Museum restoration service with big facility, a lot of tools, four lifts for cars and commercial vehicles which are saved from earth ten and half thousand year ago. Room near is for weapon restoration. People don't need weapons anymore, except in Civilization Museum of All Galaxies. Here in these galaxies is peace for nine hundred years, people lose killing instinct, instinct for rivalry (except in sports where judges don't exist, fair play rules), thanks to DNA mutation after Third Intergalactical War.
Psychologists, medical and DNA scientists are conducted big control on whole populity, and every person without appropriate DNA structures was deported with family to Konran planet in Boryoku galaxy, 16 parsecs far from nearest settled galaxy. The goal was total rehabilitation of the backward population. First fifty years people on Konran lived like people on earth in medieval. Population on Konran was five billion.
Every three year scientists were come back on Konran and made check on registered persons for come back on home planet, in first year of checking they were only one family, after next three years there was seven families, but after one hundred ten years people find out twenty century Earthian`s technology, and weaponry, so they start with twelve year war. First day of war Commission for rehabilitation immediately going away from planet without ever come back. Humanity lost every contact with Konran. Leaders in Galactic Council claimed there is same fate like planet earth, since Konrans find out nuclear weapon, so this is better for all to close every way of communication with nacionalities on those planet.
Vice Leader, ex general Hasy Cnes told to public: "I talking to people our three galaxies listen to me! Forget on Konran, even if you had families there! Those are peoples which are not overcome differences between the neighbors, they are still separated in nationalities, races, religions and everything and every segment which separate. Same DNA was destruct our mother Earth, our ancestors get new chance in past on Mars and Pluto, same scenario! We had four bloody wars in past five hundred years, until we was overtake our differences, and we finally understand that is imaginary differences!
Every other thing was greed and genetic mistake from past. Today we have everything we want, nobody is hungry, nobody sick, we raised average of life, have a clean air without nuclear dust and dirt! That planet is to far from us, 16 parsecs or 27 months of flight, so lets forget on Konran! Duty of my successor in future will be to check those planet and that will be for 80 years. You are working hardly, enjoy your upcoming breaks. Greetings!"
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Slap small door between two service workshop:
-Hey, Liam where are you, some help here! Hey dude, are you hear me?! Come on, give me a break!, why every time... Damn!
He run to door of office with small windows, immediately with anger and fear open the door:
-Are you nuts? You smoking? You want blow us up away? Look this workshop, this place is full of paints and fuels from stone age!
Liam is strong man like comic superhero, handsome man in late forties. Black short hair usually with scarves around head. Usually have sleepy and thougtful when take a break.
Mechanic with full knowledge of all things from past.
-What? He said very pretentious. In same time he put the cigarette in ashtray, and look him very strict with his brown eyes in which sometimes man can see anger, sometimes sadness.
-Aaiki, sorry dude I did mean be so rude.
Aaiki is communicative kind type of man, very affordable and friendly for all employees in museum. He is good friend to everyone, guy that every girl loves.
-I was in some kind meditation listening this Earth's music I finded in that Benz.
-What kind music?
-Rock, It was Dire Straits song Brothers in Arms.
-That Benz come here on restoration after years in decontamination, like every exponate from mother Earth.
--Yeah, 1998 W140, AMG 7.3 V12, very rare in those days on Earth. I'm waiting new rear stabiliser, they said me there is guy in town, working with some kind laser printer machine and he can make every new part, whatever I want.
-Looks like powerful?
-In end of 20 century yes, but today ridiculous, not profitable, this car have rear wheel drive, use a lot fossil fuel, gasoline, to be precisely, very dangerous like driving a bomb, and gasoline do not totally burned in work. Internal combustion engines was 85% inefficient.
Even and those six wheel yellow TAXIs are much more powerful.
-Damn, you know a lot, but if you don't mind, how you can not use laser lathe?
- I never learned.
