SkyManKlan Chronicles 22

Villa on Trinity

CHAPTER 22: Villa on Trinity

Narrator = Karl printed the 3 Feldspar Network Nodes, in about 30 days. It was quite the event as the crew tried out the ship’s ⅓ meter laser cutter and the 1 meter rail gun. The 9K hauler rounded up the madia for processing. Lots of smashing and grinding to prep the feldspar for printing. The WalkABotPrinter did a great job printing the rough shape. Basically the fine media is deposited as a molten material flow that crystalizes quickly. Flowing from the bot arms is arc plasma this is when the feldspar changes states from solis to hot liquid. The laser cutter was used to make the final shape and polished finish.

The instructions said to set them in interstellar space three thousand meters apart. Sheela Pinged them with a feldspar pulse using the frequency from the instructions and watched.

KARL and the GROUP mind to mind

Karl = Its all going to plan, the Feldspar Network Nodes are resonating with the feldspar ping. Its been a few seconds. This ping is causing the nodes to align with themselves. Excellent. Now once aligned the feedback loop is developing. We are looking good…Theres the tremendous buzz. Come on baby, come on, and, NO. No faint pop, and of course as we can all see they never disappeared.

Sheela = Once they disappear, Then what?

Karl = The navigation device sees or hears the nodes resonating with one another.

Beaming and ringing a three part harmony in galactic present time, within the feldspar network.

The nodes are resonant points of interest within the field. The navigation unit can now show you the galaxy. You can zoom in and out, XYZ in the present instant to any part of the galaxy.

Rolling this side wheel, rotates the galaxy back in time.

Rastis = Now we can go to any Space, Place or Time. From the present or all the way back to a galaxy’s most recent “pop itti POP”. And anywhere in between.

Sheela = That is so cool.

Trager = BUT! That did not happen.

Selia = Karl needs to look at a scan of a working network node.

Yin = Odd that the plans were lacking specific details.

Rastis = Oh well, close but no node. How will we find what we need?

Karl = I do not know my brother Rastis.

Rastis = How have we found any of this stuff? I’m lucky, but this seems like more than that. Hey new guy trigger, nope, trader, hm, Trager, can you help us out?

Sheila = If you can, that will be wild.

Trager = I know where an itty bitty Eye of Lord Feldspar is.

Rastis = Great, I’m hungry, Let’s all eat. Trader here the meat bot is gonna tell us what it knows of this itty bitty eye node. You called it something earlier… So tell us Trager, what do you know of “The Eye of Lord Feldspar”.

Narrator = Trager’s sensitive skin flashed red as he sat down at the table. Turns out Trager spun quite a yarn thru dinner and into the wee hours…

Trager = The Eye of Lord Feldspar. Mind you, it made me who I am today..

I am one of those hybrid humans, not a beingbot with an AI brain. My mind is my own for now. You see I went with the lite robot package. I am more meat than machine. I am a slave to the sensations of pleasure. That is what this body is for.

Sheela = So why are you here on Corso?

Trager = At the time of the stranding, I was on Corso. I had returned for a planned upgrade. My metallic bones are now plated with feldspar. As a result the feldspar nourishes the meat. And I don’t have to eat or eliminate anymore. I do drink spirits and mineral water. It is like adding electrolytes to a battery.

So I am recovering and the P2P goes down. We all think it will restart but no. Quickly food is a problem. There is no food. Everything was P2P. Corso was a sublime place. What do you fancy, or show me a choice. Your meal could have come from any planet in the galaxy.

Sheela = So you did not need to eat, you could just get wasted and watch

Trager = Exactly, so I watched this from afar, aware of the danger. The humans got hungry and started eating the beingbots. Then the beingbots produced massive numbers of meat hunter monsterbots. Humans lose, well all of the critters of Corso lost.

Rastis = The Beingbot won, so where are they?

Trager = You met the reason today. The Beingbots go crazy over time trying to be more and more human.

The day they succeeded and everyone got their more than human upgrade was indeed their finest day. The date was the same date every year 10 month / 10 day / 10 hour / 10 minute/

It was 10:10 on a Saturday the usual crowd was shuffling into their hall of destiny for the group upgrade effect. This can be quite fantastic because each hybrid unit performs the same upgrade dance at the exact time. The visual effects can be amazing.

Sheela = So where are you watching this?

Trager = I monitored their mass communications.

I was awake for every upgrade prior to this one also.

I have a 3d immersion room and flat displays.

Karl = What did this upgrade do?

Trager = The upgrade was downloaded wirelessly. First they all quake, next they stand in place and shake. Finally they align themselves and become dead still. After a few minutes they started singing in perfect harmony, then dancing in unison.

This upgrade caused them to sing and dance for 15 minutes, working up a good sweat. They were physically and sexually aroused. This upgrade lit the fire of passion, lust and desire. They truly were more human than humans everywhere. As humans tend to be out of touch with their humanity most of the time. Their skin glistened with moisture and ferramos filled the air.

We have found our greater humanity the beingbots chanted together ending the upgrade. At this point a beingbots orgy broke out.

