The Sarran Plague is an EPIC Finalist in the Erotic Science Fiction Category.  I am very pleased and excited to be considered for this award.

Love to All,

AC Katt

Saturday, April 25, 2009

The Artisian Class

Art for Art’s Sake

Not all Sarrans are Warriors. Some Sarran Offspring show an early talent for artistry and are apprenticed to Master Craftsmen. The piece on the left is a apprentice’s first test in his craft to climb the ladder to journeyman.

The Arts thrived on Sarran prior to the Iptz. A perfect pot, a superbly worded novel, a brilliant composition, received as much respect as the derring do of the WarriorPair.

The Zyptz War and its aftermath put a period to one of the greatest periods of Sarran Arts and Crafts. The Apprentice who crafted this piece at age eleven which showed so much promise, was killed when the Plague took away his family. He had locked himself in a closet in the Apprentice’s Hall and wasn’t found for weeks. The Sarran equivalent of a coroner postulized that the offspring was too frightened to leave the closet and was overlooked in the planet wide emergency that resulted from the Iptz attack.

In the days I have spent on Brightstar, I have found many

incidents such as this that were either in the ship archives or described to me in detail by a member of the crew. The dual sciences of phychiatry and psychology are unknown to this culture. This is a problem which we, the women of Earth will have to tackle planetwide and soon. Every Warrior on this ship suffers from a degreee of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

I have also observed sociopathic behavior in a person of rank and I know not who to tell.

Cynthia Rose Edwina Sinclair

Journal, July 26^th 9:00 am

These are the thoughts of Cyn Sinclair, psychologist and former prostitute who, although befriended by Dr. Anya Forrrseter, is an outcast among the Earthen women because of her former profession.

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Sincerely,

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

In Honor of Earth Day

Location,
Location,
and Location…
A civilization that survived on their home planet for untold numbers of cycles has three things that many other failed inhabited worlds lacked. The first is sheer luck. The Sarran home world is located well away from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy on one of the less populated spiral arms. The placement of Sarran’s star system put the planet out of the main traffic lanes for planet eating asteroids, climate altering meteors and visits from further developed war like civilizations that may have existed before the Sarrans but did not survive their own aggression. Absurdly, the Sarran’s long lived civilization depended on the same mantra that every Earthen Real Estate Salesperson is given with their license, “Location, location, location.” The second part of the survival triad is a planetwide civilization that began to cooperate early on issues that affected their home environment. The third is simply to learn from their mistakes rather than to persist in repeating them. In the earliest times there were major environmental disasters with fossil fuel and the unsafe use of nuclear fission.

Once the Sarran Clans became aware of the environmental damage created by using fossil fuel, the ruling council incorporated the research results brought to them by the brilliant scientist Tezacron, Prince of AirClan, and incorporated his findings into Sarran Common Law long before the Codex. Fossil Fuel consumption was slashed by a quarter, planet wide each cycle thus encouraging the discovery of an alternative. Manufacturing Facilities that released nuculear waste into the ecosystem were closed immediately and soon replaced by others that ran on cold fusion.

The Sarrans knew from the start that their planet was the only thing that stood between their civilization and the great void. Watching others slip into the morass of greed at the expense of a healthy environment that produced healthy inhabitants; the Sarrans did the unusual. They learned from the history of others rather than go their own way and repeat a long line of environmental catastrophe that would result in the downfall of the entire humanoid population of the sphere. The one time the Sarrans forgot this cardinal rule sowed the seeds of their future dilemna and brought the planetwide civilization to its knees in the ClanWars. The result of that scientific catastrophe — even though a solution was sought and found, made the Sarrans vunerable in a way that they did not anticipate during the Zyptz Wars.

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Thursday, February 5, 2009

The Codex, Harsh Justice from the Goddess

The Codex

Ulna, a Harsh Mistress

What kind of culture does a twenty thousand year old civilization exhibit? The Sarrans have been in space this time for a nine thousand year uninterrupted interval. This is a very old culture. Is it stratified? How does a culture with a governing body that has retained the same form for almost ten milenium function? I had to answer these questions before I put a finger to the keyboard to write The Sarran Plague.

