Good Morning Earth
Ross Dale Kelly


“Attention world” the news read: “please turn to your nearest monitor or speaker, and listen to this update of shocking news. There is a satellite in the sky, soon to be visible by the naked eye. It is nearly identical to the image of a planet in the sky, and will be entering close proximity with our planet Earth.”

The United World government was on high alert. They had received transmission from a shuttle of which little was known. Most of what was known was through telescopes and the eye as it was scanned in the sky from earth, showing a brightly colored ball moving toward the planet. From the knowledgeable perspective, it was an extravagant cloud of smaller pieces banded together into a near planet, which was composed as an entire space colony.

The UW government command center was awaiting orders on the radio with the specialists who designed and were in control of the project, Mercury: the project which was in the sky. The designers of this project were highly regarded professional scientists, who had designed this large ship coming into the view of the Earth sky.

As the commander of the UW government okayed an entrance into the earth orbit he listened to receive more details on the craft, knowing it to be friendly and inbound into the Earth sky. He was receiving orders from the top level of the United World Secret Operations committee, generally directed by two key scientists.

Project Mercury was visible as a small globe in the skies over certain parts of the globe. It was marvelously green, with forests and oceans, and even a particular desert in a large cannon stretching across seas of sand. It seemed to be spinning close to Earth, in its own orbit around the sun, nearly identical, but was changing direction into a course to circle earth. It was hiding in the shadows of Earth as it came into orbit.

The people of Earth looked up with awe during this particular day in the year two thousand twenty. The sky had inherited another satellite as the moon shimmered with the reflected colors from the surface of this small planet which shared relative size, named by code, Mercury. It was a delightful sight for most in the sky, with the people unable to distrust something that was so clearly a safe haven intended to sustain life. The planet probably had much in common, with similar life to that of the life on Earth. It appeared to be about the size of the moon as it entered in orbit around Earth.

To behold an oddly shaped globe moving with grace just out of reach of those on Earth, settling in a lofty orbit high above the thickly layered atmosphere of Earth was entrancing to most. Never before was such an intricate space station of such kinds seen in the skies of the Earth.

The excitement was quelled and then directed to the news, quiet with word on the profound sight in the sky. It was displayed over the radio and TV stations with confusion that the apparent ship had come through a black hole in a neighboring galaxy. It had been moving at speeds passed the speed of light from other reaches of the galaxy, transported here instantly. The colony as it was called was apparently from Earth in origin, although no one except top level intelligence had known about it.

All that was said was that ten years ago, it had left our solar system as a craft with tremendous proportion, and now after spinning through the galaxy, it was back, aging nearly a thousand years in its speed, returning just now, surprising even the scientists who had let the craft go in the first place.