Chapter 7: Svetat and The Multidimensional Ring
Thanks to the attackers that Aquari/Nieniel stumbled upon in Sveeden it wasn’t long after Aquari departed Goag Ralus when Svetat located the Incapricans who were conspiring against the Dol star-door. At a remote location of Goag Ralus, beneath the star Solkas Svetat had found himself crouching ineffectively behind a rock in the sands that covered this part of Goag Ralus with a desert. A smaller raptor-like reptile holding a deadly laser rifle approached the rock Svetat had been hiding behind. Another reptile partner followed not far behind the one that pointed the rifle towards the rock. Svetat stood twice the size of his pursuers, which only made the rock less useful for taking cover behind. Svetat cursed himself not wanting to be seen in this pursuit of Incaprican saboteurs of the Dol star-door that were meeting out in this area of the desert. It was said that the skin of Goag Ralus was thin within the cities, which explained why those that plotted against the great Goag Ralus come to remote areas buried beneath regular dirt and rock where no quanta programming could be found. Svetat had been keeping these Incapricans under surveillance, which Aquari’s attackers led him to after Svetat had the authorities just let them go. That led him here barely protected from a laser rifle about to slice him in half by a piece of rock he didn’t quite fit behind. As the raptor lizard had been about to turn the corner of the rock and shoot the obvious over-sized spy, the attacking lizard suddenly just froze totally still. Even his partner not far behind stopped in his tracks while Svetat, holding a ring on his finger, took off running to the rocky cliffs not far away.
It had been at least a couple minutes before the lizard with his finger on the laser-rifle trigger about to shoot, suddenly became animated again to leap behind the rock and shoot his glowing red laser beam from the rifle harmlessly into the distant trees. He became suddenly frozen again, dumbfounded at finding no giant First Born reptile to slice in half. The raptor’s partner also became animated again at the same time to move up next to his partner with the smoking laser rifle. They both stood baffled by the scene before them.
“There wasss a big firssst-born with a neck of ssspikesss behind thissss rock who jusssst dissssappeared before I ssshot at him. At leassst I would ssswear that’ssss what I sssssaw.”
“I thought I sssaw a sssimilar being. Thissss plac(ss)e hasss many animalsss that could have tricked our eyessss.”
“Perhapssss you’re right. It mussst have ssscurried off under the light of my lassser when I misssed.”
During that time when time stood still, Svetat got himself to some better cover near the location where some Second Born Incaprican saboteurs were going to meet. Svetat had been known as a First Born Incaprican, which meant that he dwarfed most other reptiles in size, age, skill, and wisdom. Svetat had lived to be over 8,730,000 Earth years old. Over that kind of a life span a being became naturally enhanced by the more evolved self-awareness. Second Born reptiles grew old and died much faster, having not yet evolved the mastery of the body’s sub-conscious functions. A First Born naturally developed the discipline of evolving conscious control of their every cell. A First Born took control of their being while lesser beings failed to take over these duties from the sub-conscious, which only ran a body while the brain grew up to a point of maturity when it could take over conscious control.
Svetat had journeyed to Goag Ralus about a million Earth years before, bringing with him an amazing dimensional time-warp altering mechanism within a ring on his finger. A mysterious anti-matter battery in another dimension powered the ring. Svetat obtained this amazing device from the Sree Seree of the Scuton-Crux arm of Magphoreus during one of his many past adventures. They were beings who applied the physics of warp-fusion drives in ways that didn’t traverse enormous distances through space faster than light. Acceleration, by itself, fails to surpass the speed of light because once past that barrier one begins to go backward in time, a state that positive gluon-charged physical matter couldn’t possibly exist in. Therefore the physics of dimensional warping were used to take acceleration past that speed of light barrier in order to continue moving forward in time while surpassing the speed of light barrier. This may explain why Aquari could go over 700 times the speed of light if the theory that he was actually a higher dimensional being only exploring our universe with two of his dimensions happens to be true. Svetat had been rewarded this ring by the Sree Seree, which had actually been a belt where they constructed an interface upon so that Svetat could operate the microscopic controls. The ring could freeze all time around the wearer of the ring within a boundary of 3 or 4 meters. He could also concentrate the energy in a beam to freeze time for individuals further away than 4 meters. Svetat came to Goag Ralus 3,617 teks ago, (1,125,000 Earth years,) with this ring, which the Eigalli helped him back engineer. That made Svetat wealthy and powerful in the Incaprican lands.
