The Unsung Hero of Coruscar🔊

It was an unusual setting in the city of Coruscar, where the tall buildings barely let any sunlight touch the ground. The people, the flora, the fauna, everything thrived in mirky sunshine, with the skyline always covered in the gray smoke reverberating from the ginormous factories. The city that never stopped, never slept, was finally at a standstill. The factories were silent, the streets deserted, the air filled with an ominous calm.

In the midst of this chaos lived a man, Victor D’Mello, a scientist, known for his eccentric inventions that often led to more problems than solutions. His latest creation, a time-travelling watch, was the centerpiece of the entire town’s conversation. However, with all its perks, the watch held an uncanny rule - each journey affected something in the current timeline.

The day the city collapsed, Victor was testing his masterpiece. The initiating alarm triggered a loud buzz, and a white halo circled Victor, then there was nothing. Victor had traveled back a hundred years before technology had hijacked the city. The same city stood in front of his eyes, an unrecognizable rural paradise filled with lush greens and azure skies. He fell in love with the past. But the dilemma was, the city he loved was the city he had left in ruins, all because of his own leaps of technology.

Victor knew he could change this future, protect this green past. He embarked on a journey, deciding to help his people build a future, harmonious with nature, unlike the one he had left behind. He worked with local leaders, proposed ways to balance industrial growth with the city's wellbeing. Slowly, technology started flourishing, but with utmost care for nature and life.

Fast forward to a century. Victor returned to his time only to find a city transformed - lush green parks replaced gigantic factories, blue skies adorned the horizon, people laughing in the streets, enjoying the gentle sun touching their skin. It was the city Victor had visioned. But as ecstatic as he was, a chilly realization dawned upon him. His residence, his lab, his world before the travel, everything disappeared. He remembered the uncanny rule. He changed the timeline, and it had its repercussions. Victor D’Mello, ceased to be a scientist, was now a regular citizen of Coruscar.

But his loss didn’t feel like one. He was never happier, living in a city that thrived in a real sense. With the sight of the pure blue sky, feeling the real sunlight on his skin, he realized the genuine essence of being human was not in transformations that boasted human dominance but in transformations that promoted co-existence.

Thus, Victor lived the rest of his days in natural bliss. Each day was a celebration of a life retrieved from the human-made abyss. He had lost everything, yet he had everything—the joy of seeing children play under the sun, the happiness of watching the sun bidding goodbye painting the sky in hues of red and orange, the serenity of stars shining bright in the night sky, the sight of lush greenery greeting good morning.

Coruscar lived in harmony and bliss for centuries to come - no chaos, no ruins. The story of its transformation was etched in every corner of the city. And the unsung hero of this story, Victor D’Mello, lived along with it, eternally, not in its history books, but in its air, its soil, its blissful existence.