Anasazi Ruins, New Mexico

The elder sits deep in the Holy Place of his people, he's trying to reach out to the Star People. He knows they are on their way. The Navajo, and their allies are getting ready to make a strike against the invading Hive in the North East. Somewhere in the area they call New York.

He wants to wait because Changing Woman and Sun Father have not arrived yet. He does not want to jeopardize lives unnecessarily. He wants to take back as many of these peoples here who wish to go with them after the war has been won.

He has to repeatedly warn his people not to eat any of the food here, and it concerns him that some of them have. He can see the changes in those who have. Last night one of the young warriors died in agony from the corn he ate offered by the Hosteen's son.

Somehow these people who took over the land of the ancestors have corrupted the food before it grows. The Star Brothers had given them many an opportunity to join them in the technologies that they had, but his people preferred the simple life of the ancestors which is why they still spoke, hunted, farmed the way they had when the Star Brothers had offered to take them from here.

As he meditated on making contact, he had a vision of the canyon dust washing over streets and people, into homes. He knew than what the next move would be. They would gather as much of the magnetite rich dust as they could and move it by ship to the area these people called New York.

They would gather as many of their allies from there as they could. He had the ships they had come from Earth two to do the job. Then he would have to purify and school as many of them as possible in the old ways. It was the only way they could survive.

He liked the Jeremiahs, their ability to heal others would help them during this war, he just hoped that they were truthful in waning to prevent the Hive from taking over these peoples. When the Star Brothers first intervened all those years ago on behalf of the Anasazi they knew at some point they would be called on to help save this planet from Hive control.

They had seen firsthand the destruction the Hive caused. Entire species being taken over and decimated by the Hive, and after generations the species would be gone, and the Hive would leave behind a decimated planet. No resources left, and the makers would go back and wonder where they had gone wrong.

They would then go find a new planet to begin the cycle all over again. Always the majority of those would have people who worked with the Hive, believing the lies until it was too late. Once they who were arrived he would know if the peoples of the ancestors world had a chance of survival. If those who were meant to be had not formed the alliance with the Hive, they stood a very strong chance of survival until the Star Brothers arrived. They just needed to hold strong.

The Ship…

She was the first Queen in the history of the Hive who's colony had deliberately destroyed an unborn Queen, who openly defied the cohesiveness of the Hive. The Rebel riffraff from the last planet she had taken for the Hive had made their way here and were wreaking havoc with those who were helping the Hive.

Over the course of twenty years every plan the Hive had set had been systematically destroyed. At night she listened to the thoughts of those forced to undergo the change, one had started the rumor he knew those who were. She knew the partial genetics behind them and wondered how long she would be without a Jeremiah to check the truth that they were here on this small rock.

The Hive home world was in dire need of the resources this planet offered. Billions of bodies capable of bringing the hibernating souls to life, billions of bodies to nurture to life those who had understood the way of the Hive. The first Hive, hidden deep within this planet. Her main purpose, her only purpose to bring back the original Hive.

She would have prayed then, but she had received a message from one of the Queens who had heard her cries for assistance.

"Foolish child, did I raise you to be such a weakling?"

"My Queen, I am…"

"Weak, vain, pitiful! You call on your sisters, and have yet to inform them of how perilous your hold on this planet actually is? You fail to mention they who are, are on this planet that someone has made contact with the Star people and they are enroute as we speak. You truly are a foolish one."

"I apologize my sister, I did not realize that they who are were here. I believed it to be the fickle belief of those who underwent the change. A belief given by them from the others. How is that you know they who are, are here?"

"Foolish child, if on occasion you would listen to the thoughts of the Star People you would have known this thirteen years ago. Thirteen years ago SHE found the ship, the very ship that carried their souls from us when we had them. It knew her you incompetent fool, it healed her."

"Healed her how? If it was her, why would it have to heal her?"

"I gave one of those who was assisting us in taking control of this planet her name. I gave him her true name. I warned him not to allow her near him. I gave him the name of the truth seeker, I warned him to keep them apart. Instead he gave her to him. I gave him a choice, her life or his. He gave her to us willingly enough. That's where your now dead Queen came from. From them, it was meant to be perfect, instead you decide to have any trace of them eradicated from your ship. Costing you the ability to place a Queen in the soon to be Hive. Now you want your sisters to provide you a Queen."

"How was I to know all this? Did you or any of my sisters inform me of these things? No, instead you work with those here to undermine my ability to take this planet. If you had given me her name I would have destroyed her. Him as well."

"You would have known of this if you weren't always disconnecting from the Hive sister. You would have known if you were not so caught up in being the consort of a human."

"Leave him out of this, he helped us achieve our goals all that much faster."

"He betrayed us, who do you think I gave the information too? I and our sisters are on our way. We will do that which is necessary to secure the rebirth of the first Hive. And you will pay the price of betraying us to the humans."