[ WP ] After 500 years away , Human 's finally return to Earth

`` Hey Cody, ya think earth would be like what the image logs read from the elder ones?'' 
 
 `` I highly doubt it, 500 years changes a lot in retrospect. Most of the things left behind have either completely decay and destroyed, or has been covered with overgrowth from whatever took over after we left.'' 
 
 I was reading the weekly blog, TheDailySilhouettes, on the holographic stand, when Lewis, my friend and researcher, popped by into my sleeping chamber, unannounced. The screens were loaded with articles and posters about `` The Return''. Saying how this we are finally going to return after half a millennium, with the rich and the gifted saying they have longed for this return. 
 
 *Bullshit* I thought. Returning is a mistake, with the amount of physical and economic damage our ancestors have created to this planet, it was before thought to have been impossible to be inhabitable again. You know, because of all the nuclear wars, and stuff. 
 
 But of course, for the past 6 month the probes being sent to the planet are finally showing a positive reading. Radiation and pollution are in the safe range, and the atmosphere seems to be still barely breathable again. So the galactic government set out a Research team as well as a few hundred willing civilians, mostly the powerful people of the new world, to go revisit the planet again. 
 
 And so, me being one of the leading engineers and developer for the government, whom also helped to invent the warp gate for the Stargazer-Z03 space station, allowing us the chance to travel through wormholes and jump galaxys. So of course, I was intrusted with the job of leading a team and maintain the ship that is traveling through a wormhole to reach our solar system in the milky way. Yeah, kinda backfired there. 
 
 `` Aww come on, do n't be like that. Its finally here, returning to the planet that we first became a species! Are n't you even a little bit excited?'' 
 
 `` Nope, I would have much rather Like staying back on Kepler 62 then coming back here, this place is just barely habitable, I would n't be surprised if the readings were wrong and that the whole planet is still a brown merky mess.'' 
 
 `` I know that Kepler 62 is like earth, but no other planet is like our old one. I heard from the logs that the place use to have Green trees and forest everywhere, the place was amazing I tell ya.'' 
 
 `` We have perfectly normal trees back on our home planet. Yes, although due to the light fraction between the distant sun there, the leaves all look a blueish grey colour. But their still the same kinda pla-'' 
 
 `` Calling Cody Browns, calling Cody Browns. Please report to the bridge, the captain wishes to speak to you.'' The robotic voiced lady on the intercom sounded. 
 
 `` Damm it, I'll talk to you later Lewis. I got ta go fix something now probably.'' 
 
 As I left the room and shutting the sliding door behind me, I walked down the corridor of rooms and went into the elevator. Along with a young women, in her 20s, wearing a standard civilian suit, who was already waiting for the lift. 
 
 `` You excited?'' She suddenly said as the lift started to ascend. 
 
 `` Nah, not really, I was forced into this mission. Would have much rather still be working on the SZ3's station warp gate then this.'' 
 
 `` Oh. Well, I'm excited for it. My great-grandmother told me about how her grandmother was a little girl when they left earth, they said that there was still trees there, but almost everthing was in chaos, they were evacuated onto ships and was leaving the atmosphere. But she said she saw the most beautiful thing that day, The earth was in view as they left the planet, It was just the single most breathtaking moment she said she saw in her life, and so she took a picture of it, and I have it with me now.'' 
 
 So she pulled out a small sealed bag, and inside was an actual picture, of the earth. And although I've seen in holograms all the time, I never saw it in a full coloured picture.The blue sea, and the white wispy clouds. It was actually really astonishing. 
 
 `` I just hope its still the same as we left it, I know how they say it is in a completely destroyed state, but the readings all say it's fine, and Its always been my dream to see the bright blue colour of the sea, the smell of natural open fresh air, and the feeling of dirt on the ground...'' She said as she looked longingly at the photo, the reflection of it shown in her eyes. 
 
 `` Anyway,'' As she put away the photo,'' What do you think will happen when we reach there?'' 
 
 I just kinda was speechless for a moment, I kinda looked at my feet and sighed. 
 
 `` I hope that the plants there are green at least.'' 
 
 She smiled at me as we reached my floor, I walked out the lift and made my way to the Bridge.
