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The Nature of Predators 2-60
Memory Transcription Subject: Elias Meier, Former UN Secretary-GeneralDate [standardized human time]: November 16, 2160With each passing month in this new form, I became more reacclimated to life as a synthetic. Being alive and feeling once more was difficult after knowing the peace of death, compounded by the sensory hell of this body. I wanted to be a moral compass for the Sapient Coalition and for Terra Technologies, and that purpose helped me...
The Nature of Predators - Krev Exchange Program (1/7)
Memory Transcription Subject: Flevi, Krev Opinion ColumnistDate [standardized human time]: March 27, 2160“What does any homeowner do with an infestation of suvrels—hey, are those like termites?” the human paused his reading at the first sentence, with a puzzled expression cute enough to melt glaciers.I couldn’t underscore enough how much I’d made a dreadful mistake, as one of the most outspoken critics of allowing the Tellus residents t...
The Nature of Predators 2-59
Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien LiaisonDate [standardized human time]: November 13, 2160The wall of ships in front of Nishtal was comprised of diverse, formidable craft. There were six figures on each side, making this an unimaginable clash of metal war machines. The differences in strategies within the Sapient Coalition’s ranks added personality, and made us harder to account for in a uniform way. Dossur mechanic vessels were...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (11/11)
First | PrevMemory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl Peacekeeper EnlisteeDate [standardized human time]: September 17, 2147It felt strange to say goodbye to everyone that I knew and loved, but objectively, it wasn’t that much different from going off to university. Harry and I would’ve gone to separate schools either way, so there was nothing stopping us from reuniting after we’d finished a few years of our career paths. Andy shouldn’t...
The Nature of Predators 2-58
Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien LiaisonDate [standardized human time]: November 12, 2160The United Nations had been mysteriously supportive of Bissems in the past few weeks, while offering gifts for nothing in return and smoothing feathers with our other nations. That charity had been enough to pique General Naltor’s suspicions, but I wondered if the appropriate parties in the human government had been alerted to our mistreatm...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (10/11)
First | Prev | NextMemory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl ChildDate [standardized human time]: October 3, 2142Harry Clarke and I had gotten along as if we always knew each other from that first day I visited, when we played those silly car racing games on his gaming console. The humongous dogs hadn’t been a problem, despite how Andy fretted. From day one, after they finished sniffing me and perhaps detected the scents of school and humans,...
The Nature of Predators 2-57
Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien LiaisonDate [standardized human time]: October 27, 2160Finding myself staring at Ambassador Loxsel, who was newly-arrived to the Sivkit settlement on Ivrana, I couldn’t help but be floored by the size of the mountain of oranges that he was sitting on.The incoming supply of oranges was what convinced him to pack his bags for our planet—not the fact that Bissem and Sivkit engineers were working ...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (9/11)
First | Prev | NextMemory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl ChildDate [standardized human time]: September 17, 2137Human Papa had told me about an announcement that Zhao made after meeting me. He brought up some “motion” at the United Nations general assembly to pardon all child soldiers; I didn’t understand why he was so willing to forgive kids who did bad things, just the same as all of the other crew. Andy thought that’d been inspir...
The Nature of Predators 2-56
Memory Transcription Subject: Quana, Jaslip SoldierDate [standardized human time]: October 3, 2160After I’d seen how she lived in the cramped cavern below Tellus’ surface, Cherise Benson returned the favor by visiting my enclave. It was highly uncommon to have alien visitors in Esquo’s Fighters, and even rarer that they were allowed to use our underground tunnels to dodge the security checkpoints. The Smiglis hadn’t previously policed my ...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (8/11)
First | Prev | NextMemory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl ChildDate [standardized human time]: September 4, 2137The tigers weren’t quite as bright orange as they were in the cartoons, lounging in their grassy enclosure. They sat in the shade of the rocks the humans had left out for them, not seeming particularly energetic to go hunt anything down. Come to think of it, there really wasn’t any prey in the small space to feed them, and they...
