Science Fiction Saga (no name yet) Prologue: And so it Ends (845 hits)
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Submitted by shadow (View user info) at 2004-05-17 11:44:07 EDT
The long awaited into to the science fiction saga is here.
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Since the dawn of life, the inhabitants of a small blue world known as Earth have been locked in a struggle for survival. The desire to exist has become instinctual, for on this brutal yet beautiful little world, the greatest challenge has ever been simply to live.
Through the progression of a changing environment, a multitde of species (both flora and fauna) have risen, conquered, and fallen. From great beasts of land and sea to miniscule furred creatures, the patterns of life continue to be woven by the strange hands of Chance and Fate. In the last thirty million years, the evolution of a hominid species became a defining line for the history of Earth. This species named itself homo-sapian, human, or "man" in common terms.
Man found that he could use tools to achieve his goals, he found that he could use fire, he found that he could paint and sculpt, that he could think and reason solutions for his problems, and that he could kill other men if he needed to. Indeed, man became very skilled at killing other men. In the begining, man fought for breeding rights, so that his unique genetic material would carry on to the next generation. Later man fought for resources as the population swelled. Eventually man fought for wealth and power over his societies, and over the Earth itself.
Man learned. He grew more intellegent but some might argue more savage as well. Man learned of the the atom, the tiny building blocks of all matter. Man learned to manipulate the atom, to split it, to release the power within, the power that created life, the universe and everything. He learned how to use that power to kill other men, and then he did just that.
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It was believed to be the year 2022, though records from this time are sketchy at best. Though it is unclear how it began or "who fired first" as they say, the results were undeniable. Nearly two-thirds of Earth's surface was impacted or otherwise affected by the nuclear bombs and missiles of World War Three. These areas included much of the Meditteranian, Middle East, South and East Asia, North and East North America, South and West North America, Central and Eastern Europe, etc. Mankind migrated to areas such as southern Africa and far-east Asia on the Eastern Hemisphere and to South America and the far north lattitudes on the western hemisphere. Leadership changed hands very frequently for the first few decades, but eventually man realized that if he was going to survive, he would have to try a new approach to dealing with his brothers; like peace. Thus did the societies of man begin to recover.
Times were tough, resources were limited and restrictions had to be put on reproduction else the precious few unspoiled bits of earth would be overrun and lost. For one-hundred and sixty-odd years man survived on archaic technology and new innovations in soil conservation and management. Man would rebuild, but the planet was not in stellar condition.
Polution and fallout from the nuclear holocaust continued to plauge mankind well beyond the twenty-second century until a new form of technology was developed to combat the reprocussions of the past. It was developed by a young Cino-German by the name of Jurgen Ostendorpf, who had discovered an abondoned proton-accelerator in the remains of Western Europe. Using advanced mathematics and his knowledge of computer and physical science, he formulated a way to recombine matter on an atomic level, changing the proton accelerator into the first Atomic Recombination Generator (ARG).
The ARG was put to work immediately proccessing radioactive waste and debris into inert material, and for the first time in the history of science, one could quite literally turn garbage into gold. The initial results however, were less than promising; in order to turn one Kilo of waste into inert material, the generator used as much energy as the sun produces in three months. The proccess of the first ARG was terribly inefficient and time consuming.
New solutions to the energy problem began to pour in once the word of the ARG's marginal success had spread throughout the globe. Ultimately the project recieved help from scientific communities in each of the remaining human settlements. Using a branch technology, mankind developed the first fusion power plant to provide the energy for the ARG. Still, the proccess was laborious and costly.
Plans and specs for the ARG were distributed by ship and electronic mail to every settlement on the planet. Each and every man and woman was given a chance to share their ideas on how to make it work better, faster, and more efficiently. The Mid-African Landshare settlement was the first to create a design for a working ARG that could fit inside a small building above ground. Plans were later made for an extremely efficient design that utilized technology from twentieth century micrwave ovens. Less than one hundred years later, humans began to repopulate areas where radiation had previously taken hold and using ARG technology, raw materials for building were limitless.
Mankind grew and expanded, new technology and ideas flourished in this world without boundaries. Colonies were initiated on the Moon, and then using the Moon as a base for ship building, man branched out to Mars.
