Ven-trix World of Spires

By Dale Stubbart

There are various versions of space-faring races. There are also various ways in which they might get along. That doesn't seem likely to happen this time.

The Errowroots only travel through space when they need a new Planet. The people of Ven-trix explore space as little as possible. They have that capability, but nobody there really wants to Explore space. The Errowroots are conquerors. The use a Planet until it is used up. Then they go and conquer the next one. The people of Ven-trix are peaceloving. Still, they're isolationists. They don't want visitors from outerspace, let alone neighbors.

The Errowroots always easily conquer the next Planet. Yet something went wrong when they tried to conquer Ven-trix. Selectron, a machine with many randomly pulsating lights has decided that Etosh, a young Errowroot, will go down to the Planet and find its weaknesses. Selectron makes all the decisions for the Errowroots. Selectron is never wrong.

Cher-dan lives on Ven-trix. Unlike everyone else on that Planet, he would love to go to space. Maybe next year, when he is of age. 

What will happen when these two encounter each other?

The Errowroots have Selectron - an all powerful machine on their side. The people of Ven-trix has Ven-trach on theirs. Ven-trach is an all powerful entity who is referred to as The One. Will the Errowroots conquer Ven-trix and make all it's people their servants? Or will Ven-trix somehow survive?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dale Stubbart
• Release date: Oct 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223277538

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Cher-dan’s Journey

Table of Contents

Cher-dan’s Journey

All is Good

Except For When There Was Concern

Spires and Aspirations

Upside-down Cones

An Alien Visits Ven-trix

The Errowroots

Time For a New Planet

There Is Always One Outlier

Bi-chen Move

There Are Spaceships

And Then, There Are Spaceships

Apparition On the Horizon

Touchdown

Across a Barren Landscape

No Way In

Cher-dan Stares Back

Leaving Seventh

Etosh’s Infiltrator-ship

No Place For Outsiders

No Room For Failure

That Vanguard-ship

Time to Return

Ven-trach – The One

Deep In the Center

An Author Who Doesn’t Fit In

All is Good

And all will always be good

The blast from the Alien Spaceship lit up the evening sky. Shades of orange and purple, gray and black filled the evening edge of sky from bottom to top.

Sunsets, when seen, were always this tall. Yet, the light from the twin stars which Ven-trix circled rarely made a display such as this, for the sky of this Planet was always heavy with particulate matter.

There were times when enough light was reflected off of the white-fog colored Spires to light up the sky. As you may have guessed, those times were rare. They only happened a few times every ri-Ven, which is the time it takes for Ven-trix to circle its twin stars Ven-trana and Ven-tror.

It was good that the sky of Ven-trix was full of particulate matter. Otherwise the light from the twin stars would be so bright that all of the people of Ven-trix would be blind.

The sky had always been this full of particulate matter. Nothing had changed in this regard.

The people of Ven-trix only know that there are two Suns, because they’re a spacefaring race. Luckily, they have always used viewscreens in their Spaceships. So, they were only blinded by the two suns on their first trip into Space. They were able to dim the brightness of their viewscreen quickly enough that it was only temporary blindness.

There are sunsets and sunrises on Ven-trix. Both Suns rise and set at approximately the same time. To the people of Ventrix, there is at most one sunrise and one sunset per day. Usually, there is neither.

A bright light had never been seen in the sky, not until tonight. Everybody knew that something had happened. And, it didn’t take them long to assure themselves that it must be from some Alien Spaceship.

It was good that the blast from the Alien Spaceship only penetrated the upper atmosphere. It was good that the Aliens had been deterred.

Their Spaceship was now leaving the system of these two suns - Ven-trana and Ven-tror. This system was known to those who lived there as the Ven-tri-system.

These Aliens would pass by the other Planets and moons. These ones would find that only Ven-trix was habitable.

These ones would not find Welcome here. And, these ones would all leave.

No Aliens had ever come before. And, hopefully this would be the last time.

Alien means belonging to another. Or in this case, the other – meaning everything outside of the Ven-tri-system.

The people of Ven-trix were peaceful. They were kind and willing to share with others. Nevertheless, Ven-trix was full. Ven-trix had no room for others, except for their children who emerged each ri-Ven.

ALL IS GOOD. ALL HAD always been Good, except for shortly after the evening sky of Ven-trix had been lit. Now, the people could see the sunset from bottom to top.

That had happened before. Nevertheless, they knew that this time, it was different.

Except For When There Was