Greece meets Faira

John, Lewis, and Ian were a few of the males invited to join the second interstellar trip to a planet the government had recently discovered. When the planet was first spotted a few solar systems away, years were spent sending satellites over to take pictures and listen for radio waves and other signs of higher life. Their findings showed that there was indeed life on the planet ”a couple million different species” but none of them seemed to have the higher brain capability to do anything more than the basic life-sustaining acts.

On top of discovering another life-sustaining planet, the government had many other achievements under their belts; they had found ways to keep everyone all over the world constantly connected and communicating through wires and electricity. They had reached a point through cloning technology where they no longer had to slaughter animals in order to eat meat because they could "grow" it in labs. They had created an air-conditioning machine that produced oxygen and sent it out into the atmosphere so that cutting down plants was no longer a problem. The discovery that brought on the most praise from people of all sorts, however, had nothing to do with the planet, but the inhabitants. They had finally created a foolproof antidote in the form of one pill that completely wiped out the sexually transmitted disease infamous for attacking immune systems. At the time of the second interstellar trip, the entire planet, especially young healthy males such as Ian, Lewis, and John, were in the throes of extreme sexual promiscuity that was not near abating, even 30 years after the invention of the pill.

As John, Lewis and Ian sat down for the final descent of the craft through the atmosphere of the new planet, they made a toast to their luck and happiness in being able to take part in such a strange vacation. They were not genius, famous, or rich like the other passengers. In fact John was the only one with a job, and all he did was prepare food in a low-end part of town. The other two were currently unemployed "students" taking time off from educating themselves in order to explore their world and take everything from it they could. The three guys had all won their tickets for this trip by being the lucky callers on a bachelor radio station. They had not known each other before this adventure, but grew to enjoy one another very quickly, due to the lack of like-minds on board.

A year before this new mission another one had taken place - the first time anyone had been sent down to study the planet in further detail by actually landing on the surface. The trip had been a major success, and the discoveries were better than they could have imagined. The physical aspects of the planet were startlingly similar to the way their own once had been: vast oceans, dense forests, mountains, plains, crystal clear air, light humidity, and most importantly, everywhere one looked the place was teeming with life. The fresh atmosphere had felt exhilarating and everyone else back home had envied those lucky enough to have witnessed it first-hand. That voyage to the "new"� planet became well renowned as "a leisurely change of pace,"� which led to the later voyage, now boarding, being organized purely for pleasure seeking.

After the roaring, beeping, and chattering inside the space shuttle turned off with the engines, the place seemed almost completely silent. The passengers and guides stood silently, blinking around at each other for quite a while before anyone took their first step out. The captain made an announcement asking them all to keep their communication devices turned up loud enough to hear well and to return to the ship for dinner by the appropriate time. After these familiar words, the guys felt more encouraged to get out of the ship and experience all they could.

Once the station landed on the ground of the planet, they clambered to their feet and rushed outside with the other, more stoic passengers. They found themselves in a rather small clearing in the middle of a seemingly endless forest. When the door to the shuttle first opened they were all momentarily blinded by the overwhelming sunlight. The world outside only seemed to grow steadily greener for the next long minutes before anyone was able to start differentiating shapes from the blurred shadows and lights. The travelers had a rather difficult time starting to walk on the surface of the new planet because it was so soft and spongy that it felt awkward and unsafe to walk on. A few of them complained to their neighbors about the dangers of unsteady footing, and all were hesitant to do much more than rock back on forth on their heels. Most of the passengers preferred to stand around in this fashion complaining for a while, but John, Lewis, and Ian decided to get away from the higher-class passengers and have some fun. They looked around for a small inviting opening and stepped into the woods.

After walking for less than a mile they came upon their first view of the most astonishing creature they had ever seen and one that would turn out to become the most important discovery of their lifetimes. After skirting around a giant tree to continue on the animal path they had been following, they found themselves standing almost face-to-face with a giant hair-covered animal sitting on the ground eating fruit. This one did not look at all like the pictures they had seen of the small, scaly, crawling wildlife from the previous voyage. In fact, this one was quite similar to their own kind back at home. It sat on two legs while using arms that moved like their own to manipulate some kind of fruit, was only slightly bigger than them, yet with a much darker complexion than their own almost translucent skin. It seemed more relaxed, smarter, and somehow more familiar to them, despite the fact that only its nose and eyes seemed to be free of thick brown hair. The animal sat calmly chewing and looking at the three strangers and did no more than blink when a young offspring jumped on her shoulder from above. Eventually Lewis took a timid step forward and the young creature ran over and climbed up to rest on his head, playing on his hairless head. This was just the beginning of what would become, over the next few days, a very intimate relationship.

The next day the motherly animal led the three of them back to a different clearing in the forest where many of her kind were feasting and playing with their young. Thanks to both the 3 men's and the hairy animal's inherently playful nature, they were quickly accepted into the herd and spent all their time exploring the forests and getting closer to these creatures. After a relatively short time the bachelors, who were not unlike any other young bachelors in regard to their whims and desires, crossed a very intimate and well-defined line that rarely gets crossed when making new friends; it was mating time in the herd, and the men who came from a planet in sexual frenzy were feeling deprived of one of their favorite acts. Because this group of hairy animals happened to have an overwhelming female majority, the males did not even notice when the three strangers from another world mated within their herd. John, Ian, and Lewis spent their days exploring, climbing, swimming in a nearby river, and mating with their hairy counterparts as often as possible before boarding to go back home after what felt like an extremely short stay.

On the shuttle trip back home the three bachelors had a great time eavesdropping on other passenger's conversations about their visit to the new planet. It became quickly obvious that they had gotten much more out of their short stay than anyone else on board had. When the voyagers came close enough to their home planet to be aware of anything happening there, they found that the entire planet had entered into a state of mass destruction and chaos.

They were in the middle of yet another war taking place over the entire surface of the world. They knew that absolutely no one was being spared the acts of violence, as usual. Unfortunately for the interstellar space crew, the ship didn't have much fuel left and no where else to go but home, so they all sighed, bit their lips and pointed the shuttle station down toward the familiar sienna atmosphere below them. No sooner had they gotten through the hole in the ozone layer than a missile hit their ship. As they spun wildly down to the bleak scene of chaos, the animals a few solar systems away were the last beings in the universe on their minds. It took less than two weeks for every aspect of life to be completely wiped out from the planet, and then the surface was nothing more than smoldering ruin, destruction, and waste.

The offspring of the large hair-covered animals and their foreign sex partners had reproduced and adapted so much that they became the new rulers of their planet. These hybrid creatures all had an extreme fascination for space and other worlds, and were constantly asking themselves rhetorical philosophical questions, such as how and why they existed. Finally, one of them particularly obsessed with the question of life visited an island filled with species none of them had ever seen before. By using his overly active imagination, he invented an entirely new theory, which he called "evolution."� This man, called Darwin, was frowned upon, and shunned by his society and peers for his extreme ideas. Mere decades later, however, more and more people began to be convinced that he had the right idea. Centuries later, he was praised as a scientific genius, and the first space ship to travel outside their solar system was named after him. Unfortunately, this happened during World War 27, which wiped out all life on the planet.