Diallo then prayed to Teyoo who gave her a vivid answer that she should ride out toward the Sanctuary of Ei to find Alldegallo. When she awoke from that vision she found Simeonalli had been watching her the whole time. After that Simeonalli seemed noticeably less distant towards her, and he offered to accompany her, which didn’t seem anything like the Simeonalli she thought she knew. She declined to take him along, but promised to return with news of what she found.
She did return to Trolluer, and arrived at Simeonalli’s with the escaped prisoner along with some new recruits from the Sanctuary, Chad and Vamadan. Alldegallo’s followers were thrilled to have their prophet back, and had already assigned a bodyguard to Alldegallo. They were planning legal proceedings for the crimes of the Sanctuary of Ei. It had still kind of been understood on Doldoria that no religion would be above the goddess of justice through law and order whose name had been Aternos.
Simeonalli also had been there to greet the returning captives, and Diallo began appreciating how friendly he suddenly seemed to be toward her. She started to see Simeonalli in a different light. After all he had been handsome, successful, and single.
The rest of that night Alldegallo slept peacefully till morning when he had another visionary dream that had been clairvoyant of the approaching future. As the morning brought him to the all-too-familiar shores of morning he again had been taken up above the waters of sleep to the mental skies of vision. There he saw himself with a crowd of followers awaiting the arrival of the reunion with the sky gods. This time the dream seemed more vivid, and more like actual reality.
The gods of the sky came down in a strange looking metallic saucer craft that had no gergo or visible means of propulsion. The saucer landed gracefully upon the flat mountain already recognized as the landing site. Alldegallo and his followers gathered around the craft and then giant one-eyed beings emerged from the saucer.
They were friendly and kind to the followers of Alldegallo that were appearing in this dream. Above in the sky a brilliant falling star heralded the sky-god’s arrival. Then another craft landed and another one-eyed sky-god emerged to do battle with the first one.
Then Alldegallo found himself back on the shores of the dream on the verge of waking. He struggled to remain asleep to perhaps find more of this vision. Then a dark cloud appeared in his waking vision, and the humanoid-like form of one of the cherubim of Mejoldor descended from a light behind this cloud while the humanoid’s head remained obscured.
The cherubim spoke to Alldegallo about the vision he had just had. “Behold Alldegallo this revealing of thy vision’s mystery to your more alert waking mind. Two sky-gods shall thus visit Doldoria. The first shall bring much joy and prosperity to thy kind, and a new day shall dawn on thy planet. With wonders and contraptions of magic they shall bless the future of Doldoria. That is only if the first sky-god overcomes the second single-eyed sky-god that shall also come down who is Ei, and the evil one whose victory shall visit tyranny and suffering to this planet in the name of the one god Ei. That then is the truth of this mystery. Believe in the dream Alldegallo. Believe in the dream.”
Then Alldegallo awoke to write down his next amazing vision in the journal that he still kept next to his bed in case this sort of thing happened.
Chapter 10
Beatariel had been encouraged by Begalius to comply with the terms of Prospero’s house arrest, and to cooperate with Ceres and Gonzal. Ceres and Gonzal decided to stay on Caleb to supervise the work at the research facility until a ship arrived that would take them back to Holdus, along with their prisoner who had been accused of attempted genocide and the murder of their Captain and two crewmembers.
Prospero appeared to be cooperative with this, but he actually had been controlling robots in orbit that were still constructing the phantom matter bomb. He had been able to control all the construction work from a device he kept in a secret pocket in his skin-cloth. Meanwhile Ceres and Gonzal worked with Beatariel to research the Calebites. They established communications with the microscopic beings of silicon that existed outside on the subzero planet. Meanwhile Beatariel secretly controlled robots of its own that were beginning to also construct something outside on the planet far away from the view of this facility.
