Dioecious and Monoecious
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A space opera based on parts 1 and 2 of the Laguna Wars from Spacebase 2000
Dioecious
Ten years after the last combat ship left the Laguna system, returning to Earth for anti-pirate and anti-terrorist, the Dioecious and her escorts exit warp then make their way at a crawl towards Laguna 9. TDA had issued contracts to all space-based combat ship and utility type of space craft manufacturers to design any aspect that could be used aboard the Dioecious, the building of the Dioecious would be a whole – Terran effort.
The contract to build the Dioecious was awarded to TTA / Avery Astronautics Section 1017. The decision to use the Colonial III as the hull for the Dioecious came from military higher-ups. Military commanders, the best in all the branches had determined that a peaceful exploration mission to Laguna to try and further understand the Laguna Disease that causes increased support for the Lagunans and eventual violent and extreme outbreaks of attacks on Terrans. The mission would be a one-shot mission that could not fail. If the mission did fail, there would be war between Terran forces and Terrans afflicted with Laguna’s Disease. With Lagunans disease not currently treatable, Terran High Command expected the total loss of Earth to Lagunans Disease with twenty years and all colonies within 30 years. The flight to the Lagunan systems could be the last flight of humanity. The military needed the largest possible ship to get the job done the first time around. The Dioecious is a stripped-down Colonial III. The interior bulk cargo space replaced with facilities of all type. The interior of the Dioecious became a living city full of humans from different types of professions relating to science, math, physics, biology, security and protection, a few mid-level politicians several news agencies, several real-estate agents with their staff and workers conveniently disguised as land surveyors and numerous labs of all types were built into the upper decks. Mid-level storage units holding ten years’ worth of supplies that might be needed to colonize a new planet and base of operations if the conflicts on Earth went to ■■■■ and Terrans were forced to retreat from Earth due to Earth being flooded with Terrans afflicted with Laguna’s Disease. Carbon Vomiters as they are called by Terrans had amassed a rather large fleet of ships. Most ships were Laguna based. Military theorists suggest the first interactions with Laguna ships by Terran salvage crews is where LD come’s from. Scientists were baffled at how simply touching a Lagunan object slowly caused the host to regard Lagunans as equals and then become violent when discussions of the Lagunan fleet and the systematic elimination of all Lagunans was talked about. Unless the Terran infected with LD left Earth and joined others infected with the same disease, the Terran would rage and launch a series of terrorist attacks on unsuspecting and random locations. A market in Italy had seen five different terrorist attacks in one day. By the end of the day 2,500 Terrans and 500 Carbon Vomiters lay dead in the streets. The strikes by the terrorists had become more frequent ever since the Dioecious had departed some weeks before. Pirate strikes by Terrans on Terran shipping and tourism space routes became more prevalent the more Carbon Vomiters attacks there were. Some even speculated that the Terran Pirates were in league with the Carbon Vomiters. No one knows what the pay-out is as any attempt by TDA forces to secure intel on what they knew about the Dioecious was met with defeat.
But there was never any attempt by the Carbon Vomiters to secure data regarding Dioecious.
Laguna Disease simply didn’t seem interested in what Terrans were doing. The only interest disease seemed interested in was the destruction of Terrans, most likely a last of the line mutual assured destruction used to get revenge on Terrans, making us fight each other until only one species remained, Terran or Lagunan.
Under the supply and storage levels were more storage for the 1,500 working crew plus sleeping births. Rec and entertainment facilities filled in the space between training and learning and medical facilities. Some test labs and weapons lockers maintained by 200 trained security that would also act in a ground force capacity if the need would arise.
The next levels contain repair and fabrication and material production facilities, sleeping berths, barracks for 500 security force personnel, non-security force personnel are not permitted in the security barracks unless special permission is granted. Ground based vehicles are also stored this level as well. A gravity power sled would transport the vehicle and equipment or personnel to the surface from the 50 power sled bays located one side of the ship.
