Petra the Harvester

It was the summer of the year 3,333,333,332 A.D.

Petra Pomeroy was a tall 21 year old blonde woman who was cruising in her hover car over the cityscape of Ganymede to meet with a stranger who was a software expert. Petra was a harvester who acquired people who disappeared in the past and kidnapped them before they died, then miniaturized them and sold them on the black market.

The evening sky was filled with various hues of pink and lavender. She parked her vehicle in the garage and went to the stranger’s apartment.

When he came to the door, he was an older man with a long grey beard. He offered her some herbal tea, and allowed her to sit down in a comfortable chair in his living room.

“All of the most obvious potential captives have been harvested,” said Petra. “If your software can lead me to more of them, I’ll split the money with you when I sell them on the black market.”

The old man gave her a memory stick. “You haven’t been going back far enough, Petra! Back when Jupiter was the largest planet in the Sol system, before most of the hydrogen gas was siphoned off for fuel, there were people who died that were never harvested. I have spent the past 80 years searching for people who have no record of being targeted and collected.

Petra plugged the memory stick into a small device and looked it over. An image of a 30 year old man appeared on the screen. He was handsome, with brown skin, dark hair, and brown eyes.

“Steve Corona?” Petra asked. “It says he had a master’s degree in electrical engineering. He was vaporized in a nuclear fusion reactor explosion while riding a monorail on Ganymede in the year 2100. We can use someone like him! I wonder why the government hasn’t tried to resurrect this guy?”

“People in modern times have overlooked a lot of things,” the old man replied. “Who would think that someone from that far in the past could be of any use to use in this day and age? There are others on that list you can target, also.”

Petra didn’t realize that Steve Corona was the key to solving some of the most important problems facing the people living on the Jovian moons and the moons of Saturn. As soon as she rented a time vehicle, she would go back to collect him, thereby unlocking the destiny of humanity!