Chapter prologue: Lesson about history

Epsilon Eridani System, Reach, New Alexandria, Middle School,

March 7, 524M22 8:00 am

Daisy-023 age 13 sat next to the back window in the classroom listening to her fellow classmates chatting until an Android entered.

"Hello class,are you ready to learn about our history!" said the Android in a cheerful tone.

"Yes Miss Cinder,"said the students.

"Good, because I'm gonna teach the history of System Alliance,"said Cinder activate the screen in front of the class showing the timeline of events, "it starts at 2150 in the Juvian Moons colony headed by Nightcore Corporation to manage the 3000 colonist they setup an AI named Uni, with its help the colonies in the Moons's flourish, but with some hiccups such as the Frieden Movement resulted in bombing of Nightcore HQ in Callisto, but that is for another topic and the conflict is resolve with the help of automated security forces." and the screen starts showing drones and other machines.

"Since the majority of its colonists are scientists and AIs, they helped mankind achieve scientific wonders such as cybernetic limbs and implants, life extension therapy and, Terraforming drones in 2155. Which planet in the home system was first terraformed?"ask Cinder to the class and the boy with spike hair seated next to her raised his hand.

"Yes Ralph"

"Mars was first terraformed and next is Venus and the rest are the Moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and your anus" answered Ralph and she and her classmates laughed due to the last part.

"Correct! but Uranus' joke aside" said Cinder, continuing the lesson "the terraforming of these planets lasted from 2156 to 2179; it resulted in a population boom from 10.5 billion to 22.3 billion people during that time, and it continues to grow so to keep up, what they build next?"ask Cinder, pointing to the class.

"O'Neill cylinders" answered from the front.

"Correct! Cody"praised Cinder, the screen showing giant cylinders orbiting various celestial bodies, "O'Neill cylinders were built throughout the solar system in 2182 to 2215 (these space stations ranging from 8 km in diameter 32 kilometers long to 16 km in diameter and 32 km) long were built with deferring purposes such as for research, tourism, and shipyards."

"In 2291 two AIs Shaw and Fujikawa invented the first Slipspace engine, with its creation we expanded to the galaxy, in 2298 to 2334, and today we still use it in communication, planetary teleportation, and space travel. Which system was first colonized?"ask Cinder, you raised your hand.

"Yes Daisy"

"Alpha Centauri ma'am"you answered.

"Correct" praised Cinder, the screen showing the entire system being colonized on timelapse, "Alphan Centauri System and here will be the capital of newly formed System Alliance, with Uni's success in governance of outer solar system, Uni created the most powerful AI the Supreme Intelligence to manage and govern the new colonies outside sol system it to created the most valuable technology we use everyday, what would that be class?"the teacher asked, the blonde girl in front of her raised her hand including Ralph.

"Yes Tanya"

"Standard Template Construct (STC)" answered Tanya.

"Correct Tanya"praised Cinder, the screen showing a machine size of house, "STC or Standard Template Construct created by the Supreme Intelligence in 2312, to help the colonization of Alpha Centauri, STC is a 3d printer and assembler combined, just put every necessary material to the machine it can build anything from simple data pad for your everyday class, to mining drones, ships and space habitats, today we still use STC for building our Dyson Spheres doting throughout our territory." the screen showing a sphere encasing the entire star. "to support the expansion of humanity, Supreme Intelligence created the Genesis chambers." Cinder then shows oval-shaped artificial wombs covering each large pillar. "the expansion must maintain a large population hence its inception, it works by using the donated sperm and eggs, once fertilized, it will be put inside of these artificial wombs, wait for it's development for nine months."

"During the first expansion the planet we're standing on is one of the first planet to be colonized Reach in 2362, and during its colonization and exploration what do we find on this planet?"ask Cinder, the boy in front of Ralph raised his hand.

"Yes Richard"

"Alien Miss Cinder," answered the boy.

"Correct answer" praised Miss Cinder, the screen the planet with locations mark, and these locations where planet's cities, "during the planetary scans and exploration they found alien ruins, this sent shockwaves throughout our society because this became our confirmation there was sentient alien life, through this excavation we found a crashed ship inside the a mountain," the screen showing a image of the damaged ship, "this ship is 7 km in diameter and 13 km long, and other parts are scattered around the planet, the discovery of this ship is important because of the data inside, the star map to the technologies discovered inside after translating the language we discovered the forerunners, talking about them will be an entire lesson on its own," the screen shows portals on different cities on the planet, "next is the portal network these portals where discovered doting around the planet surface and we later build cities around the for transportation and we found these portals including underground where we find building complex underground from the data collected, this facility is a prison, and again discussion for another time."

"What we do know about the forerunner are there technologies are hard but not impossible to reverse-engineer," Cinder continues, "but our next discovery involving the forerunner is found in 2365 in the Soell system." The screen show giant ring orbiting a gas giant,"The installation 04 the Alpha Halo, 10,000km in diameter 318 km surface wide is by far the largest construct at that time, the first Dyson sphere begins construction in 2405 in Sirius system, the discovery of Halo unlocked answers and mystery about the forerunner, in this installation we discovered Monitor 343 Guilty Spark" showing floating drone with glowing at the center, "we ask questions about forerunners, technology and about the ring, guess the purpose of this megastructure?" ask Miss Cinder.