The larger hangar bars occupy the next several levels. Each hangar bay, five total each side, two ventral and three dorsal allows the Dioecious to carry very large ground scaping vehicles, air-based transport cranes and drags for mineral extraction efforts. Smaller bays housed single-pilot all-environment, craft designed to operate both in space and in the air. Fighter, recon, troop transports, in air or space fuelers and several larger atmospheric gun ships would provide ground support for the 500 security forces if needed. In all, the Dioecious had a crew compliment of nearly 2,000 Terrans dedicated to the mission of finding the cure for LD or the last defense of the Terrans, the very last Terrans.
The smaller gunships, frigates, destroyers, cruisers and assorted all-environment fighters, interceptors and missile carriers of the Dioecious Fleet slowly begin to crawl away from the Dioecious. The bulkier battle cruisers, ten total, three battleships, two carriers with associated fighter craft and ground-based drop vehicles plus security forces would hang back and shield the construction of the New Eden station after the slower materials for the stations arrived. Twenty Colonial III’s converted to the same design of the Dioecious but more function in the terms of station construction had set sail from a secret location and route that would take much longer to arrive at the construction point. New Eden station would be the beacon for Terrans to find in the darkness of Lagunans Disease. New Eden would be able to tether up to ten capitol ships while berthing ten more inside her hangars. Her hull would bristle with projectile, rocket and missile batteries of all sizes. The old motive systems for the station, gears and tree branches would provide the electrical power for the entire station. Electricity created by gears and branches could not be affected by the Lagunans emp pulse like weapons, which had become more powerful and longer range in the last several years. Several colonies suddenly went off-line and never came back prompting investigations that revealed Lagunan emp weapons had been used. The colonists were never seen again.
The routes taken by each combat ship and their supports were to be based on routes discovered by Gerling’s fleet and other combat fleets since then that do not attract a reaction by Lagunan forces. On one expedition, an ill-fated TDA frigate, the Mariopusla, came under a large scale from Carbon Vomiters while on patrol around a system that had reported an unusual number of sick and crazed Terrans. The Carbon Vomiters opened fire with their various weapons systems. Projectile shells, missiles and rockets, high-energy lasers, tore into the ship’s hull and disabled all systems within a matter of seconds. The ship drifted out of control, unresponsive to any commands. As the ship drifted an oddity appeared. The captain of the Mariopusla speculated that his ship was in some type of blind spot that obscured the sensors on the Carbon Vomiters.
The captain of the Mariopusla relayed several hours of data back to TDA that included trajectory of safe paths until the very last moment when the ship drifted out of the safe path. The Carbon Vomiters immediately pounced on the Mariopulsa shattering her and her crew into pieces of twisted steel, wires and Terrans floating in the lifeless void.
In total, the Dioecious Expeditionary Fleet was a well-built fleet of 27 frigates, 15 destroyers, 18 cruisers, the Dioecious and twenty Colonial III.III’s. Four fighter and ground vehicle carriers, 8 battlecruisers and 6 battleships plus associated command control and communication ships. Nearly 100,000 Terrans representing the entirety of Terra, pulled from different planets across different sectors to ensure biological diversity and bioculturalism were maintained, descended to the surface of Laguna 9. Surrounded by smaller and more maneuverable fast-attack, the Dioecious slips through the upper-atmosphere and settles into a low hover, 10,000 feet above the surface. Scout ships and probes launch from the ship’s hangars and probe tubes. Traveling behind, small swarms of combat drones, basically smaller versions of the single and two seat fighters they are escorted controlled by the fighter’s drone computer, pulse their micro warp drives units to catch up. Over the next several days reports came and went between the scouts and the Dioecious. Reports of massive swaths of the surface where the Lagunan city ships had pulled up their roots from and had remained completely barren were analyzed and then sent back to Terra. It wasn’t until the scouts and drones flew at 2,000 feet above the surface did the expedition take a turn to a brutal scene. Pockmarked holes of all sizes dot the immediate area around the behemoth space port opening built into the planets surface. A testament to the savage and emotional brutality Terrans unleashed on the Lagunans. Wrecked and shattered hulls of Lagunan ships that had fought and died defending the exodus of Lagunan cities underground litter the area for miles, Lagunan vegetation slowly breaking the metals and returning them to where the Lagunans took them from. Some had become sanctuaries for birds and herds of spider deer. In the rivers and lakes, the Lagunan steel became new structure for aquatic life. But not a single Lagunan soul remained, the second testament of Terra’s revelation.
