Hemanki was standing before the wall sized window ,looking outside, gazing towards the twin stars, the twin stars are appearing now like two disks side by side one white small disk one big red disk, on the glowing backdrop of the nebula they were shining like two diamonds giving an effect for which there is no earthly words to describe. As a scientist she knows they are binary stars one red giant one white dwarf a binary system and their space craft is moving at a high speed towards it gaining speed every hour.

When their space craft was coming out of the space time barrier it lost its navigating system and the fuel tank. They are just getting pulled towards the star system due to its huge gravitational pressure. It is point of no return. But at present she is enjoying the beauty of the space mesmerized, spellbound has forgotten this beauty is nothing but death. “Hemanki! Come for the medical checkup.” Dr Agarwal’s voice came out of the voice distributing machine. Hemanki came back to reality, after the space ship came out of the space time barrier every crew member has to go for the medical checkup. Hemanki moved towards the medical room, on her way she met Saif he is a shy and nervous kind of a boy of around 22 years youngest of the crew , he is only taken in this expedition because he has an extraordinary strength in mathematical calculations otherwise, she had always has a question why he is included here. Always he is frightened and nervous no strength to take decisions.

“Hemanki , are we all going to die,” he nervously asked Hemanki gave a sweet but sad smile to him and went inside the checkup room. “Hear you are Hemanki, I was waiting for you, It is now your turn for checkup,” Dr Agarwal said smilingly. He is the Oldest of the crew member around 53 years of age but he is well built and more than fit. He has a paternal feeling for Hemanki who is the only lady member of the crew. “Dr. ! Are all others checkup has been done,” she asked inquisitively. “No dear, you are the sixth person for checkup, after you the other four is remaining.” Then he said in a bit whispering tone Shravan has developed mantel instability due to this trauma, be causes about him,” “Is he dangerous?” Hemanki asked the doctor, “he is our engineer on board who can repair any fault of the space ship. Who is going to repair if any fault arises?” Dr. smiled, Hemanki realized what this smile means, after losing the fuel tank and the navigating instrument there is nothing to repair, they are only waiting for Arunabho’s final calculation.

All were sitting in the conference room, Arunabho started to tell about his findings – Arunabho a middle aged man is the best scientist on the space ship. He first gave an speech about the situation- situation of the space ship concluding with saying that, “as you all can understand without the navigating system and the fuel we are in the mercy of gravity, the gravitational pull of the binary stars and as per my calculation we will fall on the Read Giant,” and he started explaining how he arrived at this calculation and what path the space ship will follow…………….. “Space ships speed will start increasing very fast due to the huge gravitational pull….,” Hemanki’s concentration drifted she was not no longer listening to what Arunabho was telling; she has drifted to her past. “Father look Polaris,” Hemanki was telling his father, pointing her finger towards it “Yes you have spotted it correctly,” he acknowledged it, and told smilingly,” but you know Polaris is a binary star,” And he being an astronomer started explaining what is a binary star is, but Hemanki was in no mood to listen…………she was running and telling “Polaris a binary star! Polaris a binary star,” “Twinkle twinkle little star……….….One day I will go to a binary star, “ Hemanki came back to reality.

Arunobho was announcing the day and time of impact. Date and time when the space ship going to hit the red giant – only few days to live. Everybody sat on the conference table gloomily; nobody spoke for few minutes – maybe thinking about their past, their families and friends the planet earth. Then Dr. Agarwal got up and spoke “Arunabho! Have you found out where we are in space, how far from Earth?” Arunabho answered, “No Dr., as we have lost the navigating system it will take time to find out where we are,” “Let’s then find out where we are and also ……” Though there was no commander in them but all the crew members used to listen to what Dr. says. Yanger is the biologist and the genetic engineer on board was analyzing the recently gathered data by all the crew members of the spaceship about the binary star system. His eyes started to shine with excitement; he started running towards the medical room calling top of his voice. “Dr.!! Dr.!! Dr. Agarwal where are you.” “Yanger! What happened, you look so excited.” “Yes Dr.! The second planet in this solar system is in the habitable zone, we are saved, we can take the space ship to that planet and land. There we will be able to change the environment of that planet within few years; we have got all adequate instruments and knowledge to change the environment of the planet.

