Spaceships, planets, and post-apocalyptic «drama»

Recently, there’s been quite a bit of talk — or maybe just passing mentions, the kind that come and go — about the Artemis II mission.

The journey. The plans. The people behind it.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Just one of those short news segments that flicker for a moment and then disappear, without really leaving a mark. At least, that was my impression watching the local news (not the English ones, just to be clear).

To put it briefly: Artemis II was the first human journey around the Moon in over 50 years. A kind of rehearsal for bringing humans back to its surface. (Information taken from online news.)

But that’s not really the point.

It’s more like the spark.

The kind of thing that slips in quietly and then, without warning, pulls your thoughts somewhere else entirely.

Because it reminded me of something.

Among the many projects I keep scattered around — especially the original ones — there was an idea I sketched out a couple of years ago.

And looking at it now, from a distance, it was actually quite interesting.

(And no, I don’t really care if someone else has already done something similar — that’s another matter.)

It was right before the pandemic — the one that, in one way or another, touched everyone — and I had started thinking about a trilogy (not sure why I always end up there).

But it didn’t follow a linear timeline.

Each book told a different moment of the same event.

Fragments of something larger.

But what was it about?

In simple terms — and I’m reconstructing this from memory — Earth is slowly reaching its end at the hands of humanity, through a new world war and a virus that escaped control.

And somewhere within all of that, a small group of people is given a chance to carry human survival forward on another planet.

A kind of “second Earth”.

I say “kind of” because, honestly, I don’t remember how far I had developed the idea.

I’m piecing it together as I go.

Ugh… I really should go back and dig up all those documents — digital and physical — I’ve got scattered somewhere…