Hong

At the same time at the other end of the universe close to exoplanet M31, "Either, I through myself down from this enormous bridge into the endlessness of the void, or I I take my hands off the keyboard and let myself be killed by a simple zombie", thought Gemu24. It's 18 hours that she plays without any rest only a bottle of some sort of isotonic drink next to her. She she is a professional player and everybody knows game of 24 from galatex, the only really working intergalactic platform for video streaming that the Russians had recently opened.

The videoconferencing App is ringing again with its annoying sound, it's the 15th time now. Gemu24 knows exactly who is calling. There is no place in the universe where you can hide from a mother, not even from a very very progressive Mosuo woman. The decision is taken she will be kicked out of the game for inactivity for more than 10 minutes, then who can speak for less than 10 minutes with his or her mom. "Mom'?", Gemu24 connects the call. "Hong!", An energy warm and loving voice at the other end of the aether is answering. Hong, that's Gemu24's real life name. "Real life, what is real? Here in the outer space the answer to this question was not easy at all virtual interfaces where all that connected her to the good old planet earth and the lovely lake Lugu, formed by the Mosuo river in the Sichuan province of China. 

It's almost 2 years now that she has been selected as an extraordinary student in artificial intelligence programming and astrophysics, which has capacitated her to embark as one of the tribulation in setting up a permanent station for the outer space expansion of the new silk road project. Formerly known as belt and road initiative, it was now called belt, road and intergalactic union (BRIGU). 

"Listen Hong, I just want it to ask you if you can participate in the Spring festival this year. You can do everything from your place just connect through the Mozilla hub". Hong's mother always find a way to engage her in the community. But she was happy that her mother is not asking her for grandchildren again.

It's 15:35 intergalactic time in a few minutes her shift will start she had to end the game anyway. 

When she started in this mission she actually thought that her task would be much more action involving related to defense activities or some investigation of the outer space but in very simple terms she was a simple gardener. Her responsibility was to take care of the artificial intelligence of the greenhouse in the food station that was growing old food for the tribulation. Certainly, this was a very sophisticated technology and directly related to her studies, but becoming an everyday activity with all its routines it was not so different from gardening back in her old hometown.

 

Travels to outer space started 100 years ago in a secret project run by the former United States. All began with sending people to very distance distant places to build infrastructure. But soon they realized that without constant communication these places where beyond cautiousness, as if they did not exist. Therefore they started the project shape-shifter. It consists in creating a clone and sending to this very distant planets and space stations. Then a shapeshifter could take on this body and go there by the process of shapeshifting. Still it was a long process. The first Travelers had to take two wormholes and it took more than 50 years to arrive there so they went with a whole space station and three generations to arrive there now they can clone any avatar just based on your genetic code. Still not anybody can become a shapeshifter it cannot be learned and it cannot be trained in a common sense. What it requires is a specific ethical disposition to do this and the shapeshifter cannot travel anywhere only to a body that he or she knows that.