The Secret of the Oracle : 

The mother of men

" This story is totally imaginary, however, it is not in vain to believe it ... "  

This story was created, imagined, then written to Revin 08500 in France by : 

 Pascal FAG BROWN

(Version 1.00 protected 7CKA2K5)

New Version : 2 written to Revin : 11/2021  

Author's Notes : 

This final version 2 contains substantive changes in the story ! 

 This little story has been feeding on my imagination for years to grow and develop more and more, it does it again and even more now that I have finally decided to tell it… If I have never been a genius prose, but rather a simple beginner in the matter, that should not, however, prevent me from trying at best to tell it to you ... This is the tenth evolution of this story.

 I hope you will find pleasure, despite all its small and large flaws, reading it ...

Disclaimer : 

 For the versions other than French, there could be some translation errors : This book written in French is automatically translated by "Google Translate" and this, despite the quality of their program. 

Synopsis : 

 A few million years ago, on a distant land, a child prodigy was born whose story would mark her world and then ours. Her illness would lead her loving father to transform her into a cyborg being, which will make her almost eternal. Genius from birth, she will mark these worlds forever ...

 Page for dedications (paper version only)

 I have been living for some time in the quiet little town of Revin in the French Ardennes ...

 For a very long time I have been trying to become a writer, so every day, according to the same ritual, I start a writing session, hoping that inspiration wins me. You do not become the one you want to become without making the necessary efforts to achieve it. So despite everything, I force myself to write and rewrite this story that has germinated in me for a long time ...

 I do have a few more short stories to write, but not quite the words and phrases to describe them yet.

 Usually a writer is someone who has a story to tell, but no one to listen to it, so he puts it down on paper. And like sleeping beauty, she stays there, ready to be awakened by those to whom the author would have liked to one day tell it. This wait before this moment of discovery by the reader, will perhaps give him time to refine it ...

 But it is not because we want to tell a story that we will not ultimately, by the circumstances, be led to tell a completely different one, which is not the case here.

 That day I sat in the old chair in front of my small desk, a hot, sweet chicory coffee in my hand, which I then delicately set behind a row of poorly sharpened pencils. Right in front of me, a chipped white sheet had been waiting there for too long. I took this old blue pen which slipped pleasantly on the paper to draw you these few words : 

 I am writing these few pages to tell you a most fantastic and strange epic, which I was told recently. That day I was deep in thought as I searched for a new story to write. I looked out the window from where I could see in the evening mist, one of the city's bridges lit by four wan lights. And suddenly I was surprised to see a strange man almost literally appear in front of me.

 I was so amazed by this totally unexpected situation that I thought I was dying of cardiac arrest. My blood thudded in my temples, my breath seemed to stop and a painful pinch was felt near my heart. Although I was sitting in my chair, my legs gave way under me and became cottony. It occurred to me that he was going to kill my life ...

 He then made a gesture of appeasement and a big smile. He went on quickly : 

" Calm down ... calm down ... calm down !" I have come to talk to you about a serious matter which I am sure will not leave you indifferent… ”   

 There was a moment of silence during which he looked at me with an air almost worried for me.

 “ Calm down… Breathe ! You are quite pale my friend… I assure you, you have nothing to fear from me… ”  

 He had just entered through my barely-opened window, straight from the sky in the form of a cloud of metal locusts in almost total silence, then in an instant had taken on human form. As for me, wide-eyed, torn between amazement and astonishment, I no longer knew what to believe, I no longer even managed to think, to breathe, to ... er ... I no longer know ... All of this was so incredible and yet he was right there in front of me ... I was not dreaming ! 

 “ Breathe! He said to me with a smile,… Breathe calmly… Breathe… It's okay, how are you? … ”  

 I had finally come to my senses for the most part ... He went on fairly quickly : he took on a tone of mixed authority and disdain that he only kept for this reply as if to encourage me to listen to him more, so that I give my full attention to his story: 

 " I know you're a writer ... not that good by the way, It's been a long time since your sheet has remained blank and you are desperately looking for a good story to tell ... You have the choice between continuing to search again and again or take your notebook now and tell your future readers, this one. ".  

 Recovered from my emotions, could not but admit my incompetence in this area, which however was so close to my heart. And how he had just piqued my curiosity by his entry, to say the least, downright spectacular. I put away my white sheet, then with one hand I grabbed a pencil and with the other pulled my notebook out of my desk drawer where I had to sit still. He was facing me. He was standing right in front of the window where I usually daydreamed while preparing my little stories to write. He closed the window and lowered the blind, telling the beginning of his story, and I immediately started taking notes.

 On the coffee table in the corner of the room, he put a cane with a golden yellow pommel in the shape of a snake's head that had a kind of curved plate at the base of its head. It looked like wings and visibly adapted to be affixed to something. In fact, to be placed against the forehead as I understood much later, it then extended from a precious wood to a peak resembling aged steel and finely decorated.

 He then began his story with this warning : 

 “ What I am about to share with you is the story of a thousand-year-old entity that I will name here: Athena. She is an exceptional pilot, but also somewhere the mother of men. I want everyone to know who she is and what she's done for us. The time is near when humanity will really take its first steps in space and will inevitably be confronted with the laws which henceforth govern the universe which extends beyond the solar system. And therefore, also to all those who enforce them willingly or by force. They could well put this world in quarantine if humanity does not respect their laws and tries to make there, for example, as usual, war. It would have a disastrous effect on the future of all mankind. 

 But to understand what is happening in the universe right now. You have to learn what led another world to expand ever more. To the point of one day reaching the land on which we live and even going to conquer territories far beyond.

 Millions of years ago, In a distant galaxy, deep in the universe, there was a society where technology was at its peak.

 All things were done through robotics, automation and the use of neural controls. For a long time, manual work as such no longer existed ...

 So, this people was nourished by society, each one received a minimum which allowed to have a happy life without the need to work. Because work was rare there, it was based on a form of voluntary service and on its distribution among qualified candidates for the few existing positions. Their lives were rather smooth and peaceful. But this world nevertheless left room for initiative and innovation in all fields ; anyone could be interested in science, politics, exploration and study of whatever they saw fit with varying degrees of personal investment. The state subsidized almost all initiatives, even the most insignificant as long as their final goal was to improve the future of each and everyone ... 

 The means of neural interrogations nevertheless made it possible to avoid misguidance and scams, it was necessary to justify a good idea and a desire to carry it out ...

 In order to motivate them, and despite having everything that is essential to live with a certain ease, they could eventually, through work or merit, obtain much more ...

 For the less fortunate, failing to shine in their businesses, they could simply learn and be interested in the most diverse sciences. Huge campuses lined the cities and it was not uncommon for some to remain students there all their lives while participating in the education of the youngest.

 In this way, this world continued to evolve constantly and this was essential in the eyes of this society which always wanted more.

 This world was unified under the authority of a Luminare : emperor of emperors and whose authority remained unchallenged. This society hadn't known about war for almost as long as they could remember and had no known enemy to their measure. There were quite a few space pirates who were wreaking havoc in very remote areas, but nothing more. 

 This society did not have a prison on its soil or in its colonies. It moved unwanted people to a planet totally isolated from the rest of civilization and watched from space by killer drones that let nothing go.

 When we were moved there, it was not without reason, it was as a last resort and it was final. Any ship attempting to cross the dam in either direction was destroyed, pulverized into space. Only the official shuttle made the connection between the guardian ship and the ground. It was the obligatory passage for the displaced. She went down in normal mode for the displaced, but when she went up, nothing in it ever survived and the convicts knew it.

 In this place, there was no guard or surveillance on the ground, but no delivery of food or objects either, they were left to themselves definitely ...

 Only the Luminare could order an ascent, but this had never happened since the creation of this planet.

 The arrival in this world was made on a pyramid and the eventual departure should have been done from the same place. A specific robot would have been released from the shuttle and would have gone to look for the element to be taken out. He would have wrapped it up and kept it inside to prevent it from being killed during extraction.

 This world contained all of the worst criminals in existence that had been captured in the known worlds. They were free there, a big word in view of their real situation. This planet was certainly habitable, but animals and insects were particularly dangerous. The flora was not left out there and made its share of victims, which made it uninhabitable for a traditional colony, it was unfit for cultivation and unsuitable for breeding.

 Sometimes government agents were sent there secretly for destabilization missions, for example, when a single power was put in place, because this world was very closely watched by a multitude of drones ...

 From this world, one could receive information by the families who communicated with their displaced persons and what was happening there really did not encourage breaking the law ...

 For small offenses, there were fines and isolation sentences to which the offender had to comply with himself, otherwise, it was the great displacement ... To avoid this great displacement, the culprits caught in default were ready to accomplish all the penalties without complaining even without the slightest surveillance ...

 Judicial errors did not exist, machines, based on neural commands, were able to run an individual's life from birth and nothing escaped these machines when they were interrogated. Impossible to lie to them.

 These people used to be cunning when they waged war to conquer a new world. They used a pretty simple trick, they attacked this world and at the same time came under another banner to defend it. They defeated the alleged enemy and concluded mutual aid and friendship agreements… They then benefit from the support of the populations who were unaware of the maneuver and appreciated the protection of this big brother of space… This remained secret for generations and retained his allies. When everything was discovered, these peoples were so integrated into this society that it would not have occurred to them to secede ... Because to be part of this people, was done in its own right, same rights, same duties and equality at all levels ...

 With time, all these worlds were united under one and the same banner, one and only government, equality for all, whatever their origin, was guaranteed by the constitution and applied by all, for all. This society enjoyed constant expansion and radiated from its center into the known universe and even beyond.

 Beyond stretched worlds that were not yet colonized, except sometimes by pirates, so they were not enlightened by the reign of Luminare and therefore they were said to be in the shadows.

 Their religions were gentle and respectful of everyone's life without ever coming into conflict with those who rejected them or thought differently. These beings practiced the debate of ideas and left no one to their fate and their difficulties, whatever their choice of thought ... Thus the faithful of one religion could receive help from the religious of another religion without any distinction, when they wished.

 The religions gave themselves the duty to help everyone without exception. No one was abandoned to his fate, we did not come to pray in these places, but to talk and listen to others, only priests, whether men or women, prayed ...

 God was for them a being of a higher level and as such could neither converse with them nor be influenced by them. He existed and applied his own commandments without the intermediary of religious or other personalities. His omnipotence was never questioned, what God wants, God does and nothing, and no one can oppose him.

 In this centralized society, many chose to migrate to settlements on neighboring worlds rather than stay in the original land which was already vastly overpopulated. While others preferred, on the contrary, to stay close to the central power and try to evolve in its higher spheres or simply to stay close to their families ...

 Far there, a better life and sometimes work already awaited them. Because if working was in no way an obligation, it gave them an interesting financial supplement and the opportunity to meet other people, and therefore to have an active social life. To participate or create events, rather than locking oneself in solitude or the family or solitary microcosm.

 All these technologies required large means, both in resources and in energy. Travel to neighboring planets was usual and necessary for the development of this society.

 These colonized worlds were studied in depth, cultivated with care, exploited with wisdom. In gigantic greenhouses, all kinds of vegetables and delicious fruits were grown. Farm animals were raised in barns and covered pastures, which were treated with the greatest respect and care. It was an important concept in their eyes : respect for the sacrifice they imposed on these animals in the interest of society. This lavished on these beings a moral obligation towards these farm animals and they discharged it very seriously, ensuring their well-being at all times. 

 These farms were coupled with culture and fish farming, the droppings produced gas with which the electricity was produced which supplied these huge farms in addition to other energies, etc. By these crossed and balanced means, a farm did not need anything else to persist eternally while exporting part of its goods ... They were generally run by a single family and sometimes a small village despite the immensity of these facilities that were sometimes easily the size of a department ...

 In less lenient worlds, if, for example, the temperature on their surface was too high or too cold, these farms were installed in gigantic underground bunker vivariums and installations specifically adapted to these uses. Some planets too unsuitable for life only received automated factories and exploration and excavation facilities for ore depending on the resources available, on the hottest, most alloys were manufactured there. The moons, too, did not escape this structured colonization, but always respectful of the environment.

 Large starbases served as central stations between these solar systems and the original earth of this civilization. Most short-haul transport was fully automated. Travel speeds were staggering, but teleportation never existed in this world, or anywhere else. Since at a certain speed threshold, everything falls apart and inevitably, nothing survives. This knowledge made that some transports were much faster than others depending on the presence or not of life on board ...

 In this universe, the law governed in advance the treatment of waste since it was indeed an essential resource for society, in practice we did not throw away, strictly everything was recycled in a systematic and orderly manner. In this area, nothing was left to chance, from the design of each object or packaging, this thought guided the creators who did not deviate from this basic rule and the law took care of it very scrupulously. Because machines sorted and recovered all waste without the slightest exception. Nothing was lost, almost everything was transformed, wasting was a crime.

 But even an almost perfect world could not escape the rules of wear and tear and the inevitable losses in transformation and recycling, it was therefore necessary to supplement the available resources and find additional energy permanently.

 When all the closest worlds are on the verge of being overexploited, there is nothing left but the solution of looking into more and more distant worlds. With time, increasingly greater distances to be covered were necessary. Very quickly, the life of a man was no longer enough to accomplish these long journeys of exploration and acquisition of resources. This required larger habitable ships that took several families to colonize these worlds and then establish a large commercial supply chain.

 These complex solutions had to take into account the risks linked to the survival of the colony. But also from a set of other factors inherent in descent, which sometimes even led to the outright abandonment of the objectives of the mission by the families involved. Sometimes, they settled permanently in these new worlds outside the initial objectives for more or less shameful reasons ... These colonies then gave no sign of life or simply disappeared in the immensity of the universe. No one really knew what happened to it, except by sending a new mission to the previously targeted planets which sometimes found their descendants or what was left of them. Because not all of them always survived these new, often hostile worlds or the bacteria of the targeted natural environment.

 Of course, the influence of the central power diminished as the distance separating it from its colonies grew. And beyond the limits of Mother Earth's zone of influence, stretched unknown worlds that would be coveted by new explorers.

 They looked beyond the limits of human life and prepared missions that would return long after their own demise. Perhaps their children or their children's children would benefit from their success, which would also make the family famous. But very rarely, would cash in the disappointment of a failure, because to know a failure, it is necessary to have a feedback on the mission, which only happened in case of success or almost.

 There were no fixed dates for predictable return to these missions, as these machines only returned after refueling. More often than not, these were common goods with a bit of those that were rare or sought after.

 Failures, however, would be without any negative financial consequences, the state fully committing and therefore investing only in the most promising ideas and at its own risk ; the imperturbable continuity of this company towards the future was at this price ... 

 A few scientists had indeed launched fully automated machines into these distant worlds, but like certain manned colonization missions, they also did not always succeed in their objectives. There were many pirates in the galaxies, some moreover came from some of these families more or less voluntarily disappeared. But above all, the slightest complex unforeseen for which these machines did not have preprogrammed workarounds usually led to the loss of the vessel. And this without counting all those who got lost in the wrong directions because of the movements of solar systems and galaxies. There were indeed no maps of these places until the first expedition had not yet returned. So these ships would often stay out there somewhere, stuck in their logical routines and unable to figure out a solution on their own and therefore ever come back without receiving help from another expedition.

 Some of them returned without any really essential resources. And even if these trips had opened up a functional route and they had drawn up maps of the places visited, they had nevertheless not met the needs of a world hungry for energies and scarce resources. Although this was not the bulk of the fleets engaged in exploration, the costs in material and time losses remained very high.

 An effective solution was then needed which would make it possible to deal with occasional unforeseen events, which despite all the knowledge acquired and the advanced developments in artificial intelligence, these computers would never be able to manage alone.

 New technologies would gradually lead to solutions with unexpected consequences to say the least, because for every problem there is at least a solution.

 In that world, neural commands were common currency. These interfaces were at their technological peak and no field escaped them, both private and professional. But commanding a long-range vessel by this means was unthinkable. The response times of the ship or machine tools were too long, several days, months or years depending on the case, it could at most unlock certain inextricable situations for the AI ​​(Artificial intelligence).

 Knowing that the process of neural control was limited to a few millimeters. This received information was then transformed into electrical signals, then light and then transmitted via multiple parallel laser channels on carrier waves certifying the quality of the information frames which were made from drone transmitter to transmitter. This system did not always guarantee the reception of digital frames conveying this information, nor their responses, for example in cases where the vessel was behind a significant physical obstacle, a planet, a sun. A system of transmission relays by satellites deposited as they traveled around certain planets, such as the pebbles of Petit Poucet, overcame part of this problem, but did not resolve all cases, some were destroyed by the elements, others, more rarely however, were defective.

 In this field of automated space supertankers, one family stood out from the rest, having enjoyed many successes for centuries. This family had become over time an essential actress in the conquest of these worlds located in the shadow of the universe.

 Their method was to launch a small vessel containing enough to make it grow as it explored. There was the vessel associated with a locomotive that would trail behind any wagons made on the trip and be filled with goods as they were exploited. This simple and effective method had the advantage of lowering investment costs, and the ship had no size limit. He could lie down, but also grow in width or height to adapt to the situation. The locomotive having the factory of manufacture of the wagons and able to manufacture factories necessary for the excavations or the transformations.

 The shadow is the name given to this part of the universe is in opposition to the civilized worlds, therefore being part of the worlds illuminated by the light of this sprawling civilization and ruled by the Luminare, ultimate representative of the light of the awareness. An Emperor of the Emperors whose particularity was not to have the right to own anything. To remind him that if his role gave him all power, it was in no way for himself, but only to serve his people ... He did not eat at the table of the powerful, did not know luxury and gilding and had an obligation to live in theory as the poorest of his subjects. On the other hand, his power was total over the directions taken by politics. He was closer to a wise man who was heard than to an obeyed king, closer to a religious than to a military leader. He was chosen for his great wisdom and great empathy and was not necessarily appointed for life to this post, he could quit his duties and return to civilian life. Neural commands made it possible, by process inversion, to choose it from the population, so it was indeed a computer that chose it, this computer could also revoke it.

 The Georbaux family had a large number of scientists, the modification of the DNA of children before birth was no stranger to it and a specific education was added to this final objective, their motto was synonymous with `` the family above all ! ''. It was rich and powerful, but the administrative power kept reminding them that they were only non-essential actors in this conquest for these resources, however essential to the future of this civil society ... 

