Starborn Odyssey (The Starborn Odyssey Trilogy Book 1) by Haines Sigurdsson

Author:Haines Sigurdsson [Sigurdsson, Haines]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

A Short Break

While we were away the twelfth anniversary of the last message from Earth had passed; it was a big deal. Not one message had been received in all these years, and it was a very bad sign for Earth. They may have come to one of the very disasters that had been the reason for us heading out to colonize in the first place. It was odd to me that we had found the survivors of just such an incident at the very time that we were starting to think such a thing might have happened to our original home world. Perhaps that is the cycle of the universe; civilizations only last long enough to spread their seed to a few places before coming to an end themselves.

Our trip had been a very revealing one, and we were all glad to be home on Olympus. The Captain was pleased that so many questions had been answered, and now we had some new friends. Hero, our little Fenninz/Drolpeg friend was glad to see us as well. He jumped right up onto Nettie’s lap, and settled down while the Captain received our full reports.

I’m not sure that Hero realized these new people, Ian and Mogi, were from his world. There was no question that he knew the Vortlepeg. At first looked terrified—after all, he was familiar with that race— though he seemed to relax after seeing that Blurg wasn’t being aggressive. Hero really seemed to trust our judgment most of the time. The only way I could tell how Hero was feeling was by the way he moved his ears and shoulders. Almost like a cat he would flatten his ears back if scared or upset; it takes a while to pick up other subtle changes in posture, since Fenninz faces were not flexible except for their jaw and bottom lip.

Practically the entire colony had turned out to see the new people; our nearest relatives so far since leaving Earth. It struck me that while I was away, people had adjusted to living by a natural planetary day and night schedule. My world was changing so rapidly that I wasn’t sure I could catch up with it. The days were twenty four and a half hours long, and seasonal in the divisions of light and dark the same as Earth. It would require resetting our time pieces to measure slightly slower to make a twenty four hour day work for us to be practical. Years, months and weeks still needed to be worked out.

Our research so far showed that the Reeshians were genetically so close to us that we could almost certainly produce offspring, though it was uncertain which genes would dominate the features that were not the same. I was sure we would find out eventually; human nature (and Reeshian nature, perhaps?) rules. The Reeshians were fascinated by our technology and how our small city was being set up. It was as much ahead of their current technology as theirs was above that of a Stone Age village.

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