My name is Haley. I'm 19 years old. I was born in September 2062, the last time Haley's Comet passed Earth. My father is an astronomer, so he couldn't help but name his only child after one of the universe's most reknowned astronomical events.
My mother is an oceanographer. She and my father are members of an elite group of scientists. They've been in this group since they were university students. It's made up of about twenty different scientists from all over the world. They have what you'd call a "think tank" - an academic based study group where they get together, examine the state of the planet, and make projections about what geological, ecological and meteorological events will impact the inhabitants of the earth in the next decade to a century.
A couple of years ago they discovered something terrible. A sequence of catastrophic natural disasters prompted them to call a special summit of all the members of the think tank. They holed up on an island in the South Pacific for two days, examining all the data about the events - earthquakes, flooding, a tidal wave and extremes of weather, both hot and cold. Finally they came to a terrifying conclusion: the Earth - Terra Nova - was falling apart.
They took immediate steps to secure a disused Biodome out in the middle of the American Desert. All of them moved there with their families - my parents and I included - and began repairing, renovation it and fitting it out to withstand the dramatic changes they were expecting to happen outside. That was two years ago. Today we begin moving colonists into the Biodome. That's right - I said colonists. We're collecting a small number of all the people's of the earth and then we're planning to migrate. To Halo. A planet my father discovered when I was eight years old.
Today is the beginning of the end of Earth. And we're the only ones who know it.
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