Dark Future
Secretary General of the United Nations Roland Hunter
listened to the science commission report being given by Doctor
Stine. He drew in a deep breath and released it with a sigh. He
and his Under Secretary Akiko Fukazawa shared a concerned
glance. The International Astronomical union’s solar activity
commission president, Geert Van Der Sloon stood up after the report
concluded.
Mr. Secretary General, our commission can come to no other
conclusion at this point. The detection of a Fusion Ash Iron Core
in our sun means it is in the beginning stages of becoming a
Super Nova. Our next warning sign will be a dramatic increase of
Neutrino flow from the sun. The Euro-Tak is monitoring for this
pre-requisite as we speak. We cannot predict an exact time of this
occurrence but we expect, more or less, within fifty years.
Hunter paused, as if thinking for a moment before he addressed
Vander Sloon and the other twenty in the room. “Can we predict
the pre-collapse expansion radius of the sun”? Doctor Stine
answered immediately. “I can anticipate what you are thinking Mr.
Secretary General. Not only will the earth be consumed by it, but
the Mars Colony will be subjected to beyond what we can
reinforce against. We can consider consulting the Geological
Commission about deep construction under the Martian surface,
but will likely be futile”.
Hunter held up his hand as if to stop the conversation. “We
appreciate your comments Doctor, but for now we will adjourn this
meeting. This information is deemed confidential and is not to
leave this room. Doctor Stine, you will have weekly consultations
with Doctor Van Der Sloon’s office. Channels between you are to
remain open at the top priority, and I will request updates. If
information you have is deemed important enough, you will
contact me immediately”.
Both men nodded.
“Yes, of course Mr. Secretary General”. Hunter walked away with
Under Secretary Fukawaza at his side. She was more than twenty
years his junior. Her youthful Japanese good looks made. her
political genius more effective She whispered to him as they
walked.
“Roland, we have to talk with Professor Engles”.He whispered
back to her, “I know Akiko, the mad professor may be our only
hope”.
Outside of the United Nations it was a sunny and warm day. The
sun hung overhead un assuming of it’s impending ferocity soon to be
unleashed. The still gathering crowd was in the hundreds of
thousands. It was time for the
speech to begin.
Reverend Gray, appearing as neat and slick as a person could,
stepped up to the microphone in the middle of the four men who
already stood there at the front of the stage. He looked over the
enormous crowd with pride and confidence. He smiled broadly to
an escalating roar of applause before he began speaking.
“Welcome here today brothers and sisters” I will speak here today
on the American leg of our tour”. He motioned with his arms
toward the four men standing to the right and left of him. “Our
partners here today represent the embodiment of our joined
purpose. For those of you who may not yet know them, the
leaders of our World United Under God union are first. Rabbi
Giffelt from Israel, Imam Mohammed representing our Muslim
brothers, Guru Shikhira from India for our Hindu partners and Bishop
O’Garrity from here in the New York dioceses representing the
Vatican and our Catholic brothers and sisters”.
The applause grew loud and sustained. Reverend Gray basked in it
as he motioned the crowd quiet. He nodded his head repeatedly,
motioning and surveying the gathering. Minutes passed before the
din fell to levels he could speak through.
“We are here today for a solidarity purpose. No longer will the
treaties decided in this building behind me dictate our lives. The
less than holy unions between governments and corporations have,
for too long consolidate their grip on we the believers. We all know
the Wold Order as they call it have flown a flag of domination over
all nations and people regardless of where in the world we live”. He
shouted for intense effect “Nor the plan of the God we believe
in!" The crowd exploded in applause. Words now from the fiery
Reverend could seemingly convert them to a frenzied mob.
Though his cohort religious leaders remained stoic, Foster smiled
more broadly. He seemed to bask in the power. More time passed
before he continued.
"The followers of Protestant and Catholic have united. Our
differences forgotten in favor of unity. The Jews and Muslims
have bonded as a single people. Their governments have joined
under the flag of this building, this so called United Nations, but
those nations, people have forgotten all differences. We have all
joined as God’s children. Our cause is just! Our cause id Godly!
Our cause can never be defeated! Our cause is to unwind the
diabolical vehicle seeking to strangle our religious freedom. Our
cause is to bow and give worship to Almighty God, and not to
allow this unholy union of non believers to remove our God
from our lives. We will never be fooled by the rhetoric. Their
claims of one world government for the good of the people are
false. We the people of this world will not put our faith in them at
the cost of losing our faith in the one true God! Now give your
cheers to our partners under God who will take turns speaking to
you. Gray pumped his fist into the air repeatedly. For God! For
God! For God!"
