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"Star Trek: Vonnegut"
"Here There Be Dragons"
(June Fic Challenge - Foreign Perspective.)
By Jason K.S. Hauck
Part One:
Gliding through space like most beings with wings or fins swam ancient oceans, Prid was invisible to most detection devices of the linear beings that occupied his neighbourhood of the cosmos. He enjoyed confusing the hell out of them as much as the Q as it entertained him to no end. He'd stride through subspace layers much like a whale breaches and dives. In his linear state, he'd resemble what some Humans of pre-warp Earth referred to as 'Dragons' or Anthropologists called a 'Plesiosaur'.
Even though it tickled Prid to occasionally phase into their time-space to people-watch and see them try to diagnose what they've seen, Prid was careful not to damage the hairless apes physically, retard their development by sharing anything potentially self-damaging, and/or extinguish natural curiosity in the process. There were codes of conduct, even among his kind. Earth used to be Home (on this plane of reality,) to his kind but they grew increasingly uneasy with the apes' expansionism encroaching upon their chosen aquatic environment and the only other species capable of conducting themselves civily around them - The Voth, had long since left following the development of an Ice Age.
For the foreseeable future, psionic attempts at intelligent 'First Contact' left much to be desired, often resulting in witch-hunts, mass extinctions of their distant non-ascended cousins, and mis-diagnosed madness in few-and-far-between enlightened Human 'animal whisperers'. But, in time there would come progress.
"Here There Be Dragons"
(June Fic Challenge - Foreign Perspective.)
By Jason K.S. Hauck
Part One:
Gliding through space like most beings with wings or fins swam ancient oceans, Prid was invisible to most detection devices of the linear beings that occupied his neighbourhood of the cosmos. He enjoyed confusing the hell out of them as much as the Q as it entertained him to no end. He'd stride through subspace layers much like a whale breaches and dives. In his linear state, he'd resemble what some Humans of pre-warp Earth referred to as 'Dragons' or Anthropologists called a 'Plesiosaur'.
Even though it tickled Prid to occasionally phase into their time-space to people-watch and see them try to diagnose what they've seen, Prid was careful not to damage the hairless apes physically, retard their development by sharing anything potentially self-damaging, and/or extinguish natural curiosity in the process. There were codes of conduct, even among his kind. Earth used to be Home (on this plane of reality,) to his kind but they grew increasingly uneasy with the apes' expansionism encroaching upon their chosen aquatic environment and the only other species capable of conducting themselves civily around them - The Voth, had long since left following the development of an Ice Age.
For the foreseeable future, psionic attempts at intelligent 'First Contact' left much to be desired, often resulting in witch-hunts, mass extinctions of their distant non-ascended cousins, and mis-diagnosed madness in few-and-far-between enlightened Human 'animal whisperers'. But, in time there would come progress.
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