Chapter 6 - A Twist of Fate
Back around my early teen years, or perhaps a few years before that, it is hard to say exactly, I read a book, well, a trilogy actually. It started, though, with The White Mountains by John Christopher. If you are unfamiliar with the book basically it boils down to an alien race subjugating humanity and using gigantic three legged machines to scare us…or them, rather.
The book, well not inherently frightening was enough to cause me a few late nights staring at my ceiling. Tripods that wanted to control my actions was not a pleasant thought. I bring this up now because I have met this nightmare in reality, only it is much worse. It has no desire to control me, it just wants me dead, and it does so effectively. These are in every way worse than the imaginings from the ’60’s when the books were written.
Fortunately, just like in the books, these monstrosities are not without weakness and they can be overcome. Our technology, or at least our true understanding of it, seems to be considerably more limited than that of the Bane. I wonder if perhaps there is something even worse coming for us than these giants? It is not a question I like to consider often, but I think it needs to be considered all the same. Will we be ready for the next challenge they throw at us?
I’d like to believe so. Perhaps the answer really does lie in understanding what the Eloh have left behind for us. I don’t claim to fully understand the power I have now, or the things I can do, but it is a power all the same and something that the Bane seem to fear. Any time you can see an enemy as horrid as this show fear than something must be right. Now the worry is stopping them from obtaining it just as we have. They are born…or made, perhaps, for war and the devastation they already can cause is bad enough, if we don’t protect the one advantage we may have, then this war will be over before we ever get back home.
plaync, tabula rasa, ncsoft, mmo gaming, mmog, mmo, mmorpg, bane, stalkers, eloh
Leave a Reply