After Captain Mynervood determined that things had calmed down he returned to The Beyonder with Antone, Ferdinand, and Randa also coming along. Then The Beyonder began its climb out of the Yat star system into the dimension of hyper-acceleration to the far off star named Dol. The first accelerations of a hyper-acceleration ship like The Beyonder converts hydrogen into a fuel combustion process to accelerate the ship while nuclear material is prepared in centrifuges for the creation of the fusion plume. Then the nuclear explosion is channeled through virtual particle fields accelerating the ship into the realm of hyper-acceleration by causing the fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium.
Later as The Beyonder approached the halfway point of the acceleration process, Captain Mynervood walked the halls again to just ponder the breathing walls that started happening when the ship reached over half the speed of light. It brought his memory back to the time before at the halfway point between Ea and Holdus, when they almost never slowed down again because of a quanta-nanocode virus problem. They did slow down however, and then he received that message from Hagan Hiedalli. The Captain rubbed, for good luck, the charm he had hanging from his neck that had actually been the physical form of the quanta-nanocoded being named Begalius.
Captain Mynervood found himself remembering the terrestrial wife who had been too mortal to probably ever see again. The Captain thought that of all the wives of Captain Mynervood on all the colonized planets in the Galactic Empire, Hagan Hiedalli the Negolim had been the most devoted of all his other wives. He would miss her every time he looked at Adma their child, even though their 2nd Generation Eagolim son looked nothing like either of them.
The Captain remembered his love for his Negolim wife when he came upon Ferdinand and Randa kissing at an observation portal. They were both humanoid like his son Adma. The 2nd Generation Eagolim, with or without hair, all had the two-eyed bi-optic vision with noses that perceived smell, not to mention the five-finger appendages, and bipedal legs. They had a symmetry about them that mesmerized the Captain with its natural eloquence and grace. The grace of 2nd Generation Eagolim taunted the Captain with inferiority. Ferdinand and Randa pulled their faces apart as they scuttled to greet the Captain. They were embarrassed by their show of intimacy.
The Captain had only been the opposite of offended. “Not shame for such affections have do. It only unfortunate that such love between Nephrican and Pripican not more popular is is.”
Ferdinand stood at attention in the presence of the Captain according to Pripican space flight etiquette. “Good cycle Captain. I have decided to take Randa as my partner in matrimony.” Ferdinand stood particularly proud of his decision. He looked like a well-groomed werewolf with his face hair carefully combed away from where it parted at his nose. The term ‘good cycle’ is the equivalent of ‘good-day’ as a greeting since ship time in hyper-acceleration is measured in atomic clock cycles.
Randa clung to Ferdinand’s side like a love struck child. “I in love with this male Captain have fallen. I honored if you formally us since I probably never this relationship a child from Ferdinand by producing seal can joined would be.”
Captain Mynervood had actually joined many couples in matrimony according to ancient traditions that gave this responsibility to spaceship Captains. “I honored to you two in matrimony join would. I that in the next cycle or two can arrange. As for your inability to genetically a child from Ferdinand is concerned produce. I anything possible is think.” The Captain pointed at the walls. “The walls breathing see?”
“Breathing walls? No Captain. I’m sorry. I don’t see the walls breathing.” Ferdinand had been in a denial that had inundated the culture of hyper-acceleration at this time. He would not admit to the wall-breathing question even though he saw
this just like everyone else.
Randa had been less conditioned by space travel culture. “I what you Captain mention see. Ferdinand not about it earlier talk would, but I the walls breathing see.”
The Captain just smiled at Ferdinand with an ancient understanding. Then he explained it to Randa. “Nobody about the walls because it impossible is breathing talks. Therefore it must a hallucination by a deranged mind be, but everybody this Randa sees.”
Ferdinand just looked at Randa with disapproval, still afraid to admit to what he saw. He had always seen the walls breath, and had even watched many Pripicans lose their space commissions for speaking of it. At the time of this story this had been the brief initial reaction to a phenomenon that historically would soon give way to at least acknowledging this strange visual anomaly. The best explanation for this in terms of 21st Century Earth physics can be called ‘waving.’ At the normal speeds in terms of the speed of light we perceive light more as a particle. As we approach speeds just above half the speed of light we create an angle in terms of photons that causes the perceptions to see light more in terms of its wave properties. So when the walls breathe the photons are said to be waving.
