Voyage of the Beyonder

By DD White

Almost five billion years ago, the galactic empire called Nephapricus encompassed the galaxy from one side to the other, connected by advanced wormhole technologies. The book Voyage of the Beyonder begins the story about this culture where they first started an age of hyper-acceleration to over half the speed of light. These incredible speeds caused changes to their DNA that mutated them from the terrestrial aliens evolving on different planets into galactic beings living exponentially longer lives. Voyage of the Beyonder is a full-length novel where each chapter has had an illustration by artist Davol White included with the writing process. The title to this latest book by DD White, ‘Voyage of the Beyonder,’ is about Nephapricus, which was an alien word for the galactic culture that rose and fell a billion years before the planet Earth was even conceived. Nephapricus began as a cluster with 15 tightly packed stars where three separate intelligent alien species evolved on different worlds that were orbiting the stars named Ea, Poa, and Dol.

This book chronicles the journey of a member of the Nephrican alien species who first traveled from the star Ea to the star Dol. He was a three-legged one-eyed squid-like alien named Captain Mynervood. In this story, he is the first to travel to the planet Doldoria where the intelligent life still lived in primitive superstitious societies. Doldorians were beings with exoskeleton anatomies that could see and speak with the dead, and they practiced a religious plurality and mystical forms for magic. The third alien species in this story were the Pripicans, who were 4-legged furry beings that looked like mythical centaurs. Pripicans were the victors in the Great War between planets against the Nephricans. Pripicans were also the inventors for the quantum-bit technologies, which were starting to inundate this galactic culture at this story’s time. The quantum-bit technology in this story was also used to make artificially intelligent microscopic beings more intelligent than any organic life form. They were immortal, and their tiny size made them virtually invisible.

Voyage of the Beyonder goes back to the beginnings in this alien culture. It chronicles the history of this legendary galactic civilization that rose and fell in the 2nd Age for Magphoreus, long before this present galactic dark age where we exist in ignorance about our rich galactic history. The true nature of our existence we remain blind to under the mysterious shadow cast by these highly evolved ancient aliens.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DD White
• Release date: Dec 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310481505

DD White

DD White is the writer / artist who created the free online graphic novels called Fantazine. You can still read Fantazine at www.fantazine.net where DD White’s inspirationfor Aquari began in issues 4, 7, and 9 as the Aquari Trilogy.

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Voyage of The Beyonder

By DD White

Copyright 2013 Smashwords Edition

Contents: Chapters

Chapter 1:

Chapter 2:

Chapter 3:

Chapter 4:

Chapter 5:

Chapter 6:

Chapter 7:

Chapter 8:

Chapter 9:

Chapter 10:

Chapter 11:

Chapter 12:

Epilogue:

Contents: Illustrations

Captain Mynervood’s Hologram Disguised Vehicle:

Fifteen Stars of Nephapricus:

Jaden and Fluisudal:

Prospero and Randa:

Hagan Hiedalli and Beatarkameed:

Diagram of The Beyonder:

Alldegallo’s Rude Awakening:

Alldegallo Sees Mountain from Dream:

The Trial of Captain Mynervood:

The Battle for Caleb:

Begalius, Beatariel, and the Calebites:

Ceres and Prospero:

Dr. Thelem, Ferdinand, and Randa:

The Phantom Matter Singularity:

Chapter 1

Beings now long since dead accomplished The Beyonder voyage, and they have been extinct for over 4 billion years. They were the original Nephapricans that established the 15 star-door wormholes of a legendary galactic empire unifying the galaxy known as Magphoreus. The famous voyage of the Beyonder took place before those 15 stars spread across Magphoreus after several hundred million years of galactic spin. At this story’s time, the 15 stars existed still as just a tight cluster. Before the galactic Nephapricans arose, three terrestrial species evolved at different stars. Those original species from three separate star systems were the Nephricans, the Pripicans, and the Doldorians. The legendary journey began at the planet Nephrica, one of the three planets spawning life forms that would someday evolve into the ancient Nephapricans. At the beginning of this journey, the planet Nephrica resembled every bit the budding hub of a newly born galactic empire.

