"AfterLight" - "They are coming home."

In the year 2800 AD, the human race was forced to leave Earth. The precious blue planet had become over populated and was unable to sustain such staggering numbers. Earth’s resources had been completely depleted and the soil had become barren, unable to sustain any sort of plant life. The air had become stale and polluted, making it impossible to breathe without a respirator. The trapped pollutants had heated the earth until its surface boiled.

Thus, in order to survive, the human race had to leave their home. They had high hopes that their absence would allow the earth to heal and become the lush planet it had been long ago. When the time is right, they hoped to return.

900 hundred years after they left Earth to allow the planet to heal, the human race did indeed return. Unfortunately, they found themselves to be aliens to their own home world. Life had not only survived, but evolved and mutated in order to adapt to the harsh conditions the humans had created. The humans described Earth as hostile where they were no longer the predator but the prey. What seemed to be the most frightening was that some of these hostile creatures resembled humans. Was it possible that the humans that were left behind long ago mutated as well?

Fortunately, only a small explorer team has settled on the planet thus far in order to collect data on the planet and the creatures that now inhabit Earth. Once a reasonable amount of data is collected and analyzed the human populace will return with a means of cohabiting with the hostile creatures that dwell on the planet.

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