ONE YEAR TO ALPHA
A Space Opera Monologue
Henry N. Silva
Monthly Journal, January Entry:
Just moved back to Mars. Wasn’t happy on Titan anymore anyways. Not enough room there, and seeing Saturn in the sky gets old after awhile…
The Solar Government just announced a new colonization program. They wanna freeze thousands of people and ship them off to the Alpha-Centauri star system. 100-year trip. No coming back…
The boss says he thinks a bunch of people who volunteer are gonna try to get away with murder here, and then take off to Alpha before they can get caught. He thinks crime’s about to go up a whole bunch on every rock from Earth to Pluto…
The ship to Alpha launches in exactly one year from now. On a side note, it’s weird how we still use Earth’s calendar, even though most people don’t even live there anymore, but I don’t make the rules…
Boss says we gotta try to solve as many cases as possible over this next year. I asked him how he thinks we’re supposed to catch most of them… He says we won’t…
-Detective Bill Axon, Year 3009
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