Chapter 147 - Untold History (2/2)

”A lot of people could have been saved,” added Winston.

”We did as much as possible. At that time, no one was ready to believe, so we kept it hidden. We could have let it out all in the open after the first few fights, but that would also raise questions. What was our source? How do we know? What are we going to do then?” asked Daniel in response to Winston's remark.

”We would have been made use of by the others. The other forces wouldn't let go of us simply because we helped. They would have accusations that we withheld important information and falsely pinned crimes against humanity on us. We would have been made a common enemy and probably wouldn't have survived the situation,” said Winston.

”Yes,” said Daniel. ”You finally understand our situation. Even the unification took 20 years. Most forces would just use the opportunity to squash us, just because they could. We did everything because we have a sense of self-preservation and also help the growth and survival of humankind. So, we couldn't come out with all our information in the open,” said Daniel.

Though it was all the truth, most of them had grown up hating the aliens for their attacks and their destruction of human planets. It was hard for them to accept that they could have provided more help but didn't. Daniel remembered that Walter had the same sombre expression on his face when he was first informed of this.

”It is not like we completely withhold information from the others. We use our position to leak out information whenever possible. For example, I heard that one of our own stopped an invasion on one of the border citadels successfully. The wreckage did have one red ape and a bit of salvageable information. At the most, one could guess that there would be a mutant among the apes, the red ape from that situation, but now all higher authorities already believe that there is a hierarchy among them. That thought didn't come out so quickly on its own. We had a hand in that,” said Daniel.

”You know the hierarchy of the apes?” asked Arthur.

”Black, Red are soldiers and elites, then come the royals Purple and golden kings. The Purple ones are about the same size as the red apes but a lot stronger with a tail that is as strong as python and thus making it very hard to defeat. The golden ones are variants among royals. Don't really have anything on them except for their color and purple ones, immediately consider them kings from birth,” said Daniel. ”Rumour is a few of the purple and golden ones can actually understand us and are extremely fast learners.”

”How do you know all this?” asked Winston.

”There were a number of encounters with them before we expanded ourselves on other planets from earth. There were always myths and lore of their species. Some revered them as gods and others, monsters and we found evidence of it too. Probably, would have showed the evidence to the world if not for the occurrence of few things,” said Daniel.

”Few people realized that the apes never considered staying at earth. The ones that found themselves on earth were estranged kings and their court fleeing from their own civilization. Though our planet was habitable, it was not the best environment for them and they left not due to any losses, but because earth was an inferior place to live and was too far away from their original home,” explained Daniel.

”These few people were on good terms with the aliens and also learned the use of their technology. These were the godspeed dynasity. They were a part of the table of Ouroboros. We weren't the only family that were members of the table,” said Daniel.

”The godspeed dynasity were our allies?” asked Winston extremely surprised. Most of the coalition were extremely prejudiced against the godspeed dynasity and the knights. If it were known to any that the Blyths were old allies of them, the effects of it weren't something he dared to think about.

”Yes. If not, do you honestly think that we would have let the twins that Walter brought to live and get married into our own family? It was clear that they were both Godspeed family members,” said Daniel. ”Walter learned the same after he became the head and that is one of the reasons, he trained your grandson,” continued Daniel looking at Winston.

”They sent expeditions to the far reaches and found a place to survive. They gathered more information and managed to get it back to us. The apes aren't the only aliens in the world according to them. They were in constant conflict with other races. In the end, their leader decided that they leave and make good use of their knowledge to grow at the edge of the apes' civilization. A large congregation left with them and we were also offered the chance. But we denied it. Some of us decided it is best to liaison to the rest of humanity by staying back. Our ancestor could be considered selfless people to let go of that chance or maybe just cowards. I will never know,” said Daniel.

”About half the members of the original table went to support their efforts. They setup up civilization there and made an army that could stop invasion into their areas. As they did it all in the outskirts, the apes left it alone assuming they were some small race of barbarians trying to fight in the outer edges of their civilization which allowed them to flourish. They soon became a warden of the outskirts and even apes were helpless if they stepped into their area,” said Daniel.

”Apart from them similar efforts were made by other dynasties to block the other races from reaching us in a similar fashion to the Godspeeds. They came back to us and gave us our knowledge periodically. This knowledge was used to help speed up our technological growth. At that time, there were still others who were part of the table, the Vickers, Rognizens and so. They were all lost to the quarrels and fights among us. We luckily survived to this day. We had our contacts with the godspeed family a century ago, but then something happened. We don't know how this happened or why. The same is the situation with our other allies,” said Daniel.

”This brings us back to the situation at hand. Our foremost suspect of this lack of contact from the others are the knights of the Old Republic. There were the only ones which we suspected to be aware of the actual situation. Now, we have another, Jack Godspeed.”