TEMPUS TWO CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

 

 

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Dalai Lama

The Prodigious flew deeper into the second universe some now called Rift verse, looking for planets that had been enslaved by the Nukpana, They sent drones back to Thu-ban to let them know their position.

It was time to go back to his universe, every 10 days spent here was the same as 100 back home.

They could compensate by taking the Prodigious through a Kerr hole and travelling back in time, except no one had ever taken a ship this size or even a Galaxy-class ship through the rotating black hole. The Prodigious was three and a half miles long. It carried a crew of over 10000 souls. It was a small star base capable of folding space. It was big enough for Galaxy-class ships to be brought on board for repair.

More ships could be docked at locations around the ship. It was also the re-supply ship for the fleet and the office and home of the First Leader of the Alliance of Planets.

Cristian noted to himself that whenever the name Alliance was used in an SCI-FI story. They were always the bad guys, in Firefly, Star Wars, and a few other movies and series.

This Alliance were the good guys, even if some planets had been scorched along the way. Membership was never forced on any of its members. Even the Gray who were once perceived as Enemies joined of their own accord and actually by their idea. The Alliance now had over twenty member planets and races. The members of the military were becoming more diverse as citizens from all the member planets joined and served on the ships.

There were now 15 different species of humanoids on board the Prodigious and the other ships. The Gray had built new ships to replace the ships lost in battles along the way and increased the number. The fleet now consisted of 40 Galaxy Class Ships. The Prodigious was still the flagship and the largest ship.

The canals and lakes on Thu-ban were now filled with water from comets collected. The water was dammed and prevented from flowing into what had been an ocean before. Thousands of comets would have to be brought to fill that once again. The weather started to change and rains started to happen. Snow and Ice started to form around the poles. Vegetation was soon planted and started to grow again. Farming became viable on the planet once again.

More ships were also created for trade, and a different class of ships was created to be used for freight and passengers. Currency was hardly used, but barter and trade were used to move goods where they were needed.

Food was traded for minerals, minerals for technology, tech for food.

There was peace in the two known universes. The fleet was used for exploration, taking scientists out to investigate the stellar phenomena and new worlds.

The ships moved further and further into this universe and Rift verse in search of new worlds. They did not interfere with worlds that were pre-space.

Cristian thought back to when all this had started. Why had God chosen his cells to be the ones to be combined with the  Alien DNA. Was it even God or just some random chance that the eggs from his mother would form the being he was? He needed to know, was he just a product of a cruel environment that had carried him through all that he had gone through.

He decided that he needed to ask God in person. Knowing that might not be possible. He knew the next best thing. He needed to travel back to meet the man that more stories have been written about than any other.

He watched his third wife sleeping next to him peaceably, he thought that Lorelei must be happy wherever she was, to know that he and the children were taken care of and happy. This is all she ever wanted for him. He prayed right at that moment that God would take care of her, and knew he would. Cristian fell asleep. He dreamed for the first time in a very long time. He dreamed about other Galaxies and other dimensions. Then he dreamed about Earth’s history. During the next awake cycle, things were going to change.