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Thousands of years ago, an alien race known as the Drahaj'ma from a planet called "The World of Blue and White" had visited Earth. They saw great promise in a strange hominid, a tool user who walked upright much the way they did, who painted the way they did, who thought and reasoned and built societies the way they had on their home world. They wished to observe these creatures, to watch them grow so that they might better understand their own species, and the mysterious workings of the universe. They planted a listening station on the fourth planet of the system, a small red world that had died long ago. The listening station was powered by a fusion reactor, with a supply of energy that could be recycled and was therefore nearly indefinite. They listened, they watched.
They were delighted when the station recieved it's first radio transmission from the surface of the little blue planet, the third from the sun in the system. They listened with awe at the strange language the hominids had developed. They had hope that these creatures would one day be like them, that they would have a neighbor in the galaxie they could learn from, and teach.
That was until they witnessed the destruction that ended the hominid's second world war. The hominids had used fission to kill each other. The Drahah'ma saw this as an abomination, to use the "god-powers" thusly was an atrocity beyond reason. They assumed that the hominids were far too war-like to ever reach the Drahaj'ma level of intellegence. They abandoned the homininds, and cut the feed from the listening station, leaving only a reciever for the station's emergency beacon. They feared what would happen to the galaxie if these hominids ever aquired more powerful technology, if they made it into space.
Three hundred years later, a beacon was emmited from the forgotten listening station. The beacon traveled billions of miles to the "World of Blue and White". The beacon told of how the hominids had found the listening station, how they had inadvertantly triggered a catastrophic reaction, how the station had been destroyed, likely killing many hominids. The Drahaj'ma's worst fears had been realized... the hominids had found their way into space.
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Now begins our story...
User Reviews
Submitted by Cryopaul (user info) at 2004-08-26 14:27:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I just read this after you updated us on your status. Fucking awesome.
Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2004-06-03 20:11:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked it all except that whole bit about using as much energy as the sun does in three months. that is a ridiculous amount of energy. I'm all for a make believe in sci-fi, but I just thought that was a bit extreme. Good story though, I wish i had signed up to be in it.
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2004-06-03 20:09:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This was fucking awesome. This would have gotten my vote in a later round UberMadness comp.
Awesome. You are one of my new favorite writers on here and I think it's great that you're spending so much time entertaining us. I rarely read a whole fictional piece and you had me from beginning to end.
Submitted by ohlookasquirrel (user info) at 2004-05-21 11:42:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by hamilton (user info) at 2004-05-19 17:54:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
so...
when do i get to start shooting mutineers, and people who aren't mutineers, but i call mutineers and shoot, simply because i don't like them?
Submitted by Daeron (user info) at 2004-05-19 13:51:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nice start.
Just one thing, the Atomic Recombination Generator sounds a little corny.
Otherwise, very good.
Submitted by Val (user info) at 2004-05-19 13:44:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Me rykee
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2004-05-19 13:35:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good start!
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2004-05-18 09:50:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Instinctive.
Yes I know I am anal.
Good work.
Submitted by Awko (user info) at 2004-05-18 09:35:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nice. Looking forward to the rest.
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2004-05-17 15:30:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Bring it on. Excellent start.
Submitted by CunningVision (user info) at 2004-05-17 13:39:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good times.
Submitted by Trishtopher (user info) at 2004-05-17 12:54:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
MmHmm. Is good stuff. It drew me in and I'm not really a huge sci-fi fan.
Submitted by Falconer (user info) at 2004-05-17 12:51:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Awesome.
Submitted by Degreeless_Capibara (user info) at 2004-05-17 12:38:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Pretty interesting until the part with the alien dudes. It was still good, but I soon got tired frmo reading. God I'm tired tody..
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2004-05-17 12:31:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm lysdexic... i mean dylecix, i mean dyslexic...
Submitted by ess2s2 (user info) at 2004-05-17 12:28:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow dude, there were so many typos in that writing that my eyes shut by themselves just to keep me from going insane.
I tried to look past all the typos and focus on the story, but--and I mean this in the best possible way--call the police because somebody stole your spellchecker.
But even though your spelling would have sent your old english teacher into a shock induced heart attack, the story was very good and actually kept me reading. I would very much like to read the next installment. Spellchecked of course.
+2, but just barely.
Submitted by Yes (user info) at 2004-05-17 12:23:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
cool
Submitted by shark25 (user info) at 2004-05-17 12:06:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
good work
Submitted by Kristen (user info) at 2004-05-17 11:57:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I need a 'Science Fiction Nerd Dictionary'.
=P
Submitted by euripidestrousers (user info) at 2004-05-17 11:55:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
No Comment
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2004-05-17 11:50:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
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