The Carriers

Chapter One

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(Disclaimer: The Carriers no longer represents me as a writer, as I wrote it two or three years ago with recent updates and minor changes. I still love the story and am proud of finishing it, but I've changed a lot as a writer and a person so there are plenty of things I would have done very differently. Ethical issues and such that I should have written another way. Still, I hope you enjoy it as much as I loved writing it! All the best, JarrynPaige)

New Eden

    One hundred and fifty some years ago, the founders of New Eden lived on a dying planet. The deserts grew to sizes completely beyond predictions; the oceans grew perilous as the storms became more and more deadly, destroying our ships and sending massive hurricanes tearing through the land. Unimaginable death became a daily occurance, medicine became a luxury that only the richest of families could afford. Food became scarce as the trees life spans grew shorter and shorter and the animals kept dying. At some point, a new disease was created accidentally in a lab that killed the crops. All together the planet was dying, and every person who was left living realized it.

The people became desperate and hopeless. That's when the leaders of the greatest countries of the world came together to devise a plan to save us all. They gathered the most genius minds on the planet to design a synthetic planet to sustain the remainder of the population. After six months of constant work and planning, these men and women would have designed a perfect, self sustaining system to create on a large round satellite that would be set to revolve around the earth. This planet would be able to produce its own own heat and oxygen; it would be the world to save ours. It was called New Eden.

After eight years of the people suffering, waiting, and hoping that they would survive long enough to leave this planet and travel to the new one, New Eden was complete. Massive groups of people of all ages and ethnicities were escorted on large shuttles and sent to live on the new planet.

Living on New Eden was virtually perfect; the leaders of the world agreed to join together in unity to create and peaceful a society as possible. The leaders were equal in power and controlled separate groups of communities on the planet; they called themselves the Head Council.

Crime was kept to a minimum by the security stations located in every community. Each community had a hospital where doctors and nurses were supplied by the government run medical schools. Every person was required to work after the age of 18, if of course they did not have any disabilities proven by the community doctors, keeping the system running nicely and efficiently. Education was provided for every child and young person. Some said that life on New Eden was better than Earth could have ever been.

However, of course, nothing can be perfect forever. In the year 2313 a mysterious virus broke out, it killed entire communities at a time. It started with a simple headache, then after a couple weeks out what seems like nowhere a fever strikes the victim and kills them within twenty four hours. The cruel, miserable disease affected even the healthiest of communities. Luckily it seemed to be contained to one half of New Eden.

    Once again, the people began to panic. They begged for a cure to be created, but nothing could be done soon enough. The Head Council gathered to discuss what was to be done. It was agreed that, in order to prevent any further outbreak, every person, man woman or child, would be tested for the virus. Any person found to have been infected would be placed in quarantine. Those who died would be given a proper burial with their name etched on a memorial to remember. Those who survived the quarantine were deemed carriers, the lucky few who were able to carry the disease but never have a single symptom. Those "lucky" few would be sent back to the home planet to prevent the infection of any others around them. It was for the best, or so we thought.. We were never prepared for what was going to happen.