PROLOGUE

The earth was crumbling. Mankind had destroyed the balance of the planet ever since the industrial revolution began, leaving the greens to decay. Their selfishness propelled it further and segregated themselves from each other for the difference of their skin colour. Climate change had not been addressed by countries that heavily relied on capitalism, accumulating power little by little by exploiting on the labour of common men. It was already 2020, yet the progress of humankind was little to none.

Twenty-three-year-old Dr Antra Nguyen had enough. She could not stand and look at the atrocities done to the masses, the horrifying mass killings, the racism, the homophobia, the xenophobia, and the persecution of people who lived a different truth. After multiple trial-and-errors, she perfectly built a bullet spaceship, obtained samples of the earth's physical attributes, and sent the spaceship to a coordinate where a star could sustain the same energy as the sun.

The documents of cloning planets were ancient, written way back in the 1950s. The second world war had subsided between the Axis Powers and Allies, the documents almost perished during the war. Antra's grandmother was able to save the documents, and was then passed down to her when she was still a high school student.

She did not understand what the documents meant, but she felt they were of great importance in the future. And the future was now, when China was waging war against the United States, with an enormous possibility that would spark World War III.

Thirty years later, Antra's experiment became successful—possible—ignoring the disobedience to the second law of thermodynamics. The planet which was two million light years away was added to a small solar system, and it was named Vector-001, upon her insistence. Her experiment went international, ignoring the fact she could be arrested for illegally sending a ship outside the planet. But which would they choose? A dying unsustainable planet or the newly created planet that could give hope for a new life, and a new beginning?

The government and international organisations did not arrest Antra, instead they gathered volunteers to live in the planet Vector-001. But the volunteers all died. That was when Antra was arrested, and all her researches were taken away from her. She was sentenced to life imprisonment in the worst prison cells of her homeland Vietnam, while her research was snatched by her ex-partner's hands.

Antra died at the age of seventy-nine, a day after her birthday. But cloning planets went on, to find the perfect formula identical to that of the planet earth. Her ex-partner, Victor, became more powerful.

It was only the beginning.


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