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Three Hours later on the central continent.

As the three landing ships all touched down Aleksander Ilic stepped out of the landing craft onto the island he found to land on. The atmosphere was breathable but he still wore a hazmat suit. The wildlife had been severally damaged by the landing and would be hurt worse if he took off.

“The gravity is a bit higher than earth but not inhibitive. I suspect in a week or two will be able to tell if there is anything lethal to us humans with some sample studies.” Rose said as they stepped off the ship to begin exploring.

The ground was very flat it would be a good area for more ships to land. Aleksander looked over some of the initial scans on his tablet. He walked forward leaving his crew somewhat behind him as inspected the wilderness. He then took off the biohazard suit head gear and began breathing the air.

“Oh dear god he exposed himself.” Rose said looking away from her microbial scanner.

“Are you insane man?!” Tomas shouted. “This place could be a deceptive death world!”

Aleksander largely just ignored concerns and went about looking for something to eat. “This area looks clear and level we will need to build a landing site, yes. We must build a road to a place where we can be safe as the ships land with supplies do you happen to have more than just a lot of guns on your ship Amer… comrades?”

“Yeah we have trucks don’t you?’ Alex replied still wearing his hazard suit.

Aleksander opened a small flask and began drinking. “I brought something unique along, those new multi material 3d printers. Lots of them I think they come in handy for building a new colony. Come and see!”

Alex followed the old man into his SpaceX landing ship. The ground near all of them had been burnt into a black tarmac like substance. “So what is so important you wanted to show me?”

“I pack unique items.” Aleksander replied showing Alex a few 3d printers. “But it took up space more than was normally allotted in the ships we purchased.”

Alex looked over several ingots all covered in the Hf periodic table symbols. “Jesus Christ Ilic how much of this shit do you have and how?”

Aleksander mumbled something in Serbian. That’s when a female crew member replied, “He promised a lot of women and children all blonde and blue eyed to a Saudi and to meet in the international waters of the Med.”

“You traded people to the Saudis!”

Aleksander shouted in Serbian as his female crewmeber fought to call him down. After a few minutes the woman replied, “He showed the goods, the people to the Saudis but killed them and stole the rare earth elements for himself. Then he set sail to Texas to barter with Elon Musk. So no he would never sell his own people into slavery, but he did make the Saudis think just that.”

“Thanks miss, well at least the Saudis will likely all die on Earth so who cares.” Alex said looking over the case of materials.

“I am Sofija he doesn’t speak much English but the idea he had was to gather some processed rare earth elements and even several Magnotromitrists some of the most respected in Europe are sleeping on our ship.” Sofija explained to Alex as they walked off the lander.

“Captain Alex we just unloaded the first of our trucks it looks like much of the island is a mostly rock we can probably drive with no worries.” Rose saod as the Texans unloaded a paid of large Toyota tundra. Rose watched as several critters began scurrying ashore.

A large quasi seal like creature the size of a small cow rolled up on to the glassed shore just on the heels of several lobster like crustaceans. The over sized lobster crab hybrid creatures all fled as the seal like creature began grabbing at the smaller creatures. Once a crustacean had been seized the seal like creature began smashing it into ground until the shell split open and its meaty insides were exposed for consumption.

The humans did not approach the large seal like creature. It looked at them as it finished up its meal and proceeded to a nearby tree using its fins and size to bring down fruit. Once it was content after filling its belly it gave the humans a look before returning to the ocean.

“You know we probably displaced a lot of wild life landing here I am shocked the animals have no fear of us.” Alex said observing nature. Specifically noting the several crustaceans hiding in the main trucks, “alright you over grown crabs out from under the truck back into the sea with you!”

The creatures hiding under the truck hissed a little and used their pincers to slap back at Alex. Aleksander of the Serbian ship finished stepping out of his hazmat suit then reached under the truck and grabbed one of the over grown crabs by its long tail instantly making it unable to grab him with its pincers. Sofija said letting the creature fruitlessly snap its claws at her, “If you have rubber bands and butter we will boil it for dinner?”