Goag Ralus had asked for Svetat’s help even before Aquari arrived, because wind of the conspiracy had reached Goag Ralus soon after acquiring the Dol star-door. Svetat had been on to these saboteurs since Aquari left, and now stood poised to bring authorities down on their secret meeting in this remote desert. Svetat approached the rocky face of his destination to behold an unnatural doorway carved into the cliff-face guarded by a single sentry playing with a video gaming device, or something like that. The little Second Born lizard had been oblivious to Svetat who incapacitated the sentry with other highly disciplined abilities he acquired by a long illustrious life span of adventuring through the galaxy.
Svetat carefully crept within the Incaprican complex carved into the face of an asteroid that had been landed upon the surface of Goag Ralus billions of Earth years ago. The corridor had almost been too narrow and small for Svetat’s large body, and it darkened while his highly evolved eyes easily adjusted to the almost pure darkness. The corridor appeared empty, but the low hum of voices and activity could be detected in the far off distance. The hum grew louder as Svetat followed the slowly growing glow of light through the curving tunnel. It twisted deeper down into the mountain rock, and Svetat had to crouch as his fourteen and a half foot form barely even fit. Svetat had heightened awareness, which made him virtually impossible to sneak up on or surprise, so when the corridor finally opened up to a lobby occupied by two guards they were quickly frozen in time before they knew what hit them. Svetat had a few minutes before the time-warp field that now encompassed the raptor-like guards finally wore off. Svetat used that time to peer into the main room, which the guards were guarding.
It had been a double door that opened out into the lobby so Svetat pried both of the thick doors open enough to create a crack that he looked through. The room had been filled with the common raptor-like Incaprican reptile species that made up most of the Goag Ralus Incaprican inhabitants of the city of Zveeden. Their kind came to Goag Ralus billions of years before, and were the first Incaprican species to arrive. They laid the groundwork for several Incaprican cities, which cultivated a more primitive face than any other cities on Goag Ralus. The Incapricans attained the highly advanced and evolved ability to travel to the core of Magphoreus only to throw off the technology and embrace a culture closer to the Stone Age of Earth. A group of at least ten of them gathered in the secret underground room away from the awareness of Goag Ralus. The entire room looked aglow with the ambience from the reason why those Incapricans were here in the first place. The Incapricans were all facing a giant hologram being emitted by a quanta-communicator. The hologram looked like a being unlike anything Svetat had ever seen in all his millions of years of galactic exploration.
The underground room was much larger than the tunnel Svetat just came through, and would easily accommodate someone more Svetat’s First Born Incaprican size. In fact the room did accommodate the hologram of a being even taller than Svetat by about a foot. He looked human-like in appearance, which to Svetat looked like the blue-colored Eagolim that he had seen before. The hologram being wasn’t blue however, but a brig
ht orange/brown skin color covered his muscular physique. Also unlike the hairless Eagolim, the hologram being had something resembling long hair flowing from his head like a head of hair with beard and mustache. The hair flowed from root to end like a vapor that waved about as if the being lived under water. The being’s clothing appeared similar to the hair, and seemed to flow like a vaporous cloud from the being himself. The human-like face looked down with glowing red eyes that showed no pupils. He said something to the group of reptiles who were hanging on his every word.
“The saboteurs did well. Although they failed to shut the Dol star-door down, the quanta-nanocode virus that they did succeed in introducing to the star-door will stop that star-door from ever connecting to the Poa star-door.”
Although Svetat had been easily memorizing everything seen and said, he also recorded the scene before his eyes with special eye inserts that he had programmed himself with. This would not be good news for Goag Ralus and Begalius who had finally convinced the Eigalli that opening the star-door wormhole would be a good thing. A quanta-nanocode virus did not sound like a good thing either. Svetat, unlike other Incaprican inhabitants of Goag Ralus, had not been against the Dol star-door being used. In fact Svetat had actually made the decision to come to Goag Ralus because he believed all of this to be the galactic evolution of the future taking place, and he wanted to directly take part in it.
