The Epic of Andromeda

Always pray to the stars... they're the only things that never stop fending off the dark

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The Garden: 1

A small farm off of a trading post on the planet Ma'at housed Adam and Eve.  An elderly couple, they spent their days together tending the gardens, creating music, cooking, and visiting town.

With their hair graying, they could not have asked for more from life.  While they had never had kids, they had taken more then they're fair share of lost souls and helped them find themselves again. But these friends had never stayed for more than a year or two at best. Truth be told they never really wanted to raise a child from start to finish as it were.

Today they Adam is sitting on his porch. Eve makes her way to him holding two mugs of freshly brewed tea.  As Adam takes his a mug, a smile crawls across his face. Eve feels his arm reach around her as she sits next to him. Together they sit and watch peacefully as the sun goes down.

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Voyage of the Septum: 1

The Septum was a large vessel that flew could still fly through space but was by far past it's prime. It is a containment vessel whose sole purpose was to contain Noxestros.  Since the fall of Andromeda Prime, The Septums lost most of its funding and it's business of collection, containment, and elimination had slowed to a grinding halt. It was one of the last of it's kind.

With the heavy financial cut it's crew had dwindled down to one. One lone sailor drifting through space.  Space was cold. Xe always wore a black cloak with fire orange lining.

Xe had stopped executing the prisoners (the phrasing xe learned in training) long ago. After all, the Noxestros were xis only companions now. Many think one would go crazy in such a scenario. Perhaps xe had.

Still The Septum drifts on.

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Scutum General: 2

A tall lean brunette knocked on the hospital administrator's office. Upon entering the room the black haired full figured women sitting behind the desk looked up and greeted her.

"Why Hello Dr. L, what can I do for you?" The hospital staff had gotten into the habit of simply using the first letter of their last names to address each other. This was a practice that had begun exclusively in paperwork but overtime became integrated into their vernacular as well.

"That shipment of Aspida Othoni arrived" Dr. L reported to her superior.  Aspida Othoni was a chemical compound gel. It was clear in sight and sticky to the touch. It does not have many uses. Its primary use is in the containment of Noxestros as the chemicals within it throw off their sensory organs.

"You really think we're going to need this stuff Dr. M?" Scutum General had never been a site of Noxestro contamination.

"I think we should have it around. To be prepared"

There was a silence in the room.

"You don't think there's going to be another war do you?"

"Well ever since the Ma'at - Ishtar conflict ended I've been worried for the future"

"But with the conflict over the Galaxy has been in peace"

"A body may not sure any symptoms from an outside perspective, but with is constant struggle to keep the apparent calm. Despite this,a disease is always brewing"

[wolffenstien]

The Epic of Andromeda

This is the title of a new story I am writing. I am writing this as a piece to encourage myself to just continually write and put it out to the world. Updates will hopefully be frequent.

The story takes place in another galaxy (I’ll let you figure out which one) and will...

[theepicofandromeda]

The Ortus Fields: 1

At it's founding the planet Ortus had seemed a promising land for a vibrant culture to form.  There had been fields as far as the eye could see.  Grand lakes from which freshwater could be drank to contentment. Once man began to inhabit it, its colony on the planet expand exponentially.

But the honeymoon period was short lived. Ortus had a massive large scale cave system beneath it.  The caves spawned unique life within them. Amongst its indigenous species was the Noxestro.

A Noxestro is a creature best described as a living slime.  They normally take up about a single square foot and at the center are a half inch thick. Their surface is covered with toxic pores that breakdown almost anything they come into contact with. Their skin can absorb the broken down materials for nutrients.  They have a white sensory organ within them which controls their movement based off of environmental factors.

Shortly after the colonization of Ortus Noxestros began to reek havoc on the civilization. Through Ortus interactions to the other states and territories across Andromeda the Noxestros became the second recorded interplanetary invasive species. They ravaged many establishments of the first. Eventually humans found a way to control the spread of Noxestros and began systematically destroying their colonies where they had formed.  While the Noxestros are not really anywhere near being eradicated, there are those who have begun to countdown the moments.

As for Ortus itself, the planet was quarantined. The population suffered greatly, but was eventually able to successfully construct a barricade against the oncoming threat.

The victory came at great cost though. Cut off from the rest of humanity life was bleak.  With barely enough resources to sustain itself, the colony became militarized under the command of Naraanbatar.

The people of Ortus worked long days and tough lives to sustain themselves.  Most of their time was designated to ensuring proper growth of crops.

Amongst the ranks of the Ortus people was the Zaya family. A generation ago the Zayas had worked for a galactic shipping company. Now they were farmers with a child. The child was bright found his parents insistence on hope strange. Everyday they would tell him to hope; to pray. But he saw no reason for hope, no one to pray to. Who would listen? Who'd do anything at all?

"Oh Shona," his mother would answer, "always pray to the stars... they're the only things that never stop fending off the dark"

[theepicofandromeda]

Scutum General: 1

Patient B47 resides in the comatose ward.  Walking through the ward you would not thing much different from any of the other patients. Just another body that can't be described as dead, but then again cannot easily be described as living either.

He is of average height and average build. Bald with brown eyes.

Not much is known about Patient B47. In all his time at Scutum General he has never had a visitor. His medical history reads only "dropped of by The Mineral Corporation"

The lack of knowledge surrounding Patient B47 is therefore not surprising as the Mineral Corporation tends to keep most of it's operations under lock and key. It also explains why the patient has no name, as the corporation strips employees names upon entrance and replaces them with their position.

What it doesn't explain are the miniscule burn marks Patient B47 has all over his body.  There are those within the hospital who believe the marks are from some sort of electrocution but such speculation is discouraged.

It was made exceedingly clear that the patient is here solely because he had been a man of high importance within the company. A status of "on medical leave" would be preferred in his case over their usual preference in cases similar incidents. Ordinarily the company found no issue pursuing a status of  "deceased".

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The Singularity Project: 1

The room is empty. The walls of small room are desolate. Three concrete slabs and one made out of glass. Dead center stand the only two inhabitants of the room. The device and TestSubject.  TestSubject has been securely strapped into the device.

The room was dark, and it was dreary. The overall mood reflected that of TestSubject's.

On the other side of the glass stand three observers. TheCEO looks at ChiefAdvisor.

"Is the experiment a go?" TheCEO asks. ChiefAdvisor glances at ChiefScientist who nods her head. "Yes," ChiefAdvisor answers.

"Then let the second human trial of the singularity project commence"

"Second sir?" ChiefAdvisor glanced at TheCEO and then at ChiefScientist in confusion. ChiefScientist avoided eye contact and looked at the glass walls. She could see her own shame in her faint reflection.

"I was never informed of a prior experiment" There was an unease in his voice.

"It was unsuccessful" TheCEO stated calmly.

"Who was the test subject?"

"The man who last owned your current name"

[theepicofandromeda]

Welcome!

This blog will be dedicated to a fictional piece I'm working on entitled The Epic of Andromeda

My plan for this piece is to just sort of write it you know. I don't plan on planning out the pieces to much. Just going to write it out. You know, cool.

Hopefully it won't be terrible.

More hopefully, you won't hate it.