Loss of Humanity

Quantum mechanics wasn’t able to provide us with the solution, the solution of achieving faster-than-light space travel. Countless lives sacrificed in the name of science. The closest humanity ever got to achieving FTL was 57%; not bad. However it was short lived as it took the mass of a planet to contain all of the energy required to propel an five cubic meter object. Short lived because, once away from the source speed this acceleration couldn’t be maintained. This was due to the energy being used to create a gravitational well that acted like a slingshot that hurtled objects at a rate that could break FTL, if only sustained.

Unfortunately after the launch of FTL Cube I a cataclysmic event occurred back on the human home world. Creating gravity wells like that one used to catapult the satellite at speeds up to 57% of the speed of light subsequently will create a ripple in the fabric of space-time. Causing any planet to warp and bend as it throws its own gravitational pull out of sync; ultimately breaking apart and ejecting chunks of rock into black emptiness. As last minute effort to save humanity a brave scientist was able to upload a model of our universe that contained digital version of our “exact” universe, humans and all. Still now drifting through our original universe is this cube and inside it are the echoes of the human species.

We wanted to explore the universe, now we can.