Galaxies away: Extreme changes

Hi!! My Name is Eddrick Dharas, or at least it used to be… Now these ponies keep saying that it’s not a real name and blah blah blah… So guess what? They forced me to change it!!! And they didn’t even let me choose. Those jerks.

I don’t give a shit, I still call myself Eddrick. I really like it’s meaning “Power and good fortune”. But even if I want to always use my old name and hate my new name I have no choice but to stick with it, because I definitely do not want to raise more suspicion than necessary. Really, If they send one of their rulers to the moon for throwing a tantrum out of jealously, I don’t want know what they would do to an alien, so I only call myself by my real name when I’m alone. God, that sounds pathetic…

Anyways life this last month has been… weird, tiring, annoying, full of ponies who think they have the right to control my life, accompanied by the loss of almost everything I knew and had. You know, the usual.

You may be asking. “Why am I telling you this?”(If there anyone listening that is). Well… I need to keep myself distracted meanwhile this ridiculous pony psychologist whannabe, who barely knows anything about the about real psychology, keeps trying to make me talk about my issues… HA! Good luck with that brah. I mean seriously this ponies are so emotionally under developed, that the sole tough of death, meat, blood, and anything related makes them go pale. Sometimes I think that they have the emotional level of a little kid. I bet they don’t know anything besides a happy life, sunshine and rainbows. And it’s all the fault of that god damn old hag Celestia, who keeps mothering even the oldest of ponies!! And to make things worse that clingy cake gobbler refuses to leave me alone  and keeps babying me whenever she has the chance… (Sigh.) Oh great, handsome and marvelous creator, if you exist, please give me the strength to keep going.

I’m probably just confusing everyone with my ramblings, so I guess it’s time to start explaining some things, like who I am (Or was,) where I come from and what happened to me for you to understand my actual situation.

I’ll start with where I come from. My home planet and main settlement of my race it’s planet Shandu, which means adapt, and the members of my race are known as the Assimilators, one of the only two surviving races of human sub-species, known by the Galactic Council. We are a        sub-species evolved from the habitants of old Terra, the birth place of mankind. What made us different as the original human and gave us our name as a sub-species, was our unique ability that allowed us to absorb different genetic codes and use the natural traits of the living being we took them from. This allowed us to adapt fast, change ourselves according to the situation and gave an advantage in terms of survival. Also our body had a special inner “memory” allowing us to absorb and store certain amounts of different genetic codes and use them at convenience.

To explain and maybe clarify, in an easy, a little bit of how this additions manifest, I’m going to compare it to some old Terra's games known as “rpg” and the abilities on those games. Most of the abilities could be classified as active or passive depending on their effect and its duration. An example of and passive ability or trait could be gaining great heat resistance from a volcanic creature used to living in places with really high temperatures and an example of an active one could be something like fire breath or another cliché thing like that. Of course one must consider that this is a simplified explanation and the real stuff have a way bigger complexity and length.

There is also the “complete assimilation”, the biggest taboo of our people. It consist in breaking your original DNA spirals to replace most of them with the code of another species, which means abandoning most of your aspects while taking almost every characteristic that come with that code. This also means that you keep only a small amount of the main characteristics that define an Assimilator.

Of course this kind of assimilation comes with lots of big risks, the main ones being that all the new alien traits and instincts that the other race poses could easily overwhelm you, if your mind wasn’t strong enough, suppressing most of your original self, erasing what make you who you’re. Also even if you had a mind strong enough to overcome those changes, you would have a control equal to that of a new born of that race over the new impulse that comes with your new body.

For and Assimilator this was considered the worst heresy that one could commit (Actually I think it’s the only one). We being a really proud race (Or at least most of us,) consider this as the equal of taking a shit over all of what meant to be part of our race. So naturally the price to pay for that wasn’t pleasant, you lose your legal status as a member of the race and get exiled of any place under the government of Shandu republic and any of its allies territories. So yeah… it’s not pretty.

Now, with that out of the way, it’s time to explain who I am!!! YAAAAY!!! I am Eddrick Dharas, hero of the universe, destroyer of evil, conqueror of worlds!! Ok. No…

I know I’m not fooling anyone hehehe… Aaaaanyway my name it’s truly the one mentioned, and I’m the first Esper category five to be born in a millenia! (Really cool. Hu?). I bet you’re asking “But Mr. Eddrick the awesome. What’s an Esper?” Well my dear listeners, an Esper it’s an individual with the ability to interact and manipulate a cosmic power that flows from another realm in contact with our universe, called “Psi-energy”. What and how much one can do varies depending on the category of the Esper, five being the highest category known at the moment. (Like the most handsome and awesome Assimilator known as ME!!)

Still, I didn’t knew that from the beginning, before my potential as a high level Esper was discovered I lived with my family, in one of the farming colonies on a planet under the government of Shandu, though it wasn’t exactly a normal “farming” place, it was mainly made of bio domes and special controlled environments, and great part of work was done by machines, it was actually really comfortable in general. We keep nice and peaceful life with my Mom, Dad my big brother and my little sister with almost no worries.

