Arrogance's Warpath

Part 1: Warpath, Chapter 1: A New World

                                                        Introduction

Eden, an old name for a new world. Not so long ago, the people of earth found a device far under the earth, one composing of technology nobody could possibly hope to comprehend. "The Gateway" was the name given to this device. The Gateway acted as a portal to another world, a planet like ours. The planet we now called Eden bared so many similarities to ours, almost as if both are worlds were out the same packet. Eden was composed of great rainforests, barren deserts and the bluest oceans you have ever seen, but what really drew the interest of the corporations was the resources which could be harvested. Oil, Diamonds, Gold, even crystals the likes of which we had never seen before. The only thing that stood in mankinds way of obtaining these comodities, was the natives to this vast world.

"Beasts" is the derogitory term for these natives. Creatures which are little more than animals on earth make up the civilizations on this strange world. The Elephants, Apes, Dolphins, Killer Whales and Magpies on this world are just as much of people as you and me.

There is only one thing that stops Man and "Beast" living togheter side by side, that thing is Arrogance. Mankind is arrogant enough to believe that no creature rivals its intelligence. Beasts that walk like us are to be treated as inferiors, afterall anything that isn't human is an animal.

                                             From the perspective of Maggie

The blazing heat of the desert roared, the fierce winds blowing, yet it didn't seem like that much. You can adapt to the climate of any place easily. The barren surroundings seemed like nothing. The Eden Wastelands started to seem like the real world, and the land from whence I first came felt like nothing but a fantasy.

Jamie was by my side, my brother, aged twelve. His appearance was clearly different to that of me and Rod. Rather than the expected black hair, hazel eyes, he actually had blonde hair, blue eyes. He looked almost angelic in a way. Dad always tells us that he got his appearance from our mums side. Jamie was an odd child, never understood other kids, nor did he want to, he would any day rather go off and do his own thing. Jamie rarely spoke, but when he did, he did so in such a way that you couldn't doubt he was well read, and intelligent.

Another odd thing about Jamie, was how he broke the pattern which every other member of the family seemed to follow. Every child on my mum's side of the family seemed to have a twin of the opposite sex. I had my brother Rod, my mum had Uncle Brick, yet Jamie oddly enough doesn't have a twin sister, and therefore is the exception to the pattern.

Standing before us was a symbol of tyranny and terror, of mankinds "Superiority", it looked like nothing more than a big sign saying "Fuck you, we can settle wherever the fuck they like.". This horrific symbol, was our house. When you start seeing the world in a different way, you start seeing the world in a different way, and that's what the house meant to me. Lately I started noticing what was wrong with the world rather than what was right, seeing the flaws and falsehoods of all the building blocks that make up society.

I pressed the button on the door, and the pannel came out, it began speaking to me "Please press your thumb on the pannel." I put my thumb on it "User recognised: Maggie Moors. Come inside", at which point the door unlocked.

I opened the door to the house I knew so well. Within the kitchen I could see Dad waiting for us. "You're home early!" I yelled in to the kitchen

"Decided to come home early" he responded, he let out a sigh "Nothing new to update, no attacks, all preperations made. Work has been slow."