Are We There Yet Chapter 3
Are We There Yet?
(Part 3)
Year 1600
Shane Nichols stood silently looking over the sea of black and dark blue coveralls seated in the amphitheater like auditorium. It was on the shoulders of these people that the fate of everyone on the ship, not to mention the entire sixteen centuries of the voyage, depended.
Turnover and deceleration was scheduled to begin in twelve hours, timed down to the millisecond by CLARE. The people in front of him were the ones who would man and oversea the process in the control rooms.
Shane was their commander, the one person ultimately responsible.
They, of course, knew each other extremely well, born within ten days of each other in the cocoons forty years before. Their entire lives were focused on the turnover, deceleration and eventual stop in the target system. Each of them, men and women alike, were encouraged to have two children between the ages of eighteen and twenty two. Some, but not all, were conceived between members of their group. Those children would become the next generation of leaders once the colony made planet fall but they had a different task before that.
They were the ones that relieved their mother's and father's and any of the other command and control group's tensions in off hours. Unlike the rest of the core, those young men and women were specifically designated for the sexual release of those in the command and control group, including their own parents. CLARE also made sure that in some selected cases, pregnancies between fathers and daughters or mothers and sons were guaranteed.
At this, the final gathering before the all important change in the voyage, there were relaxed looks and postures on everyone, including Shane, who an hour before finished fucking both his daughters for the final time that rest period. Those same boys and girls would be waiting for their parents and others to celebrate the successful completion of the task or help them mourn their failure if they didn't succeed.
Shane did not give them a fiery pep talk. There was no need. They all knew their jobs as well as he did so he sent them to their stations to make whatever last minute preparations were needed. He stood watching them file out, a plethora of memories of times with each one flooding through his head.
“Don't worry, everything will be fine.”
He turned and smiled at his half sister Sandra, who also happened to be the Chief Computer Technician and his companion and live in lover. They had the same mother's eggs but different father's sperm so knew each other even more intimately than the rest of the command corps.
“I know...I know,” he muttered, extending his arms and hugging her closely, “it's just we only have one shot at this...and don't you have someplace you're supposed to be right now.”
“Yeah, but I had to have one last hug before all hell breaks loose,” she murmured lowly, nibbling his right ear and quite deliberately pressing her stiff nipples against his chest and her thigh against his deflated dick, “and I knew you wouldn't be too mad about it.”
“I just might have to put you on report and maybe administer a bit of corporal punishment myself for dereliction of duty,” he grinned squeezing both her ass cheeks and pulling her even tighter against him, “maybe a few solid swats on your lovely round bare ass.”
“Mmm, you know if you do that to me, the girls are going to want some too,” she cooed, biting his earlobe a little harder then stepping back.
“Well I only have two hands” he chuckled tenderly fondling her left tits through her coverall, “so I guess the three of you will just have to line up and take turns. Now get to where you're supposed to be. We'll celebrate later...all of us.”
She gave him a quick peck on his cheek and walked away, very deliberately swaying her fine firm ass. He thought for a moment how red he was going to make those round cheeks...and she was going to love it...and turned toward the command center.
•••••
“Fifteen seconds,” CLARE told them redundantly since the countdown was flashing down in tenths of a second in a corner of the massive screen filling an entire wall of the command center. Shane sat in his raised chair, able to see all the workstations arrayed in semicircular rows in front of him. The multitude of screens showed everything from each of the massive engines, the jets that would flip the ship around and different views of the space around, behind and in front of them.
“Ten seconds.”
Shane unconsciously gripped the arms of his chair, his eyes locked on the screen in front of him that now showed views of the ship from four different directions on shuttles stationed about a hundred kilometers away. There wasn't a sound in the room other than CLARE counting down the last few seconds. The timing was so critical the AI needed to handle every aspect of the flip within hundredths of milliseconds.
“Three.”
“Two.”
“One.”
“Ignition.”
The five massive engines fired in a preprogrammed sequence, while supplemental thrusters did the same all around the sides of the ship. At first Shane thought nothing happened. After a few seconds, they could feel the ship beginning to turn before another set of thrusters fired to slow it and bring it to a halt, the massive engines now pointed in their direction of travel.
Applause broke out throughout the command center and Shane knew the same was happening in every area of the ship. His second in command, a short lithe blonde named Nikki with barely any tits and ass, gave him a warm hug, her right hand squeezing his ass as he hugged her back. He gave them a moment and then quietly announced he wanted everything checked and double checked to make sure the burn was successful.
