This ship belongs to the seventeenth Duke of Apis, Lord Bichap Amran Argan, he/him pronouns, and it is his personal ship, part pleasure cruiser and part diplomatic vessel.
It arrives around midday standard universal time, nestled in a loose flotilla of travelers from the duchy of Apis.
A narrow blade of a thing, half metal and half holystone, polished to reflect starlight. There is a ship, coming through a portal. Let us start at the center of the Empire of the Faithful, not too long before our current point in time. But that holds little interest for me: Are we not programmed to want the exciting parts right away? Since you have mandated me as storyteller, I shall choose where we begin as it suits my fancy. You may think that means starting at the conception of our Messiah. Let us work at a scale comprehensible to human minds. It would take too long to tell all of it. Into long sleeps and uncharted territories and the ALISS Apocalypse and all that followed after.īut maybe that is too much.
Here we see the one christened The Cause of Labour streaking away into the dark, embarking upon its ten-thousand-year journey across the stars. Shall we start with the Old Planet, whose name has been forgotten, and swim the warm oceans as life begins to coalesce? Should we walk alongside the parade of creatures as they unfurl into human form, and watch as these shabby beings stumble toward the ruination of their planet? Perhaps a better opening would be the shoal of vessels that fled their burning home, each stocked carefully with a collection of individuals that has been deemed suitable to represent the future of humanity. But really, where do we begin? Do we imagine that the story of a person begins when zie is born? Or do we acknowledge that each one of us is the creation of a dozen forces, bearing down upon the clay of a being with all the weight of history? The threads that make up Misery Nomaki began in the distant past, not as fixed points but electron clouds, diffuse and undefinable, woven through the tapestry of human history in ways that are difficult to put into words or comprehend.
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