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The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (13/13)
First | PrevMemory transcription subject: Sovlin, Gojid RetireeDate [standardized human time]: May 14, 2151I could feel myself shaking, nausea bubbling just as much as the first time I saw Tyler with long surfer hair. My family was huddled alongside me at the diner table, while I waited with growing dread. It was a miracle I’d managed to croak out a burger order, even with Hunter patting my barren back for encouragement. The entire family was h...
The Nature of Predators 2-88
Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human ColonistDate [standardized human time]: February 14, 2161The Krev Consortium was still a point of contention to much of the Sapient Coalition, after the attacks in Orion space had clobbered three worlds and assailed their fleets. If there was any link between the KC and the ghost Farsul, it was going to blow up the peace I’d pivoted and begged for, as soon as I learned it was humanity on the ot...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (12/13)
First | Prev | NextMemory transcription subject: Sovlin, Gojid RetireeDate [standardized human time]: May 12, 2151“Have a present!” the human, who’d introduced himself as Lars Isaksson, handed me a t-shirt. It read I met a predator and all I got was this dumb shirt in Gojid script. “He’ll look great in it, don’t you think, Cilany? Try it on!”I wasn’t sure what had given the Swede the impression that I would ever wear this; the wor...
The Nature of Predators 2-87
Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human ColonistDate [standardized human time]: February 14, 2161Gress’ belief that the Krev Consortium was that insidious hadn’t quite landed with me, after witnessing the depths of evil within the Federation. Learning how even the herbivores were subdued and tampered with, from the Sivkit we found on Tellus, had made shady surveillance and false flag operations seem tame by comparison. I could almo...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (11/13)
First | Prev | NextMemory transcription subject: Cilany, Harchen ReporterDate [standardized human time]: January 27, 2130I was uncertain if Captain Sovlin would be a legitimate, fruitful source. It was strange that the paw that pointed me in the direction of Sivkit corruption was from a military officer of the Gojidi Union, but there had been a seed trail to follow from his advice. I wondered what the Gojid was getting out of all of this, especia...
The Nature of Predators 2-86
A/N - Apologies for the day’s delay and a bit of a shorter chapter, I’m unfortunately sick. Wanted to be sure I got something to you guys! Going to push each chapter this week back by one day, just because posting 3 days in a row (Tuesday-Thursday) would be a bit too much. Won’t leave the typical note at the bottom, but I hope you guys enjoy some speculation about the findings at the end—and thanks for reading and supporting!Memory Transc...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (10/13)
First | Prev | NextMemory transcription subject: Talpin, Gojid ActivistDate [standardized human time]: March 3, 2150The predators hadn’t frightened me for a long time, but this would be my first return to Earth since the refugee camps were relocated from Sol to Skalga. I’d stuck to clawing through battles on Khoa and within the Sapient Coalition as a whole, and the human homeworld wasn’t in need of massive overhauls for basic accommodations...
The Nature of Predators 2-85
Memory Transcription Subject: Elias Meier, Former UN Secretary-GeneralDate [standardized human time]: February 11, 2161Sitting in Secretary-General Osmani’s office, ready for General Jones to waltz into her dismissal, I hoped that she wouldn’t weasel her way out of this. I liked to think that she was a patriot, in her own mind, and wouldn’t sabotage the interests of her planet over a personal matter. Any information she had to take out the ...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (9/13)
First| Prev| NextMemory transcription subject: Sovlin, Gojid RetireeDate [standardized human time]: May 10, 2151It couldn’t have been so easy as to have everyone I tried to track down be on Earth; it was miraculous that my streak had held up this far. Talpin lived on Khoa, the Mazic homeworld, making himself part of a sizable Gojid ethnic majority. Many of my people never returned to the cradle and Gojid territory, which was why we hadn’t bou...
The Nature of Predators 2-84
Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human ColonistDate [standardized human time]: February 11, 2161It was a relief that I didn’t have to make a decision about which world—and which people I loved—that I wanted to stay with on a permanent basis. The time at home with my biological family had been an absolute treat, learning about my immediate relatives and what life in sunny Nevada was like; it would be moving from one desert to the...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (8/13)
First | Prev | NextMemory transcription subject: Anton Kozlov, Human LawyerDate [standardized human time]: October 3, 2136I walked with my Gojid client out of the refugee camp, at a loss for words over what had been the culprit of the aliens’ behavior. They thought we would’ve executed Talpin for being deaf? What kind of monsters did the Federation see us as, incapable of the most basic shreds of decency? It was beyond aggravating, to know th...
