Greater humanity: rift gate storm book 1

100,000 years ago.The blessed ones, as they thought of themselves, were a great and powerful human race. They had risen from a single harsh planet to explore much of the near galaxy. They created great cities and ships, they also learned their greatest gift and greatest curse. They learned to travel between worlds as easy as traveling through a door. They created the rift gates. Using a tremendous amount of energy they could send probes to distant star systems and though the process of greater triangulation they could open rift gates on the surface of a distant planet.At the beginning exploration was slow. The first colonies were for defense and exploration. As the pressure of the population mounted, rift gates where seen as a way out. For the visionary, the oppressed, the adventures and others the rift gates allowed for a different life. Hundreds of camps and outpost were founded. Many were on major worlds, the blessed ones had reached the golden age.As they explored they found planet after planet with little or no life. They believed that they were chosen to spread among the stars and stand proud against time. On a small dark world many gates from the home system they found something, they woke something up!The dark ones or simply the enemy as they were commonly known as was in hibernation, they were an intelligent, bipedal species. They were spread around a few systems. They spent most of their time in cold sleep, with around ten percent of the population awake at any one time. The blessed ones started to explore the exotic ruins, they started to collect items of interest, and then they declared the species dead and started destroying the ruins.Under the ruins the dark ones awoke, they studied, they gathered in greater numbers than they had in thousands of years and they attacked. 400 billion humans were killed, hundreds of planets attacked and dozens smashed to radioactive dust. After the dark ones finished they went into hibernation. 26 star systems with 3 billion were left.90,000 years ago: 12 systems50,000 years ago: 8 systems20,000 years ago: 6 systems.This is the story of the Earth and the five other remaining systems of greater humanity.On December 26, 2036, history will change, our long lost cousins will return, within 1 hour 30 million will die in North America, in 6 hours America will launch a nuclear counter attack against its own cities. This is the future and it will be played out in North America, Russia, Australia, South Africa and on planets 100s of light-years away.