(Note: All that you read now is transcribed from the ancient Kingdeniom tongue of old, and our grasp of the lost literary is not yet profound. Mistranslations and misunderstandings may be present.)
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— V A R S —
Psalm of Vars
Not of Enjoyment, nor of Sorrow,
(Nay som merius, nay som grave,)
Is our destined End,
(Sir mon farte passe,)
But to act, of each to morrow,
(Vem som hir do acs,)
Stronger than to day.
(Stronker dios her,)
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Verse III
He was Woke. Sun rays out of dark, slowly scour through his bed. He looketh, calmly looketh. Sun.
He sat on lo bed, abbs exposed muscular, long hair red and silver, a Chad. Brooding.
“ Bliss morn, my love.” Sweet whisper soften lo brood, He looketh down, at his beautiful maiden, blond in pale gown, his Life Love, Chad love.
“ Bliss morn, my Sweet Penelope.” replied this Chad to his Love. This Hero, This Chad,
This Ordeus Azgalor, son of Aethius, Man of Vars, Leader of his pack, his people, his refuge of old Earth.
He is the Future of his people, and he knew that well.
That of a Destined End he Believed, but cannot be seen, but to act, stronger, more than more.
For his shoulders, now lifts not only the people's sky, but also his Family's Sky.
“ Bliss morn, sweet Isabel.” Whispered both Penelope and Man Ordeus Azgalor, to their New Born baby daughter, Isabel. The miracle that they bore in the years of their strife in space.
He held out his finger, into the space cradle Isabel baby lay, for his Daughter to hold, to Hope, to enjoy, to satisfy.
" For All the Morns you wake be of Bliss, this father I shall Protect thy Morns, till the Sun wanes light."
To this, baby Isabel chuckled delightfully, and Ordeus smiled with.
“ My love, Look !” Ordeus looked up to his wife's gasp, following her behelding gaze out the sun-lit space, down, below, at the dark corner, is Earth.
" Is Home." Gasped this Chad, rising from bed, downing his uniform, rushing through corridors of cheering folk.
Earth is nigh, Earth is nigh.
Many congratulate him as Ordeus passes, more thanked his lead, his bravery, and wisdom, the people's Hope, ventured under his call, and arrived in full splendor.
But Ordeus Azgalor told them all it was not him to thank. Not he to gain fame.
“ Who be more worthy, than you, Ordeus ?” Asked his right-hand man, General Zaad the strong.
“ Who more worthy,” posed Ordeus Azgalor, showing all a figure before the glass wall, a lady in analyst robes, looking into the dark infinity across, onto Earth, this lady
“ None other, than doctor Claudia Herself ?”
Yay, this analyst maiden, the very Claudia Skyman herself.
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One year before, when refugees of Vars sided with Sorrow and unhope, Ordeus Azgalor promised a breakthrough, a search. This pursuit found him an escape pod among asteroid terrain. Within is the maiden in outdated Earth tech space armor. Under that helm, the maiden, Claudia Skyman was.
Woke, she soon was, explaining her plights and struggle of his husband the Caesar Skyman, the last science man's effort to restore humanity. Tis a Great hope for Claudia to save her life and the children back on Earth, and greater Hope, for our man Ordeus Azgalor to bring his people home.
Home, the long lost planet blue, once Harmonia and Transcendia of Mankind, the nurture bed of culture and innovates, long gone, consumed by greed and sin, of Nano Machine, of Siorunic Nano Scourge.
Nano blight corrupted by insane human natures sided to destruction, rearise new world orders, diminishing human existence.
Man fought, Man lost, Earth abandoned, Man fled.
Fleeing, out of terror, of fire, of demise, was the first Memory young Ordeus Azgalor knew, and bare to this day. The memories of destruction, of Homeland End, Woke his many nights, the cries of the dying, the passing, the suffering. The departing despair, the end of innocence.
Farewell to loved ones.
A Memory, Azgalor pledged, with all his Heart, to protect his daughter Isabel from.
From terrors and despair to hard for living bare.
Claudia Skyman, is their key, and Claudia Skyman's key, is Caesar Skyman. Caesar Skyman's signal on Skyworld had been leading Claudia back to Earth as soon as she found help, but Lo, the signal of Skyman died asudden months back and all were saddened.
But Ordeus Azgalor is no man to sadden before obstacles, but a prevailing man, a Prevailer. His designs of genius, on text and weaponry, constructed galactic droids in search of signs on nearby cosmos fields. Endeavor is his sword through challenges.
And one day, the Skyman signal returned all asudden, and Claudia sent all droids in surveillance down through the atmosphere, to observe all that had transpired on Earth at her leave.
“ This isn't right, captain Azgalor.” Claudia gravely suggested after looking at months of droid hovering in surveillance
“ Earth is not how it works before. The atmosphere and air consumption, even the ecosystem are altered greatly, the children too, were not themselves, living in the wild, under threat of creatures never before seen."
“ Demons still roam the lands ?" Ordeus Azgalor sternly asked in the meeting hall of resourceful members of Vars, Ordeus' capable subjects.
“ No. Not of Nano origin. But Life forms, unlike our organisms, but…living beings of a unique matter.” Claudia explained, not truly sure herself.
“ Then we shall go! And retrieve Earth, conquest once more like our forefathers roam uncharted lands !” General Zaad suggested with zeal.
But Claudia shook her head.
“ I disagree. We need more time, more preparations. The children…they are capable of striking down our droids with their own ways and weapons. They see us as a threat. I need to approach them first, and most importantly, find Caesar Skyman.”
“ Then has Caesar Skyman contacted us not? Where is he? Is he blind or deaf ?" General Zaad inquired indignantly.
“ But his signal is still on.” Ordeus Azgalor surmised
“ Claudia, where can this signal, this Caesar Skyman most likely be ?”
