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Chapter 3 : Leviticus
We had a home. We had our lives back, but we were missing one thing: pride. We had nothing more to boast about…until we found that which we believed would bring us back to glory. Deep within this aging space station, we found it. NOPO. NOPO stands for Nanomachine Operated Production Organism. Able to produce for our benefit anything we desired, it saved not only our lives, but our honor.
Our population began to grow…Sigma-Copernicus was a large installation, capable of holding up to a million inhabitants, and there were but a few thousand. We had time to expand, or so it seemed. Very swiftly, they found us. We thought they had gone for good, leaving us to our miserable existence, but once again, for the third time, we were wrong.
They came upon us like a swarm, and we had no way of defense. No weapons, no shields…the station was a sitting duck. We attempted to hail them, to ask for peace, but to no avail, as it had always been. Black shapes, flying in the blacker darkness of space. As if by the grace of God himself, a member of our engineering team found an experimental mass-phasing device deep in the research chambers. It was our only hope. Even as airlocks were blown open and the enemy prepared to board us, we used what we considered to be a trump card…and it was all over.
The next any of us could remember, we were somewhere…else. An unknown location, in an unknown ship. It was not Sigma-Copernicus, nor was it anything we had remotely seen before. Nor were we all there; Some of us had lost brothers, some sisters, others had lost friends…they simply ceased to exist. Was it really righteous to pay such a cost for freedom? We debated this, over and over, as we sat alone in the dark...
And so our search for light began. Lost, we gave our new home a name. Asgard. It would be our own heaven, we would make it as such. The long road to recovery and to redemption lay ahead of us…as well as life. Survival in such an environment, without any “modern” conveniences would be…difficult, to say the least. |