Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 250, Friday
September 7th, 2018
Chapter Five: Children of the
Ancients
The Ancient spacefaring people founded thousands of communities among
the stars.
Their first steps were two inhabit the planets and natural satellites in
their home solar system.
The mined every world for the metals and gasses they needed for fuel and
sustenance.
They harnessed the comets and smaller objects that wandered in irregular
orbits around their star.
They built colonies on asteroids, on planetoids and planetessimals, strapped
engines to them, and road them into the void looking for new places to dwell
among the stars.
They built incredible archologies, launching them into the darkness of
space.
Generation after generation, they built new ships, captured new vessels,
and pushed themselves out, deep into the galaxy.
The people that volunteered for these missions, were explorers, whole
communities, families of adventurers.
They were heroic.
He followed their legends, tracking the wake of their passage, searching
for the furthest, most remote, and isolated outposts of the Collective’s past.
He was determined to find the most ancient link to the past of his
people, believing that it could save them.
Only a fraction of the communities and vessels he found were living, and
thriving.
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