Episode 6: Chancellor Phase Alterna
SF Novel – Shau Regal
“Those who erased history are, in time, guided by the ‘source’ they failed to erase.”
The moment he rose from the Chancellor’s chair,
Novel Mirai understood.
He had not lost power.
He had stepped outside history.
The past he had believed erased
was now summoning him back.
Planet Nackcel.
Coordinates thought lost.
And the Third Terran Lineage.
The one who erased history
was now the one pursued by it.
Three years prior to Episodes 3, 4, and 5—
in the year 10055 of the Lirinas calendar—
Novel Mirai met the Nackcelian Bentley Lambid here on Planet Sympassion.
It had been twenty-seven years since Novel, as Phase Alterna, had relinquished the position of Chancellor of the Pan-Galactic Federation (the Lirinas Galactic Federal Empire) to the scholar Lambda Gris.
His decision to step down had not been simple.
The Federal High Chancellor had been informed—through confidential whispers—of the forbidden existence of Anti-Quantum Robots within the Federation. Worse still, rumors spread that Chancellor Phase Alterna himself was that very Anti-Quantum Entity, and that he would eventually seize complete control of the Federation.
The rumor was false—
yet not entirely.
That Phase Alterna was indeed an Anti-Quantum Entity was, in fact, true.
But overturning the Federal High Chancellor would have violated the Anti-Quantum Law.
Even Novel could not manipulate the stern will of the cosmos that governs destiny. He knew exposure would someday come. With something resembling a vague, almost human emotion, he disappeared from his long-occupied agate-dais office.
Yet his mind was already turning toward the next mission he would impose upon himself.
For Novel, the welfare of humanity remained the supreme mandate.
How to overcome his two-thousand-year struggle against the cosmic current of universal will—that was his greatest challenge.
It is undeniable that he intended to uphold the Anti-Quantum Law.
He also placed considerable hope in the completion of Chrono Bloom—
a seed of thought that had first taken root in the mind of his creator, Dr. Arthur Endivan of Legacia.
“How many renaissances have we achieved in these two thousand years,
only to see them collapse like towers of blocks within mere decades?
Even recently—Malacca’s Renaissance (10014), Mikel’s Renaissance (10040)—
the negative aspect of the Echo Rare Current has clearly intensified.”
His singular desire had always been this:
How could all humanity of this galaxy overcome opaque and unstable crises?
He had appointed Lambda Gris as successor precisely to reinforce Lambda’s theoretical framework with the lived experience of galactic governance—guiding it, quietly, toward completion.
And yet doubt lingered.
Could he fully entrust humanity’s future to the Sapiensers ideal of Legacia—
to the budding Chrono Bloom envisioned by Dr. Arthur Endivan?
He reexamined every circuit of his Anti-Quantum mind, seeking new insight—
all in the name of humanity’s welfare.
At this stage, Novel began to entertain a hypothesis:
That both the Sapiensers and the Immigrants ultimately originated as the same species on Planet Earth.
And that there might exist another group entirely—
one defined by a different behavioral axis, a different civilizational axis.
He would learn three years after meeting Bentley Lambid that Shau Regal was a researcher in generative chemistry, more attuned to tacit knowledge and embodied cognition than to humanity’s universal tools of “text, language, and science.”
Shau’s hypothesis was gradually approaching truth.
Novel had begun focusing on the possibility of a Third Terran Lineage—
most likely the Nackcelians.
If possible, he wished to trace the origins of the Nackcelians’ homeland, the mysterious Nodo, by traveling backward through time.
Novel was troubled.
“The network of Historical Erasure I boldly executed during the twilight of the Immigrant civilization—
does it still envelop all humanity of this galaxy today?
Or has it begun to leak somewhere?
That investigation will become necessary. No—it must be done.
Could it be these two planets, shielded within the mysterious Passion Belt?
Here, Sympassion and Nackcel…”
At that moment, for reasons unknown, the coordinates of Planet Nackcel had vanished from his Anti-Quantum mind.
His internal monologue continued:
“If I were to utilize the Radiation Cube recently devised by Lambda and A. Psy Marell,
might it become possible to excavate the true form of humanity that I erased before Historical Erasure?”
He spoke aloud in human language, as if addressing someone unseen.
His breath drifted white into the cold air of Sympassion—
proof that it was merely a soliloquy.
“Yes… I have heard there is a Nackcelian merchant here on Sympassion.
His name was Bentley Lambid.”
To be continued…
Planet Nackcel was the world reached by the Nodoans before the Sapiensers escaped Planet Earth, and its path differed from that of the later Immigrants. On Iri-Susa, the planet closest to the Solar System within the Kabire System, it is told in The Great Adventure of Meeter that some Nodoans clung to radiation-ravaged Planet Earth until the very end.
Can “Historical Erasure” ever be justice if done to protect history?
If the Third Terran Lineage truly exists, how might it alter the future of civilization?
Has Novel truly surrendered to fate—
or is he preparing a new move?
If you were the one deciding,
which would you choose—
the history to erase,
or the history to preserve?
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