The crowd again exploded in agreement.
Roland Foster and Akiko Fuazawa sat together talking. Akiko
questioned Roland as she always did. She would follow his lead,
and knew it well. “Roland, how will we decide who to save if we
can”? Foster placed his hand over hers. “Always thinking ahead,
Akiko. Let’s just hope we can save anyone.”
The door to the office opened. The squirrel looking man entering
the room squinted at the bright sunlight beaming in from the
windows. Foster motioned him to the table.
“Come in Professor Engles. Sit here with us.”
Engles sat, but didn’t enjoy the comfort the chair should have
offered. He fidgeted.
“Why have you asked me here?”
Akiko quietly waited for Fosters interrogatory.
“Professor, we are interested in one of your theoretical proposals.”
The statement seemed to annoy Engles.
“Why? None of my actual work is interesting now? You never called
me here when I transported lab animals from place to place. You
just took over my work and incorporated for yourself.”
Foster raised his hand to quite Engles.
Professor, your work as a good World citizen is appreciated. Don’t
forget that you were compensated and have been given all but
unlimited access to laboratory time and resources to be used at
your discretion. I’ll be direct Professor. Explain to us your phased
fusion theory.” Engles was surprised by the question. He smiled
thinking it was a proposal that would always remain theoretical. He
knew the worlds most powerful man wouldn't ask unless it were
actually being considered. “It is only a theory because we haven’t
done it. I have no doubt it will work. I would only need to modify a
Metallic Fusion device to do it. It can easily be done. It’s not
rocket science with intergalactic travel you know.”
Foster interrupted before Engles could begin his well known
rambling. “Professor, I’m going to ask you to consult with Doctor
Lane. Will you do that?”
Engles lurched back deep into his chair. “Doctor Lane, the Astro-
Geologist. Why are you asking me to do this now?” Foster
showed a wrinkled frown. “That will become apparent at the
appropriate time. For now you are not at liberty to speak about
this. My staff will transport you to Los Alamos. Tell them what you
need. They will be prepared to coordinate the details.”
Engles raised the index finger of his hand as if to ask a question.
Foster cut him off.
“That will be all Professor.”
Foster pointed to the door.
“My staff is waiting for you outside. We need you to go.”
Engles knew not to question Foster. He rose and exited. Foster
told Fukazwa. “Call Los Alamos, I’ll contact Lane.”She voice
commanded the video screen in front of her.
“Com activate, Akiko Fukazawa for David Moore Los Alamos.”
The image and voice appeared nearly instantly.
“Yes Ms. Under-Secretary, what may I do for you?”
“Mr Moore, we are sending Professor Engles to your facility. He is
to be fully accommodated. His purpose is to develop a functional
metallic fusion device. Apprise your physics team to coordinate its
design.
Moore became a little pale. He didn’t speak, but thought, “Metallic
Fusion device, that is a planet killer!”
Akiko didn’t pause.
“It will be intended to destroy Mars and eject the remnants into an
orbit at 3.5 to 4 AU.
Moore interrupted now.
“Ms. Under-Secretary, you know we have always kept the Metallic
Fusion device theoretical because of its ability to destroy
Earth. We can build it, but to also design it to work like a cosmic
scalpel? We have never even considered it.”
“That is why Professor Engles will have the lead on this project. The
Fusion reaction will be semi-phase offset, per his design. It
will strike Mars. Then it will begin explosive liquefaction of all
metallic molecules. Your physics team will need to solve the ratio
of forward velocity through the planets core and then out the other
side vs lateral expansion. The forward velocity will also be
designed to achieve the new orbit at 3.5 AU. General gravity
will pull any remnant materials along into orbit. Any questions will
be addressed to Professor Engles. “Understood Dr. Moore?”
“Yes, understood Ms. Under-Secretary.”
“Com out.”
Foster was also speaking with Doctor Lane. He was the architect
of the Mars Settlement Colony.
