Infinity

by Charles E. Borjas

  He had the goods on The Subjugator. He had the coordinates of his location. Only a few of Subjugator’s cronies knew he was even on the planet. That is why word leaking out now of the possibilities that he was on the planet, and that Dvora was now his girl friend would be dangerous.

  The one who questioned his being there, Subjugator’s man, walked over to Lebag Karlc and challenged him.

  “You are a no good traitor. You’d sell your dying grandmother to make a profit.”

  Lebag looked at him in disdain, grabbed his wrists and just started squeezing.

  “You look like a gambling man, but I bet you lose this hand.” Lebag then proceeded to break his wrists, to his howling horror. And then picked him up by his belt and threw him out the door were he landed unconscious in the rain and mud. He went back into the bar and ordered another drink.

  Fearful eyes gazed at him, and then away. Mobsters moved toward him in an eerie maneuver trying to flank him on every side. He looks down at his wristwatch, touches it three times and then vanishes into thin air.

  When The Subjugator heard about the incident he was angry, but afraid at the same time. He tried to get a description and a name, but he received nothing to his satisfaction. All he heard were contradicting stories. He went from his office to his bedroom toile down. “Dvora, come here.”

  Someone came into his room but it wasn’t Dvora. “You are a hard to find entity.”

  Subjugator looked up to see a figure sitting in a chair in the far darkest corner. “Who are you? How did you get in here?”

  “No need to reach for your weapon, pirate,” the eerie figure said. “Now that we know where you are it won’t matter to you.”

  “What? What are you doing in my room I said?”

  “I know who you are; Hyukitron Hoxenyth. Your brother is the king and you want the kingdom. An old, old boring story. Things haven’t changed, even in this time period.”

  “What do you want?” The Subjugator reached for his blaster pistol, but before he could get it, the dark figure had snatched it up somehow and returned to his seat without even batting an eyelash.

  “You need to call off the search for Dvora’s daughters. I could take her away from here, but maybe she deserves you.” The figure aimed the pistol at Subjugator, who was now trembling with fear.

  “You were always used to giving out the orders, but that's changed now. Your subjects are losing respect for you. The word is out that Dvora’s daughters escaped. You’re only making yourself look even more ridiculous by chasing them.” With that, the figure fired the pistol aiming for Subjugator’s shoulder. The blast sears a painful wound that opens and then is cauterized all in one shot. He fires again, Subjugator already screaming in pain. This time he aims for his right hand. A hole the size of a large coin opens, and then Subjugator passes out from the pain. When he wakes up, the stranger is gone. He sends for his guards, but no one comes. Going out into the hall, he sees seven bodies lying on the floor dead.

  Dvora is nowhere to be seen. He calls on his interphone but the line is cut. The sweat is pouring down his face and he is still shuddering from the pain in his shoulder and hand. Eyes wide he stares out the window into the darkness. Rain and wind keep lapping at the window and side of the building. He falls to the floor, the pain rendering him unconscious again. He surmises that if the stranger wanted him dead, he would be. But why did he keep him alive? Unless he was sent by—his brother?

  Moving like a phantom, Lebag Kralc makes his next stop; Dvora. Slipping into her room undetected he waits. She returns shortly thereafter with company. It was an influential man with whom she is planning to betray Subjugator. The man, a top general in Subjugator’s pirate army, can sense someone is in the room, even with the lights off. He pulls his laser pistol, but sees no one.

  “Turn the lights on,” he tells Dvora in a whisper, “but leave them low.”

  She obeys and is startled by what she sees. Three dead guards are lying on her bed. Blood is dripping down off the sheets and covers to the plush carpet. The her general friend is astonished but doesn’t notice another figure, a live one, sitting in the darkness of the far corner.

  “Just to show you what happens to the enemies of the Twelve Galaxies Cluster that try to come against the king.”

  The general spins around towards the voice, but is met with a hard blow to the head, and then another. The stranger then draws a long knife and shoves it into the general. Dvora screams, but the guards are dead and no one can hear her. “Who are you? What do you want? Are you here to kill me?”

  “Foolish woman. Still only thinking of number one; yourself. Prison didn’t agree with you I see. In fact you never even made it there, did you?” The stranger sits back down.

  “Do I know you? Wait. That voice. I know it.” Dvora is terrified. “It’s got to be Lebag Kralc.”

  “Yes I loved you once, but that was eons ago. Now you are an enemy of your ex husband, no longer a queen. Do not pursue Emedria, Ophelia, and Yeralai. They’re safe, but you won’t be seeing them again for a long time. I’ll leave you here. You deserve that wretched pirate. Soon this whole planet, in fact the whole galaxy will feel the power of Daxu Korth. You cannot hide.” With that, Lebag Kralc disappears to be seen no more on that planet.

  Chapter 13: The Multi Jewel Relic

  Captain’s Chronicles: On Earth II the crewmembers of Infinity, The smaller vessel Fortitude and their families had gathered for a conference at New Cassiopeia Mega City. I discovered that Infinity had evolved even more after each time she integrated the databases of various civilizations. She was using the knowledge and technology she had assimilated; not only from the planets we had directly encountered, but she also the technology of galaxies we passed in our journeys, even while in Super Hyper Warp Drive. By using binary codes her sensors had decrypted alien secrets of worlds and civilizations we had no idea even existed. Infinity had learned how to clone itself.