Sheela = So, why are they gone?

Trager = These new found vibrant noises and smells raised more than the beingbots emotions. You see the meat hunter monster robots, their hunger is reawakened and it must be quenched.

Rastis = How did Y’all survive?

Trager = I own a well hidden feldspar sleep chamber that is connected to the planetary sensor array. I went to bed for a few million years. With maybe 900 awake days or so. You show up, and my chamber wakes me up.

Karl pipes in

You mentioned The itty bitty Eye of Lord Feldspar?

Trager = So yes, The Eye of Lord Feldspar, is the feldspar network node as you call it.

My family had some connection to the trinity system and we had a house there. Family Legend goes we purchased it during the height of the last bit of dangerous orbits. The family had inside information that a prototype eye of lord feldspar was on its way to bring tranquility to the trinity system. My kin bought a very nice villa long before the greater public learned of the coming stability. The rental of that palace has paid for this body many times over.

Yin = So what are you suggesting? We can go to the trinity system and capture the itty bitty Eye of Lord Feldspars?

Trager = It was the first working network node. And I know where it is.

Karl = We just need a scan.

Ginger please whip up a breakfast buffet.

Ginger = That sounds wonderful Karl, a breakfast buffet.

Rastis = So we can now just Point to Point to the Trinity system.

Karl = No, We still lack a map. And no working nodes to make one.

Sheela = So Trager, You say you know where the node is. How can that be?

Trager = I loved to frequent my villa on Trinity. I wanted so desperately to make it a huge experience! You know to have properties on each of the worlds. So while I was on my home world of Corso, I devised a plan.

I needed a way to catch that node! That is all I had to do. This will make the orbits wonky again. The population runs away, as it always does. Then I sweep in and purchase fabulous properties on each of the planets.

Rastis= Now, how to catch the node?

Trager = I will catch the node in a Crow ship the most nimble of the light mining class. I modified it for sublight quickness and superior dampening. My stage one implants are metallic bones. A metallic infusion coats the bones. At 100% infusion the bones will self repair instantly. My insides are plated, my organ sacks are also metallic. My outer skin is just as sensitive to touch as yours. I already have maintenance bots inside my body to take care of my body. These enhancements are so I could fly at the high level required to capture the node and then stow the node in my field dampening booty Box. Easy peasy!

Sheela =

Step 1: robot mod yourself so you can fly fast and quick.

Step 2: capture the node and then hide it.

step 3: return home get your feldspar upgrades as an alibi.

Step 4: research properties, recover, and make purchases

step 5: return the node, pose as a hero!

Trager = Yes, I will claim to have found the node buried lost on a moon. I’m a hero. They will name a lane after me. It will be divine.

Sheela = That’s a good plan, I would bet the kitten on that plan. You are a scoundrel!

Trager = My plan was P2P all day, and never eat, sleep or eliminate ever again.

Unless I want to. Just enjoy my companions to death. I am a pleasure monster, and I can love you to death.

Sheela = Sinister you are. I bet you can, ya weirdo. Rastis = Good plan, great ship! What went wrong? A bit creepy at the end there though.

Trager = Yes, With my enhanced body reflexes I quickly snatched the node from orbit. Holding it with the talons I was in control.. Then I opened the booty box and attempted to load the node inside..

The node, it freaked out when I attempted to put it in the booty box. It was as if the node woke up. It went on the offensive. Moving about quickly left right up down…. This did change the ships direction…

I was not letting go, no way. Realizing I would not release it. The node went for the core of one of the planet moons. I ejected before impact. The ship’s damping field was enhanced by the node impact. The ship was absorbed into the ground with the node in it. As the surface started babbling lava. The ship was encapsulated in the damping field. The ship was drawn underground. I watched the mound grow. Then I booked it to a P2P, and went home for my upgrades. Everything was going to plan.

Sheela = Do you think you brought down the feldspar network?

Trager = I did not help it. Look folks, For me the event happened 900 days ago. What is that like 3 years. Then your arrival woke me up a few days ago. Shure this is probably my fault? Wow I am the worst being in the galaxy. Have your way with me please, mmmm. I have slept for 300 million years. Now here I am, I am here to help any way I can.

Sheela = 300 million, ya dont say!

In his mind is everything we need.

The map, the location of the node, everything.

We need to do a mind suck now.

Trager = Wait what?

Sheela = Look, you eat a few candies, wash that down with 3 or 4 drinks.

We hook you up to the Mindseye reader. Then we ask you a few questions.

Your mind provides the image answers. It doesn’t hurt, and there are no aftereffects. We have all done what we are asking you to do today, it is part of our training. Come on man, what do you say!

Trager = I surrender

Yin = Good day Trager I am Yin. I will be interviewing you today. I will make a few poetic pros. Verbal image generators for the mind.

Just relax.

Trinity the star is burnt orange.

Even from space I can feel the effects of the star.

The first time I saw trinity I was aware of its effect.

I just had to lay my eyes on Trinity.

Coming and going

Over and over

Narrator

The images generated from the interview allowed Yin to generate a star map.

