A Brief History of Atlas, pt. 1

I remember Earth.

- In the late centuries we finally managed to get along, and we somehow mustered a greater collective effort than had ever been and, through it, reversed the decay we'd doomed the planet to in our fossil-fuel burning years.

Earth was paradise, we even went so far as to name our capital city New Eden.
But we forgot one thing.
Our history.

It took only minutes for the whole world to know that our leader had taken his own life.
His unclear will left two possible heirs.
The war left earth terminal.

Still feuding, we left in two different directions.
I watched our dead planet as we loosed ourselves.
Tumbleweed in the void.

- We went fast and hard for a small system, nothing. Another, nothing, the third was close but there was no solid ground on the one planet that seemed habitable. The fourth system was huge, there were actually four planets sharing the life distance from the star, and eleven planets total. With moons the system contained a whopping 37 significant bodies. We soon found that all four planets would be suitable for human life, and chose the one that was the greenest.

It was our hope.
It bore the burden of our future.
We christened it Atlas.

- Atlas is as green as the Amazon had once been. It has 'two and a half' continents. They are Cadrium, Armial, and Boma (the ½ one). The Great Ocean has just half the salt content of Earths waters but supports a diversity of life greater than that of the entire old planet, and we feed ourselves from it without depleting species.

- Within a decade some groups were clamoring for settlements on the other three planets. Careful expeditions planned the colonies and Pond was humanized in 00021 A.Y. (Atlas Years)...