Spatium Upended - A Trilogy: Book 1: Øicârô

By O.A Bravo

Faith, science or metaphysics, questions abound while a vast, infinite and uncharted Cosmos, flourishes.

A vast, living, and breathing Universe proceeds unwittingly through the sniping, conflict, pain, birthing, and passing, leaving in its stead deprivation, destruction, life, beauty, and everlasting memories t

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zoerha Corp
• Release date: Jan 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9780578964645

O.A Bravo

OA Bravo (a pseudonym), is the creator of the Spatium Upended trilogy series. He is also a writer, screenwriter, director and producer. Besides helming his projects, he has worked on such commercial projects as MIB III, Hangover 2 and Denzel Washington's Safe House. Although a first time published writer, he has closed the sale of several screenplays that mostly remains in what has become known as 'development hell' in screenwriting circles. He considers himself a geek and futurist at heart.

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This is a work of fiction. Al of the characters, organizations,

and events portrayed in this novel are either products of

the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

SPATIUM UPENDED

A TRILOGY

PART I

ØICÂRÔ

Copyright © 2021 by O.A Bravo

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book

is dedicated

to the loving

memories of

Dad,

Jojo,

Mabel

&

Osas.

See you all

in Âhjâ.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ᗝ: DISCLAIMER

0 = ᗐ: ÂHÑÊØ NEBULA

1 = ᗑ: ÊLKÊNQÎ

2 = ᗒ: QÂHNÂ

3 = ᗓ: ŽØÊRHÂ

4 = ᗔ: VØHÇÛ-Œ

5 = ᗕ: WHITE RIVER

6 = ᗖ: QŸÊØ

7 = ᗗ: THÊ SEČRET

8 = ᗘ: HALF MØØN

9 = ᗙ: ØMEN

10 = ᗑᗐ: VISITØRS

11 = ᗑᗑ: HÛØŽÂ

12 = ᗑᗒ: TŒMŃÂK

13 = ᗑᗓ: RØCK VAPØR

14 = ᗑᗔ: ŒÊLK

15 = ᗑᗕ: THE VØID

16 = ᗑᗖ: ŒÊLKEMIST

17 = ᗑᗗ: VHŸŠØQÎ

18 = ᗑᗘ: ØH SPATIUM!

19 = ᗑᗙ: ÆPHŒ

20 = ᗒᗐ: ŃXHÆ DEÛX

21: DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ᗝ: DISCLAIMER

HÚSAVÍK, ICELAND. EARTH. WINTER.

THIS SOLEMN DISCLAIMER attests to the complexities of capturing the lives of the subjects depicted in this trilogy while painting a realistic portrait of their unique characteristics as individual agents and as a collective.

I wrestled enormously with this undertaking's premise. I imagined I could draw inferences from my own relatively diverse experience as a human being on Earth. With the overarching aim being to then attributing this to the very alien nature of the plot-line.

As the essay will show, specific research went into modeling rules around how conversations between characters devoid of speech patterns, as we have come to know it, be presented prudently. I sought to extrapolate and then articulate the underlying message in the limited language of instruction under which I was working.

The subject matter tackled in this trilogy represents the sum of my experience inhabiting my principal characters' minds for this first in the trilogy book. All references to themes of astrophysics, spirituality, morality, religion, and politics that bear inferences or resemblance to our planet's entities were accidental. I had to maintain the fine line between my third-person narration of events depicted here and those that purportedly took place in a space-time continuum, millions of light-years away from our planet and current civilization. After all, not all perception is reality, or so we are told.

While there are evolving and continuing parallels between what we conceive as norms and the lives of my subject matter as depicted here, this is where the similarities end. As humans, we function within our senses' confines as we evolved here on our planet and as defined by the guiding laws of physics, handed down from antiquity by the enlightened ones in our midst. They rule and advise our lives from birth to passing.

Extracting ourselves from this supposedly rigid definition of the laws of the Universe and the greater Cosmos opens up heretic level dissent that would be mocked into oblivion by the mainstream of thought and framework that underpins the scientific orthodoxy of the day.

