The Wind and
the Stars
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“Gravity and
Light: the many generations of space gods and their effects upon-”
(Taken from the
introduction)
-
Dr.
G.J. Haber, visiting lecturer on experimental alchemy and paratypical
psychiatry)
The
mariners of old had the wind and the stars to guide them, for those whose
desire to expand, to know, to explore, exceeded their technology. It us ultimately from these people the
Imperium hails its foundations and continuations. Without them, we have no
civilization.
In the
pre-stellar era, a given technological civilization has few opportunities to
leave their world and fewer still to do so under their own means. For those who brave this, most final of
void-oceans, only the gravity keys between the worlds of their solar system and
the positions of the great celestials themselves, the bright stars, the
galactic medium itself, and other, distant but visible galaxies and
phenomena.
It is the
wind and the stars all over again.
While the
stars have not changed, for the most part, the wind is now the interlocking
forces of gravity within a solar system, at least until gravity is recognized
as the enemy.
The
common mytho-historical image of the cosmonaut struggling against the universe
is not our best guide to these people. No, those first explorers who lack even
fusion technology, are more akin to those who sail the currents of island
chains in canoes made of local vegetation, fashioned with their bare hands.
They who in the span of years will colonize an area over a thousand times more
vast.
To those
first, those earliest of star sailors to emerge from the home worlds of our
ancestors, there were always the lord of light and mother space, the goddess of
gravity. The gender roles are not important but among many clades those are the
tendencies. There is of course a third force underlying all of this but only
many thousands of generations selection bring that particular need about.
But it is
the holy dance of light and gravity of which I now speak. Sometimes twins, or
siblings. Often lovers, many times
enemies. It is only through a logical
understanding of the fundamentals of both and how they intersect that makes
those first voyages possible…for the survivors. For these are the Gods of the
Lucky Ones, of the hundreds that lived when millions were sent out. Those who survived, made more, thrived, and
then kept going. Those who forgot the
truths of light and gravity stopped expanding, and likely died out but their
epic voyages of expansion were over.
Those who
persisted those are the spacers. Those
who gave up, those are the Ketraxians, the Maenads, the Friggians, the Saurids,
the Vroids.
It may
help to remember that that selection process goes on today. All of you are from worlds, member worlds of
the imperium yes but now you are in imperial service. You are among those
selected to later return to the stars and the process begins anew, if you
thrive in imperial service then the imperium thrives, and your descendants will
challenge the stars anew, raising up their own gods.
In these
later generations perhaps we should find a psychopomp to raise up, to remind us
the lessons of entropy.
Light,
gravity and entropy, so still like the stars, the wind, and salt.
