by Ira Tabankin
“My real worry is can we build the ships in time? We have no experience building such vessels or, for that matter, much of anything in space, so we’re going to have to build them on Earth and then boost them into orbit. I see this as our major issue combined with our lack of knowledge on how to handle many of the materials and technologies required to build and operate the ships.”
Kalteck nodded his understanding, “Operating them isn’t as difficult as you may think. The AIs will perform most of the tasks. I have a suggestion, I gave Rhett a teaching machine, and he has a unique gift…”
“You mean other than living forever?”
“He won’t live forever, but on the other hand, I can’t tell you how long he will live because he was the first human to receive the full set of nanites. I needed, we need him, so I gave him the gift without his knowledge. I suggest you appoint him to the position of general in charge of the construction. I will give him permission to use the teaching machine and some nanites I will give him to provide to your best engineers, together they will get the ships built.”
“What do you want in exchange for this. I learned a long time ago that no one gives such gifts without wanting something in return.”
“I want your boosted people and Rhett to assist the Russians and Chinese when it’s clear their struggling with their ship builds.”
“Why not just boost their people? Wouldn’t that be easier?”
“I am not yet sure I can trust their leaders. I won’t risk the teaching machine and nanites to people I don’t fully trust.”
“Thank you for your trust in me.”
“I didn’t say I fully trusted you. The only human I fully trust is Rhett, and secondly are Colonels Johnstone and Brix. I would like to give Johnstone some nanites so he can come out of retirement and assist in the project, and I’d like to also give some to Brix. We’ll need both in the military during the battles. Both know about Rhett and me. I think that by boosting them, we’ll have a backup in case something happens to Rhett.”
“I approve your request. I know you didn’t need to ask me as you didn’t ask anyone when you boosted Rhett or whatever his name was back then. I’m sorry you don’t fully trust me yet.”
“Thank you. Where do you plan to build your first antimatter reactor?”
“I thought Oakridge would be a natural. They were key in our Manhattan project during the Second World War…”
“I am familiar with the facility. Where are you going to build your ships?”
“I plan to meet with the CEO of Huntington Industries. They build our nuclear carriers; they have the experience building huge complex vessels.”
“An excellent choice. I also suggest you bring in the CEO of General Dynamics who builds your submarines, they have the experience of building sealed ships, together the two companies, combined with the nanites and AI should give you an excellent shot at building the ships. I will leave you now. Rhett knows how to contact me.”
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The world media was curious about why the leaders of the three most powerful countries in the world asked permission to address the UN and the world. All sorts of rumors flew for the five days between the announcement of the speech and the speech itself. Some of the rumors that circulated were a large meteor was going to destroy the planet, a massive solar flare was coming, or they had discovered another new virus in China. Another popular rumor was they’d successfully gotten cold fusion to work and could now power the world without the fear of nuclear radiation or having to drill and use hydrocarbons. Or maybe, just maybe, the three were going to announce a peace agreement between the three and a total nuclear disarmament program.
At noon on Monday, the three world leaders stood in front of the over a hundred cameras at the podium in the UN’s General Assembly. They’d agreed, each would welcome the world’s people in their native language before switching to English to give the body of their speech.
President Trump had been chosen by Kalteck to make the bulk of the announcement. He knew the world’s media would blame him for anything that happened, and they’d also blame him for what had happened on Titan. Kalteck wanted the frustration to leave the world’s people as quickly as possible. Trump had a lot of experience playing to the cameras so Kalteck told the other two he was the natural to deliver most of the message.
“My fellow citizens of the planet Earth, Presidents Xi and Putin and I have an Earth-shaking announcement we’d like to make to the people of the world. There is no easy way to say what we’ve come here to say. There’s no way to sugarcoat it or to say this isn’t the most important information since the birth of Jesus.”
President Putin picked up the mic, “We have been approached by a being who has made it very clear that we are not alone. We finally have proof that humans are one species in a universe filled with life. Yes, you heard me, we are not alone…”
The floor of the General Assembly fell silent and then exploded with yelled questions and comments. The world’s reporters at first also didn’t believe the story and then yelled for every expert their staff could locate.
President Trump stepped back to the podium, “Many people have said that any race which could span the stars had to be peaceful. We wish that were true, but we’ve learned otherwise.”
Images of various alien invasion movies were flashed on the massive screen behind the three. We learned the fate of the missing MH 370 flight. The plane didn’t crash, though it would have been much better for the passengers had it crashed. The flight was picked out of midair by an alien ship. Yes, you heard me, an alien ship snatched the airliner filled with 270 passengers. They were taken to Saturn’s moon Titan where the aliens had set up a lab to conduct experiments.”
