The Hooded Man
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Excerpt on Fate
Fate is a funny thing. It pairs with misery with fortune and hope with coincidence, while it lays the tracks for the determinism express. Was it fate or cruel coincidence that as the moon of Sofra was plummeting into its gravity well, and the not yet spacefaring civilization of Sofrites were facing their extinction, that several newly minted Gar-a-bone transport ships were being towed to pick up fresh colonists meant for the Broch-Gar system only two days away? The date on the manifest for the transport ships was printed nearly two years prior to any plans by the Sofrites to bomb their own moon.
By The Hooded Man3 years ago in Humans
Dialogue with Um-Nusu
“For the purpose of this interview, I will address you as Anunnaki.” "That would be the same as me calling you human. Doing so would not appreciate your individuality. Even as I called you human in my example, I could sense a change in your emotion.”
By The Hooded Man3 years ago in Fiction
The Moon Bases
The year was 2121. Humanity’s slow crawl into space had found new life with the influx of funding it received from private corporations and anonymous donors. Public opinion favored many reasons for colonizing other planetary bodies, but above all was an insurance policy for the seed of life, a fail-safe in case the rapidly declining conditions on Earth rendered it inhabitable and irreparable. An obvious initial step to long-term off-planet colonization would be to create a stable launching point on Earth’s natural satellite, Luna, or more commonly referred to as the moon.
By The Hooded Man3 years ago in Fiction
The Amulet of Power
Part One For centuries, mankind had struggled with controlling the power that comes with knowledge. Curious beings, humans are born into a system that prizes and rewards collectors of knowledge. They are akin to programmable machines, desperately probing into the unknown and hoarding what they discover for their own gain. Those without it, suffer to the benefit of those who were lucky or determined to receive it.
By The Hooded Man3 years ago in Fiction