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From the spaceship's glass window, we can see tiny lights clustered on our home planet, but otherwise the Earth is just covered in darkness. "Farewell, Mother Earth. One day we will sing of your glory and your warmth," Noa dramatically exclaimed, waving their arms around. "Your legacy will live on with uS~". "We will be back, Mother. I vow on my duty as a space earthling, I-" Noa continues. "aLRIGHT, Noa. Please, can we leave?" I said. "We don't have enough time to remain parked in front Earth listening to your //Earth soliloquy//." [[depart from earth|spaceship]]

We couldn't see the moon, but we knew its location so we just stared at its general direction. I pray to the moon goddess that we can find light soon. "It's so //shad//, the moon i-is like gone! It's like that one movie where that one fucker stole the moon," Noa fake sobbed. "It's still there, you just can't see it, **god...**" I shake my head at Noa's antics. "But what's the point if I can't see it and appreciate its pearly beauty???" "Let's go, we are already behind schedule," I reminded Noa. //It's only been 30 minutes and **I swear to god, Noa**// [[depart from the moon|spaceship]]

I imagined Mars to be red, just like it was shown in the websites I browsed. We couldn't see anything from the glass windows; there was only darkness in front of us. "The system says Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos are nearby. You want to check them out?", Noa points to the GPS. //We won't see anything though,// was left unsaid. [["Sure, let's go to Phobos"|Phobos]] [["Sure, let's go to Deimos"|Deimos]] [["Let's not waste our time"|spaceship]]

I've never seen a photo of Phobos the moon so I imagined that it resemble our moon: big, round, and glowy. As expected, we couldn't see a thing in the space in front of us, but I know that Phobos was there. [["We can drop by Deimos quickly"|Deimos]] [["Let's go back to Mars"|Mars]] [["Let's continue our search"|spaceship]]

"Saturn was a character in Roman mythology, did you know that?" Noa said out of the blue. "They are all characters in Roman mythology, Noa. Every **single** planet was named after the gods." "It's also got pretty rings around itself, too bad we can't see it right now," Noa ignores my comment. Yeah, it is a huge tragedy that I can't see the rings of Saturn even though I'm right here. [["We should get going"|spaceship]] [["How many moons does Saturn have?" I asked.|samoon]]

"According to this picture I saved onto my phone for research purposes, Jupiter is yellow and cloudy," Noa said matter-of-factly. "That's cool." "It's a pity that we can't see anything." Noa made a sad face. "Yeah, I guess." "Should we leave?" Noa suggested. [["Let's leave."|spaceship]] [["We should visit some of the moons."|jupmoon]]

Once again, we didn't see anything, but I'm sure Deimos looked pretty. [[fly away|permadeath]] [[fly to Phobos|Phobos]] [[fly back to mars|Mars]] [[fly //away//|spaceship]]

Io sounds like a very nice name. I wish I was named Io; it sounds like the key part of a computer. [[continues with our journey|jupmoon]] [[fly off|black hole]]

When I first read this moon's name, it reminded me of the word enchilada. I told Noa this and they started talking about the great cuisine culture of Mexico. "There used to be a restaurant down the block from my parents' house that made really amazing burritos," Noa said. "I really wish I ate there one last time before it closed forever lmao.." "Should have ate your burritos when you had a chance, can't bitch about it now," I replied. "I wasn't bitching about it, oh my god, it's just a burrito." "//Ok, sure//." [[check out other moons|samoonlist]] [[fly|spaceship]] [[//fly//|permadeath]]

The name Europa reminded me of a character in a game that I've played. The character Europa was pretty cute. Europa the moon was...well I can't see Europa the moon. [[continues with our search|jupmoon]]

I don't know anything about Callisto, but the name sounds fancy. [[continue with our journey|jupmoon]] [[continue with our **journey**|permadeath]]

My family lived on a street named Tethys, so I feel some sort of connection to this moon. Once again, we could not see the moon. //I can't see this moon just like I can't see my family.// [[check out other moons|samoonlist]] [[continue with the journey|spaceship]]

According to Noa, Hyperion sounded like a Pokemon. There wasn't anything I could see in the vast dark space. "Hyperion!! Use Ice beam tM", Noa said randomly. [[check out other moons|samoonlist]] [[continue with the journey|spaceship]]

