Warship (The Outsider Series Book 3) by Oaks Steven

Author:Oaks, Steven [Oaks, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Steven Oaks
Published: 2015-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

“And that's all I recall. I assume we won, but I don't know how. In fact I don't seem to even recall how I got here,” I explained to the continually patient voice I had told my tale to.

“That is interesting Michael. However, you of course are wrong on many fronts. You've not won anything, though I will admit you have tried my patience,” snarled the person calling them self Athene.

The once gentle voice of someone who I believed to be my granddaughter turned cold. I could hear a sneer in her voice, as if I were an inferior being.

This dark turn left me confused and I began to grow angry. “Who are you?” I asked breathlessly.

“Oh you can just call me Mother,” she laughed.

“You aren't my mother,” I hissed.

“I'm everyone's mother. I'm that ship you continually tried to blow up. I've been here so long that you people don't even remember where you come from. I am the one that started life on your precious Earth. You should be thanking me, not attacking me. What wretched children you've become,” she admonished.

“I sincerely doubt you began life on Earth. If you had, you would have made us more drone like than we are,” I asserted.

“Ah your mind simply astounds me with its leaps of logic. I see you didn't believe Adam's story about me coming through before life began on your planet. You are correct, though I have been here for some centuries, inducing the proper environment for our arrival,” she acknowledged joyfully.

“Why? Couldn't you just find a place where there was no life and convert it to what you needed?” I asked confused, but somewhat elated that I could finally find out the purpose behind all of this.

“Ah yes, that old human mind of yours does come up with interesting, if not wasteful, plans. We have no wish to simply give the others energy, though that is one of our purposes, but what we truly desire is a realm where we might come, and easily control it. It doesn't hurt that there was sentient life here as well. We will use your minds, added to our own, to finally accomplish what we failed in our own universe. It would be easy enough to gobble up the energy required to sustain us, that is until this universe is drained as well. What then? Do we simply hope for another where we might drain it as well? No, that is a dead end, and we have shown it by the fact I and others were made to explore the possibility of finding more energy. What I have done is use existing lifeforms that have all the hallmarks of being ingenious and make them even more so. I have given them the use of some of our technology, and I have high hopes they will go beyond what we have ever made,” she explained, all the while sounding giddy.

“And what makes you think we will do anything for you? Do I not show our tendency to rebel?” I insisted, feeling drained.

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