Chapter 1 meeting of the Bug-facers

On a planet far from our own, there is a Committee of intelligent creatures these creatures, much like modern humanity, their culture and technology had come from humble beginnings or at that is *the* belief. the truth is that humanity as we know it had long since gone extinct and their remnants have all withered away, but their descendants have lived on, traveling to the stars to colonize new worlds and to increase the reach of humanity. they were doing great until they met a powerful threat which wiped them out and turned their offspring into horrid beasts of genetic science. once this enemy left to terrorize another world,the creations they left behind started to evolve. some grew sapient and built civilizations of their own but other species died out like most things that are unable to adapt, this committee made up of such creatures, they were called the Bug-facers evolved from insect-eating humans created by the invaders. there were buildings that buzzed with gossip and chit chat amongst their kind but one particular meeting would be cut off as a female of the species walked in standing up to the pedestal then prepared to speak "I have gathered you all to hear what I have to say" she proclaimed. there was a short pause before she continued "everyone in this room remembers our history, when we fought off an invasion from the stars and won, even though we won the battle we still fear outsiders and though they reach out to us for friendship and alliance we still have our backs turned to them, but I have been in touch with a distant relative of ours and have strategized a plan to save all of us" everyone listened and waited in anticipation for her to explain this plan. she then called out for someone to walk in. the crowd then gasped and awed as a four-legged machine carrying a cylinder on its back with a distinct figure floating inside of it, everyone knew what was in it. " I am an Asteromorph as you all may have guessed by now, you all know that I possess vast knowledge of our ancient past, I understand your fear and it's greatly necessary since my calculations declare that the Qu will return" everyone in the room were struck with visible fear on their faces, the Asteromorph cleared his throat to continue to speak "to escape the terror of the Qu we must become a space-faring race" he was interrupted by an individual from the stands "but we're not the same!" he pointed out how this floating visitor was vastly different from them, the others among the committee agreed with him.

The Asteromorph held his hand up and stated these words "with our powers combined we could send our descendants far into space to inhabit the untouched.." he was interrupted again "our descendants will fall to the Qu like our ancestors!" The bug-facers all agreed that the fate of their species in the hands of another race was a bad idea and one by one the room became empty with only the counsel of four staying behind to confront the two speakers "sorry Nyckelpiga" one of the counselors said "but Asteromorphs never seem to get to the damn point" this statement was true because of their large minds they seem to over complicate whatever they say, Nyckelpiga was not having a good time she embarrassed herself in front of her people and now she's had to explain her actions to the most important people on her planet "even if we agree with this proposal how could we convince the rest of our planetary neighbors to go along with this?" she stood there silent, before the head counselor could say anything the Asteromorph spoke up "leave that to my people, you all know that our minds can think of anything" it wasn't a good answer but the council members were tired and just wanted this whole situation to end "ok go along for your little plan but you must get the other races involved first" she smiled and thanked them, then left. "that could have been better" she mumbled " you don't seem confident anymore" she sighed and stated "we have to try that's all we can do" the Asteromorph nodded his head in agreement "so who should we invite first?"