Initiating mass exodus protocol........
Activating caretaker AI........
Waking....
Waking...
Eshae...
Wake up....
Adrift, Adrift, Adrift......
From how many dreams have I awakened?
How many morrows have passed?
Deep in the heart of the world ship in a chamber lies a crystal tube filled with a clear liquid. A vague female shape floats inside. The form is covered in cold steel with hundreds of tubes protruding and snaking around it. A living being once perhaps. Now almost wholly machine. Eshae opens her eyes or where she thinks they used to be.
Sorrow flows through the once Child of the Sun. She despairs at the damage Pain has done. She weeps. Wait is she even weeping? She cannot remember the feeling as it had been eon's. So much emptiness inside of her. This great sacrifice she had made. Was she just a machine now?. She ponders had she lost her soul as well? She was the last engineer she had no choice. She did it willingly to save everyone. She scans the habitat again and again. The same response repeats...
0 children of the sun detected
0 children of the sun detected
0 children of the sun detected
She cries. Nothing but a small murmur erupts from the machine form. She has failed her people. What had gone wrong? This wasn't supposed to happen. So sorry So sorry she says. She furtively scans again I am a failure , I wasn't strong enough .... The guidance AI Bismark speaks suddenly.
Destination reached...
Primal System..
Please Acknowledge..
Eshae nods Please scan for habitable worlds
Scanning...
Scanning...
Scanning...
Five habitable moons found orbiting the mega-planet Terra Prime...
Shiv..
Efrit..
Muh...
Levi...
Maduin..
Scanning Terra Prime...Error...Error
Interference is too great. Some pockets are possibly habitable..danger..danger
Landing is not advised...
She gazes at the readouts processing the mass of information in seconds. Shae sighs. What was the point of eternal life if each day you don't have love?
Shiv - Frozen world. Only known habitable areas are near the equator
Efrit - Massive life readings near the poles in the dense jungles. Large deserts. Volcanic Activity off the charts
Muh - Rolling plains and grasslands cover most of the planet very little water. storms are frequent
Levi - mostly ocean with chains of islands snaking around it. A paradise with a hidden secret
Maduin - temperate , continental , most habitable
She looks over to a flashing panel she gasps at the grey storms that engulf Terra Prime.
Greater citadels Alpha, Delta, and Sigma have been destroyed no signs of life or even remains have been found...
Eshae sighs what a waste. All that culture and knowledge lost. What is the status of the twelve lesser citadels?
Acknowledged...
Processing..
Ten lesser citadels are accounted for and fully functional. Launch status ready...
Sagittarius citadel has collided with an unknown mountain range that wasn't on the charts...
Gemini's navigation system failed. It currently lies on the bottom of the ocean its status unknown repeated scans have been unable to return any useful information...
Eshae thinks. No! She processes. She serves her purpose well. Millions of calculations flow through her matrix. Lights, bubbles and panels are running and processing. Ten arks, two for each moon. Her task had not only been to take care of the habitat but also to seed and colonize these worlds. She would not fail the survivors. No they had come to far. They had sacrificed so much. She would not give up. She would not go silently into the night. She furiously starts inputting commands faster then the normal mind could comprehend. Bismark can barely keep up.
Processing...
Coordinates accepted .. resuming route...
Launch patterns accepted...
Low power... Processing.. ...
Plotting course for a stable orbit around the mega-planet....
Trajectory found....
Engaging sub engines at your mark rerouting emergency power....
Eshae sighs. The machine form vents a small bubble. The first part of her plan is in motion. She presses the singular button on the panel to her right flashing Engage engines. She scans the habitat once more. She looks down disapointed. She starts calculating the time it will all take. She hopes there is enough power left. Suddenly she hears a sharp beeping she turns her head swiftly
One child of the sun detected it is very faint and damaged...
Location Sagittarius.....
Another alarm sounds . Eshae winces at the loud and shrieking noise after her long slumber
Multiple threats detected in habitat section.......