President Xi picked up the mic, “The things done to these passengers defies imagination. They suffered unbelievably. There aren’t words which can describe what was done to them. Please remove all of your children from watching. Anyone with a weak stomach should also leave the room. We are sorry to have to show you these images, but we believe you, the people of Earth, have the right to see what was done to our brothers and sisters.”
The images of the people who had their internal organs removed and reconnected by tubes were shown. The people in the audience screamed. Many cried and a few got ill at their seats. President Xi continued, “This is not all that was done to our people. Some were sexually experimented on. I won’t show you those images because they too will give you nightmares. The third set of images are so graphic and nauseating we debated if we should show them. Instead, we decided to explain what was done.
“The aliens used their advanced technology to take parts of animals and combine them with some of the passengers and the crew. We’ll let your imagination linger on that for a while. When the three of us saw these images, we all, yes, we all, got sick to our stomachs. These were our people, citizens of our countries and of our planet being experimented on. None of us can imagine the pain and suffering these poor people underwent. They were awake and aware of what was being done to them. Let me repeat that, our best medical doctors said, based on the condition of the detailed information we obtained, the experiments were performed while the people were awake and feeling everything done to them. There were paralyzed on the operating table while machines cut into them and melded animal parts to their mutilated bodies. The good thing is most of the passengers’ minds gave up from what they were suffering, most had gone insane from the pain and horror of what was happening to them.”
Trump took the passed mic, “This was an attack on all of us, an attack unlike anything every committed by another nation on its neighbors. These were unholy sins committed on our fellow humans. It could have been done to any of us.”
Putin said, “The three of us have decided the task of protecting our planet is too large for one country to go at it alone. We have decided to merge our efforts in a united Earth military. A united Earth space force to get revenge for what was done to our people and to prepare because we
’ve also learned a huge alien fleet is preparing to invade and conquer the Earth.”
Many in the media began laughing at this statement. Their experts all said the only way a fleet could arrive would take them years if not centuries. Einstein proved it wasn’t possible to travel faster than the speed of light. They wondered who’d duped the three leaders with such a childish story.
Trump smiled at the cameras, he continued, “I’m not an expert in these matters. In fact, none of the three of us are. We’ve learned this fleet, and the aliens who abducted our people are able to travel faster than the speed of light by creating a wormhole and jumping through it, thus almost instantly traveling from one-star system to another. This theory of traveling faster than light has been discussed by our space agencies many years ago as a possible means to travel to other solar systems. All agreed it would take enormous levels of power to generate a stable wormhole, levels we can’t create. They have such power because they use matter/antimatter reactors which generate more power than our entire planet generates.”
The media experts were taken by surprise. Many admitted on-air such a thing was possible in theory, however, no one had proven it could be done. The airwaves were soon flooded with scientists saying such technology was or wasn’t possible.
Putin smiled into the cameras, “We know many don’t want to, or won’t believe us. You’re asking yourselves how we know all of this. We were approached by a friendly alien who proved what he was warning us about by taking us to the dark side of the moon. We traveled to the moon in less time then it usually takes to fly between Moscow and St Petersburg, or between Washington and New York City. We flew in his saucer-like ship. He showed us the images he recorded from the alien lab on Titan. We asked him what he’d done to our people. He told us he had sent them to the Creator of All. He sent them home without any further pain or suffering. This means the concept of God is across the universe! Others also believe in a central God! We are not alone. According to the alien, the god he calls the Creator of All created all life and he created the universe itself. This might upset some scientists and those who don’t believe in a God, but we learned most of the alien races hold these beliefs.
“This alien has offered to assist us in building what he calls Monitors. Here are pictures of what we’re going to build. They look like giant arrows. According to our new friend, they are the most powerful warships in the universe.”
Trump picked up the mic, “We are going to need everyone’s help and assistance in order to build and man these ships. Our time is short. We’re going to become a common people working together to save our planet. Regardless of skin color, sex or religion come together and be one race, the human race. We, the people of Earth need every country, everyone to work together to support our common defense efforts. This will be hard on everyone, but together we can accomplish our goal of saving our planet.”
Xi closed by saying, “The three of us have signed a peace treaty and an agreement to work together. We’re releasing copies to the media so everyone can read what we’ve committed to. We are asking everyone in the world to accept the fact we’re not alone and to accept it in peace. The time for violence will come when the bad aliens arrive. We need everyone to work together to help us build these massive ships and to man them. We need your assistance in creating a space force equal to none, one that can bring the battle to our enemy. A space force that will fight for all of our people. Thank you and may the Creator of All bless each and every one of us.”