“I give it a 98.89% of perfect alignment,” CLARE reported almost as soon as the word left his mouth.
“Is that all, CLARE?” he replied with a broad grin. “You must be loosing your touch.”
“I needed to add a little excitement,” the sultry voice said from all around him, “we'll only miss the target system by a half light year now.”
“What?...you...you don't...mean,” Shane blanched as he stammered.
“Only kidding, Shane,” the AI seeming to chuckle, “we are precisely on course and can start the deceleration in three days and four hours as planned after the engineers thoroughly check all the engines.”
For a moment, Shane slumped in his seat, his heart racing. He then looked around at his command center crew grinning happily looking at him.
“What are you all staring at?” he grinned broadly, “you heard CLARE...we all have three days to relax in any and all ways you want...dismissed.”
Most of his crew stopped to shake his hand or give him a hug as they exited the command center. No one objected when he groped an ass cheek nor did he when others did the same to him. As the last of them left the room, Nikki stepped in front of him, took both his ass cheeks in her hands and pulled him close, her breathing ragged and her face flushed.
“Care for some company?” she cooed, slowly grinding her crotch against the stiffening bulge of his cock.
“Sandra and the girls will be waiting for me,” he told her as the tingling grew in his cock and balls.
“Should I see if my guys want to join in?” she grinned, sliding one hand up between his thighs to squeeze his ball sac, “your girls always seem to like them.”
“Sandra certainly likes your boys too, so meet you at my place in twenty minutes,” he smiled back at her before leaning forward to give her a passionate tongue lashing kiss and fondling her stiff little nipples.
He didn't mention it but Nikki knew he also liked the two guys who lived with her, one her half brother, an engine specialist, and the other their twenty year old son. She swirled her tongue around his for a moment before stepping back and fondling his half hard dick through his coverall. Then she turned without a word and walked away. He followed her, turning to head to his apartment nearby knowing full well she and her guys would be joining him and his lover and two daughters well within the twenty minutes.
•••••
Sandra and his two daughters, along with another guy his older daughter recently started fucking who he vaguely remembered was one of the pilots that videoed everything from a shuttle, were waiting for him by the time he walked into the apartment. His twenty two year old daughter, Naomi, was riding the pilot's cock facing away from him as he pulled and inched her nipples. His younger daughter, twenty one year old Cora, was on her knees between Sandra's thighs, licking his lover's pussy while fingering both her cunt and asshole.
“Damn, couldn't anyone wait for me?” he laughed, stripping of his coverall before giving Sandra and then Naomi a passionate kiss.
“Sorry, Daddy,” Naomi grinned, bobbing her body up and down on the guy's dick while fingering her clit, “but, except for Raul here, we started much earlier and Cora and I managed to...um...erupt...right along with the engines.”
He grinned and fingered her clit along with her as she leaned forward to lick the head of his cock. He was just about to drop to a knee to lick her clit and the pilot's cock together when the door bell chimed. He pinched his daughter's nipple then walked over to throw open the door.
Nikki grinned at him, her arms around her half brother and their son. The three of them were already naked, not bothering to wear their coveralls to walk the short distance from her place to his. As soon as they entered, Nikki threw her arms around his neck, kissing him passionately as she ground her bare and somewhat already damp hairless pussy against his stiffening cock.
One of the things he liked about Nikki was how much she looked like a prepubescent girl. She barely had any tits, just small pink lumps on her chest, a low slung ass and a mons she always kept smooth and hairless. A few stretch marks, a clit practically the size of her thumb and a few wrinkle lines around her eyes were all that betrayed her forty years. She was at least, if not more, insatiable as his daughters who were half her age.
Her two guys patted Shane on the ass as they passed him heading for Sandra and Cora. Nikki's son positioned himself behind Shane's younger daughter, rubbing the head of his dick in her dripping slit a few times before plunging into her. Her half brother stood next to Sandra, fondling her tits as she swallowed his cock.
Shane pulled Nikki down to the floor a few feet in front of where Naomi was moaning loudly as she flailed up and down on Raul's dick. He laid on his back and Nikki immediately straddled him, reaching beneath herself to guide his cock into her waiting, welcoming entry. She moaned loudly as well as she slid down on him until he was buried completely inside her. For his part, Shane thumbed her rock hard pea sized nipples with one hand and stroked her engorged clit in two fingers with the other.
