Science Fiction:Colony Survey Review Report

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Colony Survey Review Report

from the book: Life Will Get You in the End:
Short stories by David Satterlee

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Life Will Get You in the End:
Short Stories by David Satterlee

Hard (I mean really hard) science fiction. What if the development of humans, and our planet, was being intensely observed and regularly adjusted by aliens? What changes would be in our greatest common good? What would the progress report to senior managers look like? 

Colony Survey Review Report:

Sequence = 4116825935-SR
Authorization Request - Primary Summary

Reference Taxonomy:

Supercluster: Dagmark 43K03
Galaxy Cluster: 00012-53977
Galaxy: 00000-04651
Segment: Cantamar arm
Star: 00343-75197/”Sol” (archaic)
Colony: Gamma3/”Earth” (archaic)

Report Status:

Submitted to first available Class-4 Stochastic MentaCluster for actionable directives. All extant data cores of previous surveillance and intervention initiatives are incorporated.

Intervention Urgency:

This report contains strategic and tactical elements with high temporal urgency. Our model indicates that the colony is:
***AT RISK***

Ecological Sustainability ES-50 score = 3.7 PSG (Primary Sentient Generations)

Cultural Development Index = 3.5 [Note: This is a calculated mean and reflects instability, rapid transition, and an exceptionally wide-spread and dense mix.]

Colony Status

Aquatic and surface reserve secondary sentient species remain inhibited by manipulative capacity and forebrain development. 

Rapid and uneven cultural and technical development of the Primary Sentient Species has exceeded expectations and is threatening ecological stability, principally through inter- and intra-cultural conflicts, as well as unexpectedly high demands for geological hydrocarbon and other environmental reserves.

Recommendations

1. Although at risk, this colony is

Story: Starting a New Career

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Starting a New Career

from the book: Life Will Get You in the End:
Short stories by David Satterlee

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Short Stories by David Satterlee

All he wanted to do was go to the bathroom without disturbing anybody. 

Starting a New Career

A Fergus Johnson story of gender relations

Fergus and his wife Dorothy are middle-aged. Actually, they are just past middle-aged in that wonderland of freedom and possibility that exists while there is still ambition and the potential for growth but, at the same time, insipient mortality is a boil on the ass that prevents one from sitting idle. Dorothy is retiring early as a social worker and Fergus is disabled. Hard lives are threatening to get harder, but they have plans to do creative work together. 

Fergus wakes with a mild surge of adrenaline, which, even when mild, is disturbing. Suddenly awake, he mentally reconnects with his ears, takes an inventory of the little noises around him, scans the dimly lit ceiling for a few moments and finally, beginning to relax, he glances at the clock. It is 3:38 am and he