Nations in space 1/?
anonymous
April 18 2009, 19:36:28 UTC
Neu-Deutschland was coming along nicely, Ludwig thought, and looked out over the rolling hills. If the sky had been less purple and the trees not all fern-hybrides bred to fit the foreign soil of a new starsystem, he could almost have believed he was in his old house.
Germany had been one of the last of the nations to leave Earth behind. Only when pollution and lack of resources had finally become too much, he had followed a large group of his children into space. There were already many human settlements by then and of course he'd been to visit his young siblings before. Among them he was closest to New Berlin, a shy little planet-nation who looked a lot like grandfather Germania, Holstein II, a slightly scatterbrained spread-out settlement in a planetary ring system, and Marienthaler Station, whom Italy for some reason found unaccountably cute. Apparently the kid looked like someone Italy used to know. It had been easier to go visit his young siblings than to uproot himself, though not all nations had felt that way.
England was better known as the Royal Fleet Union these days. He had happily dumped the country in Wales's lap (much to Scotlands fury) and told his bosses that he’d never liked that European Union anyway, because anything that demanded him to be in a union with France could go bugger itself. Then England, laughing merrily and telling them all to come over for a cuppa if they got off this rock, set off for the unknown sea of stars with many of his more adventurous people. That one of the princes had led the charge probably made things simpler, though Ludwig has his doubts as to whether it was the prince or England's idea to increase their supplies by deep-space piracy. They’d mostly stopped with that now, officially, but there were still rumours about what happened if you took the wrong turn in a worm-hole and met a red-and-blue space ship where no-one was looking...
Or take Hong-Kong. That he had brought nearly all of many of his children and broken off from China again was perhaps not that surprising, but that he was the first to leave Earth?
Most of them, Germany included, would have guessed for America to be the first one to go, if any of them were to at all and not just send offspring. But though America had sent more kids and siblings out here than most of them, he had clung to Earth and his country with a surprising dedication. In the end, a teary-eyed America had only agreed to leave together with Canada when he realized that their remaining loyal people would starve to death otherwise. The brothers had headed to a planet officially called The Fiftyfirst State of the Re-United States of North America, but which everyone knew as Hero’s Harbour. After Earth became uninhabitable, it was the only place in the galaxy where you could still find maple suryp.
Germany had been one of the last of the nations to leave Earth behind. Only when pollution and lack of resources had finally become too much, he had followed a large group of his children into space. There were already many human settlements by then and of course he'd been to visit his young siblings before. Among them he was closest to New Berlin, a shy little planet-nation who looked a lot like grandfather Germania, Holstein II, a slightly scatterbrained spread-out settlement in a planetary ring system, and Marienthaler Station, whom Italy for some reason found unaccountably cute. Apparently the kid looked like someone Italy used to know. It had been easier to go visit his young siblings than to uproot himself, though not all nations had felt that way.
England was better known as the Royal Fleet Union these days. He had happily dumped the country in Wales's lap (much to Scotlands fury) and told his bosses that he’d never liked that European Union anyway, because anything that demanded him to be in a union with France could go bugger itself. Then England, laughing merrily and telling them all to come over for a cuppa if they got off this rock, set off for the unknown sea of stars with many of his more adventurous people.
That one of the princes had led the charge probably made things simpler, though Ludwig has his doubts as to whether it was the prince or England's idea to increase their supplies by deep-space piracy. They’d mostly stopped with that now, officially, but there were still rumours about what happened if you took the wrong turn in a worm-hole and met a red-and-blue space ship where no-one was looking...
Or take Hong-Kong. That he had brought nearly all of many of his children and broken off from China again was perhaps not that surprising, but that he was the first to leave Earth?
Most of them, Germany included, would have guessed for America to be the first one to go, if any of them were to at all and not just send offspring. But though America had sent more kids and siblings out here than most of them, he had clung to Earth and his country with a surprising dedication.
In the end, a teary-eyed America had only agreed to leave together with Canada when he realized that their remaining loyal people would starve to death otherwise. The brothers had headed to a planet officially called The Fiftyfirst State of the Re-United States of North America, but which everyone knew as Hero’s Harbour. After Earth became uninhabitable, it was the only place in the galaxy where you could still find maple suryp.
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