Both Naomi and Sandra shrieked their orgasms almost simultaneously. Nikki's son pulled his cock from Cora's cunt and simply turned and offered it to his mother. Meanwhile her half brother crawled between Naomi's thighs, licking her clit and Raul's cock as he pumped it in and out of her. After a few moments, Sandra and Cora crawled over to Shane and Nikki, kissing him in turn as she pumped his cock in and out of Nikki's cunt.
“We've been bad girls, Daddy, very...very bad...all three of us,” Cora grinned impishly as she fondled Sandra's right tit, “and Sandra told us you were going to punish us. Are you going to punish your little girls, Daddy...spank our tender bare asses hard and long...make our soft cheeks hot and red?”
“Oh yes, Daddy, we need to be spanked...all of us,” Sandra chimed in grinning wickedly before turning her head and licking Nikki's son's balls while his cock was still buried deep in his mother's throat.
Shane could feel the next orgasm building in his balls, ready to erupt through his cock and fill Nikki's tight cunt canal. She took her son's cock out of her mouth, lashed her tongue with Sandra then smiled down at him.
“Yeah, Daddy, spank me too,” Nikki added, tightening her cunt canal on his cock when she felt him convulse and the first spurts of his cum erupted deep inside her, “make my ass red with your yummy cum leaking out of my pussy.”
Shane's climax exploded deep in Nikki's cunt as she flailed wildly, her own orgasm triggered by feeling his warm semen filling her. She collapsed on his chest, kissed him passionately then rolled on the her back. Her son immediately dove between her legs, licking the cum oozing out of her while fingering her tight asshole.
Sandra brought them some cold beers and they watched Naomi cum on Raul's cock while Nikki's half brother squirted his creamy jism in her mouth and on to her cheeks and lips. Then they sat around chatting amicably for a few minutes until Nikki and Sandra took his hand and had him stand behind them as the bent over the couch, licking Raul and Nikki's son's cock and balls.
Shane stood between them, taking turns slapping each of their ass cheeks. The louder they shrieked, the harder he swatted them, leaving a hand print on both of their cheeks as their asses reddened. Off to one side, Naomi rode Nikki's half brother's cock facing away from him while Cora straddled his face so they could both see and add their coarse comments.
The longer that went on, the more aroused Nikki and Sandra became. Both of them began fingering themselves, increasing the intensity of their growing orgasms. After they both climaxed loudly, Cora and Naomi took their places cumming themselves on their fingers as their father spanked them unmercifully until his hands were so sore he had to stop.
•••••
“The deceleration firing starts in four hours,” CLARE announced dispassionately to Shane and the others lying in an entangled heap, “you might consider a shower and some food before you are needed back in the command center.”
The past three days had been pretty much a continual orgy with a constantly changing cast of faces and cocks and pussies. When he and Sandra and his daughters weren't hosting others, they made the rounds to private apartments and public play rooms shared with other members of the command and control corps. Nothing was off limits for them or anyone else.
Shane groaned, opening his eyes to look directly into a gaping pussy slit he didn't immediately recognize oozing a steady stream of some unknown guy's cum dribbling over a puffy asshole. When he propped himself up on one elbow he could see Naomi facing one pilot who had his cock in her cunt and another behind her with his cock still in her asshole. Sandra and Cora were not immediately visible in the puppy pile of men and women all around him.
He managed to stagger to his feet and find his way home, figuring his lover and daughters would do so when they had the chance or so desired. He was standing with his eyes closed in the shower with the scalding water flowing over him when two hands wrapped around him from behind, one grabbing the base of his cock and the other squeezing his balls.
“Hi, Daddy,” Cora whispered into his ear before gently nibbling the lobe, “mind if we join you.”
A moment later, another girl his daughter's age stepped into the shower, smiling at him shyly as she added her hand to Cora's on his stiffening cock.
“Meet Dede,” Cora told him lowly as she and the other girls began stroking him slowly, “she is very anxious to get to know you...very, very anxious.”
Dede grinned at him then dropped to one knee and Cora guided his cock into her waiting mouth. Shane let out a low moan feeling the girl take the entire length of his dick into her throat while his daughter rubbed a finger in tight circles around his asshole.
