CHAPTER 1
Return of The God Ship - Direct Translation of Message From Ha to Apex Beings Populating Experimentation Station Earth
I am Ha, Pilot of the Light Force Species' MK 111 Battle Craft "Vessel" ... I send my greetings to you Apex Beings on Experiment Station Earth, located in the third orbit ring of the minor star MW-1,473,810,976. You refer to it as your Sun.
One Billion Earth Years ago I was assigned by the Light Force Species' Council of Elders to be your Creator, Caretaker, and Protector. I have watched your species evolve from the ancient "life-seeds" I sowed throughout this desolate sphere nearly Seven Hundred Million Years ago; and watched you as you populated, and evolved in this Mineral and liquid Sphere you call Earth. I have known you, and have watched you mature from your beginning to the present time. I have rarely disclosed my presence when I am here among you, but I continue to watch you carefully.
You cannot see me, you cannot hear me, and only when I desire ... Can you feel my presence. You have felt it when I was called upon to protect you from our enemies ... and sometimes from yourselves. Someday you will understand that all I have done ... good and bad was for your Species sake.
While I do not have any real desire to communicate directly with your Species, because it requires far too much of my valuable energy to communicate directly thought-to-thought with so many Apex Beings. I am here to announce that You have progressed according to our wishes, and It is time for you to know of me and my Species. I will take time, and energy on this occasion to address you all through a medium you are familiar with.
Your intelligence has progressed well, but has not yet matured sufficiently to allow me to communicate with so many of you directly through basic Thought-Transfer. Some of the other civilizations in this young Galaxy achieved that capability much earlier than you early during their evolution, but they were unable to match you in other important areas of evolution. You have excelled in many other important evolution categories that have caught the attention of The Council of Elders.
You have instilled hope to our species that through your species evolution we may correct an error that occurred many Billions of years in the past. It is this error that leads me to resort to this mundane and time-consuming means of communication with you. Perhaps if I identify myself and my mission it will make it easier to understand my purpose and expectations.
As for my Species we are what you beings here on your "Earth" describe as pure intelligent energy. Unlike you beings I do not have the need for verbal communication. My Species lost that ability 350 Million Earth years ago; when the last of my Species' sound speakers vanished from this Station while on a documentation mission ... assessing your progress. Since that time there has been no further collection or use of sound in our Species' Communication.
Even though I return home frequently to report on your progress; I am never truly away from you. I continue to monitor all that you do through my Evolution recorders ... or as they are named: "Stay Behind Monitors and Sensors." They are capable of retaining every word, fact and action occurring during my absence as well as when I am here.
I have installed them everywhere in order to obtain all data of events occurring here. I collect that data from them, and transport it to my Home ... Haven. All that has happened, and all that has been said or done is recorded ... and subject to review by our Supreme Council of Elders.
As far as compatibility between our species, there is none ... the only understandable common factor we share with your generation and Species of Beings is that principle, which you refer to as time. While the time you experience as a Species is finite; My Species' Generation's life span and existence is infinite, and we use the term "Time" to only describe distance. We were alive long before the current universe's creation ... in fact all our historical and ancestral records that remain in existence chronicle that we were part of life long before that instant.
There are very few remaining records chronicling our beginning, and the period leading up to the death of the old worlds, and their Universe. All but a few of our Species' records dating beyond 17 Billion Years in the past were destroyed during the last Great Battle between two of the old universe's rival civilizations as they sought to consolidate their holdings around the Universe. That battle for supremacy between my Species, the Light Force, and our nemesis, the Dark Force Species brought an end to our previous homes; and the previous universe.
During that unfortunate, but unavoidable great war between the two dominant species ... the unfortunate simultaneous detonation of two Type III Ultra Pulse Bombs terminated the previous Universe as we knew it, and all but a few Billion Beings were terminated. What followed soon after were events that allowed for the formation of our present Universe. Since the events which created the new Universe are far beyond your ability to comprehend ... it is best explained for the time being to simply say ... Yes ... the Universe was created by a "Big Bang" ... the one you are familiar with was created nearly Fourteen Billion Years ago ... three Billion years after the "Old" Universe was destroyed.
During my last visit, nearly Two-Thousand years in your past, your Species' scholars had not yet been able to calculate the age of the Universe your Solar System resides in ... They were not ready, nor prepared to receive; or comprehend that knowledge, so I have chosen to not pleasure them with that important information until today. ... More information will be brought forth to be explained after you have evolved sufficiently to comprehend it.
