TheGardener
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Another story-world I'm trying out.
They had fled the disasters on earth, or rather their great-great-grandparents had. Some of those disasters natural, some civil. The Great Portal was the best option, the mars project was too expensive, the Portal mostly just manipulated the natural instabilities in the fine fabrics of space-time. Many didn't even get that option.
They were told that Great Portal would carry them far through space, to a new world. They were also told that it was safe, which fortunately turned out to be true, not that those who made such promises had mentioned testing it.
They had arrived in a strange place with giant plants, and slow giant animals. It was a while before they even started guessing what had happened and where they were, even once they started to half recognise some of the flora and fauna. It wasn't until halfway through the fourth slow year that they had mostly figured out the full story, that the Great Portal had transported them through time and had changed how they fit into both space and time. They had become smaller (approximately one third of original size as was later worked out) and passed through time faster (about twice as fast), hence everything else seemed both bigger and slower.
They had fled the disasters on earth, or rather their great-great-grandparents had. Some of those disasters natural, some civil. The Great Portal was the best option, the mars project was too expensive, the Portal mostly just manipulated the natural instabilities in the fine fabrics of space-time. Many didn't even get that option.
They were told that Great Portal would carry them far through space, to a new world. They were also told that it was safe, which fortunately turned out to be true, not that those who made such promises had mentioned testing it.
They had arrived in a strange place with giant plants, and slow giant animals. It was a while before they even started guessing what had happened and where they were, even once they started to half recognise some of the flora and fauna. It wasn't until halfway through the fourth slow year that they had mostly figured out the full story, that the Great Portal had transported them through time and had changed how they fit into both space and time. They had become smaller (approximately one third of original size as was later worked out) and passed through time faster (about twice as fast), hence everything else seemed both bigger and slower.