My name is Madalitso Tamandani but my friends and family call me Madali. I live in New Zambia on Mars with about 14000 other People and am 18 years old. Today we have registered a craft from Earth approaching our Planet. It is unknown for which purpose, but it is probably just another unmaned surveyor drone. We would just just hide until it's gone to live and enjoy our peaceful lives. Or so I thought.

  "Madali! Get up! You are not a child anymore!", I heared my mother screech.

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  Man was it annoying to wake up early with and suffer.

  'This is the reason our ancestors left earth', I thought to myself.

  I stood up from my bed and went to put on my clothes. Today would be my first day as a salvage-researcher. A salvage-researcher was a highly prestigious job, as we were the ones who deconstructed the first alien tech making a colonisation of Mars possible in the first place. I was lucky to have gotten this Job.