Past Crimes

Greetings to everyone, the following story was inspired by the digital art of @xpilar, I invite you to visit his blog. The picture that motivated this story is the following.

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Past Crimes

The calm, analytical and peaceful Inus, perhaps thanks to having reached such an evolved state that they simply decided to abandon the complications that a fragile physical body implies, were not always as kind as they say they are today.

Quin explained to the crew members of the Icarus fleet, as several million years ago, their species in their eagerness to colonize new worlds and without the necessary patience to undertake the adaptation of them to their requirements as species; they seized inhabited planets, and undertook true campaigns of extermination of those species that turned out to be hostile or uncomfortable to them.

Even the Earth could have been victim of his appetites, in his encounter with the ancient world of humans, only his high gravity and distance from the colonized region saved him from joining the list of worlds that fell under his domain.

However, an old acquaintance of humans did suffer, prey to his ruthless behavior, the world today called Typhon, an oceanic planet, was one of its victims, a world that humans found completely uninhabited, simply one of the many oceanic worlds that abound in the galaxy, most of them too massive to be inhabited.

According to the images shown by Quin, Typhon was, before the arrival of the Inus, a world rich in life forms, gigantic beings with a variety of forms moved swimming, propelling themselves and crawling across their ocean. But many of these life forms turned out to be incredibly territorial, many of them behaved aggressively with Inus ships and colonies.

So, by decision of the collectivity, began the extermination of these, starting with the most conflictive and then following for any other reason that for one or another will be uncomfortable.

What happened in Typhon was the greatest extermination committed by the Inus, all multicellular life forms were massacred and in the end, with the excuse of preventing possible contamination with pathogens, the whole world was irradiated and any single-cell life form was also annihilated.

This happened during the last moments of the Inu colonization in Orion's arm, when his colonies were being ravaged by an epidemic that was killing his population, so that ultimately Typhon was never really colonized, which made even more despicable the massacre committed on him.

As they listened to Quin's story, the crew members of the Icarus fleet, were increasingly horrified by him, in their minds there was only room for the question, were the Inus really as selfless and friendly as they claimed to be?

Text of @amart29 Barcelona, Venezuela, July 2019

Other stories from the Time and Space series

• Los Puentes / The Bridges
• El Vacío / The Void
• Silecio / Silence
• Orfeo / Orpheus
• Minando mundos / Mining worlds
• Cangrejos / Crabs
• El Zoológico Terrestre / The Earth Zoo
• El Destino de Fenrir / The Fate of Fenrir
• Mundo Océano / Ocean World
• Púlsar / Pulsar
• Esferas / Spheres
• El Reactor (1/2) / The Reactor (1/2)
• El Reactor (2/2) / The Reactor (2/2)
• Encuentro / Meeting
• El Nodo / The Node
• Los Inus / The Inus
• Singularidad / Singularity
• Evolución / Evolution
• Past Crimes

I can only thank @xpilar for allowing me to use his digital art in my publication and for motivating my creation. Thank you very much @xpilar

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