UNKNOWN DETECTION
This is a lesson which we humans must learn. This is a metaphor for our own nature. Read it and enjoy it.
Year 2130
Around the borders of our solar system the patrol ship ' Star Keeper 'looked like an old fashioned airplane
which was slowly moving into the black space. The men on board were sitting in front of the protected
window screen having a conversation. The old one was the commander
Peter Francis and the younger one Samuel Johnson.
"I think this will be a very boring journey, like the last two that I have taken" said Samuel.
The commander smiled.
"You cannot tell. Every time is different. Every time something could surprise you!"
"I do not understand why the ships of the space federation patrol in our solar system. Most pirates know
how to avoid us and we have not found any new real threats."
"Listen young man. The important thing is to do it, because you know me. I have had so many adventures
in outer space that started just like very ordinary cases."
"Yes I know you. You are great. I still think that this patrol will be very boring. Believe or..."
The computer voice embedded in the starship technology interrupted him.
"Unknown object has been found close to you. Distance 1 hour."
"What is that?" asked Samuel.
"Computer scan and detect that object" Ordered the commander without answering the question.
The computer voice generated a new message.
"This is a spaceship of unknown origin. I can't detect any signs of life on it."
"Ok. We have to go there. Computer travel from this point of space to the point of that spaceship."
Peter grinned at Samuel.
"Now you will not be bored."
********************
After one hour they saw it. It was a spaceship with a square shape almost dimmed in
a deep blue-grey colour.
"Computer - have you detected something new?" asked Peter.
"There are still no signs of life. The spaceship does not belong to the space federation and does not exist in
the pirate database. It has alien construction and it is not from our solar system."
"Samuel you know the protocol. Get your space suit, your laser weapon and date communicator.
Enter the ship and explore" Ordered the commander.
"Yes. I will do it"
"Be careful out there" - the soft voice was untypical of Peter.
********************
Samuel easily entered inside the alien ship because the gate was broken. One big corridor
seamed to lead somewhere. It was dark, only some unknown lights were flickering around. Feelings
of fear filled the young man but he started to move. When he approached the end of the visible
corridor another gate came into view. It just slid and opened. Very carefully Samuel looked over
the premises again which was dark with no signs of life. Maybe that was the main crew cabin. What
shocked him was a giant sphere of green light in the middle. He slowly walked towards it with his laser
weapon in his hands. What happened next Samuel was unable to understand. A ray from the sphere took
him inside like a magnet and the young man felt hypnotized. Information flew into his head. This
spaceship belonged to an alien race which originated close to Orion's Belt. Strange beings-humanoids
travelled from one sector of the galaxy to another. They carried a special technology in the form of a
tetrahedron, able to move planets. An accident happened during a space storm that was a disaster in
the opinion of that alien race. It destroyed some important parts of the spaceship and they left and that
technology remained here.
The sphere disappeared. It was a kind of a black box. As if by coincidence Samuel noticed in the dark
a big glowing tetrahedron...
********************
The voice of the commander was a bit insecure when Samuel came back on board of ' Star Keeper '.
"So you say that technology can move planets?" Asked Peter.
"Yes, Commander."
"I know the human race and I know that in the wrong hands this weapon can be dangerous. Better to
destroy the whole spaceship."
"The space federation will see. Maybe they know already about the alien ship!!!" said Samuel.
.
"No worries. I investigated it when you were there. There is a kind of invisible shield protecting that alien
thing from distant detection. We were lucky because we were close to it...remember? The federation will
only detect the explosion. I will say it was a meteor" concluded Peter.
.
The explosion was not so big but the alien ship with that special technology had been destroyed.
END
Year 2130
Around the borders of our solar system the patrol ship ' Star Keeper 'looked like an old fashioned airplane
which was slowly moving into the black space. The men on board were sitting in front of the protected
window screen having a conversation. The old one was the commander
Peter Francis and the younger one Samuel Johnson.
"I think this will be a very boring journey, like the last two that I have taken" said Samuel.
The commander smiled.
"You cannot tell. Every time is different. Every time something could surprise you!"
"I do not understand why the ships of the space federation patrol in our solar system. Most pirates know
how to avoid us and we have not found any new real threats."
"Listen young man. The important thing is to do it, because you know me. I have had so many adventures
in outer space that started just like very ordinary cases."
"Yes I know you. You are great. I still think that this patrol will be very boring. Believe or..."
The computer voice embedded in the starship technology interrupted him.
"Unknown object has been found close to you. Distance 1 hour."
"What is that?" asked Samuel.
"Computer scan and detect that object" Ordered the commander without answering the question.
The computer voice generated a new message.
"This is a spaceship of unknown origin. I can't detect any signs of life on it."
"Ok. We have to go there. Computer travel from this point of space to the point of that spaceship."
Peter grinned at Samuel.
"Now you will not be bored."
********************
After one hour they saw it. It was a spaceship with a square shape almost dimmed in
a deep blue-grey colour.
"Computer - have you detected something new?" asked Peter.
"There are still no signs of life. The spaceship does not belong to the space federation and does not exist in
the pirate database. It has alien construction and it is not from our solar system."
"Samuel you know the protocol. Get your space suit, your laser weapon and date communicator.
Enter the ship and explore" Ordered the commander.
"Yes. I will do it"
"Be careful out there" - the soft voice was untypical of Peter.
********************
Samuel easily entered inside the alien ship because the gate was broken. One big corridor
seamed to lead somewhere. It was dark, only some unknown lights were flickering around. Feelings
of fear filled the young man but he started to move. When he approached the end of the visible
corridor another gate came into view. It just slid and opened. Very carefully Samuel looked over
the premises again which was dark with no signs of life. Maybe that was the main crew cabin. What
shocked him was a giant sphere of green light in the middle. He slowly walked towards it with his laser
weapon in his hands. What happened next Samuel was unable to understand. A ray from the sphere took
him inside like a magnet and the young man felt hypnotized. Information flew into his head. This
spaceship belonged to an alien race which originated close to Orion's Belt. Strange beings-humanoids
travelled from one sector of the galaxy to another. They carried a special technology in the form of a
tetrahedron, able to move planets. An accident happened during a space storm that was a disaster in
the opinion of that alien race. It destroyed some important parts of the spaceship and they left and that
technology remained here.
The sphere disappeared. It was a kind of a black box. As if by coincidence Samuel noticed in the dark
a big glowing tetrahedron...
********************
The voice of the commander was a bit insecure when Samuel came back on board of ' Star Keeper '.
"So you say that technology can move planets?" Asked Peter.
"Yes, Commander."
"I know the human race and I know that in the wrong hands this weapon can be dangerous. Better to
destroy the whole spaceship."
"The space federation will see. Maybe they know already about the alien ship!!!" said Samuel.
.
"No worries. I investigated it when you were there. There is a kind of invisible shield protecting that alien
thing from distant detection. We were lucky because we were close to it...remember? The federation will
only detect the explosion. I will say it was a meteor" concluded Peter.
.
The explosion was not so big but the alien ship with that special technology had been destroyed.
END