Some years later when I was ten years old, I was discovered to be an Esper with high potential, so they sent me to the Esper academy on the second natural satellite of Shandu. It was a really beautiful place full of green and spectacular views, a real natural wonder. The reason this place was so especial was because it had a really good flow of energy and a calming environment, making it an ideal place to teach an Esper how to control its abilities.

Four years since I entered the academy I had reached the status of a category four Esper and was having the best times of my life, and then one day  exiting news arrived (or at least exiting for me at the time,) the Terrans, our last brother race, finally decided to make themselves known and join the galactic council. When I heard the news I went absolutely crazy, I had a probably not so healthy obsession with the culture of old Terra and the Terrans, of all the human sub-species, were the closest one to the original humans. Really, if the human were Homo Sapiens Sapiens these guys were Homo Sapiens Sapiens Aweomens.

The excitement didn’t last long, a couple of months later for some mysterious reason the Terrans declared war on us. Some Said it was because the believed to be only worthy of the original humans legacy and name, I didn’t. I knew there had to be something else, it didn’t make sense at all, but at the moment it did not mater, because we already were at war.

Initially the progress of the war was equal for both sides, we were more technologically advanced, had our ability to adapt at will and had knowledge on the uses of the Psi-Energy, but they were more cunning and their fighting spirit was overwhelming, it was obvious that they were born and grew from war.

The first year of the war was equally sided, but it all suddenly changed they out of nowhere became stronger, it was a mystery to us, just were di they got that power, wasn’t known until the end. The only thing we knew was that the fight had become one sided, and even with our genetic enhancements we could not match them equally on combat.

I had the luck to be nowhere near the battlefields, but luck does not last forever. I was on vacations finally visiting my family again since the last year and everything seemed to be ok, the war hadn’t reached this corner of the system yet, so they still had a relative peaceful life. On the other hand the work did become harder, after all soldiers needs food (Loooooots of food.) Still it was a really nice vacation, I always had a good time while visiting my family.

Then it happened, a strategic strike from the Terrans, they decided to attack an unprepared food supplier. We were unprepared because the planet colony was surrounded by special military outposts in close vicinity of the star system, so nobody though it was possible to pass without us knowing it. It was unknown for us how they managed to pass without being detected and the effect of the attack was almost instant. Fire and death could be seen everywhere, military drop pots falling from space full of soldiers and war machines ready to kill anyone on their way.

Evacuation efforts were put in action, but it was too slow. The chaos finally reached our settlement, I tried to fight and delay them with what I learned in the academy, but it was too much for me alone to handle, so we ran. We ran as fast as our feet could carry us to the nearest evacuation point, we manage to get so close, salvation was just ahead, but the universe had other plans. A drop pod landed just in front of us whit four heavily armored Terran soldiers steeping out of it, and just a second later they opened fire. Everything happened so fast and at same time it was like the world was in slow motion, on instinct I raised a Psi-shield to protect myself. It managed to barely hold, but the rest of my family wasn’t so lucky, they didn’t have genetics useful for combat or protection on their inner memory and I couldn’t create shield strong and big enough for all of us, I was too weak and my weakness cost me too much that day, I had to watch how my family was mutilated, I saw their faces full of pain and horror meanwhile the bullets destroyed their bodies and their blood flew across painting the fields we once used to run and play in red. The last thing I saw of them was my mother’s face full sadness, regret and pain, the she looked at me for an instant showing a small spark of hope whole mothering to me the word “Live”, and then I saw how a bullet when trough her head  finally ending her life.

The four soldiers looked at me with curiosity, probably questioning how I survived, then they just raised their weapons a prepared to shot again. I saw what they were doing and at that moment I felt full of rage, hate, desperation and the desire to see them die in the worst possible way. I lost myself in those fellings, letting everything out. I don’t remember exactly what happened, the moment I calmed myself I just saw pieces of armor and red covering everything around me and fell extremes amounts of pain coursing trough me. That was the day and moment I had awakened as a category five Esper.

After evacuating the colony and reaching Shandu to help the new refuges, I took the decision to join the army, train myself and join the war. As the Esper of highest the category there was, they took and gave me special training in combat and control of the Psi-energy, while also using me in investigations on augmentation of Psi-power and new possible uses for an Esper in combat. (The experiments part was not pretty at all… and in the end the jerks learnt almost nothing!!! Or at least that's what i though.)

It took me ten years to finish everything. (Short, considering that to complete the course of the Esper academy it’s eighteen years for a category four.) And I finally was ready to join the fight and make the Terrans pay for they had done for their pathetic and selfish reasons!!!. Or at least that’s what I wanted. But again the universe it’s an asshole and decided it would be fun to place me in most boring orbital outpost in the galaxy, right next to the third natural satellite of Shandu. Yaaaay…

All of this finally lead to events of a month ago…