September 2nd,1992(earth time)-
You're propably wondering why highly evolved,intelligent creatures such as us martians who passess FTL technology live in burrows...Well,truth is,i lived on the outskirts of one of the great martian empire's largest cities,situated next to olympus mons(a mountain three times the height of mount everest);The distant skyline crammed with sky-scrapers.I got out of the city to escape the congestion.I woke up the next morning to the loud and inecessicent beeping of the alarm.I yawned,my many tubes undulating.after a quick repast,i hurried to check on the previous night's experiment.As i approached the adjacent burrow,my hearts beat with anticipation;And i dared not hope that it would have worked.
I squeezed through the force field without waiting for it to completely dissolve.My skin stung,but i ignored it and kept going...At the end of the dimly lit tunnel,my ship sat waiting for me.As i approached the rusty saucer shaped vehicle,i gasped in astonishment.The power gauge embedded in the hull was full and what's more,it was green(we have 5 colours on power gauges which indicate the power level of the particular piece of equipment,green was the highest).That was possible only in ships which use dark matter power sources,combined with engines that we spend entire lifetimes fine tuning.
Ever since we first made contact with species from other planets,i had always cherished a desire to visit an alien planet.And now,with
this ship i might finally be able to achive.I squealed,clicked and created such an uproar that i was surprised that nobody came to investigate.
Then,all of a sudden,a stray thought popped the bubble of joy in me(literally).
What about the others???Wouldn't they take it away for "the greater good"?I decided right then that i would tell absolutely nobody...this was simply too important and i had waited for too long for something like this to waste such an opportunity.I decided to test drive my craft straight away.Rushing back to my burrow,i grabbed the card key and zipped back to the ship.Swiping the card across the outdated card reader,i hopped in as the glass dome lifted with a hiss and then,solidifying myself,i secured myself to the moulded seat by means of a series of force fields.
I typed in the flight commands and programmed the path for the flight and with a shiver of exictement,confirmed them with a final push of the button.
(For crying out loud!!!What do you earthlings want in return for a few freakin' comments???)