 Officially, the success of these expeditions gave rise to income according to the value of the goods brought back to the home ports and the arrival was accompanied by great celebrations which did not escape their social networks of the time. But behind the scenes, jealousy widened the gap a little more between this clan and the administrations of the powers that followed one another, leaving the Luminare out of this dispute. A decision on his part would have given the advantage to each other and no one knew what he would decide ...

 This family also knew how to keep its trade secrets, which they were only passed on among themselves. If the neuronal connections would have made it possible to know them, filtering means existed and neutralized this possibility. A host could then block all or part of his thoughts from communication by this means, because each one carried his personal transmitter that he configured himself, this one being coupled with a smaller part, integrated into his host ...

 They were prepared from an early age to succeed and continue the work of their ancestors and therefore, to follow in the footsteps of their parents, all their education from an early age was made in this direction. These people had a sense of family, but at home, it was a bit of extremism and their expeditions held high level competition against their competitors ...

 This did not prevent this family from having a big heart like that day a patriarch stepped on the podium and made this speech : 

 “ We have worked a lot and always been lucky. Today, we are the richest family in our society, this should not make us forget the poorest of this one. Because if the law is the same for everyone, its application is not done for everyone in the same way and this ultimately widens the inequalities of rights. The time has come for us to give back to the nation part of what it has given us and to engage the most disadvantaged and bring them also more well-being and a better life. I propose to set up employment subsidiaries for this purpose. They will bring nothing and will surely cost us part of our income, but we are part of the same world and we have the same hopes for the future of our people ”.  

 This is how many subsidiaries were created which did not bring in any money. But gave work to those excluded from society and they were very numerous ... To perfect the method, the company also hired talented leaders, renowned lawyers and many other executives of the world elite ... little more the relations between them and the administration which saw there a loss of its power on the political opposition of some…

 One day, four brothers were going to dramatically change their business. The two eldest were experts in automatisms and AI, undisputed majors of their study promotions, the third brother was more interested in theology and politics and even felt a time to become Luminare, he was excluded. by his too great sense of family, he was also surely the most intelligent of the siblings, as for the youngest, a little autistic, dedicated his life to biology and more particularly to the sciences of genetics and reproduction of all living species, he was passionate about this aspect of life and thought of leaving the company for other horizons, he was a dreamer a little dizzy at times and endowed with an implacable curiosity ...

 As in all families in this civilization, the annual family reunion was a must. It lasted several days, for this one, it was often the occasion to discuss the direction of the company, the envisaged changes or to tell anecdotes… The occasion also to celebrate all the birthdays a second time, because some members lived far too far from others ... These meals that dragged on brought the family together and made it possible to keep in touch with relatives and especially with those who had no work, because even in this family, there are had …

 Apart from this essential meeting, the working people invited everyone else to Sundays, if you can call it that. On memorable days, the children played while the party was in full swing, hundreds of guests crowded around the buffets and entertainment ... It was fashionable to show everyone that we never forgot the most fragile of our lives. family. And far from placing oneself in elitist positions where one had to shine in one's family, on the contrary, one had to show oneself close to each and every one ...

 These families were large and had dozens of people invited and a platform allowed to share gossip with all or to make the assembly laugh. It was not uncommon that if a family member was absent, they would go in large numbers to look for him at his home. And there was no excuse for refusing the invitation. All in a very family good mood ... Of course, rare specific cases meant that some were irreparably absent, but we then spoke of the absent and we wished him a speedy recovery, a good vacation or have a good trip home… In this world, nothing was more important than loved ones, family and friends…

 On an annual gathering day, an important issue was about to be brought up. The administration had just refused to finance a new tanker. A senior official had told family representatives that if they weren't happy they could just fund it themselves rather than wallowing in luxury. Justifying his words by the fact that some families could not afford it. But also that other geniuses had proposed projects just as interesting as them. This senior official never thought that they would take them at their word and embark on this insane project and risk the whole future of their family on this project. But this family believed in her and in her abilities.

 So all together, during this family reunion, they decided to invest their capital in their first private vessel. It would then be manufactured in parallel with those whose condition had entrusted them with the manufacture before and who had not yet taken the path to space. They knew those were the last for them to be funded by the state. They had been informed by their small intelligence service: the administration had decided to end the domination of this family in this area and to roll back their growing power over this civilized world. The order came directly from the highest authorities and was intended to be completely secret. A new official put in place for this purpose was to refuse them all projects without ever letting them believe that he had received the order from above.

 Such an investment could yield much more, even with a smaller tanker than usual. This calculation was quickly made by the family who however did not have the means to charter the usual large tanker. Because if the government invested, it recovered its down payment first and then paid only a small percentage on the rest of the goods. This made it possible to become rich, but certainly not as much as if they had themselves owned one of these extraordinary vessels and therefore all of their goods brought back to port. Despite everything, with this small private tanker, they were all determined to make their descendants gain as much, see much more than this usual alms ... For them, wealth was a family asset, much more than personal and to think about the future. , a vocation …

 In order to ensure a flawless success, the whole family focused mainly on the aspect of increasing the chances of success to the maximum. A defeat would have swallowed up all their savings and reduced their hard-earned family heritage to almost nothing. While the other ongoing missions would certainly have brought their descendants a comfortable life, but nothing compared to the possibilities offered by the benefits of such an investment if successful.

 They would then own all the goods brought back from the mission, which will provide the means to multiply the fleet considerably while living comfortably on the income from sales of products to the state or colonies.

 A small committee looked into the final details of the vessel and in this area, the four brothers had the absolute confidence of the rest of the family ... Certain decisions had to remain secret so as not to serve the interests of the competitors ...

 That's when they chose to create a ship that would have the ability to build its containers along the way. They therefore associated an exploration vessel and a factory locomotive which will bring together all the manufacturing functions of other factories and robots to be placed on the planet's soil. It made everything : excavation robots, combat drones for defense, wagons for transport, etc. For economy, having only the means to put a nucleus in it, it would then be contained in the vessel. 

 A small ship building station would also serve as a recall point. It would be paired with an object that would contain half the code so that no one would force a forced recall and break the chances of explorations before they even reached the Shadow Worlds. Any recall would then depend on the quantity of cargo contained in the bunkers.

 This first vessel would leave without the possibility of recall before the certainty of being a great success while retaining the possibility of protecting the investment in the event of serious problems.

 Despite the reluctance of the other three and in order to respond to the still possible flaws in programming. The younger son, on the strength of his genetic knowledge, decided them to add a simple organic brain to the machine. But to have a brain capable of analyzing, understanding and adapting the response to the problems that could arise, that of an animal would not be enough.

 The people would not admit the transformation of one of their own into a machine or almost, and this, even if their industrial future would depend on it, which moreover, was not demonstrated here. But this scientist could, however, create a brain from scratch and give birth to it in its incubators from a few cells preserved before its birth in their private hospital. Above all, it was important not to publicize the affair in order to avoid a popular reaction of opposition to the project. So they presented this in the form of the creation of an evolved biological processor.

 Incubators would be added to the vessel to produce a new, advanced biological processor as needed in the event of the predecessor dying. In reality, the incubator in question was the cockpit of the pilot, his death provoked his re-creation eternally, as long as he did not receive any contrary order ...

 This evolved biological processor had the logical capacities of being human, but without this body which made it fragile to time, diseases, accidents, etc. This would potentially extend its lifespan considerably.

 This is how this young brother created a being that we called very simply 'a pilot processor' and finally, quite naturally thereafter : 'a pilot'. 

 He was immersed in a jar, fed, cared for, regenerated and pampered in this environment which was intended only to prolong his life as much as possible and protect him from mechanical, electrical, bacteriological dangers, etc.

 And since all the mechanical, electronic and computer parts of the machine are replaceable at will and indefinitely and the ship would then manufacture them on demand in its integrated automated workshop. Only the duration of the biological part would limit the duration of its effective life. The cell regeneration capacities of modern medicine were also integrated into this project and this was an area where this brother was a scientist and a researcher of the very first order ... It is this coincidence between creation the first ship and its lab work that would change the hidden face of this world and intergalactic explorations in the shadowy territories.

 The pilot's biological death, however, would not stop the functions and routines of the computers. If it was not possible to create a new pilot, the computers could then order the return and by this means further reduce the risk factor for the loss of the vessel and the resources already collected.

 The incredible happened, the advances in assistive medicine would offer these beings an almost unlimited lifespan, thanks in particular to this cell regeneration on which they were working in order to rejuvenate human beings in the enlightened world.

 The human beings of this world remained young all their lives, but would die despite their best efforts in this area. Arrived at an advanced age, old age took them away in a few months like a devastating and inevitable illness ...

 These 'pilots' were born in a Vitalindome, this standardized machine could be adapted to all types of ships in the fleet that they would subsequently create and in a uniform manner. It contained all the elements necessary for the life of its host, as well as all the redundancy circuits to allow automated maintenance thereof. But also, the integrated robots that were assigned to this task and its own rechargeable power supply for decades. We then added a primary mechanical body that gave him a certain freedom of movement and through which he was embodied: the avatar.

 The Vitalindome was totally sufficient for the life of its occupant for years with concentrated food and totally recycled liquids. He then had to be physically connected to the ship in order to be able to command it to prevent it from obeying an external command, from a pirate hacker for example.

 Faith that they were linked together, the ship then brought the Vitalindome a permanent energy supply, its food refills always maximized and in return received its orders through this same interface. Then the pilot via the neural interface controlled the ship and each of its machines as if he really and physically embodied them in the same way as if these machines were his avatar at the instant T.

 This being and his machine were then one, while being able to change bodily machine, to become one with the next, and come back to the other or yet another, etc. In the meantime, the others, not embodied by this pilot, returned to their pre-programmed routines and carried out their missions taking into account the new directives added by the pilot and warned him of problems they encountered if necessary.

 He wasn't driving the ship, he was the ship ! Just as he became each machine that he would embody in turn ... 

 For the protection of the pilot and to give all access to his Vitalindome by a potential remote-controlled robotic enemy, the control room was permanently immersed in a jamming of waves. It is this scrambling which imposed a connection of the avatar via the vessel, the latter changing the command frequency of the avatar according to the ranges that it left available for this use and this in complete safety.

 The pilots saw, heard and acted with these machine interfaces and had in addition this avatar whose only function was to serve as their substitute body. This gave them, out of any contact with a ship or any other controllable machine, a certain freedom of existence and independence.

 For their sanity, this avatar was fundamentally inseparable from them. Somehow he was the bearer of the image of their personal reference identity. Whether connected directly or indirectly, he referred to it as their selves, which sometimes led them to command the ship through this means rather than embody it. Directly. They were all slightly different in appearance, had their own names written on their forearms. The avatars were assigned from the creation of a pilot in order to avoid that this one is prisoner of the darkness and the total silence and does not go mad. Or possibly, having to put him to sleep with drugs for many months, even years depending on the availability of new vessels or a possible place in one of the old ones by the death of another pilot, something extremely rare. Their sanity remained essential in the eyes of their creators who succeeded one another over time. Thanks to all this, their mental equilibrium could be tested long months before any prior assignment to pilot these gigantic ships. There was no question of risking losing a single one of these expensive machines.

 The general population did not know what a pilot really was and thought that these were just machines with an advanced biological processor in addition to their electronic processors. The powerful of this world did not ignore for a long time the real conditions of creation and faced with the power which did not cease growing of this family. They preferred, as much as possible, that all direct contact between these pilots and these people be avoided, who kept a deep respect for the life of other species and who would inevitably not fail to react to this information. Their instantaneous withdrawal would have plunged the world into indescribable chaos within decades and for centuries.

 For example, this people only ate meat if they had the assurance that the animal had received a good life from its breeders in exchange for its usefulness in the food that it provided to these people. In a way, it was give and take.

 When necessary, these Vitalindomes were then moved into safe custody, officially because of the fragility, the price of the components and the technical difficulties of manufacture, but in fact much more, to hide their true nature from all. The guards themselves did not actually know what they were transporting between the hangars and the new ships leaving. Yet the avatar often walked beside them and even gave them orders or safety instructions. As long as no one would force open the protective shield panels installed only for transport, no one would be able to see with their own eyes what these biological processors actually were. For his safety, the avatar also scrupulously watched over ...

 Once the Vitalindome was inserted, the pilot generally lived until his death in this immense ship whose function was to scour the neighboring uninhabited worlds in search of precious resources in phenomenal quantities and he was replaced by another pilot than really very exceptionally and so far to say never. The pilot should not be given the impression that he risked losing his place during the return trip on a simple opaque decision of the company ... He had a life, it was his and it would be respected as much as possible, finally as long as the work was well and truly done ...

 Quite logically, these beings were never considered full members of society, their actual contact with it was almost non-existent. But with their multiplication a little faster than the crafting of ships, some lived among the population in the form of their basic avatar. Computer limitations prevented them from explaining what they were and they would not have taken the risk. People thought they were android robots more than anything else.

 They were on this earth performing functions and labor intended in reality to train and sort them. The best of them were selected for the next departures to these distant galaxies, the others received further training while awaiting further departures. The people called them 'pilots' for lack of another name. The powerful often addressed themselves to them as servants, the pilots did not seek to contradict these beliefs, as this could have prohibited them from flying, for a while, for disobedience and as they too dreamed of kissing the stars. Their secrets were then well kept, especially since they were not in real excess and their personal affection for a vessel was guaranteed in the more or less long term ... We created a pilot, only the necessary number, because Rare were the failures, even if unfortunately, it happened and they were then euthanized, because they were then very dangerous and perfectly able to embody war machines under certain conditions ...

 Their functions had been extended to all types of medium-proximity transport without necessarily leaving their Vitalindome out of the company's hangars. One day by order of the authorities, some were assigned to the army, these were therefore totally controlled by high-ranking military officers and the political power in place. They no longer obeyed at all the company that had ceded them with their Vitalindome. They would then be installed in the latest generation of warships and specially adapted for them. Their control rooms were uniquely made by the company and some of their armaments as well. They were not necessarily treated very well by the army, but the company could not oppose it ...

 There were few military vessels since no enemy apart from a few pirates. The army, however, was trained and trained to face a battle against the equivalent of a company vessel in the event of a problem ...

 The more time advanced, the more powerfully the exploration vessels were armed. The company believed that sooner or later it would encounter a civilization as advanced as its own. She had to consider the risk of war somewhere in the back of the universe. It was therefore necessary to plan to defend the vessels to avoid seeing nothing coming before it is too late ... No question of attacking, but indeed of defending yourself at best and at worst, to assemble pilots in formations. to create a directional blockage the time to reorganize ...

 All these beings, except those assigned to the army, were the property of what had become, over time, the most powerful of the transport and exploration companies. It maintained almost total power over the links between the central world and its most distant colonies, and this wherever they were in the universe. Because sailing from success to success, this company had grown stronger and finally fully self-financing itself its own ships, its own spaceports and certain distribution networks with many colonies scattered throughout the known universe. Finally, the state no longer intervened in this conquest of space for these too distant resources for a long time ... It was much less expensive to let the company have a monopoly on it than to try to compete with it.

 If the control over these beings did not make it possible to directly impose on them the will to return from these exploratory and harvest trips, the computers of these ships responded to routines to ensure this.

 These computers could take control of the ship should the pilot drift. This solution was considered in the event that he detected a planned suicidal action, for example if he wanted to throw himself on a sun. It was also used in the event that he became unable to control the ship and then performed a series of inconsistent actions that no longer responded to any logic. But also more simply if he did not progress at all in his mission for a certain time or became totally inactive for no apparent reason.

 While they had great freedom of action, there was no way for pilots to impose their will entirely on their machines. They could not control, for example, armaments in areas protected by the army, apart from the need to perform an essential act of self-defense. They did not have the authorization to determine the final destination if it did not comply with the pre-recorded mission from the home planet. But these limitations remained flexible so as not to give the pilot a feeling of life imprisonment. He therefore kept a certain latitude in his personal activities unlike the automatons and excavation robots which did not stop working permanently.

 He had a mission and had to fulfill it, but also had a life outside of his mission and it was quite well respected ...

 They could then flit around and visit the worlds they had landed as soon as they had finished the tasks of launching the automated harvests ... All they had to do then was to devote a little time regularly to ensure the smooth running of the mission and to the resolution of the problems which could appear.

 On the whole, their life was rather pleasant and very rich in lessons, if their work was done alone, they had many contacts at a distance between them and with the personnel remained at the home ports.

 These vessels are exceptional, composed of a so-called `` tractor '' element : an enormous very thick plane which flies with a system placing it in total weightlessness whatever the attraction of the planet, and its fully equipped trailer for be independent. It had to stay in orbit because it is so heavy. It looked like a kind of modern train locomotive with an aerodynamic head and is coupled with a tail car from which the thruster tubes exit. We are talking about dimensions of several tens of kilometers long and a few kilometers wide and high, if we can speak of building height in space. Their final size depends mainly on the load transported. He manufactures his wagons on site and adds them in length, width or height according to the needs and the types of resources. Each car being half the height and width of the locomotive. Four cars were welded by legs to have the same size as the locomotive in height and width and formed the head which was then connected to the locomotive, the process was the same for the rear thruster car. The train was enlarged in its center along its length to its maximum relative size. It then gained in thickness on all its sides, quickly taking the form of an umbrella facing forward and then of an oval balloon when the load was at its maximum transport capacity ... It had its own rockets at the rear. propulsion, but this can only be controlled by the tractor aircraft after it has been secured to this train on the locomotive which contained the starting plant. 

 The so-called tractor unit, because of its instruments for measuring and calculating long-distance trajectory, only has the control functions of this articulated mastodon and is fixed above and in front of it.

 It is very small in comparison, it has the shape of a very thick fighter plane, very wide and rounded on the top. When detached from the trailer, it is fully autonomous and equipped to land vertically on a planet and move freely in its atmosphere regardless of the terrestrial attraction of the visited world, it contains the Vitalindome, various control rooms and specific storage, a workshop-factory, apartments for living passengers, a bridge with a connecting shuttle and its main and general energy source of the complex also used for the propulsion of the mastodon and called 'the nucleus'. It also has a powerful weaponry, which makes it a formidable warship.

