by DD White
Aquari, Beagud, and Deliadre.
Aquari returned to Goag Ralus through the Urania star-door wormhole with Deliadre and the new Goag Ralus avatar. Goag Ralus adjusted the gravity to a third of Earth’s gravity for a large part of Occuitah, which would now always have Uranian gravity. That gave the Uranians direct access to Goag Ralus through the Dol star-door. Eigalli would also enjoy superman-like powers in those areas of Occuitah, which presented its own entertainment value to the excitement-seeking Eigalli. Now the journey between the core of Magphoreus and the Orion arm became instantaneous; faster even than Aquari.
Deliadre contacted Beagud in the Orion arm with her quanta-communication device while one day talking to Aquari. She wanted Beagud to learn the new location of Urania, which he directed his Eagolim fleet of starships in the Orion arm towards. Beagud had now been over 100 light years off target in their trajectory. The quanta-communication device had been brought into the room near the patio at Deliadre’s apartment that overlooked Occuitah. She had a leafless shape-shifting plant in the room that imitated the round holographic transmission sphere at the end of the quanta-communicator. It had been an instinctive response that the shape-shifting plant used in order to blend in. It had been a leafless plant like many in Occuitah, since in the intense light everywhere in the galactic core plants don’t really need leaves.
The tall light-blue hairless humanoid Eagolim form of the Beagud hologram appeared in the room. As the receiver of the quanta-communication, it had been proper etiquette for Beagud to be silent awaiting the message from Deliadre, the one contacting.
Deliadre said, “Greetings Beagud. Aquari is with me now after returning from the planet Tze-Doldus-2 through its long lost star-door. The star Tze-Doldus has exploded, and the planet Tze-Doldus-2 has been re-located to another star-system. Today the star-door planet is called Urania.” Ten seconds of silence began with that finished sentence.
“That is the most amazing thing I’ve heard for a very long time. A whole planet re-located through a wormhole that has to have separate disconnected portal matrixes in order to move the source of the wormhole through the wormhole itself along with an entire planet. I’m overwhelmed by the physics, and the implications of all this.”
Deliadre continued when Beagud stopped. “Goag Ralus was beginning to evolve the physics with the Dol star-door that He acquired, but the actual physics was worked out by the Devasuras who we now have a truce with.” Deliadre let that sink in with Beagud who she knew had his own recent Devasura problems.
Beagud spoke. “Devasuras like the one I met? I had rediscovered the old planet Ti that was destroyed when this 3rd Age of Magphoreus was young. The planet still exists in a stable, but different orbit. It still has atmosphere and life. The Devasuras are up to something with that planet.”
Aquari decided to take this turn to speak. “I remember the old planet Ti. It had a major Eagolim spaceport on one of its moons at the beginning of the Third Age of Magphoreus, when your nomadic fleet cultivated a galactic empire there. Your Eagolim ancestors used to hunt the large reptile life that evolved there for sport. What are the Devasuras doing with the planet Ti now?” Aquari awaited an answer from Beagud.
“Much has changed since those days Aquari. I’ve since found out that my father’s father’s father’s father had re-discovered the planet Ti when he was very young. It was a terrible collision that destroyed the planet, and flung it into an orbit closer to the star. That event had caused the Eagolim Empire to leave the planet Ti, scattering to other stars, or to live in starships as my kind, the nomadic Eagolim. After the destructive collision, the oceans of tropical Ti filled the crater of the collision to cause the other side of the planet to dry into colder continents. The planet now fluctuates in a less-stable orbit causing temperature swings between freezing winters and boiling summers. My great great great grandfather discovered mammal life had now evolved to thrive on Ti. He discovered small primates with pentanthropomorphic gene switches turned on that were highly intelligent, and eager to learn language and writing. He had proceeded to build civilizations for the primates. My great great great grandfather’s civilization project went on for thousands of Ti years, and many generations of the intelligent primate’s that had shorter terrestrial life spans. Then one day the Devasuras appeared from nowhere to wage war on him, and they ran all the Eagolim off the planet. They have been chasing my fleet away from there ever since.” Beagud decided to be silent to allow the quanta-communicator response.