As one approached the planet Nephrica, it appears shrouded with gray clouds that the progress of intelligent life had long since tinged. Above the gray shroud orbited a mist of several billion Nephrican-built satellites tingling with the mischief of intellectual life. Above the satellite mist were storms glowing with interstellar commerce, space exploration, and colonization. This activity made the busy planet Nephrica shine from afar unlike any other star.

Beneath the gray clouds, a barren terrain only looked natural from afar. On closer inspection, the mountains and craters reveal a tapestry of patterns and designs not possibly natural. As one approaches even closer the patterns become innovative architecture and the infrastructure of intelligent life.

This civilization thrived with activities of intelligent beings like blood flowing through some giant planetary entity. The obsessive spread of civilization crowded out much of the planet’s agricultural potential, and air above modern Nephrica became choked with visible pollution. For that reason, most good foods were imported to the planet from agricultural asteroids, satellite colonies, and far away planets around other stars. Most Nephricans would love to get off this planet and live on one of the new worlds. Nephrica became the industrial hub of a galactic civilization with nowhere else to go but up.

Nephrica reflected the nature of Nephricans, who tended not to change directions once they got going. Nephricans crowded this civilization with wheeled vehicles powered mostly by batteries charging a radio transmitter with a particular frequency that turns tanks filled with saltwater into burning fuel to move pistons. Nephricans walking on three legs populated these cities. These ancient aliens featured two tentacle-like arms with three long fingers, one as a thumb. Nephricans had one large eye in the middle of their faces and a long aardvark-like snout with mouths displaying thick human-like lips and teeth. The long head had a mini-stomach that digested chewed food close to the brain. For Nephricans that probably encouraged the evolutionary adaptive strategy known as intelligence.

Unfortunately, on Nephrica, good cuisine became expensive, so most food digesting in the common snouts would be products made chiefly from Nephrican excrement. The other exciting and pronounced adaptive strategy of Nephricans walking these streets like anthropomorphic squid was the skin shirts on display. Nephricans grew their clothing from the skin, which they found various ways to wrap themselves with for warmth and environmental protection. Today on these streets, this skin clothing could be seen cut and dyed into different fashion statements on display with the crowd walking on tripod legs through a spaceport city. Nephricans created wardrobes from this skin clothing, and the material like leather remained strong for years.

One saltwater-powered car driving these streets of Nephrica looked more luxurious than the others. To most common Nephricans that particular vehicle advertised the driver probably chauffeured an Eagolim. The Eagolim were a recent Nephrican breed with lives prolonged by space travel. That was a luxury not precisely accessible to everybody. Common Nephricans living typical 100-year lives were called Negolim.

Negolim didn’t intimidate because Eagolim could out-live them. For that reason, Eagolim tended to outclass Negolim in wealth and power. The Negolim became very intimidated by this, and they devoted much time and energy towards spying with mischief against the Eagolim. The wealthy Eagolim passenger in this particular vehicle was none other than the famous Captain Joberk Mynervood.

Captain Mynervood pioneered the still very young and now budding galactic empire stretching between Nephrican and Pripican civilizations to stars Ea, Poa, Paz, Holdus, Yat, and Oa in the now-famous original 15-star cluster. Spaceships in Nephapricus at this time traveled up to .6 times the speed of light. Captain Mynervood traveled toward this speed most of his life, making him currently over 3,500 years old on a world where the average Nephrican would be lucky to prolong life for a 200-year length. This prolonged lifespan became among the first effects of galactic DNA evolution, and Captain Mynervood felt as young as ever.

Captain Mynervood held a video device up to his single eye with a tentacle hand. He observed a geo trace on a vehicle behind them well aware of the local Negolim that were following. He grew accustomed to them following him on Nephrica ever since his wife had his baby here over 200 years ago. His sub-light speed flights had mutated his DNA, and his child had been born a deformed freak. That wife never forgave him, and the child got taken away. Authorities later told him that the child died soon afterward, but these days he now knows that they lied.

