Greetings fine readers. Thanks for being here.
Last week we discussed the SID’s early explorations. They spent several years probing nearby star systems. Naturally they were looking for life. Did they find it?
Before humans left Earth with Marcus Johnson it had always been assumed that life was a rare occurance in Universe One. When Marcus Johnson found Harappa and proved that it could harbor life, people thought is must be another rarity like it was assumed Earth was.
Then Johnson found Lava and Kusha and more life was found. It was starting to look like life was everywhere we looked. Further exploration has shown that yes, life is everywhere in Universe One but not like you might be thinking.
Turns out that bacteria rules Universe One. It is believed that bacterial life was the first life in Universe One. We don’t know yet where, when or how it sparked to life. Most biologists put the date for the beginnings of life near the one billion year mark in the life of Universe One.
We still havent identified the primal strain if it even exists anymore. What that first bacteria did was an amazing chemestry feat. That first bacteria created DNA. It created the DNA that all life in Universe One uses. Just how this was done is still eluding scientists.
DNA remains one of the few remaining mysteries to science. All life that we have encountered from the Sand Slugs of Harappa to the Kabears of Kusha to us, use the same DNA. Even the silicone based life of Smoot 24-249 uses DNA that we would recognize. It’s chemistry is slightly different but the structure is exactly the same. Scientists studying Smoot 24-249 believe that the primal bacteria fell to the planet and the chemestry of that world became intigrated into the DNA structures that we know.
So now we know that DNA exists almost everywhere in Universe One. The primal bacteria and it’s spawn can survive in the harshness of interstellar space. Yet when they fall to a planet with liquid water they spring into action and begin evolving into something like us humans. The average from bacteria to human like life forms seems to be between six and ten billion years.
Tomorrow we’ll meet some of the worlds the SID explored.
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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