The Nature of Predators 2-83
Memory Transcription Subject: Elias Meier, Former UN Secretary-GeneralDate [standardized human time]: February 11, 2161The shock at the emergence of the hidden ships, which made the heavy-handed force we’d sent look insignificant, was evident in the faces of the SC leadership. The other humans within our section were buzzing with chatter, trying to determine what to do; losing tens of thousands of ships wasn’t something we wanted to commit to...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (7/13)
First | Prev | NextMemory transcription subject: Anton Kozlov, Human LawyerDate [standardized human time]: October 1, 2136It was difficult to have life on Earth proceed in business-as-usual fashion after we met them; it seeped into every part of the globe’s cycle. This was a case where the sensationalized headlines were somehow less dramatic than the truth. Beyond hating us by virtue of our very appearance, the aliens had actual plans to eradic...
The Nature of Predators 2-82
Memory Transcription Subject: Quana, Jaslip SoldierDate [standardized human time]: February 10, 2161Esquo’s Hope was the Jaslip enclave on the Ulchid world, and also the nearest to our prior engagements on the Smigli homeworld. I couldn’t get used to having the Arxur breathing down our necks; my biggest hesitancy was over taking anything that qualified as food to them. Cherise expected to have a rather incomplete diet, but that friendship-enc...
The Nature of Predators [Book Chapter #1]
A/N - Putting the A/N up here! I'm trying to work in some rest days to my schedule so it's a bit more sustainable, and to be honest, I just needed one. People often ask me what's changed about the book rewrites, so I thought that I should put this here for you guys, the patrons, in a clear and easy to access format. Hope this is a welcome substitute and change of pace. Sovlin will return on Wednesday for the back half of his series!As...
The Nature of Predators 2-81
Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien LiaisonDate [standardized human time]: February 10, 2161Returning to the Sapient Coalition after a reprieve on Ivrana, I tried to set realistic expectations for what I could accomplish. Elias Meier’s temporary control over the Secretary-General position had lapsed, and there was no telling whether Osmani would fulfill the idealistic promises that his digitized predecessor pledged with such certa...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (6/13)
First | Prev | NextMemory transcription subject: Rumi, Gojid RefugeeDate [standardized human time]: December 16, 2136Getting in touch with a human proved easier said than done with how few species wanted to take in Gojid refugees. The Terrans had tried, but I missed the boat, since they weren’t able to care for us with their world burning. The Federation hadn’t bailed us out, and Venlil Prime, the easiest choice to locate predators on a prey ...
The Nature of Predators 2-80
Memory Transcription Subject: Elias Meier, Former UN Secretary-GeneralDate [standardized human time]: February 10, 2161With the pressure off of my shoulders, tied only to an advisory capacity for Secretary-General Osmani, I found myself living in 2136 in my head. The fate of the SC no longer rode on my actions, so I could afford to contemplate a past which felt more real than any of this. I remembered my first time boarding a spaceship for an ali...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (5/13)
First | Prev | NextMemory transcription subject: Rumi, Federation Fleet Comms TechnicianDate [standardized human time]: September 28, 2136To say that the bridge crew didn’t know how to respond to what happened would be an understatement. There was a feeling of complete and utter shock after what we had just witnessed, but I had noticed that amid his miraculous change of heart. It was so quiet that we could’ve heard a quill drop. Our commandin...
The Nature of Predators 2-79
Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human ColonistDate [standardized human time]: February 9, 2161It was a goofy suburban one-story home, with baby blue shutters and a few garden gnomes scattered about—like something out of a television sitcom instead of reality. After exiting the vehicle with Gress and double checking that this was the right one, I began the long walk down the driveway. It was nothing compared to crossing the entirety...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (4/13)
First| Prev| NextMemory transcription subject: Srissi, Verin Exchange ParticipantDate [standardized human time]: March 14, 2138Standing by the docking station, with Verin and Onkari diplomats who already acclimated to humans there to assure us and oversee the civilian program, I could feel the tension building all the same. I knew Samantha Harris, the Terran ex-soldier I spoke to on voice calls, was a predator; I had always known. I wanted to tel...
