[ WP ] Either a ship is traveling to a newly discovered continent in a fantasy setting , or a starship is traveling to a newly discovered planet in a sci-fi setting . Make it impossible to tell which in your story .

I remember my first step aboard this ship, every last detail of it. The smell of grease and sweat, the stuffy gas coming from the hold. The little grates hear and there, I hated it. It's funny how thing change, fifty years ago when I was a just a young adult, foolish, naive, persuaded to join the navy. God they were good, they had the best advertisers in the country.'travel from the light to the darkness; an adventure round every corner; be the first to step foot on new land; the future of mankind needs you'. I had already enrolled and there was no going back when I first came here and collapsed not my dank rotting'bed', but now I would never dream of leaving, the glowing lights, the new creatures, every new step leads more into the unknown, yet further into the light, that time we fought the pirates, that time we angered the ships cook and he ran at me and Johnny wive a heat cleaver, me and Johnny had the best times together, adventuring, sharing every moment. But now is not the time for nostalgia, I am on my last voyage on this here ship, we've spotted land only a few days away, I'm no expert but I've looked at the board and it seems very fertile and lushous, covered in green and blue. I was so exited when I heard, we might have finally found the place to set up a new colony, to fulfil my dreams of old. But two months into the journey my heart failed, I've been stuck in this brilliant thing for a while, it pumps my heart for me, breathes for me, feeds me, without I would have died weeks ago. The medic says I only have a few more minutes, to think I've gone this far only to fall at the last hurdle, I would cry but I'm to dried up to do so. But let's get down to business, you've come here for a reason, and we do n't have long to sort it out, so here it is, the final will and testament of, well, me. They've given the land a name, they say an ancient of our kind lived hear, the birthplace of men, they named it Earth. 
 
 
 
 

