Sensory Alterations by Meyari McFarland

Author:Meyari McFarland [McFarland, Meyari]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781939906021
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Publisher: Mary Raichle
Published: 2013-04-17T03:00:00+00:00

The End

Afterword

I'm very happy to release this one for people to read. It doesn't look like it but this story is in the same 'verse as my Muirin stories. It's set so far in the past though that they might as well be completely unconnected.

It probably shows that I enjoy building complex worlds. This little story is one that grew out of my early world building efforts for Muirin. I hope to tell others over time.

Part of the joy of building complex words, at least for me, is getting to delve into all sorts of research and creating all sorts of details that never get included in the actual stories I release.

It's never mentioned in the Muirin stories but they're a colony world, a direct legacy of Tinesha and Kalila's efforts to create new habitats for humanity. During Tinesha and Kalila's era, humanity created space stations between the worlds in our solar system. Later on, they colonized and terraformed as many of our solar system's planets as they could.

But humanity had grown and the people who grew up in space knew that they could go farther, see more, create more. They created generation ships, essentially space stations with engines, that allowed them to make the long slow journey to other star systems.

It was a one-way trip and everyone who started out knew that it would be their grandchildren who arrived at the new world. Many ships started out. Some were destroyed along the way. Some found good worlds and settled there. Others found marginal ones that meant that they had to adapt.

And one ship landed on one world which eventually became crowded so another wave of generation ships went out. Three ships went together and arrived on a marginal planet that they named Morrigan.

They stayed for twenty or so years but that solar system had a planet with an eccentric orbit. As it neared Morrigan, the gravitational tidal forces made Morrigan unlivable.

Three women, Chin, Tahira and Ragna, managed to get the one surviving space ship functional. They rescued as many people as they could, which wasn't many, and set off for another solar system.

The name of that ship? Muirin, which is the name they gave the world they found at the end of the journey.

There are other colonies that I hope to write about someday and other solar systems where humanity adapted and changed in unexpected ways. For now though, I'm happy that I got Tinesha and Kalila's story out to everyone. They're the ancestors to all the other stories and worlds and characters I intend to tell.

I hope that you enjoyed the story and thank you for reading!

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