The day the Earth stood still (Part 3)

That day the EnerTech stopped working. The New Sun was dying… again.

I remember there was a mission a hundreds of thousands of years ago to revive the Sun (Reference: Movie Sunshine). The Sun was dying back then too. But that time, the situation was different. A team of 6 scientists was sent to launch a nuclear missile at the heart of the Sun to revive it. The team was successful to revive the Sun against all the odds that they faced during their mission. It was estimated that the New Sun will last for a few more million years at least. However, it had lasted us only for about 238,480 years. Back then only one thing had made such revival possible. We, the humans, had not exhausted their natural resources yet.

It was not that we forgot about the moon or the Mars. But we exhausted all the resources on moon and Mars too. When all the natural resources on the Earth became extinct, man turned to the moon and Mars for materials and to the Sun for energy. In our greed, we consumed all the materials available on the moon and Mars as well. Now man depends upon recycling for all his material needs.

We had by now realized that we had made a mistake of taking the New Sun for granted. With the New Sun dying, we did not have the capability to revive it. We could not build a ship before dismantling one of our Residence Towers for there was nothing left to create it from. We were stuck…