Still Human- Planet G by Jerry Underhill

Author:Jerry Underhill [Underhill, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“If that’s what you think, find the main body of Clouds.”

“Ok.”

Night was coming soon. Huston was still on the beach. The decayed bodies of the dead lay in every direction.

“I’ll send them over. Cooper will have firepower. We’re building a message to the Cavers now.”

And the line was closed.

Scott was sending two of the colonists Huston trusted most with commands to support him in rooting out the political structure of the landscape. The minister was excited to have Cooper on the planet.

It also caused him to think about just how young the whole venture was. There were still resources and colonists coming down. The colony wasn’t even completely built yet.

Everything had been rushed getting here. With Wallace’s world-altering tech and all the incentives of being first, the Copernica Corp had taken aim at the closest suitable planet with the unstoppable force of its boundless resources. But gaps in information were best revealed over time, and they hadn’t been willing to spend that. They’d trusted even their limited efforts to probe and survey the planet. Port Wallace was to be the beginning of the rest of history.

But they’d missed something they never thought they could, and the sudden shock of meeting two sentient alien species had quickly consumed the minds of just about everyone. It’d happened so soon.

And now, as advanced as the colony’s weaponry seemed to be, the aliens’ numbers, abilities, positioning, and mystery presented a real challenge to Huston, Scott, Gangotra, Tarma, and everyone else who’d strapped their existence to a spaceship and the unknown of a wild alien world. The humans could end up killing them all. It’d be a horrible stain to add to man’s legacy.

To prevent conflict, they needed to develop effective relationships. Scott needed to know who to talk to, where they were, and what they needed. On Earth, clan-based loyalties had muddied and ultimately crippled the effectiveness of treaties with Native Americans, even when not ill-intentioned.

Huston knew that Komorebi and the Queen reigned for their respective species, but what was happening under that umbrella? Were the Clouds and Cavers loyal to their leaders above lineage, clan, or willingness to voluntarily obey? He also knew that there were Clouds in the caves. It was possible that the species were capturing slaves from each other, but possible too that affiliation could be as fluid as preference. He needed to organize them somehow.

Like the universe they spiraled within, a tremendously violent process had stabilized the energy and dust here. He’d decided to start with the gravitational pull of geographic features, personalities, and cultural elements.

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