Admiral Joe Carter was holding a staff meeting for the four ship captains
and their executive officers. “Have you read this update gentlemen?” They all
nodded that they had. “Not only have I read it but I have visited the planet and
verified it. Considering this report I would like to propose a course of action.
This course of action is based on the conclusions that I have reached from
reading the report and seeing conditions for myself. We could take maybe eight
thousand people to Earth and Earth could sure use more people.” If we did that
we would be cherry picking the youngest, the brightest and the best from this
society on Arton. These are the very people that are needed here. After all this
is the outpost of humanity. Arton may someday prove to be as important as
Earth. As it turned out the best investment that mankind ever made was the
investment we made in developing Mars. As it stands now Earth could use a
couple hundred million people and Mars could even use a quarter million but
both Mars and Earth are sustainable with the people that they have. It will just
take a little longer to repopulate. Adding eight thousand more from Arton would
hurt Arton and it really wouldn't change all that much on Mars or Earth. I
propose that we take no more than a couple hundred people back with us and
only those that are determined to go. I would like to take as many plants as we
can. Obviously we could not fill our ships with plants but we could take enough
to establish several hundred new species on Mars and Earth. We should take a
sampling of Animals back to the San Diego Zoo and that is about it. We should
call on this planet once every twenty years or so but not bother to resupply
them. They have everything they need or deserve. I think we should park two
of these ships in orbit around Earth and two in Orbit around Mars, so if Mars
Runner ever craps out we can still get back and forth to Mars. By the time
Earth is ever postured again to take on space exploration these ships will have
been long dead. By having them, though if some catastrophe were to hit the
solar system we could always use them to move a few thousand humans to
Arton. Any suggestions or comments?” “Yes,” said one of the Captains. “We
don't have the final say, but I believe the planarity leaders would agree with the
plan that you just outlined.
It took them four months to load the plants, some thought that they
should take some Arton Natives back to Earth. They finally settled on taking no
humans other than the crew of Arton Three and only one hundred Arton
Natives. The justification for taking any natives at all was to preserve the
species if Arton were to be destroyed. They knew that the natives would never
be contented living among Earth people so they decided to plant some of their
native plants on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai. It came closer than any place on
Earth to matching their native habitat. They would assign only two human
volunteers to live with them and care for their native plants which needed no
care on Arton. They already knew they could not count on teaching the
Artonians to care for them. They had considered putting them in the San Diego
Zoo but these weren't animals these were sentient beings. They decided that
they would select 75 natives from the outer island population and twenty five
from the more advanced inner island group. They decided to take none to
Mars. They figured that Artonians would not understand low gravity.
It was a real shock when they were approached by one of the Artonian
inner island natives who had read about Mars and he wanted to go there. Not
only did he want to go there but there were another thousand Artonians, all from
the upper class who were well informed on Mars and said they wanted to live
on Mars also. We know that your people eat animals and animal products and
we condone your practice because we realize that you are from a different
culture. We also know that Mars already produces a huge surplus of fruits and
vegetables and with the addition of an ample supply of our native plants and
vegetables that we can grow on Mars we will be just fine. I think I would enjoy
the low gravity and I know the importance of the required daily workouts.
It seems that this group was motivated to learn about Mars and once an
Artonian is properly motivated he can accomplish anything that a human can
accomplish. They had a lot easier time in learning English than humans had in
learning their language. There had long been held on Arton that these upper
class people were the next evolutionary step for the natives of Arton. Admiral
Carter had a long talk with the members of the group that wanted to go to Mars
and finally they managed to convInce him that they were sincere and
understood what they were getting into. The crews then harvested enough
Artonian plants with the help of the ones that were going to Mars to fill the cargo
bays of the Arton Three. Arton Three and four would be the two space craft that
would establish a parking orbit around Mars.
They then reconsidered and elected to take only upper class people to
Earth. They put the word out that they were seeking volunteers to migrate to
Earth and had over five thousand applicants. They took one thousand of them
but only the ones that knew about Earth and knew what conditions awaited
them. The group themselves decided that they had rather go to San Diego than
to Kauai. Most of them volunteered to raise Artonian and Earth fruits and
vegetables. Some of them even volunteered to work in the San Diego Zoo as
grounds keepers and care givers to the animals. Once again, they were
motivated. They said that they understood about caring for plants. This group
selected even more plants from Arton for them to care for when they reached
San Diego. Before they departed they had two of the giant ships loaded with
Artonian plants.
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