'Tis the future. Humanity
has made immense progress. There is no other civilization on this
side of the Galaxy, but we have managed to colonize hundreds of
planets, some even terraformed. These terraformed ones are a stain on
our history and those who stay there have dealt with much shunning.
No longer. Humans are well beyond malice and spite. We're so far into
the utopic reach, there is no sense of begrudging inequality or
discrimination, there's no logic for superstition or religion. But
far on an old home, our planet Earth enjoys a blissful ice age and
the longest lasting pagan tradition mankind has ever celebrated:
Christmas.
This is a future in which
technology is so advanced and humanity has become so capable,
anything is possible, within reason, of course. Only on Earth, the
last few 120 thousand people, who chose to preserve our beloved
planet as a sort of protected reservation, still celebrate with gifts
and colorful lights on the 24th day of December. Near the
North Pole, there's a small village where small little elves make
wooden toys, they groom the reindeer and help out Santa Claus.
However, the elves are very clever robots, and so are the reindeer,
who use a very advanced technology to actually fly, helping
themselves on the magnetic properties of the planet. The only living
thing there is Santa, who likes reading vintage comic books and
eating chocolate cookies. And surely, no, the toys aren't really made
of wood, but actually a soft rock material that they mine from some
of Saturn's rings of meteorites.
Christmas day is
coming, but so do the representatives of mankind's governing
authority. Their orders and demands are as sound and clear as their
intentions: Christmas has gone long enough and needs to stop, for goodness sake.
Disrupting it one year would suffice, would break down and end the
last primitive tradition that ties humanity to its old and depraved
ways. While the Earth citizens are debating whether it is logical to
just cease the jolly fest or to preserve this last ounce of historical celebration, no matter how pagan and unrelated with its roots, for it hurts no one to do so, the
representatives consider that this debate alone is proof enough that
it splits and divides society. Santa disagrees and he's willing to do
anything, even go against his way and, ironically, literally fight in
order to keep Christmas alive.
How will Santa manage to
do that? Will Christmas be canceled forever?
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