The group communicated a request to the giant orange being for further instructions, to which the being replied, “The quanta-nanocode virus will accomplish what the contingency to shut the star-door down failed to do. There are no further instructions at this time for you. What you have already done should take Begalius so long to resolve if it ever does, that by the time the Dol star-door works again, the Poa star-door should be under our control and no longer belong to the Golimechoid.”
Svetat sensed the conversation concluded, but didn’t want to stop recording. This was big. Still the guards behind him were beginning to stir back to animated existence within the time stream so Svetat decided that this meeting would now be adjourned. Then Svetat suddenly swung the doors wide open and leaped toward the center of the group of Incapricans. They all were turning around to see what happened, and the giant hologram would immediately notice within the next few seconds of quanta-communication. When Svetat got close enough he activated his anti-matter powered dimensional time-warping ring that briefly created a gravitational lensing effect that rippled from Svetat in all directions like pond waves from a thrown rock splashing into the fabric of reality. After that instant everyone in the room froze still. Then both sentries ran into the room of frozen time only to stop in their tracks also frozen in time again by a beam from Svetat’s ring. One of them had even stopped in mid-air not even touching the ground, remaining in the air exactly within the instant that Svetat had shot him. He looked at his ring that displayed a bar that reflected the degree of anti-matter charge still left. It had been the most he had used the ring in over a tek, and yet it still had sufficient charge. He activated a GPS beacon to bring in the authorities that were waiting for Svetat’s signal.
Svetat then looked up at the hologram that still observed from beyond the effects of his ring. The quanta-communication device already operated quantum technology beyond relativistic time-space orientation. The being didn’t say anything, but looked directly at Svetat with eyes that showed fierce anger along with an even brighter red glow. Svetat, for a moment, wasn’t sure the hologram couldn’t reach him and was, at that moment, ready for anything.
Then the hologram being just switched the quanta-communicator off and disappeared along with the hologram’s ambience in the room. Svetat stood alone surrounded by about a dozen viscous lizards frozen in time.
Within three minutes the room became full of Incaprican and Eigalli authorities before Svetat even needed to shoot his ring again. The evidence would prove them guilty of sabotage and conspiracy against Goag Ralus. Goag Ralus showed up there in His Incaprican avatar form the same size as Svetat. He congratulated Svetat on a good job of tracking this meeting down.
“It’sss not all good newsss old friend,” Svetat told the avatar. “There isss much evidenc(ss)e to proc(ss)esss here. The quanta-communicator sssshould have data on the loca(ss)tion of itsss lassst transssssmisssssion. Thessse culpritssss are ssserving ssssome kind of advan(ss)ced alien I’ve never ssseen before.”
“All will be processed and analyzed old friend. Come, let’s get out of this dingy place and return to Zveeden. Perhaps we can smoke some of your rompass.”
That sounded good to Svetat. “Yesss, I would be honored to sssmoke with the great Goag Ralussss. One other bit of bad newsss however, the sssaboteursss of the Dol ssstar-door sssucceeded in infecting the Dol star-door with a quanta-nanocode virussss. Begaliusss mussst be made aware of thisss.”
Back at Svetat’s home of elaborate tapestries where he lived like an Arabian sheik, both Svetat and Goag Ralus sat on cushions each with a tube in one hand. They sucked smoke from the tubes that connected to Svetat’s smoldering hookah to discuss the raid on the saboteurs. After viewing the information from Svetat’s eye inserts, Goag Ralus believed that the being evolved from the ancient Nephapricans who had disappeared way back at the end of the second age of Magphoreus. According to data from the quanta-communicator, this being broadcasted from high above the galactic ellipse, and must have evolved up there where objects are more free of the plains of phantom matter patterns. As a consequence of that the being seemed to alternate in and out of solidity at will.