Speaking of heresy, the themes of astrophysics, philosophy, metaphysics, spirituality, and religion touched on in this volume might be misconstrued as casting aspersions on to the established laws handed down from antiquity. Entities we have come to regard universally—at least here on Earth—as the enlightened philosophers, originators of scientific models and concepts, and at other times as the direct conduits and messengers of a monolithic, Almighty Creator. Again, we deeply regret any real or perceived inferences and suggestions drawn from this work that might come across as being, in any way, heresiarch in nature. For fidelity, I had to inhabit the minds of my subject matter, and from that came what I believe to be my best human depiction of what was communicated.

The civilization portrayed in this volume existed in a reality that adapted to a completely different evolutionary track and understanding of their surroundings and a starkly different definition of the laws of physics that guided their interactions with their immediate Cosmos. A glaring example would be their adoption of a uniquely native interpretation of the forces that propelled life on their planet and its allied clusters and constellation. This native understanding would underpin their mastery of power generation, using this same inherent force that was abundant and commonplace.

They developed a propulsion system tethered on the construct of the space-time continuum, similar to the Alcubierre Drive, but one that existed within the framework of the physical world's inherent characteristics around them. This system was markedly different from our approach, which tends to engineer solutions to live independently, outside of the light, as this force was known.

Their adoption, articulation, and deployment of this very alien interpretation of the Unifying Theory of the Universe remind me that, conceivably, all isn't what it seems from our perspective, here on planet Earth and the farthest we have thus far ventured from it.

Extensive knowledge of the Cosmos handed down from ancient civilizations such as the Sumerian, Egyptian, Incan, Greek, and Mayan, helped unleash the cadre of transcendental religious, spiritual, and metaphysical heavyweights of antiquity. The teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, Buddha, Mohammed, Shiva, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle come to mind. More recently, intellectuals such as Poincaré, Einstein, Alcubierre, Heaviside, Tesla, Newton, and Michael Faraday—clearly not an exhaustive list—have done more to bring our civilization closer to the mechanics at work in the Universe. Their collective body of work, especially in the areas of spirituality, morality, hyper-quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, and gravitational sciences, has interfaced elegantly with how these elements and their guiding laws instruct our time here on planet Earth.

Like us, the subject matter depicted in this essay struggled with the themes of self and ego and how they deployed these fundamental attributes to the understanding and the expression of the more prominent constructs of spirituality and science.

To what does this equate? What defines spirituality as an abstract entity from science, and how its empirical laws are articulated? From where and by whom are these big ideas conceived, nurtured and then deployed to be then embraced by the dominant and often elite orthodoxy of thought?

Competing schools of thought as to what is considered spirituality and how that maligns the physical sciences, for instance, dramatically exaggerates the thin line that separates them. Many philosophers, thinkers, theologians, scholars, and scientists of antiquity have publicly articulated allegiances and deep-rooted convictions to both the religious and, sometimes, dogmatic teachings and eccentricities of their day, espousing their deep scientific roots and fidelity to its imperial outcomes.

A great many of them went to their graves, proving this wasn't just a fad.

In the end, it all aggregates to the two opposing forces at play in the greater Universe—Ego and Love. While the one constantly needs to be nurtured and fed, the other, by contrast, encourages and gives unconditionally.

So also can be deduced from the birth and death of stars. The new sun, stars, planets, moons, asteroids formed from the supernova event forces us to rethink the lesson taught. Why are the smaller cosmic entities tidally locked onto more giant planets with corresponding masses and gravitational forces, compelling them to reflect the light from their sun or primary star, often in perpetuity? Like millions of others yet, this odd relationship can't be considered equitable nor fair.

