Life was sweet for a while and our community was our pride.

Back from the university where Rubix was taking courses, I was helping dad at the stud and our horses were shining and we had placed a lot of hopes with the foals and the drastic selection that Ragul was doing to have the best animals.

We were giants but we reduced our size as much as possible for economic reasons.

Our breeding did not follow our personal consumption and we had to hunt.

The problem was the allocated area...

30 dragons... That was for a planet... not for a small country.

We didn't fight because we all really liked each other, then everything started to change...

It was Rubix... And I... We were happy to have crosses on the pregnancy tests for Saphie... and Rubix and Frizor...

our moms were over the moon and our dads too.

But a week passed. then 2 and then a month and still no sign...

Saphie did not vomit.

And one of the veterinarians specialized in NAC and reptiles was called by the professor Minet.

They did a fertility test on me and all the dragons. We had to explain it to them and it was painful.

Exodus had to crack down, well, scold, to bring everyone up to speed.

Then, after having calmed down the dragons before using ultrasound, the verdict fell.

These were psychological pregnancies...

None of us were expecting children and it was a litany of regrets and tears.

For the dragons, having babies was sacred.

But the vets explained to us that we were young and with a materialized body, we were still immature and even though Valtrax and Exodus looked like adults, they were in fact as young as we were. This was a shock. But another problem appeared. We were hungry all the time and tired quickly, and something was missing.

Mondain was nowhere to be found and we had no one to help us.

Except for me, everyone was getting weaker, as if they were drained.

Yet there was mana...

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2021, In the press, one could read.

Officials from the Chinese and Russian space agencies signed an agreement last March to build a research station on the Moon. This complex will be designed to "conduct multidisciplinary and multipurpose research related to the exploration and exploitation of our satellite". It will thus be opposed to the future installations of the US-led.

The "space race" now involves the and its partners against China and Russia which, as we recall, is seriously considering

What do we know about this future lunar base? Already, China and Russia will not be alone. The leaders of both countries have officially invited other nations and international organizations to join the project "at all stages and levels" (planning, design and development).

The announcement was made during a side event at the 58th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) on April 23.

A project in four main phases

Other details related to these facilities were also communicated during the sixth annual Chinese Space Day in Nanjing, on April 24.

A priori, the first phase of the project will consist of collecting data using several probes to determine the location of the future base near the lunar south pole. These missions include China's Chang'e-6 and Chang'e-7 missions, and the Russian Luna 25, 26 and 27 missions. All these spacecraft should operate from 2024-2025.

As a reminder, the Chang'e-6 mission spacecraft, which will also aim to bring back other lunar samples to Earth, will carry, among other things, a radon detector developed by the IRAP in Toulouse.

The second phase of the project will run from 2026 to 2030. During this period, the Chinese mission Chang'e-8 and the Russian mission Luna 28 will settle on the chosen site. Thus will be able to begin the construction of the installations animated by robotic systems.

It is only during the third phase, over the period 2030-2035, that China hopes to use its super-heavy launcher to send the first humans to the site. A long-term human presence at the lunar south pole will then be considered for the period 2036-2045.

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2025, present time.... The base was already built...

Commander Yoko remembered the Appolo 18 mission and the disaster that followed.

After NASA officially ended the Apollo program in 1974, a final mission to the Moon would have been flown.

Captain Benjamin Anderson and Major Nathan Walker, along with Lieutenant Colonel John Gray, were chosen to carry it out in secret. However, the causes that led to the failure, which are captured in the recovered tape, were never made public by the U.S. government, as it was evidence of contact for the first time with extraterrestrial beings, which the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the government of the Soviet Union already knew about. The film goes on to reveal the best kept secret of the U.S. space agency and explains why no other manned mission has been sent to the Moon. It also shows that the astronauts found the remains of a Soviet mission that had the same purpose as theirs.

Somewhere else, on the dark side of the moon, the stones began to shake...

The sun was on the other side of the earth, its luminous face illuminating our night of sadness.

The Chinese and Russian astronauts were astonished that the Americans had let them down in the competition to conquer the moon.

The only thing that was certain was that they had built an orbital base equipped with laser weapons and missiles. They had the firm intention to prevent the Chinese from bringing back samples.

The Russians advocated bringing laboratories on the surface or in orbit, they were not hot to bring back the samples too.

All the members of the expeditions near or in the dark zone of the moon had died. Killed...

We could still see the picture of the Russian mission that arrived before the Americans but they had rewritten history...

Since then, nobody has been on the moon until now..

She was from another era, another time and no one alive today knew her name. Yet, in the dark undiscovered caves of the dreamtime, of the Alcheringue, of the time of the cavemen and even older.

She had known the sharp dragons, the real saurians of the time when the first land creatures left the oceans.

She had experienced all of this.

Her power, however, was immense and feared by those who knew her.

Her universe, infinite, dark and luminous, contained a strange collection of creatures just as hellish but frozen in ice, eternal ice.

Suddenly, sensing a disturbance, its astronomically large legs grabbed the sky and its eight heads bit into our dimension.

And, suddenly the alarm was launched...

The Chinese base lit up.

And, a creature, black as the depths of space woke up on earth, in its reconstructed palace, the remnant of a destroyed world.

It was frightening, monstrously frightening, but yet it had human friends and allies

"Mom??"

And a new mission was breathed into her from the void...