“Damn it you crazy fool first you take off the hazmat gear and now you want to eat the first thing that scurries under our truck.” Alex shouted trying to chase of the smaller critters.

Rose took her hazmat suit of as well, “I am more of a BBQ shrimp girl but I am sure that thing is close enough. We could work with it.”

“We have yet to find out if the microbes here are lethal to humans’ much less eating xeno biomass.” Alex continued his complaints. “Worse still Rose you falling in line with this devil may care bullshit is not why I choice you to be on my command shift.”

“Oh stop worrying the biosphere lacked any viruses that could last long outside of cold, wet, and dark settings. Look at this place the temperature is like 78 degrees thanks to a nice breeze. In all I am with the Sidonia’s captain.” Rose replied before completely stripping out of the suit. “Hey I brought a volley ball any of the other women here want to play when we find a nice beach?

The Czech ship’s crew followed suit with Rose. Once everyone had stripped Alex reluctantly joined them before climbing into the trucks and leaving the landing site. The few animals hiding under the truck all scattered back into the ocean as the engine turning over scared them off. The vehicle drove through much of the woodlands with relative ease as the majority of trees all of which similar to palm or coconut trees. These trees left stretches of area where their roots dominated the ground forming a small scale road... an extremely bumpy road.

“Does anyone else feel something or someone made this place?” Tomas asked as the truck drove over a large bump.

“It looks a bit too good to be true which is why I said stay in the hazmat suits.” Alex complained as the lead truck came to a large mountainous ridge. The convoy stopped for a minute as they began looking at which direction left or right would allow them to bypass the mountain. After exiting the truck and begin to search Alex said, “Well this mountain could easily protect us from second lift off but we’ll have our work cut out for us if we want to make a viable civilization.”

“We will be fine with a bit of effort this will be a great new home.” Sofija said giving the long crab a small stick of food.

Tomas looked at Sofija and the long crab, “I hope you didn’t give it a name otherwise you will never be able to eat your catch.”

“Run away go be free Luka I will remember our time together!” Sofija shouted sending the creature scurrying away from the humans who laughed as it made its way back to the ocean.

The convoy managed to find a nearby stream with enough room for a colony. Aleksander took out fishing net and walked over to the stream. As the men began setting up base camp the few women set to fixing the first meal of the night. It took several hours but the main crew would have a decent shelter.

After several hours of working the women had set up a camp fire and dining area. While Aleksander began the process of making the fish ready for cooking and spoke to the women. “These fish will make a nice change from eating those rations, yes?

Alex sat resting as he began playing his harmonica he had accepted protocol was not going to be enforced. He began playing a rather low and depressing drag, “We can’t just eat random animals you know? We could all die you know, oh wow, wow, wow, OH!”

“Oh stop being a party pooper we will either have a nice last meal or this will be our easiest day ever as we build our new home.” Sofija said giving Alex a plate of food. "God what will we use to deliver those nukes our ships use onto a target? That will be an issue making a real defense beside basic fire arms."

Alex poked the food around a bit it smelled good, “First night is the easiest if all goes well.”

For the primary ship crew the first night was the easiest for whatever reason the planet lacked any threats to human habitation. It would be a long and grueling effort to make the main island a viable home. However the three colony ships have a combination of individuals all willing to work tirelessly to create a new home as well as the means to defend it from any threat the earth may send to finish to them off.

As the night’s meal ended some the men attempted to use small musical instruments to entertain the group before settling in for bed. Rose Akhanteros would use the opportunity to take charge with women and impose a new gender role for the colonist to practice across generation. Rose would be the first woman to dance as the men made music. The small creature crab like Luka would be identified as a mammalian creature with an upper shell; despite this the creature would be dubbed a long crab.

After a period of 50 years Sidonia would begin developing a Space Defense Force along with a massive industry based in space. They would also have a large number of artificial islands made to expand the world’s living space. While the planet would lack several industries that Earth had access to the ability for the Sidonians to work hard and long enough to enter the age of space exploration is a testament to their willingness to work together and thrive instead of survive.

This is my second image from QuintessenceReality2 combining my images with his.

