Ghosts of Eden

Winter Game 2011 by Ben Schwartz.
==Teaser==
:October 10th, 2028, 12:25UDT
:Rumors Spread About Virgin Galactic's New Project
:By ERIN ANDERSON
:Gawker Press
SAN FRANCISCO (GP) -- Despite the company's best efforts to keep its current project under wraps, information is beginning to leak about what Virgin is up to behind closed doors. Insider sources say that production has begun on something. Materials are being moved, and factories in various parts of the world have gone into overdrive churning out parts.
The sources also claim that this is related to the production pushes of 2026 and 2027. In both of those years, Virgin's factories in various parts of the world went through massive production cycles. At the time, it was theorized that Virgin was in the process of constructing a new fleet of high-orbit shuttlecraft, but no such fleet ever materialized.
When asked, CEO Adrian Branson declined to comment on the rumors.
Branson took over the company in 2020, after the death of his father Richard Branson. The elder Branson founded the Virgin Group in 1970, originally as a record store. It subsequently expanded to a massive corporate empire. Today, Virgin Galactic is the largest branch of the Group. It is by far the largest space travel company in the world, accounting for over seventy-eight percent of all orbital travel.
However, in the ten years since Adrian Branson took over his father's company, little expansion has occurred. Virgin Galactic is still the world leader in transcontinental travel, and the SpaceShipSix line of suborbital craft (unveiled in 2025) made a large impact on travel efficiency. Investors and shareholders are starting to say that unless Branson makes a move soon, the company's long rise may plateau. Branson has yet to prove that he can lead the company that his father created.
Given the stagnation of the current political climate, and the coalition collapses of the 2010s, large non-national corporations like the Virgin Group have been vital to global stability. The success of the Virgin Earth Prize was instrumental in triggering efforts to reverse the effects of global climate change.
Other sources close to Virgin's leaders suggest a rebirth of the mysterious project codenamed "Eden." It was a rumored collaboration between various arms of the Virgin Group, possibly in cooperation with NASA and other multinational governmental agencies. Nothing has been heard about the Eden project since 2024, and it has been assumed defunct. An anonymous source claiming insider information, though, claims that Eden is still in production, and will be unveiled in time for the company's sixtieth anniversary in 2030. Even the closest sources, though, have no information on what exactly Eden is.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKkwJI4YLJw
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