A reporter on the screen interviewed a young Nephrican boy who boarded the virtual particle craft that would take him into space in order to board The Beyonder. Virtual Particle vehicles were the cutting edge at this point of time in Nephapricus, but they were about to propel this galactic civilization into the stuff of legend. The Nephrican spaceport had recently purchased this technology from the Pripicans.
Virtual particles are a phenomenon of this universe that, on the sub-atomic level of reality, constantly appear and disappear all the time. This is the stuff of gravity, which represents a virtual particle effect that cumulatively flows in and out of existence along the curvature of the universe. Fields of virtual particles become oriented to a mass polarity point. Virtual particle vehicles control fields of this virtual particle phenomenon with artificially generated mass polarity points in order to control the gravity around an object, or in other words anti-gravity.
The reporter stopped the young passenger before he boarded the saucer-shaped virtual particle vehicle. “Me young man excuse. I your name what is may ask?”
The small boy stopped to look up at the reporter, then said, “I alone am traveling, why yes, and my name Trunlio is.” The reporter’s camera crew had been two other Nephricans that started walking around the boy while pointing small hand held cameras at him.
“The audience how old you are tell?”
The little gray squid being deliberately puffed himself up on his three tentacle legs to stand a bit taller. “Twelve years old I’m, and of my life perfectly ready to charge take. My grandparents this ticket so I an Eagolim can up grow bought. They a personal promise from Captain Mynervood that I will looked after be have.”
Then the young child bravely walked up the virtual particle vehicle ramp to his destiny. The reporter moved his story along to the child’s crying parents who had already said goodbye to their brave little Negolim boy who would come back someday an Eagolim. That had been when a group of around 15 Negolim protesters that were holding signs stopped the reporter on the TV.
“The Beyonder us Negolim out of the knowledge of the universe that we all as a society acquired are shutting.”
Then another protester interjected for the camera, “Yeah! All kinds of conspiratorial secrets from Negolim there kept are!”
Then they broke out in a quick rehearsed chant. “We to know want! We to know want! We to know want!”
The reporter seized the story opportunity and asked, “So me and our audience out there of these conspiracies you today protesting are tell.”
“We proof that all photos we of Doldoria treated photos have get see. They the existence of civilizations of intelligent life on Doldoria are hiding.”
The reporter let the protesters continue to speak on his show, but his single eye advertised a worried look that he might have his live story cut short if it got too controversial.
“How with all the surveillance satellites we a virtual replica of the entire planet Doldoria to explore don’t have?!”
The reporter offered a skeptical response on behalf of his viewers. “Oh on come! The space authority such an enormous organization secret of intelligent life on Doldoria is couldn’t be keeping.”
Another protester imposed himself on the camera. “Oh yeah? That only one of many conspiracies is! The Eagolim another two-eyed, two legged, two armed alien life form on some planet out there have discovered, and they us it about won’t tell. We these aliens intelligent know are, and they among us even be hiding may.”
That had been the moment the live news broadcast cut to the next reporter for the show. At the actual scene, after the television changed stories, the reporter appeared upset about his show being cut short by a controversial interview. He waved his tentacles at his camera crew and a Pripican couple that were now boarding the virtual particle vehicle to get ready for take off. “Oh on come! I Pripicans right now could be interviewing. Nephricans Pripicans by fascinated are! I to them off myself to was short cut, and to this male and female Pripican talk!” His camera crew consisted of two Nephricans with two small tentacle-held camera holders that followed the reporter, and also an editor who typed away on a laptop computer-like device, and they all appeared to be on break.
The two four legged Pripicans ignored the reporter and just boarded the virtual particle craft. They were a newly wed couple named Fluisudal and Jaden. Pripicans were a more monogamous culture than Nephricans, and they tended to marry one partner once for life. The two Pripicans were furry all over beneath their travel clothes, and their faces seemed to be a mixture of goat and human. Pripicans were a lot like centaurs of ancient Earth myths. The Pripican couple trotted to an available view port as the saucer’s ramp finally closed, and the antigravity flight into space began with the virtual particle vehicle suddenly falling upward on a river of those elusive gravitons.
Jaden looked over at her husband with an expression that explained to Fluisudal, without a word, that she still wasn’t used to speeding suddenly into space with no g-force effect to worry about. The virtual particle craft also controlled the virtual particle effect within the craft, making it immune to its own centrifugal effects. They just stood like many other passengers by the view ports along the sides of the circular room. Some were sitting in available seats, but without seatbelts or anything.
Fluisudal put an arm around his bride to comfort her. “Cutting edge virtual particle technology actually controls any field of gravity to include the field in this room. Right now we are traveling at an incredible speed.”
Jaden just smiled a rhetorical reply while they watched the planet Nephrica shrink rapidly before them through the view port. Fluisudal continued to explain things, which had been a distinctive trait of his character. “The virtual particle technologies evolved from corona observations of different star masses that literally shed light on the phantom matter phenomenon.”
Phantom Matter had been the same as what Earth astrophysicists currently call dark matter, and it was a sub-atomic particle that had been sometimes produced when virtual particles, for some reason, failed to not exist.