The Nature of Predators 2-55
Memory Transcription Subject: Elias Meier, Former UN Secretary-GeneralDate [standardized human time]: September 26, 2160Once we’d distanced ourselves from The Sailer, a few days after my speech, Secretary-General Kuemper called to offer a curious picture of the results. As I cleared the final stretch to Tarva’s home via train, I listened to the conversation that’d made me think about what an improved future might look like, beyond an ideali...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (7/11)
First | Prev | NextMemory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl ChildDate [standardized human time]: September 4, 2137There were so many creatures, and I was barely restraining giddy chirps as I rode on Andy’s shoulder past all the exhibits. I’d never seen this many animals somewhere they weren’t being burned! Some of them looked really funny or scary. There were lots of human kids running around too, who, like me, were way less big than my ...
The Nature of Predators 2-54
Memory Transcription Subject: Elias Meier, Former UN Secretary-GeneralDate [standardized human time]: September 26, 2160Skalga, World of Death.Seeing that sign at the spaceport had felt strange, as I’d traveled to the Venlil homeworld in search of old friends. Syba was handling most of the calls with the Shield, in the aftermath of our visit; the Sulean was unwavering in her glowing enthusiasm, and had lauded my speech during our journey back, ...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (6/11)
First| Prev| NextMemory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl ChildDate [standardized human time]: September 3, 2137I liked the sun, and how warm my head was—Earth’s outdoors were not cold like the cell! The place we crash-landed in had looked very different from here, with wilderness and trees everywhere. This UN outpost was nestled inside of a giant city, where there were towers and lots of humans! I remembered how Zhao said the locals might...
What bonus content would you like to see next?
I tried to include extra details in the poll itself, but in essence, the Krev exchange program would feature a Krev who had been strongly opposed to the Tellus humans being there, and now is trying to do an aboutface after learning they are cute, primate victims. Wild West 2 would be about Old West Sheriff Blake and Nilrie, traveling buddy and smuggler, in the present day…heading off to a remote non-human colony world, the frontier. A gang of c...
The Nature of Predators 2-53
Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien LiaisonDate [standardized human time]: September 26, 2160Instead of getting into the meat of the engagement, Onso prattled on about boring minutiae; analyzing and comparing engine capabilities, along with his best guess at their design, and AI pathing algorithms. While I was certain that warship design said a lot about a species, it was hardly my favorite subject; the Bissem generals would be much...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (5/11)
First | Prev | NextMemory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl Child PrisonerDate [standardized human time]: September 3, 2137I knew I had to be on my best behavior when this “Secretary-General” arrived. I could be good and quiet, just like I was when Papa found me extra annoying! Anyone who was a leader of government stuff was scary to me, after how Captain Karlem had yelled and wanted me to react faster to his commands. If Zhao was a scream...
The Nature of Predators 2-52
Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien LiaisonDate [standardized human time]: September 26, 2160Camera drones surveyed the system, admiring the devastation wrought across swaths of space. The FTL disruptors might’ve bought us precious months to prepare for a defense, but eventually, the enemy broke through—snuffing out enough FTL disruptors to make incremental progress, and slogging their way into the planetary sector. The Farsul h...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (4/11)
First | Prev | NextMemory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl Child PrisonerDate [standardized human time]: September 2, 2137I was learning a lot, with Andrew teaching me human writing and speech—plus trying to keep me progressing in the other subjects too. Even the giant guard noticed that I was getting bigger! He’d had me stand against the back wall of my cell every so often, and marked the spot at the top of my head with a marker. I’d s...
The Nature of Predators 2-51
Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human ColonistDate [standardized human time]: August 18, 2160The Resket military headquarters were in an expansive complex, complete with dozens of avian patrols marching along to look busy; thick metal walls encased the stone facility, making it look a bit like a castle from the outside. All it needed was a moat, and it’d look like General Radai was living in a medieval fortress. However, the only t...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (3/11)
First | Prev | NextMemory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl Child PrisonerDate [standardized human time]: July 21, 2137The stuffed animals that Andrew brought me to teach me zoo-all-ogy were really cool! His ideas about predators being necessary to the environment were kind of funny; Mama would’ve said they were predator-diseased, but then again, the exterminators were wrong about a lot and did bad things. I probably shouldn’t believe that...
