The Portal

On the planet Aitopu, the great people tell of the story of the great and mysterious portal to another universe that appeared in the middle of Aitopu one day and then left some time later. This is that story.

Aitopu is a large planet near the giant, gaseous star, which makes Aitopu too hot to have large quantities of water. but, the great people of Aitopu discovered a very finite source of water deep below the surface when they began relocating their society that functioned under the surface because of the extreme heat of the star.

The day that this water source was found, coincieded with Aitopu’s first king’s birthday. So the day was marked as a holiday and celebrated on the same day, every 182 days, the duration of their revolution around the star. The people of Aipotu celebrate by abstaining from all drink and work for a week prior to te day of discovery and they break their obstination at high noon on Discovery DAy with a large lass of fresh water. But, after several years of this the water supply was severely threatened, to the point where people would have to pay astronomical prices to just participate in the celebration. Year after year, fewer and fewer could participate, and eventually people started to die after their extended lack of drink in the extreme heat on Aitopu. It go to the point where only the royal family got to celebrate Discovery Day. It was then that a portal was discovered to a planet in Aitopu’s twin universe, but this planet was primarily comprised of water and ice, depending on its proximity to its sun during its orbit.

The first person to test the portal has been forgotten but what they found changed the history of Aipotu forever. Once the portal was deemed sage, the king mandated that multiple outfits of people fo through the portal to collect water and bring it back to Aitopu for storage and future usage. The king calculated it 12 outfits collected 100 lekas of water each per day for two years and regulated the water consumption, then the water would last for at least 10 years for the entire population of Aitopu.

After 273 days of water collection, one of the water collection managers reported to the king that the portal appeared out of focus. Normally, the portal looked like a frameless picture of another world. Now, the portal was fluctuating in size and transparency. the manager warned the king that the portal may disappear as randomly as it had appeared. The king heeded her warning and allowed her to change the daily collection quota for the safety of all the water collectors.

The quota was reduced to 50 lekas of water per collection for all 12 daily collections. Then, the quota was reduced to 50 lekas for eight daily collections. And, soon enough, the head collection manager deemed any portal travel completely unsafe. That very day, the portal faded away and was never seen again.

The king made a formal declaration that any and all water collection has hirtherto ceased and the water that they had would be more strictly regulated until they could find a replacement water source for the collection on the watery planet. People returned to a life that they ad hoped to never return to.

Without the people’s knowledge, the king had employed some scientists, engineers, agriculturists, and chemists to develop a way to create water from the resources that were in abundance on Aitopu. After years of research and experimentation, the water collective found a solution and life on Aitopu changed again, but that’s a different story.

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