“Doctor Lane, we need you to coordinate with the physics team at
Los Alamos. You will be assigned to calculate the gravitational
coalescence of the mass of Mars ejected in metallic liquified
form with the mass of the asteroid belt between 3.5 and 4 AU
stable orbit. We will need to know the earliest hot temperature
surface cooling that will allow colonization. We will also need
calculations for geothermal power sourcing and the design for
human habitation structures with those conditions. I understand
the difficulty of the problem we are giving you, and just to magnify
it further the solution must be in as few decades as possible, not
in centuries.”
Lane was a genius and pragmatist. His dead pan gaze and reply
were full understanding of doing the impossible, and paying the
ultimate respect to Foster his reply was simple.
“Yes sir.”
Being reelected to five consecutive four year terms as Secretary-
General of the United Nations. Foster was the most powerful man
who ever lived. He was the founder of the original treaties that all
countries signed to effectively end Nationalism in favor of one
world government under United Nations rule of law. Lane as well
as everyone else knew that direct contact from him or his number
two Fukawaza was not to be questioned. His rise to power
brokering the international cease fire of the nuclear war in Middle
east near the end of the 21st century had ordained him that right.
Foster and Fukawaza continued contacts to all the government and
corporate leaders they needed to coordinate with their plan. Secrecy
would be easily kept from the public by the world media outlets they
controlled. When the two finished seven hours later, they shared
each others hands and a tender loving kiss.
Six months later, the first glimpse the world population had of
the plan was the Northern hemisphere witnessing the destruction of
Mars glowing in the night sky like an early dawn arriving. The
glowing streak left in the night sky was too unusual and visible a
sight not to be addressed to governments and populations. Akiko
held interviews for the mass media.
“What is being witnesses nightly is the remnant of a collision of
Ceres, the largest asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter,
and an unseen comet that came into our Solar system from
outside the Kuioer Belt. We can give thanks that Ceres was
there to absorb the impact of a comet we now calculate may have
struck the Earth with incalculable loss of life and devastation.”
In the general population not everyone was buying the cover
story. Reverend Gray and the counter parts of their organization
went city to city giving speeches.
“We hear th United Nations tell us fairy tales about a comet. With
our own eyes, and our own people with telescopes look up and
see that the planet Mars is no longer there. The only one with the
power to remove a planet is God himself! The United Nations
denies us the facts, but we don’t need them to tell us. This is a
warning from the Almighty. His children need to change their
ways. We need to stop raising this false God, their world
government above him. First Mars, then Earth if we don’t change
our ways. The United Nations is not our master..We serve God!
Let me hear you now. We serve God! We serve God!"
Crowds around the world raised similar chants.
Akiko sat in Roland’s office at the United nations building updating
their plans progress.
“The third wave of refugees from the Mars colony have arrived at
the space platform. We are continuing to transport them back
down to the surface to make room for the last wave. New Order
Dynamics is on schedule to complete the first space ark in two
months. The orbit of the new world has settled in at 3.8 AU. It has
already gravitationally absorbed about 70% of the asteroid belts
objects. It is expected to absorb Ceres in around two months. The
physics team reports Ceres is about one third the total mass of the
belt and absorbing it will cause the beginnings of rotational
stabilization. Doctor Lanes team is working on composite
platforms that will be light enough to transport and insulate
against surface heat. They will be equipped with particle field
barriers for the perimeters, and also be configured to operate as
geothermal valves for generators built above them. Basically,
everything is ahead of schedule, but Roland, we still haven’t
discussed the big problem.”
Foster turned away from his work to face Akiko.
“I know Akiko. We’ve extrapolated that with the four year orbit of
the new world we will be ready to send the first teams there in
sixteen years. We need that much time for the planet to be close
enough to ready for us to begin our work there. The settlement
there and readiness to receive arks at a four years intervals
may allow us no more than five million people who can be saved.
The project will terminate in forty years. Let’s just hope we have
that long. Of course the first will have to be our hardiest to handle
settlement construction. Next, redundant teams our brightest and
best from every scientific discipline. Then those best suited for the
genetics needed for repopulation. Fifteen billion of our weakest
and most ordinary people will be lost. We can never tell a single
one of them.”
Akiko put her hand over her mouth and shook her head.
“I am sorry Akiko, it’s out of our hands. I have assigned the
personnel decisions to Trans-Corp. They trained the personnel for
the Mars colony, and they are best equipped to make the
decisions.”
Akiko frowned. She took Roland by the hand.
It’s passed midnight Roland. Can the work wait until tomorrow?”
Roland looked into the sad neediness in Akiko’s eyes. He spoke
to her as he closed down his work station. “Yes it can. Com-exit.”
