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clone themselves IF the need
were to arise.” Kneus was looking pointedly at her, since everyone else here
had to know what “clone eggs” were already, he paused and gestured around the
room. “We are the result of the need arising.”
“After many cycles when this community was able, our predecessors made
many attempt to contact Terra. The port pad there was never shown as active.
Twelve thousand years ago something happened and the people left on Terra must
have de-evolved. Amber stated that the humans are just now able to travel and
study nearby planets…this means all knowledge from our time on Terra was lost.”
Kniam nodded at his brother, and
Kneus proceeded, “It didn’t make sense that Amber was able to survive being in
the medical unit. Once I researched, and we know the home world, or Terra as we
called it and Earth are one and the same it explains why the medical until
wouldn’t do an autopsy on Amber, and why it did the medical changes instead. It
recognized her DNA in the system, but realized it wasn’t quite a match to ours,
and made the necessary repairs. When Amber went into the medical unit it
recognized her optimum genetic form and matched that. The Earth female will
have purple eyes like us eventually, that is a side effect of using the suns
for energy. Everything else about her will stay the same.”
Amber froze in her seat, “What do you mean my DNA wasn’t quite a match,
so the medical unit made fixes?” She
whispered at Kniam, but she might have shouted for the silence in the room.
Kniam sighed, and motioned for Kneus to wait in the presentation. “It
altered you to match what it thought was accurate. We have been here for
thousands of years Amber, and we made hard decisions about survival. We made
certain sacrifices to make sure that we had enough energy, and supplies to
support our lives on this planet. We didn’t know if we would ever have a
chance to get back to Terra, and after time passed we couldn’t go back if we
had found a way.” He looked deeply into her eyes, begging for
understanding…”The port pad on Antilles works both ways Amber, but you can
never go back to Earth.”
She was excited for two seconds when he said the
port pad worked both ways, then her excitement was dashed when he said she
could never go back.
“Why Kniam?” She knew something was coming, and it
had to be bad…
“Have you felt hunger yet Amber, have you a desire
to eat?” Kniam asked
"Well no. But I thought maybe with all the
turmoil of the last few days...What does it mean that I'm not hungry? What
aren't you telling me? I am not going to freak out, so just spit it out."
She might have said this a little too loudly, maybe she would freak out a
little. But they needed to tell her whatever it was they were hiding.
Kniam must have decided to just get it over with
because he blurted, "Over our time here, we have altered out genetic code,
at the atomic level, so that we use our two sun’s, Solarus Minor and Solarus
Major, as energy for fuel. It was the most reliable, renewable source of power
our predecessors could think to utilize. There are many planets out there with
yellow suns, but few are in the zone of being habitable. The ones that would be
able to provide life, usually already have sentient populations established.
Like the Antilleans. We would never interfere or impose on those planets."
Kniam paused to see how she was reacting, and when she just sat there he
decided to finish, "You can never return to Earth, because even though it
does have a yellow sun, it would not provide the same level of energy our two
suns do. Also, the life span of earth humans is limited to at best, what did
you tell me…80-100 years? You will live to longer than eight to ten times older
than that. Your body will never change. You will still age, but not in the way
you explained Earth humans do. You do not require food, as the suns will
energize you with daily exposure. You will however need a
were to arise.” Kneus was looking pointedly at her, since everyone else here
had to know what “clone eggs” were already, he paused and gestured around the
room. “We are the result of the need arising.”
“After many cycles when this community was able, our predecessors made
many attempt to contact Terra. The port pad there was never shown as active.
Twelve thousand years ago something happened and the people left on Terra must
have de-evolved. Amber stated that the humans are just now able to travel and
study nearby planets…this means all knowledge from our time on Terra was lost.”
Kniam nodded at his brother, and
Kneus proceeded, “It didn’t make sense that Amber was able to survive being in
the medical unit. Once I researched, and we know the home world, or Terra as we
called it and Earth are one and the same it explains why the medical until
wouldn’t do an autopsy on Amber, and why it did the medical changes instead. It
recognized her DNA in the system, but realized it wasn’t quite a match to ours,
and made the necessary repairs. When Amber went into the medical unit it
recognized her optimum genetic form and matched that. The Earth female will
have purple eyes like us eventually, that is a side effect of using the suns
for energy. Everything else about her will stay the same.”
Amber froze in her seat, “What do you mean my DNA wasn’t quite a match,
so the medical unit made fixes?” She
whispered at Kniam, but she might have shouted for the silence in the room.
Kniam sighed, and motioned for Kneus to wait in the presentation. “It
altered you to match what it thought was accurate. We have been here for
thousands of years Amber, and we made hard decisions about survival. We made
certain sacrifices to make sure that we had enough energy, and supplies to
support our lives on this planet. We didn’t know if we would ever have a
chance to get back to Terra, and after time passed we couldn’t go back if we
had found a way.” He looked deeply into her eyes, begging for
understanding…”The port pad on Antilles works both ways Amber, but you can
never go back to Earth.”
She was excited for two seconds when he said the
port pad worked both ways, then her excitement was dashed when he said she
could never go back.
“Why Kniam?” She knew something was coming, and it
had to be bad…
“Have you felt hunger yet Amber, have you a desire
to eat?” Kniam asked
"Well no. But I thought maybe with all the
turmoil of the last few days...What does it mean that I'm not hungry? What
aren't you telling me? I am not going to freak out, so just spit it out."
She might have said this a little too loudly, maybe she would freak out a
little. But they needed to tell her whatever it was they were hiding.
Kniam must have decided to just get it over with
because he blurted, "Over our time here, we have altered out genetic code,
at the atomic level, so that we use our two sun’s, Solarus Minor and Solarus
Major, as energy for fuel. It was the most reliable, renewable source of power
our predecessors could think to utilize. There are many planets out there with
yellow suns, but few are in the zone of being habitable. The ones that would be
able to provide life, usually already have sentient populations established.
Like the Antilleans. We would never interfere or impose on those planets."
Kniam paused to see how she was reacting, and when she just sat there he
decided to finish, "You can never return to Earth, because even though it
does have a yellow sun, it would not provide the same level of energy our two
suns do. Also, the life span of earth humans is limited to at best, what did
you tell me…80-100 years? You will live to longer than eight to ten times older
than that. Your body will never change. You will still age, but not in the way
you explained Earth humans do. You do not require food, as the suns will
energize you with daily exposure. You will however need a
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