Tag: Galactic Inquisitor

The Galactic Inquisitor (Tomorrow News Network: A to Z)

~ J.S. Pailly ~ 18 Comments

Hello, friends!  Welcome back to the A to Z Challenge.  For this year’s challenge, I’m telling you a little more about the universe of Tomorrow News Network, my upcoming Sci-Fi adventure series.  In today’s post, G is for:

THE GALACTIC INQUISITOR

I’ve put a lot of thought into the world-building for Tomorrow News Network, and in these A to Z posts I’ve done my best to provide lots of detail (without straying into spoiler territory, of course).  But for today’s post, I’m afraid I don’t have many details to offer.

No one knows who the Galactic Inquisitor is.  No one knows where he/she/it came from, or how long he/she/it has been around, or what the source of his/her/its power might be.  On digi-stream, rumor has it that the Galactic Inquisitor is a giant insectoid, perhaps the last living remnant of the ancient insectoid races who once ruled the universe.

But of course, you shouldn’t believe everything you read on digi-stream.

While the identity and origins of the Galactic Inquisitor remain a mystery, his/her/its philosophy of justice has been made abundantly clear to anyone who’s had to stand trial in the Galactic Inquisitor’s court.  In the Galactic Inquisitor’s own words:

Real power must understand its own strength.  Real power must learn to be gentle.  Otherwise, real power will make itself the enemy of true justice.

However, despite these words, the Galactic Inquisitor is rarely gentle when exercising his/her/its power.  In the name of true justice, whole star systems have been obliterated.  Entire species have been wiped out, and vast dead zones of sterilized worlds have been left scattered throughout the galaxy.

And so in matters of interplanetary law, it is often wiser to settle disputes as swiftly and as independently as possible, before the Galactic Inquisitor feels the need to intervene.

Next time on Tomorrow News Network: A to Z, the human race has neighbors!

The Fermi Paradox (Tomorrow News Network: A to Z)

~ J.S. Pailly ~ 10 Comments

Hello, friends!  For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I’m telling you more about the universe I’ve created for my upcoming Sci-Fi adventure series, Tomorrow News Network.  In today’s post, F is for:

THE FERMI PARADOX

Okay, bear with me.  This post is going to get weird.  Some of what I’m going to tell you is true.  The rest is totally made up Sci-Fi nonsense.

THIS PART IS FACT

Historians disagree about the exact date, but sometime around 1950, nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi was having lunch with a few physicist colleagues.  The topic of conversation: extraterrestrial life.  It was during this conversation that Fermi famously quipped: “But where is everybody?”

Dr. Fermi then proceeded to lay out all the reasons why advanced alien civilizations should exist out there among the stars, and also all the reasons why we should have detected their presence by now.  And yet, despite our best efforts, we’ve found nothing.  So where is everybody?

This question is now known as the Fermi Paradox.  If you’re a scientist involved in SETI research, you will have to grapple with this issue at some point.  And if you’re a science fiction writer creating a sprawling Sci-Fi universe full of advanced alien civilizations, well… you should probably imagine up some sort of solution to the Fermi Paradox.

Mind you, it doesn’t have to be the most scientifically plausible solution.  But some of your readers will surely be wondering about this, so….

THIS PART IS FICTION

In time index 117-299, a Hykonian observation vessel crashed on Earth near a small Earthling village named Roswell.  The cause of the crash remains unknown.  The fate of the Hykonian crew remains unknown.  And what happened to the wreckage of the spacecraft itself?  Again, unknown.

Due to the suspicious circumstances surrounding the Roswell incident, the Galactic Inquisitor was forced to intervene.  The Hykonian Hegemony has demanded retribution; meanwhile, the local authorities on Earth continue to claim ignorance (something, something, weather balloons).  Until this matter is resolved, the Galactic Inquisitor has imposed an isolation ordinance over Earth.

All forms of interstellar communications are being jammed, and no spacecraft shall be permitted to enter of leave the Solar System.  Recent violations of this ordinance by NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes are currently under investigation.

Most Earthlings are left wondering, understandably, why they seem to be alone in the universe.  And so things shall remain until the Galactic Inquisitor’s ordinance is lifted.

Speaking of the Galactic Inquisitor, next time on Tomorrow News Network: A to Z, we’ll meet the timeless, near godlike being who maintains law and order in the galaxy.