The Colonies

A few words from the Author

As bad as it might sound 'the Colonies' are in fact as close as I might come to offering a 'generic world'. The government, societies, and worlds outside of the story I wanted to tell weren't exactly important so there isn't much to the details beyond the few facts that orbit around the events of the book.

Gypsies of the Stars

Humanity has grown and their limits have grown with them, the 2nd age of space travel has seen many dozens of vast colony ships slink off into the inky darkness between the far flung stars and planets of the Galaxy. Those ships were sent drifting off into the night carrying a sleeping cargo of people and supplies to find new worlds, and new lives among the stars and planets of distant solar systems. As the slow moving hands of time turn, humanities first colonies begin their lives beneath the skies of alien worlds.

But back on the world that gave birth to humanity a new technology gives birth to a new society, the secrets of faster than light travel is discovered and it brings with it the chance for those left behind to discover the fates of the millions who ventured off into the shadows to begin anew.

These events are the recent history of those proceeding the strange journey of the Pyrius and their fated encounter that will forever change the society born of the 3rd age of space travel. They are numbered among those very same Gypsies, people who make both their homes and their living from being always adrift between the stars, feeding the needs of interstellar commerce by taking cargo between the colonies.

The Book(s)

Wandering Steps Across a Starry Sky

~While there are more stories to tell from among those far flung stars, there are no current plans to add to this 'World'. If these plans change, it is unlikely the Pyrius and her crew will be at the heart of an new stories.

The Niozian

Homo Niozian, is a new sub-species of humanity born of the 2nd age of space travel. Like all the colonies of that age the original Niozian home-world was colonized by a huge sub-light colony ship set adrift through space. But unlike all the other colony ships, the Niozer was not seeking religious freedom, a second Eden, or even the chance to start anew on an unknown world.

The colonist of the Niozer believed that humanity was a fundamentally flawed creature and that only through a willingness to employ the outlawed practices of genetic manipulation could those flaws be repaired. The Niozian colony-world was among the last to be discovered, because that world was incapable of supporting human life. Until a chance encounter brings a ship to look down a toxic world that isn't so lifeless after all.

The descendants of the original Niozer colonists are well known for the their contempt for homo sapiens. And would not perhaps even the most tenuous of relationships with the colonial government if not for the existence of interstellar commerce.

Niozian 'Slaves'

When the colonial government regained contact with the descendants of the Niozer, it was a meeting predestined to be one to filled with tensions. But a very strained understanding and agreement did come of those days. However it wasn't at all long before that relationship was pushed to the breaking point as the Niozian's channeled their expertise with DNA into a business endeavor.

Providing readily grown clones for organs to harvest for protectionagainst disease and age. Super powerful, violent, but fiercely loyal monsters for private security. Servants who will imprint upon their 'masters' to become the perfect providers of any and all their master's wants and needs.

Though slavery has been outlawed in the colonies and from the societies of their member worlds, the Niozian operations are allowed to continue because of the claims that the 'servants' were a flawed experiment. That if not given a protected home, these 'unfortunate' souls would have to be 'humanely' euthanized.

~S.W.