"Do you think this moon is related to that moon near Mars?" I asked. "Which one? Phobos? Lmao, because they sound alike?" "They are like three letters off; siblings are usually named similiarly." "Yeah, humans tends to do that, name their kids with the same name and just change up few letters." "Did you have siblings?" I asked Noa. "No, I didn't have siblings, but pretty sure my parents wouldn't have named us similarly," Noa answered, "I mean what'd they have named us? Noo, Noa, and, Noe?? Lol." I laughed. [[check out other moons|samoonlist]] [[continue with the journey|spaceship]]

"Uranus has got to be the most unlucky planet with this kinda name," Noa laughed. "It's not funny, stop being rude to the planet //Uranus//," I said, trying to hold back my laughter. "LMAO, JUST LAUGH, IT'S FINE, HAHA. It's not like the planet is gonna fight us. You can't even see Uranus," Noa laughed louder. "SFDHUKGVHSLUDKFHG, NOA, WE HAVE A MISSION," I gave in and burst into a laughter. [[fly to Uranus' moon, Puck|Puck]] [[continue on with the journey|spaceship]]

We didn't see anything at the moon, Puck, either. We decided to move to the next location and continue our quest for a new dependable star. "It's so dark here, ughh. It feels like we aren't moving at all," Noa whined. It does feel like we are just flowing in space blindfolded. I suddenly feel hopeless and trapped. Like we are just stuck here, we can't go anywhere, and there's no light in sight. "Just drive forward and avoid the other moons, we need to get a move on." "Alrighty." [[fly forward **aimlessly**|permadeath]] [[fly forward aimlessly|black hole]]

"Pluto, declared a planet since 13 years ago, is named after the dark lord of the big, sad underworld in Roman mythology. Pluto is tiny and pitiful. Pass this little rock and we are offically out of our solar system." Noa informed. "And now we charge! To the new light, to the new world. We, the chosen ones, are on this dangerous journey in search for that warm embrace...for HUMANITY!" Noa continued to shout while piloting the space ship, dodging the unseeable rocks. [[fly forward|black hole]] [[go check out pluto's moon|Charon]]

I got nothing for Charon, and neither does Charon for me. So we decided to leave after seven minutes. [[leave Pluto|spaceship]] [[leave //Pluto//|permadeath]]

It seemed like we were in an endless tunnel. The GPS detected nothing near us for over an hour. Noa got bored and put the ship on auto-pilot. We started talking about Earth history. Well, more like //Noa// started spewing informations about Earth history. It was somewhat interesting, but the empty void surrounding the space ship made me really drowsy. [[take a nap|spaceshippost]] [[try to pay attention to Noa|death]]

"So, where do you think we should fly to ?" Noa asked. "I'm thinking of..." [[Earth]] [[Moon]] [[Mars]] [[Jupiter]] [[Saturn]] [[Uranus]] [[Pluto]]

Home fell apart as soon as the Sun’s light died out. The time I spent on Earth was relatively short. I haven't even learn to do my own taxes, but now I’m on a spaceship flying away from home. My fellow survivor, Noa, and I were the only ones able to leave Earth. We are tasked with finding a new home, one with a dependable energy source like our Sun. Noa pilots the ship and I decide where to go next for our search. [[fly the spaceship|prelude]]

"Yeah," Noa dragged the GPS map around, clicking on four points. "There's more, but I know off the top of my head like four...there's [[Io]], [[Europa]], Ganymede, [[Callisto]]..." "Then let's go." "Roger that!!"

"Hmm, Saturn has [[Enceladus]], [[Tethys]], Dione, Rhea, [[Hyperion]], [[Phoebe]]...62 moons total!" "I think we should visit the moons for a little bit." "Sure, we can spare little a time, as a treat," Noa laughed.

"Something's wrong. There are big unknown objects very, very, very close to us." Noa panickedly fiddled with the controls. I lean closer to the GPS screen, hoping that I can figure out what's happening, but no such luck. "Let's check out the objects, maybe they're planets or moons that were unregistered?" [[fly to the closest object|Byte]] [[fly to the second closest object|Yuzu]] [[fly to the biggest object detected on the GPS|Tiamat]] [[fly to the object detected at the edge of the GPS|Beast]]

I thought I saw something when we landed in front of the object, like a flicker of light. I couldn't determine what the object was, so Noa and I thought that we should give it a name and add it to our GPS system. I named this one "Byte", after the core components of a computer. [[fly to the second closest object|Yuzu]] [[fly to the biggest object detected on the GPS|Tiamat]] [[fly to the object detected at the edge of the GPS|Beast]]

