Aborted Paradise I

Aborted Paradise I
By Masked Man

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This story is intended for ADULTS ONLY. It contains depictions of sexual activity involving minors. If you are not of a legal age in your locality to view such material or if such material does not appeal to you, do not read further, and do not save this story.

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Editor's note: English is not Masked Man's native language. To retain the flavor of his style and avoid possibly changing any of his meaning, it is being presented here as originally submitted. I believe that despite the non-standard syntax, readers will encounter little, if any, difficulty in comprehension.

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Chronology

Year 2100
The over populated and polluted Earth barely can stand huge human population; the first colonies in the moon and mars were settled; even when the way of life in those first colonies is hard with the current technology, it gave a momentary relief to the over population in earth.

Year 2180
Technology is better and better to sustain life in the colonies, but the over population in Earth, Mars and the Moon makes life each day harder; humanity hopes that their technology gives them a solution soon. They have detected numerous habitable planets in the galaxy, but they are far from reach with the space travel technology at that moment. Meanwhile hunger, riots, bandits and illness are everywhere.

Year 2200
Finally the solution arrives; scientists discover space travel with spaceships faster than light's speed. This allows humanity to reach and colonize habitable planets in the entire galaxy. Finally no more over population and pollution and most planets have enough food to have an enormous surplus to be traded with other planets without or little food, but with other valuable resources. A golden era for humanity starts after centuries of suffering.

Year 2300 THE OLD TRADITIONS.
Each planet develops its own "national" identity and traditions. With so many multiple planets, in many were possible to develop some crazy types of societies; however almost all of those "experimental" societies collapsed sooner or later. The most common form of society was the traditional family; proving that this way of living was the most stable and convenient for a society in the long run.

Besides, after hundreds of years of semi-anarchy and suffering, people wanted stability; most planets became very traditionalists; they just wanted a family, a wife or husband and children. In this love for the orthodox ways of life and hate for chaos it was common in many planets for parents to be very strict; they used to enforce hard traditional discipline in their children. The "family", in the most traditional sense, was a very strong belief.

Nostalgia and love for the old traditions made that in most planets clothing, architecture, furniture... resembled the ones used for humanity in XX century.

2310 NEO GENISIS IV (NGIV)
Neo Genesis IV was perhaps the craziest of all the "experimental societies". The planet had food but not to sustain a huge population, and in those times apparently no valuable resources. So this semi useless planet was sold cheap to a very wealthy crazy genetic scientist, Anthony Van Houten. Some say he was a "soft pedophile" for his taste for young children however no one has evidence about that.

He was a firm believer in children's superiority; they learn faster, are open minded, not distracted by sex and the problems carried with it; he had the crazy idea that a children's society would work better. And now he had his own planet to make his own rules and the scientific knowledge to try it; Holes in the "Galactic Law" allowed him to go on with his "crazy" project.

He started to make test tube babies suppressing the "growth genes" at 10 YEARS OLD. Those first kids were trained too as genetic technicians with the ability to raise even more children. As Neo Genesis population started to grow and grow with more children, they required more "specialist" kids.

This developed to the point that Van Houten didn't require other adult personal anymore and from then on adult visitors were very rare and only were allowed to land on the planer for a "good reason" and the less time possible.

When Van Houten the "Creator Father" passed away, they had already a functional society. Each kid had a normal life spam but they never grew beyond 10 years old. Curiously Van Houten chose genes that made all kids in Genesis IV very cute and good looking.

2400 CLASH OF CULTURES
Van Houten was right in many senses; Neo Genesis IV population grew as he expected or even better and faster. The only problem is that human brain is NOT FULLY DEVELOPED at 10 years old. He could fix this problem by not repressing the brain's development at 10, but doing it will change kids' minds and would turn them from children into dwarves, adults in kids bodies, and all those advantages he argued to be on kids would be lost; so immaturity was a price to pay for an eternal childhood, no matter how old they were, they remained as 10 years old kids not only in body but IN MIND AND EMMOTIONS TOO.

Even with that, their society was 100% functional. Some kids felt some desire for the unknown love and protection from a parent; they were kids after all; however they loved their planet and way of life, their love for freedom were a lot greater than any desire for parents.

Being Van Houten firm believer in "children's superiority"; in his weird way to see things, he educated his children with rejection to certain adult characteristic such as sex. Preteen children are in certain degree sexual beings but not in the adult level, so Van Houten developed in NGIV certain rejection for sexuality in any form. One of consequences of that is that kids were raised with great awareness of their own body and all of them were very bashful.

All kids lived very happy in their world. Their immaturity made them have some problems at the beginning. Technicians were dedicate and clever but careless, so even when nothing really serious happened they had some accidents; but they could manage to solve this situation by enforcing security protocols and giving power to a new type of specialist kid: the security guardian.

They also had like 3 or 4 funny civil wars; being kids no one dare to use lethal weapons. Their "wars" looked more like a rude kids' game. But after that they established some sort of dictatorial government, but very functional and stable, and mostly supported by their population.

WEALTH
The minerals that were thought to be "useless" at the beginning resulted to be very valuable and useful to catalyze and moderate fusion reactions, the most common energy source for humanity. Those minerals weren't known to be present in other planet, so kids had the galactic monopoly of those minerals and became very rich.

Besides kids' scientist were very gifted genius and make the planet technological advanced, enhancing a lot children's way of life with lots of new luxuries.

It was a paradise for the local residents. Kids' jobs were more like a game for them; they did their jobs with passion and everyone worked in what they liked, with just few hours of working time per day. The planet's wealth allowed some kids to not work if they wished it. All production properties were common and kids had no pressure for any corporation, all was the common well. They also had no crimes; the more "serious" thing they punished was bulling, pranks and other silly things like that.

However their major problems came from outside:

Most planets had a very traditionalist population, believers in "family". NGIV was an aberration for them, it shouldn't exist, they were "worry" for the kids; the most radical groups were pushing their governments to take over the planets and "save" those kids from themselves; an invasion for their own good. However most population believed in the independence and self respect of each planet and they were against such plans even when they thought NGIV was a crazy thing; besides the Galactic Law supported those kids.

Governments would not care about NGIV if it was for one reason, greed: the planet had valuable and unique minerals, an enormous source of wealth; and for some greedy corporations only a bunch of kids were in the middle. Besides NGIV had excellent scientist even when they were just kids; to have them would be a good advantage over other planets.

Right now most population was against the invasion, so the greedy governments had an aggressive undercover campaign with the "save the children" speech in their local mass media. They were waiting patiently.

2410 AN ACCIDENT AND AN EXCUSE
In this year a fusion reactor exploded in NGIV. After years of small accident in its origin NGIV developed high security protocols and a good emergency response teams, and their security reacted very well preventing a lot of victims.

This kind of accident had happened before in other planets with worst consequences. It was not related at all with the fact that the planet was ruled by kids, it was just bad luck.

Unfortunately the Galaxy didn't see things in this way. The propaganda, always searching excuses to bash NGIV, screamed hysterically: 'Look at that!! See what happened, we were right all the time; we warned you about this; we have to do something now and take care of those "poor little kids" before something really bad happens to them.'

Now public opinion in pro of "save those kids" was majority. Quickly before the public change their minds, and the incident is forgotten, some major powerful planets in the shadows made secret agreements dividing for them NGIV and its wealth.

Soon a coalition of war spaceships was sent leaded by the Zeus as capital ship, they gone disguised as a fleet of technicians to investigate the accident, but they had other intentions...