The Legend of Earth (The Human Chronicles Saga -- Book 5) by T.R. Harris

world. Ever since the Juireans had taken over the galaxy and set the surface gravity of Juir as the galactic standard, all worlds were compared against this measure. The home of the Kracori was rated at 1.28 that of standard. This was significant, but not unique. There are literally millions of planets with higher gravity than even Eilsion throughout the galaxy, yet what made the Kracori so unique is how they had adapted to it.
    Most inhabitants of heavy-gravity worlds were thick, low-lying and bulky. Also, these creatures had very slow metabolisms, so their movements were sloth-like, almost like a world in slow-motion.
    But not the Kracori; they were an active, strong race of beings, able to move within their environment at speeds comparable to those on lower-gravity worlds. The Klin, being as cerebral as they were, classified the Kracori as Prime-D, and they would remain the only race so classified for another thirteen hundred years – until the discovery of the Human race.
    The Klin established a small colony on the neighboring world of Olypon and began to watch the Kracori as they developed their society. They also continued to be pushed further out from the heart of the galaxy. This was not a problem for the Klin. Over the millennia, they had learned not to concentrate their population in only one location, and by the time the Earth was discovered, the Klin had established three very distinct colonies.
    The main base was on Olypon, and over the years, contact was made with the Kracori, who become willing and proficient manufacturers of the Klin technology. They built spaceships by the hundreds and enjoyed the benefits of all the wonders of Klin science.
    A second base – a much smaller one – was located on the planet Glasien-4 in the Far Arm of the galaxy. It was from here that scouts first discovered the planet Earth, although the world had already been visited many times in past. These early visitors had been the frontier adventurers seeking freedom from the confines of the Juirean Expansion, and more often than not, slavers. Although the Humans were an exceptionally strong and durable race, perfect for the slave trade, they had proved to be almost impossible to contain and control. After several thousand years, only the most stubborn slavers continued to find new product among the Humans.
    The Klin’s primary administration headquarters was located on the distant world of Marishal, far out near the galactic rim and out of the main gravity lanes. This was where the Pleabaens of Klin resided, the leaders of the race. Marishal was also the secondary manufacturing location for the Klin, although not nearly as extensive an operation as on Elision.
    All three of these locations served the Klin well for over fifteen hundred years, primarily because of their isolation from the major deep-well gravity lanes.
    The Klin had developed the gravity drive four thousand years earlier, just before the Juireans had attacked their world and killed off nearly ninety-nine percent of the population. Even though the Juireans called this event the Reckoning , the Klin word for the event more closely translated into Holocaust .
    Gravity drives work by focusing dynamic-forces to create microscopic singularities in space. Since these miniature black holes were always created at the same distance from the generator, the motherships were already well within the event horizon of the singularity when it was created, thereby shielding the generating spaceships from the effects of relativity. As space would flow toward the singularity, the starships would move as well, requiring no additional energy to propel them forward.
    But here is where the true genius of the gravity drive paid dividends. Since the effects of the singularity were felt in all directions around the central point, space on the opposite side of the generating spaceship was also drawn in, and when the singularity dissolved, space would rebound, propelling the starship several