Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 253, Monday
September 10th, 2018
Chapter One: Mutations
His trek through the galaxy took place over thousands of lifetimes.
Thousands upon thousands of lives, changing bodies, observing, during
which he led the recovery project for the Empire, for the Collective and the
Continuum.
The farther away from the Central Planet, the more distance he put
between his mission and the Empire, the more change he encountered in the
populations he discovered.
Every society had to make adaptations to its genetic profile in order to
accommodate the physical demands of the worlds they had colonized.
The children of the ancients prepared themselves for this when they set
off on their trek through the stars. They would identify the planets they
intended to colonize long before they arrived there, planets all with the
potential for hosting life, and which previous generations of their people had
seeded with the building blocks of organic matter.
Probes and drones would return reports regarding the composition of the
atmosphere, the gravity of the planets, light and heat, the types of food they
would be able to grow. They would have generations to prepare themselves, and
they introduced changes into their gene pool in advance of arriving at their
destination to accommodate their habitation of the new worlds.
The living planets would change the population on its own, after the
colonization began.
The population of every colonized planet were mutants. Most of the
mutations were subtle. Some mutation were not noticeable to the naked eye.
Some were extreme.
The Empire followed, either to bring the people into the Imperial fold,
or eradicate them.
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