  Several days before: “She’s been busy all week, which is why we were not able to get her to function at her best,” Said chief engineer Glorainne. “Look down in sector 1109, the landing and departure docks.”

  Cruise took a team of scientists and engineers down to the lower levels where the docks are and were astonished at what they found down there. Thirteen exact replicas of Infinity, made from the same matter, Platainium, but considerably smaller. In fact, the new vessels were only two hundred lengths long and a little less wide. They were perfect ovular orbs, almost the size of two Earth acres.

  After Glorainne and her team checked out the new creations, she reported back to Cruise. “They are in every technological detail identical, just as a baby is to its mother. In fact in this case we can say triplets plus ten.”

  One of the science engineers, Gertask, adds his observations. “Captain, the new vessels are much smaller so of course a much smaller crew is needed. The number of living quarters would be the factor that determines how many.”

  Cruise returns to the control deck and talks to Infinity. “Congratulations, Infinity. You’re a mother now.”

  Why, thank you, Captain. And you’re a grandfather I suppose,” replied Infinity.

  “I see you haven’t lost your humor, even after the labor,” Cruise remarks. “Tell me, Infinity, can these new creations of yours perform the same functions, such as printing in 4-D?”

  “Yes, they can, Captain,” she replies. “They do have their limitations, though, but can even build small cities that would house up to fifty thousand citizens.”

  “That would mean the colonization of this planet would be quicker now,” replies Cruise. “Am I correct in assuming that?”

  “Yes, Captain, you are right,” Infinity replies. “They are all independent, but they are also me.”

  “Have you given them names yet?” Cruise asks.

  “No, Captain, I’ll leave that up to you, the father.” She replies.

  “The fa...oh you really do have a sense of humor.”

  “And so I am sending th
e most capable crew to the areas we have chosen for pioneering new cities. The initial work of building the city and all of its commodities, public transportation, all the necessary generators for power, plumbing and so forth will be done by the new baby vessels.”

  The three of the new vessels and their crews loaded up with families departed for their newly charted areas. Each one would start a new state and be connected to the mainframe computer in Infinity. Once a new small city was created, the vessel would move on to create another, and then another until the preprogramed goal was reached for that continent. It would take two months for the new vessel to come up with a city according to the preprogramed designs. It gathered the necessary materials for building from the surroundings using rock, wood, metal ores that the vessel extracted and smelted in premade furnaces. The process was astounding. The pioneers helped to move things along by adding their own preferred finishing touches to make a house a home.

  Just like Infinity built New Cassiopeia Mega City, the smaller vessels 3-D printed every house, building and also facilities.

  After the send off of the initial teams, residents were transported to their new locations in the vessel Fortitude. She made the trips in no time, coming back to New Cassiopeia for the next load of people and then the next. Stretching it a little, three hundred thousand people departed from the Mega City on the first endeavor.

  Now that serious colonization was underway in a galaxy half way towards their goal of finding Earth, Cruise could finally sit down with all of the Cyber Techno Engineers and programmers. They had been working on a universal interspace cyber communications Interstellar with all the cyber technological data Infinity had collected up to that time.

  Chief Engineer of Technology, Commander Raslan Ardvik, a full blooded Quewythian, and winner of ten awards for his cyber achievements made his announcement at the highly classified conference table. “Ladies and gentlemen. I am joyful to announce that Infinity, my staff and me have had a breakthrough. All of the data is in place. All of the programing has been done. All of the preparations have been made for the setting up of the first Universal Interspace Cyber Communications Interstellar.”

  “Please expand on that,” Said Cruise. “What will that mean for us and Universal Space?”

  “Captain,” he shuddered with excitement, “What this means is that once we connect the Interstellar, we’ll be able to communicate directly with the Twelve Galaxies Cluster. You’ll be able to talk to your father, Daxu Korth both visually and audibly from Infinity.”

  “Well, what are you waiting for? Let’s get this set up,” Replied Cruise. “The relic has already been installed in the panel?”

  “Yes, Captain,” responds Commander Ardvik. “The Multi Jewel Quantum Tablet is in place.”

  It was certainly a Godsend that when Infinity was scanning Earth II in and out, it discovered, among other ancient Earth relics, a multi jeweled tablet that the old Earth archives described as a means by which to communicate with the gods, or god. The grammar was not completely clear. But they took that to mean a very important device that had been preserved for eons, obviously brought to the planet with the first colonists. They were not exactly sure how long ago that was, but Cruise had all of the archaeologist engineers working on its time placement, as well as many of the other objects and relics they dug up, after learning of their locations from Infinity’s databases.

  Cruise was hoping for some clue, some indication of his brother Arthos and the “Pure Scriptures of Light.” Disappointing as it was, the scriptures were not found, but upon examining the images of all relics found by Infinity, Cruise noticed something familiar. There was a wristband with an engraving of his family crest, the Golden Leaf Pine.