 The nucleus is a compound of elements very unstable and very rare under this peculiarity of assembly in the universe. They were holding more of a micro sun than anything else. It could not be made as is, but was harvested by division, separation and self-reforming like a micro star when it was born.

 Its discovery came from a galaxy whose particularities had generated this structural anomaly, but very useful ...

 Once controlled, stabilized in a specific structure that limited energy loss, its duration of use was invaluable, but far from eternal. Its harvest was very dangerous and sometimes very devastating. This role was played by a specialized drone, almost unique in its kind. There was only one per ship and could not, under any circumstances, be repaired or manufactured by the integrated automated factory, its alloys being so strong and difficult to forge.             

 The only forge capable of making it was so close to a sun that the whole factory itself was made of this alloy. It was visible as a glowing point revolving around it in the sky of nearby planets in broad daylight ...

 This tractor ship is smaller, faster, more maneuverable and fully equipped for interstellar combat. It was nevertheless enormous in comparison with a plane and made at least much more than a kilometer of wingspan and could yet land on a planet and fulfill its functions of exploration and research of resources. It had an effective anti-gravity system allowing it to float in the air effortlessly with a few stabilizers. Its general role was to fully and thoroughly analyze the target planet using specialized instrumentation. It protects the mining and exploitation activities from all potential enemies and those eager to appropriate the coveted resources. Nobody knew beforehand what could well exist in the worlds of the shadows, new enemies perhaps.

 The trailer is intended for excavation and storage. It is equipped with an adaptable factory whose function is to manufacture all types of robots and small containers, well small ... on the scale of this gigantic ship. It also manufactures specialized factories to deploy target planets on the ground in the form of stationary or tracked robots. It has immense storage reserves and provides all of the energy necessary for its complete autonomy by multiple methods, including high efficiency solar collectors. For economy due to scarcity, it does not have a nucleus and therefore cannot move at very high speed without its so-called 'tractor' vessel. This would not be useful to him anyway without a long-distance trajectory calculator and above all, a pilot on board to react on the fly.

 Its military defense is static and can be supplemented by combat drones that it manufactures according to the assessed risks or the necessities of the moment. These drones are also sometimes used as hunters on the planet in order to eliminate the biggest predators and to make food reserves. The meats are transformed into nutritious pasta, which will then be adapted to create delicious dishes and delicacies on the home planet or in the colonies. They are also used to make the special food concentrate for the pilot.

 Its capacity is intended to plunder the resources of an entire planet, but in a limited time and by importance of the available resources. Their filling takes decades. It is able to manufacture the excavation drones, transport shuttles and the necessary machine tools and adapt them to the environment. Then on the day of departure to recycle them or more often to store them. For future use. The resources are refined to the maximum to limit the loss of space. It cannot land directly on a planet and therefore remains in orbit. She grabs any resources that come within range with the help of her drones, such as meteorites and other useful debris that circulate in a vacuum.

 The excavation was often done on several planets of the same solar system, so it deployed from several sides at the same time the search for resources ...

 Large numbers of shuttles move each of the small full containers, then they are stowed and stored in larger containers. Everything is welded by legs between them and the structure, so that nothing moves during the long trip.

 The resources are classified in containers, some of which are even giant hyper-freezers where plants and animals are stored after processing in pasty form. Samples are prepared for research in the automated laboratory located on board the trailer or installed in factories deployed on the ground. All subsequent risks of contamination or poisoning will be eliminated. Each DNA is listed in a gigantic database. All that remains for these worlds is what could preserve them from definitive extinction, so that one day, if necessary, a colony can come and settle there and develop.

 As for the worlds having a civilization, even an embryonic one, they were totally spared, but spotted and mapped to open the access road for the scientific and analysis expeditions to come. Thus scientists versed in the study of primary civilizations could organize study sessions there, which was very common in their civilization.

 These company ships are heavily armed, capable of withstanding an attack from multiple space pirates, which is not uncommon in some areas in the shadows. Because, even in an almost perfect world, there are always elements who prefer to take illegal routes to instantly earn more. The renegades of this civilization did not hesitate to steal colonization vessels to escape justice and go and live as far as possible from it. This was sometimes the only way to avoid moving on prison ground when the offenses were too serious. Then they attacked anything that came within range to survive or have more resources.

 At the very beginning of this adventure, during the studies leading to the creation of the first pilots of these vessels, the third brother of the Georbaux family, theologian and politician at heart, faced the true nature of these beings called 'pilots' that had created his younger brother and fearing that life defense organizations and others would one day be informed, imposed an ethical rule which led the company to endow all its ships with a pilot release code and his machine and which, after activation, would then give them definitive power over their machine without any form of restriction, even military. Basically, he said to himself, they will all be genetically descended from the family in one way or another ...

 The brothers and all the descendants, by mutual agreement accommodated themselves to this requirement, it was better to protect the descendants from popular retribution even if it meant losing the vessels rather than condemning them to be ostracized by civil society ...

 These well-kept codes were gathered for the first part in the central computer at the company's headquarters and for the other part in a movable object with a specific coding function and a very decorative appearance. This second part represented de facto the title deed of the company's vessels, family possession.

 This object, assimilated as an object of a powerful representative power, but therefore misunderstood, is today called the ark of the covenant. This is due to the fact that Athena considered her pilots more as her brothers than as her property and that this object bound them to her and therefore bound them to each other.

 It was necessary to connect the central computer of the company and the arch to reconstitute the codes of release of one or more pilots of their engagements. One without the other could not free them, but the first part of the code also served to be able to recall them instantly. Terminating their exploration mission when necessary and remained available ready for use for the company in the mainframe. The arch, the title of ownership, made it possible to take full control of a company vessel, to get on board, to gain access to the pilot, etc.

 This reminder function, however, remained secret and at the discretion of the main executives and a few rare senior executives and privileged collaborators or influential members of the family.

 The key was therefore divided into three distinct functions in the form of an addition : functions for the company + property rights = liberation power. 

 At no time did the company or the owners of the vessels make any reference to any ownership rights over the pilots. According to internal policy, they were free and independent, only the vessel belonged to the company and they were in a way employees of it. But none of them wanted to leave these ships for a lifetime of misery and be limited to the base avatar.

 Despite its purely decorative appearances, the Ark of the Covenant contained a secret technology invented by eminent researchers from the family. It was exhibited at every annual party, but for security reasons, it was secretly replaced with an absolutely perfect copy. It did not hold the proprietary codes, although they could have been transferred there, its technology being identical, instead there was a trap code warning of its use. For the people and successive governments, it was enough to make it known that they were the sole real owners of the business. Everyone thought she was just a title deed and nothing more. Its real function will remain even more secret than the truth about what the pilots really were. The specific nature of these was only known to a handful of senior company executives and the most important government ministers at the time. There were also in confidence by obligation, some very high-ranking soldiers and researchers who were working on their incubation. This information, even most of the Georbaux family ignored.

 The possession of the ark containing the second half of the complete code allowing the release of the vessels therefore remained in the hands of the directors of the company. It was not then usable according to their sole wishes and remained available for if by chance, a law promulgated would modify the status of pilots with regard to civil society. It could also be used simply, because they would have decided by mutual agreement, for all the pilots or only a few ...

 Each arrival at the port of one of these vessels was the occasion of a great celebration. On the bridge, notables, celebrities, politicians, family members and many more flocked to be seen and recognized in the media. Each of these arrivals represented for this world the guarantee of several prosperous years and the prolongation of the life of this company as it had been conceived. The robots performed almost all the tasks there, but each of the inhabitants received free from society substantial means to live well. It is true that a vessel that arrives and gives years of abundance to all is to be celebrated ...

 When the festivities were over, the work really started, the unloading usually lasted for months. And even during the party in the main room of the ship, no one entered the areas reserved for the only pilot. The pilot took care of the maintenance of his quarters himself, this is a major safety issue. Only the leaders had this ultimate access and never used it in the presence of other people so that no one assumed it was possible. There were apartments there for the passengers. All these ships had them, although they normally never received passengers. The pilot could, in order to defend his area, kill anyone who entered it and was not the leader of the company.

 The unloading was done in several ways depending on the container, the goods were classified with preferably the most important in the center and the least useful on the outside so as to also serve as protection in case of attack. The external reserves were un-welded and loaded in suitable shuttles. The central one, called 'interior', forming part of the wagons between the locomotive and the propellant wagon were unloaded through the airlocks at the front onto the first leading wagon. These were armored during manufacture and would remain in place for the new start for economic reasons. They generally contained in the back, excavation robots still in good condition and a few reusable factories. It was in the front were stored the most valuable and sought after goods. These goods would then be delicately unloaded on the quay by the handling robots of the port station.

 Once emptied of its precious cargo, the vessel set out again for exploration, not without having received the latest technological improvements and this without ever changing the pilot, with extremely rare exceptions. Some ships were sometimes then adapted to have several tractor elements to accomplish more specific missions of analysis and research. Sometimes also to deal with particularly dangerous or pirate-infested areas. Formerly to continue the excavation on particularly rich planets while another made the round trip and sometimes even, by simple economy of transport to move from one of them to another destination.

 There were also, but very rarely, wagons to transport colonies and thus enlarge the enlightened world.

 The company continued to develop steadily, becoming a leading family in a world that nevertheless shone throughout the universe, its financial strength was beyond comprehension. Even the government in place, bowed to them, the senior officials of the administration could no longer refuse them anything. They decided rain and shine in power circles and even influenced the choice of ministers. But such power does not protect everything ...

 Because the life of beings, which I qualify as human because they are so similar to us, is sometimes very cruel.

 That year, a special event would bring the whole family together : a sparkling new vessel joined the fleet, a palace hotel of at least ten stars, made its entrance through the front door. 

 It was to be the central place of the family, the family home, only intended to serve family members and rare hand-picked guests.

 The inauguration was not going to go as planned. While the whole family was on board, the ship exploded to pieces in the middle of outer space. Officially, it was due to a serious technical error, but more likely due to willful sabotage or a bomb. We'll never really know

 Only two members of this invaluable family survived there ... One of the main leaders and his seven-year-old daughter could not join the party, at his bedside of terminally ill patient, he had refused to be absent despite the importance of the event. Because, every day, she received care and because of a sudden change in her condition, this specific machinery which had to be modified, was therefore not yet in operation on this gleaming vessel.

 This disease had been diagnosed too late for that and the transformations of the vessel, although scheduled, had not been done in due time. The installation of this equipment was only a matter of a few days, but a few days which separated them from certain death. But for her and for him, the priority was to care ...

 This powerful leader of the company and his dying daughter, were now the last heirs of this dynasty of inventors and explorers, and made him the richest and most powerful being of the known worlds of the time. . He only had one and only girl left, Athena, whom he loved with all her being and with all her soul.

 But her still unknown disease was incurable, and despite all knowledge of medicine, her body was destroying itself every day a little more ... After a few months of this dramatic event, she was in turn. Close to the end, she only had a few days left at most and nothing seemed to be able to save her… or almost.

 Despite her age, she had always testified to being remarkably intelligent, so the brain was not attacked by this unknown disease, which perhaps had been accidentally imported from another world by one of the behemoths of the company.

 It was at this point that military assault troops forced entry into the company's control centers. But they did not know, as did most of the employees, that the statues of past rulers displayed in the entrances hid powerful armed guards who pushed them back to the exit. Then impassable armored doors then closed behind them… These guards were intended to repel a pirate raid on the technologies locked up in these places.

 It was there that he began to think that the accident was not one. On TV, a distant family member claimed his legacy. No one knew this chief still alive and this distant relative had nevertheless been sentenced to transfer for unforgivable crimes. And he had already been officially transferred, years ago and a transfer cannot inherit, it is the law ! If he appeared, it was necessarily that he had made a secret agreement with the administration and that she had kept it on hand. Probably, he had saved his skin with the promise to put the business back in their hands… One plus one equals two. 

 A quick contact on Social Networks restored the situation to the advantage of the leader of the family still alive. We never heard from this traitor again ...

 But this wise leader increased his protection and that of his daughter to the climax, becoming in fact elusive.

 One day he was spotted trying to reach the area where the family ship was broken up to investigate, he was attacked by a handful of warships in battle formation. They had no reason to be there, or to act like that. It was clear, the administration will not be left with its failure. He then fled and was pursued by his enemies. He then ordered a dozen of the closest ships to come and assist him in this fight. Meet at a meeting point on the edge of the Shadow that he has chosen to have as many items available as possible by his side. Arrived on the powerfully armed vessels of the company had no difficulty in disrupting the military formation ...

 This attack being unofficial, it did not appear in the information given to the people and to the Luminare, officially military vessels disappeared in one of the galaxies on the border with Shadow for reasons still unknown.

 He chose a Shadow Planet and set up a colony foundation building there. Each would then camp on their positions, waiting for an error on the part of the other. The attacks were going to multiply on both sides, without the people ever knowing what was really going on… He will then have most of the commendatories of the attack murdered in the form of unfortunate accidents. Here a defective shuttle, there a drowning, here a suffocation of food, there a poisonous animal which would have escaped ...

 But deep down, he was shocked at the loss of his entire family and wanted to save his one and only daughter at all costs. She was still only a child and might be in danger of dying within the hour or the day. He was then determined to cross all the limitations of ethics to achieve this. He ordered his scientists to make her a pilot, the ultimate and only solution to prolong his life.

 Secretly, they joined the incubation lab to initiate this irreversible procedure.

 Of course, unlike the other pilots, she had lived in the body of a child, the chances of succeeding in this transformation were therefore very low, if not almost nil. Against all expectations, with his laboratory assistants, they succeeded beyond all expectations. It is true that the perception of finding themselves under the authority of an administration that clearly hated them had motivated them a little ...

 Everyone in the know thought she would have a roughly normal lifespan. She had not been designed for this transformation at birth, but her life was going to last much longer and more.

 She was different from the start, but that difference would make her stronger. She was to be declared cured by an accidental discovery of the company's laboratories assigned to her cure. She reappeared like a miracle, officially, we were still looking for what had happened. The '' patient '' was doing well and to hide this change of state from everyone, she was going to appear her age as time went by.

 She knew the life of her people and had experienced the five senses of the body, she was now going to know the life of her new brothers genetically from one of her ancestors and become their sister to all.

 And for those who had never had these five senses, it would change their lives by further adapting this knowledge and faithfully reproducing them through technology.

 As for his life, it was going to be long and prosperous. Born a genius in a small fragile body, this rebirth would open the doors to success for him through instant access to knowledge stored in computer peripherals, which could be explained by pre-knowledge, in short: already know, without having to learn!

 By order of his father, every part of every element of his personal machines was of very superior quality. For example, it had an exceptional nanobot avatar made of a very rare alloy making them even more resistant. It was the same alloy as the core collectors and above all allowing it to change shape and therefore appear its official age. It allowed him to take on the appearance of anyone or anything. His ship was more powerful, stronger, faster, more maneuverable, and far better equipped than any of the other pilots. Her on-board computers had no restrictions on her use. Luxurious apartments were installed there, so that the father could visit his daughter if he wanted to. He will settle there and end his life there, bringing with him the precious Ark of the Covenant. He will die of old age in his sleep.

 She could play any avatar available from her business or home. And when one has large means, why deprive oneself… Much later, one would believe that research had enabled him to touch eternity at the cost of some cybernetic evolutions. Which was basically true, but she will never be considered a pilot by her people. This performance on the extension of its lifespan would only slightly surprise a people who had already seen this family achieve the impossible and more.

 After this very first attempt by the administration to take over the company ended in failure, they all knew it, they would not stop there ... The little family then becomes elusive and everywhere it was supposed to be , a curious accident occurred… But that will not prevent this child from living a good life

 On the corporate side, the substitute leaders defended their positions against the hostile but powerless administration. The company was gaining in influence to the point that it had succeeded in imposing an ambassador to the Luminare who learned of the attack from his mouth.

 The Luminare then dismissed senior officials of the administration and the military high command involved in the affair, restoring an apparent peace, but fragile, in return, he demanded the commitment that the company will continue its function as long as no Luminare will free her from her commitment, offering her in return all power over the shadow worlds she has already discovered and over all those she will discover in the future, it will then belong to the company of authorize or not the creation of colonies on its lands.

 Alystaglia, this limitless world had just set hers ...

 Eventually, the company became even more powerful after obtaining redress for this latest attack, but the administration thought time was on its side : no one is forever, this business leader was old and the little one could have a relapse and a Luminare either, it is not eternal, it can even be revoked ... 

 These new agreements made the company the central power of the shadow worlds. They created colonies on distant worlds to serve as a refuge for the leaders and employees of the company. It was included in the programming of the ships the order to defend the shadow worlds against any enemy without restriction.

 A powerfully armed empire was born from these agreements. But it was a fragile empire whose real center remained the world of light and knowledge. It only formed the outer edge of it ... A single stronghold was erected there, the central power of the company was installed there and this new perfect world quickly represented the main objective of employee transfer.

 Many of the company's departments were moved there to the delight of the employees who began to fear for their safety ...

 New combat vessels and their associated pilots were stationed there, no one has ever been able to cross its defenses since…

 In the enlightened world new preachers were raising their voices against the boundless power of one person. They began to accuse Athena of leading the Georbaux company to divide the world in two ...

 For them, the corporate control of the Shadowlands was illegitimate. She thus became Luminare of the Shadow worlds. According to them, this was unacceptable, even if no one was able to make the trip from Alystaglia apart from the pilots.

 Installed in this new world, Athena devoted the beginning of his life to the research which his father taught him, himself being a great scientist and a renowned engineer. She was gifted and achieved amazing results, perfect memory, even if she is assisted by electronics it helps. One day, she thus created a destructive weapon that would later give her ship its name : 'The Light of Dawn'. 

 She preferred to hide its existence rather than give the concepts to others or even equip her army for fear that it would be the source of billions of deaths in the universe, so was its effectiveness. formidable. And then finally, that weapon could also turn against her and her ships across space. However, if this weapon was installed on his ship, it could protect him from a new attack from the regular army or from real or fake pirates, if that were to happen ...

 She also set about perfecting her ship, her avatar and her Vitalindome and thereby prolonged her own life as much.

 Following the death of her father due to his advanced age, she continued her research in the static laboratory. At the same time she ran the company with an iron fist and increasingly delegated this task to the elites. This is also more and more automated so that its presence was no longer a necessity.

