find out why his childhood friend had decided to join them in the
Tactical Room.
“Scaden, I really don’t know what I’m looking at anymore. I’ve
been trying to figure out the anatomy of the humanoids on the planet, but
nothing is matching up. Based on the last reports we received almost two
thousand years ago from the Outpost and what I’ve learned from the satellites,
the vast majority of the occupants on the planet are different. Vastly, and
impossibly different. Even the skeletal structures are different. And I have no
explanation for it. At least, nothing that makes any sense to me.” He said with
frustration clearly evident in his voice.
“What exactly have you found, Amun?”
“Apparently, the people skipped a few thousand years of
evolution or another race of people took over the planet since the last time we
were here. In fact, even the inhabitants know there is a vast difference
between them as they are today, and the skulls of earlier people that they have
found around the planet. They have scientists, known as Archeologists, who have
dug up many different skulls and bones. And even they have not been able to
explain the differences in the skeletal remains that have been found. The one
thing I can say for sure is that some of the skeletons that were found were
Relian, and some were Valendran.” Amun told them with sadness evident in his voice.
Several surprised gasps were heard from the Tactical Team
members as everyone tried to absorb this unexpected information. Scaden looked
at the members of his team, and saw that they looked just as shocked as he was.
His mind worked quickly to try to piece this new information into the puzzle.
“Amun, how many Valendran bodies do you believe have been found
on the planet?” Scaden asked.
“From the limited amount of information I’ve been able to
gather; they've only discovered about a half a dozen Valendrans. The problem is
that it seems the various religious organizations on their planet, and
governments don’t want a lot of these unusual discoveries to be released to the
public, making it very difficult to determine a true number of the casualties.
I can tell you that there were far more Relian bodies than there was Valendran.
But there could be a lot more on each side that hasn't been discovered yet. In
fact, a lot of the Relian bodies were found in different stages of shapes.
Which is an indication that a lot of them were killed while shape shifting.”
Amun replied.
“From what I’ve gathered so far, it seems that the religious and
government bodies have kept a lot of information from the people. In fact, the
planet; the people call it Earth, have been regularly visited by the Balal’s,
but the governments refuse to acknowledge this to the people, even though they
have recovered a few of their crashed transport crafts. They call them UFOs,
Unidentified Flying Objects. Thousands of their people claim to have seen them
and been abducted by them.” Balduen added.
“What is the reasoning behind keeping this information from the
people on the planet?” Niklosi asked.
“It seems they are afraid that it would cause the people to turn
away from the religious organizations that have been ruling the moral compass
of their people, and cause wide-spread chaos. The religious organizations on
the planet exist due to their ability to convince the people that their
particular way is the only way to find peace in the after death.”
“They believe the revelation of the existence of other
intelligent beings in the universe would call into question the people’s
beliefs. They think this would stop people from donating money to the religious
leaders and organizations, causing the organizations to collapse. There seems
to be a lot of organizations, who use the power they hold over their people to
subjugate them, and cause them to violently kill one another under the guise of
their particular ‘God’ figure wants them too. I’m having a hard
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