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Ok, well, um, I just wrote the introduction to a novel-thing whose plot I've been working on over the summer. I normally don't like posting this stuff in here, but I really want feedback, since its kind of far-future science-fiction, and I've never written anything like that before. So, yeah. Comments would be nice.
It lay in a far-off galaxy. The planet they found was christened New Earth, after the first Earth, which the people had to leave because it was destroyed beyond salvation, so that it was no longer habitable. The atmosphere was already the same, the air the same, the soil the same, the water the same. They brought their plant life, and their animal life, so that it resembled the world they had left behind in every way. And then they brought themselves. And, therefore, the people that made it their residence were, for better or for worse, also the same.
It became another land of kings and courts and fair young maidens. After decades of chaos and anarchy, the soon-to-be royal family brought the people out of the darkness and established order. They outlawed guns and bombs and all the weapons which had played such a large part in the destruction of the Old World. And so they ruled for centuries, with all the grandeur of an age long-forgotten, and with the new technologies of one never previously dreamed of, and there was peace. But that was before