Justme
Banned
What if any would be the difference between magic and high tech to those not accustomed to such devices? Could their presence be kept under wraps to an entire society and what would be the fail safe if this knowledge were inadvertently revealed.
The entire thing is about a world inhabited by felaniod creatures that are deeply religious and are born and breed to represent the honor of the God their religion espouses. They are told, there is no higher honor than to lay down their lives for their deity and are trained from the time the are able to pick up a weapon, to fight.
Their society is based on a hierarchy of the priests/lawgivers on the top.
Immediately below them is the honor guard, which are monk devotees that run what passes for police worldwide. Then comes the Breeders, who are those that have the honor of birthing babies that will eventually serve their God, once they are called to glory. Those who are born are schooled in religious schools from the time they can remember that their only worth is to serve their God and to fulfill their honored duties as his son's and daughters. Those who the priests deem worthy are destined to be these breeders, in service to their God.
These creatures are short lived. Only 20 to forty years of age and they must enter into paradise through the gates of utopia, which is set off in the plushly forested area of their planet. No one can enter utopia or even get withing several miles of the fences that surrounding it, unless they are called. Those that attempt this are engulfed in holy fire from the Angels guarding the path. Of those that are chosen only gain additional wisdom in the use of holy garments and, after a time ascend into heaven by huge flaming chariots of metal. Those that ascend, never return.
In reality the entire planet is a breeding ground for warriors crafted, mind and body for a technologically advanced race that claim to be Gods. These beings use these creatures as cannon fodder in an ageless galactic war, who's enemies are designated as Evil and the Felanoids are thrown at them in service of what they think are Gods. They are trained and armored in high tech armor and are sent into battle with warrior priests that seem to have mystic power of magic.
What the story centers around a skeptic that witnesses the death of one of these Warrior priests, and finds out that their mystic power is only a high tech contraption that misfires and kills everyone in his unit, except his self.
He escapes a religious hostel after a failed attempt at killing him and heads towards the planet of his birth to reveal the fraudulent nature of the religion itself. The story, I'm writing deals with his exploits and the exploits of those sent to silence him.
I have some ideas, but they really seem like they've been hashed over in earlier books.
The entire thing is about a world inhabited by felaniod creatures that are deeply religious and are born and breed to represent the honor of the God their religion espouses. They are told, there is no higher honor than to lay down their lives for their deity and are trained from the time the are able to pick up a weapon, to fight.
Their society is based on a hierarchy of the priests/lawgivers on the top.
Immediately below them is the honor guard, which are monk devotees that run what passes for police worldwide. Then comes the Breeders, who are those that have the honor of birthing babies that will eventually serve their God, once they are called to glory. Those who are born are schooled in religious schools from the time they can remember that their only worth is to serve their God and to fulfill their honored duties as his son's and daughters. Those who the priests deem worthy are destined to be these breeders, in service to their God.
These creatures are short lived. Only 20 to forty years of age and they must enter into paradise through the gates of utopia, which is set off in the plushly forested area of their planet. No one can enter utopia or even get withing several miles of the fences that surrounding it, unless they are called. Those that attempt this are engulfed in holy fire from the Angels guarding the path. Of those that are chosen only gain additional wisdom in the use of holy garments and, after a time ascend into heaven by huge flaming chariots of metal. Those that ascend, never return.
In reality the entire planet is a breeding ground for warriors crafted, mind and body for a technologically advanced race that claim to be Gods. These beings use these creatures as cannon fodder in an ageless galactic war, who's enemies are designated as Evil and the Felanoids are thrown at them in service of what they think are Gods. They are trained and armored in high tech armor and are sent into battle with warrior priests that seem to have mystic power of magic.
What the story centers around a skeptic that witnesses the death of one of these Warrior priests, and finds out that their mystic power is only a high tech contraption that misfires and kills everyone in his unit, except his self.
He escapes a religious hostel after a failed attempt at killing him and heads towards the planet of his birth to reveal the fraudulent nature of the religion itself. The story, I'm writing deals with his exploits and the exploits of those sent to silence him.
I have some ideas, but they really seem like they've been hashed over in earlier books.