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Prologue To Montague Alternate Ending

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no mercy. As the other humanoid species among the five realms were much larger and stronger, their size prohibited them from physical confrontation. Instead, the Nekrums created virus-sized intelligences. With these, they were able to infect and thereby pilot living vessels to do their bidding. And as masters of genetic splicing, they had created many kinds of monsters to defend themselves. Montague was aware that Gretchen knew that the origin of their people had begun on a planet other than Naan, in a civilization that was much more evolved than the colony in which they lived. “No longer able to reproduce, the Nekrum race is dying. Long ago, on a distant planet, they learned that the humans of Enot developed a technology that would cure their genetic defect. So they invaded and stole the miracle machine. Soon after they learned that the machine alone couldn’t generate the cure. There was another piece to the secret, and that piece was inserted into the blood of Gabriel Volpi who later escaped Enot and migrated to Naan. He’d come with nineteen other humans who escaped from the clutches of the Nekrums. And he had a son, ensuring the survival of his bloodline and the gene.” …show more content…

Montague laughed. But that was the most challenging obstacle Montague faced. Everything he knew as fact about the world was thought of as fairy tales by the common man. A united community was stronger than one divided, his Sensei had once said. How can I ever convince anyone of such allegations without any real proof, he thought. The majority of people labeled his beliefs myth and legend—children’s stories from ancient past. People thought there was no way monsters from the sky were real. They were not ready to accept the existence of life from other worlds. “What’s the charcoal for?” Gretchen

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