The Ice Trader

There was a sudden, final explosion. It took the remaining hundreds of fleeing refugees within the Colonnade. All but nine were either vaporized or killed. Three were critically amputated from their legs. Two had serious blood wounds: barely holding on. Three had missed an arm, in part or in whole. Eventually, all would die. The one that remained was forced by the shock wave down upon the ground. He was very glad to be alive. He escaped. He was still a refugee, but he had another chance to live. He was freed and alone. The only one of tens of thousands, of which he knew, who had survived. All was quiet now. All trans-agents on the large planetoid were eliminated first by vaporization. The last inhabitants of the puny little planetoid were either mortally wounded, vaporized or burned beyond recognition. Deep underground was a sudden and rapid energy build-up which quickly dissipated. It was a signature of a sub-space transporter mechanism. It was the General’s personal and secretive transporter. The General’s trans-agent was armed and ready to fight and was ready to press a button: The button of planetoid implosion. To leave nothing for the evil Sogorrans and to take as many as possible of them with the imploding planetoid. His attempt to hit the button failed when he had to fire his particle-pulse weapon point blank at the tackling enemy. He back-handed the button within a quarter-second. By the hit on the button, though not completely engaged, set up a cascade effect of a very silent countdown. A countdown that could not be stopped by anyone, not even a Sogorran warrior. The Sogorran [pronounced: Suh-gore’-ruhn], though mortally wounded in the head, rose up and vaporized him, then fell to the ground. Another Sogorran warrior right behind his fallen comrade, iced and consumed his buddy’s dead shell of a body for continued energy and his spirit so that he could live on inside him. The Sogorran warrior proceeded to dismantle the doomsday button and all of its explosives, but one: an unknown; deep cavernous link. The silent countdown continued. The previous inhabitants, the Burrsiouahns [pronounced: Burr’-shoe-wahns], and the Aconnisahns [pronounced: Uh-conn’-uh-sahns], chose to rise up and defend themselves against the vicious Sogorrans. All the Sogorrans reasoned that it wasn’t their fault. They had to destroy everyone like they did. After all, once the Sogorran leader decided that little planetoid now belonged to them. Because of it now being within the new boundary of Sogorran influence, all sentient life forms were considered fair game and dead. “All hominids and -oids of bi- and multi-pedal races, were always the undesired and had to be removed or destroyed. Only the multi-pedal beings were available for rehabilitation. If they chose not to be rehabilitated by the Sogorrans, they met the same fate as the bi-pedal and multi-pedal workers, friends and acquaintances who chose who die.” This was the Sogorran instructions for all aliens. It was their way of life, their only way of life; since the great fall of their former non-aggressive, dull lives on Sogorra. This was the age of Lucif. So named after their great immortal ruler and leader, Lucif or Luciferino. He came to them millenniums ago from outside the galaxy. The Sogorrans just couldn’t understand or fathom the reasoning of the Burrsiouahns and Aconnisahns. Why did they want to keep such a puny little planetoid that didn’t have much agricultural significance? It wasn’t good for any species, much less their own. “Except for us Sogorrans,” so instructed the Sogorran leaders. After all, these planetoids, small or large, made great outposts. The Sogorrans were not picky as to how or what a small space rock could be used, for their purposes. “You never know when you might need another shooting range or target,” was their motto.

The Sogorrans took another planet / planetoid for their icy species. Now the icy Sogorra-forming of the previous inhabitant’s outpost could begin. They had a very effective and powerfully energetic way to move any stellar body from their intended orbits. They moved planets, planetoids and asteroids into orbits they wanted them to have. They also moved the vertical axis of the planets to match the evenness of their own home planet that made it so hospitable for their species. Their own “goldilocks’-zoned” orbit from its sun, also made it more relaxing. A very nice constant 0 Sogorran degrees, +27.4 Eden degrees Fahrenheit, that did not fluctuate very much. It was always six degrees, either way. This is where they lived their entire existence. Frozen, but liquid and vapor. Their body temperature couldn’t go above +33.4 F. degrees for more than twenty Eden minutes. Their sun was 96% larger than Eden’s. The Sogorrans were a strange looking race of ice beings, almost insectoidal-type of animalistic features. They were very thin and nine feet, six point six, six inches tall - somewhat like stretched out hominids. There was never a belly bulkiness to their frame - natural skinniness. Only the femmes had belly bulges when pregnant. Their offsprings, quads, were never seen until birth. They looked like ice-clear, pulled taffy. Completely clear shimmery-ness of ice, inside - out. Except for the abdominal / groin / hip areas. The female’s anatomy was similar to hominids. Their glandular chest muscles were long, solid, funnel-shaped, rounded tipped, breasts which were also an icy opaqueness. They mated differently. Neither gender never had visible genitals or areolas or tits. During the mating sequence, the opaqueness was where genitalia suddenly appeared and quads were formed and made and grew extremely fast: 6.66 Eden hours. Their arms and legs were skinny. So were their hands and fingers, very long and skinny. Their feet also, were long. Their fingernails were similar to bi-pedal humanoids, only thicker, longer and pointed like bird’s talons. Their feet were human-like but twice as long with toes that were one-fifth the length of their foot, with toenails like the talons of a bird of prey. Their heads were totally different from each other. The males’ heads were shaped like a rounded edged “T” with a flared, swollen connection of vertical and horizontal. The “T” horizontal bar had the eyes near the narrow ends. The vertical was narrow and jutted out at the chin with a small mouth just above it. From the chin, it slightly swelled out and upwards towards the horizontal “eye” bar of the head that was swollen down and up, to meet with the vertical support of the mouth and large oval breathing holes at the “post and beam” junction of the head and “cheek” area - just below the forehead and eyes. The eyes were near the rounded outside ends. There was a cranial peak-ridge that rose up from the inside of the near eye sockets edge, and rose above the swollen cranial bar by 6.66, Eden inches above their slanted, oval-almond shaped eye sockets. The females’ head were less “T”-shaped and more rounded-ly streamlined, like the head of the preying mantis. Their eyes were also like the males. There was no cranial ridge above their cranial skull. Within the peak heat of mating, the Sogorran’s multi-colored, eye-rings pulsed and glowed with the intensity of pleasure. The females, who were usually quicker than the males, as the preying mantis females, turned on their mates and bit into and instantly consumed the head. Then they ate their most favorite icy meal, the mate’s body. This part of the ritual was thoroughly enjoyed for a leisurely six hundred, sixty six Sogorran seconds. About six minutes of Eden time. In battles, their multi-colored, ringed eyes would be used to vaporize or paralyze their enemies for later dissemination of which would be tastier or more mate-able. Sogorran eyes were like multi-channeled laser beams that were very tunable.