Description

Three Hours later on the central continent.

As the three landing ships all touched down Aleksander Ilic stepped out of the landing craft onto the island he found to land on. The atmosphere was breathable but he still wore a hazmat suit. The wildlife had been severally damaged by the landing and would be hurt worse if he took off.

“The gravity is a bit higher than earth but not inhibitive. I suspect in a week or two will be able to tell if there is anything lethal to us humans with some sample studies.” Rose said as they stepped off the ship to begin exploring.

The ground was very flat it would be a good area for more ships to land. Aleksander looked over some of the initial scans on his tablet. He walked forward leaving his crew somewhat behind him as inspected the wilderness. He then took off the biohazard suit head gear and began breathing the air.

“Oh dear god he exposed himself.” Rose said looking away from her microbial scanner.

“Are you insane man?!” Tomas shouted. “This place could be a deceptive death world!”

Aleksander largely just ignored concerns and went about looking for something to eat. “This area looks clear and level we will need to build a landing site, yes. We must build a road to a place where we can be safe as the ships land with supplies do you happen to have more than just a lot of guns on your ship Amer… comrades?”

“Yeah we have trucks don’t you?’ Alex replied still wearing his hazard suit.

Aleksander opened a small flask and began drinking. “I brought something unique along, those new multi material 3d printers. Lots of them I think they come in handy for building a new colony. Come and see!”

Alex followed the old man into his SpaceX landing ship. The ground near all of them had been burnt into a black tarmac like substance. “So what is so important you wanted to show me?”

“I pack unique items.” Aleksander replied showing Alex a few 3d printers. “But it took up space more than was normally allotted in the ships we purchased.”

Alex looked over several ingots all covered in the Hf periodic table symbols. “Jesus Christ Ilic how much of this shit do you have and how?”

Aleksander mumbled something in Serbian. That’s when a female crew member replied, “He promised a lot of women and children all blonde and blue eyed to a Saudi and to meet in the international waters of the Med.”

“You traded people to the Saudis!”

Aleksander shouted in Serbian as his female crewmeber fought to call him down. After a few minutes the woman replied, “He showed the goods, the people to the Saudis but killed them and stole the rare earth elements for himself. Then he set sail to Texas to barter with Elon Musk. So no he would never sell his own people into slavery, but he did make the Saudis think just that.”

“Thanks miss, well at least the Saudis will likely all die on Earth so who cares.” Alex said looking over the case of materials.

“I am Sofija he doesn’t speak much English but the idea he had was to gather some processed rare earth elements and even several Magnotromitrists some of the most respected in Europe are sleeping on our ship.” Sofija explained to Alex as they walked off the lander.

“Captain Alex we just unloaded the first of our trucks it looks like much of the island is a mostly rock we can probably drive with no worries.” Rose saod as the Texans unloaded a paid of large Toyota tundra. Rose watched as several critters began scurrying ashore.

A large quasi seal like creature the size of a small cow rolled up on to the glassed shore just on the heels of several lobster like crustaceans. The over sized lobster crab hybrid creatures all fled as the seal like creature began grabbing at the smaller creatures. Once a crustacean had been seized the seal like creature began smashing it into ground until the shell split open and its meaty insides were exposed for consumption.

The humans did not approach the large seal like creature. It looked at them as it finished up its meal and proceeded to a nearby tree using its fins and size to bring down fruit. Once it was content after filling its belly it gave the humans a look before returning to the ocean.

“You know we probably displaced a lot of wild life landing here I am shocked the animals have no fear of us.” Alex said observing nature. Specifically noting the several crustaceans hiding in the main trucks, “alright you over grown crabs out from under the truck back into the sea with you!”

The creatures hiding under the truck hissed a little and used their pincers to slap back at Alex. Aleksander of the Serbian ship finished stepping out of his hazmat suit then reached under the truck and grabbed one of the over grown crabs by its long tail instantly making it unable to grab him with its pincers. Sofija said letting the creature fruitlessly snap its claws at her, “If you have rubber bands and butter we will boil it for dinner?”

