[Lore] The Story of ARK, and how our survival evolved.

[HarryNapel]

*UPDATE - Episode 2 is here, hope you enjoy! Post a comment if you like it and I will make more.

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Chapter 1 Episode 1

 

In the year 2119, three unknown obelisk shaped vessels entered our planet's atmosphere. Within the first 6 hours each obelisk had stopped moving, hovering over 3 different, highly populated areas. Some of us were curious, but most of us were terrified of what may yet come. After 6 days, nothing had happened. Observers noticed what looked like a door at the bottom of the obelisk, and we dispatched helicopters to attempt entry into these strange floating structures. Upon arrival of the door, there didn't appear to be any way to open it from the outside. Engineers were dispatched to attempt cutting our way in to investigate. As soon as the engineers started to cut the door, it began to open and a bright light seared it's way to the ground. Then we saw them... slowly descending through the beam of light. Hundreds... thousands... maybe more. We knew immediately that they had no intentions of being peaceful. As soon as their feet hit the soil, they began murdering anyone and everyone. Large insect like creatures with razor sharp claws shredding through flesh, buildings and even metal. We determined their goal was to exterminate mankind... but why? The battles that ensued showed us that no matter how many we killed, there was always more. Our technology was far less advanced, and after the first year of battle, we found that their endless hordes all seemed to look the same. And despite the ease at which we could dispatch them, their overwhelming numbers would eventually defeat us. Through study and analysis of their bodies it was discovered the source of this clone army could only be from a handful of originals.

 

Upon this discovery our scientists suggested that if we manage to kill the “originals”, then the clones would likely fall dead. A special task force was immediately assembled and dispatched towards one of the obelisks. We flew a small aircraft past the descending hordes up the beam of light and entered the obelisk. It was cold... and the putrid smell of these creatures being cloned was almost unbearable. Resistance was surprisingly light inside the obelisk. We made our way up, higher and higher trying to find one of these “originals”. Finally near the top we reached a control room. Even though we couldn't read their language it seemed as though the power for the cloning tanks were being charged from the beam of light directed through the top of the obelisk from the sun. Perhaps this is why they waited those first 6 days? Were they needing to recharge their power after the long space travel to our planet? We had so many questions, but had to focus on finding and killing the originals.

 

We found them! In the next room there were 6 chairs and 6 aliens all strapped in and unconscious. There were wires and tubes attached to them leading into the cloning tanks, sort of made it look like a creepy science experiment. We didn't waste time and so raised our rifles filling their bodies with bullets. The screams and moans emanating from them seemed to be endless, but when they ended, so did the clones. Just as our scientists had determined, all the clones on the ground made similar screams and fell dead. We sent word immediately to the rest of mankind's resistance forces, and a plan was underway to end this war once and for all.

 

Once the remaining originals were killed in the remaining two obelisks, the clone armies were defeated and work was set up to study and salvage these obelisks. Before long our research found that we were right about them gaining power from the sun. But the toll it took on the sun was so intense it had begun a slow but certain collapse of it's core. Saving it was not an option, and this would ultimately mean we would have to either die when our sun went super nova, or somehow figure out how to use these obelisks as some sort of ARK that we could save the human race by.

 

But several questions needed answers. Will we have time? Will we know how? And if we do, where will we go?

 

Chapter 1 Episode 2

 

It's been 6 years since we won the war against the alien invaders and reclaimed the obelisks. The nations have done their best to work together by sending their best minds and engineers to work around the clock so that we can figure out how we can make use of this alien technology. Our chief engineers, Bob and Anne, have been working alongside our chief xenolinguists, Joe and Jane, learning their language and figuring out how to operate the obelisks.

 

At this point scientists have determined we are living on borrowed time as it is and the Sun could implode at any moment. We know that we cannot save all of mankind on the obelisks even if we do figure out how to fly them, there just isn't enough room. However we have discovered that the ARK has a tremendous database of information that can be downloaded and conversely uploaded to as well. It appears that these aliens had the technology to upload the consciousness of intelligent beings into their computers! Several small rooms having a very strange chair in each appears to be the method to upload a persons consciousness. Maybe, just maybe, we can at least save the minds of our soldiers and scientists since we cannot save their bodies. But we will have to work fast if we are to save anything.

 

Late one evening, Jane made a tremendous discovery of a working alphabet for the alien language. We now have what we need to speed up progress in deciphering the rest of the controls and computers in the obelisk. With this new information, Joe jumped right in by punching in commands to the terminal and immediately, a huge hologram of what appears to be the universe encompasses the room. All of our jaws dropped at what we were seeing... “star charts” Jane said. But it was more... much more. A detailed layout for each of the planets... habitability, life signs, and more solar systems charted than we even knew existed. Now we at least may have some viable options for a destination, but now it's up to our engineers to figure out how to fly this thing!

 

Being able to read their language allowed us to use the mind uploading chairs we found. Thousands of people were sent to be uploaded. Soldiers, scientists, engineers, anyone who would have something to offer was uploaded. During all this we hear Bob yelling from the control room, “I've done it I can fly the ARK!”. This was something that could not wait, so we cleared out any extra staff and set upon the team to make some test flights to see how they work. Working alongside Bob and Anne, Joe and Jane assisted them by entering in the proper console commands to move the ARK. The whole world watched proudly as the obelisks moved around the earth.

 

As it turned out, the controls were surprisingly simple. As we move all the obelisks together, we looked out and couldn't believe our eyes. Our sun, was increasing in brightness and began to have a green color tint to it. Our time was up and our sun was beginning to go super nova! We weren't ready, and it was only the four of us left on board the ARK. But there was no time to make a landing and bring on more! If humanity was going to survive at all, we had to leave immediately. Anne and Jane quickly found the nearest habitable planet on the star charts, and Bob hit the button to engage what appeared to be the hyper drive. As soon as Bob hit that button, there was a loud wind up and flash of light followed by silence. We were moving faster than we could have imagined. In that instant we looked at each other, each of us knowing that everything we had, and everyone we knew, was gone. We had no idea what to expect, and before we could talk about any type of a game plan, we arrived. The obelisks were on some kind of auto function, slowly descending towards the planet. Similar to how they arrived on our Earth, they moved to key locations. The blue lit obelisk moved over a mountain in a snowy region in the northwest, the red lit obelisk stopped over beach in the southwest, and the green obelisk parked over a tropical region in the east. Once it stopped moving the tops opened and huge light beams shot out towards the nearest sun.

 

The obelisks were recharging as they had done back on Earth. But we know what this ultimately means for this world too. Now we have more questions... What will we do now? What kind of life is on this planet? And will we be able to survive it?

 

Chapter 1 Episode 3
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[DaEndGame]

Very interesting, I liked it and wouldn't mind seeing where this goes.

[LilJames]

you should finish this in a book its well written

 

[LordAlex]

Amazing I would really like to to see episode 3

[DStar20154]

Will there be more written??

[GenTech1000]

This isn’t incredibly well written and the twist! The twist is what made this truly remarkable. Give yourself a pat on the back. I’m looking forward to seeing more of this type of writing in the future.