154,269 GD
A Message from Supreme Historian Yolmethol Suioung of History Planet 19
For distribution throughout the Galaxy.
The Legendary Seven have been found! It took over 100,000 years of searching and they were one the straight-line trajectory between Technology Planet 2 (then known as Ogre) and Old Earth. They were found in deep space in the debris of their ship, but they survived! We had forgotten that they are the only humans every to survive in stasis.
We historians have copied the memories of the Legendary Seven an made them available for all the denizens of the galaxy to enjoy. Unfortunately, the Seven where a little unhappy to find out their memories had been copied. I do not understand why as their memories tell the story of the founding of the Galactic Civilization as we know it. They demanded “reasonable” fee from each person who experiences their memories and we were forced to accept their demands lest the living legends become unruly.
We of the historical society considered refusing and the economic and government societies agreed on several reasonable grounds, but the TREE found out they were back and declared herself their subordinate so now the entire galaxy must pay for the privilege of reliving history.
I am told that it is the opinion of may on the history planets that the price is more “steep” than “reasonable” but it is also the case that historical research has completely ground to a halt on all history planets for the foreseeable future while all historians experience the memories. If billions have payed the price, is it too steep?
The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
I leave that to you to decide. Please remember your last interaction with the economic society in order to begin the process of payment.
NOTE: If you belong to the top fourteen tiers of the Biology Society, your copies of the memories have already been purchased and I am told you are relieved of your duties and deemed unqualified to resume your duties until you have relived all Seven lives. I will see you in around 350 years give or take depending on whether you are a completionist. Some skip the boring bits, but historians are encouraged to experience every moment.
Sadly, we cannot all drop everything to experience the most important memories ever collected. As per protocol with every significant memory found, a crack team of 10,000 historians have been assigned to skim the memories and assemble an abbreviated story of the events in the lives of the Seven Legends. We at the Historical Society will provide this story free of charge so no one must remain out of the loop. I am told the first chapter comes out very soon.
I, of course, will continue to experience the memories of the Seven immediately. I was reminded of my duty to write this introduction to the story only today. Of course, it is also my duty to write the defining analysis of the first moments in the history of the Civilized Galaxy, so I should wrap this up and get back to the memories.
By the way, it turns out there were originally only Five Legends. The last two were added during the events of the Purple Belt Planet. No one predicted that except a child prodigy on Biology Planet 92 around 20,000 years ago. His work was apparently regraded by the Biology Society and he has been promoted to Biologist Grade 3. He will find out in 350 years or so unless he pops out of recovery mode early for some reason.
Oh! This should be interesting for those of you unfortunate enough to have to read the story rather than just experience the memories.
Apparently an enterprising Journalist has decided to go interview Sol, the Starling inhabiting the star in the center of the Old Earth system. He was there for all the events that happened on Old Earth for the last few billion years and apparently it amused him to answer some questions so perhaps the readers of the summary will have more context than those of us reliving the memories directly.
The summary of the memories has been called: Children of the Nano-Plague. How very dramatic!
Enjoy!