My first thought was that a ancient, still thriving culture would have to be seen by its citizenery as essentially fair. However success was measured in the society, every citizen must have the opportunity to obtain that success. The opportunity should be absolute, every citizen has an opportunity to succeed in whatever field they choose, no exceptions.

When I thought about what that entailed, I realized that every Sarran citizen had to have access to basic human rights, other than those outlined in the United States constitution. I would call those rights the cornerstone of a just society. I thought about what I considered to be basic human rights as opposed to liberties. I thought about survival and what we need to survive. However, humanity needs not only to survive, but also to thrive. It was at that point that the Sarran Codex came to life. This document was presented to the Sarrans as a whole cloth by their Goddess, Ulna of the White Moon through Zorna.

What measures would a Goddess take to insure the viability of her people? The answer was very simple. A Goddess does not think of liberty, or freedom, that is up to the citizenry. She does, however, think of .

Rights of Birth

• Shelter – from birth you are guaranteed shelter.
• Sustenance – from birth you will never feel hunger
• Education – from birth until death you will have the right to learn
• Medical Care – from birth you will be given the best care available. Should you sicken, all effort will be expended to make you well.

Even as ever part of the Tierest Tree has value, be it leaf, vine, branch, root , flower or fruit, so do all of my off and femspring. They are the planet’s best resource and its best weapon against an unknowable future. First, they are, in my heart. They come before all else.

Lessons Learned at a High Price

The rock on which I chose to build the Sarran Civilization was the codex. Since I made the law Goddess given, it would be the ultimate authority.

Like all lessons learned at a high price, the Sarrans learned the value of the Codex. It’s value to the civilization would be an enduring legacy for the planet to hold to when confronted with the next disaster.

The Codex listed all offenses that Sarran could commit against Sarran. Each of these in turn had a fixed and immutable penalty. In Sarran Law there are no extenuating circumstances, even if the offender was a child. The law was hard but just. All citizens were equal under Sarran Law. If you broke the law, you had a hearing. You were given every resource that the planet could provide to prove your innocence. However, if adjudged guilty, there was no appeal. Along with the Codex, Ulna gave the gift of Triad. Triad and the Codex stabilized the Sarran Culture and population for over nine thousand years.

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Monday, February 2, 2009

The Sarran ClanWars

Article compiled from Histories held in the Archives at the Ulna Library and the Codex.

A rare image of an ancient Sarran Starship from before the Clan Wars

One thousand years of destruction

chronicling he descent into barbarism

It took three generations for the Scientists to agree that statistically, the femspring birthrate had diminished to a worrisome level.

Two additional generations wasted precious time by claiming that the phenomenon was but a natural cycle that would self correct. By the fourth generation, the civil government of the time admitted that yes, the femspring birthrate had decreased yearly since the aborted attempt at genetic manipulation. There was now only one femspring born for every offspring. The Science Institute warned that the trend could continue to the point of where the Sarrans would cease to be, or could reach a plateau. Some of the ClanElders wished to import fems from other planets, others argued for further genetic engineering. While the government and the elders debated, the clans took action. Within each clan, fems known to have produced femspring were taken from their homes by the nobility, raped repeatedly until they were breeding and kept in that condition until the desired femspring was produced. Any offspring born of the union were strangled at birth.

The Clans began to raid each other for suitable fems. Sarran fems became a commodity, erasing thousands of years of equality. Open warfare between the clans broke out. The conflict between AirClan and WaterClan became especially vicious when the AirClan Prince’s mate was kidnapped by a WaterClan Duke and died a particularly heinous death fighting her captors.

