The Spore Project

What will the human species do when an object big enough to destroy all life on the planet is discovered speeding toward The Earth? With no hope of escape, a desperate plan to ensure the continuation of our species somewhere... else, somewhere safe, is launched.

Earth sent out thousands of 'Spore 'capsules into the galaxy before the object which they called 'Shiva the Destroyer' obliterated all life on the planet. Each 'Spore' capsule contained patched DNA for the construction of 12 genetically distinct humans, thousands of sequences of genetically engineered DNA for food crops and a record of Earth culture. Each spore contained a digital library, stocked with a dozen movies, a hundred audio songs and every book the project creators could think of — 'The Encyclopedia Britannica', 'On the Origin of Species', 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare', 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', 'The Alexandria Quartet', 'Homage to Catalonia' and thousands more.

At least one capsule found fertile ground.

“The Spore Project” is the story of twelve children, 'actualized' from DNA code launched by the visionary humans of Earth, themselves doomed eons before, whose challenge to survive and build a new human culture is slowly revealed in a series of embedded dispatches from their 'parents' on a distant and long-since destroyed home world. But are the transmissions real? Or have they been tampered with, manipulated by a mysterious hacker with an unknown agenda?