[ WP ] You were born on a colonizing spacecraft on your way to a distant star . You are the middle generation of history ; born to late to have seen Earth , and to early to live to see your destination .

Saturno scratches his head and pushes the display feed towards Lilia. 
 
 `` we should send someone out there and take a look at it, it ’ s not like we are short of ore but there is no harm in labelling and tracking it. It will keep engineering on their toes as well. 
 `` Makes Sense'' Lilia gets up and makes her way towards the passageway. 
 `` How is your mother?'' 
 `` She moved to the Dublin a month ago, she seems to be doing fine and enjoying the company, she was tired... needed the break'' Lilia looks awkward talking about her family, he should have never have brought it up. 
 
 `` Dont we all'' He buckles back over his terminal and puts his mind back to work. 
 
 Only 16 of the original 132 ships remain, the first 7 years were the worst, or so they say in the history flicks. The scientists, mathematicians, engineers, doctors were all sent in the first few ships to prepare the way. Then the burocrats followed and ultimately the seedling generation. 
 
 Off all the tragedies that could have beset the new initiative, famine seemed to be the hardest to bear. In the first year controls were well enforced but an Australian Scientist managed to bring an apple onboard during the final push to leave the dying earth and within its waxed skin lay the first spores of the blight that wiped out the fresh gardens located on the Nebraska and London. 
 
 Lilia often thought of how it must have been to watch as the entire Eden turned brown and fetid over the course of 2 days, how the engineers must have felt knowing that there was nothing they could do to stop it. Knowing that there was no turning back for help because there was no help left behind. 
 
 Famine led to war, and war led to destruction as their finite resources dwindled and the occupants sustained themselves on a thin gruel of algae that managed to survive the blight. 
 
 During the Famine a great madness rose throughout many of the ships, none more famous than the Ulaanbaatar. Fierce fighting had been reported onboard and her readouts showed that the airlocks had been manually opened and shut several times before she cut all communications with the rest of the fleet and pointed herself back toward the dying earth. 
 
 Many more tragedies would befall the fleet over the next 42 years, and the itinerant remains of earth ’ s population and as their supplies and moral dwindled they limped towards the edge of their galaxy hoping all was not in vain. 

