[THE PEOPLE]

[THE PEOPLE]
THE MUSIC...
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As the ship nears the world certain things began to occur.
The atmosphere changed and instruments which had been in sleepmode activated. This had been a long journey and it had taken the ship across many galaxies as wormhole after wormhole had been explored.
The ship had done battle with other races and beings. It had encountered organisms which lived in the cold vacuum of space. Some as large as small planets who fed of of pure energy as they used the radiation of suns as their food.
The ship had been created conscious and it understood that this was the way things had to be in order for this mission to succeed. In order for the lives that it carried in its bowels to survive they had to have been suspended for a very long time and the ship had monitored the amount of food that they consumed. The amount of activity that their brains had.
As the ship passes the small natural satellite which orbits the planet it sends out probes to measure temperature and conditions and it waits patiently as the data was sent back. The satellite is barren and the ship calls back the probes. No need to leave evidence of its passing.
This planet has been monitored for some time and the ship knows that it is ripe for colonization. The atmosphere almost matches the one of the home planet of the beings it carries. They are an ancient race and have been colonizing worlds for a millenia.
The ship begins the process of bringing them out of the state that they have been in for so long that centuries have passed on the home world. They are a long lived race who exist in peace with their planet and the machines that they have created. They... the people of the home world also have encountered peaceful races and have established trade and intergrated societies with them.
Yet this is the first time that anyone has ventured this far from the home world and these travelers will be seperated for a very long time.
This is such a grand experiment and the machine feels a form of pride that it was created to undertake this expedition.
As it starts to appraoch the layers of the atmospere of the planet it prepares for a landing and it chooses on of the continents where there seems to be a wealth of minerals and plant life as well as animal life which can and will be manipulated to desired results.
The ship makes a landing in a lush valley and prepares the sleepers as it sends messages to them in their chambers. There are hundreds of them and they have been chosen for their genes and for their intelligence.
The sleepers begin to emerge from their chambers and to do the things that they must do in order to study this planet.
They gather the equipment and other machines help them. These machines look just like the beings and they walk and talk as they do. The people and the machines take a period of two revolutions to unload the massive ship and in that time they start to alter the plant and animal life to better suit their needs. There are some plants and animals which are left the same. The better to understand the nature of evolution on this planet as relatng to their co-habitation with the people.
One day after everything has been unloaded and everyone is waiting to find out what is going to happen next... how to proceed the ship sends out a signal to all the machines which look like the people and they return to the ship. Some of the people follow and the machine releases a gas which renders them immobile as it prepare to execute the last of it orders and initiates a sequence which it has dreaded as it hurtled throught the depths of space and watched the dreams of the sleepers.
It starts to slowley rise from the surface of the planet and hovers over the land which it has sat on for two revolutions and activates the hyperdrive which drives it into space at a startling rate as it starts the long journey back to the home world to report on the state of the travelers and the planet which it has stranded then on.
The people who are left on the planet live for generation after generation and they split and form tribes and villages, cities and towns, and eventually forget that they came from the stars.
The pedestles that the ships sat on become old and their purpose is forgotten as sands wear at their exterior.
As generations come and go the people live shorter and shorter lives and some become barbarians as they wander into cold and frigid lands and lose melanin.
The soul of the people.
Eventually they start to look at the stars.


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