Life seemed to basically continue on as it had before the Lagunan Wars, just without the Lagunans. The third brutality of the war brought on by the nature of Laguna, life goes on and does not weep.
It was a Saturday, a month after the Dioecious’ arrival until the scout crews were able to locate a Garden Shaft, the deep holes bored into Laguna where civilians and workers had resided in was found in stable enough condition to permit the Dioecious to descend into. First the above ground camp crews set up their perimeter camps around the Garden Shaft. For a week small cargo ships and sleds went to and from the hangars ferrying ground crews and facility building systems to the surface.
Far above the green hued clouds, the twenty Colonial III.III’s that had arrived had already started the process of unloading modules that would be the heart of the New Eden station. News from back home filled the news channels of the Dioecious fleet. Increased raider attacks in systems on the fringe of Terran territory suddenly came to an end while Carbon Vomiters attacks increased in all sectors while fleeing on the winds of Earth. Admiral Emerson, Dioecious Fleet Command, reported the status of the both space and ground crews to be normal. Not a single Lagunan or Raider ship had been detected. Not even the signals and monitoring ships tucked away in secure places detected any non-Terran ships. Not even a suspicious signal had been heard.
With the Dioecious in position above the Garden Shaft and all accommodations made to ensure the ship and crew would not survive if Lagunans Disease broke out, the Dioecious lowers her crew into the Garden Shaft. Expert hands-on joysticks and agile gingers on control panels calculate movement in their minds and then make Planck second decisions to keep the Dioecious in the exact center of the Garden Shaft. As the Dioecious and her crew descend deeper into the Garden Shaft, the ships sensors and video cameras record every aspect of the descent. Live feeds aboard the Copernicus, Admiral Emmerson’s flagship, an Umberto Class battleship upgraded and refit, fill the eyes of all Terrans. Live feeds from the Copernicus transmitted to the data and communications ship, Andulitiona, are encoded and bundled against pirates and the cold of deep space before being transmitted to a secure deep space transceiver relay station. Sensor and drones that were pups a few moments before, quickly mature into big dawgs as they plow through the darkness before the Dioecious. The drone’s data would be fed into a second computer that would assist Terrans piloting the ship, able to be cut off from controlling the ship in a second if the Lagunans tried using the same equipment they had used on Admiral Gerling’s fleet years before.
Captain Y’emisa Zulovishnya, good blood from a long line of Terran ship commanders and chosen by Admiral Emerson to personally captain the Dioecious, gives the order for her crews to launch illumination drones and illumination limpets. Thousands of small drones, the size of a Terran electro-car, launch from the ship’s tubes. Shortly followed by research and expedition crew ships, EVA craft and crew utility boats. Every so many thousand meters, crews and illumination drones deploy from the ship at their appointed sector. Latching onto Lagunan steel, the limpets draw their hulls flush to the steel. LED light in thousands of candle light, explode the night of the Garden Shaft with light created from Earth’s sun. The illumination pups find every nook and cranny they can find, like beagle dogs chasing the rabbit through thick thorn bushes. The light from the pups creates an utterly eerie Giger ambiance from the twisted and burnt Lagunan Steel structural members.
Vines and hanging moss dripping with water from aquifers and underground fluid storage units, clings to the Dioecious and the other Terran ships before eventually being consumed by the darkness below, before dissipating into nothing. Tiny and medium sized flying and quadra ped animals that had taken refuge in the Garden Shaft hide in dark places to avoid the Light of Terrans Sun, but still watch with curious eyes. A week goes by as the vines and hanging mosses and the pings of life disappear entirely. A week later, some four mile and half miles deep from the surface, the Diecious finally reaches the bottom of the Garden Shaft. Great landing pads, four city blocks square cushion the weight of the ship as gently as a feather falls to the ground. Once the area had been cleansed with air from Earth, the crews begin to unpack and go about their business of exploring. For the next two years, supply and salvage ships bring supplies to the Dioecious while returning never before seen ore, mineral and crystal samples along with never-before-seen Lagunan technology to the surface and then back to Earth via transports docked at the now completed New Eden Station.
