Star Force: Ice Queen by Jyr Aer-ki

Author:Jyr, Aer-ki [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2017-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

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February 25, 4827

Tauriel System (Seon Region)

Eoxion

Jessica was laid out on top of a warm rock ledge with the nearest sun high in the sky, bathing the dry, barren landscape with a windless heat as she and 9 Stone Elves soaked up the warmth. The Duke had already started to tan heavily over the week she’d been here, having gotten far more sunlight than she had in centuries. In fact she couldn’t remember being this dark since her early days back in New Zealand long before the V’kit’no’sat had ripped that island chain to shreds.

Her home at that time had been Epsilon Eridani, but even there she was indoors constantly. There was plenty of light indoors…with Star Force having a ‘light’ theme to its architecture. There were strips, beams, orbs, and little bits of light added everywhere to the rooms, corridors, and chambers inside Star Force cities. So much so they ended up not having very many windows to the natural environment outside.

That kept tanning almost non-existent. With genetic alterations people could customize their skin to whatever shade or color they wanted, but the natural tanning procedure was almost an afterthought now. During her time in her first home she and others would use artificial tanning beds to get darker, for New Zealand wasn’t exactly near the equator where you got more direct sunlight, but now there were literally no tanning beds available in Star Force. There was no market for it and no reason, for the Human body tanned as a countermeasure to too much sunlight and the old cities on Earth had people walking outdoors to get from building to building.

Now that wasn’t the case, with undercities that allowed you to go everywhere without setting one foot on the surface, making a city literally one gigantic building with many, many rooms. Gone also was the country living, the farms, the single houses…even the suburbs. No one owned property anymore, merely leasing buildings from Star Force as they designed all cities. That was one of the primary jobs of Monarchs, designing the infrastructure for each planet to make the most out of what they had, and all private citizens and businesses operated off of that cityscape.

Sure, they might rebuild the inside of a factory, but the factory frame wasn’t theirs to change and was leased from Star Force. That meant every factory shell, at least, was built and maintained by the empire. Same went for all land. There was no private ownership, so everyone lived in cities or outposts as Star Force wished, close to security and safety personnel and beneath the protection of energy shields and armor plating on the city exterior.

Those cities also protected from varying levels of sunlight at different latitudes and in systems with different types of stars. That kept everyone inside adapting to the same levels, rather than old Earth where you had Humans with a variety of different tanning levels that were passed in some part to their offspring. That’s why those populations living

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