Milky Way galaxy- Sol system- Earth 1999 AC
It all started in 1999 Green Bay Wisconsin. I was four. One night in my room sleeping with my cats Cuddles and Dragon-knight. Her fur was white and gray, and his was pure black. I was on the top bunk. Fast asleep with one nuzzled into each arm. Dreaming nothing until I was jerked awake by one of their claws digging into my arm. I thought it was nothing until I saw the twelve foot tall white humanoid walking out of my closet. All white. Shining like the sun. Then felt the overwhelming fear which paralyzed me as my eyes locked on to its form.
It moved slowly towards the door to my room as if it was leaving. As it did so images of a planet entered my mind. beautiful. large as a sun and dunes covered it's serface. As my point of view changed from the outside and transitioned through the layers as if they weren't even there. I finally ended up at the planet's core. Where a massive crystal sat floating in the center with multiple rings of stone rotated around the structure gyroscopically like a layered force field. With energetic fields emitting which overwhelmed my senses.
Overlapping my mind and reality. The being stopped and stood before me. Frozen in fear, heard not with my ears, but with my mind. "I am kro-Na. Be still your mind. For I will not harm you. For you are part of us." I blinked. The moment I closed my eyes I saw the crystal and the being in front of me with more clarity. Saw that it was a robed humanoid with it covering everything but his face. I was surprised that it looked human. " you are not in danger. I am here to provide you with knowledge of yourself. You are Dar-co-va Zar-co-nus leader of my race. Your body houses a fragment of his soul." What does this mean?
I began to think. Still frozen in fear. "It means your life is going to be changed forever. You are the host of the strategic soul fragment of Darcova. The one that was his original soul. I will unlock the genetic markers that are currently blocking you from his influence." The being now known as Krona walked forward and made contact with my skin. I felt a numbing sensation flowing through my body followed by a sharp dull pain. That started a headache as it worked its way through my brain. "You are now able to contact us anytime you wish. I have seeded instructions for tissue to become a quantum entangled communicator." What I thought now was desperation to be safe and away from krona. "Don't worry this conversation with me will be recorded by your soul and you can call back anything this way. Now go back to bed Sean Davis there are a lot of things I need to show you." Krona commanded my body through the sleep program. I fell asleep in the next minute and twenty four seconds. Then krona turned into pure energy and jumped into both the cats and me.
The soul of Sean Davis was a unique one. A fragment of the soul from the creator of the Valian race. A race born from the need for collective protection from a galactic superpower that was in the process of annihilation of all sentient species in their galaxy. This entity was known to many as the dark collective for they were composed of many races all bent on destruction of life. Yet at the time there were six races that formed a defensive alliance to combat this darkness. They were each unique in their own way. Yet together they were able to cover each other's weaknesses, but they were not enough to fight back the waves of living ships that traveled the void and absorbed everything in their path. Together they worked on a device that would transform themselves into something more powerful than the six races and hopefully more powerful than the dark collective. They began on the Valian project. (Meaning. Protectors of life). By combining all of their greatest genes into a template for a new species. After years of failed trials they decided to give up on the program and try something else. They closed the lab and abandoned the planet they used as a research colony due to constant attacks by the dark collective. One which destroyed the part of the mountain that housed the research lab. Killing all inside and covering the devices in a mile of rubble. Later the six races decided to decree the planet become a prison planet sending all the so called criminals to the surface.
Endurra birthplace of the Valians. Currently prison planet. Kerrakus which orbited three stars in the Gentolk system equally distant from the capital systems of each of the six races. Date unknown.
The Gentolk system was rich with resources. The best place to set up a fortress system if the project worked. The project itself was an attempt to combine aspects of six races into a new race geared towards the protection of all life. The team of scientists gathered from the six races were so close to a breakthrough when the bio plasma hit the floating mountain above it. Destabilizing the crystals that allowed the dense rock formation to rise three hundred feet into the sky. Which sent the rock down like a meteor to the surface. The colony fought back. Realizing what the threat really was and aimed the gun emplacement's batteries to shoot at the mountain taking big chunks out of it with their railguns. Meanwhile powering up all the backup shields over the colony. Only three of the layers covered the lab. The rock deformed as it descended gaining speed but breaking apart. In a minute and twenty four seconds it hit the lab breaking through all the Shields but losing most of its momentum to the shield's advanced dampening technology. It finally got through to the structure of the lab. Becoming something more akin to a paperweight. Crippling the buildings to the point where they looked like crushed paper cartons. All 124 souls inside the labs perished from the compressive forces of the remaining mass of the mountain. The colony only survived due to its seventh layer of shielding being the strongest by design of the compositors and the fact that they were programed to draw from shield generators whose shields were already broken. Because a fragment of the mountain was sitting to the west of the colony eating away energy from the shield at an alarming rate as it slowly slipped off the dome safely away from the population. Who collectively decided to leave the planet now that all their hard work was literally buried under a mountain along with all the scientists that knew the technologies necessary to finish the project.
