The Chronicles of Humanity's Future

By David Oconner

What is humanity? What makes us human? Is it our technological prowess that has flung us to the furthest corners of this ever expanding entity we call ‘space’? Is it our capacity for intellectual reasoning and independent thought? Is it our ability to justify what we do, no matter how horrendous, while at the same time caring for species not our own with devotion so fierce and unwarranted?

I have been a living chronicle of humanity, far past the natural age and length of our species. At this point, time is no longer linear for me, unlike the rest of humanity. It is not a concept which puts fear into my heart. It makes me what you would call ‘a god’. We have expanded so far, that no one truly knows how many we are, and there is no single entity that can control us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Oconner
• Release date: May 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310206344

David Oconner

David Oconner has been writing and publishing books on many of his varied interests. He has books on topics such as Cichlid Fish, How to Grow Tomatoes, Sugar Gliders, Juicing Recipes, Vegetarian Cookbook, How to Play Minecraft, Diablo III, Mass Effect 3, Halo 4, GuildWars 2, Scrolls, Eve Online, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Titanfall, Dark Souls II, and more.

Book preview

The Chronicles of Humanity’s Future

Our Savage Heart

By

David Oconner

* * * * *

PUBLISHED BY:

David Oconner at Smashwords

Copyright © 2015 by David Oconner

ISBN: 9781310206344

Discover other titles by David Oconner at Lifestyles100.com

This book is available in print at most online retailers.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher

The Chronicles of Humanity’s Future is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

*****

Table of Contents

Our Savage Heart

Chapter 1: Shiva

Chapter 2: Naroth

Chapter 3: Inceptivus Prime

Chapter 4: Bellum

Chapter 5: Bahamut

Chapter 6: Novus Finito

About the Author

Our Savage Heart

What is humanity? What makes us human? Is it our technological prowess that has flung us to the furthest corners of this ever expanding entity we call ‘space’? Is it our capacity for intellectual reasoning and independent thought? Is it our ability to justify what we do, no matter how horrendous, while at the same time caring for species not our own with devotion so fierce and unwarranted?

Or is it our capacity as a species for ultraviolence – and the worship of deadly combat?

If you take a look at our star systems, vast, beautiful, deadly, where a billion die each day, and two billion more are born, in peacetime, ask yourself – where are our gods?

I have an answer – we are the gods. We create star systems, we destroy star systems. We liberate, yet we oppress in the same breath. In a heartbeat, we seal the doom of our own brethren one solar system away with a dark matter warhead, diminishing them into a neutron star.

*****

Chapter 1: Shiva

I have been a living chronicle of humanity, far past the natural age and length of our species. At this point, time is no longer linear for me, unlike the rest of humanity. It is not a concept which puts fear into my heart. It makes me what you would call ‘a god’. We have expanded so far, that no one truly knows how many we are, and there is no single entity that can control us.

For some, this is freedom, for others, it is uncertainty, chaos, and the descent into the heart of darkness that I call humanity.

Some people call me Shiva, the name derived from an ancient deity before our great era of space exploration, and our subsequent conflicts. They call me Shiva, the name of the lord of destruction, because they only remember