The Ghost of Sephera by J.D. Tew

Author:J.D. Tew [Tew, J. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

15 THEODORE: FOITA

“The planet Foita was an ice giant, consisting of a crust of several miles of thick ice, with an inner core composed of rock. In school, I remember learning about the planets, and recall almost all, save for a precious few, were not suitable to sustain life. Foita would be one of those planets, but for reason I was to find out later, its adoptive people, the Rangiers, had long ago decided to apply state-of-the-art technology to render it habitable, only if just barely.”

Our main goal was to find Eppa, which was located on Foita in an intimidating military base in the city of Diode. Designed as a temple, Eppa was a massive mainframe computer founded by Zane to facilitate the passing of information from all sentient beings in the galaxy who had died and elected to choose the Sepheran afterlife, if they were presented that option upon dying.

This process was vital to Zane’s artificial afterlife, which was either abhorred or adored throughout the galaxies. However, due to infatuation vested in vanity, the majority of the galaxy’s population worshiped Eppa. People wanted to know for sure that their existence would carry on beyond death, even if it was metaphysical.

When Zane proposed the construction of Eppa to the Council, they decided that the temple should be placed on neutral ground (or ice, rather) suggesting that the advanced society of the Rangiers would be perfect protectors of this important creation, as Rangiers protected several universally famous landmarks of culture or religion interspersed across the galaxy. The Rangiers of Foita were like no other. They were warrior monks, not only assuming the role of protector but devout to this artificial form of reincarnation, using their giant exoskeletons—called Exogens—to protect the chain of cities: Booyang, Zigon, and finally Eppa’s city, Diode.

A treaty was formed, signed by Zane and the Rangiers, and then construction was completed. One year later, the Council built a massive station on an orbiting moon of Foita to watch over the planet and ensure its protection. As well, the Council established several security outposts throughout Foita’s icy surface to ensure that the security of Eppa was never compromised. It was on this moon that the council kept one ace up their sleeve, and it was a doozy. If for any reason the Rangier’s elite guard decided to rise up and use their advanced technology to overthrow the Council, the Council would then initiate a deactivation sequence, which would render the Exogens powerless, thereby weakening the Rangier’s armies.

Years passed, and once the Council felt comfortable that the security infrastructure was heavily fortified, they started relenting to popular demand and allowed escorted ships full of tourists to tour Eppa. After the tourists were screened through multiple levels of security that would make U.S. customs look like child’s play, the tourists would then be given a grand tour of the temple’s exterior—never inside. The Rangiers declared the internal corridors of Eppa as sacred and only clerics could enter.

We couldn’t just enter the atmosphere and set an immediate course for Diode, the city that hosted Eppa.

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