The Reclamation (665 hits)
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Submitted by Chronic (View user info) at 2006-08-27 14:51:37 EDT
To rise from the ashes, one species had to return from the Heavens. And so began the age of The Reclamation.
The velociaraptor was one of the most intelligent organisms to ever walk the face of the Earth, able to spring organized ambushes and even solve basic problems. The early primates were no different, which raises a difficult question. Were the primates and the raptors really so different? One became physically less capable and a master of tools to forget its animalistic beginnings. Humanity was the result. Is it so unlikely that the other became physically more capable through a disregard for tools and embracing its animalistic beginnings? Why should we have assumed that the intelligence had anything to do with the way our pathetic kind chose to evolve?
Furthermore, the arrogance of Earth's most "intelligent" creature to believe in life as some phenomenon unique to their backwater planet, a result of some divine deity's wisdom to create and choose them as "His" chosen people, was simply nothing more than a desperate attempt to settle the paranoia of self-awareness and the hastily forgotten knowledge of themselves as the descendants of long forgotten animal nature. In the year 2013, they would be confronted with their forgotten reality.
Life is not unique. Life is elemental to the existence of the universe, just like everything else. Life is not carbon-based simply because we are carbon-based, and it's not simply sulfur-based because we think it theoretically could be. To be succinct, life is written into the code and it exists in limitless ways in limitless worlds. One such world's advanced race was watching keenly when the dawn of humanity began to unfold, long before the written word, but some time after people's idea of "people." Knowing that these humans were sure to take over the planet by implementing tools to work on their behalf and procreate in a viral nature, it was decided that the Earth's former "intelligent life" be taken away, for their own protection, and someday given the opportunity to return to their world. The human virus was deemed less important and less valuable than their naturally responsible and animalistic predecessors, and was chosen in advance, by a higher life form, to fall.
The population taken from all corners of the Earth was small, roughly five thousand, but five thousand was the appropriate territorial balance for this dominant and shockingly intelligent species. The giant anacondas of South America use a distinctive mating process. Each of the great serpents lives a life almost completely isolated from its own kind. A single anaconda may control an area of 15 square miles. This type of lifestyle creates difficulties in reproduction. When a female goes into heat, males from miles and miles in different directions descend on the female in question. Upon finding her, they wrestle in an enormous snake knot, often for a full week, after which she chooses one to father her young. These creatures were much the same.
During their time in exile from the earth, the race that had taken them in as an act of good faith to such a pitiful little world trained them in the advanced arts of their civilization and gave them access to technology beyond their dreams, including Elemental Genetics. Access to EG granted the creatures the ability to evolve in one to two generations. It allowed for naturally occurring phenomena in nature, such as unique alloys from distant galaxies, to be combined with the creatures' DNA as they saw fit. The Safekeepers had made this ancient species formidable through alienware unknown and unpredictable to even the smartest and most inventive occupants of the Earth.
On September 19th 2013, a magnetic anomaly buckled out from the area surrounding the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest standing manmade structure. Further analysis determined the energy spike to be of a non-terrestrial nature, and when it was realized that all electrical equipment for exactly 333 square miles was irreversibly fried, and we had visitors, there was global panic. What happened on that day would surely change the world, whether it was to be for the better or for the worse was yet to be seen, but one thing was for sure.
They were back. And they had changed. And the big one wanted to talk.
User Reviews
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2006-09-12 16:46:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
interesting start
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-09-12 16:10:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-08-29 16:13:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I suppose, but my last 10ish posts haven't been literary masterpieces by any stretch of any imagination.
Submitted by Stin (user info) at 2006-08-29 08:34:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Like you ever get as much feedback as you should....
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-08-28 23:19:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
If I had titled this "The Reclamation of the Earth by Space Dragons", I'd get way more feedback.
Meh.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-08-28 01:45:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2006-08-28 00:08:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Aw, that sucks cause I'd really like to see a lot more of you
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-08-27 23:24:50 EDT (#)
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I'm not quite sure. I have a few ideas kicking around.
My elusiveness, I have to say, will continue.
Submitted by Kale (user info) at 2006-08-27 22:53:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-08-27 22:34:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by SilentRenegade (user info) at 2006-08-27 19:21:18 (#)
Ranking: 0
Reads like a documentary....boring....informative and insightful...even slightly intriguing....but boring.
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You just described your own review. The post was fine.
Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2006-08-27 19:30:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
So, when can we expect more of this, chronic, oh elusive one?
Submitted by SilentRenegade (user info) at 2006-08-27 19:21:18 EDT (#)
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Reads like a documentary....boring....informative and insightful...even slightly intriguing....but boring.
Submitted by extacy_red (user info) at 2006-08-27 18:26:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
What antioxident said.
And please continue this one.
Submitted by SilvrWolf (user info) at 2006-08-27 17:25:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
nifty
Do go on, please.
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-08-27 15:50:46 EDT (#)
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Thanks a lot. I have antioxidants in my juice, so I like you too.
Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2006-08-27 15:13:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You're one of my favorite writers on this site
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-08-27 14:59:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Derp derp... Texas.