Brachiosaurus
19-11-2006, 17:02
The huge craft floated through intergalactic space. It was on a mission. Just one of many missions to find the legendary Terra Cognita. The home of the ancestors. The progenitors of the Brachiosaurus race.
Over their people's history they had achieved Level III civilization. They had first harnessed the power of the solar systems they had come to inhabit but then outgrew them. Many of them had left the Milky Way for other galaxies where they eventually learned the power of harnessing the power of galaxies and quasars.
So advanced that some of their exploratory ships could be mistaken as natural bodies by more primitive species. Each craft being about the size of the earth's moon.
They had searched the other galaxies and found nothing. Now it was the Milky Way's turn.
Their advanced technology would seem like magic to ancient or medieval civilizations and appear to violate the laws of physics that modern civilizations or pre level III civilizations were just now discovering.
The Brachiosaurs traveled through the cosmos by bending spacetime itself where by temporarily bringing Point A closer to Point B even though, most of the time, the two points were millions of light years apart.
Krok, the ship commander, had been disappointed. The first 3 systems they checked had no habitable worlds. Then he picked out a system all by itself near the edge of the galactic arm.
As they approached it, they made deliberate, caring moves to avoid the hundreds of thousands of microplanets and miniplanets and comets and asteroids that inhabited the system's outer zones. Pluto was so small that they didn't even take note of it. There was no debate among them that Pluto was never a planet.
The system had nine planets. The third planet appeared to be the home of its own civilization. They had noted the primitive space vessels going to and fro.
They slowed their ship, which on the outside appeared to be a natural moon or subplanet. The most efficient form of space travel. The thick dirt used to cover the ship acted as a natural barrier against harmful ultraviolet radiation. The surface itself had a breathable atmosphere kept in place by the artificial gravity that was produced by the gravitron. The surface however, was used only for vacations and would appear to be mostly uninhabited as the Brachiosuars lived inside the ship itself.
They passed by a planet the likes of which they had never seen before. A planet with rings. The small moon stopped as the curious Brachiosaurs took time out to study the strange phenomena.
Over their people's history they had achieved Level III civilization. They had first harnessed the power of the solar systems they had come to inhabit but then outgrew them. Many of them had left the Milky Way for other galaxies where they eventually learned the power of harnessing the power of galaxies and quasars.
So advanced that some of their exploratory ships could be mistaken as natural bodies by more primitive species. Each craft being about the size of the earth's moon.
They had searched the other galaxies and found nothing. Now it was the Milky Way's turn.
Their advanced technology would seem like magic to ancient or medieval civilizations and appear to violate the laws of physics that modern civilizations or pre level III civilizations were just now discovering.
The Brachiosaurs traveled through the cosmos by bending spacetime itself where by temporarily bringing Point A closer to Point B even though, most of the time, the two points were millions of light years apart.
Krok, the ship commander, had been disappointed. The first 3 systems they checked had no habitable worlds. Then he picked out a system all by itself near the edge of the galactic arm.
As they approached it, they made deliberate, caring moves to avoid the hundreds of thousands of microplanets and miniplanets and comets and asteroids that inhabited the system's outer zones. Pluto was so small that they didn't even take note of it. There was no debate among them that Pluto was never a planet.
The system had nine planets. The third planet appeared to be the home of its own civilization. They had noted the primitive space vessels going to and fro.
They slowed their ship, which on the outside appeared to be a natural moon or subplanet. The most efficient form of space travel. The thick dirt used to cover the ship acted as a natural barrier against harmful ultraviolet radiation. The surface itself had a breathable atmosphere kept in place by the artificial gravity that was produced by the gravitron. The surface however, was used only for vacations and would appear to be mostly uninhabited as the Brachiosuars lived inside the ship itself.
They passed by a planet the likes of which they had never seen before. A planet with rings. The small moon stopped as the curious Brachiosaurs took time out to study the strange phenomena.