Deliadre had an idea. “Tell Aquari about the last time you were near that planet when the Devasuras took over your ship’s communications and ran you off.”
Beagud took his queue to continue. “The Devasura in charge appeared as a hologram and scared me with threats that he would destroy my fleet. They live on a Devaplanet, which orbits the same star in a much wider orbit that dips far above the system’s elliptical phantom-matter plain. They must have used that Devaplanet to destroy Ti from its original glory by ramming it long ago. I have since observed an advanced civilization that is now evolving on the planet Ti. These must be the same primates my grandfather taught. I still sneak a peak at Ti’s light now and then. I recently saw a comet being absorbed by the system’s main gas giant. It caused explosive plumes that shot out of the atmosphere of the system’s protective gas giant. Than at the same time I noticed that the intelligent species evolving on the third planet from that star also possessed similar nuclear technology that could create similar atmospheric explosions on the planet Ti itself. That would finally destroy the poor wounded planet. Not sure why the Devasuras cultivate such a violent and hostile species.” Beagud paused.
Deliadre spoke up. “This has to do with the Devasura hostility toward the expanding Golimechoid civilizations. They want to cultivate a galactic species that is aggressive enough to confront Golimechoid expansion, which they are so opposed to. They consider the Golimechoid’s to be a toxic species. They think of Golimechoid as a mistake left behind by their ancestors that now must be corrected. They are cultivating on Ti something similar to the Grulmagof.”
Beagud remained silent, and seemed to agree with Deliadre when he received her message. Aquari spoke up. “We now have a truce with the Devasuras. I should be able to visit the planet Ti, and even get there through the Dol star-door right here on Goag Ralus to the Devaplanet that orbits in the same system as Ti. I’ll find out what the Devasuras are doing there with those primates that have some pentanthropomorphic gene switches turned on. I’ll determine if they are peaceful, or another kind of planetary cancer that might devastate whole sectors of habitable space in the galaxy.”
It had been agreed that the planet Ti would be Aquari’s next destination. Goag Ralus contacted the Devasura in charge of the star-door wormhole portal in the Ti star system. That Devasura had been named Anlil, and he agreed to allow Aquari passage to the planet Ti. Anlil assured them that there would be nothing diabolical going on with the small humanoid species now evolving there. He explained that they were just at a precarious stage of their terrestrial evolution where a collective planetary awareness is not yet awakened.
Goag Ralus appeared at the Dol star-door wormhole wall to say goodbye to Aquari as His Uranian avatar. The Golimechoid avatar had become more toxically radioactive because of contact with actual Golimechoid women, and had been best left in the lands of Goag Ralus that were set aside for the Golimechoids from the star-door planet Poa-3. The Golimechoid avatar still tried to make a baby with Zlooptoo, but they were not successful yet.
Goag Ralus bid farewell to His oldest friend. “Goodbye once again Aquari. I remember creating the particular Fybrolus gas cloud that gave birth to the planet Ti long ago, but now all the foreseen and meticulously planned pre-programmed events in that system have been interfered with because of its unforeseen destruction by the Devaworld collision. It had been one of the first clouds of gas and debris I created to fertilize the outer arms for the Eagolim to
cultivate. A visitation by Aquari can only be a good thing for the wounded planet. I believe it’s the dawning of a new age in Magphoreus, and the galaxy is now much smaller thanks to you Aquari. I’m going to miss talking to you as you fly away from Me since now you can come here and go through a door. I also however, believe that My times for saying hello to you are about to become much more frequent.”
“I also believe that is true. Goodbye old friend, and I will return soon with more news and discoveries.”
Then it became time for the cosmic being known as Aquari to disappear through the green rectangular wormhole on the wall. Aquari was on his way to a new planet to explore for the curious Eigalli, and their famous databanks at the center of the galaxy. It would be a planet way out beyond the core of Magphoreus, in the Orion arm only about 89 light years from the previous location of Urania.
THE END of Aquari.
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