Remember. Remember.

[HuggieSunrise]

The years had not been good to Jim. back surgery and plastic surgery to reclaim some semblance of youth did little to cover up scars of hard work and high prices paid.

He was sitting rather comfortably in his quarters aboard the Estium as he noticed the heirloom artifact. He had received potent flashes of lives he never had.. but where oddly connected to him somehow.

It was unnerving to him.. he avoided touching it with his bare hands as true contact with it seemed to cause flashes...

But despite all his progress and starting his dreams of fixing the distressed minds of Sirius one freeport/smelter/god forsaken hole in space at a time something was undone.... left behind.. unfinished.

"Ahh fine.. " he resigned picking up the artifact bare handed.. he stared for a moment.. but a feeling of wind him took him away...

he felt.. heat around him.. and as the murky vision of closed eyes into deep memory emerged he saw a grand ship.. in flames barreling through a gauntlet of automated defence batteries and platforms pieces of the ship being blown off as it glided through the gauntlet... eventually breaching its way to a jumphole...

The hull groaned as it entered and as Jim traveled with the Babylon through its final voyage the ship came out in pieces.. on the other side..

into a minefield... that was apparently deployed as a deturrent from larger ships.. Smaller craft were making it through and not setting off the ancient junk metal explosives.

Several blue and brilliant entities floated near the wreak.. offering no anger or assistance, escape pods and vessels leaving the wreak of the broken colony vessel from bays prepped before the ship made its daring rung through the field out of Gallic space.

A brilliant release and flare of blue energy erupted from one of the rear sections joining with the Solomon Khara... A single vessel went with them.



The aliens journey was long... Jim saw and recognized the worlds of Orkney and the undeveloped Niobium fields of tau-23.


The journey seemed to bring them to a place however... A grand city of lights with a star.. and worlds within it. A globe of ancient architecture unchanged for millions of years.

Seas of blue living lights within it but only a few active islands of alien wonder alight within the sphere. The blue seas asleep.. dormant.. waiting for some tune of fate.. yet to be played.

The sensations of thought filled jims mind.. The sphere was ancient.. created by a force more primitive.. but singularly more powerful then these brilliant beings of light. Something older and more orderly.

The Adviser called it "The Old Song." jim found himself watching Tolomon and Annie inside the cramped transport being led on.. not fully under thier own control..

In Annies hands was an object Jim was holding himself.. in all these visions he hardly saw it but he knew it was Annies. or rather her fathers before her..and his fathers father.. etc.

This was why they where being brought here... This place of slumbering gods.



The memories are sporadic here... but it was a room where Tolomon wasn't present.. this made Annie vary nervous she clutched the artifact as it was the only thing she had that was "hers" left in the world.

in the inky darkness..Annie made out a glimmer like a silver strand.. and then what looks like.. an angel of light appeared before her.. an odd alien blue light...


*** 'Yours' -are- 'ours' Relic~song sung for immortal clarity... ***

Annie felt it...

"Im sorry.. you mean this?" she handled the crystal in its setting.

Annie noticed it began to shine from the inside. The angle came forward and reached out for it...

She didnt know why.. but she felt.. it was alright to let go of it.. And while she did so.. it floated tot he beings hands.. and lit.

A blinding symphony of images lights sounds and feelings.. Oh the feelings.. how dazzling they where all at once...

There were.. Towers built in jungles of Angkor Wat.. and step pyramids and towers in Babylon.. shining marble and granite pyramids white among the golden sands of the Nile... ancient cities with walls in the Americas..

designs drawn in the sands surging with power in the deserts of ancient man... and it went further... Glass domes upon Luna... five sided pyramids of Mars.. the faces... the hanging islands and ruins of Io and Titan..

And nestled within a small ancient container unopened and found from the ancient rubble of Titans floating ruins and placed within a case labeled "Allied Research / Case No:02234".

Time went further backward as the artifact showed its secrets to the being of light.. but Annie had lost focus and closed her eyes when she saw the origins of the Artifact where from Earth itself.

She saw the images on the face of the being like a playback. Strange nightmarish images of ..creatures.. some looking mantis like or reptilian or odd short grey skinned beings with giant void like eyes..

and as the secrets played out.. the being.. un judging and un moved stopped its testimony. reaching.. seemingly withing it drew the light of the artifact out and placed this light upon its crown like a jewel or a piece of jewlery.

The angle came close to annie.. who was tired.. honestly tired of what had transpired int he months leading up to the babylons escape from Gallic territory and now this. it was A true odessey into hell.. nothing made sence and she thought it never would..

The being of light touched her mins with a feather like appendage that created a light in whitch is used to fill the empty artifact.

It would now remember and store the minds of those around it once more.. from here on out. A.. gift.. of legacy for her and those after her.

"Who are you?" She asked. painfully.. she didnt know if she could take anymore riddled speech mind to mind.. but for once the being of light spoke plainly.

"We are the most ancient of that which surrounds us. The knowledge you had.. was not for the ones slumbering here. nor for you. Thiers is not to know whom watches them but to know and choose thier place." It seems to emanate.

Annie merely nodded... it didnt take a scientist to see most of the lights were off intentionally in this place and that those here were unlike the beings dormant... but not dissimilar... These beings of light where almost luminous.. and warm to feel.. The others where beautiful and blue and entrancing but somehow... less vibrant.

"We will set things right... and the leave them here to become." it finished its speech.

Annie handled the Artifact once again... feel into a deep sleep...


The next memory was of Tolomon.. He stood curious his "captive" was before him in the company of a much taller more imposing being.

The figures spoke as one to him..

"The Shrine will sing to those who carry the "mark" and -your- heritage/duty is to continue your path. Erase your pasts... begin anew with your current "advent" They sounded.

Tolomon looked thoughtful.

"What of the planet we passed? My people have had limited contact with the inhabitants.. but the visions you've shown me of.. your holding it and seeding it... does this mean they are special?" Tolomon asked.

The three conferred for a moment..

"Pacified. Few "plains/worlds" are like it. Those who colonized there will be changed /mutated from your kind the "mark" shows more brightly there." the mass of voices ended.

Tolomon knew his mission then... To cultivate a secret society to prepare for those children in mans future who will show a predisposition towards the beings hes come to call "the divine". now there were too few from the survivors and colonists to "harvest" but they will have children.. and grand children and even perhaps thier great grandchildren will manifest the mutations more strongly.

The fields... the cardimine dusts and pollen's would alter the humans on that world.. so the first generations will be born there...

That is where the Temple will be built, the community will stay quiet and secret until the time is right...