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The Story of Grunz

New Grunz
25-05-2005, 22:16
The story of Grunz.

2,000 years before present. A colonization fleet headed out of Earths orbit. Their destination was AS-9234 IV. The commanding captain was Captain Felix Grunz. At the time warp space hadn’t yet been discovered so the population had to be kept in suspended animation for 800 years. For 800 years everyone slept. When they arose they found the world to be a very different place. The ships computer which received news from Earth constantly had recorded that the world they were traveling and colonizing for had broke into several thousand nation states. Discouraged and without a country to claim the AS-9234 IV for the crew of the fleet decided to create their own nation. They named the planet and the nation after their captain, Grunz.

Grunz, was a nice planet. Temperate climates throughout most of the year, abundant wildlife and a stable system ensured that there wasn’t going to be any mass extinctions on Grunz soon. They formed several communities throughout Grunz and within 500 years the population of Grunz was booming, the economy was good and the people were happy. The planet-nation had met several other space faring nations and had good relations with them. Grunz soon was building starships of its own. But that’s when they came.

Out of nowhere an army came out from space into New Grunz space. It appeared so suddenly that the defensive space-stations didn’t even have time to lock on before they were destroyed by a barrage of energy. The ghost ships then released many smaller ships. These smaller ships flew faster than any jet could. They flew over the cities and released a eerie blue fire from their ‘mouths’ to burn the cities. They did this everywhere. They burned the cities, the farms, children, dogs, everything. An evacuation was ordered but it did little. Only a few ships remained operational. The few that got away and avoided detection saw their planet on fire silhouetting the huge ships. Then the planet disappeared. Grunz disappeared into nowhere. It just went away. Every shred of it having ever been there was now on the ships. After Grunz disappeared the ghost ships left. Never to be seen again.

Out of the 500 million people on Grunz only 50,000 got off in the ships. The Grunzian people elected John Hapsburg as the new president. He decided the only way to survive was to find a niche. He chose the nebula. The Starfleet searched for years for an unclaimed nebula. When they found one they named it after the captain, Hapsburg. In the Hapsburg nebula they traded some of their cruisers for equipment. With this equipment they could harvest the raw materials from the nebula and turn it into manufactured goods. They built new and better equipment, extensions onto the ships to support the population and fuel stations to sell and trade fuel to passing by ships. Soon though the population couldn’t live in the century old ships alone. That prompted the building of the first Deep Space Nebula Mining City or DESNEMC. The city was a marvel. One city could hold a million people comfortably and also enough food and water for five years and grow enough crops for all its population. The first DESNEMC was named New Grunz and that’s why the Nation of Grunz became the Nation of New Grunz. In present day there are a million DESNEMCs scattered in nebulae around the galaxy and New Grunz is stronger than ever.