-How, You should have taught it in tec school?
-I was not educated in this town.
- Course, oh.. I come to please if you can check some assault rifle from Earth, just before last minute Old Is god me and tell that you should see if everything is Ok. He yell to me: "Let a real man see, you can disseminate yourself!"
-Ha, ha, ha, Rifles can't disseminate thing, you can wound or kill someone or yourself.
-I don't know, my first job is blaster restoration, I'm new with fire weapons.
-Seems just like... You don't know about his daughter?
-Wha..o.!-Strange expression on his face, and he can't say anymore.
-Aaiki, go ahead! You just think if anybody of those douchebags can't see anything, do not think that I am blind with my eyes, just if I am somnolent sometimes.
-Let me see this. Great. Two shots and both in ten. This thing is great on full auto to, you've done great job. Where they get this?
-Somebody find in old warehouse when demolitioned old block houses near by center. They sad this is AK.
-This is not from Earth.
-They said so!
-Yeah, seems they don't know..., this is not AK, looks like, same thing, but this is not.
-I learned in history there was many countries on Earth produce AK sometimes with small changes?
-This piece is not from Earth.
-Where? How?... Come on, I can't figure...
-Better for you.
-Time is up, I go home, see ya.
-Wait...!..hell!, said Aaiki, but Liam doesn`t hear him, cause he was on door to go out.
Liam run away to parking for employees, behind Museum´s garden. Hurriedly approach to blue sport vehicle, modern sharp lines, door is automatically open when he was in front of car. He sit in car, and door is closed, in pleasant interior with look like space shuttles cockpit, there is one big screen behind steering wheel and other on center console, which turn on immediately, and holographically displays woman´s face:
"Good day sir, welcome in Saturn GT650, tell me your car set up for today, if you like..."
-Enough! Shat, for sake up! Can you start engine without hell blabbing?
-Ok! see, power on, climate control default on 20 degree of celsius, other commands "without hell blabbing" cancel, syntax error.
-Give me bloody accelerator, I wanna go from this place!
-Negative sir, highly nervousness detected all vehicle performance are set up under 75%...
-Why you doing this to me?
-Anti Collision system activated, nervous and irritable driver behind steering wheel, 65% nervous detected, after 3% more I turn on autopilot, calling paramedic, and pool down.
-Done, now I'm normal, give me sport performance.
-Negative, this is not track day, we are in town now, 26% nervous detected.
-Here, I will steer left on motorway.
-Vehicle performance returned on normal. Motorway set up, suspension stiffener on hard maximum power 460 KW...
-Hey give me mine 650 KW!
-Negative, 650 KW is maximum power, available only on race track.
-This is mine car! I can done what ever...
-Emergency, nervous 22% detected...
-Fine, turn on stereo.
-What would you like to listen?
-Find Rush Subdivisions.
-Searching online historical database, result finded.
-Great, volume up little bit, and shut up, let me drive:
"Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown..."
He driving on M1, motorway which go to his house in Southern Subdivision, very far away from town center, but when you can drive 200 Mph he'll came to home for one hour. Seemed he worried, for something a bit, everyone can see that on his face. Driving can be good for person like him, in fact tomorrow weekend starts and tonight can went to bar to take some drink. In this moment he has one thing on his mind, a bar two blocks away of his home. Name of bar is Atlantic Palisade, and that is Earth-Nostalgic bar with surfer and beach wallpapers, a lot of pics rockstars, actres, movie papers, souvenirs on shelfs like army and fireman helmet, but still with diffuse light like every bar on Earth should be.
Tonight playing two cover bands. Songs on repertoire are from past, from Earth Rock bands. Those kind of bars are popular in whole of three galaxies, especially in town`s subdivisions where people trying to live life like on the Earth, mean, as much as possible.
In whole of three galaxies only hard drink you can get in bars is a distilled beverage Fort Wayne Premium, from yellow flowers, kind a brandy with high concentration of alcohol. People usually take a smoke gray resin, and combination with drink make hallucinations.
