Singhua University, Mainland China Theoretical Science class 1-A, as the class quieted as the guest instructor from the University of FarDetsh, Germany. The number one leading in Plasmatic Engineering. The new form of matter was discovered by accident, which started a new energy production chain and research. This discovery prevented the energy crisis in the early 21st century as the west was trying to show dominance over its enemies. Germany took the initiative to solve the crisis. It led the charge for more ways to distribute the knowledge worldwide, making Germany the number one country in eastern Europe. He is a tall white man with broad shoulders, sharp eyebrows shaded in light black, dark calculative eyes that seem to assess the room in a mere microsecond, and faint streaks of gray in his jet black hair slightly showing his age.
While dressed in a formal name-brand suit matching tie while showing his age through his hair, it could be mistaken for a genetic inheritance for the grayness. The young woman in the class couldn't help but blush when he swept his warm eyes that seemed to hold a little bit of calculativeness over the young student in the class. He turned to the podium and set down his briefcase, and took a brief break before starting with a deep voice that seems to memorize and draw you in just like his dark eyes. "Good evening, everyone. My name is Chu Crawford. My Chinese may not be fluent, but I will do my best to convey the meaning of my instructions today."
As Crawford finished his sentence, the class was stunned into a daze as if comforted by his deep voice. A few seats away from the podium, A round blob shoved a short, thin man with wavy brown hair that would look like he would break like a porcelain doll if any more weight were behind the shove. "Hey, Tu Yuan, didn't he speak fluent Chinese right now? Even better than the way that most people speak?" Tu Yuan shoved back, or at least he tried, as his twig arm just went into the rolls of meat, then gently bounced back out. Displeased, Tu Yuan gave a glare before lowly muttering, " brother Bao I'm trying to learn, we can discuss his fluency later, and did you get bigger? I swear my arm went in farther this time." Bao Lingzhu or otherwise known as brother Bao, just grunted, causing his waves of meat to shake in displeasure as they turned back their attention to the podium.
As the class returned from shock, Professor Crawford Continued his instruction by turning down the lights in the auditorium and turning on a projector to the board behind him. The panel lit up and behind him was a galaxy. "Now, who can name this Galaxy?" Crawford said as he eyed the class. A woman in the front with a bob cut and glasses raised her hand "yes? Miss?" Crawford flashed a smile of acknowledgment. " Wu Lee, isn't that our galaxy Professor Crawford?" Wu Lee said in a somewhat childish voice. Professor Crawford just smiled and looked around for anybody else as they all thought the same thing as they have seen this picture before many times on the internet while researching plasma projects.
"Close, but no, this is our sister Galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest galaxy and is set to collide with us in some fifty billion years or so." Crawford explained carefully and pressed the arrow key on the remote for the next slide, "and now class, what star is this?" Crawford said, then he hit the button again, and it showed a planet. A blue marbled with a hint of green and brown and some flow of white. The earth, the planet which they inhabit. Their home for the next who knows how many years until they take the next step into interplanetary travel.
"Our civilization according to the Kardashev Scale is not even a Type 1 which is where we can store and use the energy of the planet we inhabit to fuel our lives, our daily hood; a Type 2 civilization can use and harness their solar system into forms of energy into ways we can't even imagine, it could be terraforming moons, new energy transmissions forms." As Professor Crawford changes the slide back to the Sun." Even harness our Sun in which proficiency is currently only theorized by Dr. Dyson," Professor Crawford Switches back to the Andromeda Galaxy slide.
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"Type 3 gets even more unfathomable. To harness our galaxy, did you know we currently have no pictures of our galaxy because we have no ability to leave it and take a picture from outside, and we obviously can't take a photo within it shows how massive the universe is outside our little well." Crawford finishes his explanation to the class as they sit in silence and think of the possibility of the future. There is also the sadness of how they will not see it. Then a student in the back raises a slim arm that can be barely noticed by the light reflected off the board.
"Yes, you sir, a question?" Crawford looks too, "Tu Yuan, Professor, is there higher classes of civilization than the ones mentioned?" Tu Yuan says clearly in a clear voice, not too loud or light, just enough to be heard from across the room. "There is." Crawford says before continuing, "But remember this is all hypothetical and regards energy consumption on a cosmic scale type 4 and 5 works off the universe and multiverse how they do so is entirely unknown, and we probably won't know until we reach that point. If we even reach the mark."
" Every civilization will have a point of needing to bridge the gap of going to from different stages of advancement. As we are at zero, we are reaching that point of needing to advance to type 1 hence the energy crisis in the early 2000s. That's just a forwarning and a drive to improve our advancement further. Does that answer your question, Tu Yuan?" Professor Crawford flashed a gentlemanly smile while finishing his explanation. "Yes, thank you, Professor," Tu Yuan said while jotting down notes as if a flash of inspiration hit him.
"Any more questions? No? Ok, that will conclude my lecture on planetary civilizations. I will be on campus in the Plasmatic Energy Lab helping perform experiments; please stop by if anyone has questions. Class dismissed; thanks for listening." Professor Crawford says while turning off the projector and turning on the lights, collecting his articles, and heading out the door. As students rushed out, trying to get to the bus stops first. Tu Yuan and Brother Bao decided to go to the school cafeteria for their lunch before going to the dorms to rest until evening classes.
As they grabbed their lunch trays and settled down at a remote table near the windows where the Sun was shining in through, "So Tu Yuan that Professor from Germany weird how he spoke so fluently ya?." Brother Bao brought up a good conversation topic right before digging into his food, causing his meat rolls to flow like ocean currents on a stormy day. "you're still on that? Didn't you pay attention to the lecture? Who Cares if he speaks it or not did you not pay attention to the facial futures he was obviously Chinese. Now slow down before you ch-".
As Tu Yuan was about to finish his sentence, there was a white flash dyeing his vision, blinding him, followed by a sound wave from an explosion that shattered the windows throwing glass and cement shards into his body turning him into a pincushion instantly killing Yu Tuan the ceiling collapsed cement. Rebar came down in chunks killing students crushing them to the point of separating body and limb. Poor fatty BaoBao was ground into meat paste, splattering blood onto nearby students, the farthest away by five meters; panic then ensued, and screams echoed across the campus.
Students, Teachers, and Staff all fled in fear from ground zero from there in the air from far away it can be seen as flowing cyan flashlight shining brightly into the sky, turning the once blue sky dark all fading into a stormy cloud covering that seems like it would last forever.