Ralph raised his hand and answered,"Hula hoop" the class laughed but the teacher correct by saying, "no, how about you Daisy" said Cinder pointing at her.

"A colony ma'am" you answered. "Still wrong answer, anyone?"said Cinder.

"A weapon." the girl in front of her answered.

"Correct Tanya," Cinder praised, "the halo Is a superweapon have maximum rage of 25,000 light years each in all direction, I say each because there are seven of them in the galaxy in one fired other installations fired wiping all life in the galaxy," Cinder explained.

"The halos are used against the flood 100,000 years ago," Cinder said, showing disgusting creatures to the class, "but the target is not just the flood itself but it's food source. Us and all organic life in the galaxy, since the most advanced civilization in the galaxy haven't found the cure for the flood, Supreme Intelligence ordered the destruction of all flood samples anywhere could be found including in the Alpha Halo."

"Second ring found in 2387 in the Coelest system," Cinder then showed a destroyed ring orbiting a blue gas giant. "installation 05 Delta Halo was destroyed using an antimatter bomb after it was discovered that the flood have breached containment before it was discovered by the Alliance, the entire system has been quarantined off, and the third ring found in 2400 in the Khaphrae system, installation 03 the Gamma Halo," Cinder showing the ring orbited by asteroids, "just like Alpha and Delta Halo, flood samples was found and destroyed, unlike Delta Halo it didn't breached containment, every solar systems found housing Halo installation has to quarantined, and only the authorized personnel such as scientists and the military and navy are allowed."

"Because of the discovery of the forerunners, and knowing we are not alone in the universe," Cinder then showed them the vast armada of weaponized ships to weaponized mobile suites. "System Alliance authorized the formation of the navy fleets, and the military to protect us from any threats."

"I've explained to you the basic information of forerunners but I will leave out the Shield Worlds and so on, if I explained more of them this will no longer be a history class." Cinder said.


History Class finished about two hours, mostly talking about Systems Alliance made out of multiple states controlling one or multiple systems, and those states are self sustaining, but relied on Systems Alliance for defense against pirates and other threats, this year we have total of 23.8 million star systems, each of them are an empire of their own, their own economy, their own culture, and their on government, and these governments answers to the Systems Alliance.

After that lesson we go to the next classes such as science engineering, art and entertainment, and Physical Exercise. Now it's afternoon and school is over, I'm waiting for the elevator next to Tanya. We're on the 108th floor of a 600 floor building.

"TANYA, DAISY," Ralph yells behind us just as the elevator arrives, and we ignore him until he's next to us. "can I copy your memory recording of the history class? I didn't realize I wasn't recording."

"How about you don't, after you almost ruined our engineering project, you deserve it." Tanya said annoyed. "I agree, and after your stunt yesterday, you deserve a fail and a beating." you said annoyed as well.

"oh come on, I can't control myself, I have to aura farm in front of Jane man." Ralph said.

"yeah! aura farming by hijacking a mobile suit in the middle of the construction site," Tanya said, done with Ralph's antics. "Luckily you get to spend one night in jail as a warning, if not I'm disciplining you myself."

"OK! I'm sorry!" Ralph said, backing away from Tanya. "I need the recording for the test! Please!" Ralph then hears a notification in his implant.

"Here, now leave us alone." you said sending the recording. "Why are you desperate about it? It's just an extra in the exam, it's not important."

"Even if it's extra, it's important to learn about history, even if it's extra grades, I'm taking it," Tanya said, then pointed at Ralph. "and probably because this one isn't the highest in the most important class, engineering."

"OK! I may not be great at engineering stuff but I'm good at arts!" Ralph said, proudly. "Since you guys don't want me to be here then I leave, here's my stop." Ralph exits the elevator 67th floor and straight up runs to the bridge intersection connecting multiple buildings, going straight to his apartment. He's the only one to have biological parent's, and Jane too have biological parents.

"Finally he leaves." Tanya said, still annoyed.

We didn't talk much during the elevator ride, we enjoyed each other's company. Tanya and I are born next to each other in the Genesis chambers, even though we're not genetically related we see each other as sisters. We finally arrived at our destination on the 59th floor, from there 3mins to our home and entered.

"Tanya,Daisy, how's school? Ralph didn't get in trouble now, did he?" Welcoming us is our caretaker Eve, an Android, their purpose is to take care and nurture genesis born humans, their entire presence is that of a mother and next to her David, exuding an aura of a father.

"He gets in trouble every time he hits on Jane," said David. "but he is still a kid when he gets old, he'll learn to respect other people's boundaries, if not he gets his ass kicked."

"Hi mom, hi dad, what's for dinner?" I ask excited.

"It's steak for the kids, I know it's your favorite Daisy!" Mom said.

"mom, dad, I made a decision, I want cat ears!" I seriously declared.

"Honey, you have to be at least 15 or 18 years old for the gene therapy and implants." I was dejected when mom said that. "But for your 15th birthday we will go to the clinic. Tanya deserves to be cute too, she's always serious." I laughed because I agree, my sister is always serious.

"Mom! I need cat ears," Tanya complains. "What I need is to upgrade my minor implants." We have minor implants in the brain connected to memory, these implants are allowed to children due how small and don't pose a threat to our developing mind compared to gene therapy, and these minor implants can be upgraded, so you can process information faster, and store more memory via cloud.

We slowly finish our dinner, I've returned to bed.


AN: this is the first fanfiction I've ever written.