Planet
Spyria,
Spyria Year 4720,
Spyria High Council meeting.
Spyria Year 4720,
Spyria High Council meeting.
The
alien High Command took his seat. He looked at those present through his
compound eyes, his mouth a thin line.
“We
are the guardians of the galaxies,” his voice boomed. “The Multiverse is safe
because of us.”
Every
council member nodded in agreement.
“Our
artificial intelligence was granted to Earthlings generations ago, a mistake by
Her Highness the Most Supreme, I dare say. Humans now have made machines to
conquer the Multiverse and beyond. We can’t let them.”
“High
Command,” one of the High Council members said. “What does the Most Supreme
want of us?”
“We
must battle to save the Multiverse from aggressive take-over and annihilation by
humans. Everything humans do is detrimental to their Universe and ultimately
the Multiverse. Intelligence from the Inter-Galactic Intelligence Agency (IGIA)
indicate that prototypes are at advanced stages.”
“Their
aircrafts can now move between planets, their spaceplanes between galaxies,”
the Inter-Galactic Clandestine Operations Commander said. “We need to send in
saboteurs to make sure they crash after take-off.”
“Yes,”
the High Command said. “Under the intergalactic law, no species are supposed to
move across the Multiverse, no matter how advanced or complex their
technologies may be. Yet humans are defying this law.”
It
was not a discussion but a joint feeling they arrived at: either humans had to
be re-educated or eradicated. In their telepathic manner, they decided that infiltrating
aviation and space exploration agencies on Earth was the best course of action.
“Send
to Earth the Inter-Galactic Clandestine Ops Squad,” the High Command ordered.
***
Planet
Earth,
The Year 2037,
Earth Aviation and Space Council Meeting.
The Year 2037,
Earth Aviation and Space Council Meeting.
The
president of the Earth Aviation and Space Council (EASC) cleared his throat. “Our
aviation industry and space programs are the best in the multiverse. It is time
we conquered worlds beyond,” he made a sweeping movement with his hand and the
wall opposite him came to live.
“This
is Galaxtron, Boeing’s 787 MaxSprint Hybrid Spaceplane prototype. The plane has
hybrid combined cycle engines that can take off from an airport's landing strip
and fly straight into orbit. The engines would use turbofan or turbojet engines
to take off horizontally. Once airborne, the engine shifts to ramjet propulsion
and, as speed increases, adjusts into a scramjet engine with supersonic
airflow. At the scramjet stage, the hybrid spaceplane would enter hypersonic
flight in 'near space', the part of the atmosphere between 20km to 100km above
sea level. Finally, the spaceplane would use its rocket motors to push out of
near space and into orbit …”
He
paused. The men and women present looked at the president in awe.
“…
What I’m saying is,” he smiled, “we can now go to other galaxies.”
***
Boeing
Aerospace & Autonomy Centre,
Kajiado, Kenya.
Friday 13 May, 2050.
Kajiado, Kenya.
Friday 13 May, 2050.
The
flight engineer took the elevator to Basement 33 where the 10th
Generation Boeing MaxSprint Hybrid Spaceplane was being built. The spaceplane
was designed to fly into any galaxy, making stops at multiverses.
When
he made sure he was alone, he transformed himself into a grey-skinned humanoid,
four feet tall, bald, with black almond-shaped eyes, nostrils without a nose,
slit for mouth, no ears, and four fingers ready to make contact with the High
Command in planet Spyria.
“Avluk ah
Kutak,”
he said when he connected to the mother lode.
*
International
Space Station,
Same Day, Same Time;
Same Day, Same Time;
“Commander
Edison,” the young female Science Officer called.
“Yes!”
the Commander responded.
“There’s
a cryptic transmission from a Boeing Aerospace & Autonomy Centre in
Africa.”
“What
does it say?”
“The
message is ‘IT IS TIME’, nothing else.”
“Destination?”
“Not
yet established, but the DeciCode machine is trying to triangulate through the
Multiverse.”
***
Earth,
Year of the Lord, 2060
Earth Aviation and Space Council Meeting.
Year of the Lord, 2060
Earth Aviation and Space Council Meeting.
The
intergalactic spy chief, Director Earth-Space Intelligence Agency (ESIA) walked
up to the podium. He made a sweeping movement with his hand and the wall in
front flashed to life. Images of the multiverse filled the mega
floor-to-ceiling screen.
“Aliens
in the multiverse now know we have what it takes to grow into a multiversal
superpower,” he began. “Our aviation and space agencies have developed
technologies that would enable us to explore and conquer the multiverse …”
He
paused and looked at the men and women who made decisions based on what he told
them.
“Intelligence
indicate that aliens are wary of the 10th Generation Boeing
MaxSprint Hybrid Spaceplane …”
His
hand made another sweeping movement and the screen showed images of
humanoid-like creatures gathered round a table.
“They
call themselves the Guardians of the Galaxies from Planet Spyria. In 2027, they
held a meeting where they resolved to sabotage our aviation and space programs.
They activated the Inter-Galactic Clandestine Ops Squad to infiltrate the Earth
…”
“Are
you saying aliens have infiltrated not only our planet but also our agencies?”
asked a diminutive Chinese astrophysicist.
“That’s
what intelligence indicates. We believe all the aircraft accidents we have had
since the turn of the millennium are caused by the aliens; but just crashing
the aircrafts was not enough. They decided to be hijacking the aircrafts to
study our technologies and seep our knowledge. That’s why Malaysian airlines
Flight 370 was never discovered.”
“Come
on Finch, we both know that aliens had nothing to do with that flight’s
disappearance. The US of A knows and should tell us—”
“I’m
not a conspiracy theorist, I’m an intelligence officer. Those aliens who infiltrated
Boeing engineered the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS)
which activates without pilot input and commands the aircraft nose down and
can’t be deactivated. That’s why the Indonesia and Ethiopian Airlines crashes
happened; and many others after that.”
“What
you don’t know about the Boeing MaxSprint Spaceplane is that it’s capable of harvesting
energy from distant stars during its stops at multiverses expanding our
intergalactic control,” the President chimed in.
The
spy continued, “What aliens are worried of is that our harvesting this energy
will make the stars fall beyond the cosmic horizon and become unobservable and inaccessible,
thus limiting how much energy could one day be extracted from them. These
Guardians believe that they were sanctioned by God to protect the multiverses.
They don’t want us to get there. They believe that we will destroy the
multiverses if not checked.”
All
the eyes in the room riveted on him.
“Planet
Spyria is one of the most advanced civilizations in the multiverse. They understand
the grim reality of universal expansion, and they wouldn't just sit around idle
while our spaceplanes made multiverse stops capturing stars from other
galaxies, reeling them in and harvesting their energy and rendering them inaccessible
forever. Either we be educated, or eradicated. And they chose to eradicate us.
“That
explains why Boeing MaxSprint Spaceplanes have been crashing or disappearing
since their inception in 2030. Investigations point to sabotage from within or
auto-activation of a device that makes it undetectable by the radar shortly after
take-off before the aliens hijack it never to be seen.”
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