Annihilation - Finding Keepers (Annihilation Series (Book Seven}) by Saxon Andrew, Derek Chiodo, Frank MacDonald Page A
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creatures will wait until several children have been born to gather up the older colonists. I am going to show you a video of that actually taking place at the Human colony.”
Jake watched as everyone in the meeting saw the colonists gathered and then shot on the conveyer belt. He saw the extreme distaste the attendees had for how the Humans were treated.
Edison continued, “I am going to zoom in on the creature that shot the Humans. I want you to watch the spikes on top of its head and the device he uses to shoot them.”
The creature took the device and pointed it at the six colonists. The white spikes on top of the creature’s head started moving very rapidly as the creature activated the device. “Notice that nothing happened to the Humans even though the creature’s spikes were moving rapidly. It was when the device was activated that the damage was done. We see this as supporting the theory that their thoughts are amplified by this device. The Searcher’s scan revealed that all six colonists were still breathing but all of their higher brain functions had been damaged beyond repair.”
“These creatures are using the colonies on that planet as a food source. Those six Humans were sent into that building to be processed and shipped out on the vessel orbiting the planet. They were still alive so they would be, excuse this term, fresh on arrival at their destination. The ship must arrive when the creatures have collected enough colonists to send to their home worlds. We also know that millions of planets in that universe are exactly like the one you’re seeing; small communities with identical populations all farming to feed themselves. These creatures are harvesting all intelligent life in that universe and are thereby controlling any threat that they may become if they were allowed to evolve naturally.”
The room was silent. Then Edison dropped the bombshell, “It appears that they learned how to do this from my species. They just do it better than we ever did.”
The planet was fifty percent larger than Earth and was completely covered with small buildings two stories high. There were billions of inhabitants on the planet, and hundreds of thousands of ships arriving every day to unload the food needed to feed the planet’s huge population. Though the planet was covered by the small buildings, the real community lived in the ground under them. The inhabitants preferred living underground, and there were tunnels and huge cities dug more than fifty miles down. Everything moved at breakneck speed. All of those billions had their tasks to perform and they were all connected to each other telepathically. Although they were individuals, the part of their mind that they used to tune in to the community formed a collective intelligence that had a life of its own. Every creature on all the millions of planets was tied in together, and that giant Collective used them to see everything that happened in their universe. The Collective Mind did not possess a body, but it did exist as an individual intelligence, albeit a highly compartmentalized one. Those compartments would talk to each other as the Central Collective used them to make decisions.
“Have you determined the origin of that ship that was destroyed?”
The history portion of the Collective responded, “No, and we have nothing in our memory that matches that ship. The electronic screens were stronger than any we have ever encountered.”
“Could it have been a return of the green creatures to probe our strength?”
“The creature in that ship did not match the green creatures physically.”
The Collective processed that piece of information, and millions of bits of data were examined. “They did not come from this universe.”
“No, they could not have developed ships that powerful without our having seen them before now.”
“Perhaps it is time we go and find those green creatures and
Jake watched as everyone in the meeting saw the colonists gathered and then shot on the conveyer belt. He saw the extreme distaste the attendees had for how the Humans were treated.
Edison continued, “I am going to zoom in on the creature that shot the Humans. I want you to watch the spikes on top of its head and the device he uses to shoot them.”
The creature took the device and pointed it at the six colonists. The white spikes on top of the creature’s head started moving very rapidly as the creature activated the device. “Notice that nothing happened to the Humans even though the creature’s spikes were moving rapidly. It was when the device was activated that the damage was done. We see this as supporting the theory that their thoughts are amplified by this device. The Searcher’s scan revealed that all six colonists were still breathing but all of their higher brain functions had been damaged beyond repair.”
“These creatures are using the colonies on that planet as a food source. Those six Humans were sent into that building to be processed and shipped out on the vessel orbiting the planet. They were still alive so they would be, excuse this term, fresh on arrival at their destination. The ship must arrive when the creatures have collected enough colonists to send to their home worlds. We also know that millions of planets in that universe are exactly like the one you’re seeing; small communities with identical populations all farming to feed themselves. These creatures are harvesting all intelligent life in that universe and are thereby controlling any threat that they may become if they were allowed to evolve naturally.”
The room was silent. Then Edison dropped the bombshell, “It appears that they learned how to do this from my species. They just do it better than we ever did.”
The planet was fifty percent larger than Earth and was completely covered with small buildings two stories high. There were billions of inhabitants on the planet, and hundreds of thousands of ships arriving every day to unload the food needed to feed the planet’s huge population. Though the planet was covered by the small buildings, the real community lived in the ground under them. The inhabitants preferred living underground, and there were tunnels and huge cities dug more than fifty miles down. Everything moved at breakneck speed. All of those billions had their tasks to perform and they were all connected to each other telepathically. Although they were individuals, the part of their mind that they used to tune in to the community formed a collective intelligence that had a life of its own. Every creature on all the millions of planets was tied in together, and that giant Collective used them to see everything that happened in their universe. The Collective Mind did not possess a body, but it did exist as an individual intelligence, albeit a highly compartmentalized one. Those compartments would talk to each other as the Central Collective used them to make decisions.
“Have you determined the origin of that ship that was destroyed?”
The history portion of the Collective responded, “No, and we have nothing in our memory that matches that ship. The electronic screens were stronger than any we have ever encountered.”
“Could it have been a return of the green creatures to probe our strength?”
“The creature in that ship did not match the green creatures physically.”
The Collective processed that piece of information, and millions of bits of data were examined. “They did not come from this universe.”
“No, they could not have developed ships that powerful without our having seen them before now.”
“Perhaps it is time we go and find those green creatures and
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