Captain Mynervood got studied along with other Eagolim like him, but the changes to his DNA didn’t seem to be unhealthy. He had never felt better at the 4,502nd Nephrica year of his life. He hadn’t been back on Nephrica for a very long time, but Negolim technology didn’t advanced very much in the last 40 Nephrican years since he had last been there. He decided it would be a good time to scramble his follower’s geo trace and disappear.

The next turn counter-orbit need I you navigation driver take.

At this time, the Pripicans and Nephricans shared a single language already called Nephaprican. However, Nephricans had their dialect. (The Pripican dialect in this story tends to read more like current English grammar. Counter-orbit is a space traveler term equivalent to left, and the term orbit is the space traveler term for the direction right, not unlike the seafarer terms port and starboard.)

Captain Mynervood’s hologram disguised vehicle on Nephrica

The vehicle veered past a stop signal leaving his pursuers waiting for a long train vehicle. The Negolim pursuers tried unsuccessfully to unscramble their geo-trace. Some passing Nephricans blinked their single eye in amazement as they noticed the luxurious vehicle transform into a smaller less-expensive car with a small dent in the rear.

The chauffeur did the equivalent of laughing. It sounded more like gargling. That them completely left lost.

Captain Mynervood also let out a gargling laugh before saying, The whole concept about reality quanta-nanocode hologram technology that the Pripicans created will change.

They drove down a highway in the hologram-disguised car from the area they had been all that morning defying the agents of Ea following them. As promised long ago, Captain Mynervood went to take his child from the now aged mother, Hagan Hiedalli. He didn't want authorities to know where he had been going.

Captain Mynervood kept a profoundly personal secret for the last 100 years. He has fathered more than a couple other children even though Negolim doctors assured him they would be born mutants that would die soon after birth. He now knew that not to be true. He knew these children were like him with different DNA gene switches turned on. He kept them secret to support the mothers financially for discreetly taking care of and nurturing the young mutants.

He had not seen Hagan Hiedalli in over 42 Nephrican years. She never wanted to change her last name to Mynervood, and apparently she had still not changed her name for anyone else. Nephricans were very much like Earth humans in that way. They often married monogamously. However, both parties were free to join as many partners as they wanted. Nephricans were obsessed with family lineage and used last names from whatever side of the family had the most prestige. The family name designated the central heritage of multiple marriages or had many last names arranged chronologically or for importance. Both males and females were able to choose a partner's last name. Hagan Hiedalli, however, had remained Hagan Hiedalli, although she still enjoyed all the benefits of being a wife of Captain Mynervood and the mother to his child. He wondered what the child would be like after all these years.

The inexpensive hologram car drove up to Hagan Hiedalli’s house. It sat in an upper-class housing district outside the spaceport city. Hagan might have been about to alert the authorities about a strange beat-up car parked in front of her house, but then Captain Mynervood emerged from the illusion. She no doubt had been watching because she opened the front door as he approached. She had been 42 Nephrican years older but still looked not a day over 40.

She spoke first. Last you long time saw it's been. The feelings softened have, but harder now they become.

Hagan, I away to other worlds have been. Different for both of us, time is. Away a long time not a lot to me has been. Right back I came. By time for you much longer, I've been gone.

Hagan did not need a time lesson. I the space mission you from return all about know, which you almost killed were.

The Captain shrugged it off. That an experiment my next more straightforward mission was to get. Now a tourists space cruise my next mission will be. You a day over 40 mans don't look. (A man in the Nephrica language means year.)

I know. Please in come. she swung the Earth-like door wider letting in the Captain. The chauffeur drove the hologram away to put more saltwater in the tank.

She seemed unfazed by his clumsy comment about her age, but still Captain Mynervood decided to soften the blow. As beautiful you as the day I left.

She smiled at the end to her aardvark snout to then indeed look much younger than her age. A day you to me haven't aged. Wife of Captain Mynervood easy has not been. My communications monitored are. The stakeout here you watched saw come rest assured.

Captain Mynervood suddenly realized that all his morning's evasion had been for nothing. For the most part, the Negolim agents of Ea were harmless. They just were always there, watching all the time and gathering information. They were harmless annoyances up until they finally decided to make their move.

However, unlike the average citizen on this planet, Captain Mynervood had come to value his privacy after a lifetime in deep space.

