The legends return
Throughout the universe there are many marvels, natural wonders that take the breath away upon viewing as well as creations of civilizations both young and old in their march through the ages. Unfortunately not all of these civilizations survive to see their creations be recognized for the miracles that they will eventually be recognized as.
One such wonder was created by a race was responsible for many. They had created so many miracles and wonders that they had become almost mundane to alone goes to show the level of advancement that had been achieved by the Lantean people, however the crown jewel in their achievements was their capital.
Created from the most advanced of composite materials along with embedded crystals the city practically gleamed in the sunlight, plantlife spread throughout the halls to bring life in the beautiful edifice. The city of Atlantis, a city of legends amongst many civilizations for being the most advanced until it sunk beneath the waves.
The truth however was much more complicated as the lanteans city was no normal city as the technology that was millions of years beyond the dreams of most races allowed them to make most things that should be impossible possible. Thus allowed them to move their entire city to another galaxy when a plague hit the avalon galaxy.
It was within this galaxy that they found the path to ascension, to immortality. A path that led the race that was considered to be the greatest of the four to become complacent. A path which if the ascended had not decided to intervene would have led to their own demise.
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The ascended, a group of people who had gained consciousness on a level that extends beyond space/time and allows them incredible power. This power unfortunately comes with many risks and pains as it shows them the possibilities of what might and might not happen in situations.
It was in pondering what to do about the up and coming extinction of their race that one of them saw hope, a chance on terra of all places. A child with high levels of lantean dna and a ZPE core would be attacked in the future, causing a interaction between a shield created by her mothers ZPE and the attackers this created the chance there was enough residual energy in the air for them to use and create a time effect with a passing wormhole.
This would send her to Atlantis and hopefully set a course of events that would steer things into a more favourable direction. Unfortunately the ascended did not take into account the effect that their interference would have on the little girl.
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The little girl Ganos was raised with a small family unit as most within the community. She was loved and cared for, and her older brother Janus doted on her. He might be a genius,and eccentric genius but he still adored his family. He had been there for her when she had been doing her schooling, when she had hurt herself, and he was there when she was told about her being from terra by high chancellor moros.
It was ironic really that the conversation about how the ascended had sent her back in time was what had sparked her brother's fascination with temporal sciences that would consistently get him in trouble over the years.
Moros had taken her on as his apprentice once she had finished with her schooling. The public reason for this was due to her being the top of her class, however there were other reasons such as her encounter with the ascended to make sure that she was not having trouble with any of the remaining knowledge in her subconscious. Not to mention her exceedingly powerful ZPE abilities such as her being able to transform.
This particular ability had manifested when she was younger when her parents had young a chick instead of a child in her room and naturally was not until further examination that they found records of the feat within the memories retrieved from ganos. Within them they saw similar feats such as people turning into large canine like creatures as well as equine. Thus it was deduced that she had probably gained an affinity to such an ability due to being close to such people in her early years. This would have allowed her to be able to perform the feat where others would not have.
Their next worries of what the creature into which she had the ability to transform was answered in the form of one of the appeared in the council room during a meeting and began to explain about the creature. An Ice phoenix to be exact, a being that had evolved during their exodus from avalon, with its own strong connection to ZPE which it could use in many different ways. The one that was truly important to the council though was that through its own power it could trigger a rebirth cycle.
This ability was a form of healing that granted a form of immortality due to its user regressing to birth whilst keeping all knowledge. This had shocked the council that such an ability was possible however it was what was said next that horrified them. Due to her circumstances Ganos and her avian aspect had so closely merged that she had access to all of its abilities, not only the exceptionally long life of a Lantean but also the cursed life of rebirth granted by her phoenix.
This explanation was the final piece in the puzzle that was Ganos lal and why she had been sent to them for she would need to be amongst a long lived people for her to be able to maintain her sanity.
Thus Ganos became loved as much as she was pitied, an exceptional child, but a cursed child. She was both a symbol of hope and secretly pitied.
