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Let us return to the Forest of the Future, shall we?

It has been forty years since the dawn of the new millennium.

The sweltering summers and harsh winters around the world have almost become unbearable, yet so persists denial of climate change and the human effect on the environment despite evidence to the contrary. The world soldiers on as best as it can in the shadow of growing unemployment, health, environmental, and fiscal issues that are largely ignored by big name corporations and government lobbyists. Current World Leaders grow concerned that despite recent attempts to rectify years of environmental damage that there is nothing much they can do but remain frogs in boiling water until eventually the heat kills them off. Some governments look to the stars, but after several fiscal and political crises, it proves to still be a hard task to accelerate the sustainability of Mars.

Many find it ironic that we, as humans, continue to try to make a colony on Mars happen. But perhaps, it is within that pipe dream that finally reached out to the greater universe for help; and for once it seems that the universe has actually responded.

When a signal came in from deep space, NASA and other contemporaries of astronomic study were surprised. They were stunned when a interstellar starship entered Earth’s Solar System and descended into Earth’s orbit no more than six earth days after the initial broadcast. First Contact had finally happened; first contact with a spacefaring species from the greater cosmos. The United Nations immediately held a summit televised in every language on the planet. These aliens had no come as conquerors, and while cautious, offered a hand to the world at large. They were here to help, though their outreach came with a price. They could not save Earth, but they could bridge the gap to preserve humanity—or so they said.

To preserve humanity meant great things. They said they would return to Earth in thirty days if the people of Earth accepted their offer. But they noted very carefully that not every man, woman, and child would make it into such a relocation process. If that price was too much and the governments of Earth said no, they would leave them to their own devices. It would, in turn, cause a large and panicked conversation. A conversation that took the full weight of the United Nations to consolidate their options.

The aliens spoke of Earth as a decaying planet, one soon past its end date. They did not speak of specifics, but the information they gave was enough to convince the majority of the governments to start making plans to accept the alien invitation. The people of Earth didn’t take it entirely well. How were these aliens supposed to decide who was getting left behind and who was getting chosen to greener pastures; who got to see the larger universe? Sentiment was mixed. Diverse. When the aliens returned, there was a lot of dissidence to unpack. Many people refused to subjugate to an alien's whims whom they could not guarantee the truthfulness of. Some countries decided to leave the United Nations as a form of rejection of the initiative to cooperate with the aliens and xenophobic protests began to flood the streets of major cities.

The aliens themselves from a union of different minds, saw these issues ahead of time. They were not here to start a war. Those who did not want to be migrated would not have to come. But not all who were willing could.

In the months following the process of reviewing what ethnic and archetypal roles were needed to fill, things have changed. You, a human from Earth, find yourself fortunate that you were chosen for the great migration from Earth to a new Eden. But you can't help but admit something smells wrong about this whole thing. These aliens from this Democratic League of Planets? They are hiding something. You just don't know what yet. That aside, you'd rather journey into space with such patrons rather than stand where you were.

This is now your story.

The prompt pretty much explains this conceptually. A small group, slower posting affair where you play the humans who know fuck all and I play everything else. I still have to conceptualize some things about the start-off, but its a pretty easy plug-and-play.