This is the story line for a series of novels. The idea is original to me, but I've since been told it resembles the T.V. show Stargate. This is purely coincidental. (Another idea I had for a shorter work turned out to run along the same lines as Lilo and Stitch. I can't help it.)
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There is a dark past behind the Lost Ones, a tale of abduction and oppression, suffering and liberation. It begins tens of thousands of years ago, on this planet.
The Egyptians were a major world power at the time, constructing the tallest monuments anyone would ever see for thousands of years to come. Anyone, that is, who stuck around for that long. The land of Egypt was prosperous, and certainly living there was safer than living elsewhere, with a mighty government around for protection. There may have been poverty, but the system worked for an astounding length of time.
There was a village on the Nile, a village whose name has been washed away in the river of time. The people of the village were happy, and the village itself was somewhat isolated. The villagers produced papyrus and clay pottery, as well as their crops. Things were quiet and peaceful. But things were interrupted.
A spaceship, enormous and bulky, descended from the heavens, and while the villagers were in a panic they were forced onto the ship. None of them ever saw the Earth again. The spaceship dropped a small device into the depths of the river. Then it shed its weight like a cloak, and rose back up from whence it came, headed to places unheard of by the overwhelmed villagers. The device that was dropped detonated, sending waves of water that crashed through the village. Each of the mud-brick houses was toppled under the force of the flash flood.
The aliens aboard were researchers, finding new forms of intelligent life in the Galaxy. Every alien population they found was studied, but was never returned to its home planet, either dying out or becoming a lesser caste. The Egyptians, or as we know them, the Lost Ones, came upon the latter fate.
Those originally abducted and their descendants lived in poverty for several generations. Some pleaded to the government of the alien race to let them return to their home planet, Earth. The government refused, but allowed them to settle elsewhere. The Lost Ones were granted a ship on which they could ferry the entire population to a world of their own choosing, with a few restrictions. They could not leave the planet they decided to settle unless they came back to the alien homeworld.
So the Lost Ones left. Every living member of the population was brought aboard the ship, with everything needed to set up a colony wherever they settled. They chose an ice-capped planet that orbited a bright blue star. The world's equator was mild, and the axis remained perpendicular to its plane of orbit. There were no seasons on this world. The Lost Ones became prosperous, although living simply, so that all could simply live. With the technology and education they received from their alien captors, the settlers could manage to control their population, economy, and overall success in their new world.
For many generations, the Lost Ones lived, worked, and died on their new planet. However, as years progressed, their choice in a world to colonize proved flawed. The planet did not have a stable orbit. Each year it drifted farther and farther from its sun. After thousands of years, the changes were extraordinary. The ice caps grew larger and larger, the surface became colder and colder. The Lost Ones adapted at first. Eventually, however, they could no longer. They had two choices before them: leave, or die.
The Lost Ones built more ships to accommodate their larger population, and set off, but not for the alien homeworld. They'd had enough. They set a course for Earth.
Those on Earth had not missed the Egyptians who had disappeared. They were presumed dead and washed away. History had forgotten them. The Lost Ones, however, had not forgotten their history.
The ships landed in Egypt in 2015 C.E., many thousands of years after their descendants had been plucked off the face of the Earth. The new arrivals did not speak a language anyone on Earth could understand, but when they revealed their written language, the lettering seemed similar to the ancient hieroglyphics. When studied, the language was in fact identical to that of the mysterious Egyptian empire.
The newcomers, originally thought to be terrible space aliens when they arrived, were our long-lost cousins of another era. They brought with them all of their advanced technology and many stories of life on other worlds, which took the entire scientific world by storm. But the aliens had followed the travelers, and no one foresaw the danger...
(This message has been edited by Rawzer (edited 04-18-2004).)