All Sarran Space Exploration ceased. The council disbanded and the planet descended into nine hundred years of barbarism. FireClan and LightClan watched as the Air and WaterClans rendered themselves extinct. The WarriorPrinces, Dajet of FireClan and Robar of LightClan met under a flag of truce. Both men were intelligent and well trained in the art of War by their Fathers. Yet both Warriors knew that this conflict would never be won. They meet in the cottage of the last member of the Clan of Air, a wizened fem, Zorna, a acolyte of the Goddess Ulna in her youth.

The warriors and their chief advisors argued for over a tide. Zorna kept her peace. On the eve of the second tide, she turned toward the war parties and her voice shouted as a clap of thunder, “Enough, I say enough. For over nine hundred cycles the Warriors of Sarran have ignored their Goddess and desecrated her vessels. You will cease. Dajet and Robar sat stock still on her stools while the rest of their entourage cowered in corners.

Zorna’s form was lit by an inner glow that pulsed with the energy of the Sarran land. “You have desecrated your fems and bled the land. You have diverged from the path the First intended you to walk, because of these great transgressions, the Sarran Warriors will be forever in thrall to their fems. Gather together what is left of you science bring it to this plain. On the plain of the River Ulna, named for the Goddess Moon there will be a healing. The light faded and Zorna fell to the floor.

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Saran – Planet of the Seven Moons

A Brief History of the Sarran People

from the Sarran Codex

Sarran, known as the Planet of the Seven Moons, is one of the oldest civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy. Located in one of the less densely populated spiral arms under a white sun, the Sarrans managed to survive natural disasters, disease and the destruction of wars of aggression.

There are those who believe that the rapid development of civilization on Sarran had more to do with the geography of the planet than any natural tendency toward a superior genetic heritage. The planet’s landmass consisted of a single continent crisscrossed by abundant rivers, lakes and streams.

The Taragrassa Mountains form the northern border of the continent, the Sarranna Desert, the southern border. The topography of Sarran precluded any natural barriers that could form isolated populations. Therefore, the Sarran People settled early into a four tribe system based on their geographical location. The northern tribe was the LightClan, named in antiquity for the long summer evenings.

The southern tribe became FireClan and called the desert their home. The clans of the east and west were Water and Air. However, they disappeared during the ClanWars. The Sarran People are one of the oldest space faring races in the Milky Way Galaxy. As a young civilization Sarran technology pushed out past the planetary boundaries, exploring near space and far space at a time when most other civilizations were in their infancy. Sarran Historians have proof in the Codex Archives that their Warriors were in Space for at least twenty millennia.

The Sarrans carried one of the oldest and purest strains of the original strains of humanoid DNA. The Sarran humanoids survived natural disasters, wars, and scientific apocalypse for billions of cycles. Alliance geneticists believed that all humanoids descended from a common genotype that was seeded throughout the galaxy by one of the First Races, who, when they ventured out into space, found themselves alone. Legend says that a great epidemic pulled the first ones home. They knew their race was dying and so to prevent future genocide, they seeded every planet even remotely habitable by their genotype so that their type of life would remain.

Over cycles, the humanoid races evolved according to planetary conditions and in time learned the sciences of molecular biology, nanotechnology and genetic engineering making the inhabitants of each planet still human but notably different from their counterparts. Since the Sarran were one of the earliest civilizations after the First, they embraced genetic engineering about one thousand years after their initial venture into space. At first, interference in the natural process of evolution was only condoned to eliminate genetic defects and cure genetically induced disease. That work soon expanded into optimizing for certain character traits for future offspring.

The Codex has no record of what the Scientists attempted in the first manipulations. However, they went horribly wrong. The first generation of off and femspring were normal. After five generations of manipulation, the Sarran male became the perfect warrior. He was intelligent, well formed and strongly muscled. His eye/hand coordination was near perfection. However, as the warriors grew in stature and intelligence, and began to tap the smallest of the psychic powers locked into the humanoid genotype, the number of fems born gradually decreased to the point where the Clans reverted to violence to capture a mate for their warriors.

The situation soon threw the four clans into war and all the Sarran fleet was called home to duty. Each man joined their clan to fight for the fems and survival.

to be continued…