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Flying Whales
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Published on 07 Mar 2025 04:20

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I doubt help will come, but that's okay. Because a captain always goes down with his ship.

by MasterTman2

Flying Whales

The Yeren-Fae Space Race (By the Yeren)
The Fae-Yeren Space Race (By the Fae)
The Space Race
The Race

Conspectus

"We looked up to the sky and knew our duty
Now the time has come to leave our home's beauty
The Mad Queen has arrived with a thirst for blood
Now we must flee to save ourselves from this flood
Our salvation will be found within the stars
Now we must hope that we can heal from these scars"
- Excerpt from an Ortothan Fae's diary, author unknown

Illustration

The surface of Exotaurus, one of the planets colonized during the Yeren-Fae Space Race.

Knowledge

Traits: The Yeren-Fae Space Race was a space race between various Yeren and Fae populations,^{1, 2} located on Earth and the Seven Colonies respectively.³

Nature: As with many mad dashes into uncharted territory, the Space Race was propelled by a desire between both parties to prove that they could get there first and stake their claim. However, unlike when a predator and prey species co-evolve together where both groups emerge stronger, like many similar events throughout history, both parties ended as losers.⁴

History & Associated Parties: As previously stated, the Space Race had its beginnings after the fall of the Fae Empire.^{5, 6} It's widely accepted that it was the first space race.^{7, 8, 9, 10} but the exact cause of the Race is hotly debated.¹¹ The current consensus is that the first act of the Race was when, once the Yeren had control of the Earth, a Yeren nation arrived at the Seven Colonies with their whaleships^{12, 13, 14} and were subsequently fired upon by one Captain Ahab^{15, 16} claiming that he believed they were invaders like the Voruteut.

Here is where things get much, much fuzzier.¹⁷ Even when studying history on Earth, figuring out who owned what territory can at times be extremely challenging. This effect is multiplied by several factors over a timespan and distance as great as this. However, several key factors are known.¹⁸ The Seven Colonies were terraformed and the Fae began producing gris¹⁹ prior to the Yeren's arrival. Once the Yeren gained access to this gris from the Fae, they began using it to swiftly colonize the planets in the Sol system.²⁰ Meanwhile the Fae, using their slower transportation method of traveling through named "seas" in space, colonized several nearby star systems.

The Fae and Yeren sides both had several major players; several of these include: Captain Wand, the namesake of Wand's Comet,²¹ Morch, the inventor of the Yeren's hyperdrive, and Captain Tis, a merchant who profited off of selling gris. However, the most influential were Captain Ahab,²² who had his ship the Pelkot, and the White Whale^{23, 24}, respectively. During the first portion of the Space Race, things were fairly equal between the two parties, but after a supposed event that coincided with the disappearance of Captain Ahab and the White Whale^{25, 26} the Yeren gained the upper hand, reaching many systems before the Fae did. Despite this, the Fae continued spacefaring long after this.

Approach: Other than the populations of whaleships and remnants of civilization on previously colonized planets, little remains of the Space Race. Any Ortothan letters found within space are to be brought to the Library.^{27, 28, 29}

Teej's Obsessive Whaleship Monologue:³⁰ Right so, as I said earlier these guys are fascinating. At their base, they're just genetically modified— actually moreso bioengineered— well okay both actually, regardless, they're modified whales. Their internal organs were scooped out and replaced with a bunch of stuff that's necessary for the crew to function and for the whale to get from point A to B in space. Additionally, whatever the Yeren did to them made them immortal so as long as they don't get brutally murdered or get the Space Flu^{31, 32} they won't die, but here's the interesting part.

Somehow, they figured out how to reproduce. You'd think that an immortal species that's popping out new ones would have settled into the entire galaxy by now but given how big they are and how complicated it is for a creature in space to grow metal insides, they are incredibly k-selected, essentially that means they have one kid at a time and they take care of them for a long ass time. Unfortunately, 300,000 years is like a raindrop on an evolutionary scale so they haven't speciated but there are minor differences between populations.^{33, 34} Some populations are starting to rely more on filter-feeding wild populations of their symbiotes than solely getting their nutrients from their local symbiote, despite not actually having a functioning digestive system. Life finds a way, y'know?^{35, 36}

Observations & Stories

The White Whale?

