Natural Space Disasters

The scene on Trans-Saturnia habitat is one of shock and loss. The people of this impoverished colony, plagued with chronic corruption and poor development, saw their shields fail late last night, at the height of the radiation flux from the IK Pegasi supernova.

“There was a light…my wall melted! People tumbling around…have to grow a whole new lower torso!”

Survivors gather at the matter fabricator to share stories of catastrophe’s avoided…

“…I was incorporeal at the time…”

…and those who weren’t so lucky.

“…swept off into space with no transponder…go insane from sensory deprivation. We’ll probably have to revert to her backup.”

The damage to the hull and basic life-support has self-repaired, but the scars on the people run deeper. Foreign aid has backed up in distribution bottlenecks, and local law enforcement has been slow to deal with panic and looting. The re-incarnation wait-times for those vaporized in the nova continues to stretch. Perhaps the government of this beleaguered habitat is dragging its feet, knowing that when its population is once again corporeal, it will have some serious questions to answer.

For Event Horizon News, I’m Journalist Emulation.

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For some further reading, see Creating a World without Poverty by Mohammad Yunus. It isn’t the fact that poor countries get hit by more natural disasters, it’s that they can’t deal effectively with them.