Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 110, Friday
April 20th, 2018
Chapter Five: The New Gene
Change begets change, in a never ending cycle. From one point in time to
another, nothing is ever the same. This is true, no matter high finely you
measure the distance between points.
Everything is changing.
The Ancient spacefarers became humanity. Their ages-long sojourn across
the galaxy had already caused them to modify their physical form in significant
ways, long before they arrived on Earth.
At first they utilized their scientific understanding to engineer their
bodies to withstand the exigencies of prolonged space travel. Once they
targeted Earth as their final destination, they began to prepare themselves for
the demands of their new home.
They survived by mutation.
Once they arrived in orbit around their new world, a slow metamorphosis
took place.
There contact with the Earth’s bio-sphere presented challenges they had
never encountered before. Life on earth was aggressive.
Through a constant exposure to viruses and bacteria, their genetic
constitution became compromised.
At the most basic level they converged with the native life of Earth.
They became a new people.
This took time. It took many thousands of years, and by the time the
transformation was complete, they had lost much of the knowledge of who they
were, of where they came from, and the technology they had brought them here.
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