“ Here.” Claudia showed them all the hologram map of Earth on the high tech table
“ Inside this floating idle in the skies.”
“ But…he still hasn't responded ?” Ordeus Azgalor asked after a short brood, marveling at this high-tech city in the sky.
“ No, he has not.” Claudia sighed, for her year-long pursuits were now barred still by an unknown barrier around the floating city.
“ The droids can't reach the floating isle. I am still looking for other ways…”
“ Our troops and mobiles can reach this Sky City.”
General Zaad suggested.
" We can get in ourselves."
“ My droids were annihilated by weapons too fast to behold in a kilometer radius.”
Claudia warned them gravely.
“ I suggest we hold our horses.”
Ordeus Azgalor understood and stood up.
“ Earth, though no more bare Nano disease, still holds Danger in many new forms." Azgalor told his fellowship.
“ After these reports I so hear, I conclude, we shall make contact with the living, the children. Caesar Skyman is of paramount importance. Before they acknowledge our existence with less hostility, we stay calm.” And that is that, the paramount order of Chad Ordeus Azgalor.
Later, till the meeting’s end, Ordeus Azgalor appraoched this silent maiden Claudia of Skyworld, who stood, staring at the blue sphere in the infinite dark, alone and melancholy. Though suggest she not to venture onto the blue long lost homeland in haste, she among all is most longing to return, to seek the children she cared, and her love Caesar Skyman.
“ General Azgalor.” Claudia spoke before Azgalor did, already knowing his coming
“ There is something I wish to show you.”
Ordeus followed Claudia to her lab, on screens in the air, all from the droids she sent to read Earth's happenings. There were children, standing over golden fields of crops, fighting immense Beasts larger than themselves. A scene most likely from Ordeus's knowledge of prehistoric history.
“ They are moving on, aren't they? Just like how humanity is supposed to.” Claudia spake, slightly proud of her children's progress over time
“ They have found ways to cultivate and harvest, guard their Prowess. Caesar and Castiel taught them well. And with the right way, in the right time, we may be ready to meet them.”
“ But not now?” Ordeus asked, curious of Claudia’s ideals.
“ No, Captain. I wish to go, alone. Right away, to be precise, and not with the whole cavalry, I beg you, me alone.”
Claudia pleaded this Azgalor, Young Chad among men.
“ Let me go, along with the hospitalic equipments.”
Ordeus Azgalor was taken a shock.
“ Why so?” Ordeus asked concerned.
“ Because they need medical attention, urgently.”
Claudia spake in grave urgency, and both fell silent.
Ordeus was shaken and knew immediately something was amiss.
“ Show me.” Ordeus whispered earnestly.
“ Show me what you need me see. I will do all I can to help.”
Reluctantly, Claudia showed Ordeus Azgalor the life signals scanned from the droids. Ordeus read them, and examined them carefully.
But there was no signal.
No life signals detected.
Ordeus gasped in unease.
“ But the children! Are they not there, moving and being…Alive…?! Are they but hallucinations or holograms to deceive our senses?! Where are their heartbeats? Their vital signs?!”
“ They are living, Captain, not holograms or any form of trickery. They are there truly.”
Claudia whispered, her voice calm but shuddering slightly still.
“ But their organisms, no longer work like us, and they yield no signs of us living beings, yet…somehow, in some unknown impossible way, they are alive…”
Ordeus Azgalor felt chills run down his spine.
Moving children in the Android screens, without signs of living, move naturally unlike undead. But how…?! What is keeping them alive…?!
“ This…must not disclose this to all the others.” Ordeus whispered to gain his own calm.
“ I'll seek Penelope's Medical knowledge, she can help. And…and Kale. Kale, my master of Strategy. He too can help us solve this paradox. Just the Four of us can know.”
Claudia nodded slowly in thoughts that trail deep.
“ Just the Four of us.”
And Lo, secretly Ordeus and Claudia told the wife of Ordeus, Penelope, and explained the utter mystery.
Then, Ordeus came to Kale, the smartest man still alive on the Vars refugee ship. Be Azgalor the Sword and compass, Kale be the Book and telescope. The insight from his foreign origins has helped Vars and Ordeus countless occasions throught space. Yet Kale is a Mysterious Foreigner, whose origins are unknown yet to all, but his wisdom in all fields and cunning of thought proved resourceful in times like this.
A Genius of mystic arts even Azgalor fear if turned against Mankind. But Ordeus knew they need his visionary.
Kale listened to all that need him know of the strange undead phenomenon of the children of Earth in silence, in his indoor pagoda, crossed-legged sitting
“ Can they Reproduce ?”
Was all this mystic space wizard asked.
Claudia hesitated without answer. And Kale nodded without further elaboration and agreed to help, with his knowledge.
Sneering benignly.
Kale was, a mysterious Genius. And his long Eagle-beaked nose and sharp tipped ears nearly gave it away. But still, they needed his insight.
Claudia knew all was wrong with the lifeless children, the disappearance of Caesar Skyman and many more. Old Castiel Bradson might have passed due to old age, Claudia did presume.
Still, before she set off with Ordeus and Kale, Claudia quickly recorded a short welcoming speech, a message to Caesar and the children, and sent it to broadcast on the remaining droids that still roam the Earth, undestroyed.
The message was sent, without delay,
Throughout the lands, harbored in scouting droids that spread across fields of light green,
seas of deep blue,
valleys of lush and fertility.
Yet, most of these droids with the message of Claudia Skyman were, brutally destroyed and kept in captivity.
Under the red insane eyes of the current leige, the illusive Lordess of SkyWorld’s scrutiny.
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《Somaris Lima》
Song of the young explorer, once remembered, all forgotten
Verse IV
[.........to be continued, in the near future…]
