A Long Way from Home
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About 15 years back the people of earth learned that we are not the only cognitive life out there in the universe. At first people panicked when the Solora first came to earth. Who wouldn't be in a panic when a UFO the that is roughly 1/3 the size of Atlanta starts flying over head. Every one was massing military ready to fight the alien invaders, guns were trained on the first to set foot on earth soil. A simple probe, that was on the ground for 5 minutes before the actual visitors.
I remember that day, I was a lowly foot soldier in the US Army, fresh out of boot camp, with an M4 carbine, and quite frankly about to shit my pants. I was in awe of the fact that I would be among the first to what this life form looked like, yet scared shit less thinking I'm going to die. A Small pod lowered slowly to the ground and out came the life forms.
I was shocked they looked almost like us, save for the purple eyes, and bluish hair. When they spoke, it was perfect English, and I will never forget what was said. “We have studied your planet for a long long time. We wish to share our civilization with you. You have much to learn from us, and we much to learn from you.”
For five years, we learned from them as they learned from us. Our technological abilities were advanced far beyond what I would have ever foreseen in my lifetime. Fossil Fuel was made obsolete, computers, faster, smaller, and cheaper. Our way of life theirs, their way of life ours.
Then five more years the gate was constructed. The interstellar travel point between earth and Rigel, the place where they came from. I as one of the first to migrate, I had no family, no one to keep me from going. The trip took me four years to make, four years to travel four light years. I've decided, I'd live my life with the Solora learn from them, teach them, love them as they were my family. I have made Solor my home.
I remember that day, I was a lowly foot soldier in the US Army, fresh out of boot camp, with an M4 carbine, and quite frankly about to shit my pants. I was in awe of the fact that I would be among the first to what this life form looked like, yet scared shit less thinking I'm going to die. A Small pod lowered slowly to the ground and out came the life forms.
I was shocked they looked almost like us, save for the purple eyes, and bluish hair. When they spoke, it was perfect English, and I will never forget what was said. “We have studied your planet for a long long time. We wish to share our civilization with you. You have much to learn from us, and we much to learn from you.”
For five years, we learned from them as they learned from us. Our technological abilities were advanced far beyond what I would have ever foreseen in my lifetime. Fossil Fuel was made obsolete, computers, faster, smaller, and cheaper. Our way of life theirs, their way of life ours.
Then five more years the gate was constructed. The interstellar travel point between earth and Rigel, the place where they came from. I as one of the first to migrate, I had no family, no one to keep me from going. The trip took me four years to make, four years to travel four light years. I've decided, I'd live my life with the Solora learn from them, teach them, love them as they were my family. I have made Solor my home.
