Cerberus

Greetings to everyone, the following story was inspired by the digital art of @xpilar, I invite you to visit his blog. The picture that motivated this story is the following.

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Cerberus

A gigantic mine, devoid of vegetation, or any other life on its surface, and under the protection of domes and underground constructions, only humans inhabited it, with very little surface water, and temperatures that did not exceed two hundred degrees Kelvin Cerberus was a huge and cold rock, rich in plan, palladium, iridium and gold, a wasteland, ruthless and practically uninhabitable.

In the middle of this discouraging panorama, one of the first colonies of the Perseus era was formed, it was the tenth planet to be inhabited, and it was more a decision guided by the need of materials, than by inhabiting new spaces. Despite this Cerbero has remained one of the most active and populated colonies of all the inhabited worlds.

About a hundred million humans, many more than in idyllic worlds like Palas and Dione, inhabit this cold and dry environment. Most of the activity occurs in large underground galleries, excavated during the first decades, when it was mainly a mining colony.

Even today mining is the main activity of Cerbero, however, in the middle of this hostile territory, a very profitable tourism industry has developed, centered on large hotel and entertainment complexes built in some of these gigantic underground galleries.

The third and most important industry of Cerbero is aerospace, two of the main companies producing military and civil equipment, are headquartered on this planet and are the third largest source of employment.

At first sight it would seem a planet devoid of life, with only superficial constructions, all of them industrial type, Cerbero is one of the most active worlds of all the conquered.

Text of @amart29 Barcelona, Venezuela, June 2019

Other stories from the Time and Space series

• Púlsar / Pulsar
• Esferas / Spheres
• El Laboratorio de la Isla / The Island Laboratory
• Rescate de Chatarra / Scrap Rescue
• Mares Eternos / Eternal Seas
• El Reactor (1/2) / The Reactor (1/2)
• El Reactor (2/2) / The Reactor (2/2)
• Terror Nocturno / Night Terror
• Criaturas de Agua / Water Creatures
• Mi Día Entre Gusanos / My Day Into Worms
• La Masa Gris / The Grey Mass
• Colisión / Collision
• Los Bosques de Perséfone / The Forests of Persephone
• Osiris / Osiris
• Metamorphosis
• Hastio
• Paradox
• Decay
• Under the influence of the Pleiades
• Anniversary
• Memories
• Core
• Uoke
• Cerberus

I can only thank @xpilar for allowing me to use his digital art in my publication and for motivating my creation. Thank you very much @xpilar

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