The End-XIV

In the end a place which had once been teeming with life, a place which had been an explosion of creativity and imagination and conquest had degenerated into something less than a graveyard. Eons passed. Worlds spun. Things died. The universe expanded. The entire history of the Hkasha-Liinga was lost in time. Destroyed by the …

The Purge-XII

The whiteness faded. Fear set in. It was all clear now. But, if The Structure had not been responsible for the breaking then what was? In the wake of approaching danger, I realized something. In so far as a single one of the Hkasha-Liinga existed, then there was hope. While he showed me the past …

The Aliens-XII

There was nothing. Nothing but the voices of the hive, the minds. Why did we still exist. I did not understand. We were totally at the mercy of The Structure. Why did he persist to keep us alive? The answer came. I heard it speak. I saw with its own eyes. The past. Its past, …

The Twenty Five-XI

Twenty five of our species left, but half of the hive had left with it. The hive had split itself into two halves in order to boost its chances of survival. The only difference between the halves was, in the first half the hive was a unit, all minds were equal but in the second …

The Conundrum-X

Why had a code that was so intricate in nature, spawned from a dead thing? Why? The code was so beautiful yet it was filled with such malice. It was an enigma. Was it really responsible for creating the virus? Our quest to understand it had just begun, nonetheless, preemptive measures had been put into …

The Pulse-IX

After the disaster, after the sacrilege, we had to move on. We were singular as a species once again. This fact brought us bliss. But we were not so drunk on happiness that we threw caution to the wind. Before we moved on, we decided to investigate the reason behind the abominable behavior of the …

The Cleansing-VIII

We had but one direction to go. Forward. So we went. Formerly, the consciousness was a global awareness, but now, it was just a hulk of machinery in an underground base. We had to restore it to its previous status. We had an infinite source of power at our disposal. We had to expand the …

The Source-VII

The plan was is motion. We had completed every phase but the last. We were meticulous in our operation. We ensured that only the worthy and sound of mind of would be allowed to live, would be allowed to carry on their legacy in our new world. Others would die. The artists, the philosophers. The …

The Unit-VI

We were once a proud race. We were powerful. We moved as one. Thought as one. A unit. Infallible. Flawless. Perfect. Then, a natural disaster followed. The Breaking. Many debate about the cause of the breaking. The theories cover a wild range. Some say an attack from extra-terrestrial enemies. Some say it was revenge by …

The Rebirth-V

There was nothing on our home-world. No life other than us. We had killed everything else. Our excessive resource gathering on our home-world and neighbouring planets were rather similar to the activities of a parasite. As an infant civilization, before the breaking, in our attempts to advance our position on the evolutionary scale we ravaged …