Like clockwork, we are unwilling witnesses to the level of violence on display, where large asteroids slam onto barren planets forcing them into a million more years of barrenness. A wild Universe, where whole galaxies hurtle yet onto others, colliding and, in the process, destroying billions of stars, planets, and other celestial bodies in their wake. A restless void, where black holes envelop and ensnare whole galaxies, making them and the billions of complex lifeforms they might hold disappear into the vast emptiness of space itself.

We also marvel at the same Cosmos, where colorful Nebulae hold in their thick yet colorful formations billions of dwarf and neutron stars. These newly formed celestial entities tumble toward the other, engulfing the void in their tumultuous path, traversing millions of light-years apart, fated to be willing partakers in the destruction of the other, without malice, nor remorse. We can't help but ask, what purpose does it all serve? What is the Universe telling us while unleashing disquietude in the process of creating new life?

A vast, living, and breathing Universe proceeds unwittingly through the sniping, conflict, pain, birthing, and passing, leaving in its stead deprivation, destruction, life, beauty, and everlasting memories to which conscious and subconscious minds alike can relate.

Our varying belief systems lead us; we're also exposed to the Law of Relativity, a great deal of whose collective mysteries remain unexplained. Spatium Upended - The Trilogy plows eons of light-years into the vast Cosmos to bridge the forces at play here on Earth with the invisible energy that controls it all from afar.

As the three parts of this journey unfold, we will become willing partakers in the travails of this highly advanced Type-II civilization. The intricate plot lines will take us from a mostly Space Opera sub-genre to a trilogy finale deep in the trenches of a Cyberpunk world, faintly familiar to the one in which we currently live.

Enjoy.

0 = ᗐ: ÂHÑÊØ NEBULA

CONSTELLATION ÆDONIS.

THE BLUE SUPERGIANT star heaved its final luminous breath and exploded into an enormous supernova.

A mere millisecond before the fated explosion, a cascade of vivid and brilliant colors beamed from its constantly expanding surface, a violent mix of electrons, protons, gamma, and x-rays. It then collapsed under its gravity's weight, its atomic nuclei having had enough. This nuclear fission event resulted in one supernova for posterity.

The endless void encapsulating the dying star suddenly pulsated with a restless energy field, one seething with electromagnetic energy.

This reverberant death of a star gave rise to octillion tiny starlets. Many more petite radiant balls of gas traveled as far as tens of millions of light-years away from the death zone. The resulting cluster painted a nebula in the vast emptiness of the space around it, replete with a colorful debris field of electromagnetic resonance and intensity.

A peculiar pattern had evolved from the eruption of the great supernova.

The more prominent breakaway stars tugged at every smaller spatial object in their gravitational field of influence and magnetosphere—stars, asteroids, meteors, moons, and even whole planets—thus creating a rhythmic cluster of stars. Each of these stars had its distinct solar orbital systems. Over time, an infinite number of these systems would steadily evolve from the epic supernova's dust residues.

Amid these stellar evolutions, the long-held legend of Ÿûxâ, a super massive black hole known as the Passing Void, was on a distinctly deathly mission. It ensnared every breakaway star and, in some instances, whole clusters and nebulae by pulling them into its fiery core.

Ÿûxâ had become adept at making them disappear with only space dust and nebulae clouds left in its wake—hence its name, the Passing Void.

The Âhñêø Nebula was one of the last clusters to form a stable orbital system. It was composed of seventy-seven planets of varying sizes, rock densities, biochemical compositions, and electromagnetic properties.

The legend of Ńxhæ—the flawless maiden—was believed to have resided atop the throne over the Âhñêø Nebula. The political seat of her kingdom, Çîhû, was nestled on the giant star in the cluster, Vrâê.

All seventy-seven planets that make up the Âhñêø Nebula were pulled towards and later orbited Vrâê. In return, Ńxhæ provided light, heat and controlled the magnetosphere that kept the cluster in place.

At the same time, Ńxhæ's arch-nemesis, the legend of Qûæ, also known as the Valley Angel, nestled on the dense, gaseous surface of Ÿûxâ, the super massive black hole.

