Once upon a time, there was this magnificent planet that floated in the very middle of the galaxies.
It had everything mankind needed; food, water, shelter, vast jungles to house and stock wonderous animals.
The inhabitants of that planet flourished greatly, and built many buildings and societies with what they had, until eventually they started to advance as a species.
They made great house councils, roads and bridges, and homes for people to dwell in, with giant mega centers for scientists to research all of their many accomplishments, always looking for how they could improve their technologies.
One day, the builders found a way to create beautiful ships that were capable of travelling amongst the stars. These ships allowed the planet dwellers to build in space, and soon they were able to travel farther to visit other planets as well.
…But over time, the spacemen began to drift further and further from their original planet.
They would move a couple miles, then a couple hundred miles. Then a couple hundred miles turned 1 light year, and then a couple hundred lightyears.
And every time they would return to their once planet, they were always disappointed to see it and its people still in the same spot they left it. Unmoving, and unchanging. Without the will to join them up in the stars. They were always bickering. Always engaged in their councils, unable to pull away from their old ways that their technologies just seemed to outshine them in.
Soon returning to their old planet just started to become too sad a voyage for the spacemen to make…And so, they left their old planet, and what once was 1 lightyear away, turned to 100 light years, to 1,000 lightyears; until that once beautiful blue glowing orb they called home, faded from their sight, and they never returned.
The space men called the galexies their home now, and built their homes amongst the stars, just like they always dreamed they would one day.
That blue planet that the spacemen once called home was Earth.
A long ancient name lost to the archives, as the Voyagers reach space one at a time.