Tnechat
27-08-2004, 15:27
The Move of Tnechat
The queen looked out from her balcony with a smile, breathing in the clean air with a smile on her lips. This was another new gift from the star-gods that she’d been given, a replacement for her old palace. When they’d moved. She reflected once again on the move, they’d only completed it a few months ago; she still couldn’t quite believe it. They’d been preparing for years of course; for they’d been told long ago that it would happen seven years in advance. She didn’t quite understand the science of it, but a ship of the Star-gods, one that sailed between worlds, or so she had been told, had been the first to discover this world, uninhabited.
The world was entirely theirs, or so they had been told at least, though they had only been sent to a relatively small part of it. The lands they’d taken so far were very fertile, more so than the lands they had occupied before, and the Tnechati had discovered many strange beasts upon the land, most numerous and useful the rhynadon, a large beast with the build of a rhinoceros, and a furry mane upon its back. Four muscular legs propelled it and the beast sported a long, fleshy tail. They were rather good to eat actually, the tail meat being especially good. Another creature that had come as a great surprise was the “Kakaru,” a flying creature that was reminiscent of a pterodactyl, perhaps even a small dragon, though mercifully they were not as fearsome as that comparison would suggest, and rare.
This wasn’t to say that they hadn’t brought their own animals and plants to their new home, for from her balcony Aceratzu could see several riders on horseback going this way and that around the city that was growing in the bay. They’d started building that quickly too. It had been an ideal opportunity to have it designed to a simple but effective grid plan, which was precisely what they did. The new city had sanitation tat was vastly superior to anything that had been in existence before, at the prompting of Arshaw Miriel, the representative of the star-gods who had visited them most often, she was of a type of elf, or so the Tnechati thought, called the necrontyr, tall and graceful, blue tinted skin – much the same as that of some humans (and of other elves) was a subtle pink colour due to their red blood, necrontyr blue blood made their skin a blue grey colour. Such subtle promptings were wise, if unclear in the reason for their wisdom, for full understanding of the need for such sanitation was quite beyond the Tnechati so far, but eventually they would learn.
A Mind of Metal, and Wheels
And so, days later, she was especially delighted in seeing a new invention that had been devised by much cunning and interest. An inventor known as Erantu had devised a machine that propelled itself. He’d been inspired by certain foreign contraptions he’d seen recently. This thing was made of wood and iron. Burning coal propelled it and using that burning to heat water to steam, and drive something called a steam-engine – another entirely new innovation – which drove wheels, and made the entire contraption move on a set of iron rails. This had proved to be a most interesting device. At this news, Arshaw had simply smiled…
The queen looked out from her balcony with a smile, breathing in the clean air with a smile on her lips. This was another new gift from the star-gods that she’d been given, a replacement for her old palace. When they’d moved. She reflected once again on the move, they’d only completed it a few months ago; she still couldn’t quite believe it. They’d been preparing for years of course; for they’d been told long ago that it would happen seven years in advance. She didn’t quite understand the science of it, but a ship of the Star-gods, one that sailed between worlds, or so she had been told, had been the first to discover this world, uninhabited.
The world was entirely theirs, or so they had been told at least, though they had only been sent to a relatively small part of it. The lands they’d taken so far were very fertile, more so than the lands they had occupied before, and the Tnechati had discovered many strange beasts upon the land, most numerous and useful the rhynadon, a large beast with the build of a rhinoceros, and a furry mane upon its back. Four muscular legs propelled it and the beast sported a long, fleshy tail. They were rather good to eat actually, the tail meat being especially good. Another creature that had come as a great surprise was the “Kakaru,” a flying creature that was reminiscent of a pterodactyl, perhaps even a small dragon, though mercifully they were not as fearsome as that comparison would suggest, and rare.
This wasn’t to say that they hadn’t brought their own animals and plants to their new home, for from her balcony Aceratzu could see several riders on horseback going this way and that around the city that was growing in the bay. They’d started building that quickly too. It had been an ideal opportunity to have it designed to a simple but effective grid plan, which was precisely what they did. The new city had sanitation tat was vastly superior to anything that had been in existence before, at the prompting of Arshaw Miriel, the representative of the star-gods who had visited them most often, she was of a type of elf, or so the Tnechati thought, called the necrontyr, tall and graceful, blue tinted skin – much the same as that of some humans (and of other elves) was a subtle pink colour due to their red blood, necrontyr blue blood made their skin a blue grey colour. Such subtle promptings were wise, if unclear in the reason for their wisdom, for full understanding of the need for such sanitation was quite beyond the Tnechati so far, but eventually they would learn.
A Mind of Metal, and Wheels
And so, days later, she was especially delighted in seeing a new invention that had been devised by much cunning and interest. An inventor known as Erantu had devised a machine that propelled itself. He’d been inspired by certain foreign contraptions he’d seen recently. This thing was made of wood and iron. Burning coal propelled it and using that burning to heat water to steam, and drive something called a steam-engine – another entirely new innovation – which drove wheels, and made the entire contraption move on a set of iron rails. This had proved to be a most interesting device. At this news, Arshaw had simply smiled…