User:Jormungand01/Rise of the Frish

Genesis
Five thousand miles above the surface of the molten globe a small rectangular object dropped like a stone through the thin atmosphere, crippled and leaking fuel. From dark recesses embedded in its shell jets of flame periodically appeared, as if trying to push the craft back into orbit. For a moment whatever was controlling it managed to lift it slowly upwards, but then two more of the same kind appeared. Blasting away at the ship with deadly energy weapons, they soon managed to tear most of it to shreds. Then the engines failed for the final time and the lonely spaceship plunged from the heavens to sink beneath the rolling seas of magma that covered the young world below.

But it was not yet ended. As the remains began to melt away under the intense heat micro-organisms that had lain dormant started coming to life. Many of them burned to a crisp almost instantly, but a number managed to survive in the cargo bay - the strongest part of the entire spaceship and the only bit that had remained intact under the enemy bombardment. Isolated from the extreme conditions outside and provided with a good supply of air and food from the electrical systems, they prospered and before long there was a thriving ecosystem inside this small metal block. So it was that at least some life survived long enough for the magma to cool and crystallise around them, sealing them away.

For millions of years life evolved and diversified inside that one tiny space, while miles above the planet slowly became inhabitable. The surface solidified and became a crust, in which the rocky nodule became trapped. Volcanoes belched fumes into the developing atmosphere, which then transformed into the gases essential for life. Every so often a comet would impact, feeding new minerals into the system. And yet still there was one thing missing - life itself.

Two billion years after that spacecraft smashed into a ball of molten rock, its remains came to the surface and were eroded away. Out of it ventured those primitive single-celled organisms who would one day inherit this amazing new world, ready to colonise the surface.