"It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Queen Mackenzie"
Sobek stared at the woman in front of him. She was apparently a normal person, she was even dressed like an ordinary woman... but after all, the era in which kings and queens wore sumptuous clothes and made themselves known in public had long since ended up on Eden as well. It was normal for an important character to dress normally in the modern era, even if she was a queen.
Besides, he felt like he had already seen her somewhere... that she was also a reincarnate, like the characters of Jurassic Park and Zoo? After all, God seemed to enjoy always playing strange tricks on him...
Pauline was paralyzed in front of him. For a few moments she refused to believe that all the parts of the body her eyes saw belonged to a single creature. She mistook a part of the tail for the whole tail; she took a small piece of a tooth that protruded from the lips for a complete tooth; and he thought that the tangle of le
Pauline had turned white as a rag: "D... Destroy the NMWA?""Yes. There is no other way" Sobek replied without batting an eye.Pauline felt sweat form on her forehead. She had expected a burdensome request... but that? Overthrow the organization that for centuries had prevented humanity from being plagued by useless wars? She felt like she was committing a crime. "Why?" she asked almost without realizing it.“Because the NMWA is now irrecoverable. If we want to build something new, firmer and fairer, we must first make it disappear"Only then did Pauline realize that Sobek had a well-articulated plan in mind. "Could you explain to me?" she asked more confidently."Very simple. As I have already said, the NMWA is irrecoverable. Any reform that will undermine the power of the top nations will be eliminated immediately. Internal change is impossible, so external change is needed” Sobek explained. "What I am asking of you, Pauline, is to cr
When Pauline got back to the car, neither she nor Jocelyne said a word. They both got into the vehicle and didn't even look each other in the eye.Only when the soundproof barriers were raised and the two were able to enjoy real privacy did Jocelyne finally speak: "So, how did you go?"Pauline was not sure how to describe it. "It was... different from my expectations""I figured" Jocelyne replied. "It's very difficult to follow her reasoning, isn't it?"Pauline nodded. “I expected it to be more… animalistic, but instead I felt like I was the one with the least cognitive abilities of the two. How is it possible that a dinosaur has come up with such a brilliant plan, while we humans have never succeeded?"“Oh, so he told you about that project. Have you decided to accept it?""No not yet""Your gaze says otherwise"Pauline wrinkled her nose. “I want to accept. The idea of creating this new world is... e
When they returned to the hotel, Jocelyne took leave allowing the Queen of Prettania to return to her room. Pauline did not blame her: she was sure that the president of the Great Republic of Beleriard also needed to rest.The two women had argued vigorously while they were in the car. Jocelyne had answered all of Pauline's questions, thus showing that the 'Eden Union' project had been thoroughly researched for a long time. Despite the girl's excellent preparation, however, the queen was able to propose some improvements thanks to her greater experience in the field.By now she was more and more convinced that accepting to create this organization was the right choice for her. After all, if a superpower like the Kingdom of Prettania had proposed such a thing, at least a hundred nations would have followed suit on the spot, and many more would have joined in the following months. Eden Union had a very good chance of success and if they played their cards right they coul
The next day Pauline again prepared to meet Jocelyne, but this time she decided it was best to take Darius, Harris and Grace with her. After all, they had already seen the city and there was no need to explore it further.When the four went down to the hotel lobby they found Jocelyne and her staff already waiting for them. Pauline noticed that the girl had slight bags under her eyes, a sign that she hadn't slept much. "Have you rested enough?" she asked her.Jocelyne shrugged: “With the new elections approaching, I don't have much time to rest. Don't worry, I wouldn't do this job if I weren't ready for sleepless nights” she replied with a smile."Do you expect to be re-elected?""The polls show that currently most of the popular support is on my side"Jocelyne was not a person particularly attracted to power, because she knew that power as well as privileges also brought a lot of trouble. However, she wanted to make sure that the people
Not even two days after that event, the Queen of Prettania and her entourage had already returned to their country. Their return marked a drastic change in the lives of citizens.For three days, people saw trucks whizzing from one side of the nation to the other. Nobody knew what they were doing and why. In particular, the Tanz industries were working at full speed. Even the workers and truckers didn't seem to know much about what was going on. All they knew was that it was a major project ordered by the queen.Then, at dawn on the fourth day, a magnificent surprise greeted the people: in all the cities of the nation, from the largest to the smallest, trucks loaded with all kinds of food were flowing.People reacted to the event with extreme joy. Due to the naval blockade, famine and the almost total loss of the livestock industry, a large part of the population was starving. But now, the food was finally back!Nobody knew where it came from and nobody ca
