The letter said:
“I still remember that day. The day the Earth stood still.
It was a hot morning. Unusually hot. I don’t remember the weather being so hot. In prehistoric times they used to refer to it as ‘Global Warming’, I suppose. But it was a long forgotten term. What with the advances in EnerTech (the technology that produced electricity from sunlight and heat), weather on entire Earth was artificially controlled. It required a lot of energy, but with the Sun as an everlasting source of energy, there was no need to think twice. In any case, all the energy used by the AtmosCon, the weather control system, was a fraction of the total energy requirements of the human race. Everything worked on the everlasting electricity.
We, the humans of today, had long exhausted the conventional energy sources available on the Earth. Back then, the prehistoric man used something called oil or petrol as fuel. The electricity was generated with the help of coal, water (hydro) or radioactive materials. All this is history (or rather pre-history). The extinction of these sources forced man to advance the solar electricity generation to meet his everyday needs. That resulted in EnerTech which has been serving man since then.
Everything was going smoothly without any hiccups…till that day. Generations of ETzens took good care of the EnerTech. There was nothing to complain against the ETzens.
ETzen was a special branch of study and there were numerous sub-streams which one could choose to become an ETzen. ETzens worked whole their life on maintaining, operating or innovating newer versions of the EnerTech. They were the brains behind keeping the Earth moving.
That day the EnerTech stopped working.
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