Of course, there is a lot of kind of beer.
Because of self mind-condition in moment, Liam vent to bar straightly, without going to home:
-Large mug of beer, two shots, and two smokes for start!
After second swallow of beer he felt very relieved, he take cigarette from box: "What a hell I doing to myself, this is life..." ,he mind in head. His cigarette make curious guy next to him:
-Hey, man what is that strange smoke?
-Cigarette, said with strange look on stranger.
-Where you find Cigarettes?
"Holly, that's second question in this month", he mind in self:
-Last saturday on marketplace.
-Oh my god, those marketplaces on Planet Sarhan, they have a lot of staffs from Earth`s past, that's illegally, but it is much more better taste than this hallucinogens. Once I saw that kind smokes in history book, you'll should hide this, y'll can have a lot of troubles with law enforcements.
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Immediately he turn off cigarette in ashtray: "Mine, this galaxis are bunch of idiots", take halc-smoke and lighter: "somewise, this is legal thing, strange to hell"
Band start with first song "Who will save world?", easy song for start, atmosphere was great, songs are going one for another fast like train, of course after to much drinks and shots things going too fast to catch:
-I'm loading, nothing saving!
-Feel goood!
It's been half past night, owner of the bar went to stage:
-Good Evening, everybody knows me, this is special night , we celebrating Earth's birthday tonight, so everyone in this hell have four free rounds! I wanna hear you scream! Rock n roooool!!!!
People screamed.
Music start again:
"THE MORE OF YOU THAT I INSPECT
THE MORE OF ME I SEE REFLECT
THE MORE I TRY TO READ YOUR LIPS
THE MORE THE MASK YOU'RE WEARING RIPS
BUT WHEN I SEEK OUT YOUR VOICE
MY EARS ARE OVERCOME WITH NOISE
YOU SHOW AND TELL WITH GREATEST EASE
RAVING IMPOSSIBILITIES
ENGAGED IN CRIME I GRASP MY THROAT
ENRAGED MY MIND STARTS TO SMOKE
ENFORCE A MENTAL OVERLOAD
ANGRY AGAIN, ANGRY AGAIN, ANGRY OW..."
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When crazy night getting over, tomorrow morning make new fuss. Crapulous man with headache, nausea, pains and fell like whole world is on his back: "I'll never drink anymore!", he knows to lying himself while putting head in toilet for another puke.
-But who brought me to home? How? Strange? Never mind, I'm gonna puck... Maybe to get eat, and then I'll be better. That was not necessary to take that last few drinks.
Multimedia house center turn on:
-Sir, you got visitor in front of door.
-Tell him to go away.
-He said something is important.
-Tell him I'm a death.
-He told that he already know, and one women is with him she said you are death and drunk like skunk.
-Whatever, let them in.
Aaiki and Larisa come in living room:
-You looking bad.
-Yeah, I am really shit-faced.
-We bring you something to eat, you have to, think you're dehydrated. We brought you home last night. First we try to find you in whole town, course you are not been at home, It was too late, then Larisa said to go to nearest bar, so we come in when was party on pic, try to catch you, but there was horrible crowd, and you are on highlight of drunkenness. So, catch you when party is over, you run away to car again, but car won´t start it, think car try to call a cops and paramedics, because how car multimedia said had 4,3 promille alcohol, and drug and nicotine detected. When cops were come I told them that is some mistake with program, and I try to take you home, and they believed me, but they tried to find cigarettes. When they finished with car search they went in bar. Course they try to find cigars, that thing is exterminate still in past on Earth seven or ten thousand, I don`t know, years a go.
-Suckers! Think I need coffee.
-Coffee? You are talking like Earth man on those old films, cursing, cigars, way of drinking...
-Stop with laugh. You know, that surrogate.
-Want to go with us on mount, I have little cabin?
