Story prompts with the tag “colonization”
Teenage girls sent on mankind's first attempt to colonize another planet
After discovering a 'nearby' habitable planet, mankind makes its first attempt to colonize another planet. Near lightspeed travel means that the first settlers can get there in under 20 years. But, resource limitations means that only a small group of settlers can be sent, and there is no chance of a return trip.
In order to colonize the planet, they need to maximize the number of women on the trip. In addition, the women need to still be fertile after the 20 years of travel plus the time it takes to establish a stable base of operations on the new planet.
After much debate, it is decided to send a team consisting entirely of highly gifted, young teenage girls. During the 20 year journey they will study and train for the required skills they will need for survival. If they succeed in creating a livable space on the new planet, they will then breed though artificial insemination, and become the mother's of a new earth.
But, long before they reach the planet tr...
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