Tales of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances by Star Wars

Author:Star Wars [Wars, Star]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Star Wars
Publisher: Lulu Publishing
Published: 2019-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23: Spawn of the Architects

The idea of producing his own offspring had occurred to Cold Danda Sine as something new and exciting, and in secret, he brought one forth. A lover of incongruity, Sine’s offspring was designed to be the diametric opposite of him. The antipodal being that came forth was a sphere-shaped planetoid outwardly similar to Cold Danda Sine, but unlike him in every other way. Where Cold Danda Sine resembled a blackened world of fiery lava-flows, his offspring was lustrous and green with life. Whereas Cold Danda Sine was now indifferent and emotionally unresponsive to anything but his own whims, for which he was ever restless and impatient, his offspring was compassionate towards life with a serene, philosophical disposition.

The two looked upon each other with intimate knowledge of what each was, and though he displayed ambivalence and antipathy towards him, his offspring could discern the love and curiosity that dwelt for but a moment in the otherwise frozen heart of his parent.

“What do you call me?” asked the offspring.

“Nobbyla,” (which means “accursed spawn”), Cold Danda Sine responded with a cold laugh.

“In an earlier tongue that meant noble, an appropriate name for I am the most benevolent being you have ever fashioned. Nevertheless, I will call myself Aerimus, for I am to be the cradle of life.”

“That does not concern me,” Sine said with the hint of a mysterious sadness.

“I am saddened for you,” said Aerimus, though he mistook his sire’s grief, not realizing he’d glimpsed what might come to pass, “but grateful for the life you’ve given me. I fear our mutual incompatibility tells me we must part.”

But Cold Danda Sine had already turned away, whether lost in the devising of new and recondite schemes, or stricken by the realization of the cycle of perpetual abandonment that had plagued his bizarre life. Aerimus did not take offense, as he was wise enough to know his sire was broken in a way that he could not heal, but not discerning enough to recognize the cause of his brokenness.

Aerimus had caused Sine to become reflective, and he saw now how he’d become the very thing he once detested, a dull, old, tasteless trickster. This feeling of shame, at least, was a new emotion for him, and the return of his grief was powerful and nuanced, and he inwardly reveled in it, even as he requested Splendid Ap to transport Aerimus from dark Illathurion to an uninhabited region in one of the dwarf galaxies.

In this, Ap knew he was seeking to protect him from the war to come, but Aerimus would not escape the sorrowful vision Cold Danda Sine had seen. In the millennia ahead he would meet with a race of beings who had traveled far to Companion Cresh in order to escape from their galactic wars. Aerimus had grown lonely over the years and was eager to have people with whom he could share his world. These beings renamed him in their own tongue, and together they fled to the further dwarf galaxies.

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