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New Histories Rise by Stephen Pratt

A synopsis

“New Histories Rise” is the story of what happens when a group of extra-terrestrials, called “Naidamans”, visit Earth in 2014.

  The notable thing about Naidamans is that they are humans. Their ancestors, a highly-evolved people whose homeland and exploits form the basis of Atlantis myths throughout the world, left the Earth when their homeland was doomed, in the 15^th millennium BC. The Naidamans are extremely evolved technologically, which is obvious enough, but they have also learnt to develop humans’ latent telepathic, telekinetic, and natural healing skills. They have formed a simple society on their planet of Naidama, with technology and immense knowledge and skill side-by-side with a simple way of life without the need for formal rules or government.

  The planet of Naidama, however, is doomed, and a large majority of the 6 million Naidamans decide that the time has come to return to Earth. There has been some debate about whether Earth is ready for them, but Earth is in many ways a mythical place to them, and rather than moving to yet another planet, most Naidamans feel the sentimental pull of their planet of origin. So in August 2014, the nearest thing that the Naidamans have to a leader, Kodozar, makes contact with the Secretary General of the United Nations.

  At first, the world is excited (though in some cases a little scared too): the idea that there are other humans in the universe is wonderful to most people, and the rich and powerful think of the money they might make from buying the Naidamans’ technology. There is some underlying unease, however, even at first, because Earth’s western society is clearly no longer the zenith of all cultural evolution, and because the Naidamans are black. Unease grows, especially among the powers-that-be, when it becomes clear that the Naidamans have no intention of selling their technology, and particularly when 5,000 Earth humans (or “Terrans”) visit Naidama and see an almost perfectly-functioning society without crime, without poverty, and without money. In meetings with the world’s powerful, the Naidamans quietly express their concern at the inequalities in the world.

  The first sign that things are wrong is when Kodozar is interviewed in January 2015, and the interviewer tries to show that Naidamans are arrogant, and contemptuous of Terrans. When negative news reports become increasingly common, the Naidamans announce that they are going to aid the poor countries of the world, whether the rich countries like it or not, and to help the poor countries resist the rich countries’ inevitable economic retaliation. The US government continues to try to discredit the Naidamans, and in order to acquire their technology, they kidnap a Naidaman scientist, who happens to be a childhood friend of Kodozar’s (though they don’t know this). Their plan is discovered, and to cover their tracks, they murder the scientist.   

  During a meeting with the American President soon afterwards, Kodozar reads the President’s mind, and seeing guilt and no remorse, murders him without touching him, by giving him a heart attack. Kodozar’s guilt is not obvious, and is only revealed for certain 60 years later. But anti-Naidaman feeling, in America and all over the western world, grows. In order to further scare the populace, two black federal agents claiming to be Naidamans are sent to rape a young white woman in Boston, USA. Kodozar resigns, and almost all Naidamans leave the USA, Britain, and other western countries, and eventually set up their own state in the Sahara Desert. In the next four years, two attempts are made to steal Naidaman spacecraft, but Naidamans take something of a back seat for the final part of the story, as the poor countries flex the muscles that the Naidamans have given them, and slowly (and not always painlessly) the rich countries are forced to change their ways internationally. They are forced to because in the background, always, there is Naidaman technological superiority.

The book is not continuous prose. It is supposed to be a history book in the form of collected source materials, published in 2114. The “source materials” are newspaper articles, letters, memos, interview transcripts, and extracts from memoirs or later publications. It is undoubtedly a Science Fiction story, but it is also clearly a critical look at global affairs and injustice today. The newspaper article etc. format, as well as being a different way of writing, also serves as a comment on the modern media. Kodozar is probably my main character, but I intentionally removed him before the end of the story, in order to show that individuals are not really the driving force of History. However you do get a feel, if sometimes only a brief feel, for other characters as well, and the book is certainly designed to be enjoyed as a story. Due to the nature of the format as much as anything, the book is short, somewhere between 35,000 and 40,000 words.

 

Some newspaper headlines found in “New Histories Rise”

ALIENS!

But they’re not little green men, they’re humans!

The Sun, 27^th August 2014

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Earth women want Naidamen

 

Cosmopolitan, December 2014

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Kodozar denies charge of murdering Dawson(US President)

 

The Guardian, 11^th May 2015

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“I was raped by 2 Naidaman men”

   Laura’s Story

The National Enquirer, 18^th May 2015

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All Naidamans to leave US

The New York Times, 24^th June 2015

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Spate of US riots continues

The Independent, 6^th April 2016

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Tumklar: Naidamans aren’t the only ETs

(Naidaman leader)

 

The Daily Mirror, 12^th May 2025

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The World Goes to the Polls

The Independent, 5^th June 2028

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  This is an extract from the “Naidaman Information Book (Short Version)” which the Naidamans give out freely to “Terrans” (as Earth humans become known) as well as putting it on a website.

 

  The story of the Naidamans begins with a small group of people on the north-eastern shore of the Black Sea in about 20,000 BC, near where the Russian town of Tuapse now stands. These were the “Pashvakan”, the “fish people”, who lived as farmers and fishermen. When this story begins, they had already learnt to use coal to power their boats against the wind; they could already work iron; and they had already studied the skies enough to realise that the Earth was round, and that they went around the sun, not the sun around them. They were also explorers, and in about 20,000 BC, they came to Darbirkan, the continent now known as Antarctica.

  At that time, Darbirkan was 3,200 kilometres further north than where it is today, with the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (the long thin bit) 200 kilometres east of where the town of Porto Alegre now stands in Brazil. The northern tip of what is now called Enderby Land was 2,500 km west-south-west of the Cape of Good Hope. So the climate was sub-tropical in the far north, and was only polar in the far south.

  Over the next four and a half thousand years, the Darbirkanans advanced in scientific knowledge, and their development of the power of the mind advanced too. It was in about 15,800 BC that they launched their first spacecraft, and began to explore the solar system. In approximately 15,500 BC the Earth started to become very unstable. As the last great Ice Age came to an end, melting ice caused rivers and seas to rise, drowning huge areas of land. The sudden release of the pressure of billions of tons of ice produced earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. It is these that led to the almost universal folk myths which speak of darkening skies, sudden climate change, and floods, of which the story of Noah and the Ark is only the most famous.

Extract from a television interview with Kodozar in January 2015, during which it becomes clear that not all Terrans love the Naidamans.…

K: Well, it’s not a just system, is it? I mean look at the ultra-wealthy in this country, and then look at

     the billions in the world who barely have enough to eat, or have no clean water to drink.

S: Is that not just nature: the strong survive?

K: Well, it’s easy for those who benefit from the system to claim that it’s just nature. But the fact is that

     it doesn’t have to be this way.

S: So we should just do things your way?

K: Not necessarily our way. That’s for the people of Earth to decide. But we’d like to help.

S: Some people have accused Naidamans, and you in particular, of arrogance, of thinking that you’re

     better than Terrans. How do respond to that?

K: We’re not better than you, we’re the same as you. We’re all homo sapiens, aren’t we? Our minds

     and our bodies are no better than yours. What I’m criticizing is the fact that most people on Earth,

     including the American people, are forced to exist in a way that serves the people who are already 

     powerful in their society.

S: But we have democracy in America, and in most places on Earth. People have the freedom to choose

     the way that they want their society to be. So you’re saying to them now that they’re not capable of  

     choosing the right way. Is that not arrogant? …