Issue # 12
The Lyran Expansion and the Orion Wars
22 Million Years Ago - The humans from the original
great migration who settled in the Lyran system close to
their ancestral home, the ones who had shunned
technological growth, have evolved over millions of years
to the point where they too now can explore distant stars -
their technological taboos slowly eroded over time.
A new wave of migration begins from here, and these cat-
like humanoids are surprised to "discover" the many other
races that have been developing all around them. Their
common ancestors have been forgotten in the dim mists of
ancient myth, and the original Lyran humanoid form has
evolved over time (and has also been genetically
manipulated) into a wide variety of races with different
sizes, features, skin tones and consciousness levels. It
seems to these Lyrans that they are encountering new
beings at every corner, when really they are simply
encountering their fellow descendants from their own
ancient home.
The priorities of some of these races have shifted over time
too, largely due to the influence of the still flourishing
Reptilian race - the Ciakar. Some of the humanoid race in
Orion, mostly those of the Aryan genotype that evolved in
Vega, have found that they resonate with the Ciakar's
agenda of space exploration and colonization. This co-
operation leads to the formation of the Orion Empire and
eventually, due to their scientist's ambitious breeding
programs, to the Aryan Human/Reptilian Hybrid race - a
race that appears human, with predominately light
skin, blond hair and blue eyes, but that has all the most
aggressive and warlike attributes of the Ciakar as well as
increased size and muscle mass.
Many others in the Galaxy disagreed with the principles of
the Empire and of it's agenda, and many civilizations that
had been subjugated by the Ciakar started to rebel and
band together. This cooperation of forces led to the
Federation of Planets, formed from civilizations from Lyra,
The Pleiades and Hyades star clusters, the Andromeda
Galaxy and many other systems. Since these folks basically
had right on their side, they were also joined and advised
by non-physical beings from both our Universe and
beyond. It even got some unexpected members from some
reptilian planets whose particular races were more
progressively minded.
One group from the Pleiades, unwilling to join either side,
decided to leave that area of the Universe altogether and
eventually settled on what is now called Mars, where they
would live for many millions of years and would later play
a big role in our local history.
The tensions and disagreements between the Federation
and the Empire were many and eventually they reached a
boiling point.
The war initially was over territory, but it became a war of
mind-sets and ideologies. On the one hand there was a
group of mainly humanoid races that had joined forces in
the Federation. Many of its members recalled well their
subjugation at the hands of the Ciakar, and therefore
rejected the ideas of colonization and intervention in other
worlds. They became committed to the idea of service-to-
others.
On the other hand there was a mixed group of humanoids
and reptilian races that believed in service-to-self and saw
it as their "manifest destiny" to colonize and assimilate
those they conquered – this was The Empire.
The philosophy of service-to-self started out as an
innocent enough idea the minds of those who adopted it.
It says that if everybody looks after themselves, then the
whole will be taken care of as well. But what soon happens
is that this turns into service-to-self at the expense of
others, resulting in the cycle of victim and victimizer that
we are so familiar with on our own planet.
These were the Orion Wars - named such because most of
the fighting took place in and around the Orion system.
This war lasted literally millions of years and countless
generations grew up with the realities of conflict and strife
as the norm.
I believe that the plot line of pretty much any science
fiction story you can find is not "imagined" by the author,
but is rather a genetic memory called forth by the
subconscious remembrance of this time.
Up next - The founding of the Annunaki race and the end
of the Orion War.
Peace.
Seth