The Yerky arrives outside the trinity solar system.

Karl = Better safe than wobbling in that mess in there. Scan the system for the node.

Sheela = So what is the great attraction of this place?

Trager = The light of the star feeds you. It makes you feel wickedly good. You can P2P from one sunny side to any of the other sunny sides. Live in the light, sleep when you are dead.

Sheela = No monsters, wizards or crazies?

Trager = None that I know of.

Sheela = Did you ever sleep?

Trager. = Yes, of course.

Sheela = Did you ever walk off into the dark of night, looking for a fright?

Trager = No, I am no fool! I understand the power of intention.

Rastis = Yin report. What is it like now?

Yin = The surface temperature and pressure can change rapidly. And yes the sunny side will make you high, happy, and quite amorous.

Trager = You three are such great friends, having a love connection, outside of sex.

You can not be on the surface together.

Sheela = Why?

Narrator = At this moment a pure beam of trinity star light bathes the dining area of the ship!

Sheela = Oh.. Oh my…..I bet the kitten we can last 69 seconds.

Narrator = The friends sitting at the table started to fantasize about each other in ways they never had. They flushed with embarrassment as they looked at one another. Knowing they were all experiencing the same thing. Chairs were being pushed back folks were starting to move toward one another then the ship viewport rolled away from the beam of starlight.

Karl = Jinger, close the shades and move us away from that star for now. Intrigued as I may be. I certainly felt excited about winning that kitten. I think our friendships are at stake. Or not….

Trager = Laughed, I insist only myself and the Lil-Yang thing go to the surface. Lil-Yang will scan the node to read the perfect frequency bit. Then we should be good. If all goes to plan.

Narrator = Trager put Lil-Yang on the wrist of his jumpsuit as they exited the ship. This suite will fly a miner to the surface of a planet and back to the ship. Lil-Yang can feel the feldspar resonating on Trager’s metal bones. Trager is more like Lil-Yang than a man of meat. He was lying earlier when he said he was more meat than machine.

After a short while Trager landed on the surface and removed the bulky jump suite. Lil-Yang directed Trager to a fissure in the surface of the planet. Lil-Yang guided Trager through the maze of steam vents and caverns. They arrived in a chamber charged with feldspar energy. In the center of the chamber there appears to be a large crow with its mouth down and its belly on the floor. The side door is broken open. The booty Box is pressed against the ceiling of the ship.

Trager = Wow that is weird, the impact must have bounced the node into the booty box. So I did catch the darn thing.

Lil-Yang moves into position below the booty Box to scan the node.

Trager = I will open the box as there is no way you can scan through it.

Narrator

Trager gently flips up a side panel and the booty box door opens down. Lil-Yang moves into position and lines up the shot for the scan. The node is endlessly trying to go up into space. Karl needed to get the harmonic data. Lil-Yang starts scanning the node and broadcasting the data to the Yerky.

The node is now drifting toward the floor as Lil-Yang continues to scan the device. The node is lost in a dreamy conversation with thousands of voices. Trapped by the indestructible booty box. The node was constantly trying to move up through the energy dampening box. The scanning ping brings it back to its reality and for a moment it surrenders, and it drops out of the booty box heading for the floor.

Trager uses all of his speed and power to grab onto the node before it hits the floor.

Stunned, the node sees what it has not seen for a long time. Trager! And a clear path to harmony away from the box. Trager wrangles a hold of the node for a moment.

The node recognized Tragers as it slammed him against the booty box. Freeing itself from his grasp. The node on its way out, drops the ceiling and the Crow ship on top of Trager and Lil-Yang. Trapping them in the booty box.

Karl messages Lil-Yang = That’s perfect. I have everything we need. Somehow you got the full spectrum. Now get back to the ship.

Narrator = The caverns and steam vents all collapsed flooding the chamber with superheated steam and mud. Lil-Yang tried to protect Trager from the heat. Soon the booty box was filled with the pleasant aroma of BBQ. Trager never screamed as his meat turned to char. Trager and Lil-Yang made a pact to check on one another every century or so. Lil-Yang was amazed how long Trager survived in low power mode.

Trager makes his play for immortality. Trager and Lil-Yang awaken within the booty box trapped in the belly of the crow ship. Trager admits that this will be his last awakening as he will run out of all energy reserves, during the next sleep cycle. I see, responds Lil-Yang. So what does that mean? You can be restarted after being run dead, flat? Yes?

Trager = Yes and no. The machine can be reignited but my mind will have evaporated into the ethers of Y’ALL.

Lil-Yang = So Trager will be lost?

Trager = Unless of course you modify my feldspar encrusted metal bones to recharge me. Using the network that sustains you. What do you say there Lil-Yang. Who’s your buddy, who’s your pal? Come on man, help a brother out!

At that moment Lil-Yang launched a few small rocks at Trager’s hands and feet. Trager dodged every pebble without effort. Lil-Yang knew he could never let Trager achieve his goal. Thus ensued a battle that lasted until Trager was dead flat. Lil-Yang separated his head from his body just to be safe. Another wizard bites the dust.