The Chronicles of Galactic Colonization: Exploring Worlds Beyond Earth

Dear Reader
Foreword

Following in the footsteps of Swift’s Gulliver, as several species of aliens attempt the colonization and subjugation of Earth, hundreds of humans and animals are transported to the far corners of our Galaxy.
Written from the points of view of several of the major protagonists, the narrative explores the experience of colonization from the perspectives of each.
The first three Chronicles account for the stages of colonization:
1 invasion and occupation
2 colonization and subjugation
3 rebellion and cooperation.
The fourth Chronicle is an account of the attempt by an abandoned community of humans and miscellaneous alien species to build a viable alternative civilization. The biologically active planet on which they find themselves is employed by several adjacent alien civilizations as a waste disposal facility for failed genetic experiments and political dissidents.


Dear Reader
1. At the far end of our Milky Way Galaxy exists a cluster of adjacent solar systems with planets occupying that much-fabled “Goldilocks’ Zone.” Where the porridge is not too hot and not too cold – in fact, it’s just right!
2. Some of the consequent advanced tool-maker, sentient, civilizations that evolved out there have been flying for the equivalent of more than 1,000 of our Earth years.
3. Some have mastered the technology required to fly around/through space-time in an instant.
4. F.T.L technologies can encounter all the random anomalies that characterize the behaviors of sub-atomic particles.
5. Until they discovered Earth, like us, the Home Cluster of civilizations had been searching for signs of extra-terrestrial life since they learned to fly.
6. One day they began to recover some of our earliest TV signals.
7. The Home Cluster FTL Club got together and decided to mount a series of joint expeditions to check out the source of the signals.
8. They found us.
9. The rest, as they say, is history.
10. The reliability of information reporting on these events may have been contaminated in a number of ways, the least of which was the act of translation of data that may have already been degraded by passage across time/space.
11. This novel, derived from a blend of real time Earth-based events and communications received from the distant cluster, is a modest and incomplete account of these events.
NB:
You are encouraged to take the approach of a detective in sifting through the evidence available and coming to your own conclusions. There is no correct interpretation!


Cluster Geography

Home Cluster:
A brace of adjacent solar systems in the Milky Way Galaxy with several attendant Goldilocks Planets occupied by at least four exotic, high-tech, tool-maker civilizations.
Xerox: [Planet X]
One such planet occupied by a highly intuitive bear-like [Bruin] burrowing creatures. Species range from Teddy Bear to Grizzly Bear in size, with intellectual elites having developed planet-shifting technologies. Have ETF. Responsible for abducting ship-loads of humans from Earth’s prisons. Keep humans as pets. Having badly damaged the atmosphere of their home planet, they are on the look-out for a better habitat for their species. Started a settlement in Australia. May have been responsible for a much earlier secret and deliberately forgotten visit to Earth, during which they harvested isolated lone humans considered unlikely to be missed.
Nautica:
An advanced “Water” planet in the Home Cluster, whose most evolved, multi-brain creatures, resemble our octopi. Have invented self-replicating carbon-based creature to facilitate the exploitation of the terrestrial zones of their planet. Guided by the telepathic brain transplants of their creators, these bionics in turn, have developed ETF. Master genetic engineers, Nautica hate flying. They are looking for new habitats, live food, and novel genetic material. On their first recorded visit to Earth, they landed in New York.
Water World:
Aka home Planet of the Pentopus, the Water World’s dominant species
Nautica are the acknowledged Cluster-wide masters of designer genetic engineering.
Brahman:
Possibly home to the most evolved creatures within the Home Cluster. Classic bipedal aliens, of human dimensions, they have large heads and spindly limbs. Although the first to master ETF, they employ mind-power to project living vehicles through space time. Need to have a mental image of where they are going. Have a strict caste system with mind power as their unique talent. Landed in Australia. Seeking trade and knowledge.
Zealotia: [Planet Z]
A planet dominated by primates that resemble the Lemur of Madagaskar. Their elites are most notably deeply and zealously religious. Their mission to convert the people of China is funded by business elites who are seeking new supplies of ultra-magnetic minerals for their high-tech industries. Their model society is similar to communism with a supervisory religious leadership, viz Iran. Zealot ethics have much in common with the mainstream religions on Earth. Their religious leaders are reputed to manifest occult powers, viz: defying the forces of gravity.
Haiku:
A planet dominated by an insect-like, swarming creature, about the size of a large dog. Despite possessing advanced, ETF technology, a significant portion of their space-ships get lost, location unknown. Allies of Nautica. After losing their first ship to Earth, even there second expedition to Earth may have burnt up over North Africa. The leader of this inscrutable, cricket-like species of advanced tool makers has been tasked to Chair the first Joint Cluster Expedition to Planet Earth.
Dead Planet:
Within Home Cluster. Once the site of an advanced civilisation, now a nuclear wasteland. Subjected to an experimental nuclear attack by Nautica and Haiku to see if they could exterminate their un-named competitors. Possibly the erstwhile planet of origin for the Invisible Ones found on Planet B.
Planet A:
A second biologically active planet within the Home Cluster. Said to be occupied by primitive plants and animals. Apart from the occasional scientific mission, very little is known about Planet A.
Planet B:
As for planet A, A no-tech, biologically active planet within the Home Cluster. Surreptitiously used by all planets as a dumping ground for failed genetic experiments, dissidents, mutants, toxic wastes, and the unwanted elderly. In theory: a planetary nature reserve, protected by the whole Cluster; in reality: those in authority tend to turn a blind eye to all reports of illicit activities on the planet. Possibly a home for a new human civilization.
The Enigma:
Occupies the gravitational heart of Home Cluster and worshipped by many of her advanced tool-makers, this cosmic phenomena appears to behave in a manner reminiscent of the human theory of Black Holes.



