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Uncharted Planet Part 3

Posted in Exploration: Cosmos, Fiction, Sci-Fi on August 26, 2009 by GuNNhead

Their first act of retaliation against me came in the form of the spectators observing the beginning of the landmark occasion of launching their entire interstellar travel fleet. Hundreds of thousands of these clones attack me, all with thousands of cycles of memories in their cloned and mass reproduced minds. Their blood showers down upon the remains of this destroyed megalopolitan of intercosmic travel constructs. The survivors pour out from the rubble in full regalia, a minor challenge that is dispatched with barely a hint of effort on my part. In their weakened and surprised state, they are scantily making this enjoyable at all. A craft comes screaming, with its heart pounding, before I can react, I become blindsided by the first military barrage; the Fluorography pummels me to my core, and sends me hurtling to the ground below. I groove deep into the earth, destroying structure after structure with the force of my uncontrollable wake. I stop, covered in debris. Danger all around, by myself, I claw my way out.

Hovering high above me, they want answers. I don’t hesitate, and launch a bombardment of projectiles. They didn’t stand a chance. Covered in their fallen viscera, I leap into the air, taking flight. More of their armies encircle me; they will not make the same mistake again. Taking a thrill, I blast across their skies, lowering a curtain of fire aggregately over the major cities in the area. Stopping along the coast to confront their pursuing legion, I tear into them one by one, smashing through, shattering their formation, and taking hold of their crafts, pulverizing them into each other.

Enough of the small prey, the clones arrive in the largest weapons they have, never having intentions on using them on-planet due to their destructive force. They know they have no choice against me. I remain still, challenging their power. They fire, and in an instant I am beyond them, dodging the blast, and perforating the hull of the goliath weapon. I enter the pilot compartment, simply to butcher those who helm the dynamo personally. I wreck my way through the rest of the ship through to the apex, and once out, I calcitrate it into the continent, levelling the entirety of all life with the explosive paroxysm of Fluorography. I ride the tempest of fallout before kicking off towards the remainder of life on the planet.

It’s still dark on this side of the planet of the Regl’arts. Reglaria truly does have a beautiful night; I wish I could account for why the wonder of their stars and sky did not inspire the desire for intergalactic journey. It was about 500 cycles ago that an accident, one entity’s overzealous weapon making, tore their moon asunder, cleaving it in two. I do so enjoy using objects found naturally. I power up, igniting my gravity impulse. The two halves gently soar towards the planet, waters rise and flood the ground far below me. Their remaining armies rush to stop me, but there is nothing they can do, I crush them by the wayside as I continue to enjoy the vision descending towards us all. I fly up between and past the split moon; I propel them downwards, extinguishing the remainder of life on the planet Reglaria.

As I leave the bereft and cadaverous world, I think; out of all their weapons and technology, it is the brutality in the depth of their being that I have been disappointed by. They saw my attacks as a continuation of their death games; they lost the meaning to their lives long ago. The destruction of the entire history of a planet, and the abstractions for which the populace died, seemed to have an increasingly hollow sound. I grace their planet with significance as I carve my initial into it.

Uncharted Planet Part 2

Posted in Exploration: Cosmos, Fiction, Sci-Fi on August 25, 2009 by GuNNhead

The Regl’arts’, as they call themselves, recorded history began millions of prime cycles ago, pieced together from relics that they had uncovered and deciphered; simple etchings of a more primitive time. They have lost and changed many civilizations, but one thing they have been able to preserve is the sense of invention, never throwing anything away, and always improving. One of their lost civilizations were able to create great structures far beyond their presumed capability, but that did not deter the future civilization that uncovered these relics, it inspired them to perform complete excavations until the secrets were found, and found they were, deep underground.

The more advanced civilization learned from these ancient lost secrets, combing them with their current technology, and discovering new forms of irrepleteable energy. This new technology did little to end wars, as the division that had uncovered the relics saw an opportunity to make profit instead of sharing this valuable resource to create a utopia. For cycles upon cycles, they had control, and exploited and squandered this precious gift, until they had gained too much power and wealth, and made themselves and enemy of the very beings of the world. They were overthrown, and crumbled. Then came, after a long reprise to rebuild, a new world order; one of peace and prosperity. For a long while, this worked, but their physical bodies were weak, and while technology took care of most every need, a virus developed, completely eradicating the bearers of the species. At this time, however, cloning had been developed, and the other gender was lost to time.

