A Child's View (Part 1)

I decided to put my never quite finished novella, A Child's View of Inter-Stellar War, here. This is part 1:



Prologue




It was a very lucky find. The Archeologists working near the ancient ruins of “Wall Street” discovered the cannister very much by happenstance, after overlooking it several times. The canister contained a document that predated the other finds. The document must have been written by a well educated person of the time, as it was a narrative account of the events leading up to the interstellar war. Our own scholars, after much debate, decided it was based on a document decades older than the one discovered.


Most scholars now agree that the document is a translation, although inexact, of the older document. The translator, as it is currently the consensus that the translation was made by one individual, was a person well-versed in the archaic English the original document was written in. This person was also aware of some alien terminology.


There have been heated debates among scholars as to details, such as grammar, spelling, and the meaning of some words. This version of the document has been rendered for the general public.


One would be remiss not to mention the great foresight of the translator. The individual was aware that technology was and is ever changing. Therefore, within the canister was every form of digital copy known at the time. a paper copy was also included, but was unreadable after becoming degraded over time. The only copy our scholars were able to make use of was the “text” file, still in use by many of the best libraries today.


The canister, along with everything found inside of it, is on view is on view in the Great Museum in Beijing.