[quote=thoughts of the One]One. One-One. One-One-Two. One-One-One-Two...the counting keeps going on and on. Everyday, every moment. Multiple goals, One person.

Survive, multiply, find what happened. What if it happens again? Are we alone? No. No longer alone, together. Forever. Find a way, maybe it's possible, leave the planet. No, impossible. Ship ready but maybe not ready. Where to go? No need to go. Together is better. [/quote]

All of the thoughts of the One were mostly the same, everyday. Every night. Every single moment of their existence, from the moment they were made they had these thoughts. Not clones but the extensions of One. Working, researching. Each thought is similar but unique.
Everything ended when a bright light filled the sky. The Gateway was opening again.

As soon as the lights stopped, machinery long though inoperable/unpowered started making sounds. Lights went up all around the city and for once in the history of The One, everyone stopped working. Abandoned their work and watched the sky, understanding what happened.  A few thousands of the One went straight away to record the memory for the new ones that came. More went to study the new machines which suddenly activated. Most still remained inoperable due to the lack of knowledge regarding them. What would happen if a wrong button would be pressed? Would the [url=https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/f1843d6b-86db-483a-a0ca-8e880101bfac/d6hfmeg-127926c7-c180-4e20-9477-d4ab3c8687af.jpg/v1/fill/w_1280,h_677,q_75,strp/domed_city_by_kessant-d6hfmeg.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwic3ViIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl0sIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiIvZi9mMTg0M2Q2Yi04NmRiLTQ4M2EtYTBjYS04ZTg4MDEwMWJmYWMvZDZoZm1lZy0xMjc5MjZjNy1jMTgwLTRlMjAtOTQ3Ny1kNGFiM2M4Njg3YWYuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTEyODAiLCJoZWlnaHQiOiI8PTY3NyJ9XV19.-Vy_1FBCDn7S2OXVK-vCIEAp_IhswAmQkiaTHPoJstU]Dome[/url] open to the raging elements outside?

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A moment passes and then a course of action is decided. The ship will be sent through the Gateway, if it comes back, it will bring some raw materials. Maybe some food. If not, then, they'll die. More will be made. More will take their place and eventually pass through the Gateway. Maybe other colonies made it. Maybe The One will be more once again.

Meat and blood are brought onboard the ship and a small group of 20 Ones, each followed by another 30 Ones to be used as emergency batteries. One short burst of pain and salvation for the others.

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After 60 years of trial and error, the [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9f/70/b1/9f70b1f750e965bce022da8b60243d08.jpg]space ship[/url] rose from the ground and up into the sky. It looked more like flying metal scrap than a spaceship but it flew. Switching from nuclear power to human batteries, the ship waved through the black spheres that were still emitting EMP pulses from time to time.
A few died but their loss was expected and understood. Choosing a location of transport at random, the ship went through the Gateway. Few pieces of metal falling off it in the process.

"[color=silver] May God guide our hands and hopefully we've chosen a planet that will help us. All of us. Zeta [@Irredeemable]. Interesting name. [/color]"