Passenger of Exodus 1, Earthborn

By some miracle, we've all made it here alive.

All 3,628 of us.

(counting the twenty-seven children born aboard.)

Four years gone, just like that.

So we're here now.

…

I don't know how much longer that fact will stay true, the staying-alive part.

And, not that it was designed to, but our ship- sweet Exodus- could never make it home. Earth.

This is home now.

The storms roll in more frequently now. We hope that it's just a season, monsoons or something, but no one knows.

They only observed KVY-09 long enough to know it had life like ours,

not long enough to track the weather of certain regions.

The council says that we will run out of Earthfood in a little under a month

so people have to start eating plants and the locals

and hoping that it will kill them quickly instead of the alternative.

…

Contact with Earth has been lost for over a year,

some people are trying to fix whatever wire snapped on the way here

or search for the lost signal.

I think it's no use,

we left for a reason,

no point lingering on the past for too long.

End of entry 49