-I don't want to bother you.
-Come on man, that's Larisa`s idea, you will pleased a little bit silence.
-Silence, with you two? Come on.
-Please Mr. Liam do it, we will be pleased in your company.
-Don't call me Mister, I´m not to old, yet. Lets go then, give me hand.
Liam slept in back seat of Aiki`s off-road vehicle, whole trip he wake up and look to figure where is, than he slept again. He was haunted by bad dreams.
-Are you Ok?
-Thanks Larisa, I'm fine, just little sopor.
-We have a one more hour to drive.
-How long I slept?
-Two and half hour.
-We drove in silence, don't want to wake you. Want some song?
-Pink Floyd "Comfortably Numb."
-Rover, Rover check the base for Pink Floyd "Comfortably Numb."
-Historical base checked on 23 June 1980. Result:
"Hello,
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on
Now
I hear you're feeling down
I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move
But I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like
Two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain
You would not understand
This is not how I am
I... Have become comfortably numb..."
-How much historical songs you have on mind?
-A lot. Enormous numb.
-I see.
Fifteen minutes past, and Aaiki steer out from main road to dirt gravel road, then after he crossed eleven kilometers he turn vehicle on green meadow then after he past five hundred meters vehicle start moving uphill. He climbed on grass plateau, then he go again to uphill, much bigger then first hill.
-Rover turn on off-road set up!
-Vehicle height increase to maximum. Shock absorber stiffness on high off-road set up. Reducer included in second gear.
-Rover this is to heavy. Turn on reducer in third gear. Be ready to switch on crawler gear when I said.
-Aye aye, sir.
-Give maximum power to engines.
Three more kilometers uphill and vehicle enter in dark woods, kilometer and half of scary darkness they came out on one more lawn with a slight inclination, then they climbed on a small plateau, in front of them appeared log cabin.
-Here we are.
-Wow, we are in heaven.
-This is place where we get lost from town.
-You don't mind if I take cigar?
-No, how you got smokes?
-I'll tell you one day, maybe.
Liam lit a cigar and sit on grass, he look in infinity of woods, hills, adjacent far mountains, it looked like he was above them, flying in a blue of the sky.
He thought again, as if he was consciously bothered something from past, something big, very sad lying on the soul for long.
Larisa broke hour of silence , she approached him walking slowly and gracefully, while breeze is playing with her blue hair, she stretched out her hand with bottle:
-Wanna beer?
-Thanks.
-Me I sit ?
-Sure.
-Aaiki cooking something to eat. He is great.
-Yeah, he's great, he love to do right things, he is kind of guys which fast learning. Yesterday he make right thing with V.f.k. 77, I was impressed when I shooted in target. Rifle was totally destroyed when someone found, I saw on pics, but Aaiki done right thing.
-What is V.f.k.?
-Assault rifle that Aaiki finish restoraton yesterday.
-What? My imputed data was that is AK47, rifle from Earth.
-Somebody from museum who went to take that thing make mistake in input.
-That was my father.
-Old Is, he never made mistake, unless someone told him wrong.
-Perhaps. Must tell you thing, you look strange a little bit for those guys in museum, for me and Aaiki, and my father you're alright, guys looking you like freak. They can't figure that you know a lot about Earth things, they study for months some thing you done for three minutes. Strange, you don't know use laser machines for metalworking, and weirdly where you got those cigars. You have anger when things not goes right, so they are little bit frightened.
-Suckers. You and Aaiki are only friends I got in this town. They look me strange since I was come in that place.
-Yes, and you are cursing.
-Nothing terrible.
-You said to Max that his head look like shit-can. You are brave, that is too offensive speech, your luck is he is frightened, he said he look in you very bad ass.
-I can't helped him anymore, I tray very kindly to expand him what I need, I drawed those things, He can`t figure again, and I pissed off.
-Max is very arrogant. He doesn`t work anything, he is CRM offspring.