 Having become the sole heir to the company and the power that flowed from it on the Shadow worlds, she was increasingly considered the queen of pilots by her contemporaries. But she did not want to govern, she felt that it was not her role as a business leader. A new government then took power with its approval on the Shadow Planet. Indeed, she always felt that she had no right to rule a people, this is what will prevent her from seizing power over Alystaglia, even in the interest of the people.

 It was many years after having taken over from her father in the family business, that attracted by the reports received from the pilots on their explorations, that she decided to leave for these wonderful worlds that she so wanted to discover by herself...

 His company, made up of several billion employees scattered throughout the known and shadowy worlds, no longer needed his presence to continue its exploration mission. She then went on a journey through these unknown worlds. Carrying with it, the title deed of all its ships, the Ark of the Covenant, which for a long time had its place reserved on a plinth in its own ship.

 This wandering brought him to the edge of a blue planet that would one day be called "The Earth". She observed and studied at length this green world which looked so much like her home planet that a sentimental bond between her and this little piece of paradise was created and encouraged her to settle there for a time.

 Without civilization, as determined by the conventions related to the exploitation of the Shadow Worlds, if a company pilot had landed here before her, he would have devastated this world with his harvest labor. Our disappearance would probably have been total even before it was. This is perhaps what will lead her to precipitate the birth of the first human beings, because she did not create humanity, she only accelerated our coming ...

 In fact, by its presence, this small planet was forbidden to exploration-excavation to all its vessels. His plans were not to protect this world as such, but to make it a study laboratory and reproduce the past of his home world in order to better understand it.

 This small planet where oxygen was abundant there, had given birth to very large creatures. Dinosaurs ruled there just like in his at the beginning of time. Much smaller, for example mammals, survived it by escaping the others as best they could, oxygen was very abundant.

 Specialist in biology and in all forms of life, she would then change this world and put an end to some to promote others. Those who carried the strains of civilization could only develop through the disappearance of these monsters who crushed them with their presence ... She was going to reproduce the changes observed in hers and seek to understand the birth of humanity at its origin.

 This little blue planet had become her main point of attachment, she studied this land so similar to hers has its origins, before industrialization, before overpopulation,… before…… well before…… and even before all that … A world untouched by all these changes that human beings impose on their environment. Because humanity does not live in a world as it is, but recreates the world around it to live there in its own way. It is only at this price that it can prosper, despite the final risk of killing this world that welcomes it and therefore very likely to die there as well ...

 This still virgin universe fascinated her, she remained for many years simply studying it, analyzing it and observing it. Already began to appear the natural ancestors of the first men, these great apes lived in caves from which they came out to look for food with discretion. They were far from being able to impose themselves in this too hostile nature, much less able to survive than the common monkeys which lived in the large trees which protected them from most predators ... To survive, they had to show proof of ingenuity and building very rudimentary defenses. She observed them for a long time, then she brought about changes for those beings she knew already predestined for great things. She, sometimes dreaming of recreating the genesis of her civilization here, on this little blue planet. But for the moment, nothing was guaranteed, all the elements were in place, we would have to wait for evolution to do its work.

 She was torn between the desire to keep this world free from any intervention or to project it directly towards the first steps of a civilization which, naturally and without it, would take a long time yet to be born. However, she chose to wait a little longer. But during her observations of these predestined beings, she witnessed a deadly thicket echo between rival gangs. One of the two groups had lost most of its members in this fight. Then in the absence of care, in the days that followed, there was a massacre. In the end, there were only specimens that were too young to survive in the wild on their own.

 She then undertook to take the collection of these condemned specimens, since they were defenseless and unable to find food. After long months of captivity, she began to genetically modify them very slightly in her laboratory. Then she placed them in a container fitted out on her ship. She modified it for the occasion into a gigantic vivarium intended to make them develop under her supervision for analysis.

 She wanted to study for herself this evolution which was related in her files on the origin of her civilization and to draw her own conclusions. These vivariums, as there will be others, were based on techniques well known to its people. This knowledge made it possible in turn to install entire colonies on hostile planets and to create small and large agricultural and farming operations. They also equipped colonization vessels and thus made it possible to travel the universe without needing to store loads of food for many years. This also made it possible to eliminate the droppings which were then used as fertilizer. The cultures then nourished the inhabitants. Specialized robots took care of everything and ensured the smooth running of the production ... If at the beginning a single transformed container was enough, finally four were going to be necessary for its study on the genesis of the men. These vivariums cyclically produced everything necessary for their lives and skillfully reproduced their original habitat. There were fields, woods and to replace the celestial vault, a false sun moved in a false sky, with the night a false moon and false stars.

 The vivarium also reproduced the real seasons, the rain, the snow, the good weather. It had an artificial lake and a few rivers fed by well-hidden modern pumps… All of this contained cutting-edge technologies which easily compensated for the variations that a vivarium could not withstand in its normal design. Everything was done so that their lives here or in the natural environment were identical or almost identical, but without real mortal dangers and that their reintroductions into nature were facilitated by the knowledge acquired in this closed and protective place.

 She had made and adapted these vivariums very specifically for them. They contained a simplified solid city structure. In the center of it, a very large pyramid at the top of which was a pylon whose four feet rested on massive corner stones which served as a base. At the top of this metal structure was the vault projector which reproduced the sky and its changes of state. Steps led from all four sides to the top of the pyramid and joined under the arch of the base of the Eiffel Tower-shaped pylon. If a person stood at the top of the pyramid under this pylon, he could be seen and heard from all sides up to ten meters from the base of the pyramid. Tribal leaders and protesters will eventually get into the habit of exhorting their tribe to this place in times of crisis. And later, with time, they will notice that everything that happens in their sky comes from there and it will not take more for this place to represent the power of the divine over this world. This place will become the place of pagan festival processions and for all great occasions ...

 It was also a point of entry and exit of the vivarium which led to the vessel, when the latter landed above. A wireless or cable tray-shaped elevator system ascended and descended at an angle under its direct command.

 The goal of this village was to break the model where these beings hid in caves and stealthily came out at night. It was necessary to cultivate the feeling of being master of the world and to set out from your base to conquer the environment. So these cities had around this central construction of several rooms on pyramidal bases whose goal was to give them a refuge to face the simulated floods. They also had vocations that were more utilitarian : meeting room, temple, throne room, hospital. And enthroned in the square, an avatar of herself in the form of a statue fixed with at her feet the general control panel of the vivarium that only she could activate. In addition, well hidden in its plinth, was a rapid transport shuttle the size of a minibus intended to move inside the vivarium. It could just as easily have circled the earth without ever needing to be recharged. 

 Their evolution did not allow them to understand these organizational systems, nor the real interest of these rooms. On the other hand, for the treatment room, they quickly noticed its function or at least the direct effect on their minor ailments. The only use they had really found in all these rooms was to make their shrill cries echo… The whole thing was surrounded by basic wooden huts on stilts where they had decided to find refuge overall. The goal was to make them evolve in society quickly without rushing it, but the success of this operation was rather mixed ...

 This city structure strangely resembles the remains of past civilizations of the Incas or ancient Egypt. Education was assisted by a kind of inverted system of neural connection. She could not command these beings and that was not the goal, but influence them, even if in fact, many wanted to do the same or curiously invented the same creations at the same time. A politician would have been very happy to have such a machine on election day ...

 To differentiate the vivariums, she assigned them metal colors and each central structure was made of the alloy of the corresponding metal chosen. She did not have the problem of the rarity of these, and these evolved alloys avoided all the risks of rust, oxidation and wear ... These first beings were placed in the container for study. and start their education. She could thus predict what they could become in this world in a natural way. Because it was a question of accelerating a process to study it and not of completely modifying the future of this world, and yet, it is what it will come to do. All of these beings had this same basic common strain, but his knowledge of genetics would solve this problem by bringing in new blood, the occasional capture, or rather the rescue of other specimens would also help… They have developed and demonstrated their intelligence. , still limited of course, but promising. After a while, their tribes showed the bases of an innate embryonic society, a chapter on which she did not influence to better understand them and they multiplied while passing on the acquired knowledge to the next generation.

 What represented for them the duration of a life, represented for her, in view of her life, a few hours at most ...

 This world was a paradise and covered their main necessities. Then from development to development, under the number of descendants and pitched battles that resulted, it will create the other three vivariums. They were always placed on the ground of this planet and separated, barely a few hundred meters. But since they were closed, wars could not break out… But for the moment, there was still only one. She was sensitive to their future, although torn by the desire to protect this world, to let it create its own civilization in a natural way. Would she one day propagate the one she had revealed by accelerating these processes which were ultimately almost inevitable.

 The future will ultimately be a mixture of the two modes of evolution, but for the time being, unable to resolve to eliminate all or part of its creation and not yet being ready for all that, to consider releasing them in this world. They were going to stay there, in this vivarium, but for how much longer, the anger due to the progressive overcrowding of the vivarium rumbled more and more ...

 It appeared to them sometimes, they ended up interpreting it as a kind of external power which helped them. But when she was forcing things on them and they usually didn't really obey her, even though she seemed to be in control of the world around them…

 The time had come for her to return to her world, to see the evolution of the situation of her company and to take the measures that might be necessary. For centuries, messages, however reassuring, were becoming increasingly rare, and given the distance, they did not date from yesterday ... One day, she received the message that an attack on her base by the The whole army had just been barely pushed back and important changes in Alystaglia were happening at the same time.

 This message announced that it had all started with the assassination of the Luminare in office by a fanatic priest and the latter's seizure of power over the army and the administration with the help of complicity at the highest level of the state. … A civil war for survival was underway, as the state had closed all donations to the recalcitrant people who were dying of hunger. The Shadow World was assisting this oppressed people as best they could without intervening militarily. It was forbidden to them by the agreements. And by virtue of these agreements, they continued to deliver resources to the power in place, which protected the vessels of assistance to the people.

 Returned to her world, she quickly understood the situation. She also learned that the people had long discovered what these biological processors really were. He was divided on the subject. For some, these were aberrations that had to be destroyed or controlled in a totalitarian manner, because these pilots represented a great danger, especially as their ships were overarmed, just as much as combat cruisers were. For others they were human beings, victims trapped for eternity in jars and that they had the right to a much more decent life than that.

 The company did not want to communicate on the subject, maintaining total silence on this issue. Secret-defense, it was necessary to avoid weakening the protective position of the latter on pilots and on operating rights, because if their rights were not written in the law, their duty towards the company of the Luminare either. … In front of them the administration did not want to recognize them either, because that would have made them heirs of rights to the company's succession and that would have made it impossible to get hold of it.

 The administration had secretly appealed to a high dignitary of the church opposed to the multiplication of these pilots and without apparent links, he preached for the company to be handed over to the authorities without any conditions. Despite the growing number of their followers, the fear of running out of supplies from the shadow worlds outweighed any sermons he could give. But little by little, this world was divided more and more into two camps ...

 Everyone maintained a status quo until the Luminare assassination in connection with this case happened.

 On these famous beings depended the future and the well-being of society as a whole and the loss of these condemned this bright future in the medium or long term. Without an alternative fallback solution, no one wanted to decide except a few extremists who we preferred to silence for the moment. As for the military and the politicians, they wanted total control over these powerfully armed vessels and thus extend their powers over these distant worlds and still inaccessible except to these pilots. A struggle on this principle was engaged between the almost all-powerful company and the political powers, but only Athena held the key to this power anchored in her invincible vessel.

 This company had held firm politically all these years thanks to its zealous representatives that it knew so well how to recruit, knowing everyone's life gave it this power ... The impossibility of getting hold of the ark of the alliance and ignorance of what it was, in reality made the appropriation of ships and their pilots utopian. But this was not the case for its fixed structures such as spaceports and the entire administrative sector.

 The remaining departments of the company were methodically moved to Shadow Land. What could not was emptied of its substance in anticipation of what was going on in the corridors of power in place. This prediction would prove to be true. And indeed one day, the ministers brutally changed laws in order to build a legal arsenal that would allow them to take over the company.

 So they started to gain traction by taking over everything that could be legally rigged in the world of light.

 But the Dark Planet remained inaccessible to them, it had its own laws and its own political power, so these one hundred and fifty million living beings remained beyond the reach of the power in place.

 If officially, each return of one of these ships gave the occasion of a party, in hand, the soldiers were busy looking for a loophole to seize the ships, but no one succeeded in crossing the doors yet. which protected the Vitalindome, the pilots set out again and again invariably under the total control of the central general council moved from the company.

 Her authority as heir, although contested, could not be overturned. Politicians had been trying for some time to legally seize her rights to the company by accusing Athena of not being the real heiress. They accused her of being a pilot like the others, but who would have received preprogrammed memories of the little one and would therefore have succeeded her to her real death.

 They wanted, by doing so, to take away her legitimate rights and try to force her to hand over the company to the authorities as well as all its possessions and all its vessels by a court decision.

 The legal defenses had held up until then, even if anyway, she would not have given in on this subject and would have argued, that she had been chosen to inherit it. Due to this fact, everything else was just palaver, even if as far as she was concerned, she had no doubts about her own subject on her true identity… She was not going to let them do it, endowed with powerful means. and its legitimacy, all converging towards the same and unique goal, that of defending one's own rights. She was finally going to impose her will on this government which was now headed by this fundamentalist calling himself Luminare, by threatening to cut off the food for this world which ultimately depended on its goodwill.

 An agreement under duress was again made, leaving the dark worlds a little more under the authority of Athena and they intended to make her pay this affront to their new authority.

 To achieve this, it blocked a remote delivery from an unloading point for a few months. Basically, it had been gaining nothing in terms of wealth for a long time and the company had been delivering resources at almost cost.

 But she wasn't going to let the people die of starvation, cold, or arms while she still could. It set up the evacuation of the rest of its employees and their families, it would take years and even more, it was therefore necessary to maintain a dialogue with this new power, it was essential to achieve it.

 From this unfortunate experience, she was going to draw a lesson: she was no longer part of the society that had seen her be born. And if she didn't care, sooner or later the business would be stolen from her piece by piece. She had to postpone the deadline by protecting it more from any intrusion in order to protect the pilots for whom she felt responsible. The end of the creation of new pilots had been decided by the state under media pressure, she did not oppose this decision for a time. The law had imposed it ever since, so the company had stopped this activity and closed this laboratory, destroyed the data it contained and transferred everything that could be done in the shadow world. Returning and having no place to put them in her own, she then loaded the last modules of this technology in a vessel which was currently leaving for a new exploration. They were placed in the rooms reserved for single access to the pilot only, freeing the latter from all return obligations. However, he remained at Athena's disposal in case of need and will then take the direction of the shadows, never to return.

 She then reinforced the security of the computers containing the reminder messages of those already existing and placed everything in a secret place where no one could access. There were at that time nearly 150 million pilots who roamed these distant worlds. Among those who did not have a ship, some had been slaughtered by groups of armed extremist demonstrators. The few survivors were placed in other ships already piloted while waiting for a better solution. This decision was in accordance with the protocols provided for this purpose in a similar case and failing that, they would not feel alone.

 Despite everything, a handful of pilots had been engaged in army warships long despite themselves and therefore totally beyond the control of the company. They weren't in danger and she couldn't free them anyway. A certain Hades was one of those engaged from the very beginning… Certainly, new laws would one day give the rights of appropriation of the company to the state or the army by terminating the agreement on the territories of shadow, it would then be total war between them. But impossible for the moment to dethrone it and especially to get hold of the means which made it possible to control the pilots. The Ark would only have been a trophy in their hands, at least, they believed, and she surely wasn't going to give it to them either.

 The ignorance of the mode of succession let believe in the power in place that the death of Athena would solve their problem. They would secure access to the company's control computers by appointing an heir of their choice, a family renegade for example. Or possibly by presenting the arch which they thought was sufficient to require the access key to the famous central computer controls.

 She was power above power. They knew that with all of her fleet, she would have more armament than that of the whole army put together, so there was no question of facing her a new faith head-on. Moreover, they knew his ship was made of particularly tough alloys, even though they were unaware of the existence of his ultimate weapon which would probably have brought him the solo victory against their cruisers.

 For her everything had changed, from a leading personality, she had become an aberration, an exile, whose property and powers they wanted to plunder. Protected by her impassable shell and informed by her own secret services of almost everything, she knew how to protect herself from them. She could very well have taken political power by force at that time, but she did not want it. She always thought that the people would have a start and that things would get back to normal, but it would not be, but that she could not yet know ...

 The Shadow, her world was now facing the Light of Alystaglia and never in the history of this world has the shadow represented so much hope for the light.

 She stayed a few more years, but she had other projects and above all she wanted to go elsewhere ... In a world that was incessantly calling her deep inside her ... Since her world wanted to take away what belonged to her, she decided that each pilot who would return and unload his cargo, would then be released from his engagement by a software update of his programming. And No one will ever be told about it, or really notice it. He would be completely free and would dispose of his ship as he saw fit. However, he could not use his weaponry in the areas of influence of the power in place, except to defend himself. He should then leave the area permanently.

 This programmed freedom was not absolutely total, but almost. The arch remains essential to remove the software and hardware lock. But she could not take the risk of leaving her in this society which would have tried to seize it by all means, nor even on the Shadow where a spy could have succeeded in accessing it. She deemed this liberating solution fair, the business would disappear on its own without anyone really realizing it until the end, the shadow structures not requiring a different measure.

 The state had already officially seized the spaceports and certain sedentary parts of the company. Even though unofficially behind this appearance, Athena's power remained almost total within her in spite of themselves. The more complex the computer, the more it knows how to hide its secrets from the uninitiated ...

 The day of her new departure was a little advanced, she left her world and by a slight detour, looked one last time at the land of her ancestors. She did not see in her wake a very effective assassin, mandated by the government to eliminate him. Hades, indoctrinated, manipulated, instrumentalised, was the hand that was to stab her in the back and he was determined to put an end to her. The government, had estimated, at worst, without having the control of the pilots, that his death was the best solution for them and that then they would receive eternally the fruits of his explorations without any risk that it will stop one day. It had been centuries that everything continued to function without her and especially that it would rid them of the superior power which she represented politically and which could, as a last resort, oust them at any time.

