A chance encounter - part 1
by arcoviontime@gmail.com

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By the year 10,000 ad, with the advent of travel at the speed of
light, most of the galaxy had been explored, and humans had come into
contact with other hominids across the galaxy. english was now the
lingua franca, and almost everyone understood it. there were still
some unexplored planets at the tail ends of the galaxy, but hominids
on those planets were in contact with other hominids due to
spectacular advances in technology. however, this inter-connectivity
had also had its down sides. sometimes, if a contagious disease
started on a planet, it could spread to other planets and wipe out
entire populations, due to the lack of immunity of that planet's
population to the unfamiliar disease.

On one of these planets that was amongst the furthest from the earth,
called alpha beta, a virus had been introduced. for unknown reasons,
only women had immunity to this virus, and the entire male population
of the planet was wiped out. this in turn led to a famine, since the
farmers on the planet had been mostly men. by the time all was said
and done, only around 100 women were left surviving. between 10,000
and 10,001 AD, the surviving women all gathered in one city to pool
their resources and try to survive. the initial few months proved to
be somewhat rocky, but by 10,001, life had more or less returned to
normal. the only problem the women had of course was a lack of males
for procreation. this is when they all turned to technology, to look
for potential mates.

One of the women by the name of eve, turned to her 3-D hologram
computer, and entered a site for intergalactic matchmaking. for her
catchment area, she started out closest to her home planet, and worked
her way outward. after a month of fruitless searching, she finally
entered the milky way for her catchment area, and looked through the
profiles of various males. the photo of a man by the name of adam
caught her eye. he looked to be very handsome, and he also had an
interesting profile. she decided to send him a message. after some
thought she composed the following message : "dear adam, my name is
eve, and i am sending you this message from the other end of the
galaxy. i am intrigued by your profile, and i hope to hear back from
you ! best wishes, eve." she touched the send icon on her 3-D
computer, crossed her fingers, and went to bed.

Back on earth, adam got home that night, and after a quick dinner, sat
at his 3-D hologram computer and turned it on. he logged onto the
matchmaking site, and saw the message from eve. he quickly read the
message, and clicked on her profile and liked what he saw. she was
beautiful. he replied with a very nice message, thanking her, and
hoping to hear back from her. the following day, eve was delighted to
see the message from adam, and replied by saying that she would like
to have a holographic session with him. she waited anxiously for a
reply, and was rewarded by a message from adam, requesting a session
that night.

That night, eve went to the match site, and clicked on adam's profile.
a 3-D hologram image of adam was formed, and he greeted her with a
smile. she responded with a smile of her own. adam said that he was
surprised that she spoke english and that her name was eve, given that
earthlings have never been to her planet before. eve said that her
people had been in touch with other hominids that had been in touch
with earthlings. their conversation carried out past midnight, and
both sides learned a lot about each other. adam learned about eve's
people, and how they had come to the verge of extinction. he also
learned that their society had been very patriarchal, with women
delegated to the home, and raising the children. eve learned that adam
had been a member of an organization called the 'intergalactic
explorers', and that he had also had a military background. they were
both 28 years old. at the end of their conversation, each smiled back
at the life-sized hologram that was in front of them, they did a
pseudo-hug and said goodbye. their next session was set for one week
later.

During their next session, they continued to learn more about each
other, and they truly enjoyed conversing with one-another. this
process continued week to week, and eventually day to day, over the
course of the year. gradually, adam told his other friends among the
intergalactic-explorers about eve, and eve told the remaining women on
alpha-beta about adam. eventually, the 99 other remaining women each
got paired-up with one of adams' friends. over the course of the year,
adam and eve fell head-over-heels in love with each-other, and they
would end their sessions with pseudo-hugs and pseudo-kisses.

Eventually, it was decided that adam and his friends that had been
paired-up with the women on alpha-beta through the matching site would
take an intergalactic expeditionary journey to alpha-beta to meet the
women. a year to the day that eve had contacted adam, the 100 men each
got into their respective space-cruisers, wearing their smart
uniforms, entered the coordinates given to them by eve into the
cruisers' navigating computers, and set out for their destination at
light speed. the journey would take around one week, and the cruisers
could be set to auto-pilot or manual control. each of these
space-cruisers could carry one person, and was the size of a small jet
aircraft. in his mind, adam felt like a night in shining armor, going
to the rescue of a damsel in distress. and in a metaphorical way, he
certainly was. adam had learned from eve that alpha-beta's atmosphere
and the planet itself were almost identical to earth's so that they
did not need to take any special equipment with them. finally, after a
week, adam and his friends approached alpha beta, having journeyed
mostly on auto-pilot. in the meantime, eve and the other women had
also tried to prepare for the arrival of the men. they had chosen a
wide-open field for the men to land their space-cruisers, and they had
all in turn tried to dress and look their best. they had done their
hair, put on their makeup , and were wearing blouses, skirts, and
heels.

As the space cruisers started to enter the planet's atmosphere on
manual control, the gravitational pull of alpha-beta proved to be much
stronger than anticipated. adam's cruiser started to shake and rattle,
and his head started to spin. finally adam blacked out, as the g-force
of the planet simply proved to be too much. at this point, the
navigating computer simply took over, and the space cruisers finally
passed through alpha-beta's atmosphere, and made their descent for
landing. the women meanwhile had seen the ships coming down over the
horizon, and they started to cheer. finally, the space cruisers landed
safely on the ground. after a little while, adam and the other men
finally came to, and each proceeded to get out of his cruiser. adam
finally got out of his cruiser, and set foot on solid ground. the
first thing that greeted him was a wooden object three feet high, upon
which was what seemed like pink-colored fleshy column that went up and
up and up as far as the eye could see. Adam had to crane his neck way
way upwards and backwards, as if he was looking up at a oak tree. his
heart finally sank as he finally realized what he was looking at. THIS
WAS EVE !! what he had been greeted with had been the heels of eve's
shoe, and the pink colored column had been eve's graceful leg. Adam
had been frozen in place. The reality was that alpha-beta was a
replica of earth, with the only difference being that everything was
12 times larger, including all of its life-forms.

After about a minute, adam snapped out of it. he started to panic, and
tried to get back into his ship and get out of there. Eve meanwhile
had been just as surprised. after her initial shock had worn off, she
made a grab for adam. the last thing she wanted now was to be alone
again !! adam had made it to the door of his spaceship, when eve's
long and graceful fingers wrapped gently around his body. eve
proceeded to gently lift adam upwards to her eye level, and adam felt
and saw the ground move further and further away from him. once adam
and eve made eye contact eve finally said : "hello adam !! well this
is certainly a surprise !! but we can't have you running away now can
we ?? come my love, i'm taking you home with me !!" and with that eve
gently bend down, grabbed a hold of adam's space cruiser, lifted it up
effortlessly, and proceeded to walk home with adam and the space
cruiser. the other women also followed eve's example, each one taking
home the man that had been paired-up with her, along with his space
cruiser.