Empyrean Iris Story Collection Vol. 3

The First Allseeker

The GA council looked up in awe as they were led through the DECOM field and into the massive main atrium. The windows of the room had been sealed off to keep out the red mist, and life support generators were present in every major room, scrubbing the air of the toxic smoke, and allowing scientists to move and work in comfort as they examined history's most unprecedented and probably, most important find.

It was the chairwoman herself who noted the similarity in architecture to things she had seen while visiting earth, the same size, the same use of angles, the same general layout. The humans described it as eerily familiar, everything was in the place they expected it to be. Generators on the bottom floor, an executive office on the top floor, and a massive unfinished robotic structure in the middle, not unlike science fiction movies created by humans in the past.

Everything here was built using the logic one might associate with humans.

The group of them were led up through the floors passing by roving teams of scientist's hell bent on examining every square inch of the strange tower. Eventually they were led out onto a small landing and into a dark opening from which glowed a soft blue light. All around them this blue ambience glowed down upon thousands and thousands of small, unmarked drawers lining the hallways on either side of them as they made their way towards a central hub.

At the center stood a pedestal, and surrounding that pedestal was a team of humans

The chairwoman recognized most of them.

Admiral Vir

Dr. katie

Dr. Wilson

Narobi, the Omen's head engineer.

And Maverick, the ship's chaplain.

One of them was busily recording something,, the other three were excitedly jotting down notes or making dictations.

"Admiral." She announced stepping forward and causing the human's heads to jerk up from their work.

The Admiral gave her a tired smile, his eyes shot through with veins of red, the skin under his eyes taking on a sort of purple undertone.

"chairwoman, we're glad you could make it."

"This is.... An unprecedented find, and I cannot help but notice the similarities to previous planets we have visited."

The man blew out his cheeks, allowing the air to escape slowly, "I hardly know where to begin, chairwoman. The two planets are indeed connected, I am sure of that."

"Go on."

"I can't show you now, so you are just going to have to trust that what I say is fact, but the star cluster we are orbiting right now is Earth's polar north star called Polaris, interestingly enough it also marks Anin's southern star, which in itself could be coincidence. However, based on our understanding of star maps, we have found that Polaris marks the exact central point between Earth, Anin, the Red planet, and The Celzex home world, which in itself cannot be misconstrued as a simple coincidence.

There was a muttering up from the delegation behind her.

"Now that is four planets accounted for, but based on the angle of the planets to each other, in three dimensions I suspect that there are SIX planets or locations involved in the Polarus axis, the other two which just have not been found yet." He waved a hand at the room around him, "Furthermore when we got here, we found recordings."

There was a muttering of shock.

"Recordings, and you listened to them."

"Listened.... And understood."