Post by Sapien Magi Secondi on Apr 7, 2014 21:51:10 GMT
We thought we had evolution worked out. It is safe to say we had it's past fully mapped out, there was after all no missing link left, the homo genos was complete. Was complete, past tense, truth be told we new nothing of the present or in fact the future of our genes.
We first started questioning our model for evolution when we discovered the Homo Secondis. The first generation of their species emerged from our wombs in the late 2040's. They grow up physically identical to us, apart from a small insignificant difference in their dna, it was small enough for our doctors to overlook, to a point. It's after pubity that the difference becomes clear at an age of around seventeen to twenty two they under go a second bodily change, a second pubity if you will, granting them powers ranging from the pointless to the comically overpowered abilities of heros such as the X-men.
It was when this first generation underwent their second change that things got messy, governments grew, quite rightly, scared of the Secondi, they issued laws and formed commitees, on the restriction and removal of this new species. They had their human rights stripped from them and were prosicuted for being different. This lead to war.
The first generation built themselves a contenient in the Pacific and declared their independence for themselves and their Prides, the war lasted three years until another side entered the fray against the Secondi. Wizards, well technically they called them selves Homo Magi, they were, like the Secondi, a seperate human species born from homo sapiens centuries before. Keeping their heads down and their existence a thing of folklore the Magi had posistioned themselves comfortably in the higher rungs of society across the globe. They fealt nothing but hatred for their younger sibling, they cheapened the Magi existence, dirtied the purity of humanity with their abnormal and animalistic abilities, there was no art in their powers, no incantation! They didnt need years of study to unlock their abilities the Secondi only had to age to forfill their potentiel. it took a Magi decades to reach their prime a Secondi, a matter of years.
This jealousy made them reveal themselves to the rest of humanty and enter the war, and finally in the year 2096 after twenty one years of bloodshed, The Homo Secondis abandoned the Earth, and fled in ships to the asteriod fields in the outer orbits of the solar system. It was the first true war for dominence amongst multiple species of human, what happened before with the Neandathal, the Sapien and the other original species was a race, a race to adapt there was no ingrained hatred towards one and other, not like we have amongst us now.
"The year is now 2132, The EDL, Earth Defence League, has taken to the stars, Lead by the Magi, humanity works on expanding our teritories, mars has been terraformed and successfully colonised, and work on several of jupitors moons has begun." Alenser looked up from the history book as he spoke, " So i put it to you, where are the Secondi? We've seen no signs of mining in the asteroid belt, no derilect ships, no wreckage. Not a shred of evidence that they colonised any part of our solarsystem."
As Alenser scanned the room he saw a wave a of blank uncaring faces looking back. "Not one of you wants to know what happened to an entire race of humans? a race capable of fighting against the joint strength of Sapien technology and Magi Mana?"
"They left Earth, what reason would they have hanging around our solar system?" Piped up a young girl from the back, "Would nostalgia be a strong enough bond to keep them here and risk future encounters, future wars with us?"
Alenser smiled, a smart one then, "Yes, nostalgia may not be enough, but have you considered revenge? They were a race in their infancy, looking to establish themselves and they were met by fear and prosicution from the race that gave birth to them, and then with hatred from the Magi their elder sibling, if it was us, how would you feel?"
"Sir, it wasn't us, they arn't us we can't know how they felt, we might feel anger but we have no idea how their minds work." This time it was a man towards the side of the room who answered.
"Exactly, Felix isn't it? Yes, exactly, we don't know how they would feel or what they would plan, and isn't that what is trully terrifying? they, an unkown race driven into space by a feirce and unyeilding predujice, and now we can't see any evidence for them, none at all, that terrifies me, and it should you." He flicked his hand and the slide showing war images swapped to a map of the solar system.
"Each and everyone of you joined the EDL to expand and defend our influence, so far we have met no resistence, no green men on mars, no Secondi littered around the belt, and so far no form of sentent life apart from our own, this will not always be the case, at this point it is arragonce to believe we are alone, and when we meet this threat, we must be ready for it." He sighed deeply, i'm far too old for this, a grand master teaching raw EDL recruits, in each class of fifty only one or two show any promise. Why must they still punish me for this.
"Felix and sorry girl what was your name again?"
"Maria Sir."
"Right, Felix and Maria i would like the two of you to meet me after class, the rest of you are dismissed for the day." Felix slumped down with a moan, his classmates snickering behind him, Maria didn't seemed to mind too much, she simply sat there as the class slowly, left the room.
