User blog comment:Doom Vroom/On to Other Things/@comment-24101790-20150808013638/@comment-26326346-20150808015926

@ Jay ten: You are a very punny man.

@Empyre:

I might get back into Sci-Fi.

I have an idea for a novel/long story that I've spread across some index cards. Basically, the Earth gets overpopulated so some spaceships are commissioned and roughly half of the Earth's population is sent into space to solve the problem. Those that are sent into space go in search of another planet that can sustain them and end up succeeding in finding such a planet despite the odds.

Nearly one hundred years later, the humans that settled the planet send a few ships to Earth in an effort to set up a trade agreement and see what's up with Earth, but the Earthlings end up thinking that the ships are an alien invasion and end up shooting down said ships thus starting a long and bloody war.

And that's pretty much the back story of what I'm considering. I probably won't finish the whole thing, but it'd be nice to get started on it and seeing if that takes care of my burnout.