The ant arrived at the foot of the formation, sensing its indomitable presence with its feelers. Its return visit was only a chance passing while searching for food. Under the setting sun, the ant and hundreds of its brethren had carried off the surviving queen to establish a new empire. Such things happened frequently throughout this vast domain, the soil flying away and returning, chasms opening up and being filled, and rock formations appearing like visible markers of each catastrophic change. At one end of the disturbed earth stood a lone black formation. Soil had taken flight, leaving a broad and deep chasm, and then soil had come crashing down to fill it back in.
In days now forgotten, its world had been overturned. To the twilight Earth and the stars that were just coming out, the span of time may have been negligible, but, for the ant, it was eons. The brown ant had already forgotten its home. Zhuang Yan - Graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Artsīen Jonathan - Fleet Joint Conference special commissionerĭongfang Yanxu - Captain of Natural Selection Keiko Yamasuki - Neuroscientist Hines’s wife Manuel Rey Diaz - Former president of Venezuelaīill Hines - English neuroscientist former president of the EU Secretary General Say - Secretary general of the UNįrederick Tyler - Former US secretary of defense
Shi Qiang - PDC security department officer, nicknamed Da Shi Miao Fuquan - Shanxi coal boss neighbor to Zhang and Yang Yang Jinwen - Retired middle school teacher in Beijing Zhang Yuanchao - Recently retired chemical plant worker in Beijing George Fitzroy - US general coordinator at the Planetary Defense Council military liaison to Hubble II project Zhang Beihai - Political commissar in the PLA Navy Space Force officerĬhang Weisi - General in the PLA Space Force commander Mike Evans - ETO financial backer and key leader SFJC - Solar Fleet Joint Conference CAST OF CHARACTERS Chinese names are written with surname first.
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