Star Fields

Chapter No.155 Oddity

I turned to Alexa. "Seems that the humans on this planet have advanced to where Earth was before the extinction event."

"In a thousand years, they should have been much further than that," she replied.

"Maybe it's not that long when you take time dilation into consideration," I said.

"The communications feed is quantum," Alicia said. "I should be able to get a fix on it."

"Keep us at a five hundred thousand kilometers, Judy. If this is a Tyco trick, we don't want too near it."

"I'm not detecting any large energy sources that are in the correct range for shielding," Molly said. "This appears to be real, not generated."

"How's the universal translator doing with their language?"

"It has an adequate translation. The language is a lot like Spanish."

"Interesting." I turned to Alicia. "Do you have any new video feeds."

"Yes, and they're somewhat confusing."

When she displayed the video on the main screen It was obvious why she said that.

"That's weird," I said. "The males are white, and the females are dark skinned."

"I'm not sure how that could have evolved," Onuki said. "It has to be some sort of genetic modification."

"Maybe they consider darker skin to be beauty process like tanning," Uma said.

"Well," I said, rubbing my jaw. "I think that Alexa and I should go down and pay them a visit."

Alexa gave me a smirk. She knew why I wanted her to go along,

"I think that the main government compound is in that geodesic domed structure," Molly said after displaying it on the main screen.

I stood up and glanced at Alexa. "Let's go do our thing."

Alexa and I teleported to the domed structure. When we appeared out of thin air, the humans became alarmed. Armed males came forward with their weapons pointed at us. I held up my arm and they froze in place and I made their weapons vanish.

I turned to a female dressed in a white gown like garment. "Your weapons are useless against us. I would advise you not to attempt any violence against us. We can make you vanish."

"Who are you?" the female asked, her face twisted with concern.

I gesture to Alexa. "Alexa and I are in charge of a large collective of artificial life forms. We were once human like you, but a large rock decide that it wanted to wipe out all life on our home world. Our memories and personality profiles had been recorded and then inserted into artificial bodies, which we call android."

"Why are you here?" the female asked.

"We are here to warn you that there is an evil one of our kind that is out to destroy all biological life in this universe and all of the universes in the multiverse. We see that you have warp capability. I don't know how far you've explored but I would suggest being careful to not make contact with other species, especially ones that look like us."

"We have only explored star systems within a hundred light years of our system. None of them contained intelligent life."

I realized that our universal translator had translated her light years to ours.

"What is your origin on this planet?" Alexa asked.

"Our progenitors have written that we are from the stars, but we don't understand what that means."

"All human life was introduced on planets by a proto-human species that was created by the originator. We are not certain about the nature of this originator, but religions have identified it as God. God, or originator, created the multiverse and everything in it."

"You talk of a multiverse. What does that mean?"

"Our universe is only a tiny particle in a huge structure. A robotic species that we call Roamers are currently exploring and mapping this structure. Their projections indicate that it is a human pregnant woman. We have no idea what its purpose is. As we accumulate more data from the Roamers, we might be able to come to some conclusion."

The woman smiled. "A human pregnant woman. How interesting."

"I agree." I looked at Alexa. "I think we've learned enough."

She nodded.

I turned to the female. "We will insert a cloaked signal device in your system that will warn us if you become attacked by our enemy. It will allow us to save you. I implore you to not disturb it."

"We understand."

Alexa and I teleported back to our ship.

"We saw everything," Molly said. "They seemed to be impressed."

"It doesn't matter what they think about us. We are committed to saving them if at all possible."

"We have deployed the signal probe," Judy said.

"Good. Let's get back to our Dyson sphere project."

The trip took a couple of hours at maximum warp, but what we saw there surprised all of us.