Abishai100
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This short-story I cooked up was inspired by the plethora of space-opera and sci-fi fantasy/horror films about exploring space and finding cryptic enigmas or terror and suggesting to humanity that raw curiosity about human imagination does not necessarily yield progressive intelligence or helpful discoveries.
Perhaps that's a lesson for our overloaded consumerism-imaginarium society (e.g., Facebook, NASDAQ, Xbox, etc.).
What does our capitalism-subjective U.S. President (Donald Trump) think about such a perspective, and does he have a copy of Alien or Prometheus on Blu-ray disc?
Enjoy!
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A team of time-travellers decided to land on an abandoned planet which contained strange signals coming from some kind of spacecraft which crash-landed on it. The time-travellers were Samuels (a psychic vigilante), Shelbye (a medicine-woman with hair made out of snakes), Rosco (a centurion from Egypt), and Medusa (a sorceress with hair made out of snakes). The 'quartet' called themselves the Cosmonaut Four and they landed on the abandoned planet which was named by the Federation of Space Explorers as "Xenon." The Cosmonaut Four began wandering around Xenon on foot and dressed in respiration-protective gear and masks.
The Cosmonaut Four wandered into the crash-landed spacecraft which was apparently named Leviathan (that's the word that was drawn on it!). They looked inside and found a strange pulsating egg-like cocoon, so they took it back to their own spacecraft (named Nostromo). While in space, Shelbye began making all kinds of black-and-white sketches of the Cosmonaut Four in various mythological poses and as various god-like avatars, all the while wondering about the strange egg-cocoon they found on Xenon. Meanwhile, the egg-cocoon hatched and what came out was an incredibly rapidly-growing predatory dragon-like creature (a 'Xenomorph').
As the Xenomorph proceeded to kill all the members of the Cosmonaut Four, God wondered how the universe could give birth to such malice and predatory fury. The Xenomorph was very intelligent and found the imaginative black-and-white drawings of Shelbye and decided to leave one of its own as a 'souvenir' for others to find (and perhaps confuse with those of Shelbye!). The Xenomorph drew a portrait of a snake-headed woman but one that looked like a sinister drug-addict (rather than a intuitive 'muse'). The Xenomorph then disappeared. When cosmonauts found the Nostromo wandering in space they investigated and found no survivors but all the black and white sketches (including the one made by the Xenomorph).
The Federation of Space Explorers delivered the following report:
"It is the conclusion of the Federation the drawings left by the cosmonauts of the Nostromo suggest that the space-explorers were happily and peacefully travelling in space without any cause for alarm or reason to stop daydreaming about space. However, at some point, one of the cosmonauts sketched a rather insidious-looking drawing of a snake-woman avatar who appeared to be some kind of insidious drug-addict, which leads us to believe that the cosmonauts were only 'intimating' that the Nostromo was being occupied by some kind of predatory creature (or alien) which was apparently invisible. Either the cosmonauts disappeared somewhere with the alien-creature or were killed by it. Since it is ambiguous, we are enthusiastic about creating a political protocol to honor the 'cryptic mysticism' behind this disappearance and therefore have assigned our toy-makers to develop video-games about the Nostromo for youngsters to play and ruminate about the daring aspects of space-travel and safety hypotheses!"
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Perhaps that's a lesson for our overloaded consumerism-imaginarium society (e.g., Facebook, NASDAQ, Xbox, etc.).
What does our capitalism-subjective U.S. President (Donald Trump) think about such a perspective, and does he have a copy of Alien or Prometheus on Blu-ray disc?
Enjoy!
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A team of time-travellers decided to land on an abandoned planet which contained strange signals coming from some kind of spacecraft which crash-landed on it. The time-travellers were Samuels (a psychic vigilante), Shelbye (a medicine-woman with hair made out of snakes), Rosco (a centurion from Egypt), and Medusa (a sorceress with hair made out of snakes). The 'quartet' called themselves the Cosmonaut Four and they landed on the abandoned planet which was named by the Federation of Space Explorers as "Xenon." The Cosmonaut Four began wandering around Xenon on foot and dressed in respiration-protective gear and masks.
The Cosmonaut Four wandered into the crash-landed spacecraft which was apparently named Leviathan (that's the word that was drawn on it!). They looked inside and found a strange pulsating egg-like cocoon, so they took it back to their own spacecraft (named Nostromo). While in space, Shelbye began making all kinds of black-and-white sketches of the Cosmonaut Four in various mythological poses and as various god-like avatars, all the while wondering about the strange egg-cocoon they found on Xenon. Meanwhile, the egg-cocoon hatched and what came out was an incredibly rapidly-growing predatory dragon-like creature (a 'Xenomorph').
As the Xenomorph proceeded to kill all the members of the Cosmonaut Four, God wondered how the universe could give birth to such malice and predatory fury. The Xenomorph was very intelligent and found the imaginative black-and-white drawings of Shelbye and decided to leave one of its own as a 'souvenir' for others to find (and perhaps confuse with those of Shelbye!). The Xenomorph drew a portrait of a snake-headed woman but one that looked like a sinister drug-addict (rather than a intuitive 'muse'). The Xenomorph then disappeared. When cosmonauts found the Nostromo wandering in space they investigated and found no survivors but all the black and white sketches (including the one made by the Xenomorph).
The Federation of Space Explorers delivered the following report:
"It is the conclusion of the Federation the drawings left by the cosmonauts of the Nostromo suggest that the space-explorers were happily and peacefully travelling in space without any cause for alarm or reason to stop daydreaming about space. However, at some point, one of the cosmonauts sketched a rather insidious-looking drawing of a snake-woman avatar who appeared to be some kind of insidious drug-addict, which leads us to believe that the cosmonauts were only 'intimating' that the Nostromo was being occupied by some kind of predatory creature (or alien) which was apparently invisible. Either the cosmonauts disappeared somewhere with the alien-creature or were killed by it. Since it is ambiguous, we are enthusiastic about creating a political protocol to honor the 'cryptic mysticism' behind this disappearance and therefore have assigned our toy-makers to develop video-games about the Nostromo for youngsters to play and ruminate about the daring aspects of space-travel and safety hypotheses!"
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