The Gist Of My Novel - DIfferent Epochs

The year is 2084, humans have been contacted by an extraterrestrial life form, and they are all set to make a landing in the Indus delta region, the site of one of the oldest civilization in the world. A space ship appears and descends to the ground where a battalion of Indian troops await their arrival.

They watch with bated breaths as one of the extraterrestrial creatures makes its descent and starts moving towards them. Then suddenly one of the soldiers fires a weapon at both creature and ship destroying both. This soldier turns out to be an emissary of another race of extraterrestrials who in fact are humans.

The leaders of the earth then realize that there is an empire of humans spanning thirty-five galaxies, and that the earth had been quarantined off from it as the outcome of a war fought over ten thousand years ago. They also learn that there is currently a war brewing between the humans and the race which spawned this creature which attempted to land on earth for the possession of the earth.

As it turns out, the milky way galaxy is said to be a border galaxy on the border with the alien species called the Ghaik. Amid all this, there is talk of the inclusion of the earth into the human empire as it is called. The emissary then takes with him a member of the Indian secret service called the RAW. She explores the facets of the complex imperial government which is in fact somewhat a semi-monarchical democracy and is a capitalist society of various communes as opposed to a capitalist society of individuals.

This agent then discovers that this emissary is not a human being but a member of an order of supernatural warriors called the yativikrant who once were human beings. This revelation shocks her a little but being a trained espionage agent she hides it. The warrior by the name of Ajayaxara then offers her a chance to join the order which she accepts after some thought. As soon as her training is done, the war between the human empire and the Ghaik commences. The humans on the earth also play a part in this war and the war is won. As it turns out, the enemy is helped by a rogue member of the yativikrant. Ajayaxara fights the arch villain and kills him. After which he ascends to a higher level of the universe.

After the war is over, as a run up to the inclusion of the earth in the human empire, the leaders of the ten most powerful and influential countries on the earth decide to send two teams of scientists one after the other to study the empire and its citizens. The first team is meant to do the basic ground work and as the calculated culture shock is too large, the information they collect is meant to act as a means for the second team to brace themselves. They discover that the humans of the empire have modified their bodies in such a way as to make it completely robust and capable of survival in the harshness of empty space. They are all biomechanical, in other words they are all cyborgs.

The second team goes more in depth into the sociology and other aspects of the human empire. One member of the second team gets into an emotional relationship with one of the members of the host team of scientists from the imperial university and discovers the similarity between the earth humans and the humans of the empire despite the physical differences. He even volunteers to have his body engineered so that he too could be made a cyborg.

The earth is successfully inducted into the human empire and life returns to normal but not without incident as some people found out that they had spent their whole life studying something that turned out to be a well constructed hoax, an act of deception.



Endnote:

My first novel took me approximately eight years to complete. I am currently researching material for my second novel which is based in the period during the invasion of the Indian subcontinent by the Aryans.