So my son these days how is, and where is? He had expected his son to be waiting for him.

His things he has been packing, my summons awaiting. He to you from here looks forward him taking away. Here he, a deformed freak with two eyes and no skin shirt, lives the life. He all his life that on your spaceship has believed can be.

In earlier days (almost a thousand Earth years before,) knowledge about the mutant offspring of Eagolim had been better known about and accepted by Negolim. In terms of the shorter Negolim life spans, those days were a whole age ago. Today a current autocratic Dark Age imposes a vicious ignorance about the mutants. Captain Mynervood has lived through all this, observing the divide grow between Negolim culture and the evolving Nephaprican Space Corporation.

Captain Mynervood became anxious to see his mutant son. The baby he left here grew up entirely while he had been on a space flight that seemed to take only a few months. Please, the boy call, and finally him me let see.

At that, Hagan called for the boy. Adma! Your father come see! She turned to brace Captain Mynervood regarding what he was about to see. Perfectly healthy he is, but two legs on he we three more gracefully he with walks.

The Captain heard the boy dragging a couple of well-packed bags down the stairs. Three tentacle-like legs maneuvered down those stairs. It had been a young Nephrican man with a tunic made out from his skin and a single eye over an aardvark-like mouth. Captain Mynervood saw nothing unusual about the boy's appearance whatsoever.

This can not be. I a perfectly normal boy see. Adma, hello, I your father am.

Adma put down the bags and pushed buttons on his belt wrapped around the tunic skin shirt. In an instant, the Nephrican boy disappeared. A hairless gray-skinned humanoid stood before Captain Mynervood, still wearing the skin shirt tunic his mother grew for him. Father, hello. Your son I am.

It became more a shock than expected. Especially after temporarily getting fooled into thinking he had a normal Nephrican boy with the same hologram technology in his car. For Captain Mynervood the shock had only been temporary. He had provided Hagan with the hologram technology himself before he left for space. The two very different beings held out arms and embraced.

The boy before Captain Mynervood looked indistinguishable from an Earth human, except his skin had a more neutral gray color. He also stood over twice the height of an Earth human. He had a mouth with teeth but no snout, and he spoke in a higher pitch than typical Nephricans. Father on your spaceship all my life I to be have wanted.

Strange expressions filled the mutant child's very animated face. To the Captain, the two eyes how they both moved together were mesmerizing. Captain Mynervood had the same fascination with Pripican eyes. The two eyes were getting watery. The Captain's wife, Hagan Hiedalli, prepared a Nephrican meal for the occasion. What is meant by 'Nephrican meal' is that no food even came from the over-industrialized planet. These days Nephricans shipped much food from agricultural satellites filled with farms and ranches.

The chauffeur eventually came back with the hologram-disguised vehicle, and they invited him in to share dinner. He had been named Tyallor Nudeowan from Captain Mynervood's crew. His job became to wait on whatever the Captain needed. Tyallor already knew all about the mutant child Adma who lived his whole life behind a quanta-nanocode hologram disguise. By now, Negolim authorities seemed to know something had been going on, and surveillance always was a recognizable ghost in the room.

The mutant boy became beautiful to his mother's eye. He appeared like a graceful freak of nature. She always saw something superior in her child, raised in secret. While they all ate and conversed, she wondered if they saw it in Adma. Adma behaved more gracefully with just two legs than Nephricans did with three. The disabled boy could run circles around them, and there were other things about the boy in the way he spoke so eloquently with a voice sounding like Pripican music. His eyes moved together precisely and seemed even to view things better than single-eye Nephricans.

Adma had a bifocal vision like Pripicans, which science documented to be better for perceiving depth than Nephrican camera vision. Hagan saw nothing deformed about Adma as far as his mother is concerned. She even believed him to be superior. She thought it appeared that nature had improved on Nephrican anatomy.

The four-legged Pripicans from the star Poa were already famous in the galactic empire for music they made and liked to sing. Nephricans have music, but it's more primitive. Nephrican music mainly gets used to orchestrate crowds into a controlled unison, like chanting at sporting events and rallies.

