Ribbon

In the 2070s, to combat the overwhelming populations within the world's prisons, the U.N. declared an initiative to exile a portion of the world's convicts on rockets bound for the distant star system R18-B09, "Ribbon." Hundreds of thousands were frozen, then launched into the void, with no true notion of whether they'd even see another day.

Miranda was one of those exiles.

A year into the initiative, she was framed for attempted murder by her adulterous husband. She could do nothing as she was placed in a pod, attached to a rocket, and blasted towards the distant star, along with 89 others on the same.

195 light years. At less than 3% of the speed of light. At the earliest, that means she'd get there 6,500 years later.

But to her, frozen in her pod, it was minutes.

As she froze, she thought to herself, what was the world going to be like? What is a world like when it's inhabitants are from some of the worst prisons on Earth?

And the next thing she saw, was a blurry green flashing screen, "Orbital insertion successful, begin landing process in 5...4...3...2...1..."
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This is something I am working on in my free time, chapters will come out at random times.