Captain Mynervood didn’t really care or even want to push the issue. He said to Randa. “The point I to that when you the impossible before your eyes then maybe the impossible just possible after all is see make is wanted.”
Captain Mynervood continued his walk through the halls of The Beyonder. Randa and Ferdinand returned to their own room in The Beyonder like two young children anxious to return to their love making game. Randa removed the skin cloth clothes that she got from her father. Although Ferdinand the Pripican Eagolim had fur, Eagolim that were produced by Nephricans such as Randa were just naked with no ability to grow skin cloth like the terrestrial Nephricans. Pripican culture had, at this time, adapted to vegetable matter clothing so Ferdinand also had clothes that fit Randa. The current moment however, had been a time of nakedness.
Randa thought about what Captain Mynervood had told her before waddling away. She watched the ceiling above them breathe as she embraced her lover. Then she closed her eyes, and believed that anything could be possible.
Meanwhile elsewhere, Ferdinand’s four-legged Pripican shipmate Antone had been alone with only his thoughts to keep him company, and so he returned alone to his own room on The Beyonder. He had been alone with worries for his comrades Gonzal and Ceres who were left behind on the planet Caleb to oversee the house arrest of the Nephrican mad scientist Prospero. Antone hoped that his comrades back on Caleb were doing well.
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The planet Caleb had been swathed in an atmosphere composed of methane and other gasses that were more typical of outer gas giants that tend to exist on the far end of a star’s habitable zone. Planet Earth might have had Caleb’s atmospheric problems if it had developed with an orbit closer to where Jupiter exists. Caleb had been the other extreme of habitable zone atmospheric chemistry compared to Venus where the proximity to the sun creates a cauldron of hellish temperatures. When another merchant vessel with supplies finally did arrive at the star Yat from the star Holdus, the dim sun of the planet Caleb had risen and set 192 times in the foggy methane atmosphere since Captain Mynervood departed on The Beyonder.
Prospero had been expecting this ship’s arrival while his arresting officers Gonzal and Ceres had been preoccupied with research into the Calebites. Beatariel was supposed to be keeping constant watch on Prospero, but the microscopic quanta-nanocode being had actually also become preoccupied with a project outside the facility. When the merchant ship decelerated into the Yat star system it made its first attempt to communicate with the facility on Caleb.
“Nephaprican Space Corporation Planet Caleb Research Facility this Captain Abedos of the 115th Tow Cargo Hyper-Acceleration vessel The Feeder Star arrival announcing is.”
Prospero had already been in the communication room waiting to respond. “This Prospero the only inhabitant of this facility your arrival acknowledging is. There docking satellites with robots to your orbit assist activated are. To Caleb Captain Abedos welcome.”
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Gonzal and Ceres had concentrated the communication equipment on the Calebites who were standing just outside the facility as a collective multi-Calebite structure that resembled an obelisk. The Calebites had evolved a way of collectively responding in a radio language that they shared amongst themselves.
Gonzal just had to proclaim. “This is the greatest discovery since Nephrican first made radio contact with the planet Pripica.” Nephrican radio contact with Pripica happened over four thousand Earth years before this moment in the story.
Ceres typed out a complicated response to the last message received. She replied to Gonzal. “This is truly amazing, and we continue to influence their evolution by our contact with them. They have evolved more and more complex questions in response to our communications. They are evolving new ways to interact in their microscopic collectives with our macroscopic organic multi-cellular dimension. We are changing the Calebites by observing and learning about them, and their microscopic nature with brief life spans accelerate their evolution immensely.”
She sent the latest message to the obelisk of Calebites outside where it had been received by trillions of microscopic silicon-based life forms. These life forms listened to messages from Gonzal and Ceres like worshipers of an unseen god that really answered their prayers.
