Pankong
The Shaman
Hey guys here's the beginning of a story concerning my adventure on the planetary sistem of Branama.
I will here tell you firstly about the historical background of this adventure, will post a description of the protagonist and the rest of the story later these days.
Various vicissitudes led me, many times ago, to visit the luxuriant world of Branama. It consists in four main planets, each one a little bigger than the other, the smallest being more or less the size of earth, and a cluster of few but big asteroids, everything orbiting a point in space that is slowy moving towards an inimmaginabily enormous star far away from them: I have to say that that was a quite empty region of the universe.
On each of the four planet, at some time of its history, life began to spring here and there, firstly prokaryotic organisms, then eukaryotics, then, you know, evolution. Every planet became a different ecosystem with its types of what you would call plants, animals, fungus, and other things human language hasn't met yet. The fact was, eclipses were ordinary events, the day/night cycle was irregular, orbits were always changing... life, particularly pluricellular life, had to fit with the environment and evolved by consequence, originating such monstrous symbionts and hybrids between organisms that no one could imagine, adapted to prosper in the most various ecosystems.
But let's proceed by order. Here must begin talking about humans. This story is set in what is usually referred to as "future", and there humans had already made lot of mess here and there, colonising planets (either living in presurized cans or terraforming them), reproducing at the point of being very very many, and becoming, you wouldn't say, one of the most experts in building starship capable of destroying a planet without very effort, the reason for creating such a weapon still being debated.
They created an empire based on commerce and war, colonising and conquering and steeling anything they found new, never seen. Much like the New World of the Americas or the Mars Colony, many outposts of the human empire became more and more independent and claimed liberty, or even, many became deserters, this common among battleships commanders who finished to become pirates, or even generals that conquered stellar systems with their fleets, founding personal reigns.
This story begins with one of those generals, sent by the Imperial High Command to the planetary system of Branama, with the purpose of studying the beings living there, searching for minerary deposits and eventual intelligent life, and especially of claiming property on everything he could in the name of the human specie.
As you might expect, this is not what happened, but I will stop now and continue my story another time.
I will here tell you firstly about the historical background of this adventure, will post a description of the protagonist and the rest of the story later these days.
Various vicissitudes led me, many times ago, to visit the luxuriant world of Branama. It consists in four main planets, each one a little bigger than the other, the smallest being more or less the size of earth, and a cluster of few but big asteroids, everything orbiting a point in space that is slowy moving towards an inimmaginabily enormous star far away from them: I have to say that that was a quite empty region of the universe.
On each of the four planet, at some time of its history, life began to spring here and there, firstly prokaryotic organisms, then eukaryotics, then, you know, evolution. Every planet became a different ecosystem with its types of what you would call plants, animals, fungus, and other things human language hasn't met yet. The fact was, eclipses were ordinary events, the day/night cycle was irregular, orbits were always changing... life, particularly pluricellular life, had to fit with the environment and evolved by consequence, originating such monstrous symbionts and hybrids between organisms that no one could imagine, adapted to prosper in the most various ecosystems.
But let's proceed by order. Here must begin talking about humans. This story is set in what is usually referred to as "future", and there humans had already made lot of mess here and there, colonising planets (either living in presurized cans or terraforming them), reproducing at the point of being very very many, and becoming, you wouldn't say, one of the most experts in building starship capable of destroying a planet without very effort, the reason for creating such a weapon still being debated.
They created an empire based on commerce and war, colonising and conquering and steeling anything they found new, never seen. Much like the New World of the Americas or the Mars Colony, many outposts of the human empire became more and more independent and claimed liberty, or even, many became deserters, this common among battleships commanders who finished to become pirates, or even generals that conquered stellar systems with their fleets, founding personal reigns.
This story begins with one of those generals, sent by the Imperial High Command to the planetary system of Branama, with the purpose of studying the beings living there, searching for minerary deposits and eventual intelligent life, and especially of claiming property on everything he could in the name of the human specie.
As you might expect, this is not what happened, but I will stop now and continue my story another time.