History Lesson

Posted on 24 Jul 2013 @ 12:29pm by Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim

591 words; about a 3 minute read

Allydnra sat in her quarters her mind restless. The dream had brought many things to the surface and she knew she needed to get things out.

"Computer record personal log"

[Recording]
"
I have never told others completely about the situation on how I came to be off planet. Perhaps a little history is in order.

I made mention to others that I am a widow. My husband Gerrin was going to a conference when the accident happened that took his life. None of my khar'atah returned from the sea. Tragic, but then it must be taken in context as well.

At one time in the Akkadian past we had technology that would shame some of what is. However, to understand I must relate some history both of my planet and of myself.

We slowly colonized all the land of the planet and began to build and expand as many cultures do. However, it was discovered that some individuals had the ability to make great intuitive leaps, to have insights, to be able to pull seemingly random bits of information together and make something that had never been thought of.

Such individuals were termed A'burab'atu, which means to do fleetingly. It was found that the trait was inheritable and thus we began to breed for it. As such our technology took great leaps forward in a relatively short time. Soon enough we began to leave the confines of our world and like many before stretched to the nearby worlds of our own system.

Though we did not know it at the time, we are blessed with many places that life took hold on. However, only one other world had large bodies of water that we need for reproduction; but it is a frozen world and too cold for us, so as our population increased we turned our sights further.

A chance discovery of a certain crystal and again those with the gift put many things together and we developed what we called Fold Ships. A tale I shall leave for another day. These Fold Ships allowed us to span the distances to the stars and other worlds. Worlds where we found warm days, and large oceans and there we put down our colonies.

How cruel nature turned out to be. Nature had designed us and we found that our bodies were tied to the rhythm of the Twins, the salinity of the seas and a dozen details and one by one these far flung outposts died, and those that did not came home. They came home to an already crowded planet and instead of bettering ourselves those whom we called A'burab'atu turned their grasp to destruction. A'burab'atu, it meant to do things fleetingly but instead those with the gift now were termed A'ksu, dangerous.

The world just barely survived the war and those with the gift killed and any born with it viewed suspiciously and carefully watched and guided as we slowly rebuilt. The Great Houses agreed that we must erase the past in order to preserve the future and all technology not deemed beneficial destroyed or in some cases hidden away.

Warraquim, those who gather knowledge. It was literal as I discovered later. Knowledge was gathered, stored and then forgotten. History was rewritten and the truth suppressed and hidden."

Allyndra yawned. She knew that she would have to finish this later and she needed to get some sleep before her shift. This was as good a stopping point as any.

"Computer stop recording, file as history lesson"

[Recording stopped and filed]

RSS Feed