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Titan (Third Dynasty) pt.9

That made eight. Truly, the government could only afford to make two other masses inhabitable but the Inquisition of the time (a twisted religious group who in all, were called the darker side of Christ and tried to scare people into returning to the old ways of blindly following god though Orthodoxy) had people desperate to escape. Uranus and its moons were eliminated for the simple fact that they were impossibly far away. Too far in fact, to transport more than twenty people comfortably. The remaining three were decided upon, Titan, Europa and Himalia. Himalia, being the smallest, would be fixed up as cheaply as possible.
It would be a 15-year project at the least. Probably 20 because of a problem arising in Phobos, but it turned out to be 30 years. A rebellion was grouping in the northern hemisphere in the major city, Ellirah.

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