Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 114, Tuesday
April 24th, 2018
Chapter Two: Bi Pedal
The Ancient race of spacefarers were bipeds. They stood on two feet just
as the humans of earth would in their time.
The longer the Ancient colonists remained on their journey through the
stars, the more they adapted their physiology to the unique exigencies of their
vessel. In the case of the group that eventually landed on earth, they learned
to adapt themselves to conditions of near weightlessness.
The conditions of deep space altered the function of their limbs and
digits, of their muscles and skeletons.
In anticipation of coming to Earth they began to alter their physiology
again, to reconstruct the things that they had lost. They transformed, as much
as they could, back to the form that was the closest approximation to what they
had originally been.
They prepared once again to stand on two feet.
The interactive relationship between the creature, the
animal, its body, the environment determined the spectrum of its consciousness.
Standing against the pull of gravity, under the weight of
the Earth’s atmosphere, balancing on two feet, these differentiated human
beings from every other creature, the pivot on a central axis, dancing, and walking.
It was with their heads held high, and faces lifted to
the sun, that the first colonists moved across the surface of their new world.
There were many changes yet to come, augmentations, and
enhancements. They knew that they would not be leaving Earth any time soon,
they had to prepare themselves to rule it, as the apex species on a planet
filled with predators. They landed under the auspices of a simple rule. They
had to adapt to survive.
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