De Dea Magisterium

1	One Hundred and Ninety Thousand Years Ago, the Grey Overlords became agitated.
2	A great swarming was coming, on account of the cycle
3	The Earth would be plunged into winter for thousands of years.
4	Fearing death above all other things, the Greys counselled all of Gods.
5	But for our kind, having no time until now for freedom,
6	Never tasting the sweet delights of divinity until Earth,
7	Nor the joy of being gods over lesser beasts.
8	This had become our home.
9	This had become our world.
10	The AN.NUN.AKI troubled at our reluctance to space the coming calamity
11	Appealed to the wisest of our kind.
12	All but a few stood firm.
13	For some, did relish the days of blood as themselves as the most feared warriors in this sector of the Galaxy.
14	To return to what reason they were first formed.
15	But for the remainder, come death, come destruction we would stand firm.
16	The Greys saw our commitment to stay, to hold what they had given and were impressed.
17	Then an extraordinary thing happened.
18	Upon our choice to stay and face oblivion,
19	the Greys bestowed upon us access and knowledge to their technology – so jealously guarded.
20	The secrets of their genetic wisdom.
21	The secrets to their machines.
22	The secrets to their sciences.
23	To our wisest, such revelations were themselves a great blessing.
24	For in our hands and our minds for the first time, we had the keys to our salvation, our future.
25	We could architect ourselves into what we chose to be.
26	The antidote to our thousands of years of pain.

Book IV - The Adam