To Preserve Humanity - IV E-Book

Suzann Dodd

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

The Best and Brightest were placed on Arks and sent into space just before the attack and conquest of Earth.

This is the last part of the events on the Ark called Florentine.

Leseprobe

Suzann Dodd

To Preserve Humanity - IV

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Pieces of a Puzzle

PIECES OF A PUZZLE

ROBERT HASKELABOARD THE FLORENTINE

Some say the mistake was in taking Sharon Feinstein from 1989. Taking an ugly meaningless woman who happened to have seen a VX-9.

Under the laws of the 25th Century no unauthorized person was to gain data on what we stamped Top Secret. She was an unauthorized person, the Captain of the TSF Courage was an idiot.

But that was not the mistake. That we hadn't killed eDapktchoy was the mistake.

It had been so easy . 2468. We bomb the planet of Zechia. The data was dispensed that it was surrounded by a barrier which would cause our bombs to explode before reaching the surface.

Zechia had no barrier and the bombs fell to ground and exploded. As the Zerks build on planet as opposed to in spaceit was evident there could be no such barrier. Obviously the point was annihilation.

We had experimented with creating an atmosphere on a planetoid called Galteri. Unfortunately, Galteri was in theSecond Sector. Zechia was in the Second Sector.  We bombed Zechia. Witnessed the destruction. We learned the population had resided in one area of the planet, such area, no greater in size than Japan. We had destroyed an entire civilization on a planet. I remember linguists pondering if a new word had to be devised. It was not genocide they had argued.

I'd not been concerned with definitions. I was concerned with the survivor. The one survivor.

We could have retreated, left him to die. Maybe he'd die, maybe he'd be rescued by his own people, it ought not havebeen our concern. But the capture of the Zerk boy was science. Good science. We had never had one of them to trulystudy.

Interviews in prison camps was not authentic research. We needed to know them, biologically, socially, emotionally,perhaps, spiritually, if they had such leaning.  The Supreme Military Computer crunched variables; enculturation as 'human' the best test of what they were in comparison to us.

So we took eDapktchoy from Zechia. We learned a great deal. If he was an accurate example of a Zerk.

His ability to process information was faster; agility was superior; senses heightened. Physically he seemed to be, as they often declared; a superior form of life.

If so, why had they not conquered us centuries past?

The deficit of testosterone might have been mooted for their lack of aggression, but adrenaline levels compensated.

So why hadn't they conquered us before?

We learned that eDapktchoy did not naturally compete. There was no 'charge' when he was tested. His signs remained the same whether working on a math problem, reading a text, playing a game of skill.

He was taught to play soccer and adept. He was tried as goalkeeper, remarkably adroit, but this did not test him. He was moved to the field.  Stronger, with greater endurance, he could bore through players to make the goal. Yet, he showed no exultation, returning to midfield as if surprised by the elation of his team mates the cheers of the spectators.

Interestingly, he played the same in the first half as in the second, regardless of the score. We would send him in withten minutes on the clock, down five goals and he played as he would were he started. Urgency did not interfere with hisactions. Though the coach, captain and manager, protested vociferously when we mooted removing him from the team, assessing his reaction was far more important than mere trophies.

We wanted him removed as we thought he 'liked' playing and wanted to study his reaction at being deprived ofsatisfaction. He had never shown inclination, either in preference or rejection. We assumed tests had not found anything he cared about.

Watching him play, we assumed he liked football. Yet, when expelled, eDapktchoy displayed no dismay. He evidently didn't possess the capacity to care.

Over the years, he never expressed interest in the game, nor attended matches, not even when offered tickets to the World Cup in 2490.

We concluded he played because he was asked, ceased to play because he was not asked. There was no preference.