Saturday, 7 March 2026

The Alori

The Peregrine, CHAPTER XVI.

The Alori are strange interstellar imperialists. They do not build spaceships but steal those that land on their planets, then buy more on Erulan. Having acquired spaceships, they colonize about fifty planets, importing their own life forms and exterminating natives. Some of the crews of stolen ships join them, accepting their life style.

Ilaloa directs the Peregrine on a course that will take it into the trepidation vortex. Destruction of a ship seen as a threat would have been a welcome outcome to the Alori but there is a Coordinator in the ship who knows how to survive the vortex.

The Alori need to learn how to coexist which I would have thought that their life style prepared them to do.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Sometimes "co-existence" is not going to be possible, esp. in cases like a fanatically held/believed ideology.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

But it should be the case with the Stellar Union and the Alori.

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

My objection in the first comment remains.

Ad astra! Sean