Like Ńxhæ, Qûæ was a single-winged deity known locally in the Âhñêø realm as Ÿâzêø. She was also the leader of a breakaway faction of Ńxhæ's Ÿâzêø army. The Ÿâzêø were invisible celestial entities that could take on the physical attributes and characteristics of any of the trillions of life forms scattered across the many galaxies.

Qûæ relied on the help of Ÿûxâ's fiery nature and size to wrestle control of all the stars in the Âhñêø Nebula. She figured she could do this by tapping into Ÿûxâ's modus operandi of making them disappear into the vast nothingness at its core.

This practice would be consistent with the fatal ending that the Ÿûxâ had thus far meted all the stars in its immediate sphere of influence. Cross paths with the passing void and then disappear into the emptiness at its core.

Qûæ's calculus revolved around the idea that her intimate knowledge of Ÿûxâ's lethal pathway—believed to be predetermined and fixed—afforded her a more profound insight than any other spatial entity had privy. She reckoned she could mobilize her breakaway army of loyal Ÿâzêø to seize control over the Âhñêø Nebula and then steer it away from Ÿûxâ's impending doom.

She wanted it all to herself, and nothing was going to stand in her way.

Ńxhæ's kingdom now had two formidable forces to contend with—an inevitable death from Ÿûxâ's fiery gravitational pull and more urgent aggression from Qûæ and her breakaway faction of Ÿâzêø.

This brewing tension was one interstellar battle destined to be both lopsided, decisive, and with far-reaching consequences for millions of light-years to come.

ŽØÊRHÂ

ŽØÊRHÂ STOOD OUT out as the forty-ninth of the seventy-seven planets that orbited the enormous sun star, Vrâê. It orbited the massive star from around midway relative to the planets’ cluster in their local orbital system. This habitable zone spurred the evolution of complex life forms on its surface.

It had also developed a thick and peculiar atmosphere that encased an equally uncanny cloud formation. These eccentricities made for skies that displayed shades of green, mixed with orange in the daytime, and deep purple mixed with shades of red at night. Depending on the season, the colors varied remarkably.

It took her one thousand, five hundred eighty-nine Earth hours to complete one rotation around its sun star, Vrâê. Unlike over ninety-one percent of the planets in the solar system, Žøêrhâ orbited Vrâê, in a counterclockwise manner.

The Žøêrhân atmosphere consisted of approximately fifty-five percent Pjôçzî—a gas unique to the planet, twenty-two and a half percent nitrogen, ten percent Oxygen, seven and a half percent carbon dioxide, two and a half percent argon, and traces of methane, amongst other trace gases.

The top soil comprised mostly of a fine powder cake of silica which was about ten thousand five hundred feet deep. Dig deeper and Žøêrhâ’s crust, which was an almost impenetrable metallic alloy composed mainly of titanium, was revealed.

The combination of its location in the planetary system, the gases trapped in its peculiar atmosphere, its gravitational pull, and the existence of carbon matter helped conspire to create the recipe for one of the only known habitable planets in all of the Âhñêø Nebula.

It had six moons, with its most significant and third closest moon, the orange-colored and bean-shaped satellite named Vøhçû-œ, used primarily as a launching and Cosmos listening station.

The fact that Vøhçû-œ had a quarter of the gravitational force on Žøêrhâ and one-fifth of its mass meant they initiated more deep space probes from this uniquely shaped moon. It took Vøhçû-œ, eighteen days to complete an orbit around Žøêrhâ.

Vøhçû-œ would eventually be split into two unequal parts from its mid-center region to create Žøêrhâ’s seventh moon, Pêbøâ-œ.

The oval shaped Łôîrâ-œ was the closest to the planet which was dotted with purplish colored, rocky mountains, that extended to the surface from its solid metallic core. Due to its small size—about a tenth of the size of Žøêrhâ and a tenth of its gravitational force—it needed only twelve days to complete an orbit.

Frîûñ-œ was the second-largest moon by sheer size, though located on its outer orbit, and fifth-place from Žøêrhâ. It had a very unique electric blue glow, visible from Žøêhrâ that captivated the night sky when fully visible.

