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skonen_bladesFirst contact went very well. The neutral meeting point on one of Saturn’s moons was a good point for everyone. They had faster-than-light travel and we didn’t so it was deemed fair.
The aliens were ‘paired but one’ as they called it. Separate entities that had in time become symbiotic.
Picture a green, gnarled four-legged bowl with a smooth glowing orb sitting in the bowl.
The glowing orbs were recorded intelligences that had been left behind when their race left the planet. They were a backup. The parent race never came back.
The four-legged bowls used to intelligent animals with a large, hard carapace. The glowing balls found that if they attached themselves to the animals’ backs while the animals were young, the carapaces would grow around the orbs.
The orbs extended nanotendrils into the walker’s minds, boosting their intelligence and uniting the two creatures. In return, the animals gave the orbs the power of sight, touch, smell, and movement.
They were fascinated by our ‘oneness’, the translator called it.
They invited our first-contact team back to their planet. We couldn’t say no. They whisked us away in their small ship. They said they’d bring us right back.
That was six years ago.
Twenty of us were on the contact team. There are thirty of us now. The aliens were disappointed that our females only gave birth to one or two humans at a time. They’ve been forcing us to breed. They put those nanotendrils into us and stimulate us like puppets. We don’t even cry or scream anymore.
We thought at first that we were honoured guests. Then we thought we were prisoners. Then we thought we were their pets. Now, I don’t think there’s a word for what they want us to be.
It looks like they’re interested in making us integrate into their race like they did with the four-legged walkers. They’re trying different ideas with our babies. So far the experiments have all been screaming failures.
It’s hell.
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The aliens were ‘paired but one’ as they called it. Separate entities that had in time become symbiotic.
Picture a green, gnarled four-legged bowl with a smooth glowing orb sitting in the bowl.
The glowing orbs were recorded intelligences that had been left behind when their race left the planet. They were a backup. The parent race never came back.
The four-legged bowls used to intelligent animals with a large, hard carapace. The glowing balls found that if they attached themselves to the animals’ backs while the animals were young, the carapaces would grow around the orbs.
The orbs extended nanotendrils into the walker’s minds, boosting their intelligence and uniting the two creatures. In return, the animals gave the orbs the power of sight, touch, smell, and movement.
They were fascinated by our ‘oneness’, the translator called it.
They invited our first-contact team back to their planet. We couldn’t say no. They whisked us away in their small ship. They said they’d bring us right back.
That was six years ago.
Twenty of us were on the contact team. There are thirty of us now. The aliens were disappointed that our females only gave birth to one or two humans at a time. They’ve been forcing us to breed. They put those nanotendrils into us and stimulate us like puppets. We don’t even cry or scream anymore.
We thought at first that we were honoured guests. Then we thought we were prisoners. Then we thought we were their pets. Now, I don’t think there’s a word for what they want us to be.
It looks like they’re interested in making us integrate into their race like they did with the four-legged walkers. They’re trying different ideas with our babies. So far the experiments have all been screaming failures.
It’s hell.
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Date: 28 Sep 2009 20:33 (UTC)I dunno, man... who gives their data storage externalizeable nanotech? I don't want my DVDs walkin' around, especially if I put my brain in 'em!
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Date: 28 Sep 2009 20:41 (UTC)no subject
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