Science and technology became the focal point of an entire world, with no posturing for mates. Life and death became playthings, one would be able to die and be reborn as they were in a matter of days. Weapon development became another way to enjoy one’s self, war became games; death became laughable. Laugh and laugh they did. Eventually, a new lost technology was found, to protect one’s self from death, the cloaks and capes. An ancient civilization created them using powerful energies much like the ones now in use. They were heavily used in these new games, adding a new dimension to the ways one could live and die. They wanted to protect their way of life however, and built sensors for incoming space debris such as comets and meteoroids, and defences against them, never thinking that there could be life other than their own out in the abyss of the void. Scanning only their solar system, they discovered materials that they wanted to acquire, and so they developed limited space travel to excavate these materials and bring them to their own planet. Using new materials, they only created new weapons, singular war-pods to travel faster, and kill others with greater excitement.

A new possibility came into this game when the Network of Communicating Planets attempted to map it. Their egos had been abducted, the discovery of lives outside of their own. New combatants to enter the game. Right away, they began construction of interstellar travel. This, of course, is once again the point in their history where I become a part of it. A self appointed reaper of dangerous civilizations and their chronicles.

Uncharted Planet Part 1

Posted in Exploration: Cosmos, Fiction, Sci-Fi on August 24, 2009 by GuNNhead

“Their cloaks and capes incited them nerveless, while their Fluorographic weapons were a beyond vehement technology.”
This is all that was known about this uncharted planet and its peoples, written by a young explorer seeking to make a name for himself. It has only been a few prime cycles, and still no explorer dare venture into this hostile and truculent planet. Partially, well, mostly, because the Network of Communicating Planets has labelled the planet as “hostile”, and barred the generality of all those who follow under the NCPs’ crest from entering the planet’s sector.

Luckily, for me, I refuse to follow under the Network’s guidelines. Their mode of operations refuses to acknowledge the importance of a civilization that could bring about the destruction of another. Any and all forms of civilization are inexorably valuable, especially ones so technologically advanced. I enjoy two things in life more than all else: Uncovering, saving and preserving the history of a civilization, and the second will be told later.

This civilization was one of the most technologically advanced in weapons that I have ever come across. This is especially interesting due to the fact that they have had yet to uncover the ability to travel between solar systems other than their own, let alone galaxies. This, interpreting their written word, I have decided to be because of an incredible egotism. They truly believed they were unique and the only life in the universe, and had no interest in branching further than their own solar system. That is, until, the young explorer revealed to them how wrong they were, and they quickly began focusing on interstellar travel.

The cloaks and capes that incited them nerveless had been with them for millennia. While wearing these ceremonial garbs-turned combat uniform made appear as black sectors, and float with incredible speed and unrestraint; a frightening sight for those unprepared, to be sure. The term “nerveless” appears to have be used as a multi-term, as, while it does donate unto them a daunting abandon, it also offers a nigh-invulnerability, in that they become anaesthetized, never halting even when detached from limb. Their beyond vehement Fluorographic weapons were an awe-inspiring technology of destruction. Able to destroy whole fleets of crafts in concentrated fusillade, or, as one, to focus a concentrational beam and strike upon an omphalos, rendering it annulled.

The second thing that gives my life joy, I must now reveal, is destroying that same civilization. This renders me as the only who can tell the tale of an entire glorious civilization, and how it was ended by my hand, in an epic planetary wide-scale war, against me.

It was mere moments before they had actualized their plans of interstellar travel that I momentously manifested, destroying their entire fleet of interstellar enabled crafts in one single action. Their entire planet’s attentions turned towards me, and I, with their entire past and future in my mind, was fully prepared to bring about their all-encompassing annihilation.

The Combustibles

Posted in Fiction, Horror, Sci-Fi on August 21, 2009 by GuNNhead

It was your average bus ride in summer. Another sweltering hot day. Sweaty, sticky, humid. Everyone secretly hated everyone else for creating body heat: sweating, breathing their hot, humid breath.