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Ganos had been working hard to earn her positions in the years since her arrival in Atlantis. True she had Moros backing but that was both a benefit and a curse as with all civilizations there was the possibility of nepotism. Finally though her sheer competence had won out and she had gained her spot on the council and the rank to go with it, and at a very young age for a lantean as well.
Some fifteen years ago on the edges of the galaxy they had encountered a race that had developed a form of biotech that they had never seen before. While vastly inferior to the lantean ships of similar classifications and would lose every encounter It was still rather unsettling for such a race to develop so rapidly under their purview.
The admirals however seemed sure that things would blow over, who could stand up to the might of their fleet? Yet here they were fifteen years later with the skirmishes getting more and more frequent and more of the so-called 'hive' ships appearing every day. Ganos had run simulations with the information she had available and to say that it was not looking promising. They would still win almost every fight they engaged in but for every fight they were at there would be three that they were not. It would be a long and slow fight of attrition. Thus she came up with a plan.
"I open this session of the high council" intoned moros to the room, a low hum answering as the privacy shielding activated to ensure that the sensitive matters spoken of within the room were kept there.
"We are here to discuss the status of the war, to begin,councilor ganos lal." At this moros sat and waved in her direction formally yielding the podium to her."thank you high chancellor, As you know the war has been getting worse, every time a ship a couple more have replaced it. At this rate these so-called hives will swarm the galaz before the century is out.`` She finished with a tone of finality as the holo projector showed the statistics to support her statement.
"Because of this i have done a large amount of research and have come up with a plan. As you know I am originally from Terra from some point in the future. Correct?" she asked, receiving the expected nods of confirmation.
"Well going on this basis I have done an analysis. We left terra around four million years ago and remotely activated the genesis device. During the time it would have taken for life to gestate in the galaxy from the energy wave, the plague should either have been killed by the wave or died from starvation. Even if it did not the locks in place should have made sure that there were no viable hosts." This got a series of nods from the council as this part of history while not well explained was covered by all in their schooling.
"Good, my idea is for an explorator colony to be launched back to set up a small hold out. This way we can not only regain contact with our allies but also have a fall back should things go wrong." she explained "this would also let us begin to repair an possible damage caused by our hasty evacuation."
This caused one of the other councilors to speak "what do you mean damage by our evacuation? Surely there was no possibility we could cause trouble by not being there?" asked the man confused by her statement.
Ganos nodded at the easy mistake. "A thought that most would make so I won't fault you, however just think about how many of our technologies were left behind? How much could be used on possibly genocidal scale if used by either the wrong hands or the wrong way? A simple example would be the experiment with the Asurans nanotech while a simple thing for us for most uses such as mining and healing, when used in that project went catastrophically wrong." This caused a series of nods at the still sore subject, while the projector was showing the relevant files.
"Now imagine if a less advanced group got hold of our medical nanobots and did not know how to program them properly? Or any number of a thousand other pieces of technology that we used on an almost daily basis that to them could be world ending." Ganos finished as a long list showed from the projector.
From his seat Moros watched in growing horor as he read the list and the small notations that had been put on them. The one that shocked him the most was shielding technology being used as a weapon, to the lanteans it had always been seen as the great defensive barrier that kept them safe, powerful but benign. On and on it went, the construction drones , transportation beams. Thus he made a decision.
"What would be needed for this colony?" he asked trying to feel out if the resources would be acceptable during the current time of crisis. A back up, a legacy would be a good thing it was a nagging feeling he had. " Sir the minimum we would need is one all purpose city ship and a defensive task force. The population should be drawn from all walks of life as we are trying to start afresh in avalon." That was acceptably in moros mind a small task group and a city it would be a small expenditure considering the rate of construction with which they can achieve, the main problems came from the personnel.
"Very well councilor, it will take about five years for the construction of such an expedition. As this is your idea I am placing you in charge, you have that long to prepare." he commanded Ganos as she was trained in both the military and science tracks of their society; she was the best qualified other than himself.
Ganos could not help but smile, she had done it her plan was approved and was now under way. If her simulations were right, possibly saved her now though she needed to set up the project and find a new home world. For now though to celebrate!