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| Takachi Solinorr | |
| By alastair79 | ||||
| 08 June 2006 | ||||
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My one and only atempt at SiFi, probably the last. This is the opening to something bigger, but I don't think I can be bothered to do anymore so its a little story about one particular species on this planet. Alastair. Black days and dark thoughts penetrated deep into a bleak new world outlook, something was coming. For centuries the Solinorr had prospered, pushing the boundaries of their imagination and their science, fuelling the desire to reach for the stars and clutch back the wealth therein. They became rich, both financially and in new materials, helping them design ever more complex and colossal ships, widening their search for more of everything. The Solinorr’s form changed from continent to continent; the Takachi Solinorr on the great planes of the southern hemisphere were spheres of green and brown about six feet tall, rolling incomprehensibly from place to place, sucking nourishment from the air around them. Every so often they would pick up the trace of something moving in a faster current of air and turn, speed up and change their body to a more oval shape to cut through the air like a Frisbee. The most amazing thing though was the fact that they could achieve orbit by themselves, they would flatten their bodies down to a huge paper thin circle on the ground, this could take hours but once achieved they had sufficient energy stored so that when they relaxed and sprung back to their natural state it propelled them at several thousand feet per second straight up. Once in space they could survive for several days before they needed to breath and would drop from the sky like great beach balls, floating down to a few bounce stop. The Takachi were taken on ships as science operatives, they would be dropped onto new and interesting planets from orbit to sense the atmosphere and discover it the planet had anything of worth to them. They were also excellent ground troops if there were ever any trouble; this was probably because they are practically indestructible, any firearm or thrown spear would disappear inside them, be picked clean of any food then deposited out the other side clean as a whistle. Explosions just made them bounce and sometimes launch them faster at their opponents, which they inevitably crushed under their dense mass. The only thing that had ever stopped a Takachi was during the first great Solinorr Continents War lasting thirty or so years. The Takachi forces were attacking the small town of Ruminca inhabited by the Sagikchi Solinorr, a more human form Solinorr. They were miners with very little in the way of weapons and after a short time the ammunition had run dry, so they improvised, something the Solinorr as very good at. They quickly constructed, with the lumber from their stores, a trebuchet. They flung everything heavy first, lumps of granite and gold and silver and when they were gone they launched everything they had. Spices, food and equipment were sent over the walls but finally they dumped their entire stock of quarried salt into the machine and sent it into the war. The entire two and half tons of salt landed on top of one Takachi who came to a slow rolling halt, then began to shrink. After two minutes it had become no bigger then a football, its surface cracked and broken open, discoloured to a light beige, it didn’t move. The rest of the Takachi were obviously watching, then one by one they began to roll slowly away from the town, picking up speed and eventually turning disc like as they reached top speed. The Sagikchi thought that they had killed the un-killable so they left the carcass as a warning to anyone coming to make war on the little town. Several months went by before terrible heat of the summer dropped away and it began to rain. The Sagikchi watch in awe as the surface of the Takachi slowly became smooth with definite green and brown patches, after an hour or so it began to grow. It took it two hours to regain it’s full standing, but once it had it rolled slowly forward before making a large expansive u-turn and heading off at great speed, back to it’s own land.
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