As for me, my mission began under charter by the Light Force Species' Supreme Council of Elders. My task is to patrol this sector of the universe; and seek life forms that have evolved from the Seeds of Life we scattered around your Planet and its neighbors nearly a Billion Earth Years ago. I constantly monitor the evolution of all things populating this Experiment Station including You Apex Beings, and the Millions of lower class life forms thriving here. Everything you see has evolved from seeds of life I dispersed.
My charter now tasks me to seek out and monitor all Beings on this Experiment Station that now exist at your level, as well as those that have failed to develop with the same success experienced by your Species. Like your Species we too were encased in a fragile vulnerable shell much like yourselves, but then came the great Experiment 30 Billion years ago ... when the entire generation cast off our individual outer physical shells. It was but a few Billion years after that time that we realized our error, and have longed to rekindle the experience and feelings of touch and emotion that are chronicled in ancient documents describing what our ancestors might have experienced.
The earliest memories and legends we retain stored in our memory reservoirs all point back to a period in our development that mirrors what we have observed in your developmental cycle. The decision to evolve to our pure energy form failed to take into account that, by not being able to touch or love or experience emotion we would erase the joy we felt before casting off our "Outer Shells.".
Realizing our error in this decision nearly Ten Billion years ago the Supreme Council of Elders made the decision confirming that removing our outer shell had been a terrible mistake; and charged the teachers and the scientists to find a way to reverse our termination of the Outer Shell.
As a result I, and other Pilots like me were given the mission to recreate an environment conducive to producing the same fragile enclosure our earliest ancestors inhabited using DNA collected from sacred graves. It has been both trial and error; and guess work to create the seeds we transported here. The seeds I brought appear to be highly successful and conducive to their evolution.
I was among the first of the seed-planters, and I arrived at Experiment Station Earth nearly Six Billion years after its formation. The Experiment Station's surface at that time was totally bare and unstable, as a result of much of its surface being extremely hot, and covered with a strange combinations' of minerals. To expedite the cooling process I chose to capture several large comets consisting of frozen solutions of Hydrogen and Oxygen to help cool the surface. Surprisingly the frozen compound making up the Comet converted into a stable liquid. I had never observed such a condition, and chose to disregard the highly toxic gaseous atmosphere, and distribute a large number of my valuable life-seeds onto the surface and onto the liquid compound ... My Experiment.
Returning, after giving the life-seeds time to germinate ... nearly 200 million years I was highly encouraged to see the beginning of life forms both on the surface, and particularly in the liquid substance. On the land there were the first beginnings of microscopic inanimate life forms that appeared to thrive on the surface's minerals. In the liquid I was nearly astounded to discover the presence of one-cell life forms as well as the existence of simple plants thriving on the surface. From the that point on Station Earth continues to be extraordinary!
My visit reports to the Council on your progress were received with ovation, and I was directed to devote most of my time and energy observing and protecting this valuable discovery. My charter from the Council of the Elders is: to monitor you, leave you be, and allow you to evolve as you will. I was directed by the Council's Senior Member to take no steps to guide or deter you unless you progress to the point that your actions might endanger our existence ... or your own.
If you continue to develop according to the needs of our compatibility the Melding of our Species will occur at some point in the future ... You will be Us, and we will be you forever.
You are evolved from products of the one-cell seeds we designed and harvested in our Life Laboratories, and distributed them from nurseries aboard our transports. Over the Millions of Sun cycles as the Life Seeds matured I watched as even the most immature life forms began to seek out companionship of their own species in the great depths of the liquid medium as well as upon the bare stone and dirt of the Experiment Station's surface.
We watched as your growth manifested itself into groups that built into groups of groups, and watched as they communicated within and among themselves ... striving to evolve into entities of simple cell structures able to adapt to new and changing events and environments.
I watched as simple cells demonstrated their ability to want and need companionship; and their ability to communicate, and absorb each other ... and together strengthen their desire to evolve. Your Species' ability to grow and evolve gave us great hope that you simple Beings might become the future "hope" for my generation.
