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Finding Eden

Years ago, Adam and Eve, 2 voyage vessels were sent from a dying race called the Elowen. Their planet was beginning to turn itself into a wasteland and they knew they couldn't save it. As their badlands continued to grow quicker and more deadly, scientists created Adam and Eve to soar through the stars in search of a new home. The men and women were separted onto the 2 colossal vessels in search of Eden.

Rumoured to be filled with beautiful green fields of glossy red apples, air that filled the nostrils of a sweet water melon scent and skies as blue as the oceans that were as majestic as the whole of it combined together. It was a miraculous sight to anyone who saw it. The mountains surrounding the valleys, were topped with a fine coat of snow, something the Elowens had never seen before.

Disembarquing from a bicentenial voyage, the Elowens finally discovered Eden. A planet they could finally call home. The colonists had their breaths taken away from them as they took in the apple orchards and the green fields of gold and the snowtopped mountains. For years, they had vowed to keep Eden's beauty the way it was when they had found it. The Elowens built massive skyscrapers that went above and beyond the clouds, they developped cures for cancer and Alzheimers and ALS all because of a few ressources needed from Eden. But not all vows are kept.

Soon after their vow of beauty to this planet, their population started to increase and they started needing more and more ressources. They took up more land and started minning for minerals hey could use. The Elowen discovered a sort of brown substance coming from the ground the moment they arrived and it was found everywhere, so in honor of that they renamed Eden "Earth". in just a few short years this dying race had grown over 1000 times it's origial size. They were now over 3 billion people on this planet in less than 20 years. The Elowen were pros at architechtural design, they made what is now known as Stone Henge and the heads from Easter Island. But they soon started to run out of crops and they realized that they couldn't save their dying planet this time.

There were no habitable planets close enough to Earth and they didn't have enough ressources to send out voyagers to find a new home.

As time went by, the Elowens or Humans as they called themselves now slowly started to die off. After about 100 years or so, they had been reduced to 80% less than what they when they arrived. Their sceintists had calculated that if they hadn't been so greedy with the crops Eden had given them, they would have lasted billions of years longer than only 170 years. After another 10 years, there wasn't even only 1% population left of what they had arrived with. The remaining 7500 or so died of old age if they were lucky, some died of starvation and some of sickness. There was no hope this time, unlike the last planet they had killed and the one before that and the one before that. They are known across the universe as Planet Killers. Species' who take advantage of planets and abuse their life cycles. This time it was them that was dying and in 100 000 years or so, Eden would be back to it's original state of beauty. No longer would any other species bother it even again.