A transport arrives with a large number of young teens, and some as young as 10. Almost no adults to be found. Why? The colony's new CEO decided to give the KIDS the right to get vaccinations and other care if they wished, but it was a trap, for those that desired so were shoved into a transport and kicked off the planet. The adults turning their backs because the kids decided to think for themselves. -- Anon Guest
It was a transit bot marked as bearing live cargo. For that reason, the tugs pulled it into the drydock. Because it was from a Deregger world, they had ERT's and Mediks on standby.
They were right to do so.
Inside the hold were rows of bunks and a small handful of chemical toilets. There was a water system, but stale air. There was also a tight huddle of four hundred and eighty-three kids aged between eight and nineteen. Judging by the way the bigger and stronger ones had formed a living net by clinging to the bunks and each other, they fully expected the vacuum of space.
Passby Station was not prepared for this many children, but they would move mountains to prepare in a hurry.
The story emerged as the kids got proper treatment. They had suffered being locked in a cargo unit for the better part of a month, with water, air, and food dwindling to almost nothing in plain sight of everyone.
What had they done to grant such an exile?
The CEOs declared that the children with jobs were free to gather at a special centre to get vaccines if they so desired. There would be alterations to their identity cards, but it was still their choice.
The world gathered them up for a month. Held them in a special facility, then herded them into what they call a quarantine dorm. Which was their cargo hold.
The kids would need a lot of therapy, but they still insisted on getting their vaccines. Something that had to wait until their health status was renovated.
Eager wannabe parents were already flooding towards Passby Station. Sending their profiles ahead of them, with nice letters asking the abandoned children if they'd like a new family.
Only Dereggers viewed children as a burden.
The CEO that sent them out fully expected to drain the Alliance economy with this maneuver. They wanted the 'weak' system to collapse from the sudden strain of antiestablishment rabble-rousers who volunteered to go against the righteous flow. And so on.
They never expected a flood of thank-you notes.
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