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The colony was travelling in space for the last century and half. They started their journey from a planet that was no longer livable. There were legends that at one time, many millennia ago, the world was a beautiful place. There were free air, fresh water and people lived in harmony. Trill did not believe those legends. She thought those were stories invented by people who wanted to escape from the reality of the harsh truth, which was, Earth, their home-world, was never a nice place to live in. They had to live underground with the help of technology to pump air and supply water. Even then they had to wear masks and very limited contact with others, on account of viruses that ravaged the world. They lived on nutrition capsules and thorough recycling of every possible element of the society. Trill never saw that herself but she heard from others. In fact, just the other day, one of her coworkers at the astronomical observatory mentioned a story he heard about how their colony is very