One of the most amazing sights I've ever seen is Anu, the planet that hosts humanity's first lung farms.

The seventh M-class planet to be discovered, and the first by the Obsidyan Technology Group, it was an absolutely pristine terran-like planet that appeared untouched and had an atmosphere that was approximately 21.9% oxygen. And it was exactly what Earth needed.

The inherent problem with teleportation was that is that it is still bulky and expensive to create on a grand scale. However, it's much easier to create pinprick portals, let's say no bigger around than the tip of your pinkie. Where a lot of companies kept trying to send heavy machinery to Mars and do it cheaper, better and faster, Obsidyan had something else in mind.

They performed the test using the air of New Zealand, which prided itself on its air quality. They used a test subject in their home offices of Vancouver; a thirty-five-year old man who, as an early quantum technician, had contracted diamond lung and was now forced to stay hooked to an atmosphere machine to survive. The poor bastard had gratefully signed the waivers.

In place of his left lung, they put a small module that was responsible for teleporting his blood through a series of pinprick portals to the set of artificially grown lungs in New Zealand and then receiving the newly oxygenated blood back into his body again.

With one lung missing and replaced with this device, he was able to leave his room unaided for the first time in over a year.

While a lab in New Zealand would be fine for a single person to process their carbon dioxide and ensure the right amount of oxygen content, Obsidyan was thinking in terms of a grander scale. For example, the 35.6 million inhabitants of the Mexico City metropolitan area, which has, for at least two decades, been unfit for human life according to Mexico's air quality index, the IMECA. Normal gas masks and respirators were seen in the streets on a constant basis, with most of them sold for cut prices by street vendors who use lower quality and already expended filter cartridges. A day where the death toll is not over five hundred was unheard of.

Thus, the acquisition of the planet Anu was the next logical step. Anu is covered with large, hangar-like buildings, in which literally millions of lungs hang in their own personal ideal conditions. A single building can service two million humans.

Obsidyan offers this service to the Mexican government as well as the municipalities of both Mumbai and São Paulo. They are able to provide this service at lower than average costs due to Buildings Five and Six, which are contracted out for use by humans doing long range planetside exploration along both the Outer Rim and also the mission to Rho Coronae Borealis.

Obviously the security implemented by Obsidyan to protect the breathing of humans far and wide is formidable, so only the occasional journalist is allowed access, like myself. However, I do urge everyone to take the available virtual tour that Obsidyan provides for home use.