The World We Once Knew

Chapter One

Logan

Anarchy, Communism, Democracy, Dictatorship, Fascism, Nazism, Tyranny; these are all types of governments. In years past all of these have also failed, Democracy, though, was the last hope for a real government. It worked for about 200 years or so, but then things started to happen. The government officials would raise the debt ceiling higher and higher each year, and as a result the government would be forced to shut down more and more frequently; all because they didn't have the money to pay back all of the countries they owed. They would also meddle in other countries affairs, which would get them into wars that didn't concern them in the slightest bit. Apparently the "people", the citizens of the country would hold a vote, to see what they wanted to do about a lot of these issues. But the masses became ignorant and self absorbed, they started caring more and more about technology and allowed the government to spiral out of control. So the politicians had all of the control of the government. They ran it into the ground. Bribery, gambling, cheating, and buying people eventually ensued. But the masses ignored this; the government called Democracy collapsed and was replaced by a new form of government. One called Anarchy.

Anarchy happened because the government collapsed and with it the monetary system. The masses had no money, well they had money but it wasn't worth anything. So they panicked and turned on each other. First there was a lot of fighting, rich, poor, middle class, homeless, it didn't matter they all fought. Then a genius named Dr. Reagan Shea O'Connell built a spacecraft that could take people to other planets and would allow them to live on these spacecraft's until a colony could be made. Also they would send supplies and people who knew how to build these colonies so that the colonies could not only survive but thrive. So the rich signed up since they were the only people who could afford to go. They sent the first shuttle to Mercury; it took them 15 years to send word that the colony was thriving. Then the second shuttle was sent to Venus, and a third to Mars, a fourth to Jupiter, a fifth to Saturn, a sixth to Uranus, a seventh to Neptune, and an eighth (even though it's not considered a planet anymore) to Pluto. All of these colonies survived and thrived. There was peace once again, and eventually the shuttles weren't so costly and more people could go to these distant planets and start a new life. But then something happened, something no one ever expected.

Pluto erupted into chaos. The people weren't as happy there as everyone thought. They had to live in artificial light to survive, and they didn't like it. So they decided to rebel and they broke away. They stopped contacting us. So we, mainly Dr. O'Connell, sent soldiers out to Pluto. The soldiers got there and a huge battle was fought. Eventually the soldier's eradicated the people there. And instead put a military outpost on half of the planet and the other half of it is used as a prison. Dr. O'Connell eventually became dictator for a short while and while she was in office, she put one or more military outpost on each planet that she had colonized. Eventually she got tired of the constant fighting down here and went to Mars where she could watch over us from a safe distance. But now there is no one willing to take office and all we do is fight, move around, and try to survive. But how can one survive and live comfortably while being watched all the time?