Ç1ñkâ-œ was the smallest of Žøêrhâ’s moons and was located midway—fourth—from the planet. Its unique light green atmosphere and rock laden surface made for a more colorful display of colors during a full moon.

Î0mñâz-œ was the second closest moon to Žøêrhâ. It was also the brightest with its silver-colored mountains and surface soil. Unlike the other moons, Î0mñâz-œ was believed to have splintered off Žøêrhâ as the uncanny similarities between their soil composition and geometric properties were inescapable.

The farthest of Žøêrhâ’s moons was Qrœzø-œ. It was also located on the outer orbit and required thirty-five days to complete an orbit.

The unique evolution of the avian humanoid race known as the the Êlkâr, which colonized the planet had allowed it to harness the electromagnetic properties that they discovered, linked Žøêrhâ and her moons. This groundbreaking finding some tens of millions of years prior, opened up their civilization to the secrets of the Universe, as they later coined it. Its laws of physics derived from this simple yet profound phenomenon.

Its research and findings around astronomy, astrology, quantum mechanics, applied mathematics, calculus, geometry, and philosophy, were underpinned on the disclosure of the inherent electromagnetic properties that abounded in the Cosmos and the interactions amongst the celestial bodies that painted the void in the Âhñêø Nebula and beyond.

This invisible link permeated even their understanding of time. For the average Êlkâr, time was not considered a universal concept. It rather resolved as a personal conclusion and truth.

While the œlêvâ universally held as the unit of time, that was where the similarities ended. It was restricted to one moon at a time. This phenomenon meant seconds—qlêvâ, minutes—tølêvâ, days—ÿlêvâ and years—mûlêvâ on the planet were determined by how long it took each moon to complete an orbit or a moon phase. A day that was measured based on Ç1ñkâ-œ’s gravitational and electromagnetic interfacing metrics was different in length and œlêvâ—lunar time—from one based on Qrœzø-œ’s or Vøhçû-œ’s.

Every Êlkâr received and processed electromagnetic information from their sun and moons uniquely. Their unique cellular make-ups absorbed this information at varying wavelengths and spectrum intensities. This complex algorithm was what determined the time for that particular Êlkâr.

Whenever a meeting was scheduled, the attendees would submit their varying numerical values for time. This information was then computed in each of their brains for a universal time value for that particular engagement. It was a detailed and exact process and took place in nano-seconds of timeframe, like engaging a reflex or subconscious action.

An ÿlêvâ which was the unit of time equivalent to a day, was derived from the aggregate numerical value computed from the intensity of electromagnetic force field relayed from the sun to the Žøêrhân surface relative to its gravitational pull, during the particular moon phase in question. This meant, each day on Žøêrhâ was not only unique unto itself but also distinctly different in its Cosmic eccentricity.

The differences in the sizes of the moons likewise greatly affected how they interacted with one another and, by inference, with Žøêrhâ. All but the smallest of the moons, Ç1ñkâ-œ, had a tidal lock with Žøêrhâ. The sheer force of the gravitational pull from the other larger moons was such that Ç1ñkâ-œ’s rotational speed far outpaced its orbital velocity. This occurrence made for a distinct lunar phase, replete with colorful displays from its active surface soil, rock formations, and topography.

The atmosphere on Vøhçû-œ, like the six other moons, had been restored, albeit artificially, for over a millennium, prior. They achieved this by a simple yet highly complex space engineering feat. Significant metal alloys on the lunar surface, acting as charged magnetic particle reflectors, were used as shields against the harmful solar flares from Vrâê and space in general.

These uniquely Žøêrhân alloys also converted harmful solar flares to a cocktail of gases such as hydrogen, helium, and argon. Centuries later, the lab-engineered atmospheric gases were allowed room to condense and then form unique magnetospheres. These then allowed the Êlkâr space stations and also a few die-hard Êlkâr to migrate and live on the moons.