-What is CRM?
-You don't know? Hm. CRM is abbreviation for Chief Responsible Constructor. In beginning of new system they are had main task to provide safe implementation of system. After establishing their familyes was take all benefits, they going to job, but don`t work nothing, they are richer than any, they can give a command to anyone, even and Galaxy Council. Wonder why you don't know?
-I, I...
-Lunch is ready!
-We coming!- Skillfully escaped. Beautiful interior, I liked, beautiful fireplace.
-I did everything myself. Tonight we are not drinking?
-Certainly, we can grab beer or two, maybe one shot, last night I drinked a lot.
-Think you got a lot of work on that Benz in monday?
-Sure, I have to finish Benz, and one 1955 Deuce and half army truck. When I am finished, I'll start to work on blue 1974 Mack with broke front leaf springs, must made new. Yesterday guys towed blue Magirus Deutz, a lot of parts missing on that truck, fenders, front grill,right door, engine parts, cylinder head, rocker arms, pushrods. There is more two 1989 BMWs in backyard and one car no one knows what is. Job for two months.
-Some prototype?
-Maybe, documentation is in my desk.
-Take it easy, you work too hard, you don't need immediately all done.
-The work fills me up.
-Tomorrow we are going to see waterfall, and village near by ten kilometers on south.
-Do you know drive a motorcycle?
-Yeah, sure.
-I have two extra bikes for guests.
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Sunshine in morning like in heaven, Liam wake up early and take out while everybody sleep. Takes cigarette from box, sit on grass and light up. "Listen sound of nature, that magnificent harmony, same as at home, first time I have feeling like I`m at home."
-Look like you are in mood to sit here whole day?
-Men, look at that, I have no word...
-Yeah, that's why I have this shelter here. Come on, we have no all day, we will come again, on vacation to be whole month. Don't talk to anyone what you see today.
-Fine.
Three motorcycles going on rough terrain through forest, a lot of uphills, downhills, mud traps and woods humus which waiting like real trap one clumsy move to trow off motorcycle in nearest abyss.Waterfall is best place for take a rest, silence, only broken by sound of falling water. In front waterfall is woodbridge on cliff above woods, and go straight in forest.
Behind the forest is a large canyon, powered hang glider armed with machine gun fights above their head and make big looping, and disappear on east.
-Hold at! Freeze!-five men come out from woods armed with asault rifles with rocket launchers on back .
"What a hell... They have not blasters, this is some twilight zone, this man have historical weaponry. I have not see this for long time." -Liam is some kind shock.
-Aaiki, is that you?
-Yeah, me and mine friends.
Man takes radio:
-Open the gate, lower the bridge.
-Roger!
Rumble of chains, wooden bridge get down to another cliff. They continued their trip one kilometer through forest. They met armed people, mortar positions, howitzers, guns, real small army in woods.
They slow down when comes on one forest plateau, on which is village with earth lodges and pit houses.
Old man in camouflage clothing stand in front of them:
-Welcome Aaiki, glad to see ya!
-Me too, how are you?
-Not as you for many years, I m not young anymore. I have great mountain tea, let's go in the house, later we´ll go to town.
The Eshira tribe lived underground. Every ground shelter have tunnel for connection with town ground deep in mountain. Name of town is Zerizamini. There is happening real social life, some never leave town, and they have houses carved in crag with small windows turn over view on circuit or streets. There is hospitals, schools, cinemas, bars, arm stores, manufactures all kind, everything people need for normal life. When war was ended and deportation start, small group peaceful people without corresponding genetic code start to live nomadic life for years, but law enforcements start to prosecute and deportation small group, somehow they get old kind weapons, and when past fifteen years of guerilla war they desapire in forest.
-My friend, we lived peaceful life on this planet, walking freely from place to place, but after General Hasy Cnes died we had a lot of trouble. Who knows what could be with us that we are not organized like today we are.