“Damn it you crazy fool first you take off the hazmat gear and now you want to eat the first thing that scurries under our truck.” Alex shouted trying to chase of the smaller critters.

Rose took her hazmat suit of as well, “I am more of a BBQ shrimp girl but I am sure that thing is close enough. We could work with it.”

“We have yet to find out if the microbes here are lethal to humans’ much less eating xeno biomass.” Alex continued his complaints. “Worse still Rose you falling in line with this devil may care bullshit is not why I choice you to be on my command shift.”

“Oh stop worrying the biosphere lacked any viruses that could last long outside of cold, wet, and dark settings. Look at this place the temperature is like 78 degrees thanks to a nice breeze. In all I am with the Sidonia’s captain.” Rose replied before completely stripping out of the suit. “Hey I brought a volley ball any of the other women here want to play when we find a nice beach?

The Czech ship’s crew followed suit with Rose. Once everyone had stripped Alex reluctantly joined them before climbing into the trucks and leaving the landing site. The few animals hiding under the truck all scattered back into the ocean as the engine turning over scared them off. The vehicle drove through much of the woodlands with relative ease as the majority of trees all of which similar to palm or coconut trees. These trees left stretches of area where their roots dominated the ground forming a small scale road... an extremely bumpy road.

“Does anyone else feel something or someone made this place?” Tomas asked as the truck drove over a large bump.

“It looks a bit too good to be true which is why I said stay in the hazmat suits.” Alex complained as the lead truck came to a large mountainous ridge. The convoy stopped for a minute as they began looking at which direction left or right would allow them to bypass the mountain. After exiting the truck and begin to search Alex said, “Well this mountain could easily protect us from second lift off but we’ll have our work cut out for us if we want to make a viable civilization.”

“We will be fine with a bit of effort this will be a great new home.” Sofija said giving the long crab a small stick of food.

Tomas looked at Sofija and the long crab, “I hope you didn’t give it a name otherwise you will never be able to eat your catch.”

“Run away go be free Luka I will remember our time together!” Sofija shouted sending the creature scurrying away from the humans who laughed as it made its way back to the ocean.

The convoy managed to find a nearby stream with enough room for a colony. Aleksander took out fishing net and walked over to the stream. As the men began setting up base camp the few women set to fixing the first meal of the night. It took several hours but the main crew would have a decent shelter.

After several hours of working the women had set up a camp fire and dining area. While Aleksander began the process of making the fish ready for cooking and spoke to the women. “These fish will make a nice change from eating those rations, yes?

Alex sat resting as he began playing his harmonica he had accepted protocol was not going to be enforced. He began playing a rather low and depressing drag, “We can’t just eat random animals you know? We could all die you know, oh wow, wow, wow, OH!”

“Oh stop being a party pooper we will either have a nice last meal or this will be our easiest day ever as we build our new home.” Sofija said giving Alex a plate of food. "God what will we use to deliver those nukes our ships use onto a target? That will be an issue making a real defense beside basic fire arms."

Alex poked the food around a bit it smelled good, “First night is the easiest if all goes well.”

For the primary ship crew the first night was the easiest for whatever reason the planet lacked any threats to human habitation. It would be a long and grueling effort to make the main island a viable home. However the three colony ships have a combination of individuals all willing to work tirelessly to create a new home as well as the means to defend it from any threat the earth may send to finish to them off.

As the night’s meal ended some the men attempted to use small musical instruments to entertain the group before settling in for bed. Rose Akhanteros would use the opportunity to take charge with women and impose a new gender role for the colonist to practice across generation. Rose would be the first woman to dance as the men made music. The small creature crab like Luka would be identified as a mammalian creature with an upper shell; despite this the creature would be dubbed a long crab.

After a period of 50 years Sidonia would begin developing a Space Defense Force along with a massive industry based in space. They would also have a large number of artificial islands made to expand the world’s living space. While the planet would lack several industries that Earth had access to the ability for the Sidonians to work hard and long enough to enter the age of space exploration is a testament to their willingness to work together and thrive instead of survive.

This is my second image from QuintessenceReality2 combining my images with his.