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reached out, the flames licking the surface of the moon, the shock wave knocked the moon out of its orbit, it eventually stopped and was dragged back towards the sun for picking up speed. This changed the orbit of the moon to a highly eccentric one. At its perigee it was dangerously close to the sun and at its apogee the moon reached the orbit plane of the earth. This was a dangerous predicament for the drozen as it might collide with Venus or Mercury. Though the most likely collision course the moon had was with the earth and it was on the fourteenth orbit when the earth and the moon were to meet. The now charred, dry, featureless moon was nearing its furthest point from the sun at speeds so slow that it might as well have been at a standstill. When the earth approached; the moon did not fall back towards the sun, instead it followed the earth along it's orbit around the sun. No collision ever took place.
The earth, as all the other planets were, affected by the increased output of the suns heat. Before sun-giver collided with the sun, earth's surface was mostly ice only having liquid at the equator areas. Afterwards most of the planet had liquid water on the surface and the atmosphere created with the extra heat was able to contain these conditions. It was still too cold though for the drozen to be interested in colonising the planet.
Unknown to the drozen, Mars had also been quite dramatically affected. The warming up of the planet had caused much of the ice below the surface to melt and due to pressures, surge towards the surface. However it was short lived, when the extra heat went away Mars hadn't been able to form a thick enough atmosphere. The water that hadn't evaporated froze once again and Mars was once again back where it was, uninhabitable.
As for the drozen they all survived, even those on Mercury who weren't too old eventually managed to get to Venus. On their new planet they did nothing but thrive. The rich planet gave them everything they needed to fulfil their desires. The wise men formed a committee that was intent on surviving and exploring the universe. With the high threat of meteorites, they made a device that would create a force field on the area of impact. A beam of electricity would excite electrons in the upper atmosphere to a point of frenzy. The device was automatic, firing a stronger beam for larger meteorites. It had the ability to break down meteors fifty miles in diameter.
After homes had been built and lives returned to normal, the desire to travel the stars was once again resumed. Though now it was much harder as Venus was so much bigger. Another problem was that as Venus was the only real habitable planet there was nowhere else to go. The ones who had stayed on Mercury during the collision didn't think Mercury would ever be the same again and couldn't see that anyone would want to live there.
The wise men announced all efforts should go towards finding a new way to travel outer space. While the theologists were coming up with an idea on how to travel, the mechanics were urged to improve upon the rockets they would travel in.
The drozen had been ingenious before and this time the answers that came forth would solve the problems of space travel for a long time to come. Theologists had hinted to the mechanics of a possibility for using beams from the sun to transport biological matter. This came as quite a surprise to the drozen but their ability to adapt enabled them to grasp the task at hand and came up with a brilliant solution. They were able to in affect grow engine and body parts that were just as strong as the metals they had used before. There were of course problems along the way but after a few failed attempts crafts were made that could fly around the planet with ease. Due to the hint from the theologists and them continuing to say it was looking more and more likely; the classical rocket shape was exchanged for a more manoeuvrable craft.
The day came for the theologists to announce that their method of space travel had been
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