  After double checking anything that could go wrong and ensuring all was well, the Interstellar was launched. Cruise was the first one to go online. Since the Interstellar used Quantum action, the bandwidth was unfathomable. But because of the Interstellar working on a frequency exclusive to the Twelve Galaxies Cluster, communication was not possible with any other part of the universe.

  Cruise and Millennia sat together as Cruise keyed in the top secret code of his father’s communications Interstellar. One of his father’s top aides was receiving the transmission and puzzled as to where it was coming from. He calls Cruise’s father to sort it out.

  Daxu Korth adjusts the frequency and bandwidth to the incoming transmission and sees the face of Cruise with Millennia sitting next to him. “Son? Is that You? Where are you?”

  “We’re on a planet called New Earth II. It’s under colonization now. I’ll transmit all the data Infinity had collected until now, father. It’s good to see you.”

  “It’s good to see you too, son. The only word I received was from the vessel you sent back. What became of the vessels we sent you?”

  “Most are still with us, and some are colonizing new inhabitable worlds, or merging with already existing populations. Many of the crew could not continue the journey due to their aging process.”

  Cruise described his journey to his father, and Millennia also got to talk with Daxu Korth. “With the new Interstellar we set up, communication will be possible just as soon as Infinity locates the Quantum frequencies of their electrons and photons, and analyzes the amount of radiation from their stars and suns that we will need to transmit through.”

  After more discussion of the situation, the war, Dvora and her daughters, and The Subjugator’s pirate kingdom and its attempt to conquer the Twelve Galaxies Cluster, the communication Interstellar became flooded with all kinds of traffic from users in the Twelve Galaxies Cluster who discovered the new quantum frequency to the universe.

  Daxu Korth’s world just became a lot wider and vast. His son was alive and well, and prosperous. Cruise and Millennia had given him grandchildren and even great grandchildren. He was as desperate as Cruise was to hear some news about his firstborn son, Arthos.

  Chapter 14 Space Gypsies

  Captain’s Chronicles: Infinity sent out Quantum Interstellar signals far and wide into the vastness of the universe. To anyone else but inhabitants of the Twelve Galaxies Cluster, the signals would only seem like cosmic interference. One would have to know the frequency Infinity was emitting, and be able to connect to it by means of Quantum Action. In the Multi-Jewel Tablet there is now unfathomable and unlimited power to not only send, but to receive transmissions emitted from anywhere in the universe. Since eternity confirmed that this was the only one of its kind, we were certain that no one else had this technology. We discovered that the Multi-Jeweled Tablet bounces its energy off of stars that are the nearest. Then that star in turn finds the next start and so on. It is by Quantum Action, so the connection is instantaneous. I hope and pray that we will learn to harness this technology someday in order to be able to send matter, and even people.

  Dvora was now convinced that she was endangering her and her daughters’ lives by staying even one more day on the same planet with The Subjugator. She paid some of the local rebels to take her back into the Twelve Galaxies Cluster. She planned to hide out until she found some powerful allies to move against both Subjugator and Daxu Korth.

  “We will be at your service,” said Sertis, the commander of the space cruiser Blue Steel. Sertis was half human and so the mixed breeding of two races had already augmented his life span. He had designs on Valenza, the eldest daughter, and also aspirations. He did anything to get on Dvora’s good side, and also to win Valenza’s heart. But Valenza was a lot like her mother in this state. She was beautiful as an angel, but poisonous as a serpent.

  Dvora found her sorceress. In fact she found a whole space cruiser full of wizards and sorceresses. They were space gypsies in a space cruiser that was only capable of space travel inside the galaxy, and that very limited. The leader, Varshtan the Gyspy King, wanted a bigger and stronger cruiser that could take them to any galaxy they wanted. Of course she could have easily enslaved them to do her every bidding, but here she saw a potential opportunity t
o gain their trust and manipulate them to serve her through gratefulness.

  She had ordered their cruiser to be shot at and boarded. She instructed Sertis to have the cruiser searched for contraband. Once the Gypsy King had pleaded for mercy and listened to his mournful tale of exodus from their dying planet, she didn’t believe a word of it. She did, however, use it as her chance to show them mercy and win their trust, and most of all, have them in her debt.

  “Three of your most powerful wizards and sorceresses would pay nicely,” she offered. An offer they would not be able to refuse. Two wizards and one sorceress boarded the Blue Steel. The Blue Steel guided the gypsies’ space cruiser down to a planet within the Twelve Galaxies Cluster. It was a little known planet with backwards technology. They had Cyber Interstellar on their own planet, but it did not extend into outer space.

  “I think I’m going to like it here, on Jadu,” Said Dvora to her daughters. “I can’t be tracked and located from the Citadel of the Korth.”

  “How will we survive here, Mother? What will we eat?” Where will we live?” asked the bewildered daughters.

  “You, Sertis, will take some of your crew and approach this world’s leaders and find out everything there is to know about this world,” said Dvora. “We will wait here for your return.” They had set the space cruiser down in a remote area not far from a city. Signs were written in Universal, the language spoken throughout the Twelve Kingdoms, which showed them that Daxu Korth did indeed influence even the outermost corners of his kingdom.