Now, my Species has great confidence that you the Apex Species on this third planet will someday have the capability to join with us. We are truly excited about the opportunity to share your form, but we are also placing much emphasis upon the "Thinkers" to evaluate how our two forms will interact, and how we will learn to become a part of you with the least amount of influence on your solid structure and immature thought mechanism.
We seek to enjoy being a part of you during the time you are a living entity, but must give much investigation to what the consequences to each life form will be because of the extremely short time period your solid form is functional.
We have observed your interactions with others of your own specie, and in some cases lower life forms of species and see the care and devotion you exhibit towards them. We are not sure yet how we will be able to interact with the emotions we see you exhibit. Before we are able to meld our "Being" with yours we must be sure we are able to join you without danger to our ... or your Species.
We estimate we will not have many future visits before the initial meld can occur. We can wait, but as we watch we see great events among you higher life forms ... Apex Beings, that give us consternation on your suitability to join with us.
There are factors that must be considered. I will address you again when the time is appropriate ... now absorb what I have had to contend with during the past 700 Million Years to bring you to the evolutionary Plato you currently enjoy.
CHAPTER 2
Preparing to Journey
On Haven Ha is nearly ready to begin another journey to the Experiment station. He has methodically scanned all of the data and protocol entries related to the experiments being conducted at the small planet ... the same procedures he has performed a Thousand times before. Experiment Station "Earth" ... as The Council of Elders has named it, is located in a small solar system at the far side outer fringe of his domain, and Ha feels a great satisfaction for the progress He has observed since the first "Seeding" mission 700 million years ago ... when the first Seeds of Life were scattered from the Life Seed Transporter Craft into the vast liquid bodies and bare inhospitable landscape.
As Ha goes through his mission check lists He can feel the surge of Vessel's energy thruster's power reservoirs swelling to their maximum capacity; while the Sustainer Crews slowly bring the Craft's Thrust System reservoirs to their maximum capacity to meet all projected needs of the upcoming voyage. Ha has been given authority to launch as soon as Vessel's auxiliary processing domains; and Gravity Mass Attractors have finished mapping, and optimizing its course to ensure Vessel is able to make use of every Galaxy's attraction Boosters encountered along his course..
This new addition to Vessel's Propulsion Suite is a major addition to the Reconfigured Battle Craft, and to make use of the gravity attraction Ha will encounter during the trip. The new addition, unimpressive as it appears, increases Vessel's Gravity Mass Receptor capability to focus on greater than One Hundred Million Galaxies between the Craft and its destination.
Ha will be able to travel at nearly the speed of Thought ... very convenient when one is transiting the Universe from one side to the other.
The constant flux and expansion of the Universe creates new challenges to resolve each time Ha travels. Preparation and mapping his return course for the next visit begins with, and takes nearly all his time during the journey back to Haven.
Thrust Energy is finite, and Ha must conserve it whenever possible ... or his return trip may be seriously endangered. He will replenish what he can at Station Earth's under-sea energy repository, because the Council insists It is incumbent upon all travelers to return home with as much energy reserve as possible. For the last 350 Million Years Ha has met those goals and have been rewarded with the highest prestige for that accomplishment ... far beyond his peers.
Along with that prestige comes advancement and additional responsibility. At the young age of 22 Billion earth years of age Ha has attained the position of Battle Craft Pilot and Senior Experiment Program Manager for the 4th Quadrant Sector containing no less than 200 Million Galaxies. Within that Quadrant he has initiated nearly two Billion "Seeding" Experiments. Out of this number not more than 500 Thousand efforts were successful. Experiment Station Earth is among his most successful, and has promise of achieving the Council's ultimate goal.
Ha is well aware he is one of a race of Beings that has attained all that can be attained. They know all, see all, and can influence all. What they cannot do is feel emotion, express feeling, or touch their companions. The thinkers of the Species has spent several billion earth years attempting to design and develop a class of Beings able to accept and join physically with the Species' life forms ... and return them to that ancient enjoyable existence.
The Station Earth Experiment has demonstrated great promise of attaining this goal and has become a major topic among the Council ... Will this be the one?
Since this voyage is merely a domain maturity growth oversight and energy collection mission it will not be necessary for Ha to attempt to travel at a velocity greater than Near-Thought Velocity unless deemed necessary by the Council ... or potentially escape an interception by a "Dark" Force patrol. Approaching velocities faster than Thought-Speed is unpredictable, and is not permitted except in specified Combat Encounter Escape Engagements.
