NaNo

Here is the Prologue and start of the first chapter of my Nano Novel. So far so good. Need to stop now and get to doing some things.

Prologue 

Nothing. There is nothing. Everywhere and nowhere, nothing exists. But, nothing is unstable. Nothing is not sustainable. Being must be and so it shall. And it was and is and ever shall it be. End of epoch. 

The void exists. Within the void is energy, the essence of everything knowable, the balance to nothingness. For now there is nothing to know. Perfect order existed for an instant and is now falling into chaos. End of epoch. 

The great cooling is begun. As order descends to disorder some of the primordial energy is cooling and coalescing into new things. The entropic dance continues as everything becomes. End of epoch. 

Awareness, basic instinctual awareness awakes. Moving within what is. Cold and void. Thoughts being to form in the awareness. Thoughts, made up of the very fundamentals of reality have power. The awareness, after a time, sleeps and begins to dream. End of epoch.

Chapter 1

Light creeps in from outside the shuttle craft. It's the middle of the night but our orbits show us morning every 83.24 minutes.  Why is this morning different? Today we break orbit and head for the heart of creation. Well, that is what Fritz says anyway. I’m just Ren a pilot for hire. I  fly any ship that will pay my fee. We are supposedly going to conduct an experiment to discover the nature of existence or something. I find this voyage interesting because we are flying out farther than any Zultarian has before. We are also the first to use the new quantum warp drive in a non-test setting. I should receive the Order of Klarg for this trip. That “honor” should catch be better fees. 

Meanwhile, in the cargo hold Dr. Fritz readies his equipment for the jump. Generations of work have gone into making this possible. In Fritz’s culture work stays in the family and is passed down from parent to child. This society formed this way because memory is passed down through the mDNA or Memory DNA. An artificial DNA protein added to the cellular structure hundreds of millennia  ago. Before that happened learning took years and much knowledge and expertise was lost when death occurred. In a way, the mDNA has stopped death, but only in a way. The being still dies but their memories and knowledge live on. An experiment such as reveling the nature of existence itself wouldn’t have been possible before mDNA was created. We are the first species to be able to achieve this level of technical ability.