Prescient Madness

On Rohl’s eighth occurrence, of which thirty-seven comprises a whole lunar transition and of which one-thousand-and-eleven-comprises a solar transition, of its axial transition cycle, considering that it is the five-thousand-and-sixty-third round since the unification and that this is one of the last worlds, given the title six-eight-nine of the claw of the last octopodic whip, of the outer rim, there is a disturbance.
Rohl is a remarkably uninteresting world. It is remarkably similar to ancient Ærth which makes it significantly uninteresting. No one had a need for the first Ærth with its stunning lack of valuable resources, and no one has a real need for Rohl. But there is life upon it and where there is life there is always something interesting going on.
Ahmla and Kei, two children from an evolved branch of primates that were once known as homo sapiens, and are now outlawed, have their village on this back water planet and are headed towards a cave at the edge of the jungle that surrounds their absolutely primordial village.
They can speak but they aren’t. They hold each other’s hand as they make their way through the forest. They are clothed, barely, by the tunics made of wild feline skin that they have killed but they have developed the concept of making sandals quite recently and so these young adults, for they at least in full bloom, are pleasantly surprised at what a pleasure it is to not have to walk upon the rocks and bugs on the ground with their feet and the pain that this brings. They are aware, though, that the sandal is not some kind of magical item that will protect them from all possible harm since a member of their village already tested this when he impaled his foot through his spear in a fit of boasting. Primitives.
They reach the face of the cave which is adorned with sacred symbols. Many of their caves are adorned with various designs that are vaguely circles and rods and are meant to eat their way into a person’s subconscious and suggest to them the prospect of fornicating. But not this cave.
The cave walls showed various demons scampering about its mouth and inside there was either the juice of crushed fruit or actual blood smeared against the cave’s walls. The elders had been and deemed it unfit for use and their word was law for these people. It has always been said to be unwise for a person to disrespect their elders for in time they too will be an elder and asking for others to respect you as you once did the former elders. The balance of power is kept by the shifting of time as progress takes us all towards our inevitable doom.
The children walked through the cave running their hands along the red walls with their hands still held, at times their bodies were stretched to their limits but still were able to make their venture work. Most of the walls had fully dried but there were spots where something sticky ran along and was stuck to their fingers, though it removed from their appendages as their fingers dragged along the wall.
The cave twisted and writhed for nigh a mile deep but at no point did it ever divert into more than one path. In fact, the path was relatively straight and had these ape-things any real span of intelligence they would have known that they cave was the product of something that shot into the planet and its trajectory was just curved from the spin that the object was under. But these monkey-creatures were not the shining example of intelligence that they thought they were.
The young couple descended to the very end of the underground network when they happened upon a relatively vast chamber at the network’s deepest depths. The remains of branches that had been dragged into the cave, again a sign of the bolides travel to this planet, had almost completely decomposed into the mossy layer that developed within the cave.
Alba took a leather mat that he had slung over his shoulder and unfolded onto the floor. The room itself was about twenty meters square, though one could not easily tell from its curved walls. The mat was about two meters square and was easily dwarfed by the room but was plenty for the two of them. Alba sat to one side of the mat and Kei sat to another. From her side a strange glow seemed to permeate the room. It did not emit light quite like a star or a traditional light source does but it instead distributed an iridescence that made the whole room fill with a faint light.
The two crossed their legs and shut their eye lids to meditate in the usual pre-coital fashion that their culture espoused. After a few minutes of this peace, they began to levitate and their eyes gradually opened together. From their eyes, a beam of light was emitted that drew them together. But, from behind Kei the light source now displayed an actual beam, or, more specifically, vertical conic expression, that was burning a hole in the ceiling. Alba became distracted and the eye-lock faded instantly and they both fell backwards, Alba to the ground and Kei into something.
Kei’s head fell onto something that was at once both hard as the toughest beast’s carapace and as forgiving as her mother’s breast. She felt something secreting onto her scalp and smelt burning hair and the began to feel it burn away at her skull. Living cables sprouted from the thing below and spread as a all about her body. She was gradually devoured by the thing and… changing. Her body seemed to be seizing,, so far as Alba could tell, but we know better and we know that it has begun to take control off a new specimen.
It arose from the floor to the shock of its former comrade and revealed the vague outline of the eight sided thing that had sprouted its black cables. Its rigid scaly form draped down onto her head forming a metallic mask with two glassy angled eyes, a pair of gas mask like nozzles with which to breathe and a metallic orb resting upon its forehead. The cables secreted a black and fetid fluid that solidified into more armor and the creature began to have further metallic orbs sprout about its body with predominant orbs on its knuckles, elbows, and knees as well as some kind of strange five pointed star that rested upon its sternum. The orbs glowed with a terrible light and the small crater inside the cave became a massive crater for a mile in diameter. The creature shoulders expanded and protruded a pair of spikes formed of a similar metal as the orbs and allowed it to hover in the air.
This is the sum total of this disturbance in the furthest reaches of the galaxy.
It flies across the land burning everything in its path.
We wanted precisely this of our experiments, weapons that can evolve to the point when we would no longer need to build our own fleets so that we may destroy to our hearts content and efficiently.
It is wild and contemptuous.
We desired for things that would be facile in our use but it may one day stand against us.
It is still weaker than us.
We are chief among all. Our will will be done and it shall do it.