Hayward's Reach

NaShoStoMo #18 - The Planet Traders

              Zhe, using the polite non-sexual pronoun, appeared as a starlike collection of nano particles orbiting a larger central mass about the size of an apple. The cloud was about two meters in diameter and twinkled with both internal light and light reflected from the environment. When it spoke, it emitted light that was interpreted by my suit's interface system and translated. I also spoke Galac Six naturally having been trained with biometric and computer languages nearly a hundred years before. I was certain the Diplomat did as well.

              "Greetings are given to esteemed guests."

              "Greetings are accepted from our esteemed hosts."

              "We are available to communicate with you regarding your request for a new planet."

              "Where will we be meeting with the Planet Crafters Enclave, Division Nine?"

              "They are all here. We will be visiting your world in progress. Will that be acceptable?"

              "We will be able to see it?"

              "Yes, Diplomat. But you will not be traveling to the surface, we will just visit to the planetary growth matrix. Understand what you are able to perceive of our technology will simply be representations your minds will be able to conceive of. Do not be distressed if you cannot understand all that you see. Please stand by for transportation. Please inform us if you have any social, moral or cultural taboos regarding quantum teleportation."

              "No Chalguldan, we have no issues with quantum teleportation."

              "Please make yourselves ready, we understand carbon life forms experience disturbances or mild physiological upset with quantum teleportation."

              "We are ready."

              And just like that, we were gone from the spaceport and suddenly what looked like the Earth hung in the sky above me. It was a beautiful as anything I ever remember seeing. There were blue oceans, polar ice glistening from the background light of the Great White area.

              The Diplomat tried not to appear even remotely affected by what we were seeing, but my mouth hung open for several minutes.

              "Esteemed Captain, your biological signals are in disruption, are you in distress?"

              "No, Chalguldan. I am simply in disbelief. This appears to be for all intents and purposes, the Earth as I have seen it only in videos and three dimensional simulations."

              "It is your world, physically in every way possible. Using the information gathered by the Sjurani when they rescued you from your world, we have created your planet accurate to dimensions of less than one meter. With the genetic support of the Sjurani we have filled your biosphere with animals and plants taken from your world. The Sjurani gathered entire sections of your planetary ecosphere and stored them in stasis, until we could study them and recreate them."

              "You have done so much for the project already, Chalguldan, why are we here now in renegotiation?"

              "Diplomat Sinian, we have studied the land masses captured and found environmental pollution at a catastrophic level. Your land masses, water, air and creatures were completely saturated with a variety of environmental poisons that could have only been created by primitive manufacturing techniques."

              Sinian looked up at the planet and marveled at the organic looking structures linked to Earth Two. These great limbs-like structures appeared to hold the planet in place and as the structures reached the planet, they branched out again and again like capillaries surrounding the planet in a fine mesh. However in scale, those fine appearing cables were likely to be hundreds of miles wide.