Space dragon story (writer newby)
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Draco Prime, stardate 2401.3
This is TVFF, reporting about the disaster that has happened in Trival system yesterday. Egg Kreesh has been destroyed by a so far unknown race. They seem to have developed spacetravel similar to the capabilities of the dragons. Why this species has attacked us is not known so far. There was no communication prior to the attack. As of today, we are at war with an enemy we have no information at all about.
Stay tuned for the translated speech of the dragons’ head.
"Have we done the wrong thing ? Should we have kept to our lives in harmony with the sun, our sun ? Should we stay away from learning new things ? Have we been punished for wanting too much ?
I believe not. We share the grief over the lost egg, and we share the anger. Anger, because this tragedy should have been avoided ! We are looking for someone to blame for the loss of an unhatched mother, not to forget the millions of little ones that accompanied her on her way.
But this anger must not deter us from our goal. We have gathered, and are of one mind. We will push for the new stars. Even as we speak, mothers in 13 sectors of space are landing on habitable planets that are almost exactly the same as our homeworlds. Our little ones swarm out of their protective shells, and explore new worlds, and a new freedom. The wonders we have uncovered are beyond count, and value.
What will we do to prevent a repetition ?
As we speak, two hatchling brothers have separated themselves from the surfaces of Draco I and II, and are heading for space to deal with this thread. I was linked with the killed mother in her Last minutes, and I can assure you that the strange “brother” that attacked us Last month will be no match for them.
We all would have liked to learn in peace from any species we find out there, but there was not even the least attempt to communicate, just a barrage of light waves right from the start ! So as of today, we have committed ourselves, and the work of all our little ones, to the destruction of the aggressive species, codenamed “Terran”, by the interpretation of their curious body-painting."
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On board of the “Jupiter”, Terran exploration vessel in Rigel system, stardate 2401.3
“Ok, Doc. Now tell me why the heck human bodies spill out of an asteroid without us detecting any livesigns at all. Was this some kind of space-graveyard for a species we have not yet discovered, or what ?”
“Captain Hunter, I do not know what we have here. This is making no sense to me. Analysis shows that the bodies not only are clearly human, but also that they were in some kind of stasis only minutes before the attack.”
“Are you telling me that we destroyed an ancient colonizer ? That at a time before the great war technology was so high developed that they actually sent out a vessel ?”
“No. The vessel itself was clearly not of human technology. We have found no trace of a communication system whatsoever. Also the energy control used by the stasis fields and the propulsion are way beyond our capabilities today, not to speak of the time before the war. It seems more like a exposition of human bodies, made by aliens.”
“So we found an alien museum of the human race filled with abducted people. Maybe better that we destroyed it. I will contact the prime minister at once that we have to prepare for defense.”
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From the history books of the “Watchers”, stardate 3782.8
Maybe one of the most interesting species we discovered in all our travels, the space dragons are in a state of constant development. Their species is divided in female “mothers” and male “brothers”.
The “mothers” hatch from an egg that is launched into space by another mother. When this egg crashes on a suitable planet, the surviving body cells begin to grow and absorb gigantic amounts of minerals, in time enveloping the whole planet. There are even some reports that a few eggs hatched in space around their home world, but this was very rare. It is proven that the capability to give birth to others of their species is much reduced in the spaceborn variety (about 40%). Rumors that there are even some of this spaceborn mothers capable of independent spaceflight after they have hatched are not proven.
The brothers on the other hand are always able to move free throughout space, although they like to be connected to a "mother", and have to be "launched"/birthed with great effort. They undergo several stages in their lives:
The male hatchling is able to move at reasonable speed, but can defend himself from various dangers only by spitting a slug of condensed matter, often uranium or similar material, at his foe. When he grows into a juvenile dragon, he learns how to manipulate defensive fields, up to the point where energy from the heart of the dragon is focused at an attacker, almost identical to an Anti-Proton Beam. Once the dragon masters this focus completely, we speak of a grown-up. Most brothers register about 400 kT, but evidence suggests there are bigger ones, also.
Their relation to the human race is symbiotic in nature. Dragons as a mineralic lifeform cannot perform several actions that their curiosity drives them to. In exchange, they protect and feed the humans they control, giving them a life without sorrow. Some byproducts of the female dragon’s digestion system are highly addictive to humans, so there seems to be no discomfort for lack of freedom.
In the humans’ great civil war of 2204, a group of male dragons took secretly several humans with them, to protect them from harm. This people flourished on the dragons’ homeworlds, and eventually exceeded the population they came from in numbers.
What we today know as the “reunion wars” (2401-2405) between dragons and humans was a misunderstanding. The humans mistook the “eggs” and “brothers” as asteroids and later as hostile battleships. The dragons, being able to communicate telepathically between themselves, mistook the first human spacevessels as living “brothers”. The dragons never thought that free humans could develop spaceflight with artificial means, believing that all humans not permanently controlled would eventually kill themselves once again in a big civil war.
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