Theirs was indeed an accomplished, type-II, multi-planetary civilization.

Besides the Êlkâr, over a billion life-forms developed, evolved, and thrived on Žøêrhâ, ranging from microscopic single-celled micro-organisms to other avian life-forms with complex neurological systems and highly developed cerebral capabilities.

Mountainous terrain dotted thirty-five percent of the planet’s surface, replete with diamond-like rock formations and other types of crystals.

The crimson red light rays from Vrâê bouncing off the crystal mountains reflected into an array of piercing light spears from far away in space. It was widely believed that this phenomenon protected the planet from extraterrestrial invasions and also helped redirect large asteroids and harmful ultraviolet rays from directly slamming the surface.

Another twenty-seven percent of the planet’s landmass dotted with flora and fauna. A uniquely Žøêrhân eukaryotic-silicon based plant and avian life-form evolved on the world and on its moons where they had set about restoring the atmospheres that were either too thin to sustain any type of life-form or were nonexistent. On Žøêrhâ, several forests of colorful fungi, mushrooms trees, towering in some instances, up to eighty-four feet in height and micro-organisms such as yeasts, algae, and other cytoskeletal microbes, evolved over several millennia.

These algae and mushroom forests sprung up with colorful buds, while their heptagon-shaped trunks had a crimson red suede-like exterior.

The avian life-forms that roamed the forests also evolved from an army of single-celled eukaryotic organisms bonded together and adopting silicone—a commonly available element on the planet and its moons—to form a unique host and exoskeleton. The resulting organism was a cross between crustaceans and soft-bellied worms. Their internal organs also evolved to support life on this unique anatomy and ecosystem.

These avian life-forms evolved along the same lines to develop a single retractable and transparent wing that formed part of their anatomy which, at rest, was tucked away into the entire length of their equally transparent-vertebrae. The striking force of the atmospheric pressure on the planet made this an evolutionary necessity. They were mostly covered in a colorful array of bright feathers, making for an elegant-looking flight.

A billion other life-forms evolved from the same eukaryotic-silicon bond and thrived in the lakes and rivers. The water-based life forms all had transparent abdomens that revealed their intricate vertebrae and internal anatomy.

An eel-like creature sprung up three heads that also doubled as its eyes. Another large creature sprung a dozen fins that also doubled as feet when the amphibious creature came ashore.

Žøêrhâ was a pear-shaped planet with its wider part being the most populated and inhabited. Amongst other unique characteristics, its odd shape and irregular but yet elliptical orbit is thought to be responsible for the planet’s atmospheric gravity, which presented a dual, horizontal, and vertical magnetic pull on the celestial body.

The North and south poles of the planet were uninhabited tundra wastelands where it rained sheets of silicon ice spears most of the mûlêvâ.

A chain of rivers, lakes and other smaller water bodies, dotted the planet and, in the case of its poles, occurred in the form of scenic frozen lakes. The bright orange liquid water smelled like freshly baked confectionery and was surrounded by the planet’s colorful rock formations made from diamond-like, clear silica crystals.

The chemical composition of the water on Žøêrhâ was N2P—two parts nitrogen and one part Pjôçzî, a gas similar in chemical characteristics, properties, and behavior to Oxygen that was unique to the planet and bioengineered on all of its six moons. This gas was responsible for the bright orange coloration and, to a large extent, the odor of the water on Žøêrhâ.

With the non-existence of any oceans or large concentrated water bodies, the relationship with water played a significant role in determining socioeconomic outcomes among the planet’s life forms. The Êlkâr race dominated the other life forms and instituted a complex and highly sophisticated sociocultural system based on universally accepted and empirical truths found in science.

The avian life-forms basic anatomy was as follows; the avian humanoid Êlkâr race evolved as two distinct subspecies. The male and female genders had all the internal and external organs necessary for procreation. These were known as the Êlkê. There were also the second subspecies group of male and female gender, known as the Êlkên. They did not inhibit any specific internal or external organs that supported procreation.

