Jennifer Pierce
Stories (2/0)
How I became an Inter-Galactic Temporal Master
How did it all begin, you ask? This is a common question in my temporal law class 101. I had been teaching ever since my husband died and I stopped participating in regular time travel. The students were always fascinated with my time travel experience. Since I was as old as Methuselah it is always assumed, accurately, that I have many stories to tell. Temporal agents are strongly encouraged to keep their personal lives linear, but that has never worked for me and my husband. Our lives have been taking place in multiple times. Sometimes we have been together while on different time of our lives. For example right now I am over five hundred years old and my husband has just died but a younger version of my husband has come from the past to take care of me. He and I were clearly destined to be non-linear. We never had a chance to be linear and we wouldn’t change a thing.
By Jennifer Pierce3 years ago in Futurism
Alien Astrology
My great granddaughter, Elisa, was doing an assignment for school where she had to interview someone who had left a home planet that they had been raised on. Every single child in her class had been born on the space station or had been born on a spaceship but raised on the space station. The teacher understood that many of the children would return to their parent’s home planet and was hopeful that discussing the transition might help these children adjust to life on a planet and where there was less diversity in species. It was unlikely that my great granddaughter would be going to my home planet of Earth. I had left Earth centuries ago and none of my children or grandchildren had returned to Earth for longer than a long vacation. My family was established here in space. That being said the majority of the population of the space station were temporary. They were diplomats, the diplomats staff, teachers, students, or an elected official. Retired spaceship crew made up another large percentage of the population. They would tend to commandeer a table in a pub or coffee shop and tell tall tales all day and night long. Typically the pub would give free drinks and food to the old-timer for providing entertainment, there was a tip jar as well. It was a good place for someone who had no family and/or no longer felt comfortable on a planet. Spend enough time on climate controlled space stations and spaceships and variable unpredictable weather that has extreme cold and hot and sometimes even snow become unbearable, also if you were in an interspecies relationship the space station was often a better fit and caused minimal drama. The Inter-Galactic Space Station has a faux sun, the filtration system simulates fresh breezes, and acres and acres of parks and greenspaces. Insects are closely monitored if they aren’t synthetic and none of them bite. The last large group in the population was the ones needed to maintain the space stations functions. In this group we had the lawyers, administrators, shop keepers, engineers, maintenance, and anyone else needed to keep a five hundred kilometer space station that had a two million soul capacity running.
By Jennifer Pierce3 years ago in Futurism