Fluisudal decided to speculate in his own intellectual way about where all that knowledge had been taking them. “The Beyonder uses warp space aerodynamics to get to its incredible speeds. We are learning to actually peek around to the other side of reality to find an entire anti-matter universe there.”
Jaden actually liked to encourage him to go on about such things since her mind did find it stimulating, and it had been one of the reasons she married him. “I’m not convinced of the anti-matter universe theory. It is still just a theory.”
“Well not a theory without evidence, and verified proof. We can flip the nuon charges of matter to actually go outside the universe. The anti-matter universe is not far away from warp space. The antimatter universe is synchronized to this universe, and visa versa. Therefore everyone in this universe has an antimatter counterpart. You are both synchronized between the universes so that every action coincides to an action in the other.”
Jaden also liked playing the role of his skeptic. “Sounds like the universe just has a mirror it can look at itself in.”
Fluisudal appeared amused by the comment. “They are synchronized but not identical. We really have no idea what the other universe does when I do something here. Both universes have gone their own separate ways weaving their own realities that are both haunted by a predestination of anti-matter / matter synchronicity.”
Jaden’s head spun after that, but the view out of the view port that she had turned towards didn’t help her head at all. The virtual particle transport already approached the luxurious cruise ship called The Beyonder. The famous star ship had been docked at the orbiting spaceport satellite. It had been silhouetted by the glorious galactic bar that appeared as blinding at night as a daytime sun in some areas of the galaxy. In the 2nd Age of Magphoreus the galaxy had a brilliant galactic bar filled by Ralus Xnoga’s ravenous eating habits at that time. Ralus Xnoga had been the
affectionate name given to the super massive black hole in the center of this galaxy named Magphoreus. The galactic bar gave nighttime on Nephrica an indigo glow that we don’t see on as many planets in this present 3rd Age of Magphoreus.
Jaden suddenly became inspired to sing a familiar space traveler’s folk song that she knew called “Ocean and Sky.” Pripicans were inclined to break out in song sometimes, and Fluisudal harmonized with her voice during the refrain verses. “In time it gets dark on the sun.
Move slower, oh fiery one.
Not in a night without the sky.
Not a sky above to ask why.
It’s lonely at the top.
Just ask the ocean
breathing the shore non-stop,
a lonesome motion.
What will you do fiery one?
Will you know for sure when you’re done?
Trot upon the rug of the sky.
Touch fingers of stars you pass by.
The future will not stop.
Just ask the ocean
who combs her foamy top
washed with shore lotion.
Space gives you everywhere to run.
Will you wait for me airy one?
Not a sky without clouds of lies.
Not a lie for the one who tries.
It’s scary at the top
Just ask the ocean
with nowhere else to hop
a lone emotion.
In the distance it still looks clear.
Be careful with the scary fear.
Not love for another without the pain.
Not home till past the edge again.
I wonder what the future holds.
(Listen to the ocean.)
I wonder what the future holds.
(Listen to the ocean.)
I wonder what the future holds.
(Listen to the ocean.)
I wonder what the future holds.” Then both smiled at each other in satisfaction of a well performed a cappella rendition. Then they noticed they had an audience of Nephricans that were treated to a rarely seen activity of the alien Pripicans, and had taken interest in their performance. There had not been clapping, but then they broke their silence with compliments to the couple who sang beautifully. Nephricans were less evolved musically than Pripicans and had a natural admiration for a species that could carry notes better than Nephricans with their snouts. The stomach in their snouts made them more inclined toward burping.
They flew around the glorious satellite monolith of a great galactic culture that had at last began traveling the unfathomable distances between stars. For the Nephapricans had began with the inherited advantage of evolving in a tightly packed cluster of 15 legendary stars. The Beyonder looked kind of like a glorious ocean cruise ship of Earth that had been suspended in space at the satellite spaceport, which they were also about to dock with.
Before these days of luxury cruises between stars there had been a whole age of slow space flight in slightly compacted tiny vessels as both Nephricans and Pripicans began leaving their planetary wombs. Once robots could finally cross the unimaginable voids, things started speeding up into millions of miles per hour. As ships got faster they also got bigger to accommodate larger crews of Maphoreonauts. A ship journey to another planet needed to be as satisfying an environment for the crew as possible. Large ships became considered a necessity to survive long journeys through space. Therefore the years spent in space by the galactic Eagolim became as much like a relaxing luxury cruise as possible.
Jaden and Fluisudal Behold The Beyonder
The virtual particle driven saucer docked with the satellite spaceport, which had been the home for The Beyonder when it docked at the planet Nephrica. The ship had been built in space, and had only been designed to land once on a planet, where it would remain in the case of a catastrophe or emergency. The ship had been equipped with its own four virtual particle vessels that were used for coming and going to and from space. There had been a central saucer section to the ship that could detach from the rest of the craft in order to function as a separate virtual particle non-interstellar craft. Virtual particle driven vehicles used mercurial based gyroscopic positronic fields of electricity to generate the surrounding virtual particle field oriented to an artificially generated mass polarity point for navigation.