“Oh by the way, Daddy, she likes her face fucked hard and rough while she gags and sputters with a cock as deep in her throat as you can go,” Cora murmured in his ear, squeezing his balls as he grabbed the back of Dede's head, “and even better when she chokes and can't breathe.”
Shane grimaced before his back arched and he filled the girl's mouth and throat with yet another load of his cum. He surprised himself being able to to shoot that much after all the climaxes he enjoyed in various mouths and asses and pussies over the past three days.
“You are expected in the command center in thirty minutes, Shane,” CLARE announced as he leaned back against the tiled wall sharing his cum with Dede and Cora in a sloppy three way kiss.
“We'll be waiting for you when your shift is over,” Cora told him as she and Dede fondled each other's tits and pussies and he disentangled himself from them and dried himself.
“Oh and I like being fucked in my ass even more than my throat,” Dede added before dropping back to her knees to lick his daughter's pussy.
The buzz of conversation was low when he entered the command center. Since this was not a military installation, no one snapped to attention when he stepped in. A few nodded in recognition, their eyes as bleary as he knew his were. Nikki stood from were she was sitting in his command chair, smiling weakly with a couple of bite marks noticeable on her neck. He knew there were a lot more on and around her tits and pussy and ass cheeks. She had given him a few as well.
As soon as he was seated various stations reported their readiness, usually accompanied with a knowing grin. He wasn't completely sure but thought he had sucked or fucked nearly every woman and man in the room over the past three days. Of course, so had everyone else there.
CLARE announced they were five minutes from ignition right after he finished receiving all the status reports. At that point, there really wasn't much to do but stand by and wait, ready to jump in if the AI had a problem it couldn't handle. No one expected that since it had yet to happen in over sixteen centuries. Once the burn began, it would continue uninterrupted for the next two years, slowing the ship from 0.25c to a manageable speed that allowed them to maneuver into an orbit around the target star and its two potentially habitable planets.
Other than a noticeable bump at the beginning of the burn, everything went smoothly. Shane and the crew monitored everything they could for the next few hours until it was evident CLARE had everything well in hand. He dismissed everyone not needed for ongoing operations and monitoring, turned command over to Nikki and went back to his apartment.
Sandra, Naomi, Cora and Dede were waiting for him, along with one of the engineers his age and four young pilots in their twenties. He stripped off his coverall at the door, watching his lover and daughters licking and sucking and fucking assorted cocks and pussies in front of him. He barely took two steps into the room when Dede came up to him, crushed her large soft tits into his chest and rammed her tongue into his mouth.
“Sandra told me I could take your first cum anywhere I want before you have to pay any attention to her or your daughters,” the twenty something blonde murmured into his mouth,” so where do you want to cum in me first this evening?”
••••••••••
Epilogue
Year 54 AA (Ship Year 1658)
During the sixteen century voyage from Earth, CLARE maintained a constant population on the ship of ten thousand or so, with just slightly more women than men. Forty years before arrival, the AI increased the number steadily until by the time they made planetfall, the population was just over thirty thousand, with a two-to-one ratio of women to men.
Fifty five years later, after a mandated period in the first two decades whereby every woman had to conceive at least two children, the planet's population blossomed to close to three hundred thousand spread across its two landmasses, one in the northern hemisphere the other in the southern. Close to eighty percent of the surface was covered by vast oceans dotted in places with volcanic archipelagos.
While most of the colonists chose to live in or near the only two major population centers, others struck out to fend for themselves in the untamed wilds of the planet. Fortunately, while there was plenty of lush vegetation, no warm or cold blooded creatures ever evolved, making just a few poisonous plants the only real danger. Others staked out large areas for farms and ranches. The rolling hills, vast savanna's and year round mild climate made such ventures immediately profitable.
With practically unlimited space, CLARE's rational for having roughly two women for every man led to the proscribed population explosion. Moreover, the sexual mores of the ship were readily incorporated into that of the colonists.
Then one day, everyone standing outside on the night side of the planet stared up at the bright flaming light suddenly exploding against the star filled sky. When they first saw it, they thought it might be a distant supernova. As it grew brighter by the day, they realized it was something else, a comet perhaps.
The gigantic ship that brought them there still orbited at a Lagrange Point that kept it in a stable position between the planet and its two small moons, making it basically a third satellite. CLARE trained the ship's telescopes on the object and sent some probes at close to twenty gravities to meet it well near the edge of the system's heliosphere. Three days after the object was first sighted, CLARE came to definitive conclusion and dispassionately informed the colonists.
