Out to the black

Disclaimer: Joss, Fox, Universal Own em’. I’m just playing. No money being made.

This is my first Fan Fic ever. It’s in the Firefly ‘Verse and includes some back-story I made up for the exodus from Earth That Was. I haven’t used a Beta reader for this and I apologize but I wanted to get this out while the iron was hot so to speak. Constructive reviews are shiny.

Out to the black

Prologue

It had been a long day. As Allan Bryant stood up slowly and stretched his back, he realized how tired he was. Ever since the day the then young engineer realized that he knew how to make a practical spacecraft power plant using a radion accelerator core reactor, he knew he had his work cut out for him.

Just in time too. Earth was just about used up. Fossil fuels supplies were dwindling, crop failures were rampant, the icecaps melting rapidly and the world seemed to be coming apart at the seams.

World governments had changed rapidly in the last 30 years his life Allan thought, He had been born an American in a small town in Northern Vermont. By the time he was ten he was a citizen of the Anglo-Sinai Alliance. This new composite government had formed after the merging of the world’s two largest economies. Consisting of China and the United States. Then they had annexed Canada, the United Kingdom, Most of Western Europe and Northern Africa.

The new Alliance formed a central government that seemed to Allan, to have kept the worst of the original nations ideology and none of the good. Human rights were put on the back burner, while government control along with profit and greed came to the forefront.

At age 41 with numerous patents for spacecraft propulsion, terraforming and life support systems behind him and an obscene amount of money in his bank account, he felt that maybe, just maybe he could help fix things for humanity.

Astronomers had located a star system about 20 light years from Earth that looked like a gift from God himself. Midway through the 21st century, optics had b