Hello, friends! Welcome to another episode of the A to Z Challenge! This year, I’m telling you all about the universe I created for my upcoming Sci-Fi adventure series, Tomorrow News Network. In today’s post, L is for:
LITHO COLONY
In case you were wondering, the galaxy is not a peaceful place. We’ve already met the Galactic Inquisitor. We’ve learned a little about the Hykonian Hegemonic Empire, and we’ve talked about Earth’s Imperial Exofleet. But for the good people of Litho Colony, all those wars, all that conflict and strife—those things are very, very far away.
Litho is the outermost moon of the planet Berzelius, located in the Vesper Beta-Beta Star Sector. The chemical element lithium is superabundant in the moon’s crust (hence the name Litho), and so Alkali Extraction Incorporated (A.E.I.) has established a small mining colony there.
That colony has been extraordinarily profitable, supplying more than half the lithium for the Outer Territories and a full 15% for the Earth Empire as a whole. A.E.I.’s earnings keep going up, and the colonists are being well compensated for their work.
Don’t let the industrial aesthetic of the place fool you: Litho Colony is a cozy and comfortable place to live. The hydroponics dome supplies plenty of fresh food; no one has to eat synthetic mush or take nutrition tabs. The recreation facility is top notch, and there’s even a fully staffed school. Litho Colony is the kind of place where people can—and do—raise families.
In short, Litho is a quiet, peaceful, isolated colony world on the frontier of space. Nothing bad ever happens there. And this peaceful, isolated colony world will be the setting for The Medusa Effect, book one of the Tomorrow News Network series.
And next time on Tomorrow News Network: A to Z, we’ll meet an awkward teenage boy who calls Litho Colony home.
Planet Pailly 
“Nothing bad ever happens there.”
Do you ever feel like an evil god out to upset people’s tranquil lives for amusement?
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Who, me? No, if anyone is an evil god around here, it would be my muse. I am merely carrying out her will. 😉
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Hmmm, sounds much more dramatic than it looks like!
L is for Landscapes
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What ever gave you that impression? 😉
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Hello there my friend, enjoying what your doing as always… especially my favorite art. 🙂 Wanted to let you know that On the Master list of blogs for the challenge I have now reached #458 of 510 (that’s you). I’m so glad your doing this again. I’m a few days behind on the reading since I am going through the list being a good participant but I shall return!!! Lithio sounds like a good place to put down roots to me, quiet, peaceful.
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Thank you so much! I haven’t been doing a good job following the master list, unfortunately. There’s so much going on with A to Z. It’s hard to keep up with everything.
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This is probably the first time I managed to do it in years now. Now to keep up with them all 🙂
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Litho seems to be the place to be!
But your statement: Nothing bad ever happens here, makes me wanna believe otherwise!
L is for Liar,Liar
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Well, nothing bad has ever happened there yet. And since all those wars and things are so far away, no one expects anything bad ever will happen.
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But nothing lasts forever right..?
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Indeed.
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I wonder what kind of food they are able to grow there?
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Very good question! Terran-compatible foods won’t grow in Litho’s soil, so the colonists built a greenhouse/hydroponics dome.
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Nothing bad ever happens there!
Never a good sign
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What can I say? Litho is a very peaceful and isolated world. The colonists have good reason to think they’re safe.
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