Copyright 1999, Lyta. All rights reserved. No part of this story may be
re-posted in part or in full without written permission from me.
Disclaimer: Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict is copyright 1998, Tribune
Entertainment Co. Its characters are used without permission, no infringement is intended.
Rating: PG
Title: Mori'as
Author: Lyta
Lyta_1028@yahoo.com
Summary: Ha'gel is faced with his world crumbling all around him
"Mori'as"
"The Taelons attacked Mori'as! They slaughtered
all!" Lori'ah said as she burst into Ha'gel's quarters on the Kimeran research
vessel.
Ha'gel would have staggered had he been standing as the full impact of
Lori'ah's words sank into his consciousness. Memories of his parents and the homeworld of
his youth swam sickeningly before him in a rapidly rushing river he could not dam.
"All?" His words contained a twinge of hope that some of his
family might have escaped the devastation.
Lori'ah went from the pale pink of stress to the soft cerulean of
sympathy and compassion. No words were necessary. Ha'gel stared down at his shaquarava,
but they remained still.
Grief washed over him and he requested that Lori'ah leave him so he
could begin the rites of mourning. All his family have settled on the Kimeran colony on
Mori'as, now he was alone but for Lori'ah whose connection to his family was tenuous. With
a mental touch of compassion, Lori'ah disappeared into a corridor and sealed the door
behind her leaving Ha'gel to summon the memories of his newly deceased family members and
begin the ritual.
He was exploring the somewhat faded recollections and experiences of
his great-grandparents when the Kimeran vessel was rocked by a massive explosion. Ha'gel
was jolted out of his memory trance, but before he could contact the control deck for an
update he heard the warning siren: destruction imminent, abandon vessel. Ha'gel ran to the
nearest escape pods, where he found two children huddled in an alcove. Both were the
offspring of Kar'dan, one the result of a more recent joining with the Taelons. There was
no time to comfort the frightened children as he picked them up and placed then in an
escape pod, the hybrid's eyes wide with fear and his sibling the brilliant scarlet of
terror.
Once the children were away, Ha'gel sealed himself in another pod. Once
he was clear of his ship, he located the coordinates of the nearest planet a Kimera could
survive on. The only candidate was a tiny world in a system with nine planets orbiting a
single star, but to his dismay it could take many cycles to reach the blue and green
world. Rescue by his people as they struggled to survive against the unprovoked Taelon
onslaught seemed an impossibility. Ha'gel contacted the children's pod and walked them
through the procedure before implementing his plan on his own odd. He programmed the
coordinates and finally activated the stasis field. His last thought before he slipped
into hibernation was a prayer for his people.
Fin