Fiction:United Federation of Species/Stories/Tales of a Researcher/Troodontids

Note: this event has not yet taken place

Kvasir just spent his time optimizing the new weapon technology. Afters uccessful tests the Death Ray was now almost finished and ready to put on spaceships. Kvasir was quite euphoric, but also a bit tired. It was late night and he hadn`t slept for almost three days.

??? - You look tired, Kvasir. Kvasir - Who is there ? Kalmar, is that you ? ??? - No, I am Kalmar, but continue trying, it is funny.

Kvasir turns around and looks around to see who is talking to him, but he can`t see anyone.

Kvasir - Really ! I have no time to play games ! ??? - Even you and I need time to play, Kvasir.

Kvasir looks above locating the voice finally.

??? - Do you give up? Kvasir - Do I seem so, aerial voice ? ??? - Ok, I am from a race that you know, but not very well. You possibly don't know anything about me. Kvasir - OK, you can fly, you can speak Troodontid language and most likely are invisble. I have no clue. ??? - You are funny, you can call me The Researcher. Kvasir - Ok, the Researcher. Can you become visible, or are you non-corporal ? The Researcher - I am and I not, but if the question is if I could show me as a corporal being, the answer is yes. Kvasir - I see. Ok, could you please become visible. It is awkward to speak with noone visible.

A bright light lit up the area, all from the place where the voice came immediately, as emerging from the space itself, there was a figurade almost two meters high, whose shape resembled a Giomus.

The Researcher - Is it better? Kvasir - Big show effects ... Nice ... Yes, it is better. So you are a Giomus, or at least an advanced form ? The Researcher - Both... and none. Kvasir - So, a species descended from a Giomus. Jugding from your appeareance possibly ascended ? The Researcher - Very insightful, it is true, I am an ascended Giomus Kvasir - It is a pleasure to meet you. You call yourself Researcher. i guess you once were scientist ? The Researcher - Scientist ... Sorcerer ... Mage Kvasir - OK, and now: why are you here ? The Researcher - It is a good question, why am I here ? Kvasir - I´m serious now, so please no more guessing games. The Researcher - You are a scientist, aren't you ? Kvasir - Yes The Researcher - So, when you are trying to solve the greastest misteries in the universe, are not you trying to solve a guessing game ? Kvasir - Well, usually I like riddles, but I´m not a great fan of guessing things. Too much luck, too less logic. The Researcher - Good, I agree with you. Kvasir - Thank you, now I really would like to know why you are here. The Researcher - This is an easy question, I am here because I am researching. Kvasir - On Troodontids, on me, on our new weapon or any other technology ? The Researcher - In all above and more. Kvasir - You definitly like to talk in mysterious ways. The Researcher - It is one of the few things funny aobut the mortals, his talent to try to solve mysteries. Kvasir - Maybe ... The Researcher - Anyway, did you ask me the why that I am here? Kvasir - Yes, I did do so. The Researcher - Well, I am researching something that you are developing. Kvasir - What are you doing research on ? We devolop lot of things ... The Researcher - Everything is interconnected, so if I research just one thing I possibly can't understand it at all. Kvasir - That is true. The Researcher - As you were doing with this "Project Immortality"

The Researcher smiled.

Kvasir - Ah, yes. Nice project. My own idea. I think you already know most about it, it doesn´t seem very uncommon. The Researcher - Yes, is something pretty common, but your project is still forgeting something. Kvasir - What have we forgot ? The Researcher - I'll reply your question with another question, what do you know about the essence? Kvasir - Force fields that cover the galaxies and can be affected by lifeforms and weapons, if I remember it right. The Researcher - Well, yes and no. Kvasir - Well, the point is. We can not develop technologies using essence, because we lack the capability to affect it. Our brains have developed into the opposite direction too far. The Researcher - This is were I come to help you. Kvasir - And how would you help us ? The Researcher - The essence study is not very different from the science. In fact, I believe that are two ways to achive the same thing. Kvasir - And what are these ways ? The Researcher - One is the study of the multiverse as a material thing, its laws and how it behaves as before them. The other... Kvasir - Yes, the other ?

The Researcher moved a hand and the space times slipped around it, light and darkness, the opposites were shown to Kvasir.

The Researcher - The other is try to undertand what is beyond of this. Kvasir - I don´t understand it. It is beyond the point I or my species could imagine. The Researcher - The essence is a thing, a quid, something that is and is not.

The Researcher's voice became deeper and more powerful

The Researcher - None could understand it without eons of study, meditation and researching. Kvasir - Then why did you show me ? The Researcher - Becouse you are a clue, a key point in a plan, my plan, a plan to free this universe from... them. Kvasir - From who ? The Researcher - The gods, the beings that play with us in a chess game. Kvasir - You talk of omnipotent things, I guess ? The Researcher - You will understand, soon.

The Researcher suddenly disappeared in an explosion of light.

Kvasir - Don´t think so ...

Where the Researcher were stood, it was a inscription etched on the floor and Kvasir moved towards the inscription starting to read it: "Only when someone go out of the routine and find the truth on the other way, just when both ways are leveled, only then, the path to enlightenment will be revealed."

Kvasir - Great ! More cryptic messages ...

Suddenly a holoprojector appeared on the floor and Kvasir turned towards it hoping that there would finally be something that allows him to understand what is meant. The projector showed several images which explained the relationship between essence and life itself and how its different variations could alter the functioning of this.Kvasir finally began to understand how it worked.

At the end of the projection, a holographic image of the words "Now is better?" appears.

Kvasir - Indeeed, better now.

Billions of kilometres away, The Researcher sighed. The Researcher - Mortals... Why they never understand my jokes.