CHAPTER –38- Immigrants from Arton

May 12, 2126: Arton Four enters Mars orbit with 1,261 passengers and
crew who were transferred to the planet. Five crew members remained on
board to maintain the ship.
June 14, 2126: Arton Three enters Mars orbit with 1,284 passengers and
crew who were transferred to the planet. Again Five crew members remained
on board to maintain the ship.
June 14, 2126: The total population of the Human race was estimated to
be 136,000 people. With roughly 54,000 of them living on Arton and 82,000
thousand on Mars. It had been resolved to send one of the Arton ships back to
Arton, because they had powerful radios on board that could communicate with
each other even at a distance of four and a half light years. Once a month
Arton Four would send the news from Mars to Arton and once a month the
Arton three would send news from Arton to Mars. Arton Four would remain in
a parking orbit around Arton and become in fact a orbiter. They would have
seven Shuttle They would be manned by volunteers from Mars who would be
selected from the general population and agree to live their lives out on Arton.
The word went out and barely enough volunteers consented to go. Over the
next two months these people were trained to do the jobs that the crew of an
Arton ship had performed. The ship was not loaded with any cargo because
Arton was already a self sufficient planet. They would have their work cut out
for them in learning to produce for themselves all the things that had formerly
been shipped to them from Earth but there was no doubt that they would
survive and prosper over the coming centuries.