Charlotte's Lair

What wonderful worlds!

Inspired by Louis Armstrong's, "What a wonderful world"

It isn't meant to be perfect, just creative juices flowing. It was worth it.


Part one
Star system arrival by mothership
Seemingly uninhabitable planet, expect terraforming normal.
Planet resists terraforming and requires they check it out
Planet of ghosts, but the ghost only seems to exist on its surface.
On the planet’s surface they dig deep and build a city beneath the surface.
An unfortunate accident happens and they realize the ghosts can be very harmful, even deadly so they remain safe beneath the surface
Someone jokes about the surface being Heaven and they weren’t ready to go to Heaven.

Part two

Their children, it was discovered, could communicate somewhat with the ghost
Years progress and the children are nearly grown up and the realization that they are leaving with the ship still in orbit comes to fruition
The children are really projections of the ship and their memories will be given to the adults that are grown in vats upon arrival at the next planet far away
The real children actually born on the planet mingle with the projected children
Before the ship departs to another destination, some of the natural born children manage to get aboard the ship and essentially become ghost aboard the mothership because they have been altered by the entities of this planet and will become able to survive the trip to the next planet...

This mother ship is, What a wonderful world!