"AURORA ATLANTIS" - Letters To The Void - Sci-Fi

"On Terra, thousands of years ago, the atmosphere became so thin that clouds danced nearly on the ocean. And that would often create underwater lightning, due to the high ionization after The Occurrence.

"No living soul remembers The Occurence specifically, though our people's dream work reveals a great cloud somehow rising from the earth. And ever since then, lightning and sea werew able to join hands.

"Some esotericists insist that this is a reversal somehow of the creation and settling of the world, as in the beginning, the dark mists cleared to shall we say, condensate into the oceans, during which time there were great primordial lightning storms betwixt fog currents, gargantuan miles-wide pressure coils not unlike tornadoes going in every direction.

"The spark of life is attributed to this lightning creating organic compounds. And it becoming statistically more possible for this reaction to occur.

"But after the mysterious Salt settled into Earth, the Ocean became our protector, our mother and origin.

"And yet here we are, dozens of leagues beneath the sea, unable to leave or breathe at the surface, as all has turned to ash and dust. Our people went undersea in great bio-domes where geothermal vents still supported abyssal and benthic life.

"For the sin of wrath destroys all if left unchecked. Now we crawl in underground caves in an attempt to scrape a meager meal of two, at least for our children. We are eternally hungry, and dance just on the edge of hypoxia if we don't watch our limited oxygen tanks.

"I do dream of a great light in the sky when having the ancient soul dreams. But unlike the books, this orb was yellow-gold in radiant colour."

"Perhaps we will remember the blessing of fabled geothermal energy, but most of the manuscripts left us in the Darkening. Great networks and nodes of magic had been built by the Ancients, allowing transmission of vast and complex information.

"It was said that cold fusion failed us a mere few hundred years after its discovery. This was due to us not aligning dark matter with the quantum energy sources. In order for there to be complete and wholesome energy, respectful of the threads of the Universal Tapestry, both matter and dark matter must be woven together."

"We weep at the cold and hunger here in the abyssal depths. But we somehow deserve the awful twist of fortune for betraying the Tapestry. And we scramble in a race to re-invent all the wondrous supportive technologies of the past: mechanics, hydraulics, electricity, and portals."

"It is once again time to enter the sleep cycler, as our energy and oxygen is limited, and there must be sleep-stasis to conserve our resources. However I wanted to get these rough notes down for transmission in case our Voyager Prime craft has made it to Alpha-Centauri yet. "

- Atalan Shaman of the Long Night of the Sea

We are ever-listening

We are ever-watchful

We await the day Salt quits the Stone

Such that we may return to our Upperland home