It was a ship... it was decelerating to intercept them...and it was hailing them on a frequency the AI recognized.
That changed everything.
•••••
“Nana, look...what is that?” eighteen year old Arlo said suddenly, pushing himself up on his elbows.
Naomi took her great grandson's cock out of her mouth and looked in the same direction as the teenager, surprised as he by the sudden appearance of the strange light. After a moment, she shrugged and went back to sucking the boy's cock until his cum filled her mouth.
When the mysterious light first appeared, seventy eight year old Naomi was the matriarch of one of the original pioneer families, the last living daughter of the last man to command the ship when they entered the system and made planetfall.
Unlike other women who produced babies out of a sense of duty in those early years, Naomi liked being pregnant almost as much as she enjoyed conceiving children in the first place. She had as many children as often as she could manage after they first arrived. Her father impregnated her first before they even made planetfall, followed at roughly twelve to fourteen month intervals by which ever man shot his sperm into her at the right moment. The last one happened to be her own first born son celebrating his twenty third birthday.
Given her father's position, the family received a land grant after planetfall larger than some of the smaller countries on Earth. They established a sprawling compound that continued to grow into essentially a small town of its own over the years.
Not only did everyone know everyone, they were intimately interrelated. Fathers impregnated their daughters routinely and most women had at least one child by their own sons if they could. Brother and sisters married or lived together and it was not uncommon for a groups of siblings and cousins to live in multi generational households where sexual relations occurred in pairs and threesomes and groups among them all.
At seventy eight, Naomi continued to enjoy the attention and affections of both men and women, all of whom were related to her in some fashion. She lived within easy walking distance of her sons and daughters, her grown grandchildren and even great grandchildren, some of whom were by then adults as well. She had every intention of celebrating the official coming of age of those grandchildren in the traditional family way...a day long orgy honoring the birthday day attended by every other member of the family over eighteen.
The arrival of the mystery ship had the entire planet in an uproar and for some reason CLARE refused to tell them more than they would learn everything once a shuttle landed and a landing party explained the situation.
Naomi was one of those selected to greet that landing party.
The group waited in the passenger terminal as the shuttle, similar but not quite the same as theirs, came to a halt on the dusty tarmac. A few moments later, a ramp curled out from the side and three figures emerged, dressed in what very much looked like formal military uniforms.
Keenan, a second generation native of the planet and their elected leader, walked out to meet the strangers, accompanied by two senior council members. They talked amicably for a few moments before turning and leading the newcomers into the building. Naomi, along with the others standing in the welcoming group, waited to find out exactly what was going on.
•••••
Naomi walked into the house to the ordinary sounds that filled the building housing four generations of family. She stripped in the foyer, taking the time to fold her clothes and stack them in her allotted bin near the door. She stopped to massage her sagging wrinkled tits while looking at herself in a full length mirror. That day was one of the few recently she wore any clothes or bothered with a bra.
The first ones she ran into were her thirty seven year old grandson, Colin, and his eighteen year old daughter, Sophia. They both looked up and greeted her warmly as Colin was slowly pumping his cock in and out of his daughter from behind.
“Finish up quickly,” she told them, stopping long enough to tenderly squeeze Sophia's swaying right tit and give Colin a tongue lashing kiss as he fingered her pussy, “I want to get everyone together so I only have to tell you all what happened once.”
Colin immediately started pumping his cock in and out of his daughter's pussy faster and faster. Naomi smiled and walked away, knowing full well the eighteen year old girl was clenching her father's cock in her cunt canal, sucking his warm sticky cum deep inside her. After all, Sophia was trying to conceive her first baby with her father in keeping with the long time family tradition Naomi herself started.
Twenty minutes later, the adults in the family gathered together in what they referred to as the play room, the largest single room in the house. They sat on the couches and chairs or sprawled on the soft padded mats scattered around the floor. Some fondled and groped others playfully, giggling and talking lowly until Naomi rose and addressed them.
“As you all know, I went to the landing field today and met with the visitors, along with most of the other heads of household here in the city,” she began, pacing slowly in front of them. “I'm not sure what I'd believe what I'm about to tell you if I had not heard it directly from them with my own ears. The ship is definitely from Earth. The Captain and his officers provided incontrovertible proof.”