Towards the front of the bus, there sits a beautiful young woman. Her mouth is ever so slightly open, showing her full, pouty lips, her smooth skin has visible moisture upon her fresh, ample bosom. Her small, thin tank top does not help her keep cool in this overbearing heat. She fans herself, and pushes a bit of her hair back, while wiping some sweat from her brow, when: she suddenly bursts into flames. Her clothes instantly incinerate as her flesh melts away. She screams as she leaps up in a panic, clawing and tearing at those around her to help, but there is nothing that they can do, for at that very moment, even more people go up in flames. An old woman in the back, a couple in the dead center of the bus, a group of high school kids, and finally, the driver. The bus careens into traffic, smashing a small sedan; on impact, the family ignite into flames. The sedan swerves across the oncoming lane hard into a fire hydrant, sending water spraying up out of the ground, and the driver through the windshield in a flaming nosedive into a nearby playground. All the children in the park rapidly erupt in a blaze. The ones on the swing sets go flying off into a pile, creating a bonfire of child-flesh. The ones on the see-saw fuse immediately to the handles of the toy, spending their remaining minutes teeter-tottering while watching their playmate burn to cinders. Parents, in a fit of blind protective instinct, go directly to their child’s side, but the mere act of going towards their ash-children set their own bodies alight. A bicyclist pedaling by slows to gawk, when he too explodes with fire, searing his flesh to the bone. As he burns uncontrollably, he and his bike enter a large intersection, lodging themselves under the moving tires of a Humvee, setting the occupants of that aflame. As their eyeballs burst and their blood boils, a huge multi-car pileup ensues, torching every motorist for miles.

Seas of flames eventually engulf the city, stemming from within the hearts of the populace. The inferno causes a pyre of flame to erupt, becoming visible at a huge distance. A Rube Goldberg-esque chain reaction of monumental proportions erupts across the country. People burning alive scorch the earth, entire cities turn to ash enveloped in a firestorm. It was hilarious. Best. practical. joke. ever.

Logic of the Living

Posted in Fiction, Horror, Sci-Fi on August 20, 2009 by GuNNhead

“When there’s no more room in hell, then the dead will walk the earth”
Sage advice, a warning to live proper lives, or face the wrath of hell and the undead. So one’s soul does not return to the land of the living to feast upon them. However, what happens, and the time will come soon, when there’s no more room on earth?

People are overpopulating the planet; plausible sustainability is becoming a larger issue every day as more humans are being born than are dying. That is simply viewed as progress, though. Population growth means that humanity isn’t dying off, we’re thriving.

In this possible world, however, capacity has been reached and surpassed. The core of the story though, begins where we end, with death. It all started logically, you create ashes of your loved ones; spread them where they may have enjoyed in life, perhaps a lovely spot on the mantle, no burial plot. Then, diamonds: wear your loved ones in small pieces of jewelry. Even in your world, this is possible; the cremated carbon remains of your loved ones are subjected to great pressure and heat, and the entire process, from cremation to finished stone takes up to nine months. In this other possible world, as in all things, given enough time, an extrapolated logic set in. The bodies of people who died were no longer venerated, they simply became no longer practical or cost efficient, taking up too much valued real-estate; the dead outnumbered the living.

It began with the evisceration of graves en masse, destroying all those who died, creating new homes for those still alive. Eventually, death was barely even taken seriously anymore, and life was enjoyed much more, death became an afterthought to the joys that life could bring: what happened, happened because of fate, out of our hands, impossible to control. Live fast, die young. Eventually, people began to celebrate death. Feasts and celebrations of the dead took on new meaning. We became our own comestible, a rare delicacy served only on special occasions. Some took great pride in living gluttonous lives to be a delectable feast, to be able to have large celebrations, able to feed large amounts of the friends that they had accumulated and acquired in life in one final dinner in their honor.

There were no true repercussions, and for those of you wondering, there were no dead to walk the earth for revenge. The only time the dead rose was when the living over indulged upon their corpse, or had indigestion. Don’t you see what this world has become, when the living feast off the dead? When there’s no more room on earth, then the living will walk in hell, and the dead won’t have a prayer, because it’s the logic of the living.