A lexicon of Characters

Space Gypsies:
Possibly of Haiku origins, these insect-like creatures can live in a vacuum. Trade between the home planets, their space stations, and the servicing of working vessels and observatories is their business. The Black Market is their most lucrative. They are reputed to be able to hear in space.
The Invisible Ones:
As yet unsighted by human eye, a class of advanced sentient beings hiding on Planet B that have taken an active interest in the welfare of the ragged diaspora of abandoned humans.
The Sisterhood:
A secretive Planet Xerox organization that manages the Bruin planet-wide breeding programme. Said to have mystical powers.
Madam Bo:
Liaison personality and chief negotiator /chairperson representing the Chinese Government in exile.
Ray Yun Chen:
Inadvertently, this teenage High School girl was the first fly on the wall of the first Zealot spaceship to land in China. Ray Yun was later able to share her experience of life on Planet Z on Social-Media and National TV.
Daniel Chen:
Elder student cousin to Ray Yun, Daniel watched out the window of his high-rise student flat as the first Zealot ship touched down in China. He recorded then shared all he witnessed on local social media such as WEIBO.
Bill Guldbrandsen
Author of the Xerox Diaries, a male human captured during an early Bruin expedition to Earth. He was first a pet to a Bruin family, then sent into exile on Planet B for a breach of the Bruin Sisterhood’s breeding etiquette.
Sarah:
The female of the giant Bruin species who used Bill as a sex toy.



T1 and T2:
A pair of mutants befriended on Planet B by Bill Gulbransen and his fellow Earthlings. Recorded as each having three heads, three bodies, six pairs each of legs and arms and 60 toes and fingers, they were originally bred by Nautica engineers as the ultimate space navigators.
Julie
The product of Nautica’s first human bio-engineering programme, Julie is the woman humanoid, who, along with Bill Gulbransen, has helped record the events as re-told in this work.
John Spence:
Kept hostage against Nautica’s demands for small animals, Spence is a male human North American captured by the first exploratory Nautica visit to Earth.
Michelle
A New Yorker appointed by the city to negotiate with the Nautica Occupation.
Lisa:
A teenage girl taken from New York as further collateral by Nautica.

Carolyne:
An early victim of sexual aggression by the male humanoid crew of the first Nautica ship that settled over New York’s Central Park.
Lara:
Abandoned on Planet B as part of an experiment to see how humans survived, Lara was among the several hundred Brazilian woman taken with a prison-lot on an early Bruin voyage to Earth.


Max and Cilla:
A farming couple in outback Australia first visited by the Brahman.
Paulette:
Their daughter, she commits herself to the survival of the badly damaged Brahman Navigator and becomes enmeshed in the Brahman cause.
Jimmy:
A professional fencer on the Haywood spread. Reputed to be the first human being to contact with the Alien Expedition.
Frank:
The Navigator and leader of the first Brahman expedition to Earth.
Humanoids:
Raised by Bruin and Brahman civilisations, these sentient beings were rebuilt by Nautica geneticists from the remnants of dead humans.
Bionics:
With or without mechanical enhancements, these living creatures were generated by Home Cluster genetic engineers for their own purposes.
Robots:
As on Earth – primarily a machine, that may or may not have biological enhancements.


Mutants:
A generic classification for a diverse plethora of beings that either fall outside the bounds of the other named creatures or have been abandoned by Cluster genetic engineers. Generally found as abandoned on Planet B.
NB:
The variety of permutations and combinations of machine with living creature produced within Home Cluster is so diverse, that this classification can, on occasion, be little more than a good guess.

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