The Seeker Star by Susan Jane Bigelow

Author:Susan Jane Bigelow
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: evolution, revolution, space, aliens, lgbtq, Space Opera, Fiction, alien, Science fiction, exploration, Adventure, politics
Publisher: Candlemark & Gleam
Published: 2014-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

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She floated high above Earth, looking down on the vast swirl of clouds below. She fought vertigo, then her mind adjusted.

A single ship silently slipped by. She knew it from the shape: an Abrax ship.

“The Abrax knew they were entering the time of decline, where they become more like mist than matter,” said Saya. She was floating next to Violet. “But all of the hundreds and thousands of sentient races that had populated the galaxy were gone. Only one remained.”

“Us,” said Violet, surprised that her voice still worked up here in the vacuum.

“Yes. So they contacted one man, Captain Turn, and changed him. He absorbed the memory stone of an Abrac, which is what they leave behind when they die, and he took into himself the ability to understand them, and bond with them. Together, they came up with a lie to tell to the people of Earth.”

“The atmosphere,” said Violet, impatient. “I know this part already.”

“Yes. They said that the Abrax needed to harvest a certain property from the atmosphere. The Abrax offered a fair trade: two worlds in exchange for one. They warned that if they didn’t harvest the atmosphere, someone else would. Another lie: there is no one else. But they debated, and then the people voted to leave. Some, of course, remained. They expected that; it was crucial. When the time came…”

The scene shifted to a control room aboard the Abrax ship. Violet inhaled sharply. Captain Turn stood there, his finger on the button that would activate the “harvest.”

He looked just like her maternal grandfather, only taller and thinner.

Captain Turn pushed the button, and on the viewscreen in front of them, Earth’s atmosphere burned away.

The scene shifted, and they were outside again. Earth remained bright, blue, and beautiful. What had been on the screen had been fake.

The Abrax ship turned and winked out of existence.

“The lie was meant to create a population receptive to change,” said Saya. “The Abrax wanted people who had already given up so much that they would be open to merging with an Abrac and becoming Alil. Nearly fifteen million did so. They were our ancestors.”

She sighed and they were back on the beach.

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