Hagan cried as she said goodbye to her beautiful boy. He disappeared before her eye to shuffle off into the car as a Nephrican hologram illusion. She would miss both her son and the Captain, but Hagan became glad to have her own life back finally after all these years. Soon the time arrived for the Captain and his son to go. The goodbye became intimate, and Hagan had tears dripping down both sides of her snout. After she finished hugging her son, the Captain repeated his previous offer.

You Hagan with us should come. From all of this be taken away.

They had already thoroughly exhausted this discussion. Joberk no. From all of this be taken if I here stay. I my life a mother for your son I've given. Now that he a man Hagan Hiedalli to finally just being go back is.

The Captain understood. She had gone through a lot being the mother of a mutant. She took good care of the boy while he remained away. She religiously used hologram technology he gave her to keep the deformities of her son a well-kept secret. She only expected the Captain to be gone for ten Nephrican years, but then his experimental spaceship blew up. Adma got privately schooled and grew up living amongst a rumor around the neighborhood that he had been developmentally disabled. However, to his mother and Captain Mynervood's surprise, the boy never became any trouble or handicapped. Adma seemed instead to be superior to average Nephricans in every way.

After they drove off, Hagan went back inside to look out from a window. She watched the house across the street in anticipation of something. Then out of that place came a Negolim. She already knew it to be a stakeout set up in expectation of Captain Mynervood's return. She got annoyed at the nosey government on Nephrica. She hated them, but what can you do? The Negolim agents got into a vehicle obviously to follow Captain Mynervood down the street. She knew the Captain would be aware and at least just for the sport of it give them the slip since evading government surveillance remained, after all, futile on the planet Nephrica.

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All this happened very long ago during a period of galactic history known as the 2nd Age of Magphoreus. During this time life as we know it within habitable zones finally began to evolve, after 1st Age cycles of chaos and destruction either remained behind in peaceful orbits or got annihilated. In the second age, the galaxy became a devourer of surrounding galaxies along with globular clusters filled with stars orbiting the mighty Magphoreus even to this day. In these other galaxies circling Magphoreus, the cycles of chaos and destruction subsided long before the mighty Magphoreus post-Quasar Age eventually got tamed by habitability. Therefore life as we know it became more successful in the surrounding galaxies. During this time, early in the 2nd age, Magphoreus devoured a particular globular cluster around the spiral galactic arm known as Carina. This star cluster broke apart into smaller groups. At that time a collection of the legendary 15 stars found its way into the arms of the mighty Magphoreus.

Around three of the cluster's 15 stars intelligent terrestrial life evolved on planets. Those intelligent species were the Nephricans from the star Ea, the Pripicans orbiting the star Poa, and the Doldorians around Dol. Nephricans only had one eye and a tripod walking strategy that involved three tentacle-like feet. They had two-fingered hands along with an opposable thumb. The Pripicans were furry beings with four legs and two very human-like arms featuring three fingers with an opposable thumb. Doldorians were blue with two legs extended from the sides of a round exoskeleton-covered body. They had two arms and spider-like mandibles around their mouths. Nephricans tended to be goal-oriented, aggressive, and war-like. Pripicans were music lovers, creative, and peace loving. Doldorians were technologically several hundred years behind Nephricans and Pripicans when these intelligent life forms began visiting each other.

Long before the establishment of Nephapricus, over four billion seven hundred million years ago, pre-humanoid life forms called Pripicans first picked up radio and digital signals from the star Ea. The inquisitive Pripicans at the star Poa sent transmissions across the 1.6 light-years to Ea, trying to establish contact. Eventually, a dialogue got established. It inspired optimism for the future amongst Pripican culture that had already realized they were not alone. However, Nephrican culture learned about intelligent life out there with more reluctance. Once radio communication became established, Nephricans indulged in nuclear technologies to prove the superior species in space travel.

After about a thousand years of strictly radio communication between Nephricans and Pripicans, the Nephricans developed spaceships that could accelerate up to ten million miles per hour. Those acceleration strategies made the journey take less than 40 years. Earlier robot scouting missions concluded that the Pripicans had a simple culture with monolithic stone architecture. Pripicans used non-linear resonance of sound and light frequencies to move enormous stones in constructing their architecture. This focus on resonance would lead science in Pripican culture to quantum technologies that program the very stuff of reality.

