As we read in The Torc, Book One - during the last great ice age, the Earth was visited by those who sought a new home after their own was destroyed. However, it was not to be – not then, at any rate. Two factors prevented Earth from being populated by a very different race to humankind.
The first factor was the presence of the indigenous sentient beings – Homo sapiens.
They called us ‘The Brutes’ as those early humans acted first with extreme violence and never bothered to ask questions.
No change there, then.
The human population was spread thinly in small tribal groups with just a precarious hold on the planet, so the aliens came up with a plan that would enable them to colonise the planet, with or without the knowledge or consent of those humans. They might not be in favour of genocide, but should the few and very primitive humans dwindle and die off, did they care?
To attempt to blend in with these humans to establish themselves, the aliens constructed small devices that enabled the wearers to appear human. But it was never to be.
The other factor was more effective than clubs and spears. The smallest creatures – germs, managed to sneak past this advanced race’s defences and killed the crew, but not before the commander managed to send a full and factual report back to the fleet that lurked a very long way away.
One of the devices – a metal torc, was discovered by a farmer in England and ended up in the hands of an individual who became Keira.
The other one was discovered not that far away, but much earlier – on a melting glacier in Norway in around 700 AD.
Handed down from one generation to the next in utmost secrecy – the bearer became part of local Nordic legend – ‘Strykur’ was a hitherto unknown demi-god who appeared to a small town whenever it was threatened, whether by other Nordic people bent on pillage or rape or by Nazi German soldiers bent on invasion in 1940 or by a greedy oil corporation determined to strip the land for shale oil.
As for the message – the long-dead commander of that fateful mission would be pleased to know that it reached its intended recipients – the fleet. However, it was also intercepted by humans and the race was on between those who were seeking the colonise the planet mentioned in the report and those on Earth who needed to translate the message to see if there was any threat to human existence.
Keira came into contact with the modern-day Strykur and with help from a girl who had once called herself the Kestrel and directed by the mysterious Amber, perhaps those like Keira, Amber and others with powers might have to put them to good use in defence of Planet Earth after all!
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As we read in The Torc, Book One - during the last great ice age, the Earth was visited by those who sought a new home after their own was destroyed. However, it was not to be – not then, at any rate. Two factors prevented Earth from being populated by a very different race to humankind.
The first factor was the presence of the indigenous sentient beings – Homo sapiens.
They called us ‘The Brutes’ as those early humans acted first with extreme violence and never bothered to ask questions.
No change there, then.
The human population was spread thinly in small tribal groups with just a precarious hold on the planet, so the aliens came up with a plan that would enable them to colonise the planet, with or without the knowledge or consent of those humans. They might not be in favour of genocide, but should the few and very primitive humans dwindle and die off, did they care?
To attempt to blend in with these humans to establish themselves, the aliens constructed small devices that enabled the wearers to appear human. But it was never to be.
The other factor was more effective than clubs and spears. The smallest creatures – germs, managed to sneak past this advanced race’s defences and killed the crew, but not before the commander managed to send a full and factual report back to the fleet that lurked a very long way away.
One of the devices – a metal torc, was discovered by a farmer in England and ended up in the hands of an individual who became Keira.
The other one was discovered not that far away, but much earlier – on a melting glacier in Norway in around 700 AD.
Handed down from one generation to the next in utmost secrecy – the bearer became part of local Nordic legend – ‘Strykur’ was a hitherto unknown demi-god who appeared to a small town whenever it was threatened, whether by other Nordic people bent on pillage or rape or by Nazi German soldiers bent on invasion in 1940 or by a greedy oil corporation determined to strip the land for shale oil.
As for the message – the long-dead commander of that fateful mission would be pleased to know that it reached its intended recipients – the fleet. However, it was also intercepted by humans and the race was on between those who were seeking the colonise the planet mentioned in the report and those on Earth who needed to translate the message to see if there was any threat to human existence.
Keira came into contact with the modern-day Strykur and with help from a girl who had once called herself the Kestrel and directed by the mysterious Amber, perhaps those like Keira, Amber and others with powers might have to put them to good use in defence of Planet Earth after all!