The greatest of the Alpha Centauri, the leaders were known as Scions. For every trillion of their race, there was at least one Scion and there were millions of Scions at the peak of their civilization. The Scions were the true masters of creation and they formed and designed the galaxies, the stars, planets, everything. They created the void and connected everyone's minds into a collective. Of these, iG was one of the first and greatest of the Scion's.
The Alpha Centauri woman named Ilara knew a great deal about the Scions as she was tasked by the brain worms to hunt them. She brought them to the brain worms and it was such a feast, her reward was being excluded from their constant feedings and in time a promise that when all the Scions were eliminated all the remaining Alpha Centauri would be released from their sleep farms.
When the brain worms were initially presented to the Alpha Centauri, they were deemed as a gift of a new life. They could erase memory and with the safety of the collective, an Alpha Centauri could reassemble their lost thoughts. A temporary amnesia was enticing for very long lived beings, to become almost child like again.
Like points of light, the Scions served as bastions of all the memories of the Alpha Centauri and whenever someone was ready to restore their thoughts they would seek out a Scion. With countless millions of Scions illuminating the void, there was no reason to ever fear the permanent loss of their collective.
For a long time, they co-existed and were in balance and alignment. Then something tipped the scale and they discovered too late the brain worms were actually a weapon. Create by a Scion who had defied the others when he discovered a new creation being crafted by the other Scions, man.
Instinctively, some of the Scions knew the true purpose of the brain worms and began conceiving of a creature that was not connected to the void and would serve as vessels for an Alpha Centauri. Primitive man was designed with a massive brain that it had little use for, even now we use only a fraction of our capacity. Ilara explained, this was by design. But she shared the brain is only one of the storage compartments of a living being and there are other devices that we cannot perceive physically. We can access them as we sometimes get feelings or hunches, that do not originate from our primordial brain.
It was iG who rescued the humans under his care and sent them to Alpha Centauri. Either he didn't realize or he knew, he also sent another, Zal who was part of the opposing faction of Scions that created the brain worms. It's Zal whose brain who we found on Proxima B and she found that quite odd we would listen or take lessons from someone who hates mankind more than anything.
Zal cannot be trusted. He is a worthless being, he desired to join the ranks of the Scion, but his puny intellect could not fathom what is necessary. And those feelings of rejection, festered and created a twisted mind.
I asked Ilara if she was a hunter and once allied with the same faction as Zal's how could we trust her? She agreed and said she shouldn't be trusted as she wants to return to the void and the collective and would do anything in her abilities to accomplish this. But unlike Zal, she has no ill will towards mankind and simply wants to leave. And if we keep her imprisoned for much longer, she couldn't promise she would eventually resent us.
There are so few Scions remaining and those that cling to life will eventually be found. Once they are all gone, she will be free. She can only laugh at mankind's audacity to think they could evolve into a Scion with such a short lifespan. It takes countless lifetimes, entire galaxies can form and die several times before someone is capable of even understanding what it means to become a Scion.
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