(N)GC4 - Game Story Thread

[Randallw]

Councillor Dokeo’s friend, Paramethios, was visiting. Taking some time off from his duties managing one of the systems other worlds, for even the most dedicated is less effective when tired, he had come for dinner. They had both enjoyed a meal which to other peoples might appear somewhat lacking, but which in the Republic was adequate to keep them sustained, the most important thing. Having finished they retired to the balcony while servants cleared up.
Seating themselves they sat for a while listening to the night. In time Dokeo queried his friend.
“Would you say we live in interesting times?” he asked.
“How so?” replied Paramethios.
“We have spread to the stars, established our presence and prospered” explained Dokeo.
“What you say is true”.
“Yet I feel we must be prepared for the future”.
“of course”.
“We have met many other races, have we not?”.
“yes”.
“But are some of them really other races?”.
‘Please elaborate”.
“Our friends the Aether lords, what are they?”.
“Human” Paramethios replied after some thought.
“And the Manticore”
“Again Human”
“What of the Federated worlds”
“Human of course”
“It would appear that a great many races, all human, are to be found in this part of space. There is even another human race, recently found, who we have yet to interact with”
“go on”
“On the other hand we have met races that are not human”
“such as?”
“The Narn, the Spelunkers, the Vexan, even the machines, and lets not forget the Primeval”
“of course”
“It seems that the humans we find are friendly, while the aliens we find are not, with one exception”
“certainly”
“I forsee the community of Humans needing to steel itself before the advance of the Alien”
“If you say so”
“I hope I am wrong” concluded Dokeo.
The two colleagues considered things for awhile.
“What do you know of our history” questioned Dokeo
“Everything”
“But what of before our history”
“Please explain”
“Before the institution of our great society under The Philosopher”
“Nothing is known”
“Where did we come from then”
“It is widely assumed we evolved on this planet”
“What of the other human races?”
“What do you mean?”
“Did they also evolve on this planet?”
“apparently not”
“Did you know two of the other human races claim to both come from a planet with the same name?”
“No, I didn’t know that”
“I feel more research is necessary to discover the link”
“If you think so”
Again the two friends paused.
“Where you aware the Federated worlds consider us martial” said Dokeo.
“No, I wasn’t aware of that”
“Why do you think that is?”
“I couldn’t say”
“Certainly the Military have their part in our society. But it is an equal part. Were one part of our society to place its role over the others I am afraid of what would happen to us”
“A dread prospect indeed”
The two of them listened to the night. They could hear industry around them, yet at the same time nature was not drowned out. The world, like all things in the Republic, was balanced.