Pulled to the Front, Pt 1

Foundation, The People’s System, Hegemony of Free Peoples

The Hegemony’s Foundation planet was absolutely stunning, beautiful, and lush. It was home to verdant forests, barren deserts, towering mountains, and bottomless oceans. There was also a wild variety of bountiful fauna and colorful flora in nearly every biome on it.

Far more than Earth ever did.

Foundation was in perfect equilibrium with itself, with every ecosystem checking and balancing each other in seemingly perfect harmony. The naturalistic, chaotic beauty of it all.

Except, of course, for the fact that it was a bit of a lie. Or, perhaps, a trick.

In fact, it was redesigned and resculpted to be the perfect representation of humanity’s origin planet, hundreds of thousands of years in the past.

The seas and the dirt and the skies - all of it was soaked in the most advanced nanite technology in existence. And they worked to maintain that balance, constantly.