-How did you get here?
-In our chronicle written is story about secret warehouse General Hasy secretly gives route map to our leader, and some books about military tactics, guerilla war and old king weapon systems, and five special books how to make nuclear war shelter. Warehouse was on south, underground under one wooden cabin, it was four floor, full of weapons all kind infantry weapons, artillery, anti tank rockets, old kind vehicles, a lot of diesel fuel, excavators.
Law enforcements and Army had blasters and nuclear artillery, they could not risk and shoot with nuke shells, they used electromagnetic rail guns, tanks and blasters. We were in advantage, while our guerillas led the war, other groups find this canyon, and start digging, and first they made weapon and ammunition factory on first floor, and hospital here. Course, a lot people they digged here was miners for years.
-Did you read how General get those weapons, and how did he know what will be happened after his
death?
-Yes I am. Very interesting story. Said on battle field they shoot shells with virus, then there was some vaccine which makes DNA modular, and after inhalation some substances, again shooting shells on enemy, and own army inhalates same things people become peaceful and don´t had will to fight again, but this devil was not made to bring the peace, CRMs found way how to make legally own slaves. One billion people was resistet on DNA modulations, so they start with deportations on some planet far a way in other not settled galaxy. Our tribe, and biker gangs start to wander. General smuggled guns from those Planet and sell to biker gangs, but he did not know those idiots so they all killed in three conflicts with law enforcements, so General must disappear for awhile, he got alibi, and prove own innocence in court.
For a while he heard for our tribe, and guarded us, constantly destroying all evidence about our existence. He loved free people.
-One thing is contradictory in this story. How long General lived, this story, and what I know, that is two or three hundred years of life.
-He was man with same name, in fact old General was his great-grandfather, and he leaves note which that younger found, note about fight for freedom of humans. He was fascinated when he met us, first time he saw organised tribe of nomads, our medicine, small mobile fuel factory , organised guards. He given us weapons without one single pence.
-What kind slavery?
-Let's go to tribal museum. On beginning new system Council said that day comes when we are all equal. Yes CRMs and high class society are equal but in Two Suns Planet are miners, they working for free, sixteen million workers is there on that planet, and they get only food. Your`s fathers are CRMs, lower ranked but you are not slaves, their is a lot people living in subdivisions working stupid business, and they are not aware that they are slaves.
-This is first rifles we use V.F.K., manufacturer from Victoria, I never heard for that in whole three galaxies, blasters are in use for mileniums.
"Viktoria! I be damn, Hasy again, Holly, I know this signs...I have a lot of trouble, now I got it... Everything is clear now. Better to me to be quiet, how to expand this mess."-Liam think deeply.
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Off road vehicle run slowly downhill, Liam's music on multimedia system again:
"I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Looking at the barrel of an Armalite
I don't want to spend the rest of my days
Keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say
I don't want to spend my time in hell
Looking at the walls of a prison cell
I don't ever want to play the part
Of a statistic on a government chart..."
Re You tierd?
-No, my back hurts a bit, it's been long time since I was drive bike.
-You're something thinking?
-Just listening song.
-What you think about tribe?
-Great, I do not understand that no one has discovered them yet, how the system gave up the search, there is no wanteds?
-When guerillas disappeared system make extensive searching actions, for decades, and they one day stopped, make no sense to look for something that doesn`t existed. Of course thanks to my father, her father and few CRMs they have familial connections with tribe. Tribe is organised like real army, they have scouts around whole mountain, also flying squads with powered hang gliders, when I was come down from main road yesterday they already knows that I will come. Course, noone goes on this mountain, except me.
-To far away.
-Yeah. Folks on this road going to seaside, 600 kilometers more.
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Liam came home, turned off the lights and lie down:
"Tomorrow`s new day, will be better, to many crazy things in this past six years. I must tell them my story one day, they are really my friends... I need drink. Better to sleep."