The Nature of Predators 2-50
Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human ColonistDate [standardized human time]: August 18, 2160When I’d attempted to reach General Radai, I’d learned that the honorbound Resket had no intention to return to the camp on Tellus—as if he’d given up on the human experiment once and for all. He’d left Avor as well, after questioning Director Wrolle on livestream in Tonvos Pyramid; the military leader didn’t seem keen on remainin...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (2/11)
First | NextMemory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl Child PrisonerDate [standardized human time]: July 3, 2137The cards kept me occupied after Andrew had left, and that bluish-black color was all I could see through the tiny window slit on the far wall. The nighttime was always extra cold, with less predator guards around to break up the drafts. I became very sleepy, and laid down on the uncomfortable, metal bed; everything was metal, probabl...
The Nature of Predators 2-49
Memory Transcription Subject: Elias Meier, Former UN Secretary-GeneralDate [standardized human time]: August 11, 2160The Duerten ambassador had walked away with a haughty air, until we were out of the Yulpa and Tevin’s eyesight. The manner in which he addressed me had caught me off-guard, to say the least; I’d felt as though Korajan was actively undermining me, not supporting my efforts. The real dagger to my heart was the “robot” remark,...
The Nature of Predators - Why the Caged Bird Sings (1/11)
Memory Transcription Subject: Cala, Krakotl Child PrisonerDate [standardized human time]: July 2, 2137The cell was drafty and cold, much colder than I’d been told pens would be. I could see the tall primates walking outside the bars. They would slide food into the place where I was contained, occasionally offering a guttural bark of what they were serving. It was lonely enough here that some days, I didn’t have the heart to eat. Other times, ...
The Nature of Predators 2-48
Memory Transcription Subject: Elias Meier, Former UN Secretary-GeneralDate [standardized human time]: August 11, 2160When the Shield’s given coordinates led us to a vacant patch of space, distant from any inhabited systems and devoid of structures, I’d begun to have my doubts. Waiting in limbo, without anything to prove that this wasn’t a wild goose chase, didn’t leave a good feeling in my gut. Syba and I killed the time by watching episo...
The Nature of Predators - Wild West (11/11)
First | PrevMemory Transcription Subject: Nilrie, Takkan SmugglerDate [standardized human time]: April 25, 2158I’d thought that spending time in the future would make Blake more civilized, but that did not appear to be the case. He’d discovered liquor stores on Earth; after thinking the bars were much too “loud an’ electric, compared to a saloon,” bringing bottles of alcohol home was much more his style. He seemed shocked by how strong ...
The Nature of Predators 2-47
Memory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Alien LiaisonDate [standardized human time]: August 11, 2160Pulling General Naltor aside hadn’t presented too much of a challenge; the Selmer had been awaiting my return to the SC corridors, while keeping a close eye on the budding Sivkit settlements on our homeworld. While Lassmin had signed off on the plan as a way to ingratiate ourselves to the galaxy, the Grand Herd had a reputation for being dest...
The Nature of Predators - Wild West (10/11)
First | Prev | NextMemory Transcription Subject: Nilrie, Takkan SmugglerDate [standardized human time]: April 23, 2158Blake Donovan had been released from the hospital, and was back in his familiar “cowboy” attire—as best as the modern beasts could replicate it. His old chest pelt was torn and soaked in crimson blood, so they’d provided him with a new one, as well as a pair of “boots.” He’d learned how to clip the holopad they gave ...
Happy Friday! (Future Content Updates)
Happy Friday to all of you. As a formal announcement, Krakotl child soldier won the poll, and I penned out two chapters of pure bottled sadness so far; I hope you’re as ready for this as I am. As we’ve seen this week, the Bissems are trying to outfox none other than General Jones, and the seeds of suspicion have already been planted among our Consortium cast—it’s a powder keg!If you guys do also want to see the other ideas at some point,...
