“They really do take care of you,” Cassa said to herself. She planned not to utilize these amenities, however. “The sooner I sleep, the sooner I get there – and back,” she reasoned, “to family, friends and parties.” But before going under she decided to follow Tef’s advice and watch the visual on Sharila.
Sharila represented the rarest of all finds thus far in the neighboring galaxies, a Category 9.5 planet, meaning it was ninety-five percent compatible with earth. While it sustained no life upon discovery, the mineral composition of Sharila was such that it could easily be terra-formed into an Earth-like ecology. Plant life did not grow precisely as it did on Earth. Forests burst forth rapidly and the trees dwarfed anything known to humanity. The earliest settlers of Sharila found farmin
