Scotland in
Space
by Michael S.
Collins
Lots of planets have a
Scotland. We get around, like the space plague.
Where once we were content creating television
and insulin and computers, now we have harked
back to our roots. As pioneers, boldly traversing
the unknown country: the second unknown country,
space, that is. Enough of our kin have traversed
the first one. Pioneering space travel, like when
our ancestors took over Canada, but with bigger
distances. Much bigger distances. With the
distances we travelled you could travel to Canada
from Scotland in one tiptoe, in comparison.
And, oh, the Scotlands we
have created. New Scotland. That was the first
planet we found. Scotland Returns. Scotland III.
Independent Scotland. That's where we dropped off
the Nationalists to breed. Ecosse. Partick
Thistle Are The Greatest Football Team In The
Known Universe Anyone Who Disagrees Can Rename
This Uninhabitable Planet In The Middle Of An
Asteroid Belt. Dalgliesh. Flower of Scotland.
That was a floral planet. Glasgow Kiss. That was
a jungle.
Many Scotlands.
Forever creating new
Scotlands, on new planets, further out. The laws
of survival dictate humanity can only survive by
reaching out beyond the planet Earth. Which is
what we are doing, making sure the name of
Scotland lives on far beyond that planets natural
end.
Of course, everyone was
doing that. And yes, by the time we'd drunk all
the left over booze on the planet, other nations
had a head start of a couple of hundred thousand
years.
So that is why we are
roaming the galaxy, rebranding it the Scottish
way. One outpost at a time.
Lots of planets now have a
Scotland. We get around, like the space plague.
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