Friday, April 16, 2010

Rosa , the Lily!

by Aaron Shaw & Becky Tucker

Once upon a time, there was a red lily that loved the sun. The lily's name was Rosa-interesting name for a lily, right? One day Rosa was sitting in her usual place in the garden when she noticed a little sprout poking out of the dirt.
"Why, what are you little sprout?" Rosa asked.
The little sprout didn't reply. It was still growing and had not opened its eyes yet.
Rosa was so interested in this new sprout. What is it's name? Where did it come from? Where was it going? While she contemplated the many questions running through her mind she created a little pebble bed for the little sprout. With the sun setting that day Rosa fell asleep still thinking about the cute little sprout.
The next morning a miracle happened!! The little sprout had grown into a tall tree over night! The pebble bed was still there but it kind of got destroyed a little. But that's okay because the sprout was a tree! Rosa was so startled, she jumped out of her spot in the ground and fell over. Suddenly, the tree woke up!

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Empire - Chapter Two

Ephan was sixteen when it really began to sink into peoples minds. That Jamsen was not as indestructable as everyone believed. Jamsen was a very prosperous world, though still vulnerable. Its people were industrious, educated and they were growing in all aspects of their culture and civilization. They were building huge beautiful buildings that could rival structures of the Milani. They were increasing in the fields of science at an incredible rate and they were growing ever more confident in their technological abilities. They believed they could save themselves from any obstacle that faced them. How limited their minds had been. Theirs and our destruction has been brought about by laze and pride, we did not see it coming just as they had not.
The ancient records say that in the year 7432 of the First Father was when the first trace appeared. The first trace of the Jamsee's incompetency, that same incompetency that flows obviously through our veins.
Jamsen was probed and the Jamsee didn't notice it until their fate was sealed. Tumlan the star around which Jamsen orbited had always protected it from meteorites. Now and then a tiny fleck might scratch the atmosphere but would burn up in the atmosphere before it could reach the ground. The Jamsee should have known when the Tamsen meteor shower hit that it wasn't just an incident caused by nature.
This meteor shower was odd in its sense of trajectory. This is what allowed it to reach Jamsen and penetrate its atmosphere. The meteors had entered the Tumlan system in the shadow of it's sixth and largest planet, Kumsan. Kumsan was an extremely large planet for it's relatively small mass. Kumsan cast its shadow out far enough that the Tamsen meteors slipped in the system without being melted or broken down at all by Tumlan's intense heat and radioactive output. The Jamsee never noticed this event taking place. Eventually the meteors got far enough into the system following Kumsan's shadow that they were able to fall into Tamsen's shadow when Tamsen moved between Kumsan and Tumlan. This eclipse and a change in trajectory allowed the meteors to penetrate farther into the system. When Jamsen moved into an eclipse with Tumlan the meteors changed their trajectory once more and moved into the shadow cast by Jamsen. They meteors where now headed for Jamsen, on their collision course but were still not noticed by the Jamsee.

Empire - Chapter One

20 years ago I don't think anyone would have believed this would be our future. Fighting, Fleeing, Death, Destruction. What happened to our empire? We've fallen lower than ever. We're barely holding on. Of course no one believed those who tried to tell us. We were proud, unbelieving. Now we are past repair. Our empire is lost. We are weak and near the end.
Our story started hundreds of years ago. We came to this planet with technology that was not our own. One man dreamed about it. Our planet was nearing destruction as we are now and one person saved us.
Where is that one person now? Will no one be sent to deliver us from our destruction?