*****
"Alpha Juliet this is Heiros Capital, expect a temporary signal loss, we have two freighters scheduled to fold in 60 seconds."
"Understood Heiros, arrival feild is clear an ready." Raimon turned his Arc Jumper around, he watched as his squad broke trajectory to form up behind him.
"Gonna be one hell of a banquet i hea-
.........
silence rang out, as two ships appeared in the arrival field.
..........
"Davis when will you learn it's pointless to try and speak during a fold?" Churped Fran from the far Arc, she was right mused Raimon, space is quiet on it's own, but during a fold? it wasn't just the transmittions that are jammed, all sound was lost, the humming of the engine, the flickering of the lights, even the sound of your heart beating is stripped from you, temporarily. A small price for insantaneous travel, although it caused most to panic on their first time, a small price for bending space itself.
"This is Captain Harl of the Freighter Sabrina, asking the Heiros Pride if they will allow us to dock." The voice rang out loud through Raimon's headset, damn idiot broadcast on all frequences, not even small prides allowed themselves to be so sloppy.
"This is Commander Wen, of Herios Capital, you are approved to dock. The Heiros Pride welcomes you and the dignitaries from the Ramesses Pride. If you could go to channel seventy two for future comunications." there was a pause, Raimon could imagine the diplomats angry cursing and the captain's humiliation, a rookie mistake like that could have hindered the entire visit.
"Understood Heiros, starting docking procedure and switching to channel seventy two now." the two freighters began their approach and Daimon signeled his squad to fall in and escort.
"Well as i was gonna say, going to be an interesting meet this, Ramesses is a small pride with only ten or twelve families to it's name, suprised we're treating them so formally, usually we would just abosrb the-
.........
A fold jump? Where!
.........
"Alpha Juliet! We have unknown fold jump, break off and investigate." Raimon didn't even need to give an order, his squad we already moving. An unscheduled fold was a crime, no exceptions, it was too dangerous, without prior warning there was no telling if you destination was free of ships, to fold into an occupied region of space would destroy anything within the space your ship would appear.
"Raimon it's cool we have the ship in our veiw, she's in the emergency fold field." Raimon let out a groan, even if it wasn't a rogue ship, it folded into the emergency field, things back at base were going to get busy.
"Alpha Juliet to Heiros, We have a priority two, it seems to be an emergency fold."
"Understood Alpha Juliet, we have her on scanners now, return to base."
We first started questioning our model for evolution when we discovered the Homo Secondis. The first generation of their species emerged from our wombs in the late 2040's. They grow up physically identical to us, apart from a small insignificant difference in their dna, it was small enough for our doctors to overlook, to a point. It's after pubity that the difference becomes clear at an age of around seventeen to twenty two they under go a second bodily change, a second pubity if you will, granting them powers ranging from the pointless to the comically overpowered abilities of heros such as the X-men.
It was when this first generation underwent their second change that things got messy, governments grew, quite rightly, scared of the Secondi, they issued laws and formed commitees, on the restriction and removal of this new species. They had their human rights stripped from them and were prosicuted for being different. This lead to war.
The first generation built themselves a contenient in the Pacific and declared their independence for themselves and their Prides, the war lasted three years until another side entered the fray against the Secondi. Wizards, well technically they called them selves Homo Magi, they were, like the Secondi, a seperate human species born from homo sapiens centuries before. Keeping their heads down and their existence a thing of folklore the Magi had posistioned themselves comfortably in the higher rungs of society across the globe. They fealt nothing but hatred for their younger sibling, they cheapened the Magi existence, dirtied the purity of humanity with their abnormal and animalistic abilities, there was no art in their powers, no incantation! They didnt need years of study to unlock their abilities the Secondi only had to age to forfill their potentiel. it took a Magi decades to reach their prime a Secondi, a matter of years.
This jealousy made them reveal themselves to the rest of humanty and enter the war, and finally in the year 2096 after twenty one years of bloodshed, The Homo Secondis abandoned the Earth, and fled in ships to the asteriod fields in the outer orbits of the solar system. It was the first true war for dominence amongst multiple species of human, what happened before with the Neandathal, the Sapien and the other original species was a race, a race to adapt there was no ingrained hatred towards one and other, not like we have amongst us now.
"The year is now 2132, The EDL, Earth Defence League, has taken to the stars, Lead by the Magi, humanity works on expanding our teritories, mars has been terraformed and successfully colonised, and work on several of jupitors moons has begun." Alenser looked up from the history book as he spoke, " So i put it to you, where are the Secondi? We've seen no signs of mining in the asteroid belt, no derilect ships, no wreckage. Not a shred of evidence that they colonised any part of our solarsystem."
