Behold: Humanity!: Total War by Ralts Bloodthorne

Author:Ralts Bloodthorne [Bloodthorne, Ralts]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2022-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

BOSOM OF THE ENEMY

The Lanaktallan researcher had been known as Glu'ufo'ot less than a year ago. Relegated to a project that had returned no new answers to old questions, sunk deep into debt and poverty, and threatened with being purchased by a corporation. He had faced centuries of debt, poverty, and worse.

Then the human had arrived. Apparently killed by a one inch diameter durasteel bar through the abdomen, the human had been dropped off at the station as it was the closest one to where the human had been recovered.

The human had turned out not to be dead, merely in a 'medically induced coma' to heal 'major trauma' and had woken right before Glu'u and his compatriots would have dissected him.

Now Glu'u was on a place called "We're Still Here" in the stellar system the Terran Confederacy referred to as "Alpha Centauri B", and things had wildly changed in the last six months. Where before he had worn the sash and flank coverings of a scientist, he now wore tailored clothing, including a suit jacket and very very posh looking flank coverings. He had polished leather shoe coverings, polished to a mirror brightness. He wore an expensive timepiece on his left upper wrist, not because he needed to, but because he enjoyed the sheer luxury of it.

He also had two Terran assistants. One to manage his recreation time, his guest appearances, appointments, and research time. Another to ensure that he was comfortable in his dwelling, that his prepared meals were to his taste, his clothing was properly cleaned, and other esoteric things he had never had to concern himself with.

For the majority of his life his food had come from a food dispenser and he had worn paper clothing as he just applied ancient theories to ancient samples to result in ancient answers. Nobody had cared about what he did unless he found an anomaly.

Now, Glu'u was trotting up the highly polished white stone steps, to the large inlaid double-doors of an educational institution. To the Terrans, it was an ancient one, established nearly 10,000 years prior.

Which made Glu'u snort in amusement. The research space station he had been assigned to prior to his 'defection' had been lost for a million years and was estimated to be ten million years old.

To be honest, the Prokhor Zakharov University was a much more impressive place.

Rather than just rote recitation of facts and formula, students were encouraged to question "why" and "how" in regard to facts as well as to explore things already known for anything that had not yet been discovered.

It was much different than how Glu'u had grown up, had been educated. The facts were the facts and there was no reason to question how and why. No reason to examine how the facts came to be known as facts.

Glu'u trotted up to the elevator, nodding to the students, and rode up to the third floor. The elevator was comfortable, and even had pleasing tonal sequences the Terrans referred to as 'music', which made him tap one hoof in time with the song.

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