Jaden and Fluisudal strolled off the exit ramp into the spaceport docking bay. There were Nephricans in space navy skin shirts there to escort the passengers into the docking bay of The Beyonder. A couple passengers stopped at concession stands in the docking bay eager to purchase refreshment or food. It’s a galactic irony of the planet Nephrica that to find a place with really good food you had to leave the planet. There had still been time before The Beyonder would take off, but space navy workers ran around anyway trying to get passengers assigned to rooms on the ship for the journey.
The two newlywed Pripican passengers decided to get assigned their room. They saw the famous Captain Mynervood greeting passengers as they entered the ship.
Captain Mynervood also discussed warp space with another passenger who worked in the development of Quanta-Dimensional Warp configurations. Jaden always wanted to shake hands with the great Captain so she interrupted the conversation. She imposed her furry three-fingered hand in to the two-fingered Nephrican hand of the Captain. “I have always wanted to shake your hand Captain Mynervood. I’m sure my journey to Holdus is in good hands with you at the helm of this very space worthy ship.”
Captain Mynervood tried to know his passengers by name before they got on his ship. “Jaden the new wife of Fluisudal you are. I you Captain on this journey to be am happy. I you two all the best for your post wedding celebrations wish, and the best of my ship’s comforts to your every need extend.”
Fluisudal thanked the Captain for his gracious remark, and also shook his hand. “Thank you very much Captain Mynervood. We wanted the best ship for our migration to Holdus, and I’m satisfied with this ship already.”
A crewmember rushed up to introduce herself, and she escorted Jaden and Fluisudal to their room for the 1 light year journey through space to the star Holdus.
The other Nephrican passenger still stood with the Captain as the Pripicans were whisked away. “Those Pripicans strange talk sure do.”
“You used to it when you around them enough get are.”
Captain Mynervood admired Pripicans, and kept a few on his crew as a rule, but not too many. He found them to be quicker, and more agile than Nephricans. That had a lot to do with why the Pripicans won the Great War, but they were also graceful victors. Captain Mynervood figured it had something to do with having two eyes that allowed Pripicans to always see a better way. The one-eyed Captain Mynervood found that virtue in his crew very useful.
* * *
Hagan Hiedalli failed to reach anybody at the satellite station. It had been as if she had been being transferred in a futile run-a-round with everyone she talked to. She picked Beatarkameed up off the table and decided to drive to the spaceport to talk to Admiral Mull personally. She fumed with a rage at the Admiral for leaving her on hold when she suddenly found him looking right at her when she opened the front door to leave.
“I to you Mrs. Hiedalli to startled didn’t mean. I on your problem since we earlier today talked have been working. May I in come?”
“Sir Yes. I you there to see did not expect.” She noticed there were several government vehicles parked across the street as they both entered back in her house. It looked like the Negolim spies across the street were now under arrest.
Arresting agents were escorting one of the Negolim spies from across the street to the police vehicle with some difficulty. “Hey! It easy take! This Negolim that way don’t play!”
The Admiral explained. “I the whole operation against your son and husband have uncovered. They all under arrest now are. So The Beyonder mission no longer in any danger is. You for your vigilant investigation Mrs. Hiedalli thank.”
Hagan felt a w
ave of relief come over her while the Admiral began noticing the quanta-nanocoded device in her hand. “That what is? How that you did get?”
She explained. “My quanta-nanocoded technology the proof I used to get.”
She opened the device up to introduce him to the quanta-nanocode being’s virtual centaur animation body. Beatarkameed looked like it had been hiding as it turned around to greet the Admiral. “Hello sir, I am a Binary Electromagnetic Artificial Thought program named Beatarkameed. I infiltrated the house across the street and downloaded evidence of what they were up to.”
The Admiral looked shocked. “I that evidence for this conviction will need. I all of it need, and copies destroyed.”
Beatarkameed had been happy to give the Admiral the data it compiled on the operation across the street. The data had been transferred into Admiral Mull’s personal device. The Admiral asked the quanta-nanocode being, over and over again, if all other copies were destroyed, and the artificially intelligent being swore that Admiral Mull indeed had the only copy of that evidence now transferred onto his personal communication device. After Admiral Mull left Hagan had just been relieved that this trouble would now be all behind her. She had been assured by the Admiral that her son had been examined and that all mind-control implants had been removed. There were Agents of Ea that were on board The Beyonder who were going to control Adma, but now they were also in custody.
She thought back over the whole crazy 42 yearlong odyssey that she spent being the mother of a new species of life. This new species had still been kept secret from the general Negolim public. Captain Mynervood proposed to her when he learned she had become pregnant, and she had been thrilled by the opportunity to be a wife of the great Captain. At first it seemed like a dream come true. It had only been a couple weeks after the marriage when Captain Mynervood received the risky assignment that would keep them apart for her lifetime. He had appointed a special doctor for the birth, and told Hagan about the baby she had been about to have. Then he took off for 42 Nephrican years. Now she found herself just wishing her husband and their son Adma a safe journey to the far off star Holdus.