Moon Colony #7
Fortunately, destiny intervened for the Malcons. During the last of their many conjugal visits, the Malcon’s conceived what was to soon become little Everet Malcon the tenth. With Izzy now just into her second trimester and Freddy with very little hope of finding a job ever again on earth, destiny intervened for this young family. There was a government program that was recruiting smart, “reformed” yet stigmatised “lesser crimes” ex-convicts (those professing both good skills and good degrees) to begin life anew on the recently opened lunar colony #7. Freddy and Izzy decided they had nothing to lose. They signed up to live on the moon and opened their new vision enhancement research centre in a Lunar market as yet untouched by franchising fanatics.
Yes, destiny had called them to this outpost. After what the Earth’s legal system had put them through, they felt like they belonged here on the moon. The Lunar colony was a rugged place where, over the past twenty years since it’s inception, when the opening-day tape was cut in the main dome of sector one, by United Earth Nations (UEN) Secretary Janetary X-Bush, (George Dubya Bush’s granddaughter), colonists understood what it took to make life work on the moon. Colony #7 was not considerably big – a population of 7777, but it was the biggest of the seven colonies now existing on the moon. Lunar Colony #1 had a population of 1,111 people, Colony #2 – a population of 2222, colony #3 had 3333 people, etc. Astrologists and Numerologists on Earth made attempted to “metaphysicalize” the symmetrical nature and patterns of the Lunar colony numbers but the fact remained that the repeated numbers for each colony were decided upon primarily for practical reasons by JPL and NASA in the early planning stages of the Lunar Colony and they “stuck”, simply. For one thing, the numbers were easy to remember. Two it gave NASA Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), engineers a convenient benchmark to work from when determining the amount of earth atmosphere that needed to be sustained at any given point in time in any of the colonies. This pattern was deliberately continued all the way up to Colony #7 and the numbers of people in the colony were strictly controlled people leaving were replaced by new colonists. If two or three new babies arrived in the colony, the population was informed immediately and two or three people were mandated (given the opportunity) to move to another colony where a spot in the population needed filling. If no one came forward voluntarily, the colony’s governing body decided who would leave. This type of move was generally well accepted even by the people chosen to move. First of all, babies need less air than adults so it was common practise to allow the exiting people several months to decide when and where to make their move. Secondly there was at least some choice of where to move. Whether they would move to one of the other colonies or back to earth or on to the far more hazardous arduous infant colony on Mars, they had several months to decide.
It was a requirement that took into account the cost of earth atmospheric generation on a per person basis. Especially in the stark budget years, the result of a major political transition on earth, wherein nations began to trade in their national leadership structures for a place in the corporate structure of leadership offered by the ever expanding, increasingly domineering, yet seemingly very necessary UEN.
Yes, destiny had called them to this outpost. After what the Earth’s legal system had put them through, they felt like they belonged here on the moon. The Lunar colony was a rugged place where, over the past twenty years since it’s inception, when the opening-day tape was cut in the main dome of sector one, by United Earth Nations (UEN) Secretary Janetary X-Bush, (George Dubya Bush’s granddaughter), colonists understood what it took to make life work on the moon. Colony #7 was not considerably big – a population of 7777, but it was the biggest of the seven colonies now existing on the moon. Lunar Colony #1 had a population of 1,111 people, Colony #2 – a population of 2222, colony #3 had 3333 people, etc. Astrologists and Numerologists on Earth made attempted to “metaphysicalize” the symmetrical nature and patterns of the Lunar colony numbers but the fact remained that the repeated numbers for each colony were decided upon primarily for practical reasons by JPL and NASA in the early planning stages of the Lunar Colony and they “stuck”, simply. For one thing, the numbers were easy to remember. Two it gave NASA Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), engineers a convenient benchmark to work from when determining the amount of earth atmosphere that needed to be sustained at any given point in time in any of the colonies. This pattern was deliberately continued all the way up to Colony #7 and the numbers of people in the colony were strictly controlled people leaving were replaced by new colonists. If two or three new babies arrived in the colony, the population was informed immediately and two or three people were mandated (given the opportunity) to move to another colony where a spot in the population needed filling. If no one came forward voluntarily, the colony’s governing body decided who would leave. This type of move was generally well accepted even by the people chosen to move. First of all, babies need less air than adults so it was common practise to allow the exiting people several months to decide when and where to make their move. Secondly there was at least some choice of where to move. Whether they would move to one of the other colonies or back to earth or on to the far more hazardous arduous infant colony on Mars, they had several months to decide.
It was a requirement that took into account the cost of earth atmospheric generation on a per person basis. Especially in the stark budget years, the result of a major political transition on earth, wherein nations began to trade in their national leadership structures for a place in the corporate structure of leadership offered by the ever expanding, increasingly domineering, yet seemingly very necessary UEN.
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