"Darius!"Liam's scream of surprise was well motivated, and Darius couldn't blame the boy when he ran to hold him in a bone-breaking hug. Even though it had already been a month since he, Harris, Grace and Pauline had returned from the Great Republic of Beleriard, the tycoon hadn't had time to physically return to the Tanz industries. Up until now, he'd just made phone calls and let his subordinates and Harris's do the work. After all, as prime minister, he could not fail to attend the drafting of the new constitution, and consequently he hardly ever left the royal palace.Obviously he had contacted Liam, at least to assure him that he was okay, but hearing someone's voice over a phone was different than talking to him in person. Therefore Darius could only return the embrace of his protégé as soon as he saw him. “Sorry it took me so long” he simply said."Do not worry. I guess you've had your work cut out” Liam replied letting hi
Alan Grant could barely move. There was nothing around him, only rubble and dust. The corpses of humans and animals were scattered everywhere, completely burned by something, of some of them only the shadow squashed on the wall remained.Alan felt he was in danger, he felt he had to leave, but he couldn't. It was as if something was anchored there. Then suddenly he heard a roar and snapped his head; but he could not see anything, because a great light hit him, and words emerged from it..."Alan?"Professor Grant gasped and sat up. Ellie appeared in his field of vision, visibly shaking him: “Alan, wake up. We're almost there" the boy said, only to notice the man's face. "Have you had another nightmare?"Alan put his hat back on and turned to the window. "Forget it, I'm fine""Are you sure…?""I'm fine!"Ellie fell silent. He knew that in some cases it was better not to provoke professor Grant.Alan had visibly aged
The day Pauline Mackenzie appeared before the NMWA, the whole world was in turmoil. Everyone, from the northernmost shores of Saramir to the southern shores of Laurentia, wanted to finally know what was boiling in the pot.Nobody was stupid enough to think that the Queen of Prettania was going to challenge the whole NMWA on her own. It would have been crazy. No, there must be something under it, it was obvious. And everyone was pawing with curiosity.When Pauline's car appeared in front of the NMWA building, the queen was literally besieged by journalists. However, there was no answer to their questions from her. The security guards had wasted no time and had removed the curious as kindly as possible (so to speak...), forming a passage in the crowd through which the queen was able to reach the building.As soon as she reached the common room the eyes of all present turned on her. Pauline noted that many of them did not belong to the representatives of the variou
It took Sobek a few moments before he realized he was back in the room where it all began. That room where time and space ceased to exist, and where everything and nothing seemed to have changed at the same time. He already knew where he had to go; walking through the infinitely large (or perhaps infinitely small) room, in a few minutes (or perhaps a few centuries, who knows) he reached the familiar armchair on which was seated a woman with white skin and light hair.God didn't even seem to move since she sent him to Eden. Even her expression didn't seem to have changed at all. She was still the same, beautiful and terrible at the same time, whose gaze was both magnetic and loving on him. “Welcome back, son,” she greeted him in her crystal clear voice.Sobek advanced on her. This time there wasn't an armchair waiting for him, but a large mattress wide enough to allow him to lie down. She lay back on it and gazed intently at God. Even now, after he'd grown i
On the continent of Maakanar, near a river that was once a typical spinosaurus nesting place, something immense could be seen. A huge creature was lying on its belly, but nevertheless it was so tall that its dorsal sail towered over the surrounding masts.Sobek was now thirty-three years old. To say he had grown into a behemoth was an understatement: he now measured 150 meters from head to tail and reached 45.6 meters in height. Even without activating the mutation he was now larger than Godzilla: the gigantic atomic reptile was a tiny lizard compared to him. All kaiju would be small compared to him. Even King Ghidorah would have been forced to acknowledge its superiority.In the last five years he had hardly moved. After the death of his last loyalist he returned to his birthplace and settled there. He ate what was provided to him from the [Personal Manger] and drank the water from the river. Otherwise, he remained calm, warming himself in the sun or admiring the star
After a few days Nefertiti settled at the lake together with her father and her last remaining uncle. With the help and indications of Sobek she built a comfortable nest and there she laid her egg.Thus began the brood. The female spinosaurus never moved from above her little egg, keeping it constantly warm. Sobek and Buck brought her food and water. When Nefertiti was hot, Sobek used her huge wing as a parasol and Buck fanned her with his tail. In the rare moments when it was cold, the two of her huddled to help her warm up.That routine went on for three months. Finally, at the end of the third month, a familiar clicking sound came from under Nefertiti's paws.The female spinosaurus reared up and looked down. A small crack was opening on the egg. With a smile she moved from above it. The crack widened more and more and finally a large piece of egg broke off, showing a lively green eye that stared intently at Nefertiti.“Hello, baby. I'm your mothe