Êlkên were conceived and born alongside other Êlkâr population by normal child-bearing Êlkê females, or at least that was what they believed to be accurate. Whenever this occurred, the infant Êlkên were immediately removed from their Êlkê parents and raised in particular Êlkên-controlled institutions that seasoned Êlkê nurses mostly ran.The same Êlkên made up the ranks of the elite class that controlled the government, defense, industrial, scientific research, space and the socioeconomic landscape in general.

The Êlkâr anatomy, without its external protective sheath, was uniquely suited for life on Žøêrhâ and its moons.

At the top of its bird-shaped anatomy stood the enigmatic-looking, æńê. The same organ functioned as the head, single eye, and brain. It was a clear and transparent heptagon-shaped shell made from a translucent, rigid, silicate membrane.

Nestled inside the shell was a single, large, transparent iris, which at rest was shielded by a dense, orange, cloudy substance that gave way and revealed the imposing iris, each time the Êlkâr glanced at a target object.

Because the Êlkâr iris also doubled as their brains, the cells that made up the eye were the same ones that birthed the neurons responsible for the advanced level of thought that this flourishing civilization had thus far exhibited. In Êlkâr folklore, the phrase, the mind’s eye, denoted a factual statement.

Right below the æńê, the anatomy continued to a soft velvety necklace-type belt, made of the same eukaryotic-silicon based exoskeleton which was the primary compound in the Êlkâr skin membrane. This belt, which was the organ responsible for the transmission and reception of electromagnetic wave signals, encapsulated the lower circumference of the æńê. Likewise, this organ facilitated communication and interaction through a static-electric type, vocal-less hum-speech system.

Below this organ rested a curved, beak-shaped, single nostril that flushed onto a chest cavity.

Emerging from both sides of the stoic chest area were a pair of and long and wiry arms, which retreated entirely into a breast-like sac. Two long and equally wiry legs supporting an average height of about twelve feet tall also retreated during rest into a sac-like membrane at the torso’s base.

Their skin color varied in tone from a semi-transparent turquoise tint to a fully lucid hue of the same color revealing all of its internal organs in their complexity.

The turquoise blood streamed relentlessly from the æńê atop their anatomy to the curved tip of their large toe-less feet. This enormous creature was the average Êlkê avian humanoid.

The male Êlkâr stood about half a meter shorter than their female kind, who had the distinctive features of an oval-shaped, orange-colored iris and a heptagon-shaped pupil-type organ that changed colors depending on the angle of view.

The æńê on a male Êlkâr were, in contrast, half the size of the ones on the female but, more specifically, had a circular pupil that was transparent and enveloped by deep green, equally oval-shaped iris.

The Êlkâr anatomies were covered from the neck down in a coat of self-illuminating, electromagnetically-charged, plasma energy field called the Ńœhæ. Also known as a Piece of Life, it completely shielded their naked and transparent anatomies. The ńœhæ changed its colors relative to the time of day and position of the sun pertinent to the Êlkâr.

This design made for a colorful sea of ńœhæ in a large crowd of Êlkâr. It made a sustained soft buzzing-hum sound when the Êlkâr was in motion and acted as a hum sound amplifier of sorts. The Êlkâr evolution, in the form of the ńœhæ, also functioned as an armor, satisfying the need for form and function.

Most of the avian life-forms in the forests of Žøêrhâ, were six-legged, with two retractable legs protruding from both sides of their tails. This design supported an upright standing position on four hind legs.The largest grew as tall as twenty-four feet. Though their colors varied in small, inconsequential degrees, they mostly spotted a grayish crusty outer coat.

This design contrasted with the forest of mushroom trees that fielded deep purple and orange buds with their crimson-colored, suede-like barks and the luminous lilac-colored grass-like bed of algae.

On a microbial level, the Êlkâr had isolated and then extracted the genetic molecule responsible for procreation found in all the designated harmful organisms, which helped spur the eventual elimination of a deleterious microbe colony from its atmosphere and those