They walked out together to Roland’s suite. A couple of hours
were spent expressing their affection for each other. Their cause
to duty averaged sixteen hour work days. It left little time for them
personally, but this was one of those nights.
Years turned to decades while mankind made the impossible into
reality.
Some towed the line and accepted the global socialism that
became the norm during those years. Others saw it as a man
made attempt to replace God and religion in their lives. While the
socialist world government became stronger, so too did those
who looked into their hearts and believed there was more than
what the logical and those without faith professed. Protest and
suspicion on the inter-thought network grew fervor.
Akiko continued media interviews and press conferences. Her
holographic presence sixty feet tall graced the squares of cities
world wide. Her cover story was orated with acted conviction.
“The continued world wide effort to settle the colonies on Venus
are achieving new milestones. The forty year mission is now
nearing five million citizens who have chosen to expand man's
seed and presence on other planets. Their story of survival and
the accomplishments they have achieved on Venus should make
us swell with pride. They are among our finest citizens.
Behind her studio created images of domed cities were shown to
the public. Selected people who were arked out onto the new
world were filmed as if happy and thriving on Venus. They helped
to conceal the true nature of where they were and what they were
doing in good conscious. The truth it was thought, would make
whatever few years or days that were left a nightmare existence
for billions of people. How could they tell everyone all at once that
they were going to die horrific deaths? So the lie was kept for forty
years.
On April 25th 2152, it was a warm dry day on the secret launch
pad just north-west of Las Vegas Nevada. Roland Foster at 102
years old stood at the boarding plank of the final Ark flight to leave
Earth for the new world. In 2152 the average life expectancy was
over one hundred forty years. The equivalent health and vigor of a
man his age was relative to a man of fifty in the year 2010. He
held hands with Akiko who at eighty two was still a stunningly
beautiful woman.
“Well, I guess this is our last stand on mother Earth Roland. Euro-
Tak 3 is beginning to report increasing neutrino emissions from
the sun. All of Earths beauty will soon be gone.”
Foster smiled.
“The most beautiful thing on Earth will be leaving soon.”
Akiko’s eyes smiled along with her lips as she stared back at
Roland. “No Roland, if you are saying that about me then two of
the Earths most beautiful things are leaving.”
He squeezed her hands tighter. “No Akiko, just one of them is
going.”
Akiko paused to draw a deep breath. “What do you mean Roland,
you are coming with me.”
Foster looked down at the ground, then back at her. He didn’t
want to waste a last moment not seeing her.
“I am sorry Akiko, I have to stay behind.”
Instantly a tear streamed down Akiko’s cheek."
“No Roland. You are the smartest and most important man in the
world. You have led this planet for sixty years and saved
humanity. The new world needs you.”
Foster nodded.
“We have done pretty well together haven’t we. The new world is
doing fine without me. You’ll be the one taking care of it when you
get there, and they would be fools not to re-elect you next year.”
Akiko was fully crying now.
“I know you Roland. Once you have decided there is nothing I can
say to change your mind.”
Roland wiped away the tears from her face. He kissed and held
her tight for long moments.
“Go now Akiko. It’s time.”
He turned and walked away. Akiko watched him. He never looked
back. He was heading to a pre arranged engagement.
Foster arrived at the church Reverend Gray still headed. He was
met at the door and led up to the pulpit. Television cameras lined
the stage anticipating the first of it’s kind meeting between Gray
and Foster. Gray began the televised event being broadcasted
and translated world wide.
“So Mr. Foster, tell us why you have requested to meet here
under God’s roof tonight.”
Foster cleared his throat and looked into the cameras and into the
world’s eyes.
“First let me say Reverend Gray, and citizens of the world, thank
you for having me here tonight. Although we have maintained the
separation of church and state all these years, it has been with a
sense of objective logic. It seemed best to allow a framework for
peoples lives, and to let them make their own personal decisions
about what to believe. I personally could never look out into the
vastness of the universe or down at the simplest flower or insect
without believing there was a God behind it. I only had trouble
defining him within the context of religion.
I’ve really come hear to tell some of God’s greatest
creations, you the people, that you can believe mankind will go
on. We will survive as as species and grow stronger. I think I owe
you the truth, and the comfort of knowing all of our lives and
difficulties are not in vain. I owe you the truth, even as painful as
it may be you should still know. I am hear to tell you about
something that is about to happen .........
