Embryo

Preface

Embryo is a piece of Player Created Fiction written by Herko Kerghans as one of his many Caldari tales. Originally published in the EVE-online forums [1].

Embryo

We blended our blood in a lab tube and we built you.

We built you, fed you, gave you life and bones. You asked, “Why?” We taught you, trained you, we let you grow strong. You asked, “Why? Many among you despise me… why, what do you want?” We put you in a pod, you ran away free from our grasp. Haak-kin k’len, we whispered.

You didn’t look back.

You roamed free. Fought, died, made a billion, died a few more times. Inside a clone you asked, “Who? Who am I? Created, never born, now a copy of a copy… Who am I? Where do I go!!??” We smiled. Our little child...

You roamed the stars, grew stronger, saw a hundred suns, and their planets, all so much alike and then you saw floating in space crisp blue tender so fragile the stolen tear the burned soil still warm the charred bones and scorched roots Your bones remember. Your blood knows.

Home…

My Home… You said, “All those burned bones below.

You. Me. We.

Who cares, from womb or lab tube? My blood is all those bones.” Then you were born, our son, clone/embryo in womb/pod somewhere in Luminaire. I know. I understand. I see: me is Us, I am We.

Caldari. Roots, Blood and Bones.

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From: Night, S.; Jahd, x.; Kerghans, H.; “Do lab tube children dream of Caldari Prime?”, included in the “Hak’len and Starsi: conversations between Caldari pilots” logs of pod-pilot online commlink channel “The Summit”. CRC-ISD approved.

Haak-kin k’len!

Best enjoyed with “The Breaking of the Fellowship”, Howard Shore, and “May It Be”, Enya, LoTR I Soundtrack, “Old Earth artistic samples”, Lai Dai archives.