Electra Rose

Mostly Benevolent Science Lizards

Added 2017-08-30 07:39:49 +0000 UTC

That's the theme of some original writing I'm working on. There's a short snippet below.

In the beginning, it wasn't really the beginning at all. There were no fantastic soundless explosions, no colliding of celestial bodies.

As in so many things, the beginning of the world was brought about by the death of something else.

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The Collective of the Intergalactic League of Herpetological Scientists were not actually particularly benevolent, though they would be inclined to disagree with that statement.

Their meddling, acquisition, and observation of other smaller species was certainly an act of kindness. After all, a world made up of control groups and routine evaluations was a world of more certainty. The creatures under their care would never be subjected to worrying about star death, the depletion of resources, or free will gunking up the works. It was altogether a more efficient system of living and dying- being provided with every needed resource (unless they were studying the effects of scarcity, of course) in a contained environment.

And no one could say that their subjects were unsupervised, being that their little biodomes were attached to the bodies of the giant space lizard scientists.

Not that there was anyone else to say much- or anyone they would have listened to, at any rate.

So of course for the inhabitants of Scientist Heka, everything went to utter shit when he died.

(oops)

This was inconvenient, and in the words of Over-Scientist Blograth, a “total fluke”. And so, they left the body to decay and drift into orbit around a star and never went there again because it was kind of embarrassing.