Time had passed again. Sobek couldn't even figure out how much time had actually passed now. One year? Two? Maybe three? He didn't know.After his retirement, Sobek had gone deep into the forest of Maakanar. It was hard for him to move his huge body through the trees and very often ended up destroying them: his passage was evident as a trail of uprooted trunks was always behind him. He had moved permanently to the lake where he had met Buck and where he had established his first army. And he hadn't gone there alone.Carnopo and Buck had joined him just a month after his departure. They, too, had decided they'd had enough and abandoned their roles entirely. After all, in the new world there was no longer a need for either an army commander or one of the shock legion. Now there was peace, and the old war veterans had no reason to try to find their place in their world. So they had decided to do what they had always done: follow their pack leader.The trio spent th
Another year had passed. In Sobek's eyes, time seemed to have begun to flow more rapidly. The months and weeks all passed almost the same and in a flash the morning turned into evening.Humanity had continued its advance. By now, Aphrodites had been fully colonized. Whole cities had sprung up on it and millions of settlers had begun to live there. Davis had now reached more than a billion inhabitants and Hermes now owned thousands of mining establishments.Thanks to teleportation technology it was so advanced that traveling between planets was even easier than going from one city to another. Since energy and material consumption were now no longer a concern thanks to solar panels on Hermes and mining plants on asteroids, everyone had a portable teleportation device. By now, being hired to work a mine on an asteroid was no different than being hired to work at the local convenience store.Colonies on the moons of Leviathan and Behemoth had multiplied, providing e
More time, more changes. In just one year, many things had changed.Nefertiti had assumed control of the entire astrophysics division of the dinosaur pack, effectively acting as acting pack leader for them. After the first shared mission, she had begun to promote more policies of integration and union between humans and animals. She had facilitated interspecies interspace operations, sending animals and humans to work together in the new worlds to be colonized. Furthermore, there was still much to colonize, as human attention was slowly shifting beyond the outer Solar System to the dwarf planets and comets of the Oort Cloud.The work was not cheap and with it the possibilities of working together. With the Dyson Sphere nearing completion, energy was no longer an issue. After determining which moons to colonize, the Eden Union had begun an intensive mining program in the asteroids of the main belt in order to be able to build huge lenses to capture the sunlight and also
One more year, more innovations. The more time passed, the more progress seemed to accelerate. It was like a speeding train that multiplied its speed every second: first slow, then faster and faster, until it turned into a giant projectile.Sobek knew that progress was bound to accelerate more and more, after all it was his nature. For each new discovery, countless doors open. And every door leads to other doors. This was the nature of progress. It was no coincidence that it took humanity less than two hundred years to go from horses to aircraft capable of leaving the orbit of their home planet.He recalled that on Earth, where he came from, progress had become so fast in the 21st century that it was enough to be born even a generation later or further back to find oneself in a completely different world. While in 1990 the main communication system was the satellite phone, in 2020 people used social networks for the most disparate things. While in 1990 movies were watc
More time had passed. This time it was a year… or maybe a year and a half? I don't know. Not that it mattered much, actually.The world's attention to the inner solar system was gradually waning. Now that three planets had been terraformed, even if one of them still wasn't enough, and Hermes had become a stable colony that was continuously producing large panels of glass that joined in the orbit of the Sun to form the Dyson Sphere, the humanity was beginning to anticipate new challenges. From the inner solar system it was time to move to the outer solar system.Although some colony outposts were already present on some moons of Behemoth, they could not be defined as true colonies. However, now that energy consumption was no longer a problem thanks to the Dyson Sphere, which although not completed already released enormous amounts of energy, the Eden Union decided to start an exploration program of the entire outer solar system, or at least of the space between B
Two more years had passed. The advance of humanity towards the stars continued inexorably.The hypotheses of the scientists had proved to be correct: using a combination of gravity control technology and energy obtained from the Dyson sphere, although still incomplete, they had managed to accelerate the rotation of Aphrodites. The planet was slowly accelerating, though not too fast. There was generally talk of an hour each week. At this speed there was no risk of destroying the infrastructure already present on the planet. Yes two years, the rotation period had gone from 2082 hours to 1978 hours. Continuing at this rate, it was expected to reach 24 hours in 'just' another 38 years.Once this process was completed, the huge orbiting mirrors could finally be taken off. The day/night cycle would no longer be artificially determined and there would no longer be the risk that something would go wrong due to the impact of a micrometeorite. In addition, the accelerated rotati