The Boss Awakening
Boss stood on the beach looking out at the ocean as the sun sank into the red clouds, its’ job done for the day. A cloud drifted in the distance spreading its rain. The beach sand was soft under his feet and the warm water was clear and filled with fish that seemed to enjoy swimming with him. A pair of flutter-bys flapped their colorful wings of blue, red, green and gold as they passed him in a harmonic dance. The cool breeze coming off the ocean felt good as he listened to the tropical birds sing their nightly song of content and comfort.
Knock! Knock! Boss looked over at his controller standing next to him. “Time to go to work again.” The movie blended into a fog that the room emerged from. Boss blinked his eyes, …show more content…
Each planet went through eight months without sunlight. Over 99.99% of all native life perished. The Hargons then introduced the flora they needed to adjust the atmosphere to fit their needs. The planets have been renamed Hargon801, Hargon802 and Hargon803.”
“That’s a lot of military hardware. Do the Hargons understand diplomacy?”
“To a certain extent. We have educated their diplomats and received good success in settling trade issues. But organized warfare was necessary for biological dominance on their home planet and is embedded into their chromosomal fingerprints. The central governing systems are completely warrior based and feel that all disputes should be settled via warfare. Every five years the different factions fight for control during a period they call reorientation. The reorientation is celebrated by the population and the winners are treated as heroes until the next reorientation and then the cycle repeats itself. But, unlike any other culture, the leaders of the losing factions are killed. The successful leaders receive power, fame, financial rewards and ownership of the former leaders’ immediate family. The members who die in combat are looked at as martyrs and expected to receive after-life benefits. It is estimated that on the central governing planet there has been as much as a three to five percent loss of population during a
Boss stood on the beach looking out at the ocean as the sun sank into the red clouds, its’ job done for the day. A cloud drifted in the distance spreading its rain. The beach sand was soft under his feet and the warm water was clear and filled with fish that seemed to enjoy swimming with him. A pair of flutter-bys flapped their colorful wings of blue, red, green and gold as they passed him in a harmonic dance. The cool breeze coming off the ocean felt good as he listened to the tropical birds sing their nightly song of content and comfort.
Knock! Knock! Boss looked over at his controller standing next to him. “Time to go to work again.” The movie blended into a fog that the room emerged from. Boss blinked his eyes, …show more content…
Each planet went through eight months without sunlight. Over 99.99% of all native life perished. The Hargons then introduced the flora they needed to adjust the atmosphere to fit their needs. The planets have been renamed Hargon801, Hargon802 and Hargon803.”
“That’s a lot of military hardware. Do the Hargons understand diplomacy?”
“To a certain extent. We have educated their diplomats and received good success in settling trade issues. But organized warfare was necessary for biological dominance on their home planet and is embedded into their chromosomal fingerprints. The central governing systems are completely warrior based and feel that all disputes should be settled via warfare. Every five years the different factions fight for control during a period they call reorientation. The reorientation is celebrated by the population and the winners are treated as heroes until the next reorientation and then the cycle repeats itself. But, unlike any other culture, the leaders of the losing factions are killed. The successful leaders receive power, fame, financial rewards and ownership of the former leaders’ immediate family. The members who die in combat are looked at as martyrs and expected to receive after-life benefits. It is estimated that on the central governing planet there has been as much as a three to five percent loss of population during a