pdf file - Notes from An Alien

Sovereignty
This is Sena again. I promised I'd return to tell the story of my people when the history reached my birth.
That happened not so long after my grandmother died. Mura had just been in a meeting with the Aklan Council
of Justice. Her daughter, Verta, my mother, was with her and my father, Alunur, watched the scene as a religious
radical tired to kill Mura.
I say tried to kill because Morna's task was to make such a thing impossible.
As you've just read, my mother said to my father: “She died for your sake. Now, I will live for your sake.”
Verta knew Alunur would be there. My grandmother knew, too, though she knew much more about
Alunur than Verta did, primarily through information Anglana had given her. Grandma, deep in her heart, knew
Alunur needed a powerful demonstration of love to galvanize his being, help him prepare for a life with Verta.
Mura, without conscious thought, had redirected the plasma shield Morna had created to protect her on
to Alunur. She died for the sake of my father—demonstrated sacrificial love—because she knew my mother would
marry him and, through Anglana, knew that Alunur was critical to the evolution of the Aklan Faith.
Mom and Dad got married only one month after Grandma's death. They had me after the nominal period
necessary to grow a new child.
I have memories of communing with my mother while still in her womb. She had remarkable abilities
with plasma communication and I was destined to carry those abilities further. It only makes sense we should
have been able to “talk” before I was born.
Some of you may be thinking, “How can a fetus, who's brain isn't fully developed, do anything in the way
of “communicating”?
I must tell you, even though many of my ancestors were religious, and even though I do believe in a
force, called it an entity if you must, a force that has created all we see, plus many things we don't see, yet interact
with regularly. Just think for a second about gravity...
Much has been said about plasma in these pages and I did give a very brief description of it in the
Prologue but most plasma can't be seen. But, even though most of it is invisible, it's responsible for all the
beautiful structures we see in the cosmos. It makes galaxies, stars and planets. If you compare the creative force
of plasma with that of gravity, plasma is so strong the difference needs to be represented by a 1 followed by about
34 zeros.
Plasma is everywhere. And, it's abilities to aid inter-personal communication are not yet understood by
your scientists. I do hope, though, that, even though we have more opportunities for interaction with plasma on
our Worlds, that your World soon realizes you can communicate with plasma's aid, too.
Enough of that high-level talk. Let's get back to the story. Oh! First, though, I should finish my bit about
fetuses communicating.
I, personally, think that most of the emotional and psychological communication we all experience, from
projections of feelings to spookier connections between individuals, are mediated by plasma's omnipresence.
One other bit of information is that communication of abstract information is completely common. All
children learn language by listening, way before they get any instruction about it. All those rules of grammar and
syntactics are absorbed by kids through their ears.
And, as any parent will tell you, their children usually know clearly when they're being lied to...
Now, let's really leave all this how-does-it-work stuff behind.
So, my parents got married and I got born.
The situation in the Worlds at my birth could be summed up by saying that the Worlds' government was
about fifty-six percent trustworthy, the state of trade and commerce was growing at a rate of ten percent per
year, and the Aklan Faith comprised around thirty-four percent of the population.
Religion again...
No matter my personal beliefs, the Aklans as a group are the most industrious, most trustworthy, most
giving people of the Angian star system. Whether that came from their adherence to the dictates of Akla or was
just some chance result of the Angian evolutionary path has little practical importance for the folks who benefit