The Nature of Predators 2-78
Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human ColonistDate [standardized human time]: February 9, 2161Earth. The Blue Marble in the viewport brought tears to my eyes, seeing the birthplace of my species in person. There were many conflicting emotions that whipped around my head, jockeying for control. I’d spent so many long nights mourning the loss of our civilization, and here it sat, stronger than ever. When the United Nations passed alo...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (3/13)
First | Prev | NextMemory transcription subject: Srissi, Verin Exchange ParticipantDate [standardized human time]: March 1, 2138There were no aliens we were close to in the same way as our sister species, the Onkari—who orbited in the sky above us. The Twin Moons were vastly different biospheres to one another, so the foreigners with tree-barked colored fur weren’t the only otherworldly element in the sky. The rainforest itself was so differe...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (2/13)
First | NextMemory transcription subject: Captain Sovlin, Federation Fleet CommandDate [standardized human time]: May 7, 2125As a father myself, it felt weird to have a Kolshian who was only a few years older than Hania under my command. I wouldn’t want that for my little girl—the light of my world. Regardless of how all prey needed to unite and make sacrifices to defeat the monsters that’d devour us on a whim, something felt wrong about it...
The Nature of Predators 2-77
Memory Transcription Subject: Quana, Jaslip SoldierDate [standardized human time]: February 5, 2161There was a brief delay in arranging our meeting with Chief Hunter Kaisal, since Aulan wanted the encounter to be in an open forum. As rotten as the Krev Consortium was, the Arxur’s reputation preceded them; they held sapient livestock, glassed dozens of worlds and raided more, and subsisted on heartless cruelty. The Esquo Massacre was a hug festi...
The Nature of Predators - Sovlin’s Transcript (1/13)
Memory transcription subject: Captain Sovlin, Federation Fleet CommandDate [standardized human time]: August 21, 2136“I suppose I did give you my blessing for this expedition, yet it still feels like you defied me,” Prime Minister Piri stated, a worried look on her face. “Would you have ventured off without my permission?”I hadn’t been able to rush over quickly enough to get a Federation response in motion. Many of my crew were running ...
The Nature of Predators 2-76
Memory Transcription Subject: Elias Meier, Former UN Secretary-GeneralDate [standardized human time]: February 5, 2161It hadn’t taken long to nominate a proper Secretary-General to succeed Kuemper, and I was pleased to learn that General Osmani would be taking up the mantle. I didn’t have any wish to reacquire my former role, for a great many reasons—for starters, I was both a science experiment and a security risk thanks to my digitized br...
The Nature of Predators 2-75
Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human ColonistDate [standardized human time]: February 5, 2161After a rather long voyage cooped up on the spaceship, it felt strange to disembark on the Sapient Coalition’s center of operations. Gress and I had signed plea bargains to help with negotiating the peace, instead of facing charges for our mishaps during the war. The precedent of roping in war criminals—and that’s what I was—to fix t...
The Nature of Predators - The New Arxur (10/10)
First | PrevMemory Transcription Subject: Raza, Arxur Diplomatic MinisterDate [standardized human time]: May 12, 2160I’d known Ambassador Cedric Flynn—or the Butcher of Grenelka, in some circles—for a half dozen years at this point. He was someone that I’d refer to as a friend, as much as two foreign diplomats could be considered that. A man who’d massacred an entire Yulpa team after escaping custody, with nothing but sticks and his han...
The Nature of Predators 2-74
Memory Transcription Subject: Quana, Jaslip SoldierDate [standardized human time]: February 4, 2161Even with the local government on Omnol turning a blind eye to the open rebellion in the enclaves, I wasn’t sure that the Jaslip Independence Brigade would enjoy much success without outward support. Our heads hadn’t cooled off one bit toward the Consortium, since the downfall of the Federation equated to our forcible relocation and Esquo’s gl...
