New Enceladus - chapter 7 - Sex Stories

New Enceladus - chapter 7

... entry, but we could at least recycle any metal parts that made it to the ground. I made a final inspection to be sure everybody and everything important was in the final lander. I was the last person off the ship, as I climbed into lander 4 and sealed the hatch.

Lander four came down safely, but inconveniently, in a pond. Apparently, the floating plants resembled flat ground covered with moss. Nobody was injured, and no damage was done. Unfortunately, we had to jump in the cold, waist-deep water, and carry things thirty meters to dry land. The builders were finishing a walkway to it as we saw the fireball of the Conestoga coming down.

The fireball was beautiful, but briefly filled me with dread. Whatever happened, we were stuck. There was no going back. I was in charge, but that also meant I was responsible for anything that went wrong. I put on a brave face to inspire the others.

I shouted to everyone, "We'll build a forge and workshop on top the hill over there. It'll be the first building in New Dallas. Let the Conestoga's fireball mark today in your memory! This is our first day on our new home! Let's work together and make it a happy one!"

Our first priorities were water, then tools to let us produce everything else. Next would be food and shelter.

Each lander already had a water treatment system, which only took an hour to set up. They also had a small reactor, which could supply a few hundred people with electric power for a decade. We'd need to come ...

... up with another power supply by then, or make do without.

We cleared and planted enough farmland in the first three weeks to feed us once our crops matured. Everyone who wasn't making tools or building homes helped out with the farming, even scientists and engineers. Each settlement had two small electric tractors, which made things much easier than they could have been.

The lander had space in it for a third of us to sleep at a time, so we slept in shifts the first week, until several homes had been built. We had all the necessities constructed and prepared after two months. A barn and chicken coops were built, and pastures were fenced in. The lander was converted into a medical clinic.

We gathered our first chicken eggs after three months, and they and the native fish we learned were edible were a nice protein addition. After five months, we were able to add chicken to one of our meals each day.

I wanted to hold off on allowing pregnancies until we had milk and pork in production, but people weren't willing to wait. By the fifth month, we already had six 'purples' due to disallowed pregnancies, and one woman had even given birth. The Agriculture department assured me we would have goat milk in three months and pork production in two more, so I made the big announcement.

"Today is a great day in New Dallas. Currently none of us are allowed to produce any children, and all our families are on this list. I’ll be removing two families from the list every week, so ...