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10,000 Years from Earth
By Rudy Chase
10,000 light years from earth on a planet of an orange dwarf in a system of eight planets, one world circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice two hundred thousand years ago, a race of beings were born struggling tooth and nail with an hostile environment and savage beasts.
They began to tame their world, up through the different stages
of development first with stone and then metals. They were a graceful
people, bright and curious about everything, the different life
forms on their world and the heavens above.
They had evolved from a species of simian ape hairless now they
stood over seven feet tall with long arms ending in six digits.
Despite their planet's lack of quality metals which did not deter
them they learned to blend the metals they did have with plastics.
They developed hybrid materials for their space program First
came the automated probes to the world in their own system. While
this was going on they were underway with a more ambitious program!
Yet there were high quality metals in the asteroids of their solar system. They
developed much needed equipment for mining the asteroids. They also focused
their energies on building advanced spacecraft, so with newly developed
equipment they set off on their adventure
Soon they had a sophisticated mining operation going, and were
mining a rather large planetismal. They made an astounding discovery
deep inside the planetismal. They found alien artifacts; among
the artifacts were the diagrams of particular interest that were
technological. At first they had great difficulty in deciphering
the diagrams, but they were aggressive in their pursuits and soon
they had the answers. They had cracked the codes. It turned out
the diagrams were for a space drive that when built and tested
pushed an experimental craft up to near the speed of light.
This was the breakthrough they were hoping for. Armed with the
new technology they built spaceships capable of traveling to stars
near them and none to soon!
For their world was dying. Their sun had become a flare star sending
huge amounts of radiation through the solar system. Hardest hit
was their world. They set about building huge ships, evacuating
their world. Over the years ship after ship left the doomed world.
In two centuries they managed to evacuate the entire planet. The
ships scattered in different directions.
On worlds they found too hostile or too young, if these worlds
possessed oceans, they would seed these worlds with their own
genetic material on planets they found suitable. They would settle
those while they were in love with the idea of exploration and
choose a different destiny. Settling on worlds was not for them,
so they decided to explore the galaxy and seeding worlds whenever
possible .They owed this incredible destiny to those unknown aliens
whom they have not discovered.
