Velan Drones

Excerpts from Introduction to Xenology by A. Segin.

Introduction

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, life emerged from the oceans onto exposed and barren rock. It seemed a cruel and absurd place to live, but it was a necessary part of achieving the next step in development, of overcoming animal instinct and building a new world of faith and reason.

So it is with us today. Mankind has begun to use those two tools to lift himself from the comfortable but entrapping cradle of his birth into the new world beyond. It falls to us to continue this work and bring him yet another step closer to union with the Divine. The challenges facing us are enormously greater than those that faced our distant ancestors on old Earth, but we have three advantages that they did not: The tools of faith and reason with which to build, and the privilege of access to those that already live in the world we seek to reach.

To be a xenologist is not just to develop new weapons for our soldiers, or new techniques for construction. It is a sacred duty to the forefathers that gave us the blessed life we have and the successors who will pass beyond us into the next world. It is a profound honour that places one in the presence of those who live closer to the Divine than we have ever touched. It is both scientific field and religious commission, the union of faith and reason and the gateway to ascension.

This book gives a broad introductory treatment to the biology and ecology of Velan drones.