Now now, children. I wouldn't want to scare you with such tales.

Haha, fine, fine. Don't you come crying to me when you can't sleep at night.

The White Whale is the biggest of the apes' whales, and one of the smartest.

It's said that the White Whale has survived encounters against every Whaler that's come to slay the beast, and that it uses dastardly tricks. The Whale and its crew will pretend to retreat, only to circle back around and catch the Whalers off guard.

It's even said that, every now and again, to fuel its hunger, the White Whale will traverse Fae seas just like this one.

And it'll look for colony ships just like the one we're in right now, and it'll stalk its prey, getting closer and closer and closer, until it finally STRIKES, destroying the ship.

Haha, sorry bud, didn't mean to make you jump. Let's all go to bed now.

— Voice blown in the solar winds of space^{37, 38}

I saw the Whale.

There's nobody around to believe me, but I did. I barely survived the encounter.

We didn't know it at the time, but we found the Whale on the way back to the Seven Colonies. And like every other whale that we encountered, we prepared to hunt it.

We did the usual routine. We snuck up on the whale and prepared to fire the harpoons, but somehow it knew we were there. Even before the first harpoon was fired, the White Whale moved out of the way. It charged towards our whalerboats and crushed them one by one. I'm not sure if it was the Whale's crew or the White Whale itself that compelled itself to do such slaughter.^{39, 40}

After all the whalerboats were destroyed, it turned itself towards the main ship. I'd always suspected that mercy was a foreign concept to the apes. Turns out I was right because it crashed right into the ship's bow. It kept going until the entire ship was under the water.

I don't know if any of my crew survived. I've been floating on a piece of debris for the better part of an hour now. I'm hoping that this bottle reaches someone. I doubt help will come, but that's okay.

Because a captain always goes down with his ship.
— Recovered paper from a bottle in space, author unknown.^{41, 42}

O captain my captain oh where have you gone?

On a trip out to space you went oh so far

To beat out the apes you sailed and you traveled

To the star system three you sailed and you battled

One brown two white they shine bright in the sky

You never came back oh we cry we cry

— Excerpt from a supposed Fae song made after Captain Ahab's passing attributed in several books. It is unknown if it was actually used.

Doubt

Now it's time for everyone's favorite⁴³ discussion topic, What Happened To Captain Ahab?^{44, 45, 46}

Teej's Proposal: Right, so as we all know there are a few major camps on what happened and, just like how I will remain forever adamant that New Jersey is the greatest thing to ever bless Earth,⁴⁷ I believe Ahab definitely got eaten by a whaleship.^{48, 49} I mean, the evidence speaks for itself, he supposedly went off on an adventure and afterwards there was no trace of him.^{50, 51, 52}

Tim's Proposal: I've done some research and I've got a new theory that I haven't heard before. I believe that Ahab and his crew arrived at whatever destination they were going to and settled down on a planet. Hear me out.⁵³ Who's to say that they didn't travel with the intention of settling a new world?⁵⁴ I mean, it has just as much evidence as the rest of the theories.

Ian Simon's Proposal: Okay so, speaking of these lunatics,⁵⁵ these discussions tend to lead us nowhere. As entertaining as they are, at this point it seems like it's evolved into a "bring your most insane crackshot theory to the discussion" discussion. I've seen everything from "he fell off his ship" to "one of the seas he traveled to surrounded a black hole which sucked him in"⁵⁶. At this point, the only way we can have a sensible discussion is to— Wait, hold on.

Isma's Proposal: Oh, you want my opinion?⁵⁷ I came here to figure that out actually. Alright, well, let's see here. That song says that he went to a star system with three stars that was bright in the night sky. Surely we can just look at known star systems and see what matches up?^{58, 59, 60, 61}Oh wait, hold on. So, if literature on historical events causes visions that show the past— Yes, that, that could be it. I'm sorry, I need to go.^{62, 63}

1. Oh really? Never would have guessed. — Ian Simons

2. You try describing something that's perfectly described by the title. — Tim

3. For those unaware, the Seven Colonies were Fae colonies located on Uranus' moons. They're also known as the Second Hytoth. — Tim

