Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 251, Saturday
September 8th, 2018
Chapter Six: The Lost
In his quest to track down the paths of the Ancient spacefarers he found
many lines of their progeny on planets that had become nothing but graveyards.
Barren, lifeless worlds, where it was clear that the vessels that had
carried them arrived at these locations at a point when they could not go any
further.
In some cases their ships were still orbiting a planet as an artificial
satellite, in others it was clear they had crashed into the planet below,
either because after achieving orbit, their orbits had decayed or because they
were not able to successfully pilot themselves into a safe landing.
In some cases they found the bodies of those Ancient people cold and
lifeless, mummified in their ships, drifting above the planet’s surface. In
other cases they found their skeletal remains burnt and scattered on the
surface of the planet neat the sight of impact.
There many occasions when the people had successfully landed,
disembarked, established small colonies that thrived for a time, but then were
destroyed, either by natural disasters, environmental catastrophes, disease and
starvation.
Some of those colonies thrived for a time, establishing new societies,
spreading across the surface of their new planets. Many of those succumbed to
internal conflicts, the specter of war and violence that haunted their species,
and they destroyed themselves.
Among those civilizations that found their footing for a time, some of
them continued in the traditions of their forbears, even building new ships and
new archologies, which they launched into the galaxy before being lost.
They were people who had vanished from the knowledge of the Collective.
They left records of their passage and clues to where their survivors
might yet be found.
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