Slave Ship

I. Prologue Visions of a future Earth After all we've done to her There is no room for us Man our mother's plunderer The air is unbreathable And we must go Mother Nature weeps And reaves her world of people II. Alarm "Free your minds Open your eyes The end of this world is nigh!" "We must send a team Away from here To find a new home." "The time has come To journey forth And find a planet Of another star!" "The end is nigh And we must fly Away from dying eyes." III. Escape Fired our ship To the sky A seed to carry All of us Beyond the sun We speed as one Toward the Astral Plain The galaxy 2103 Our generation will never see Toward the stars To seed as one Beyond the Astral Plain IV. Farewell "Epsilon One You are alone The only one." "We send you forth Into the unknown And what lies beyond!" "Your life-led ship By each generation Till search complete." "As we expire You will live on Man will live on!" V. Lost Away from this Earth Two thousand years We travelled Through space we have drifted To find our celestial home VI. Found WELCOME, CREW THIS IS EPSILON TWO DEMI-HUMAN PRO-BIONIC ADAPTED SURVIVORS POST-HUMAN REMAINS OF A NEW CIVILISATION THROUGH BLENDING OF MAN WITH MACHINE A REFORMATION OF REASON, CULTURE AND PEACE WAS ACHIEVED TO AVOID DEVASTATION BEINGS SUCH AS THEE OF A PARASITIC NATURE DIRECTED BY A BASIC TENDENCY TO BREED AND ACHIEVE REDUPLICATION FOR REASONS SUCH AS THESE WE FORESEE THAT YOU WILL JOIN US MODIFICATION AND YOU WILL ACCEDE OR BE ELIMINATED VII. Epilogue Years of our travels Have rendered anew Species unfit for The light we once knew