Science Fiction

The evacuation, chapter 2.
They arrived at the front entrance of Vanderberg Air Base, and it was chaos, which my great great grandfather expected. The news had gotten out, and people were desperate to get to the launch pads and the rockets that were ready to launch. He drove past the gate manned by marines on sentry duty screening all the people, and made his way to the secluded side entrance, where he was stopped by a space force guardian, and an old old comrade he had served with when he was stationed there. He mentioned the base commander’s name, and he was let in and escorted to his office. Once in front of him, he discussed what he could bring to the mission the commander was tasked with, and he and my great great grandmother were put on the huge Falcon rocket which was being boarded right then. An emergency launch. The packets of seeds, soil and fertilizer were loaded with him. He was tasked with being a farmer At the final destination. He didn’t know yet where they were headed, but assumed it was the moon. The base commander had briefed him the the entire leadership, the president, vice president, the cabinet, had already evacuated to the moon where they would form a government to run the Luna colony. In fact, 5 rockets had launched already from Cape Canaveral, and several private rockets had left from space ports all over the country. There were none left. This Falcon rocket was the last one left. The base commander informed him that the Indian government had evacuated to mars, to their colony, along with as many citizens qualified to start a colony, farmers, engineers, computer engineers, doctors. So had the European space agency launched 8 rockets with all the leadership of every member countries. Russia had evacuated its leadership, also to their colony on the moon, and China had evacuated its leadership to its 3 space stations orbiting the earth. A report came in that Brazil had just launched their sole rocket, no further details given. Then my great great grandfathers rocket took off, and he never came back.
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