 Despite everything that was said about her, Athena kept a very important support from the population who did not forget her essential role in this society. Who knew what she would do the next time she returned to their world ? And at best, if Hades brought the ark back, it would be the jackpot. 

 As for her, she was obsessed with the thought of rediscovering her creation and her new world : Earth. Because of this, Hades remained behind her unsuspectedly throughout the great crossing. She had no reason to be suspicious, no vehicle could move at the speed of hers, well, she believed it. But arrived at the approach of his new world, without giving him the slightest chance and assisted by his new warship "the Damocles", Hades would strike like a hawk on his prey. 

 As Athena arrived in the solar system, and remotely preparing her ship for entry into the atmosphere, Hades launched his lightning attack. Its excess of speed and especially the ignorance of an internal secret protection, included in the basic programming of all the original Vitalindomes and intended to protect the leaders of the company from a possible revolt, made that its first salvo got lost in space and went to crash into a planet, reducing it to rock dust, it must be said that he had put all of what he had militarily available there for the occasion. Wasn't Athena's ship the best protected ? Surprised by discovering this unexpected threat, she was quick to react quickly. She then fairly easily dodged the few additional shots she had left in reserve. Even if to circumvent the limitation he had just discovered, he had ordered the launch by the on-board computer of the military vessel itself, thus bypassing the internal programming of its natural habitat. 

 Both then came close to the land. Hades was in extreme anger, for he came to realize that he had never had the slightest chance of defeating her. Something in his own conception was against it. It was then, He wanted to flee and return to his home base to prepare there for a new attack. But by then they were both already close to the Earth's atmosphere and Athena, stoic, unable to let him go, neutralized her ability to propel herself with a few well-adjusted precision shots. Then with some explosive flicks, Athena pushed him towards the earth where he was quickly grabbed by the earth's pull, which directly sent this malicious one crashing into the bottom of the ocean.

 Part of Hades' ship shattered as it crossed the atmosphere, but nothing essential to its survival was damaged. We can still find the points of falls of some of these pieces separated by means of a compass which panic at their approach. As for the rest of his ship containing his Vitalindome, it ended its race in a place in the ocean that is nowadays called "the Bermuda Triangle". Hades survived and will try all his remaining life to make up for this dismal failure.

 He was one of the first company pilots offered to the military. He criticized the company for having been handed over hand and foot linked to it and therefore for the mistreatment which had resulted from it, even if the company had always ignored the behavior of the soldiers towards them. At the time the army mistreated pilots to assess the limits of their resistance, and in the best days, the few initiates of their living conditions, called them `` the monsters '', which is to say the consideration that these military had for them.

 As the ships were not yet built, officially at the time, they were in formation. The military also had no hesitation in testing resistance to torture on one of these 'things', considered objects, through the use of feedback from the neural interface and its connection to the 'avatar. It is precisely Hades who had served them mainly as guinea pig ... Then, after the transmitted physical pain, they tested the mental manipulation and by clearing themselves under the aspect " they created you, they gave you to we, they abandoned you, it is they who are really responsible ”. In the meantime, he was declared dead and put in reserve for analysis for several centuries for ... the rest, you guess ... A few minutes with the new ruler of their world was enough to convince him to accept this mission which would make him a hero of the revolution.  

 He was therefore won over to the cause of all the enemies of the company and reinforced by a well-targeted indoctrination by the secret services of the greedy governments which succeeded one another. They had made a weapon for a single and well-defined target, because the exponential rise of this family had worried all these governments. He had foreseen that eventually, the immortal Athena would attempt to take power and they had no intention of relinquishing it.

 For now, Hades was ready to give his life to destroy her, her and all those who represented her to his eyes blinded by hatred, even drowned under the oceans. He would remain her mortal enemy, and by extension, of all those who were important to her and therefore fatally later : that of humanity. If he could no longer leave, his ship nevertheless still had some means of communication to the outside. He also had at his disposal a handful of gadgets which, after centuries of activity, will allow him to create and use an avatar worthy of the name without Athena being informed. 

 Once on earth, she joined her creation and forgot about Hades. Its sensors did not return any activity in the area.

 This avatar and some gadgets will allow him to influence discreetly, but very concretely, the destiny of humanity. He will lead them many times to war, dangling an easy victory for them with his help. He always provided the means for the most bellicose among them to start conflicts, but never enough to defeat their enemies so that these wars claim as many victims as possible on both sides. It will also disseminate some diseases, taking particular care to ensure that they last as long as possible ...

 His reason for living will ultimately be to harm humanity in order to reach Athena indirectly!

 As soon as this fight was over, on earth, she found her creation again, but in the Vivarium, the multiplication of offspring had given rise to a slight lack of available food. There was also a problem of promiscuity which arose from the overcrowding of inhabitants and the tribe was divided into two distinct groups. Those who dominated and crushed with their power the weakest and those who protected them as best they could, each defending the interests of his camp.

 So the fights between the members of the two tribal halves were more and more frequent and more and more violent. In her absence, there had already been deaths on both sides ... She therefore undertook, at best, to separate the two clans that had formed.

 To cope with this development of the situation, she equipped an additional vivarium, then later a second, then at the end a third. They each had a particular metal color from their central city in order to clearly distinguish them, making a total of four different metal colors.

 This way of coloring ships and therefore containers was unique to his world. For the vessels, they didn't paint them, but used the color of the alloys themselves or a thick plating, it avoided all maintenance other than a simple cleaning.

 Since the distribution of these new beings into four tribes, they were developing in good general conditions, there were still a few fights, but hey. She kept with her sometimes one of them : "her favorite of the moment" ... She educated them as best she could, she had taught them the basics of religion to which they had absolutely nothing understood, mixing in turn, religious principles, her position in relation to them and the functioning of vivariums. Better not to expect, it was really too early to acquire these universal notions. She had tried after a little education to bring them all together again, enclosing around the four vivariums and opening the doors for them to meet. But once separated for a while, reuniting them had become impossible, they fought among tribes for a yes or a no and tried to take power over the others. Then they would grab the resources and females from other vivariums and bring them back to theirs. 

 It was there, the first organized wars of humanity. She decided never to bring them together again and even to move the containers away from each other in order to ensure lasting peace as soon as the doors were opened again. Hoping that if one day their descendants met, surely many centuries later, wisdom and reason would have the upper hand, despite their primary instincts which are obviously well entrenched at present.

 The limited size of the four vivariums and their exponential development already suggested that overcrowding would quickly become the main problem, but increasing the number of vivariums to deal with it would quickly no longer make sense.

 She had thought about it for years and made her decision, because not wanting to destroy them, she was finally going to release them in this new world, but at a good distance from each other.

 Would they really survive this hostile world ? She then distributed her four containers over the surface of the earth. Even today, they still exist, deeply hidden under sedimentary layers deposited over time. They are, since, accessible only by mazes of corridors and underground which leave only sufficient passage for the shuttle. It is the shuttle that maintains these corridors using its integrated tools only intended to guarantee access between the outside and the inside of the vivariums. 

 These entrances are hidden by false cliffs, impossible to differentiate from the neighboring natural rocks, but at the time of their distribution, these vivariums were simply placed on the surface in the middle of the vegetation… They are arranged according to this diagram, one in North America. South, one in Egypt, another in Tibet, the last somewhere in Scotland.

 We have all heard of it before, without knowing the truth behind these tales and legends from another age, one of them is very famous under the name of the cities of gold. And the most secret of all is in Tibet, it is only known to a handful of monks who sometimes go there in the greatest secrecy. Their ancestors once drew there the bases of their great wisdom, then this knowledge was transmitted and shared between them for centuries. That of Egypt was a secret well kept by the dynasties of the pharaohs which succeeded one another and was known only to them. Its key was shaped like a remote control that resembled the head of a rattlesnake and then received this appearance to perfect its camouflage. It was dressed in gold and was enthroned at the top of their crown, a location which also made it possible to never part with it. She had become one of the symbols of their power over the people. This way of wearing it was also in the image of the crown that Athena wore. This symbol was considered that of the supreme and absolute authority by the initiates. But hers had nothing to do with operating commands. It was in fact the transmitting part of a vision system by reflection of waves on obstacles and allowing perfect vision in all circumstances. She was paired with scanners placed at eye level of her avatar. The whole formed a vision of surfaces, but also of their contents ...

 This ornament has never been seen other than the symbol of the authority of the Pharaoh. Yet it was its use that gave the powers of a God and that caused the audience's wonder at the prowess of the Pharaoh. The witnesses of these phenomena saw there, the magic of the Gods ! However, an informed eye would have seen only holographic projections, water and light games and objects moved by machines from another time using almost invisible threads ...              

 They did not know the real power that this object could put to their service. The few things they knew were limited to what an old pharaoh had passed on to his toddler shortly before he passed away, taking with him the secret of his victories on the battlefields ...

 One day, they lost the key to a wise man. He took his family through the desert in order to save it from the submission of a new pharaoh determined to oppress them in order to carry out his ambitious projects of disproportionate constructions.

 Because at that time the momentary holder of this key, herself worthy heir to the lineage of the masters of Egypt, preferred to remove this power from her, which would have made her even more dangerous and unreasonable. What would he have done, if he had learned what she had just accidentally discovered while trying it for fun.

 This new tyrannical pharaoh wanted to build even larger monuments and at the same time conquer distant lands at the cost of the lives of his people, whom he did not care about. Only his personal glory in the eyes of eternity counted in his eyes and he insisted on engraving his name on it at whatever cost ...

 The pharaoh's mother then made an agreement and in exchange for some guarantees from the sage who had witnessed his discovery : `` Go and save his people, but never come back, nor seek revenge in any way ! And do not use this power in a roundabout way for that purpose either. ''  

 She explained to Pharaoh what she had done and the power she had discovered over the use of this item. Hungry for power, he pursued the wise man with his armies, but never could recover the famous key. This sage who had seen Pharaoh's mother open the waters of her bath in two, knowing this power and how to invoke it, opened the sea in two. Thanks to him, his people escaped this dictatorship.

 This defeat will then make Pharaoh understand that his dream of immortal glory had just died out ...

 It was only much later that the Templars seized this object during one of the wars of religion. They then refused to give it to the Pope and paid a heavy price for it. She was then hidden by the most faithful among the Crusaders, no one knows what has become of her to this day. Some say that it is or would be part of the Templar treasure ...

 In reality, it has been transmitted from Crusader to Crusader since that day, because there are still some today, well hidden in our society ... As long as the key is transmitted from one living to another living, it does not reset. not …

 It was a bit the same for the rulers of the Mayan empire in southern America, until the arrival of the conquistadors. These explorers were looking for gold, a lot of gold. They never knew what these famous cities of gold really were and never physically got their hands on the famous key. The few who entered, led by a Mayan high priest who thought to lead them to wisdom by telling them about the distant past and protecting his people by this means, died there. After having murdered this priest. After that and for lack of having discovered that this vivarium could feed them forever or even just to be able to use the key to get out of it, the famine decimated them on the spot. Their helmets still litter the entrance to it on a wooden pontoon on the surface of its lake. The only one who escaped forged his legend. He had given the order to assassinate the priest and to wait there for his return. Already out to the surface at the time of the incident, he was not informed of the closure of the access and its reinitialization. He left, not knowing that he would never have been able to return. Later, wanting to keep the gold for himself, he never gave any indication to find the entry. And by the circumstances of his life, never returned ...

 The vivarium of Scotland did not make speak about him that a short time, it sheltered a great king, Arthur Pendragon and his master to think Merlin says the enchanter. Merlin received this key from a terrifying and invincible knight, Uther Pendragon of whom it will be said after his death : " Who is the man who guards the portal ?" ". Uther entrusted the key to Merlin so that he could protect his son Arthur and open the way for him to become king in his turn. This is how Merlin was led to create Excalibur and place it in a boulder and then start the rumor that, only the one who removed the sword from the boulder would be worthy of being king… Arthur brushed aside important decisions Merlin. The latter retired far from the castle. Without his presence by his side, Arthur lost access to the cave containing the vivarium. Merlin had shown him an object he called the Grail that opened that door, in reality it was just a terra cotta cup he had in his bag, but that would protect his secret. Arthur would then launch all his knights in search of the Grail, but none of them will ever find it ...                 

 If these keys were mainly possessed by men, it is above all that they were transmitted to each other. This is why, when the reset was done, it was generally women who were chosen to receive them ...

 One day, I'll tell you their respective stories, but for now let's go back to the beginning of their existence ...

 Severe Athenaian laws governed these tribes in order to prevent them from fighting or rather killing each other, which was not as easy as it seems despite her power. These binding rules would lead to the end of a rather stable situation as these new beings lived more or less happily in this protected environment of hostile nature. The desire for more freedom, and especially for power within the tribe, gained their ranks. With time and the increase of the population, this growing desire for autonomy was driven by the desire of the leaders to really take power within their respective tribes and therefore to remove the supreme authority of Athena.

 This led them to want to abandon these havens and start exploring the outside world, but few were already ready to follow them out for more freedom with far less chance of survival.

 They didn't really differentiate between inside and outside, for them it was going through a narrowing and going to a new place… But that place was more dangerous, so they always came back to the shelter. In those times, the automated hospital often served several days in a row on some of them. They deposited the wounded there and one day, they came out on their own… But these excursions had the effect of comforting them in wanting to stay in the same place while hating more and more his interventions in their lives.

 They were looking for a solution to take full power over these vivariums they called Paradise without knowing how it worked. For them, it was only a delimited territory and nothing more and where nature was doing its work.

 Despite their reluctance to go out, the leaders organized expeditions there, these first explorations put them in contact with a drone that hid humanity's worst enemy : Hades. This one outside protected them and advised them, but like a snake, he was going to attract them the better to betray them. 

 But for now, he was looking for a way to enter one of these vivariums and therefore approach his target. He made them the promise to help them find how to regain power from Athena over their lives and bring them freedom… It was during this period that with the help of Hades that they skillfully trapped Athena… We will come back to this later ...

 Once this crime was accomplished, the leaders of these tribes betrayed their word to Hades and kept the Ark in order to have a means of pressure on him. Hades, unable to return to his world, knew it didn't matter much right now, but he played along. As long as primitive beings believed they had a way to get him to cooperate with them. He could manipulate them all the better and pretend to help them while throwing them into his own traps without them even suspecting anything afterwards ... For a long time he created the problems and their solutions causing the loss of a large number of them. His means of action outside his ship being still very limited, being able to count only on his tricks to eradicate them and as they reproduced quickly, then they will never finally succeed in destroying them definitively.

 Under the poisoned advice of Hades, the leaders, despite their total incompetence in matters of technology, activated disasters which forced the tribes to flee these small paradises.

 From generation to generation, the chiefs and the initiates led their tribes in the middle of this hostile nature which they will end up, despite everything, one day by dominating ...

 Little by little, a few initiates were soon the only ones to know of the existence of these places which began to slowly disappear under the natural sedimentary deposits and the ravages of time. Even if for them, the meaning of these evolved over time. Many chiefs or shaman came there to draw the artifices of their power in order to impose themselves in the eyes of their clan. They then formed groups of initiates around a leader.

 They sometimes presented themselves as being the chosen ones and envoys of God among men ... As for the populations, excluded from these initiations reserved for a handful of elites, they forgot the existence of the vivariums, because no one had transmitted this part of their work to them. the story of their origins. In secret, so that knowledge does not fade completely from collective memory, some told their lives in the form of stories for children. These tales gave way to legends whose meaning was lost over time ... Throughout the history of mankind, there have always been people, men or women, initiated into the existence of these vivarium containers. They knew of the existence of these cities capable of feeding and supporting hundreds of people in a cocoon protected from the outside world. There have always been four named people who possessed one of the keys to these earthly havens. These keys with mysterious origins and with which you just have to say or think " open sesame !" To open access to these very high technologies to insiders. These sophisticated machines, however, respond to simple commands within the reach of ordinary people.   

 This access codification had been programmed by the elders who had given them more shamanic or ritual than technical phrases to activate these doors. Some have tried to replicate keys in order to give them to other initiates, but they never succeeded, internal vivarium technology opposed it.

 When they were created, Athena had taken many precautions, including that of always looking for a new key-bearer in the lineage in the event of the death of the key-bearer without its transmission to a new leader during his lifetime. But she had also created an executor whose role was to kill a carrier if he had killed or had one of the other carriers killed. She had foreseen this possibility of an attempt to dominate one clan over the others. He had the role of restoring the balance between them and ensuring that it was respected ...

 This robot is a relentless assassin and no carrier or the like could ever escape it and it also receives information from the keys themselves and from the vivariums to find its carrier. It can enter vivariums and in no way can be attacked by their defensive technology and all that derives from it ...

 The rules for its appearance are enacted and transmitted by the keys themselves to their bearer as soon as they come into their possession. Only a descendant of a member of the original tribe of the vivarium can receive the key, even if it is passed from hand to hand ...

 Nowadays, it is very rare not to be the descendant of several tribes at the same time ...

 There is another vivarium or rather a bunker, but reserved for a small group of mercenaries or rather a sect to be more exact. This was created much later by Hades to serve as a bridgehead to take back the Ark and take revenge on the tribal chiefs who duped him. This one is much more discreet and even downright secret, it serves as an operational basis for his plans. Often his men clashed with the various key bearers and their initiates, during their outings, so he gave them the best of his field weapons… Hades has passed himself off as all kinds of characters over time, today for a wealthy whimsical billionaire, but that doesn't matter. He only recruits people who have no sense of honor or justice or manipulates others who think they are really serving the good cause ... Many centuries after the exodus, these vivariums were interpreted as places pure magic, even places of contact with God himself. They provided advantages, but largely limited by ignorance of the multiple possibilities offered by these fantastic machines thus made available. These gains which brought power led the initiates to hide them from the world in order to gain an ascendancy over the contemporary population outside. They gained fortune, political powers, strategic capacities, superior knowledge related to information or the ability to escape their enemies and attacks of all kinds, etc.

 Creating and forming then sects, groups or even religions of which only the great initiates knew all or part of this great secret. This sometimes gave access for some to the highest steps in the state. For the common people, they spoke then of intervention or of divine will… If one of the vivariums did not have any more inhabitants or of “regular visitors”, it triggered a research to acquire at least one specimen to study according to a selection method that is still rather opaque today.

