Legend of Oria 1: Initial Contact Read Online Free

signals into an archive for your access.  I’ll keep capturing them and forwarding them to the archive.”
    “Thank you Ensign.  I will be in my quarters if anything else breaks.”
    Admiral then returned to quarters.  He was looking forward to reviewing the signals.  The Ensign was an outstanding officer and if she thought the signals originated from Earth, they probably did.  Any information Oria gained about Earth and its current customs would be important.
    Oria settled into a large recliner chair in his office and activated his computer system.  He started to view the signal at a point where the Ensign indicated was the beginning of a transmission.  It was a black and white picture with a large heart and the words “I Love Lucy” written across it.  Oria started to get into the show.  It was about a working class couple, which managed consistently to get themselves into trouble.  In many scenes, it gave Oria a good laugh.  In several places, it appeared that someone had actually prepared the signal for transmission into space.  There were selections on the show where a narrator was providing information and greetings from Earth.  Oria thought this quite strange.  However, he knew if he was able to capture the signal, there were probably other ships that also could capture the signal, not all of which would be friendly to Earth.  He was hoping that a Creyte exploration ship had not intercepted the signal.  Pirates could cause some damage; after all, pirates abducted Oria, but Oria didn’t feel that pirates could cause the kind of devastation that an organized group like the Creytes could cause.
    A few days later, the Hercules reached the halfway point to Earth.  Oria had been watching a number of Earth shows.  His favorite was a show called Star Trek.  Oria was hoping that if the show were popular, it would provide a convenient mechanism to translate starship terminology into a form understandable on Earth.  Oria was also spending a lot of time watching newscasts.  He was impressed with the amount of technology that Earth was able to develop since he was last there in the 1800’s.  He was disappointed in some of the changes in the political landscape and the degeneration in basic moral values such as integrity.   On one of the newscasts, he saw massive demonstrations at educational institutions against the war effort in Vietnam.
    During this time, Oria began to reflect on his early life on the Eastern Shores of Maryland.  Oria had been born Oria Stoneax during the late 1400’s of Earth’s history.  His ancestry was a mix between Scandinavian and the Nanticoke people.  Of course, time had diluted his Scandinavian blood across many generations of Stoneax’s.  The Scandinavian line and his last name came from a line dating back to Olaf Stoneax, a Viking chief under King Fairhair around 935AD.
    Oria had grown up in a predominantly Nanticoke tradition significantly influenced by his people’s Viking heritage.  His village was a mixture between Nanticoke and Viking architectures.  Oria grew up learning to hunt, fish track, and fight benefiting from both his Nanticoke and Viking heritage.  It had been over 500 years since he last saw his father, yet he still remembered his father going into battle with a battle-ax in one hand and a Viking shield on his other arm.  His father had been a large strong man well known throughout the area now known as the Eastern Shore and neighboring Pennsylvania.
    As soon as Oria was old enough, the tribe allowed him to go on the annual excursions for food up the Chesapeake Bay and into territory largely controlled by the more aggressive Susquehanna people.  On some trips, they would attack Susquehanna villages freeing those tribe members who the Susquehanna had earlier captured and then enslaved during earlier Susquehanna raids on Nanticoke villages.  In these battles, Oria’s father in a long line of Stoneax’s was the dominating force. 
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