Prologue
This is the audio log of Admiral Aken Bosch, ex-leader of the Neo Terran Front.
It has been almost 4 days since we left the last traces of Terran forces inside the Nebula beyond Gamma Draconis. It's been a hard time living in the cramped interior of the Shivan transport, and communication has been crude since then, but we have managed to adapt to the surroundings and the attempts are getting clearer everyday. The Shivans have mostly left us alone on the transport, with only a single pilot onboard. This is to allow us to modify the transport to fit our needs. Gibson has already managed to renovate quite a portion of the ship as it is, but still, we now face the crisis of a lack of food and water.
Our communications sorties with the Shivans have been short and brief, but extremely detailed. Each time the ETAK device is activated, I am welcomed to a host of new information of our former enemies. The fools in the GTVA could not have imagined the wealth of knowledge the Shivans have of not only our civilizations, but that of the ancients as well. Upon going through this, it fills me with both joy as well as sadness to think that all our conflicts, all our differences in the past have been just one unholy mistake. Everything I have lived and fought for; It's all been vindicated, all been justified, by what the Shivans have shown me here today.
No human being could imagine what they have been doing all these years. We all thought that the Shivans were the great destroyers, the possible extinction of both our species. I do not blame those who thought that, for it is what the scenario looks like from the surface. But now I have the insight and the truth of the situation.
Unfortunately, it is the entire damning truth of the situation. The Shivans are only part of a much larger problem that haunts not only the Humans and Vasudans themselves, but the ancients too. From what the Shivans have told me, the problem doesn't stop there as well, for they do not know how far or wide it is present in this universe……or if it even is just to this universe as well.
The Shivans were waiting for us, just as they were waiting for the ancients to arrive and as well as the races before them. Why they destroyed the ancients and not humanity, they refused to tell me, but they did tell me that all will be revealed at our destination. The Shivans are currently taking us to an unknown location where they claim food and supplies will be available to us, and from where our journey may begin.
What exactly this journey is, or where I will be going, I do not know. What I do know is that it appears to be sacred importance to the Shivans, and that only we may embark on it.
At this hour, I should be feeling joyful; if not ecstatic…..but then, why do I feel nothing but dread, and a little bit of horror of what's to come?