars at different times, with the Hope I DST arriving at December 3, 2044, Hope II arriving 1 day ahead, and Hope III arriving at December 20, 2044. They all landed at different areas, all near Olympus Mons, which is quite far from the Vanos colony. The astronauts had to survive for 2 days there before the rescue arrives, they landed way off course , and when they arrived, the module and the astronauts were in bad shape, which gave the mission some bad reputations in the BEYOND community.
=== ESA's missions ===
At October 8 2044, the hard working CERN scientists created a prototype warp drive , but is still regarded unstable and kind of dangerous to use. The ESA however, was planning to test it without crew, and instead put dummy astronauts to see what effects would it have on the human body and how fast would it go. Shortly at October 10, the warp drive mission Horizon was launched using an Ariane 5 rocket carrying the warp drive launched to space, and the warp drive payload was brought to the NISS then released about 1.7 miles from there so the NISS crew can observe it. It powered up, the crew reported seeing a bright blue glow, then it disappeared. About 3 hours later, the ground crew recieved a signal from the warp drive, now located near the moon Phobos. At Earth, all space organization turned towards the warp drive after the succesful test. It was also revealed that going in warp dosen't have any effects on the human body, so it's safe for now. However, the warp device required antimatter, something very hard to get and is very expensive, so the warp drive is only limited for now. The ESA also sent another mission to Mars using a Ariane rocket bringing in infrastructure to support the Vanos colony.
=== Russian missions ===
Russia was among one of the first nation to purchase Warp technology from the European Space Agency. They used this experimental warp drive on 3 missions, all headed to Mars. Zvezda 1, 2 and 3. There will also be some heavy-duty large rockets to carry supplies to build a Russian colony on Mars, 2 missions are for that, the Samosval I and II. In Early November all the Zvezda missions were launched simultaneously. The Zvezda 1 mission was entirely consisted of military men, about 100 to be exact, because Russia wants to put a military presence on Mars. The Zvezda 2 were only manned by 2 cosmonauts and filled with military bulk such as tanks, APCS and jeeps. The Zvezda 3 consisted of entirely civilians, who were selected for the program randomly. They all arrived to Mars after about 3 hours, with them all landing in Alba Mons, just East of Olympus mons. A permanent colony was established shortly after, called Novaya Moskva (New Moscow). The Samosval I and II rockets were launched the next week, however they did not use warp drives, and would arrive 5 months later in 2045. Samosval I carried food and crops, while Samosval II carried tons of construction equipment and materials, presumably to expand the colony; the Russians have stated worldwide that they are looking to rapidly expand and establish a powerful presence in Mars. 
== Back on Earth ==
=== Heat Towers ===
In the Northern Hemisphere, the chemical Faust-1 has taken over so much that many cities are frozen and civilians are forced to stay indoors or go underground, with only fire to keep them cool. Going outside is dangerous even with a jacket because the chemical can freeze through it. People only go outside with heavy-duty vehicles such as trucks and vans. The US government has proposed a plan to temporarily combat the heat, which is in the form of Heat Towers. Heat towers are tall towers which contain a giant mechanism which produces heat. This is done mainly by lighting gas inside the tower and flaming the wood (or any other fuel), on top, essentially creating a giant fireplace. Anyone in a 500m radius will feel the intense heat and this can warm up the planet a bit. Many nations have already started to build this kind of tower in their major areas to temporarily slow down the Faust-1 effects. However, the chemical Faust-1 is still too powerful and there have been instances in where heat towers are suddenly frozen overnight.
=== The Reclaimants ===
The Reclaimants are a worldwide organisation dedicated to stop the spread of Faust-1, at all costs. They are result of a merge of several conservation organisations, like the World Wildlife Fund as well as the International Union for Conservation of Nature, as well as some PMC groups, which is where the Reclaimants get their weapons from. The organisation is motivated that Faust-1 in itself is harmful to nature and needs to be exterminated as fast as possible. Many species of plants and animals have gone extinct because of Faust-1 and many ecosystems were destroyed. Luckily, the Reclaimants have possession of multiple animal and plant DNA and seeds, and are looking to "reclaim" the lost land that Faust-1 took. They have a combat and a seeding team. Their combat team deals with the areas with Faust-1, with most of their soldiers using anything from flamethrowers, napalm, and firebombs to "terraform" the area. Once the area is hot, they may usually build a heat tower to prevent Faust-1 from spreading rapidly again. The next job is where the seeders come in. They come to the "terraformed" area and usually begin seeding it with plants and introducing animals. 
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