We are saved we will be able to live our full life.” Like lightning the news spread on space ship there is a planet in this solar system in the habitable zone. Urgently meeting was called, all sat on the oval conference table, laughing talking, everybody was happy, they were talking how much they can change the environment of the planet. Arunobho wanted to say something but they were so busy about their future plan, they were not listing to him. The discussion was mainly focused on the topic of possibility of changing the environment; if it was not possible to change the environment then at least the space ship will be there, they can leave rest of their life making space ship as their home. “Quit everybody, you all in your excitement have forgotten one thing,” Arunabho shouted angrily. “In your excitement all of you have forgotten one thing; we have lost our fuel tank, without any fuel it is not possible to defy the gravitational pull of this stars and change our course to go to the planet.” There was pin drop silence as if thunder has fallen on their head, in excitement they have forgotten that they have lost fuel tank as well as the navigating system. “We have only a small quantity of fuel left. Only the small shuttle in the space ship will be able to go to that planet carrying one man.” Arunabho said in a sad voice. They were sitting in the conference room saliently then one by one the left the conference room.

Hemanki was seating ideally in the control room, looking towards the control panel her looks were vacant, remembered the day when director of the space center was addressing them on a well-modulated voice. “Earth is dying; greed of our ancestors has brought us in the verge of extinction.” “Earth will become water less life less planet. Life to continue in this planet is not possible any more. We have to find another planet where human race can continue, future of mankind is on finding a planet suitable for our habitation. As you know it has been decided, every country will send a space mission to find a plant habitable by human race. You all have been chosen to represent our countries space mission. Though we as a human race have achieved the technology to go beyond speed of light but we have not perfected it yet. In the last five years 90% of the space missions sent by the other countries have failed and the rest 10%, we are not getting any news where they are.

So to conclude this that though this expedition is extremely dangerous, but the continuity of human race rests on your hand, If you succeed then earths life will continue in some other planet or else.” Director stopped his speech he gazed towards them for few seconds then he got down form the dais. “We have also failed,” She thought. She focused the telescope of the space ship towards the planet, yes they have found the planet where human race could have relocated, the second planet of the new found universe. A beautiful bluish red planet, twice as big as earth with two rings, environment of this planet is somewhat similar to the earths environment a water and oxygen based planet, though the percentage levels of the gases and water is different from earth but now human race has the technology so that they could have transformed it and made habitable for them. But alas there is by no mince they can send any message to earth or return back, everything is lost.

So beautiful a world here our race could have leaved peacefully the offspring’s the future generation to come would have got a beautiful world. Then suddenly something came to Hemanki’s mind, ‘OFFSPRING’ she was a poor student of biology but something she remembered. She went slowly, thinking about what she remembered, to Dr. Agarwal’s cabin. “Dr., can I ask you something, it may be bit weird.” Hamaki asked Dr. Agarwal. “Yes, tell me.” “Is it possible to replicate fertile egg, what I mean to say if we have achieved the technology to make copies of the fertilized embryo?” “Yes Hemanki now a day it can be done. A fertile embryo of any leaving thing can be replicated in the laboratory like a Xerox copy.” “Dr. Agarwal ! Can’t we do it here, in this space ship?” Dr. Agarwal was bit perplexed by her question, and could not understand what she is trying to say. “What’s in your mind, Can you explain it.” “Ok Dr.,” Hemanki took a deep breath, “I will try to explain it to you as much as I can.” Dr. Agarwal’s eagerness increased, Hemanki would not have come here without a particular plan, she is one of the most reliable crew and scientist in this space ship.

“Dr., when we were doing the biology classes for the training, there was a class where the professor explained that now we can replicate a fertile embryo, like doing Xerox of a particular page, as much copay as we require we can make.