The situation between Terran, the Raiders and Carbon Vomiters had escalated with Terra now the final focus for both terrorist factions trying to take control of Earth. The attacks from the terrorist factions were brutal just as the return attacks of the Terrans in their own defense.
It was during a conference forum called by the Chief Scientist of the Dioecious, Dr. Julius Milner, the hope for a cure to Lagunans Disease would be on the horizon, due to the extremely classified nature of the documents all that Dr. Milner was able to say was, ‘Remember what it was like blowing lightly into a baby’s face?’
Crews were told that the data that had been come for, has become to us. Those who were chosen to return to Earth the data would do so under max security. The best crews, best ships, best ammo were selected for the Elite Escort Fleet. Three frigates, two destroyers and two cruisers would escort the fastest scout in the return fleet. All of the escort ships were stripped to their bare minimum. Acceleration modules were added to boost the ships warp drives in order to keep pace with the scout ship carrying the Dioecious documents. Those remaining behind would continue their efforts in being the last bastion of hope for Terrans or the first Terran colony and spaceport established in Lagunan territory.
From the bridge of New Eden Station, Admiral Emerson recites a quote from his ancestor and name’s sake, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart’s blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.” Sounds over the p.a. system of every ship and helmet. The fleet warps and is gone, it’s most secret of secrets carried in it’s the hull, the only survival for humanity.
After reaching a predetermined location, the scout fleet, minus a few escorts, rendezvous with a black operations courier. The documents transferred, both fleets return to their next jump, the scout fleet, a few more ships heavy than what it arrived with vanishes in warp towards New Eden Station. The Black Fleet courier vanishes in warp to a cloaked location. With the documents delivered, work is set to begin decoding the shell around data immediately.
A week of increased Lagunan attacks on shipping lanes nearby goes by until the shell encoding is broken. Inside, knowledge that only come the Ark of the Covenant itself, washes over the face of the single female tenant researcher on duty.
“Dioecious has been located on Laguna 9 in large quantities. We have discovered that there are four different tree sexes, cosexual, monoecious, dioecious and polygamy based. Scientists and religious leaders aboard the Dioecious have both come to agreement that Terrans and 95% of life on Earth would only be able to survive if Dioecious trees and plants pollenated on Earth. Humans and Dioecious trees and plant shares the same traits; a male and female are necessary for reproduction. That puts us in the Dioecious Life Group. We breathe carbon out and the trees give us life back. We also discovered that the trees and plants on Laguna 9 were mostly Monoecious, or not needing a male or female to reproduce offspring. Without hesitation, all Monoecious plants and trees must be destroyed on Earth and all Earth colonies before they pollenate. It’s the pollen of the monoecious plants and trees on Earth that has somehow been able to break down the Dioecious coding in humans that is replaced with monoecious DNA. The monoecious DNA then begins to regulate the hosts senses of reproduction that is based off of same sex interactions and mindsets. Part of life’s reproduction thought processes must come from interactions with Dioecious DNA contained within pollen that first helped form early human sexual thought processes. Lagunans Disease is the result of the Lagunans dropping packets of seeds for monoecious plants and trees over the last few hundred years to slowly replace, rather control the minds of Terrans afflicted with LD to attack and destroy all things Terran, by replacing dioecious trees that life on Earth needs to survive and live.
We tested numerous theories on subjects that had been captured and kept in stasis. Through our experiments we found that by rapidly injecting large and dense volumes of pure Dioecious DNA through a six-foot tube, that the sudden reduction of LD took place. All 200 subjects survived and are continuingly being studied.
Engineers also designed a new suit, the Milner Suit, that when worn, reduces the chances of being infected with LD by 75% by vacuum injecting Dioecious pollen DNA directly into the lungs via the nose….it’s the DNA of the pollen.
