Our primary initiator triggered the essential crews thaw upon arriving within 30,000 miles of Corlestans orbit. The blindness of deep sleep recedes and the numbness fades. 14 years I have been sleeping, genetically frozen and not aging as our vessel hurtled through darkness.
Scientific exploration for future interplanetary settlement was rapidly developing at the time of our departure from earth. Due to the impending environmental consequences in our trajectory, and advances in light speed travel, intergovernmental organizations began scanning for hospitable planets across the galaxy. I had my reasons for wanting to leave. 14 years of travel, 5 years of research and 14 years of travel back. By the time of our return to earth, everything would be different, but I had my reasons.
I believed Corlestan to be a relaxed and reliable choice - not too far, and a paradise planet from images captured on the modified JWST. As a seasoned ecologist, it was remarkably easy to gain a position in the crew of 18; all scientists of different specializations, chosen to properly survey the planets potential for large scale migration. We spent 2 years in intensive training together before the departure. My last day on earth was spent tying up loose ends. I had no one to say goodbye to anymore. Sad and embittered feelings came to the surface, but I had made a choice to turn my back on ‘what ifs’ long ago. My last memory on earth was between fluttering eyelids, The touch of a masked hand and bright lights as I was put to sleep.
Regaining my senses 14 years later, I see Corlestan - a circular vacuum of darkness - sitting in front of our vessel. I recognize the 7 moons, I know we are on course, but this is not the paradise I expected.
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Hey guys so I’m not really in the mood to finish this story, it’s my first time writing something like this, and it’s stressing me out a little, so I will just put bullet plot points to finish it <<3 Thanks for sticking with it this far.
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- landing on Corlestan, and it is a planet of jagged obsidian and sap like rivers that ooze. The air is acrid and coarse to the lungs.
- the crew is able to survive on the ingenious hydroponic gardens that are built in to the ship
- Stuck for 5 years before they are set to return, they make the most of it and try to understand the strange new world that defies their previous conceptions, but their readings are all over the place and make no sense. Tensions rise and factions emerge in the crew.
- During the training on earth the one big rule was that when crew members engaged in sexual relationships, they had to use ‘condoms’ or other forms of barrier ‘contraceptives’, because on another planet that was being studied, a baby had been born that took on the malevolent characteristics of the planet and ended up killing the entire scientific mission.
- After a heated argument, the main character Salmin breaks down. She can’t handle it anymore, the desolation, physical discomfort and the fighting on the station, which has begun to feel like a social minefield.
- Her best friend Dr. Pensyth, a geologist comforts her, and while he strokes her hair, she begins to have an awakening in her pussy.
- Crying in his arms, she shares with him that the reason she chose to leave earth was to finally close the door on a cruel partner who would emotionally torment her and make her feel worthless. She had no family left on earth, and she wanted to be as far away as possible.
- Salmin then confides that she thinks no one will ever desire her, because her self confidence in love is so low. Dr. Pensyth proceeds to kiss her forehead and further down until she has her first orgasm in 20 years.
- Flustered and confused, Salmin burries herself in her work again, avoiding Dr. Pensyth, but secretly wishes to be near him again and connect carnally.
- They talk again, and things become more intimate. Dr. Pensyth brings out a condom to take their relationship further, but Salmin point blank refuses, and says she will never have sex like that again, it was one of the ways her ex used to torment her, with the disgusting rubber restrictions. Dr. Pensyth is receptive, but ultimately feels concerned, as there are censors aboard the station which will alert the already factional crew if condomless sex takes place on board.
- It is revealed that Salmin has huge breasts.
- They carry on with life aboard the vessel, and at the 1 year mark of their expedition, Salmin puts on a party to try and reconnect the disparate and increasingly antagonistic scientists. They reminisce about earth, their families, the things they miss… differences are put aside and things feel better, even if just for a moment.
- overcome with an immense sense of loss about the time she wasted with her cruel ex, and never having a healthy relationship to sex, Salmin convinces Dr. Pensyth to brave Corlestan’s unsympathetic conditions in order to fuck raw outside the station.
- Leading Dr. Pensyth by the hand, naked, feet being cut by the sharp obsidian, Salmin brings him to the edge of one of the sap-like rivers where they fuck like crazy.
- Salmin embraces the difficulty breathing and pain of the world as some kind of purification ritual which allows her to move on from her old life, and enter into a new phase of authenticity and liberation. They cry out and orgasm at the same time.
- Joint, their fluid dribbles down Salmins legs onto the obsidian, then is picked up by the viscous river and flows away.
- they head to bed as everyone else is partying, and profess their love for one another.
- Narratively, we follow the trajectory of the shared fluid, as it makes its way through the rivers of Corlestan.
- In the morning when everyone wakes up, they see a paradise outside the space station. Bright blue rivers, dense green vegetation, the 7 moons circling above, and bird like animals flying through the sky. All are shocked
- a delegation of Corlestans make their way to the ship. The Corlestans have trunklike appendages on their faces, 4 limp arms and their body spreads out almost like a dress into a base that seems to glide over the ground.
- Through a form of telekinesis, they communicate that the union of life that was shared with the rivers through the passionate intercourse of Salmin and Dr. Pensyth was the fulfilment of a long held prophecy of their people, that outsiders would share their union with the rivers, and paradise would return to their planet, banishing the darkness that had dominated it for over a century.
- While the crew is shocked at the serious digression of Salmin and Dr. Pensyth, they rejoice at an end to the bitter existence they had eked out. The crew share with the Corlestan delegation their mission, and after a long and emotional discussion, the crew agree that the Corlestan paradise and people should remain undisturbed, and that they will go back to earth and declare Corlestan to be unsuitable for human habitation, showing the data from the first year in Corlestan as proof.
- 4 years later, and one month before departure, Salmin and Dr. Pensyth have had two children, human except for the trunk like appendage so characteristic of the Corlestan people. They are having condomless sex all the time, and can not get enough of each others sex.
- While the crew prepare to leave, Salmin and Dr. Pensyth have come to an agreement with the Corlestans that they will stay and raise their children in the Corlestan way, ushering in a new era of tranquility and peace on Corlestan.
- In the final scene, Salmin and Dr. Pensyth watch the ship leave for earth, with two seats left empty. Their children Bolnft and Venderaymn play on the river bank, clapping their hands and chasing Corlestan bugs. This is the only life those children have ever known. Dr. Pensyth puts his head in Salmins lap while she plays with his hair, and they are joined by 3 of their Corlestan friends. Salmin reflects on her transition from bitter to empowered, and on the transformative powers of unprotected union, both in a personal and macro sense.