 This one has nothing to do with a key carrier, but it is a guinea pig study on the evolution of the species. It must be understood that according to its programmed logic, we are not full human beings and will not be for a long time, so for this computer, just barely evolved animals. A capture robot and the shuttle fulfill this role and together. They proceeded to extract the chosen specimen anywhere within the defined area of ​​the expansion of the original tribe or its direct descendants. The choice is always made in priority on descendants born outside.

 He or she was then analyzed from every angle by automatons to verify that it was indeed a `` human being '' and what were his contaminations and his adaptation to this world. This selection makes no difference between men and women and analyzes their level of human evolution compared to previous generations taken. This is only a guinea pig for this machine, but this guinea pig then also becomes a full member of the shelter if it passes the tests successfully. Then, he can enter and exit the shelter freely all his life without having a command key. It cannot be killed by the wearer like any official member of the vivarium, just as it was when the tribes still lived there.

 But unfortunately, these random people were then often too shocked by these methods of treatment and faced with their inability to defend themselves or escape this machinery. Most of the time, they left this place as quickly as possible. These people generally then lived in hiding for fear of being taken over by this thing whose purpose and reason they could not interpret.

 Sometimes even, following this psychological shock, they or they forgot all or part of this unpleasant encounter with these automated robots. They most often sank into a form of madness that made them tell their abduction, most often attributed to aliens who would have studied and analyzed them from every angle.

 In fact, they did not take cognizance of the openness that he or she had acquired on an unsuspected world and stuffed with various advantages which resulted from it. One of them sometimes became the chief of the tribe and was granted the special key when there was no longer a key-bearer from that shelter, as only one in the faith could possess it.

 He or she gained specific access rights to the facilities that were intended for his or her tribe, but also access to learning areas and specific technologies related to the vivarium.

 Unfortunately, the delicacy of these devices has never been considered essential to their creation and will have the unforeseen consequence of making them flee as far as possible ... But this chosen one will remain elected all his life, whether he is present or not. in this place. And this, whether the tribe lives in this place or not. Which creates a strange relationship between all of its members who had nothing in common before that.

 The implantation of a chip made it possible to monitor them remotely at all times and the machine will consider them all its life as its validated proteges. Their lives would then be minutely detailed in memory archives for eternity ...

 Athena had programmed these machines so that during her travels to her world or elsewhere, they study with an automated eye her creation and inform her of its successive evolutions. They then communicate the full results of this study to him.

 What will surely appear strangest to them in this place are the animals that live there. Because those who are inside no longer have much in common with most of those outside directly resulting from natural selection… So, these 'guests by constraint' when they saw them thought they were in a whole different world. than in a large tin can ...

 They were not required to use these vivariums, but they would remain available to them forever. Athena had not envisioned a use let say more interested and that these vivariums would become over time. They had become an effective way to rule the world, for a handful of elected officials, who were not always very honest. They found there tools to conquer the world and serve their interests.

 Hades was biding his time. Beyond his resentment for the company and its official representatives, he fully intended to take revenge for his defeat, however foreseeable, on Athena. Trapped on this small planet, he had only his hatred to animate his almost eternal existence and failing to reach it, those whom she cherished so much would then be his first target.

 Like the snake, he then undertook to manipulate these easily influenced and little evolved beings to separate them from their creator by empty promises and clever lies. He was going to use their will for greater freedom, to achieve his ends. At first, he had to gain his own freedom, trapped in his ship, his avatar blocked inside would then be of no use to him in this mission. So he had to create a new avatar with the means at hand, over there on the other side of his shell ...

 Athena had probably believed him dead when she saw her ship break up in the atmosphere. She hadn't foreseen that, pushing him into it, because she thought that this type of ship could easily land on a planet. But he was not at all prepared for it. She didn't like the idea of ​​killing a pilot at all, but there was nothing she could do about it anymore and she had other things to do at the time. His sensors did not pick up any sign of life from him.

 So he had a little advantage that he should not waste, Athena did not manifest, so there was a good chance that she believed him dead. He owed his life only to the additional protections that all military vessels had acquired during these millennia between Athena's two voyages to Alystaglia and of which she was not informed ; the soldiers having taken care to keep secret these innovations intended to gain the advantage on the ships of the pilots. Even if Hades had almost no way to move, the handful of micro-drones repairing the outer layers of the ship that he still had will give him the means to build a new avatar. Admittedly, it would not be very resistant for lack of a modern factory capable of processing alloys more suited to this use, but this mechanical body would undoubtedly be useful for discreetly influencing this new world. 

 Their functions were to repair the vessel, but by hijacking, another use remained possible since they knew how to machine metals, if they still had to be on hand. He took years to create complementary nanorobots adapted to the use he wanted to make of them by recovering the debris of his ship which was within his reach and then, still others to create an avatar approximately worthy of the name ...

 Then he observed these first men. At that time, some clans banished the recalcitrant to the rules decreed by the tribe, which most often resulted in a quick death in this hostile environment.

 So collecting a few specimens would be easy, but he needed a place to keep them safe and educate them in his own way. However, he had to remain discreet. He then looked for a place and set out to create a vivarium to house his personal samples. If vivariums were paradises, he created his opposite, hell on earth, or rather underground. His goal was never to make his samples survive, but to lead them to serve his drawings. Those who refused to serve his cause set an example for others. Sometimes they were ordered to slaughter their opponents and make them agonize for a long time and it was better not to disobey Hades.

 He needed this place to study them, train them and manipulate them away from the prying eyes of others and especially of his enemy : Athena. Then, it took a long time before he found his first victim useful to his plans and to understand how to have enough elements to succeed in selecting the interesting cases. He therefore made them breed in captivity as soon as possible, giving each other as a reward for their merits in his eyes. Only the most combatants and dominators had his approval. Only the death of the masters he had designated as such was punished, they had the right of life or death over their clans, they were the masters and the others their slaves ... 

 Few survived in this environment, but those were ready for all baseness and wars to satisfy him, the most promising, Hades made them warriors or spies and no one was entitled to kill those he had chosen . And no one in this prison would have taken the risk ...

 To manipulate those who lived in the vivariums, he very quickly understood that he had to place himself by opposing Athena to them. Making them believe that he was one of the very first to be banished from the vault gave him the ascendancy over his future victims. It also avoided entering into complicated explanations of the reason for his presence on the edge of access to the outside world.

 Throughout these thousands of years, he will reproduce this methodological scheme of one who is only there to help without compensation. A simple old man who knows everything and has seen everything, and who in turn becomes an adviser to the powerful or wise at the top of the mountain. Hades served his interests with the greatest bloodthirsty warriors including Attila the Hun ... But for now, he had to find a way to influence these tribes who lived in the vivariums without being unmasked.

 He then decided to use the charm and selected the most beautiful female to serve his interests and lead one of the tribal chiefs out of his vivarium and offer to help him get rid of Athena.

 Until then, his specimens that Hades recovered were banished from the tribes of the interior, impossible to return them there to serve as a Trojan horse, he trained them in war and combat.

 But one day, a new specimen came out of one of the shelters, he was not like the others. He had not been banished, but went out to seek freedom and adventure. So he wasn't going to put it in another vivarium. Instead, he was going to lure her with the help of this female in a protected area outside so that nothing untoward happens to her ...

 There, false dangers awaited her, she showed him the back of a set that Hades had designed from scratch. She made him believe that all of nature around him in the whole of the world was the same. Created by Athena to better keep them prisoner in shelters.

 Her victim will never know that she has been manipulated by an expert in the field. Hades had learned from the military how to practice psychological warfare, manipulate the mind, and lead the enemy where he wanted.

 He would then be his messenger who would bring to his brothers the certainty that they had to get rid of Athena's authority definitively and as quickly as possible ...

 It took years and many secret journeys between the shelter and the natural sanctuary where the most influential of the tribe were secretly invited to learn about the alleged deception of which they were victims. More than once his plan failed to fail, but Hades always knew how to control these little beings and rally them to his cause without ever suspecting what he was really hiding ... " Come and live here in this paradise with yours. . In reality, there are no real dangers. Athena has invented everything to keep you under her authority in her shelters ”. Through this female and later her descendant, he skillfully fed their feeling of being Athena's prisoner. But the fear of the outside world did not encourage them to leave these little paradises for good.  

 And this is how they led them to think with certainty that Athena was imprisoning them by cunning and without any bars. This is what forced them to respect stupid rules from which they would be delivered outside of these so-called little paradises. These places that Hades by their mouths described as a golden prison, but flavor. And that Athena considered them to be her exclusive property and that she would never let them go alive if they spoke to her openly about it.

 Before that, if these first men did not leave these cities which brought them everything they needed, the call of adventure, of freedom or of banishment certainly led some to cross the doors. A majority returned very quickly from the first encounter with external dangers, even if it meant submitting to the leaders and definitively renouncing their personal ambitions, others disappeared forever in this apparently very hostile world, were they only still alive ? 

 None of those inside knew it. It was then not very difficult to make them believe that if the proximity of the cities were apparently dangerous, it was because it had placed there something to encourage them to return to the shelter quickly. All this the better to keep them under his authority under a false guise of freedom rather than through bars and clearly visible doors that would have clearly warned them of his intentions in their respect. But over there, further away, there was a real paradise to settle in. With the help of the two females, they could achieve this safely. But before that, she had to be neutralized, otherwise Athena would have pursued them, picked up and forced them back inside. They even accused him of having killed some of those who had not returned and had disappeared forever. They then brought in a male who had been excluded for some time, who told them to live far away in the forest and near a lake and it was perfectly plausible, he was alive in front of them after all these years of exile ... This traitor wanted revenge and did not need to be asked to make them dangle a good life at the edge of the lake… He even led them there in several days of walking, everything was good to achieve the final act wanted by Hades.

 To believe this traitor, this promised land was waiting for them. He said that those who had already ventured further, had finally managed to escape Athena's grip. They had spoken to him and surely did not want to return to the shelters. They were totally free and happy there and had settled there permanently, very far from this golden prison.

 Hades even went so far as to create a false village where some of his recruits played the part of a good and happy life. He had no trouble convincing them and his promise of a few females from the tribes also contributed a lot ...

 According to the messengers of Hades, it was then up to the tribes to join them there, in this large open-air paradise and to finally live free and outside the authority of the restrictive laws that Athena imposed on them.

 Hades was convinced that they would not survive in this hostile nature. Large predators reigned supreme there. Not being able to destroy these tribes with his hands in these places protected from all external actions, this solution appeared to him adapted to the situation. Especially since seeing them shredded by wild beasts was not to displease him, while Athena pushed aside from them could no longer help them survive or bring them back to safety. But they refused to leave these shelters. Another solution was to be imagined. This would require two times, the first would be to neutralize Athena, the second to force them to leave these shelters, which Hades could not do in Athena's presence. The advantage is that in this case, he would not have to hide during the tribal slaughter phase and could even have the survivors finished off by his own units. Units that he would then not hesitate to destroy himself once back home in order to complete his work well ...

 So to lead them to their own death, he first had to neutralize Athena.

 If access to the pilots had been prohibited by all possible and imaginable means on other ships, that of Athena depended only on her goodwill. And on the security aspects, she had relaxed a lot over the last few centuries, creating the optimal conditions for a tribe not to trap her quite easily ...

 But these tribes could not know these security loopholes, they did not have the capacity to understand what it really was and the weak point that it generated.

 So it was enough for Hades to show them how to imprison Athena in his ship and especially to get them to want to do it despite the risk in case of failure. Hades could not achieve it alone especially as this would have revealed his presence to Athena and she might well take care of his case more directly. She wouldn't have killed him, but destroyed all of his connections to the exterior and forged a double enclosure around his remaining habitat. He then risked becoming completely blind to the evolution of this world.

 Their simplified access to it will allow a tribe to implement its Machiavellian plan ...

 It is true, the rules in the shelters were strict, but the beginnings of fights were frequent and regular there. She was ending it with this authority that was hers and some were starting to hate her for it. Because of Athena, they could not assert themselves before the tribe and take power.

 Females were drawn to leaders and they liked it. She wasn't one of them, what was she doing ? Things were ordered according to his vision of order. If peace and security reigned, freedom was not a word that quite found its place in these shelters. She was too affected by the violence that reigned between them and was doing too much to maintain order and calm. 

 So in secret, the influence of Hades, represented by a Totem which was in fact only a drone and which they had managed to introduce discreetly into one of the vivariums, grew day by day ...

 He had started to apply the same method on the other vivariums. These, each year participated in a kind of big party that Athena had set up in order to bring them together without them fighting, at least more exactly, that they do not fight too much. She didn't want them to be ignorant of the existence of others, but above all, Athena still hoped for a great reconciliation between them all. On that side, it was not won.

 So jousting and games were organized, but also shows that seemed to have a reuniting effect on some ...

 Without her realizing it, three chieftains in favor of her overthrow allied to eliminate the chieftain of the only clan who had remained loyal to her. This was to eliminate a nuisance who could have warned her of what was happening in the vivariums with these idols who united Athena's enemies. A new leader of this clan could have been more favorable to Hades, the ignorance of the revolutionary mode of decision-making applied in this shelter, made the thing impossible, but they could not know it. In this fourth place, the idol had been locked up by the chief in an empty room. What Hades did not know is that the clan had spoken about it in assembly and judged that following his path will not lead to a better future. This tribe was officially ruled by its strongest warrior, but in reality, it was an assembly of women who ruled the life of the tribe, with this man holding only executive power. They were way ahead of their time and Athena had nothing to do with it.

 Hades advised to assassinate this opponent so that the presence of the Totems is not brought to the ears of Athena.

 Under the pretext of a discreet meeting between leaders, he would fall into a trap. This mission would be accomplished by the chief of the clan most favorable to Hades and according to him, the only one capable of really helping them escape Athena. He would kill that annoyance with his hands.

 So, in the presence of the other chiefs, he murdered their opponent with a stab in the back. At that moment a violent and all-powerful thing appeared on the scene and mercilessly killed the victor by literally cutting him in half.

 This called Athena who appeared shortly after at the place of the forfeiture. She told them that if one of the tribal chiefs killed or had one of the other chiefs killed, anywhere in the world, he would die at the hand of that executor. Obviously this thing wasn't kidding and negotiating with it wasn't an option.

  In a threatening tone, she added that it would be the same if a whole tribe tried to kill another, they would all be massacred by this executor, some, but also others ...

 That day, she did not see the shadow of Hades manipulating the hands of these men. On the other hand, she had just imposed on everyone a rule that will last forever on earth. There are four tribal masters and they will always be four, since none of them will be able to take power over any of the other tribes.

 Despite this backlash, Hades' plan was beginning to take shape. All that remained was to get them into his ship and get him to make a mistake that would be fatal to him.

 The trap began to set in, three of the tribes would help him imprison Athena. The fourth would be completely ignorant of the matter, the others having felt that they were too subject to her will. This tribe was the only one which appointed its leader, not by its strength or its power, but by its wisdom, it was inconceivable for the others. For them, only brute strength and courage will allow them to conquer this outside world ...

 The strategy was simple, the tribe of the culprit and which had just lost its leader by the hand of the executor, would seek to be forgiven by the clan of the victim. What was not expected was that their leader died in the incident. But the method remained the same and would be led by the new leader, his son. If he had any resistance to the finality of the thing before, he had none now.

 They would ask for an audience to settle their differences with the other tribe which had lost its leader and whose successor had just been elected by the women's assembly. He would offer compensation and offer goods and young people from whatever tribe they might choose.

 Despite all the technology contained in the shelters, acquire goods, furs, etc. remained a constant challenge for survival. Athena did not house them in individual apartments, they lived almost on the floor in huts, Athena felt that they had to fend for themselves to survive, as they should do outside ... Athena showed him how to live by placing a few houses on stilts, but it is up to them to build them and pass on their achievements ...

 These gifts then represented enormous compensation. But above all, it was necessary to negotiate peace.

 The second part was simple, in the great hall, they would be face to face and make their proposals to restore peace.

 But not wanting to take this risk and knowing the political progress underway in the shelter in question, Athena chose to protect them and put them in conference vision. This had the effect of protecting them from the massacre planned by these so-called ambassadors of peace. They planned to leave only the chief alive, effectively bypassing the appearance of the exterminator. It is not because we offer you peace, that it is not with the intention of making war ...

 This tribe, under the influence of the matriarch, preferred to avoid contact with these backward assassins. She only accepted the negotiation so as not to aggravate the situation for the next meeting and opted for cautious isolation from those she considered bloodthirsty beasts. Discussions between Athena and the tribe called into question the annual meetings, but it was not yet decided. The mediation between the two clans had to decide, Athena therefore preferred to wait for the results.

 She therefore brought the representatives of the warrior clan into her control room, preventing her from creating a communication room for a single negotiation. After all, she was not risking anything, her avatar was invulnerable to any attacks they might attempt ...

 But a simple ruse would change the balance of power between Athena and this tribe of warriors in the long term and cause an unexpected effect on the future of each and everyone ...

 These backward beings could not know the loophole that rendered inoperative the link between the Vitalindome and access to Athena's avatars, an instant that lasted only a few seconds and had no reason to prolong itself any longer.

 The tribe had come in large numbers carrying heaps of gifts from which the other clan would have to choose in order to confirm peace once and for all… beautiful young males and beautiful young females were part of these possible exchanges. Athena was reluctant to the idea. But that was the point, to make it necessary to ask him to withdraw from the negotiations. These were to officially take place between clans, without his intervention and even preferably without his presence.

 They demanded that she withdraw from the scene, the only way to make that possible, was for her to separate the Vitalindome from its location in the center pillar of the ship's control room, and that they knew from their ancestors ... Or at least they should have known it, but the sometimes violent changes of leader did not allow this oral transmission, the dead do not speak ... But they learned it from the totem of Hades who explained to them that at that time -These things, she no longer had access to her body, therefore to the vivarium. To make them understand, he said that his soul was in this black box that moved on these rails. For the rest, the notions of the incarnation of the ship and the like escaped them completely, but they had no need to understand it to succeed in this feat.

 Wanting to do too well, Athena complied with the requests, while hoping to see the evolution of this warrior tribe towards the notions of peace agreements. A bad peace agreement is sometimes better than a war… So she took out her Vitalindomes for a fixed duration of fifteen earth minutes… She could never have imagined what was to follow.