Input defensive measures.......
The sirens wail
They are back...
Is there no end to them?
Deep in the heart of the world ship in a chamber lies a crystal tube filled with a clear liquid. A vague female shape floats inside. The form is covered in cold steel with hundreds of tubes protruding and snaking around it. A living being once perhaps. Now almost wholly machine. Eshae opens her eyes or where she thinks they used to be.
Sorrow flows through the once Child of the Sun. She despairs at the damage Pain has done. She weeps. Wait is she even weeping? She cannot remember the feeling as it had been eon's. So much emptiness inside of her. This great sacrifice she had made. Was she just a machine now?. She ponders had she lost her soul as well? She was the last engineer she had no choice. She did it willingly to save everyone. She scans the habitat again and again. The same response repeats...
0 children of the sun detected
0 children of the sun detected
0 children of the sun detected
She cries. Nothing but a small murmur erupts from the machine form. She has failed her people. What had gone wrong? This wasn't supposed to happen. So sorry So sorry she says. She furtively scans again I am a failure , I wasn't strong enough .... The guidance AI Bismark speaks suddenly.
Destination reached...
Primal System..
Please Acknowledge..
Eshae nods Please scan for habitable worlds
Scanning...
Scanning...
Scanning...
Five habitable moons found orbiting the mega-planet Terra Prime...
Shiv..
Efrit..
Muh...
Levi...
Maduin..
Scanning Terra Prime...Error...Error
Interference is too great. Some pockets are possibly habitable..danger..danger
Landing is not advised...
She gazes at the readouts processing the mass of information in seconds. Shae sighs. What was the point of eternal life if each day you don't have love?
Shiv - Frozen world. Only known habitable areas are near the equator
Efrit - Massive life readings near the poles in the dense jungles. Large deserts. Volcanic Activity off the charts
Muh - Rolling plains and grasslands cover most of the planet very little water. storms are frequent
Levi - mostly ocean with chains of islands snaking around it. A paradise with a hidden secret
Maduin - temperate , continental , most habitable
She looks over to a flashing panel she gasps at the grey storms that engulf Terra Prime.
Greater citadels Alpha, Delta, and Sigma have been destroyed no signs of life or even remains have been found...
Eshae sighs what a waste. All that culture and knowledge lost. What is the status of the twelve lesser citadels?
Acknowledged...
Processing..
Ten lesser citadels are accounted for and fully functional. Launch status ready...
Sagittarius citadel has collided with an unknown mountain range that wasn't on the charts...
Gemini's navigation system failed. It currently lies on the bottom of the ocean its status unknown repeated scans have been unable to return any useful information...
Eshae thinks. No! She processes. She serves her purpose well. Millions of calculations flow through her matrix. Lights, bubbles and panels are running and processing. Ten arks, two for each moon. Her task had not only been to take care of the habitat but also to seed and colonize these worlds. She would not fail the survivors. No they had come to far. They had sacrificed so much. She would not give up. She would not go silently into the night. She furiously starts inputting commands faster then the normal mind could comprehend. Bismark can barely keep up.
Processing...
Coordinates accepted .. resuming route...
Launch patterns accepted...
Low power... Processing.. ...
Plotting course for a stable orbit around the mega-planet....
Trajectory found....
Engaging sub engines at your mark rerouting emergency power....
Eshae sighs. The machine form vents a small bubble. The first part of her plan is in motion. She presses the singular button on the panel to her right flashing Engage engines. She scans the habitat once more. She looks down disapointed. She starts calculating the time it will all take. She hopes there is enough power left. Suddenly she hears a sharp beeping she turns her head swiftly
One child of the sun detected it is very faint and damaged...
Location Sagittarius.....
Another alarm sounds . Eshae winces at the loud and shrieking noise after her long slumber
Multiple threats detected in habitat section.......
Input defensive measures.......
The sirens wail
They are back...
Is there no end to them?
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