The Old Wheel Turning

Chapter One
Work in Progress

Mars was worried about home, the war on the front was startlingly
unpredictable; the fighting would not stay at ground zero for too long,
no, before long the war was going to spill into either England or
France

Jossy Mars was a G.O.D (Geographical Order Developer) and he was
working on the project titled Earth 2, Man has long discovered the
secrets of creation and now understood everything is fundamentally the
same once you got to the tiniest of its make up, meaning creating an
entire planet was just as easy as making a piece of bread, Man now
seemed to be able to do all it had once dreamed of, to have everything
it ever wanted and they had now created an entire planet to house it
increasingly growing population.

Mars (He was always called by his surname) was part a team of
scientists that was testing to see if this new grown world was suitable
and stable, he was responsible for the design of the landscape that he
himself had modelled on the original Earth though Earth 2 was three
times larger than its mother planet.

Mars was also responsible for the test humans that had been placed on
the new world, guinea pigs to see how they were taking to the land
around them. The humans were stock grown; they were set free and looked
after like pets, Mars and the other scientists watched to see how they
reacted physically to the planets atmosphere. The test subject's
intelligence had been lessened so that they didn't rise up against
their super-brained superiors

Each morning Mars would fly down to area code 51 to be greeted by his
subjects; he would make sure they were well feed well since no greenery
or live stock was due to be attached to Earth 2 for a few weeks yet.
Though the men and women Mars looked after were not as smart as himself
they were not at all stupid, they were intelligent and smart enough to
know not to bite the hand that feed them. Each morning they greeted him
they already showed signs of quick brain growth, they would grunt what
they had started to express as language and signalled to learn who he
was.

Mars came to love his little people and was happy to learn the new
world was treating them well. Some mornings when his fondness for the
small people really touched him deep inside, when their kindness gave
him hope for Mankind he would sit and gather them, as a teacher would
his class and tell them stories. He told them he was a G.O.D and the
more he spoke and feed them the more loved he was and felt, each
morning when he arrived they would come out quicker with each passing
day and greet him though sometimes he had felt a bit concerned they
were starting to worship him.

However, this particular cloudy evening Mars was not feeling too
cheerful and sat down looking emotional, as usual he was greeted with
affection and wonder by his subjects, one in particular stroked his
face to cheer him up

Mars laughed, "I'm okay Daisy, just home again giving me stress"

Of course this young woman had not yet been taught his own complex
language and so just looked on in perplexity as her apparent master
frown turn so quickly into a humorous smile

"Well you see I come from far away" with this he looked to the sky,
causing Daisy to follow his glance and point skyward

"Yes that's right from up there, from what you can see at night high up
in the the heavens, your big white light. Well me dear its not too good
there at the moment, the wars of yester years have had its effect and
there not going away" Mars sighed with the weight of his worries
heavily weighed on his shoulders "perhaps this world will bring us new
hope"

As he looked up and glared at mother Earth staring back at him with its
cold frosty surface, a single tear ran his cheek. Now Daisy understood
emotions and did all she knew how to help him feel some better. She
hugged him. Mars received the hug and embraced his wonderful little
subject back and sobbed.

Stressing Jossy Mars so much was the first war to plague Earth in over
five hundred years and it was a direct result of the last Great War,
War 69. The previous conflict had ended in all the worst and most
powerful weapons man could muster, they had thrown everything that they
could at each other and damn nearly destroyed every last thing on the
planet. When the last drop of spilt blood had splashed down the sky was
grey and the mist was growing thicker and larger slightly more every
day. By the time Mars was born the world was covered in a black cloud
doing as it was designed to do, destroying the land it glided over. The
war had ended before it was put into full use but once it was in the
sky it could not be entirely removed, it had become apart of the world,
a weapon born from a lust of madness, a lust that did not think of the
consequences and so the weapon did as intended slowly but deadly.

Earth became a very cold place and most of the land became covered in
ice. The population was at peace with each other but not with the
world, Earth was fighting back and it wanted rid of its nasty little
disease. Western Europe was all that was inhabitable on Earth now and
every last piece of land was invaluable. This is where the problems
began.

The sea that divided England and France had receded back into the icing
lands of the North, new land was now available and England and France
both laid claim to it, they were not willingly to share. At the start
of the conflict Earth 2 was just a dream and by the time it was a
reality the war had become a matter of national pride.