Svetat listened to the ingenious analysis made by Goag Ralus, but he also watched the rompass smoke that the reptilian avatar had been exhaling. The smoke told Svetat a different story from the thoughts of Goag Ralus as the puffs of smoke formed into images above the Incaprican avatar’s head. Svetat saw an image of the Dol star-door wormhole bringing Goag Ralus to His fantasy of a Golimechoid bride. Svetat watched the smoke act out an alien love affair while Goag Ralus speculated on Nephaprican evolution, oblivious to the smoke He had been exhaling. As Svetat watched the rompass smoke he realized what Goag Ralus had been up to all along. Svetat watched a rompass smoke movie version of a young Goag Ralus-like being that started as a Golimechoid baby evolving over millions of years into another Goag Ralus while acquiring whole stars for energy. That had been the moment Svetat realized that Goag Ralus was after genetically compatible material from the Poa species of Golimechoid in order to reproduce.
That was the goal Goag Ralus had been up to all along while assisting the Incapricans that lived near the dieing red giant star Dol. Goag Ralus helped those Incapricans with the complicated technological accomplishment of transporting an entire malfunctioning star-door through a wormhole, all the way to the galactic core onto the surface of Goag Ralus Itself. Knowledge of this must be what had fired up these young Second Born Incapricans who have dared to betray the very being they were born and raised on. Svetat understood why sabotaging the Dol star-door had been important to the Incapricans. Svetat realized that Goag Ralus tried to have a baby. As Svetat realized this he thought that now he definitely assisted with galactic evolution like he always wanted, but he also wondered in that moment if it was really the right thing to do.
Meanwhile about 100 light years above Goag Ralus another Devaplanet mirrored the orbit of Goag Ralus at an even faster speed while angled further away from the galactic hub. The Devaplanet orbited at an angle away from the galactic pole where Ralus Xnoga still occasionally shot deadly gamma ray/x-ray blasts that managed to escape the super massive black hole’s veracious appetite for giant core stars. Here the Devasura that Svetat saw sat next to a quanta-communication device disturbed by the latest complication of their plans. His name was Innanumesh, and he had been watching Goag Ralus for billions of Earth years while his Devaplanet orbited above the galactic ellipse. The Devasuras disappeared because they literally left the galaxy with its phantom matter influenced rules
of existence. Here they had adapted to material and immaterial existence.
Another entity fluttered through the air toward the distressed Devasura. What began as a vaporous light then solidified into a purplish woman with an Eigalli-like telepathy horn on her head. Unlike the males, female Devasuras had evolved the extra skull above the human-like skull, which gave them telepathic and image broadcasting abilities similar to the Eigalli. Her vaporous robe did not quite hide her beautifully athletic figure. She had not been an ego-phantasm like Saturlus, but was actually a female Devasura. She looked more a purple color than orange only because she had been much much younger than the male Devasura she now visited. In fact, she was the daughter of the male Devasura.
“Oh father, why do you look so distressed? Have the Incapricans on Goag Ralus failed you?”
“Not really my daughter of concern and sympathy. The Eigalli and Goag Ralus Itself have caught up to and apprehended the movement we were cultivating down there, but they are already too late if the nanocode virus purchases for us enough time to rid the Poa star-door of the Golimechoids, whom Goag Ralus must never meet with.”
“Then we no longer have use for the Incapricans down there anyway. There will be no wormholes from Goag Ralus, and no more abominations will be created. Take comfort that your plans fulfill your will.”
The father smiled at the daughter as she kissed him on the forehead and then she dissolved into a puff of vapor that flew away in the distance like a ball of purple glowing light. The father watched the daughter fly away hoping her words rang truth. The Devasuras had been overseeing the galactic ellipse from giant Devaplanets like this for billions of Earth years. Their planets move about at incredible speeds above the galaxy like pieces on a giant galaxy game-board of stars. They had grown fearful and untrustworthy of the life that inherited Nephaprican technology, or that had actually been technology. Perhaps their apprehension about the way the future unfolded had been an unhealthy side effect of the old Doldorian technology of evoking ego-phantasms from deceased ancestors, which were preserved on these Devaplanets in high-tech tombs like Egyptian mummies. Ego-phantasms tended to be stuck in their ways, unable to bear the unforeseen future as they iterate unchanged by the ages like a broken record. That had been one character flaw of ego-phantasms, which Aquari often pointed out to them. Like Chronolus, this Devasura above Goag Ralus also knew some ghosts of ancient ancestors, and like them he also could not bear the thought of the Goag Ralus technology evolving into a being that reproduced solar system sized monstrosities as children.