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Stealing the Alabama was the easy part… for Robert Lee, organising the conspiracy, and commandeering the starship from the United Republic Of America went without any real complications. However, upon reaching Coyote, the real struggle of surviving and successfully colonising the distant moon began. Knowing nothing about the new world’s conditions or environment until they got there, Lee and his people had to learn to adapt quickly, in order to ensure the colonies survival before winter…
As the years went by, the people of earth knew nothing of the status of the Alabama mission. The URA had claimed the ship was destroyed, covering up the embarrassing truth that it’s huge starship had been stolen. Eventually, by the 2200s, conditions on Earth had rapidly deteriorated. Natural resources had been exhausted, and global warming had rendered entire counties uninhabitable. Only the mining of helium on the moon had so far prevented human extinction. But the moon was only a temporary home. The alien world of Coyote was essential to human survival…
The Alabama colony was four years old when the first ship arrived… upon making contact with the ship, Robert Lee learned that the ship was carrying 1000 new colonists, and its commanding officer was adamant in her intensions. Lee knew that the, still primitive settlement, could not accommodate 1000 more people, and his own people would suffer as a result…
He made a decision that would frustrate the new arrivals, but one that his own people were more prepared to deal with…
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