Echoes Across the Stars

Chapter 6

  It feels weird being alive again, i feel like i was killed yesterday and a century ago at the same time, Greg explained me what happened and i didn't expect Khrenta to react that strongly to my death but at the same time, it's Khrenta sometimes you don't know what to expect. Apparently we didn't check before but nanobots prevent our body from decomposing and this is how we were revived so any deaths that aren't making you into pieces (like that poor dude i remember back on earth) or irreparable like burning can be revived, authorities still debate if it should be done to people as it raises a few ethical challenges.

We are being kept hidden from the public for now which reminds me of my beginning with Khrenta and false updates will be posted by Greg with my assistance. I don't like the aspect of lying to everyone but that's understandable considering the situation.

We became good friends with Greg while Khrenta and I were stuck in here and Khrenta isn't jealous as she got to know him while she trained him.

Today our revival story was leaked by someone but most people did not believe it and only some conspiratory groups believed in it, I feel like it won't be good for the credibility of the UE when we will reveal it.

Today an internal meeting took place with me, Khrenta and Greg, since when did we become part of public relations? Anyway they said that due to the leak we need to inform people a lot sooner than expected.

A week later we went on stage for the announcement and you could hear a fly fly by by how much the silence was loud due to people's shock. We later found out that it was pretty well received that we both were alive.

The people did a vote and it was decided to not use the technology to revive current and future dead. Some say it would be unjust for people who were not buried and some say it would ruin the meaning of life and stop societal progress.

A couple cycles have passed and the tensions seem to have calmed down, did we have this effect? I don't know what to think of it.

The leaker was found to be Greg, why Greg, we had become good friend over this time, Khrenta almost went all out on him, luckily I was there to stop her. Sometimes I wonder how she became a psychologist with these impulsion or is it because of me?

A hacker group who was for the revival of people hacked into the nanobots through very complex means as they were thought of unhackable which revived everyone who could be but because they didn't get access to our research the revived were mostly brain dead so like zombies for those who know what those are, human zombies are like those were in earth movie, slow and only dangerous in hordes but Kontu zombies are something else, as they are killing machines there was a case where a small armed group of humans couldn't stop one zombie Kontu.

The hacker group apologized for what they have done and removed the hack from the nanobots but their consequences are still standing on their legs. They were promptly located and arrested.

The UE decided to send only Kontu soldiers and humans would be limited to vehicles like mechs. So that way they would limit losses. Some people say those soldiers who die should be revived and the UE made a meeting to decide and they then said they will.

The KGC send a response to our revival (due to light lag) saying their diplomats are happy to see us back and are waiting for us, they don't know what's to come.

Zombies invaded one of the largest cities on Eondar and when we were informed of that Khrenta said it wouldn't have happened in the KCG as they only cremate and then spread the ashes in space. I shook by that cold response but as I said, she is unpredictable sometimes.

That city was liberated from zombies as were most places and now because the majority of deaths were human the population is now equal in number between Kontu and humans.

A few cycles afterward we got congratulations from the KCG.

After that we went to KCG conquered earth for diplomatic works, I asked to stop by to at least see what remains of the moon metropolis from back then it saddened me to see the bodies still lying there as the city's underground was breached and all the air went away so they didn't decompose at all all this time. Khrenta hugged me with 4 limbs this time as the space suit was civilian so her limb's sharpness stayed inside, it was a nice feeling even through the spacesuit.

We then went to earth, from what I saw they kept our landmarks or what seemed to be landmarks to them to be more precise.

I tripped and fell through the ground and woke up with something rectangular besides me, it was my phone we had to get rid of a long time ago. I looked around and saw human infrastructure but it wasn't Eondar as I felt lighter, is that earth? From back then? Did I time travel?

I asked a nearby person and they looked at me like I was crazy but still said that it's 2023.

I entered a store and it was not the UE currency which pretty much confirms that, i will need to get used to the life on earth again now i guess, find a source of income, find a place to live, make documents and much more.

I pondered for a while and decided to digitalise everything I wrote and post it as a sci-fi story.