“They are so similar to the organic cells that make up our own bodies. That is if our cells were to have evolved enough to attain sentience, verbal language, and individual consciousness. This is indeed the most amazing discovery, even surpassing the unintelligent life forms discovered on the two planets orbiting Holdus, and also that water world orbiting Oa.” At the time of this story the Nephricans from Ea, and Pripicans from Poa, had traveled to and colonized worlds at the stars Holdus, Oa, Yat, and Paz. Of these stars, (other than Nephrican and Pripican home worlds,) unintelligent animal life had also been discovered on two planets that were orbiting Holdus, and also a water world that orbited Oa, which flourished with fish and sea life.
The Calebites collectively developed a response, and this had been how research into this new life form would be done now for over a hundred Caleb days. The equipment processed and translated the response, which Ceres read on the monitor. “Gonzal look at this. They are warning us here that the quanta-nanocode being has been working with other Calebites and construction robots in a faraway crevasse of the planet to construct something almost as large as this facility. They want to know if we are aware of this.”
Gonzal replied. “I have long been suspicious of this quanta-nanocode being’s true loyalty, but why are Calebites helping it? Ask them that question. I think I shall check on Prospero our house arrest prisoner to perhaps foil whatever diabolical mischief he is still up to.”
Ceres started typing the question as Gonzal trotted out to check on Prospero. “Be on your most alert guard Gonzal,” Ceres said. “Prospero is dangerous.”
Gonzal trotted down the hallway looking for Prospero. He produced a hand held communication device that allowed him to contact Beatariel the quanta-nanocode being that controlled all aspects of the facility. “Beatariel, where are you? I have questions about your use of construction robots outside the facility. Also I want to know what Prospero is up to and where I can find him.”
Beatariel at that moment actually flew hundreds of miles the second Gonzal contacted it, and then it found Prospero before it responded. “Prospero is in the communication room working.”
Gonzal then saw Prospero as an image on his hand held device. Prospero pushed tentacles on a small device’s buttons that he held in his other hand.
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Prospero silently pushed buttons on a device that controlled construction robots of his own that were orbiting high above the planet in space to put together something that would be launched at another planet in the system. He needed the centrifuge assembly fi
tted in the main phantom matter bomb assembly to be used for creating enough fusion energy upon accumulated phantom matter to produce a singularity effect.
The robots out in space kept approaching the phantom matter bomb assembly, but then they would back away requiring Prospero to re-issue the command for the next orbital passing.
He had been secretly assembling his phantom matter bomb in this way for dozens of days with enough control still of Beatariel to keep this away from his captor’s knowledge. Now he seemed to be running into a glitch. The robot in orbit appeared again on his hand held device’s screen approaching the assembly. Then it backed away again in defiance of Prospero’s remotely issued command. “On here what is going?”
Gonzal suddenly trotted into the room, and snatched the device out of Prospero’s tentacles. “I have caught you still devising phantom matter singularity experiments Prospero. How has this escaped the noticed of Beatariel? I think I shall have to confine you.”
“You only you me can stop think, but I with authority from the highest principality of this galactic empire work. Your defiance your own doom seals.”
“You are under arrest for murder and attempted genocide by the authority of the Pripican Empire. I shall instruct these orbital robots to deconstruct your experiment.”
Prospero became furious. “No you not will!”
Gonzal turned away to push buttons on Prospero’s hand held device that he now held in his hands.
Prospero waddled up behind only to be shoved across the room by one of Gonzal’s hind legs. Prospero only became more furious as he got up. “You not me stop. The time now for me to you stop arrived has!”
Gonzal still pressed buttons to program far away robots to disassemble the phantom matter bomb. He didn’t expect Prospero to be able to produce a laser pistol from a secret skin cloth pocket he had in one of his arms. Gonzal only had a split second to look surprised before Prospero started burning holes into Gonzal’s body. Gonzal fell into a pool of blood where Prospero took back his hand held device before it had been able to drop out of Gonzal’s hand into the red puddle spreading across the floor.