1.24 centuries later on kerrakus.
Venu krall woke up in a mess of bodies recently dumped on the surface by a prison shuttle from the kree race founding member of the defense alliance. He was 3 years old. Of royal blood. Cast out for the murder of his parents. The file on him described that he killed them with his mind. The fact however was a rival powerful family was killing off his family by the order of the dark collective in trade for peace. Something that they rarely give you the option for.
"What happened? Where am I?" Imagines came rushing back into his mind showing him exactly what transpired. The souls of his family became a part of the shared soul when they died. A new evolution for the kree of his bloodline. And why the dark collective targeted him. He was lucky not all of the powerful families on Kree Primus were controlled by the dark collective yet because they were able to get him banished to the prison world instead of killed. The Zarconus family still had sway, but many of them were sent to the prison planet in attempts to get rid of their influence on the other houses.
Luckily venu krall happened to be dropped off near a Zarconus settlement on endurra. And was found by Draka and Vextu Zarconus. Twins that were 5 years older than him. His friends from before the banishing. They were sent there to found a new settlement away from the dark collective's influences. The settlement was small, hidden in the a old ruin. Living in it were only forty kree. One drifter. Two Syliss. Five Zentra. Four Geks. And ten vuku. The settlement was one of thousands that dotted the planet. But it was one of the more civilized and isolated settlements. Each race kept to themselves for the most part knowing there was still the defense pact, but this planet followed other rules, which was there were no rules. This settlement was called Endurra. Meaning hope in the face of adversity, truth, honesty, trust, forgiveness, and above all enduring under impossible odds. It was in fact the ruins of the colony and the name of the Lab that had been destroyed by the orbital bombardment from the fleet of the dark's living ships 124 days after the first attack. Endurra was a word that all the races chose together and gave meaning. Most importantly it was venu's father that coined the term. And brought it to the council during the naming ceremony. All the leaders of the six races brought forth one word that spoke to the aspects their unity represented. My father Garrow krall was there as a representative of kree race. An honor for our family. Since kree are not a unified race. Much like humans aren't. The ruling houses of kree primus choose my father because the house of krall is renown as Endurra and Garrow their current leader.
Information continued to flow into my brain. I was Venu krall. Not Sean Davis. Not in control of my actions, but along for the ride down what seemed to be memory lane. I could feel everything. The weight of the bodies of the 124 other inmates pushing against me for the short ride from the prison transport in orbit to the surface. We were in what seemed like a dropship cargo bay descending to the planet's lush green and blue surface. I was by a window so I could see the floating mountains and their sky rivers. That is, my face was planted hard onto the transparent material that was harder than steel. "What is this?" I asked myself. This is a retelling of the origin of the Valian race. In what you would call a first person view. "How is this possible and who is this?" This is Krona. I am going to share your body so you can dream longer. Your sleeping remember. "Oh" oops guess it's a good time to start training his mind.
In that moment Sean woke up with a headache, (Training his mind, shh sorry for the lifelong migraines Sean). 124 minutes later. Scared but also in aw. He got up and climbed down the ladder of his bunk and went to pee. He looked at the clock which read 1:24. "Well that's funny". What is. Krona thought. "The time" oh that's a significant number for you. "Why. What's the meaning?" Well it's the number of souls that were trapped by the device in the laboratory on kerrakus. Darcova's advisers. "Okay I am going to go back to bed now." Sean said climbing the ladder and assuming his previous position. Between the two cats. Krona reactivated the sleep program and Sean was venu again. Pressure building on his body as the dropship's deceleration over the drop zone pressed him harder against the window. Then the floor disappeared and 125 naked bodies fell onto soft vegetation. None died but a lot were injured. The pilot of the craft didn't care as long as his load was planet side. With the highest number of convicts deposited planetside.