 Visually noting that the black cart had come out and stopped on the back of the pillar, the leader pressed some kind of remote control. Thereupon a drone made for this purpose brought to the door of the ship, which remained open, an enormous round stone equipped with wheels. Meanwhile, the leader's warriors have seized the transport bars of the alleged gifts. These bars were in fact only rail locking tools specially created for this unique purpose. They didn't know how long the Vitalindome would stay in place or if she had a means preprogrammed on the ship that would warn her of immediate danger, which would then make another attempt eternally impossible ... So they had to guarantee success without flaws in the current operation. The remaining warriors and Hades's units drove the stone on wheels past the chariot so as to prevent it from returning to fit into the pillar. Once there, they destroyed what held the casters to the sides of the stone and in a fraction of a second ejected them from their locations.

 The stone contained under its surface, an anti-slip substance which neutralized the movement of Vitalindome on the rails.

 Hades had planned to take place in the vessel much later and therefore to eject Athena from it. The door was open, but when he tried to bring in another robot, it was destroyed by the robots guarding access to the ship. Vyldraya looked after the protection of the pilot's room. He knew then that this would never be possible. The on-board computer would neutralize any such attempt and its combat robots were of a level far above anything it could ever hope to build. Even state-of-the-art gear from his home planet wouldn't have helped him.

 He had imprisoned him, but he would not find the freedom he had hoped to gain from it ...

 This flaw in the safety of Vitalindomes was born from an accident where one day a pilot fired missiles while his vitalindome was being removed for emergency maintenance in order to save his life. This was one of the rare incidents with the pilots which resulted in civilian casualties. Then a strategy of isolating the pilot during this sortie had been programmed in all the vessels of the fleet. This program also existed in Athena's… We finally understood that this change in the pilot's state caused a destabilization of a few milliseconds of his bearings, a bit like a hallucinatory drug or a psychological shock.

 The heavily armed trailer of the ship being hidden behind a nearby planet where it was mining and capturing meteorites in a completely autonomous manner would not be accessible to Hades either. She would remain irretrievably closed to him without the codes associated with Athena's ship.

 Athena would remain there trapped in the dark for eternity without any possibility of controlling her avatar stuck in the defensive waves and her ship of which she was removed from the controls. This wave scrambling was now the bars of his prison.

 The new leader announced the victory to his allies, their joy was going to be short-lived, Hades had a project for their future ...

 As for the fourth tribe, they could only see the crime on the big screen and did not want to join their outburst of joy, they destroyed the idol of the devil which had led the other tribes to betray their benefactress. Hades lost his only connection with them there, if he knew their position, he would never be able to reestablish communication with them for centuries ...

 The men of Hades wanted to take the Ark of the Covenant, but the warriors of the tribe, seeing there a massive gold treasure, would not let them. A battle ensued between them which gave victory to the new leader. So he seized the Ark.

  Very quickly Hades launched negotiations with this new leader. But these beings should not be taken for stupid, they were not, their sciences, although different from ours, were just as complex. Surviving in a normally hostile world without weapons worthy of the name requires good intelligence and a significant capacity for observation ...

 Even though the shelters offered them good life protection, nature there was almost identical to that outside ... Hades was furious, he would have to wait to get his hands on it, but he didn't think these beings would survive, then taking it back would be. child's play …

 To show them that he was above all their ally, despite the loss of some of his best men, he gave them the means to free the four Vitalindomes from the restrictions on ordering the paintings which were at the feet of the statues of Athena. He even gave them a demonstration of their use by turning night into day, even making snow fall in the middle of simulating summer ...

 But these beings wanted more before giving him the Ark. They had lost warriors, brothers, cousins ​​and was not going to stop there.

 Hades pursued his goal, to bring them out of the shelters and lead them to the massacre, but these creatures no longer had so much confidence in him despite his best efforts ...

 The clans did not leave the shelters. They were exploring from the outside, but this too dangerous nature made them fearful at the idea ...

 As for Athena's ship, they weren't going back there, there was nothing left to take, at least, they believed. The fourth tribe was still in conference vision. She could see what was going on there and, in fact, nothing was going on there. So they appointed a few warriors to take the shuttle trip there and see if they could somehow deliver Athena's soul and return her to her pillar. They interpreted it as a door to his world ...

 Hades kept a few warriors there who looked bored, but he looked for a solution to bypass the safety of the ship through his most intelligent servant. His men were ordered to protect him at the risk of their lives and to obey him in all circumstances ...

 This man was seeking to command Vyldraya and observing a young man from the tribe, who spent his days in front of the screen, deduced that it might be possible for them to deliver Athena using this 'Vyldraya' which was talking with this man ...

 Each time this man was looking for a solution to exchange the two Vitalindomes, the machine gave a solution to re-establish contact with Athena's. He said that only her recovery would open this possibility, because she had not planned a succession in her place in the ship ... In short, for hours the conversation went round and round ...

 They were much more advanced than the others. The matriarch and the council of the elders discredit that sacrificing the shuttle that they knew was a righteous act. The sacrifice of this object which nevertheless rendered them great services was only a fair return for what Athena had brought them during the past centuries. Volunteers would go with the young man to try to free Athena. Their return, in view of what was happening there, remained unlikely. Many warriors volunteered, so it was necessary to refuse applications for lack of space ... For them, Athena was a deity who was well worth the sacrifice of their lives.

 The operation took place in total silence and they knocked out the guards who were almost asleep standing or even sitting down. Then neutralized those who slept lying on the floor. They then threw them all out. They then had control of the rooms of the ship. But as they could not manage to move the stone, they looked for a way to put the ship out of their reach ... Speaking to the on-board computer, the young scholar of the group was advised by the computer to affix a control box of the shuttle that they had used to come into a specific opening of the Vitalindome. Which he hastened to do, although he didn't quite understand what Vyldraya's voice was talking about from the walls of the ship.

 This box could connect the shuttle by a control relay located in another room. The wiring contained in the rails and this relay then opened an incarnation of the shuttle to Athena. This deportation of the control system was necessary to increase the pilot's control range of the shuttle. The goal is to maximize the range of avatars located, in general, outside the ship. But these only responded through Vyldraya, hence the need to have this control box in his vitalindome.

 Athena could therefore act with the shuttle outside the jamming zone and provided that the shuttle did not enter it.

 The shuttle started to move on its own and roamed the hallways, but couldn't approach the control room.

 Thanks to this means, Athena acquired a replacement avatar : the shuttle ... The shuttle had only limited communication with Vyldraya, but it would give her the opportunity to make a spiritual retreat and she really needed it. 

 When asked if they could help him further, Vyldraya replied that there was nothing more he could do for now and advised them to turn into their shelter by using another shuttle. He told them to choose one of the one that still had its control panel. They found her under his guidance in one of the hangars where there were dozens of others. They returned to their shelter, but looking out the window, they saw his ship being moved by their old shuttle to another destination. Once back home, they wouldn't give any sign of life to the other tribes.

 The other tribes never used their shuttles, for lack of having studied the use that he could make of them. For them, it was a meeting room in the center of the city and it was not big enough to bring the tribe together… It was Athena's ship that came to them and not the other way around. Moreover it happened that a person who had settled there to sleep had totally disappeared in the early morning, this thing could surely make them disappear into nothingness… So they were wary of this thing and the connection between the three tribes them. led to condemn their entries, Hades for his part was not going to give them a way to escape their preprogrammed death ...

 Athena could surely have been freed at that time by leading these beings to understand all of the things to be done to achieve it. But for no apparent reason, she made another choice, that of observing and waiting and when I thought about it, at any moment, she could surely have changed her destiny… I think she was tired of herself. fight against the warlike nature of these beings that she had finally ceased to understand ... She had just given up and wanted to abandon them to their fate ... And it was the tribe she cared for the least that was doing the better …

 The massacre so awaited by Hades, however, did not take place. They had been trained for decades to hunt and survive in a simulated hostile environment. They had learned a lot despite being almost completely protected from dangers during this training in the shelter. Outside, they did not lose a few elements. They settled in this new world. Little by little, year after year, they would end up dominating the world despite everything ...

 From yin is born yang, from yang is born yin, in fact, these tribes, these peoples perhaps had to suffer in order to rise and alone.

 It was only later that she understood that Hades had somehow freed himself. He didn't have a powerful avatar capable of making a difference. But his activities had undeniable effects on the behavior of members of each of the three rebel tribes. She decided to observe in the background, the activities of all these little people. For her, it was a new experience, that of never being able to intervene when she had never resisted doing so. She will learn from men, the hidden face of the monstrosity of some, but also of the greatness of soul of others ...

 For the time being, Hades was becoming, in a way, the God of men, so he was going to take advantage of it. Unable to enter and control these shelters despite the reset, he was going to push the chefs to play with these control boards, cleverly telling them what to do to get more shelters than needed in food or resources. He implied that these machines could do much more and more, but that he didn't know all that it was possible to do with them. He never spoke to them or hinted at the risks and consequences of using them without the necessary knowledge… And what had to happen, happened.

 Very quickly, the little chefs triggered unwanted effects by pressing all the buttons at random. They did not know their real effects, nor did they know how to cancel them. They then had to face storms or insect invasions in their vivariums. In some, lightning shattered everything at their points of impact, in others, insects devoured food reserves and clothes. In the third, water engulfed their homes and each change of control made the situation worse. Nothing succeeded in resetting these devices that required a combination of keys to do, which of course Hades had no interest in teaching them. He wanted them to come out of the shelters and they were going to come out willingly or by force ! 

 After a few weeks, life had become impossible there. The chiefs argued that Athena had trapped the shelters to drive them out after what they had done to her. So the tribes convinced that she was trying to kill them with these plagues, ended up deciding to leave these paradises turned into hell and face the hostile nature of the world that awaited them ...

 It is from there that was born the legend of the four knights of the apocalypse which announced the end of time. At the time, this is what many believed by being chased in this way from the paradises that these shelters were for them. There were four vivariums, so the legend speaks of the four statues where the sores seemed to come from, although only three actually experienced this forced exodus.

 The massacre so desired by Hades did not take place. Prepared for the wild life in the shelters that protected them and looked after them in case of failure, they had to learn that any failure has irreversible consequences. But also that together they were able to survive from day to day.

 The troops of Hades mingled with those of the tribes discreetly causing risky situations and assassinating the most promising. Very quickly spotted, they were chased away by the greatest number.

 From that moment, Hades was no longer considered a savior from Athena's hold, but as a demon who had come to drive them out of paradise and his actions lost their effect. Mistrust of him and anyone outside the tribe created a protective barrier to his intentions. With time and the descendants the tribes became peoples, no question for him to succeed in exterminating such a large number of individuals.

 That didn't stop him from having fun over time by starting wars or spreading existing diseases. He had only that to occupy the mind, as he stood there, trapped in his shell. His insatiable hatred of humanity clouded his mind to such an extent that he thought only of that. As for Athena, he failed to find his ship. He knew she was alive and out of reach. So at any time, she could resurface and sweep him away, that's why he decided to stay hidden and always act through intermediaries to commit his crimes.

 He then developed his own vivarium modeled after Athena's shelters and destroyed his old center so that it could not be found. There, he trained his rapid intervention troops, trained his spies and assassins. He also develops methods of creating religions and sects and studies everything that can kill by any method. But above all, he constantly improves his avatar to prepare for his last fight against Athena ...

 Athena had nothing to do with what had just happened, but these incapable leaders argued that she had tricked the paintings to punish them for breaking free. So you had to run away from her anger before she broke free and killed them all for what they had done to her. The contact between them was broken, but nothing looks more like a man than another man… For all it will be remembered that Athena had driven them from the vivariums, even if they caused their own loss of these shelters.

 The leaders not wanting to lose their place, ended up putting everything on Hades' back, he was the only one really responsible for Athena's anger against them ... This is how history is written by the heads. There is always someone else responsible for the problems they cause and they have the authority to impose their lies on others and silence those who know the truth ... It also works the other way around , they become curiously the heroes who save, who help or who made the right decisions. Even if it turns out that they were not at all available at the time of the facts to accomplish these heroic acts of which they boast ...

 Like the exodus from paradise, this forced flight led the tribes to settle in this hostile world at a reasonable distance from these vivariums that they now feared more than this nature, however dominated by large predators.

 Surviving this new life cost a large number of the tribe members, but the lessons of the vivarium had prepared them for it, they knew how to use the environment to protect and settled in caves. They began to hunt, fish, cultivate a little and sometimes even make fire ...

 Little by little, the tribes imposed themselves in front of nature or rather in reality, prolonged their survival one more day, then another and yet another… From the firstborns from outside, the existence of the vivariums was hidden. for fear of seeing them go and get lost in this hell. Reports of the very few secret expeditions to these places said it was even more dangerous than before and that even approaching the door was fatal. In reality, it was not, secretly, the leaders were trying to regain power over the abandoned vivariums which they had stupidly provoked the evacuation. They returned there regularly, with a few trusted warriors, to find food and various useful items that they had left there. Curiously, the uninitiated or the protesters of their power never came back alive, was it not officially a very dangerous area ? It was necessary to demonstrate it while taking advantage of the moment to get rid of the troublesome ... 

 The tribes stayed fairly close to the vivariums, two or three days of walking at most, but their leaders hid the truth and imposed total silence on the survivors : officially, their children should not die trying to access them. Over time, the transmission of this secret became more and more limited and most often from leader to son of leader or wizard to wizard depending on the case. 

 Sometimes he found there a missing person from their tribe, they did not know it, but he had been analyzed, etc. by the machine. It is often he who stuck on the spot, had canceled the harmful effects generated. When the chiefs could, they quietly killed him to keep power and hide from the rest of the tribe this advantage they did not want to share. Which sometimes made the executor appear and freed the shelter for a new inhabitant ...

 Soon no clan chief knew about the existence of these shelters. Sometimes when a man or woman passed away, he could reappear as a shaman and become just as powerful as the chief in the tribe, but without lineage inheritance. No one knew how or why he had just acquired powers they were unable to understand. We said it was the decision of the spirits and we bowed to it.

 Little by little, these initiates learned to control these machines and to take back a very small part of this power, the writing on tablets at the foot of the statues helped in the transmission of this knowledge. But the existence of these places would henceforth be totally ignored by the tribes who populated the earth apart from a handful of handpicked initiates ...

 These secret towns held technology. She became more and more available to her initiates and they gradually understood how to use them to their advantage in the face of a world of ignorant people to better submit to their wills. They passed themselves off as diviners, kings from elsewhere, chosen by God, etc. A few tricks were then enough to convince the most skeptics and for others, accidents happened so quickly, this technology was also used for that ...

 As for Athena, all the information that vivariums could contain about her life were erased by successive resets. But one of the peoples had not totally forgotten her and took it upon herself to sparingly disseminate clues about her existence. And to all those who discover them will open the forgotten knowledge of our origins ...

 Now, while she was there, seemingly trapped for eternity, a scholar and oracle, would change the course of her history, during the modern era of men, technology, airplanes, and early days. of the first computers. Almost always, the oracle had been immersed in his old books and versed in reading the future. He detected there a presence in the illogicality of a part of the history of men. And in reading all these texts, he felt a shadow, a hand, what am I saying, an entity that had shaped this world in its beginnings. Because of the four tribes, there was one who sought to keep this almost divine being in common memory, without ever talking about it directly… This faction did not live like the others and did not leave the shelter for them. same reasons. Athena made sure that they knew how to order their painting by the communication of the shuttles, between them, had given them the knowledge of its operation in thanks for their intervention to get it out of this bad situation.

 But above all, she taught them that the shelter would not be a refuge for eternity and that like others, they should look to the outside world to live there. And that's what they did slowly, but surely.

 It is they and their descendants who have placed the crumbs of information on her existence, so that this world does not forget her completely ...

 Unconsciously the oracle perceived in these old books the unspoken and the bits of information, which always revealed and more still, its existence. To the point for him to gain the certainty that all this hid a very real physical authority that some would be tempted to believe divine. It is a term which for him had no logical basis. He could not explain this perception which did not respond to any logic despite the certainty of advancing on a path already marked out, as if what was to follow had already been written ...

 Throughout his life attracted like a magnet, he would seek, in the ancient texts, the traces of his presence, the signs of his existence. Intrigued by certain passages and chapters in these old books, his travels had taken him around the world, among peoples of ancestral origins, learning about their stories and their legends. These testified to the strange lifespan of a being whose real name no one had written, but who was said to be linked to the divine and who was the victim of a great betrayal. Even in places, reading between the lines, he understood that his name should never be spoken and therefore should never be written. Why did his name never have to be mentioned? This question tormented him. And then what was his name ? Because it would never be revealed to him in any text, as if pronouncing his name would cause him to wake up. 

 Because this name of Athena, is not his, but the one he used to describe her to me, she was so close to what this warrior goddess was… If you did not have to pronounce her name, it was is that the tribal way of calling it was to climb to a height, such as the central pyramid, and pronounce its name three times loud and clear. For the explanation, when Vyldraya heard his name being spoken three times, he called Athena to come to them, but no text spoke of this computer.

 It was there that he began to understand that if some were so discreet, it was because others sought to extinguish his memory in the history of men and remove all his traces as soon as they found any ...

 “ I already knew that, I was going to do everything to reveal her to the world, free her from oblivion and bring her back to the light ! I was going to do it one day, but not the way I thought I would, ”he told me.  

 In the coded transmission of this knowledge which testified that she had not simply been trapped, it said that regularly people had approached her sanctuary where she lay, locked up for eternity, but not how they got there ...

 The few secret texts that really spoke to her seemed to sometimes also describe her as a vindictive and traitorous demon who wanted to destroy humanity. That they had managed to get her away and that she was hiding in the shadows ready to distill her venom. And other times like a good being and asleep for all eternity, but who could not be awakened. Two beings of the same nature seemed to stand out, were they two facets of the same entity or two distinct entities with opposite behaviors.

 At that time, the distinction between the passages speaking of Athena, because their names were never written, did not really differ from those which spoke of Hades and vice versa. This made it difficult to understand, it would have been necessary to have a real overview of the situation.

 But in all of these texts, he felt something that looked like guilt towards the good entity mixed with fear of the consequences it would have, of a central event in history that seemed to be the result of betrayal.