The Nephricans eventually improved spaceship speed up to 25,000,000 mph and sent battleships with nuclear weaponry across the void for 15 years to conquer the Pripican culture. The Pripicans, on the other hand, were more cautious with atomic technologies establishing a civilization of unlimited energy based on low-power nuclear reactions that separated electrons and neutrons from hydrogen in the element nickel with nano-scale magnetic fields. That produced an atomic fuel that gave off no harmful radiation. This provided the Pripicans a technological advantage for defending the home front from hostile spaceships that were a long way from home. During this Great War, Nephricans first developed physics and technology for .6 times the speed of light hyper-acceleration space travel. Pripicans did not retaliate in the first war, and they proved to be the more robust and wiser species. The peace following that became the beginnings of the galactic culture called Nephapricus, and faster starships began exploring other stars.

Nephricans and Pripicans shared cultures, although it would not be the last war between Nephrican and Pripican. Nephricans at the star Ea expanded 1.6 light-years to Poa, followed eventually by colonies two light-years away at the stars Yat and Oa. Pripicans joined the space travel game to expand settlements to Paz, Pea, and finally traveled five light-years to the binary stars Tze and Tze-Doldus. Nephricans and Pripicans shared a galactic colony at the star Holdus, just a light-year distance from Ea.

Once Doldorians caught up to the Nephricans and Pripicans, they would expand their culture to the stars Ko, Poa, Koa, Fedor, and Gralga. Nephricans and Pripicans already began calling themselves Nephapricans long before discovering Doldorians at the star Dol. The technologies of constant acceleration began approaching half the speed of light, or over 300 million miles per hour. That altered the DNA of Nephricans and Pripicans that devoted their lives to space travel. Traveling at half the speed of light caused them to live over 50 times longer than terrestrial versions of their species. That had been when space-traveling members of their cultures began to be called Eagolim, and Nephricans and Pripicans that didn't travel the stars living much shorter lives were called Negolim.

Pripicans created virtual particle technologies from their understanding of quanta-nanocode and the quantum-bit. Nephricans contributed to developing these virtual particle technologies by discovering dark matter or phantom matter, which illuminated the mystery of gravity. Gravity is caused by the ubiquitous phenomenon of spontaneous momentary virtual particle creation along the curvature of space/time.

Virtual particle technologies revolutionized space travel and created artificially intelligent entities that eventually incorporated quanta-optic-nanocode bodies that could imitate solidity. At the time of this story artificially clever creations were just early quanta-nanocode prototypes. Still, Pripicans already sent these artificially intelligent beings to the stars to explore for them. The quanta-nanocode entity called Begalius got sent to the star Dol in the legendary journey of The Beyonder, according to data found in the Eigalli Databanks. The first journey from Ea to Dol took place after the radio signal discovery of intelligent life on Doldoria. The Doldorians had still not noticed broadcasting from Pripican, and Nephrican attempts to contact them. The starship making this journey had been called The Beyonder among the first spacecraft made to travel half the speed of light.

That historic journey traveled a light-year to the star Holdus for the routine task of transferring immigrants between planets. Then supplies were taken to a colony 2.3 light-years away at the star Yat, followed by the famous journey traversing 2.7 light-years from Yat to the star Dol. That would be when and where the first historical contact with Doldorians occurred.

Nephapricus

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The Captain drove with his son to the space base. There, Captain Mynervood among the oldest and most respected Captains in the fleet pulled much clout and authority. Here they could enjoy privacy from the nosey civilian Negolim. On the space base, most Nephricans were Eagolim required to take space flights to transform their DNA. Here their DNA would be safe from the lesser-evolved Negolim wanting to study and understand it. At this time Nephricans were evolving into two species. In this story, that predicament manifested as the local terrestrial Negolim culture and the Nephaprican Space Corporation.

They stopped at a building to unload his son's stuff showing him his room where he would stay until the next flight into space. Tyallor, the chauffeur, actually grabbed the bags while Captain Mynervood showed his hologram-disguised son inside.

"My son in this place space-traveling Eagolim