“How could that be?” one of her middle aged sons asked a bit louder than other comments and questions. “We've seen pictures of their vessel in orbit. It is no where near large enough to sustain a crew for centuries as ours did.”
“That's because they didn't take centuries to get here,” Naomi explained after waiting a moment for everyone to quiet down. “As their Captain explained to us, they left Earth orbit just fifteen days before they settled into orbit here.”
After a moment of stunned silence, the room erupted a jumbled chorus of gasps, questions and exclamations of disbelief. Again Naomi waited a moment for the din to subside before raising her hand asking them for quiet.
“I don't pretend to understand the mechanics,” she said softly, looking around the room to catch every eye she could, “but as they explained they weren't limited they way our ancestors were. The can fold space between any two locations. The longest parts of their trip were out of the Earth's gravity well and then into ours.”
She took a piece of paper to demonstrate, ripping it in a long length and placing an 'X' near each end. Then she folded the paper with the 'Xs' lining up and punctured the paper with the pencil.
“They just have to know where they are starting and where they want to end up,” she continued, waving the paper as she paced. “Of course, they knew where we were, so that was any easy destination to select, although there's quite a story about that too.”
For the next half hour she patiently answered questions, some of them repetitive until everyone was as satisfied as could be expected with such historic news. At that point, some of them drifted away to resume whatever they were doing before she returned.
One of her grandsons came up behind her to cup her tits in both hands and nibble at her ear. She relaxed back against his body, more than ready for the tensions of the day to melt away and knew no better way than to fully enjoy a few body spanning orgasms. One of his sons joined them and she rode the younger one as her son slipped his cock into her ass. She climaxed twice before they filled her cunt canal and bowels with their sticky jism.
•••••
Naomi looked around the play room critically, unable to convince herself there was nothing more to be done. Her family was being honored by the captain of the visitor's ship and he made it clear he and the crew he brought with them very much looked forward to enjoying every aspect of her household's hospitality. Before she could minutely adjust a vase of flowers for the third time, one of her youngest great granddaughters rushed into the room and tugged fitfully at Naomi's elbow.
“They're here, Nana, they just pulled up out front.”
Naomi rushed to the front door, pulling a simple white shift over her head and smoothed it out with her hands as she watched them approach. The captain brought seven of his crew members, three men and four women. All were dressed casually in civilian clothes and seemed to speak and joke with one another as equals as the walked to the front door. She opened the door and stepped out when they were a few paces away.
“Welcome to my humble home,Captain,” she announced somewhat formally, bowing slightly. “My entire family is very much looking forward to entertaining you and your crew.”
“Thank you for your gracious offer of hospitality, Naomi. My fellow crew members and I are most certainly looking forward to all your family has to offer,” the captain said with a bright smile then stepped closer, giving her a warm hug, tight enough she could feel his half hard cock press into the inside of her thighs and her tits crush against his chest, “but as I told you before, this is a very informal visit, one for us to get to know you all much better and for you to do the same. Now, didn't you say clothes are not usually worn in your home?”
With that, he took a step backward smiling broadly and stripped off his shirt and trousers. Behind them, the other members of his crew were laughing and giggling as they did the same. Naomi grinned happily and let the sheath she wore drop around her ankles, She then gestured for them to enter her home and greet her children and grandchildren and great grandchildren all eagerly waiting for them inside.
It turned out that life on a space faring vessel hadn't changed much over the centuries. Not all voyages were as short as that one and the crew members the captain brought with him to Naomi's home were his regular lovers, both men and women.
At Naomi's behest, they stayed for three days during which time every member of her family made an effort to suck and fuck the captain and his crew. Each one of them, in turn starting with the captain almost immediately after they entered the house, made a point of doing anything and everything they could to bring Naomi to orgasms until she pleaded for them to stop.
The Captain kept the ship in orbit over their planet for two more months. During that time, they visited every corner of the planet, accepted any number of invitations for all the crew to enjoy the hospitality of most households and invited many to tour the ship. Before they departed, two of the women and one of the men that initially visited Naomi asked her permission to stay until they could establish themselves on the new world. The same happened across the planet and a surprising number of colonists asked to return to Earth.
Naomi and the other heads of households graciously allowed the three of them to join her household. She also found out three of her granddaughters and four of her great granddaughters were pregnant with the visitor's children. By the time those babies were born and started to crawl, many more new colonists would be flocking to the planet, dramatically increasing the population and strengthening their gene pool.
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