The three walked off the stage, surrounded by their armed security to the hundreds of screamed questions. The world sat in shock at the announcement we were not alone.
Once off the stage, the three agreed to speak every day. Putin and Xi were escorted to JFK airport, where their state planes were waiting for them. In addition to their planes, there was also a squadron of fighters and a refueling plane from each country, so their state planes had security and didn’t have to stop on their long flight home.
President Trump returned to Washington, where he was met by hundreds of reporters yelling questions even before Marine One’s door opened.
Chapter 10
The world’s media demanded proof of the friendly alien and how he knew what had happened on Titan. They demanded proof the alien who gave the three world leaders the videos weren’t the cause of them. The media’s ‘experts’ all said many of the claims the Presidents had made were simply impossible. They picked on travel faster than light and opening wormholes as ‘juvenile science fiction.’ They also doubted the claim that aliens created the Chinese virus. They claimed it wasn’t possible to merge different species together to form a new one because the different DNA wouldn’t allow it. The so-called experts went on and on with all of the reasons the world was being hoodwinked by the Presidents for some other reason.
On the sixth day after the UN announcement, Rhett informed Kalteck of the situation. Kalteck asked, “What do you recommend I do? I’ve given them all of the information a logical mind would need to see and accept the danger the aliens pose.”
“How about you make your own announcement, and you show yourself?”
“You know how I look; I’m sure you remember because you can’t forget anything that’s happened to you since you met me what the initial people who saw me thought. I bet you thought the same thing. Don’t you think most of your people will think the same?”
“I agree it is a risk. However, we need to do something drastic in order to stop the media from changing the story.” They’re creating mass unrest.”
“I will discuss your idea with the three Presidents and get back in touch with you later this evening. I gave each of them the same small box I gave you to contact me or if I needed to contact them.”
Three hours later, Kalteck called Rhett, “They agreed it is a large risk for me to show myself, but they also agree with you. It might be the only way to convince your people I and the others exist. I have spoken with my AI; we will make a broadcast tomorrow at 7 PM Eastern time.”
“Did President Trump arrange the airtime for you?”
Kalteck laughed, “I don’t need permission. I can take over your transmissions any time I’d like, I always could.”
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The next day was the same as the previous six, the Presidents attempting to convince the world there were aliens out there who meant harm to earth while the media ‘experts’ said the Presidents were hiding something. The most easily accepted thought was the three leaders were covering up their attempt to form a one-world government with them at the top.
At 7 PM Eastern Standard Time, every broadcast transmission was interrupted. A test panel of different colors filled every monitor and TV. Even stations that broadcast over the internet had a strange symbol. All radio stations also stopped their normal programming, which was replaced by a test tone.
At 7:01 PM, an alert tone sounded three times; it was followed by a voice that spoke in every language of the country it was being broadcast in. “Hello, humans of the planet Earth. My name is Kalteck. I came from a solar system many light-years away, and yet my people were born and began life on the planet you call Mars. Of course, when my people lived there, we called it something else. We lived on Mars for many thousands of your years. Our technology advanced at a very rapid rate. We developed space flight and the ability to open wormholes, thus allowing us to break the universe’s speed limit, the speed of light.
“I came to Earth in 1947. Yes, I know many of you know what that date means. The crash at Roswell was real. My craft had been damaged in what you call a dog fight above your planet. My ship crashed on Earth. I had been sent here to bring you a message. However, once I arrived here and saw your level or let me say, the lack of your technology, I decided to help you. I’ve been in the background for over seventy years handing out tidbits of technology, helping you here and there. I’ve helped you land on your moon. I’ve helped you advance your computer technology.
“My mission was to make sure
you were ready to fight my old enemy who will be coming to crush you and take over the Earth. Why do they want the Earth? Who are they? They are old Martians like me. They were my people’s enemy on our home world. Mars was once a beautiful world, covered in blue and orange trees and lush ground cover. We’d conquered gravity. We had massive floating cities and none of our people went hungry.
“My people were from the Northern half of Mars; the enemy was from the South. They are ruled by an Emperor and run like a military command. We in the North had an elected ruling council, what you would call a republic.
“Our war destroyed our planet. We used antimatter weapons. We hurled rocks from space into our planet. We destroyed the one thing we loved the most, our home world. I don’t want to see the same happen to you. My enemy wants the Earth, so they can use it as a base to begin terraforming Mars, so they can move back and then live on both planets. For those who don’t understand the term terraforming, it’s to change the atmosphere of a planet so it can support life as we both know it.