Venu was the smallest of the group. Everyone else seemed to be of adult age. Males of the various races started pulling females out of the group and began raping them. Others running away. Some people started to form groups by race. I seemed to be able to see from a 3rd person's perspective and through Venu's eyes at the same time. I could feel what he did. And somehow those around me. Was this an ability of the kree? "Yes, the kree biology has allowed for the formation of Empathy and sight from what you will later be known as the 3rd eye or pineal gland. " okay. But why does this seem so real. " because it is. As in your reliving it or living it for the first time. The matter is just. Really a point of view." I could see a grin on Kronos face in my mind. But I felt the presence and pressure from those around me while in the drop ship. I seemed to focus on the pressure accessing the minds of the people near and far. "Stop, Listen and survive." Everything seemed so loud. The pressure was unbearable. If felt like a damn good migraine. I saw the people that were running away stop cold, turn and look my direction. I noticed everyone was. The "cupules" stopped too. I started talking. Remember I am a 3 year old in the middle of 124 convicts or so they say. "I thought we were a unified front against the darkness of the galaxy. I thought we had the qualities of endurra. My father told me that we once held our races to those morals. What say you now." I felt a wild series of sensations. I was now me. In Venu's body. People started to walk over and sit around me to listen. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a translucent body of Venu floating in the space to my right.
Krona what's going on? It's now your turn to speak as Darcova. Your heart will know the right words will come from your soul traveling through time and space to be heard by those around Venu.
I felt something strange flow through me. And then I began to speak in a language not Understood by the Mind and ears but by the soul itself. And I sang it as if it were a beautiful melody.
(Original unavailable...data incompatible for valian sounds translation. Think of a mixture of most languages on earth as one and it will be close but hard as hell to reproduce. In text. Without that ability to add tones, clicks, rolls, to words on a page. sorry. -Krona)
"We are the first of our race. Below our feet is our fortress home, in depths of Endurra, There we'll find our crowns of valian stone. Purifying the souls of the fallen, so they may rise again our kin. We may lose our vessels, but our cores remain. Our race will be as stone. Against darkness, we are unyielding light."
The song ended. No one understands the words. But the soul understood and everyone seemed really different. Venu pushed me forward somehow. I looked at him and he smiled. I realized that I was no longer in his body. I was in a soul body hovering in-front of him.
"You can see me"? I asked
The boy nodded. "We are the same yet we are our own being. We are now fragments of the same soul. Our combined self is Darcova Zarconus." The boy spoke into my mind.
"So my name is Darcova Zarconus." I asked krona. "Why Zarconus?" It began to mean guardian a while ago. And also the house name of Venu krall's mother. Her body died in childbirth before your parents got married. So technically your still a Zarconus. Their family took an oath to protect the krall house during the bitter beginnings of the kree species. Thus the warrior cast of your house, and guardians of your person. Dragon knight and cuddles back on earth and are fragments of draka and Vextu Zarconus and will protect your soul forever. "What does Darcova mean?" Oh you will find out soon enough. But In short it means protector of life and death. "Why death?" Spoilers now stop asking me questions. Venu's trying to communicate with you. "Wait who are you to me?" I am your guide and teacher, well also a fragment of the soul of yours become sentient. Fine I will say it. Your you. The Darcova Zarconus. Leader and creator of the true valian race. The genome they cooked up in the lab is just training wheels for you. Your abilities alone will rebuild this galaxy into a fortress. The species you will save. Technological advancements. Lives you will change. Are astonishing. It's all because of the feedback loop you created today. Darcova Zarconus you are the bringer of light. Above all else. No matter what life time you are in. "So you are saying my personal soul. The one meant to be in my body is normal human soul." Here we go pull up a seat kid. Krona spoke like a grandfather getting ready to tell a long story.
Your personal soul is one known as kan-get. One as old as earth. It has taken upon the task of being the host for Darcova's soul fragment fri-grent, yet as kan-get is darcova's host and thus you. Your souls have become one over the long term symbiosis. Thus in this lifetime you are now darcova or will be once your earth body matures to the age of 24 of your earth years. Thus during this lifetime you create the valian race through quantum entanglement to the point in time where Darcova Zarconus become part of the pool of souls in the krall bloodline and Venu krall was born with the soul fri-grent when it first came into being. Since souls transcend time and space. It makes a quantum entanglement of the energy of the souls thus allowing for information transfer. Thus you get to live multiple lives at once. But on each side of the link one soul is dominated by the other. So with this kan-get is the back seat driver of fri-grent for Venu but is known as darcova Zarconus as a whole. There got it. Now get back to building your race. Well when you find it that is. "What do you mean when I find it?" No more questions for now. Your holding up time. "Wait time isn't moving" no it just goes very very fast while in the mind space. Here let me give you a push.
Venu was looking at me "Darcova Zarconus means guardian of source. Life force." Venu and I became one again. I could feel his body, but this time we also shared the mind. I could hear his thoughts and to my astonishment the many other souls of ancestors of the krall family.