We were overcome with joy when we got close to the object. I was looking at a yellowish object with lights reflected on it. After not seeing anything for a long time, I thought that I was seeing a mirage. "I'm so shooketh. THAT'S AN ACTUAL OBJECT IN SPACE," Noa pressed close to the glass window, "we have hope, there's light here." The object looked big enough to be a planet, but we weren't sure if we are qualified to label things as planets, so we called it a pseudo-planet. "We are on the right path, I hope that soon we can find our new home." We decide to name the pseudo-planet Yuzu, because its yellowish color reminds Noa of their favorite yuzu soda drink. [[fly to the next object|Tiamat]] [[fly to the object detected at the edge of the GPS|Beast]]

Beast. We named this charred pseudo-planet Beast. Noa was originally going to name it "bitch" because it was "so far away" and "surrounded by many rocks and shit". I feel like Noa wanted to call //me// bitch for choosing to go to the farthest object. Upon arriving, we only found a burnt out pseudo-planet. There were still trails of blazing fire and magma floating on the surface of the pseudo-planet. Noa began to turn the ship around. "I didn't expect anything, but I was still let down, boooo," Noa complained. [["It's not possible to always get what we wanted."|Beast2]]

//Tiamat// We both say, "Tiamat," when we saw the pseudo-planet, like the goddess of life in Mesopotomian mythology. It was a minty colored giant. We flew into the pseudo-planet's atmosphere and searched around for forms of life. We saw plenty of trees and animals. Light was plentiful and when we landed and looked up to sky facing south, there was a beautiful, bright warm glow in the blue backdrop. "It's s-ssho beautiful!!" Noa took off their shoes and fell face first on the grass. "It's so shoooft!! Even the dirt looks so rich!" [["You gonna eat the dirt? Noa?" I said.|tiamat2]]

^^//game over//^^ [[play again?|Sothys]]

[[Enceladus]] [[Tethys]] [[Hyperion]] [[Phoebe]]

I woke up to an alert that our ship was heading closer to a big object. Noa was not next to me. I tried to pilot the ship out of the way but it was too late. Our ship crashed onto the blazing red planet. I crawled out from the glass window and immediately searched for signs of Noa in the remains of the ship. "Noa? NOA, nOA???" However the fire surrounding the ship quicken its destruction. The ship exploded and I wasn't able to run away. //Before I closed my eyes, I thought I saw Noa running toward me in the midst of the fire.// ^^istg, noa^^ [[end]]

We've been flying in darkness for a long time now. Our spaceship is running out of fuel. The GPS isn't detecting anything around us. "No rocks, no aliens, not a single fucking soul," Noa sighed. "How much fuel do we have left?" I asked. "Not enough to full blast us out of this hellhole. It's been 13 hours already and we are jus-we are just sittin' here; **are we gonna die?**" Noa turned to me with a sad shock face and said. [[I responded with the only way I know how|permadeath2]]

"Yes, we have a 72% chance of dying here. This mission's success rate was always estimated at only 0.6%" "**aaaAAAHHH**, when I said I guess I'll die, I didn't actually mean iTTTT," Noa whined, "0.6%?? That's like less than an SSR rate up in GFS!! WHAT THE FUCK RNG GOD YOU WON'T TREAT ME WELL EVEN BEFORE DEATH AHHHH." I took a deep breath and interrupt Noa's rant. "Since we are going to die anyway, let's just enjoy our last moments," I said. //We blasted the spaceship forward, partied with the remaining food supplies, and then I closed my eyes.// ^^//I hope we wake up in a warm world//^^ [[play again?|Sothys]]

"BOOOOOOO," Noa boos and turns away, "Leave me alone to //bitch// about this for a while. I need to do this." "Ok, //dramatic fuck//, I'll pilot the ship for now," I said. Noa glared at me wordlessly and releases the controls. //One day I sure hope we can find light, just the right temperature of light.// [[fly away|end]]

"Lmao, I'll eat it if you do," Noa retorted, grinning at me. "Nahh, not feeling it today," I laughed. "Alright, let me know which day we can have a dirt eating festival." //The sky of our new home planet is so beautifully blue.// [[We found home|end]]

"Do you think that we can live in one of the planet in our solar system?" Noa asked me. "The sun died, so there's shouldn't be any light in any part of our solar system," I answered, "but if you want, we can still take a look at the [[other planets|spaceship]]."