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oceans, never to be seen again. People died in massive floors, cyclones, devastating snowstorms, and droughts that lasted decades.
    But this didn’t stop the wealthier nations from continuing with their expensive space exploration projects. Telling the poorer nations still in existence that it was to search for a solution didn’t go down too well, and for many years wars raged between the Middle East and the West, particularly the US.
    However their questing finally paid off. Scientists from my own nation, Australia, discovered the wormhole in 2200.
    I had to stop and wait for my head to stop spinning. Wormhole! Now I knew I was in the future! Wormholes had been speculated about for years, but this was the first one to be discovered, only a few million kilometers from Earth. It was stable enough for exploratory robot probes to be sent through, and one was intercepted by the Terrons. They sent us instructions on how to meet them, and the first Humans travelled through the wormhole to the other side of the Galaxy.
    Even though the Terron race was dying from major fertility issues, they had the technology to help Earth. They had also invented the infinity squared system, which enabled us to navigate through what we soon discovered was a whole network of wormholes. Without it, we would have quickly become lost in the tangled web of conduits that ran through the universe.
    The Terrons also possessed fuel that wouldn’t pollute the atmosphere, found in three-metre tall plants that had once been considered weeds on their planet. Once the Earthlings discovered that oil could be refined from the stems and leaves of these large sunflower like plants, it could be used safely as fuel on Earth, so they encouraged the Terrons to begin farming them, since they refused to grow on Earth, our soil and atmosphere not compatible, no matter how much our scientists tried to recreate its unique properties.
    But so far the only beings benefiting from this chance intergalactic meeting were the Earthlings, until the day a half-caste child was born of the two races, the first child planet Terron claimed to have seen in a decade. Unfortunately the mother died in childbirth, something that had not been heard of on Earth for hundreds of years. They soon discovered her death had occurred because the fetus had grown too quickly, and then born too suddenly and violently.
    The child emerged healthy and hale, and the the Terrons realized that their race need not die out after all. They requested a deal with Earth that they explore the matter further. Surely there must be a way for babies to be born without the mother having to die.
    But by then the news was already out. No woman was prepared to take the risk.
    The Terrons threatened to halt all oil shipments to Earth. Earth’s entire infrastructures would collapse within weeks, since the planet no longer had an acceptable back up power source.
    Earth had been backed into a corner.
    So the Treaty of 2212 was drawn up. All women of child-bearing age had to take a tour of duty to Terron. It sent fear into the hearts of them all, since it meant that the only way they could ever bear a half-caste child was to undergo a C-Section that had to be done at precisely the right time. Too soon and the baby was too young to survive, too late and the mother would die.
    It was a precarious situation, since many lives were lost, and so few Earth women were actually compatible with Terron men. It heightened tensions between the two planets that would probably take years to overcome.
    “ Please fasten your seatbelts,” the computer broke into my perusal. “We are about to exit infinity squared and enter the orbit of Terron’s atmosphere.”
    Since I would not be able to hold onto the tablet while we shuddered our way out of infinity, I stuck it behind my back and braced myself for our arrival.
    As I was forced back into my seat, it dawned on me that Anita and her classmates were part of the next consignment of brood