4. You can't invite me to a discussion and expect me to not mention evolution in some form. — Teej

5. You would think that Queen Mab would've cored the whole world by then. — Teej

6. You need to stop playing so many Parabox games, they're rotting your brain. — Ian Simons

7. Actually, one could argue that the Europeans had the first space race. — Willy

8. It's not a "space race" if you're fleeing the planet by yourself — Ian Simons

9. The Ortothan Fae left Earth at the same time! — Willy

10. That's a coincidence and you know it. — Ian Simons

11. One of the bad parts of trying to study 300,000-year-old history is that most of the knowledge is hidden in tiny bottles floating in space. — Willy

12. These guys are really interesting. They're several times larger than their blue whale ancestors and their internal organs are hollowed out to make room for the crew. - Teej

13. Hollowed out whales, huh? Any relation to Chŏnghæjin? — Tim

14. It's not clear, but most likely no. — Teej

15. Hello, I'm new here. I was told I may be able to find information about Captain Ahab. — Isma

16. Welcome. You came at the right time. — Teej

17. My point still stands. — Willy

18. Theorized, technically. But like we're pretty sure about them. Probably. — Willy

19. This stuff is neat. It's an agnostic that lets you bend the rules of space and time and lets the whaleships move at great speeds. — Teej

20. It's not known how Mars went back to being the Red Planet after the Yeren terraformed it, however. — Tim

21. Despite not actually being alive at a time where she could have put the treasure on the comet. — Tim

22. Y'know, it's pretty interesting how the book Moby Dick has a character with the same name, a similarly named ship, and also hunts a White Whale. Isn't that just neat? — Tim

23. Does it have an actual name? — Willy

24. If it did, it's lost to time — Tim

25. What specifically was the event, though? — Isma

26. It's hotly debated. — Willy

27. Can I yap about the whaleships now? — Teej

28. Yes Teej, you may "yap" about the whaleships now — Willy

29. Yay. — Teej

30. You guys are gonna regret giving me free rein. — Teej

31. Is that a real thing? — Isma

32. I haven't the slightest clue. — Teej

33. Dude, I need you to take a breath. This is too many words for one person to say this quickly. — Ian Simons.

34. No. — Teej

35. This section isn't a part of the standard format. — Tim

36. He's been wanting to talk about this to someone for years. Might as well give him a little leeway. — Ian Simons

37. This is a thing? — Isma

38. Yes. It's a much rarer source of information than the space bottles, though. — Teej

39. Which was more likely? — Tim

40. It's not clear. The wild populations alive now don't take kindly to being controlled like they used to, so we can't really test. — Teej

41. Can we talk about Ahab now? — Isma

42. Very well. — Ian Simons

43. If by favorite, you mean "banned in approximately 6 square miles of the Library because it's caused 5 deaths", sure! — Teej

44. When can we discuss whether or not it even happened? — Billy Bob

45. Dude, where did you even come from? Regardless, we don't talk about that because you're the only nutjob within a discussing distance that thinks that it never happened. — Willy

46. I heard you guys talking about it and ran over. — Billy Bob

47. Call me when you can pump your own gas. — Ian Simons

48. Ridiculous, his crew probably starved to death. — Willy

49. Get your starvie ass out of my face before I get this discussion banned here too. — Teej

50. Surely we would find bits of him in a whaleship, no? — Tim

51. It digested him. — Teej

52. You literally said earlier they don't have a functioning digestive system. — Tim

53. There's nothing to hear out, this is ludicrous. — Willy

54. His crew numbered 30-40 at most. Also, there were no women. — Ian Simons

55. They hated Jesus because he told them the truth. — Teej

56. That one's actually pretty interesting if you think about it. — Tim

57. Yes, I'm curious what your thoughts are. — Ian Simons

58. Unfortunately, none of them do. All nearby star systems known today don't correspond with the criteria. — Teej

59. Well technically the star systems could have changed in the time since, but we'd need to look at visions to figure that out. — Tim

60. Visions? — Isma

61. Yes, some literature, especially those with a strong connection to the past, can invoke visions of that past through the right methods. Figuring out which books and which methods to use is too time consuming, though. — Tim

62. Why? What's wrong? — Teej

63. I think I know where Ahab went. — Isma

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And To The Stars I Went With Only A Name Hub

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