As Alenser scanned the room he saw a wave a of blank uncaring faces looking back. "Not one of you wants to know what happened to an entire race of humans? a race capable of fighting against the joint strength of Sapien technology and Magi Mana?"
"They left Earth, what reason would they have hanging around our solar system?" Piped up a young girl from the back, "Would nostalgia be a strong enough bond to keep them here and risk future encounters, future wars with us?"
Alenser smiled, a smart one then, "Yes, nostalgia may not be enough, but have you considered revenge? They were a race in their infancy, looking to establish themselves and they were met by fear and prosicution from the race that gave birth to them, and then with hatred from the Magi their elder sibling, if it was us, how would you feel?"
"Sir, it wasn't us, they arn't us we can't know how they felt, we might feel anger but we have no idea how their minds work." This time it was a man towards the side of the room who answered.
"Exactly, Felix isn't it? Yes, exactly, we don't know how they would feel or what they would plan, and isn't that what is trully terrifying? they, an unkown race driven into space by a feirce and unyeilding predujice, and now we can't see any evidence for them, none at all, that terrifies me, and it should you." He flicked his hand and the slide showing war images swapped to a map of the solar system.
"Each and everyone of you joined the EDL to expand and defend our influence, so far we have met no resistence, no green men on mars, no Secondi littered around the belt, and so far no form of sentent life apart from our own, this will not always be the case, at this point it is arragonce to believe we are alone, and when we meet this threat, we must be ready for it." He sighed deeply, i'm far too old for this, a grand master teaching raw EDL recruits, in each class of fifty only one or two show any promise. Why must they still punish me for this.
"Felix and sorry girl what was your name again?"
"Maria Sir."
"Right, Felix and Maria i would like the two of you to meet me after class, the rest of you are dismissed for the day." Felix slumped down with a moan, his classmates snickering behind him, Maria didn't seemed to mind too much, she simply sat there as the class slowly, left the room.
*****
"Alpha Juliet this is Heiros Capital, expect a temporary signal loss, we have two freighters scheduled to fold in 60 seconds."
"Understood Heiros, arrival feild is clear an ready." Raimon turned his Arc Jumper around, he watched as his squad broke trajectory to form up behind him.
"Gonna be one hell of a banquet i hea-
.........
silence rang out, as two ships appeared in the arrival field.
..........
"Davis when will you learn it's pointless to try and speak during a fold?" Churped Fran from the far Arc, she was right mused Raimon, space is quiet on it's own, but during a fold? it wasn't just the transmittions that are jammed, all sound was lost, the humming of the engine, the flickering of the lights, even the sound of your heart beating is stripped from you, temporarily. A small price for insantaneous travel, although it caused most to panic on their first time, a small price for bending space itself.
"This is Captain Harl of the Freighter Sabrina, asking the Heiros Pride if they will allow us to dock." The voice rang out loud through Raimon's headset, damn idiot broadcast on all frequences, not even small prides allowed themselves to be so sloppy.
"This is Commander Wen, of Herios Capital, you are approved to dock. The Heiros Pride welcomes you and the dignitaries from the Ramesses Pride. If you could go to channel seventy two for future comunications." there was a pause, Raimon could imagine the diplomats angry cursing and the captain's humiliation, a rookie mistake like that could have hindered the entire visit.
"Understood Heiros, starting docking procedure and switching to channel seventy two now." the two freighters began their approach and Daimon signeled his squad to fall in and escort.
"Well as i was gonna say, going to be an interesting meet this, Ramesses is a small pride with only ten or twelve families to it's name, suprised we're treating them so formally, usually we would just abosrb the-
.........
A fold jump? Where!
.........
"Alpha Juliet! We have unknown fold jump, break off and investigate." Raimon didn't even need to give an order, his squad we already moving. An unscheduled fold was a crime, no exceptions, it was too dangerous, without prior warning there was no telling if you destination was free of ships, to fold into an occupied region of space would destroy anything within the space your ship would appear.
"Raimon it's cool we have the ship in our veiw, she's in the emergency fold field." Raimon let out a groan, even if it wasn't a rogue ship, it folded into the emergency field, things back at base were going to get busy.
"Alpha Juliet to Heiros, We have a priority two, it seems to be an emergency fold."
"Understood Alpha Juliet, we have her on scanners now, return to base."
