ORIGIN STORY
The discovery of Trappist-1e was revealed on February 22nd 2017. The announcement was met with an initial burst of excitement by the general public, which quickly dwindled. With a distance of 40 light-years away, the chances of exploration in the near future were slim to none.
Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech
Dr. Sandra Dono began her research in 2026. While a grad student at MIT, she gained entrance into the elite Marsboreal Greenhouse project, which after starting in 2019, had grown to become the preeminent post-grad program for anyone interested in contributing to the Outlive Earth Movement (OEM).
The OEM dramatically increased in popularity in 2028 with the election of President Eliza Sonders-Rolins. Despite President ESR’s best efforts, the “war” against climate change had taken a dark turn in 2030, leading to unfathomable planetary changes. Those who associated themselves with the OEM were dedicated to ensuring that even if the human race itself perished, the collective learning and knowledge that had been created over millennia wouldn’t be lost.
Dr. Dono had initially focused on understanding collective conscious transfer. When breakthroughs in organic material re-generation became commonplace, she realized that the applications of her dissertation research could be re-applied to enable extreme generative growth, effectively combining conscious mind transfer with vestigial embryonic development.
As the Earth deteriorated, efforts accelerated within the OEM to replicate the human soul, the undefinable characteristic of what separates us from other mammals. Dr. Dono spearheaded this effort, working tirelessly to absorb all of what it meant to be human and process it through the best collaborative thinking in generations in order to create a binary representation of humankind.
By 2040, the technology to launch an interstellar lightonium rocket had been established, and the OEM decided to send 1,000 pre-embryonic self-opening undefined live sentients (S.O.U.L.S.) via a SpaceX payload to Trappist-1e, which was renamed Galeria in 2031.
After landing on Galeria, the SOULS would spend 40 years developing in their capsules from Dr. Dono’s re-search, individualistically growing into their own sentient, human-like organic beings. This genesis group would provide the foundational layer to re-creating the most idealistic aspects of what humanity had established prior to its destruction.
The SOULS sent to Galeria, while organically created beings, needed to be designed and adapted to survive the more extreme conditions compared to Earth. The project’s scientists spent five years understanding the differences in Galeria’s atmosphere, topography, and composition to create genetic formulas that would produce more extreme physical traits. The traits would help the SOULS navigate the more inhospitable oceans, mountains, and deserts of Galeria.
Each SOUL was also injected with the best of humanity, from music to art to athletics and more. However, as individuals, the genesis SOULS of Galeria could only grow so far. To flourish, they needed to find their MATES (matching algorithm to ensure survivability) and begin to populate Galeria. Each match would be facilitated by Dr. Dono’s research of what type of pairings would ensure long-term physical and relationship survivability to build and stabilize the new society for future generations.
A perfect, predestined by the universe match would unlock, accelerate, and establish the best of what it meant to be human in the new alien yet Earth-like inhabitance of Galeria.
The OEM was determined to set the SOULS up for success and avoid repeating the disastrous irrational decision making that had befallen humans and led to the earth’s destruction.
They recruited some of the last remaining scientists, thinkers, and creatives on Earth to undertake Dr. Dono’s conscious transfer. This allowed their knowledge to be preserved via a custom automated distributed vision-ary information system (A.D.V.I.S.), which could be queried on-demand by the SOULS as they sought their MATES and created the first generation of Galerians.
Six of these ADVIS members decided to make the trip to Galeria to help the SOULS establish themselves, a courageous and final last act.
SOULMATES begins as ADVIS lands on Galeria in 2080…