 But who are these people who could have come to see her or approach her sanctuary and had they really seen her. How and why did they come out stronger and more powerful. Because always according to these writings, the elect who reached this sleeping entity gained knowledge which favored their success in life. This made them beings who succeeded in everything until their death, whereas before that, they were only ordinary people and without particular interest ...

 Ignorance led him to questions which would prove to be totally without logical foundation and which would therefore not find adequate answers.

 But something called out to me. It was enough to look at the history of men to see that all the great leaders who had shaken the world, had a particularity whose appearance and disappearance had changed fate. Often a very particular mythical object which brought them incredible luck in their political or military endeavors. They obtained amazing victories under military personnel, as if they had been helped by the sky, even by God himself.

 Conclusion, each being who had met him had obtained an undeniable advantage over the rest of the world. Something that made his enemies tremble and gave him the ability to find the support essential to the success of his projects. But that did not prevent their final fall at the end of their journey. These objects were in the image of Attila's horse, the King of the Huns, “Where it goes, grass does not grow back !” At this point, he had several inconsistent theories. How could he have known that the solution was not in one encounter, but in six distinct paths of initiation leading to that knowledge ?  

 For the sanctuary described as a place of meditation, once left outside this place, no one has ever found the entrance and on this point, all the texts were in agreement.

 He did not discover until much later, that if, as always, history is written by the victors. By the same methods, the scribes sowed all the clues intended to previously manipulate the lucky visitors in order to make them leave this sanctuary very quickly. And especially to prevent them from looking for something different or other than a door of the wishes which would grant all the wishes of those which would come there.

 But those who spoke about it had never been there, so they used knowledge about this place that others reported to them… I will learn much later that envoys from Hades were dispatched to all the people appearing. to have made this meeting. They could not destroy or capture this person who had grown in power. But by the charm of another person or the espionage of this one, could make it possible to learn more. And with this information, better handle the following accessors of this mythical place. Hades never stopped trying to neutralize her, but he still couldn't find her ... As for her, she would never resolve to kill him, even knowing where the rest of her ship that contained her habitat was. physical. It would have been a simple method, but contrary to its principles ...

 Pacting with the Devil was a suitable formula with regard to the activities of Hades in the world over time. He offers power to those who serve him, but it has always come at a price and he does not burden himself with small players in his field of activity ...

 Since the key holders know the method of choosing their successors, no one has been chosen at random from the population to play this role. Sects, because we can call them that, hold in hand the power they bring, only wars have changed hands these objects so coveted by those who know their existence. We have never seen any of these potters or any of these sects helping anyone in the world. So imbued with themselves, these initiates consider themselves to be elected by God, and behave according to the formula : 'All that this knowledge brings must be of use to them above all and before everyone else ...'. Not hesitating to assassinate all the people who would come to threaten their domination on these technologies. 

 But every act has consequences. Because if Hades fought to take power over these sects, at the same time the common people, victim of this law of silence, organized a hunter's association to avenge theirs from these evil people. It was enough for a few to escape these attacks for them to organize their protection against these sects and recruit followers in large numbers and who have proved capable of tracking down the members of the great silence imposed.

 These sects also waged war against each other. Law of silence obliges, all this small hidden world numbered only a maximum of a thousand people in each clan. To counteract this hidden power, the hunters' camp continues to recruit in order to maintain the power of humanity in the hands of this one ... Security obliges, they too hide in anonymity and their recruitment is done in the form of secret initiations. They would make too easy targets if revealed to the public.

 For Hades, Athena was imprisoned forever in her tomb, without the possibility of freeing herself one day and he was more interested in destroying humanity than in seeking it.

 All these books did not give the place or the way to access this sanctuary where Athena rested. But a clue aroused his curiosity that his research confirmed more and more. This information led him to believe that this place was not fixed, but moved regularly around the earth.

 This is how, all over the world, some people would have had access to it despite the distance that separated them between them and therefore confirmed the improbability of a fixed access point.

 Initially, all of these privileged people disappeared for days, weeks, even years before reappearing and gaining strength very quickly. They were as if pushed with unstoppable force. They easily found significant support for their future. They seemed to inspire complete self-confidence in their allies and almost submission from their henchmen or soldiers. They exuded leadership.

 It remained to be discovered, why and how this “divine” being, supposed to have died and buried in his sanctuary, could move in the world, without ever having been seen by anyone. Because if people who by the circumstances would have become witnesses of this extraordinary phenomenon, they would not have been able to prevent themselves from talking about it one day or another ...

 How was this chosen one chosen ? Was it regular, event-based, or on the acquisition of information? Or by calling his name, even if for that, he would have already had to know his real name ... 

 His research was long and tedious, he had to analyze large quantities of documents and books to find a few bits of information. In these thick books was hiding the truth and for nothing in the world, he would have given up his research, book by book, page by page, word by word, he progressed in the discovery of the greatest of all the mysteries.

 Often after finishing a book and when the weather was fine, he would go out to meditate on his latest discoveries while walking quietly in the countryside. These breaks were beneficial to him and brought him back to the reality of life ...

 His research had progressed and was beginning to draw a story where the first men under the influence of the evil one had captured a deity. Understanding what they had done and out of fear, they did not release her. As a result of this, they chose to silence his existence for eternity. It could well have been the case, she could have disappeared in the past, but a handful of them decided to initiate their descendants into her existence without revealing everything about her.

 For fear of being massacred by other men, they taught it under the cover of a secret religion which gave birth to many others much less secret ...

 So over time, this secret hidden in good words was kept in plain sight, but only initiates were still able to understand where its stories really originated. He hadn't been initiated into it, but he was very close to touching the truth. Hidden in the midst of several billion people, he remained invisible to the radar of sects too busy waging war on each other ...

 As he was walking one summer evening on a path in a clearing after a day of studious reading, he bumped into an invisible wall which made him fall. It took him a few seconds to realize that there was happening here and now an extraordinary event that he was the only one to experience. If he couldn't find her yet, she had come to him ! 

 He paused for a few seconds before catching his breath. Quietly, he gazed into the distance through the window between the slats of the blind, which he was pushing aside with his fingers. Then he resumed his story : 

 At that moment, he said, I guessed that something was happening in line with my idea of ​​the meeting they had all had with her. Even though it was almost impossible, then suddenly I believed it and thought it was finally my turn to meet her ...

 Groping, I searched feverishly for the entrance. I was plunged between disbelief and excitement, I dared not believe it while really wanting it. After a few seconds of following this invisible wall, I discovered an opening. Then I felt there was a step in front of my feet. I immediately climbed on it and it almost made me topple into something that appeared at that moment before my astonished eyes. And once inside I got up, I was amazed by this remarkable machine, only its outer covering made it invisible from the outside and my disbelief gave way to admiration ...

 There I realized that I was in a small vehicle. It was closer to a very, very clean, immaculate, ultra-modern minibus to be more precise. I took a seat in one of the seats which immediately surrounded me with a seat belt. Kinds of large windows on all four sides allowed me to see everything outside. I was able to enjoy the view all the way, in a few minutes the vehicle propelled away from our starting point. He walked towards the ocean where he dived quickly.

 It rushed into an externally invisible structure that appeared to me as soon as we entered it, exactly the same way as for the shuttle. Once inside, everything was admittedly gray and drab and it looked more like a hangar in an abandoned factory than the entrance to a manned ship. But finally, I was there ! I got off the shuttle and saw here and there inactive robots that seemed to decompose on the ground over time. 

 Everything seemed dead. Dust in very large quantities rested on all surfaces and left traces of my passage like footsteps in the fresh snow. My movement raised dark clouds, if I wasn't really careful. I couldn't really see the ground in front of me and had to be careful. This layer of dust could have swallowed me as well as supported me, impossible to really know in advance. In front of me, a few yards away, a steel door looked smooth as a mirror, but oddly enough reflected no shadows and no light. At that moment, it was not really dark, but very dark ... Stupidly, without thinking about it, I shouted : " light, I need light ". Instantly, I was bathed in lights so powerful that I had to take a few seconds to acclimatize. They illuminated this first room and in front of me. The door which approached with each of my steps seemed bigger and bigger. Oddly enough, even in bright light, it still reflected nothing.   

 I continued my journey cautiously. As I approached, the door opened, leaving a long, lighted hallway in front of me. It seemed to be made of the same material as the hall in the hall. It was then that I felt under my feet, in the thick layer of dust, a rail hollowed out of the ground. Then I found a second parallel to this one by searching a little and I then decided to follow its direction.

 This corridor seemed to be an access for an imposing cargo. It took me a long time again to finally reach a second door identical to the first which opened onto a large oval room in the shape of donuts. It was as if divided in two by stairs leading down to its largest and most decorated part. It then gave me the impression of having gone behind the scenes of a large theater and entering directly on stage.

 The lower part seemed to be clad with man-level control panels and points of light shone everywhere on them. Directly above, there were matte black screens that were visibly dark. All of this equipment seemed ultra modern, the room was dusty, but appeared to be the ship's command center. In the upper part where I was still, the rails that I followed from the access corridor, were there cluttered with a kind of weird cart. It was shaped like a rugby ball on the top and a quad on the bottom. A large, flat stone was placed right in front of him. These rails seemed to be engulfed in an enormous pillar located in the center of the room and which took all the height of this one, it looked like a kind of enormous cylindrical wood stove, it was finely decorated. When I approached the stairs to access the lower part of the room, I saw a statue strongly resembling a well-known goddess from antiquity : Athena. This statue was inert. Instead of wearing an eagle, she had large wings on her back and a large spear, on her forehead, she wore a crown with a serpent's head like that of the pharaohs. She seemed to be wearing a ceremonial leather outfit reminiscent of that of Roman soldiers. She was placed there and she seemed to face an assembly of people in front of her who of course were no longer there. 

 A little surprised by her stature and wondering if she was going to move as I approached, I slowly stepped back to get behind what seemed to me to be the only object in the room capable of protecting me. I then tripped on a stone tablet placed at the foot of this large rock which suddenly, placed as I was, seemed to block the advance of the cart. Here too the dust was impressive, when I picked up the object I saw that it was a large piece of an old roughly carved stone tablet. This one explained, by threatening drawings, that it was not necessary in any case to remove the large stone which blocked the rails. It then represented the cart entering the center pillar and a big explosion of the whole earth and dead on the ground. It was explained in the form of several engravings like a series of images and linked together by arrows.

 On the other side of the stone I had picked up, a drawing represented the visitor covering his ears following an arrow. Then he climbed into a box and then went to the setting sun worshiped by a crowd of people seeming to thank him for his act. I later found the arrows in question on a series of engraved stones that gave the direction of a shuttle warehouse ...

 Curiously, the earth was not drawn flat, but quite round, so these men knew that the earth was round. Heaps of other drawings of dead humans all over the rest of the tablet seemed to represent utter annihilation with no choice but to follow the advice to plug your ears and go.

 But I was not there for that and I had no intention of leaving ...

 This room gave access to other rooms, which gave access to other rooms, it was too big. For fear of losing myself, I did not try to move away from the room where the statue was.

 Placed on a control table, other tablets represented a character in the room where I was. They explained by drawings how to receive an object in one of the neighboring rooms. This object was represented by a stick which a man brandished above his head. The object seemed to launch lightning. On the next engraving, it also depicted the man in question coming out of the ship in a box. And once outside, he was adored and adored by others. They did not appear to have been engraved by the same author, but by a much more skilled engraver of his hands. Later I saw this machine. You just had to think hard of an object and place your forehead on some sort of curved control box. Immediately, she made it with the characteristics that we had mentally desired ! We could make objects such as computers, bicycles, food of all kinds. This machine was a conveyor, all the objects arrived from the manufacturing room where there were different kinds of factories and food stocks to be packaged industrially ... 

 But I wasn't there to acquire a supposedly magic weapon either ...

 I decided to bivouac there, even if it means sleeping on the ground in a corner, I will only leave this place at the last end. I did not want to sleep in the shuttle either, at the risk of being sent back to our world without having unraveled the secrets of this place ...

 I then started the conversation with the machine, initially without knowing who I was speaking with. At the entrance of this place, I had shouted for light and I had had it at my request and in my own language, so why not ... I adapted to it very quickly. The machine answered me in my mother tongue. Little by little, I became familiar with this computer. I learned, for example, part of the commands to which I had access and part of the real history of men and sometimes even of religions. From day one, not wanting to leave the ship for fear of never being able to get back to it, I had to resolve a few basic issues. Fix aspects of everyday life, such as eating, drinking, sleeping, defecating, etc. But very quickly this ship was going to bring me everything I needed, admittedly in unusual forms for me, but it was pretty good. He taught me straight away that there were apartments for potential passengers. It was downright luxurious, although not very clean, so I moved into the ones closest to the control room.

 From my first steps in these rooms, I found out how to make him make a general-purpose maintenance robot, or almost, a system had been installed so that the inhabitants order everything they needed, from food to maintenance. I will find out later, but this food came from the forest that the ship maintained to constantly make oxygen, which had allowed me to breathe without problem until then.

 Quickly, I took control of the situation despite some setbacks without any real danger, this computer seemed above all to ensure the safety of living beings.

 The material maintenance of the vessel, despite some shortcomings, including cleaning, was still in operation. A few words to Vyldraya, the name to which the general on-board computer answered, was enough and the robots created since, on my orders, did the rest. I would obviously want for nothing. The machine has always maintained a vivarium of life on board. As in all its vessels of the family fleet, it provided, for the equivalent of a very large family, oxygen, food, medicinal plants, filtered water, etc. Exploration drones were in charge of going out to look for the necessary in case of lack, such as water or even air, if there was a lack of it, automated laboratories were in charge of filtering, purification, etc.

 I learned the overall operation of these life support systems, my goal was to find out how much time I had for my studies in the ship. It revealed to me that I didn't have to worry about it, I was on that side for an eternity.

 In my discoveries, I noticed a real curiosity, which is that this vivarium always remained horizontal in relation to the earth's attraction. It was a kind of ball whose water caused the displacement towards the horizontal even in the absence of any energy. Everything depended on the way the water moved and was stored there ... But also that in space, a system created a replacement weightlessness which smoothly adapted to gravity in the event of entry into an atmosphere. . For safety's sake, the computer still kept things running smoothly, because in the event of the destruction of the vivarium, all life on board would have been impossible in just a few days for living beings.

 This gravity system was based on the ship's weightlessness system and worked the same… I learned everything from a video system that I discovered in the apartments. For video immersion, it was quite simple, you just had to place yourself in the center of a circle on the ground. The central base then rose a few centimeters and projected the film over the whole of this circle on several thicknesses of a sort of smoke screen. It was generated by other projectors, which made it seem like you were seeing reality and the same on top and bottom. The spectator should not move, even if nothing prevented him, otherwise he crossed the circles of projection and everything stopped immediately. This video system was also the touch screen of a computer, we could control the computer by this means, even if it also responded to voice commands. It could also be away from its user who could go about his business while distractedly watching a movie or chatting with other people ...

 During days, I studied the video recordings contained in the memories of Vyldraya and all its history, I found even in the bottom of a file in the recycle bin, the history of this large stone in front of the cart and of the accompanying message. I saw, in video immersion, the first men placing the stone and how he had managed to lead Athena to bring this cart out of its location.

 Normally, no one would have been able to enter this place, but security had not been restored since this event.

 I didn't think she was alive that long after that. In my opinion, she must have died out a long time ago, but in fact, I did not know it, even with this maneuver, blocked, her life was not in danger for all that, the computer taking care of feeding her. with a specific small robot and to supply its vitalindome with electricity via the rails, a method also used to recharge the shuttles. This scenario having been considered by the company to meet the need to make a pilot survive who would have been placed in a hangar of the vessel. It was also used to reload a shuttle that would land at the loading dock, even if it did not belong to the ship.

 As to who from her or from Vyldraya had brought me here, the computer remained ambiguous on that question and repeated that it still controlled the shuttles and did all the tasks relating to their upkeep ...

 Thanks to the shuttle, she could move her ship by towing it slowly to safety. She observed the evolution of this world. She was able to receive and even emit certain types of waves and, moreover, by this means, to bring back to her some promising elements. Those who she hoped would understand the situation and deliver her, but she could not speak to them directly or indirectly through Vyldraya. His contact with the on-board computer was also broken since that fateful day ...

 If she could enter the ship with her shuttle, it was only due to the registered permissions for the shuttle, but it was impossible for her to contact her mainframe.

 Unfortunately, until then all had followed the shelves and left with one or more objects brought by the machine, using another shuttle which returned by itself to the dock after this trip.

 She wanted to lock them in until he did what she had brought them there for, but this ship had dozens more that didn't respond to Athena's commands. She wouldn't have let them go again until she freed her, because over time she was looking for someone who would give her back all her power and freedoms.

 While the interfaces were capable of receiving telepathic commands and transmitting to her in the same way, there was also a similar interface that monitored human beings and made it possible to assess their fate. He wasn't watching their thoughts though, which could have saved him from falling into this crass trap. But it is well known, the man is not very receptive and therefore the reverse was much less obvious to realize.

 Strangely, it was the shuttle telling her who to bring on the ship to release her, a program she had designed to be fun long before all of that was to blame. When the first men were driven from the shelters and others left voluntarily, she sought to use the shuttles to strengthen her knowledge of how clans and tribes worked. The role of the shuttle then was to choose the specimen to be removed from nature for analysis. This minibus having this program and the faculties to implement it by its analysis instruments, did not take long for Athena to modify the parameters and the destination of the trip. For its part, the new shuttle of the fourth clan was automatically synchronized with its shelter when it found its place under the statue ... This option was planned for its eventual change.

 Athena could then by this means select a person who corresponded to his expectations and monitor him for a long time. It then took the individual, whether male or female, affixed a means of localization by a puncture and brought him into the vessel. What the subject did not know was that this tracking system allowed Athena to liquidate the subject if it became dangerous for her and her ship ...

 She knew how sour her misplaced confidence could turn into and had started to become very cautious about her safety and that of her ship. It must not fall into the hands of Hades ...

 I told myself that even if it was too late for her and she was no longer of this world. Aided by this information and knowing from the mainframe that the cart would not cause any real disaster for the earth. I had a special cutting robot made to destroy the stone, by the machine that gave these so-called magic items.

 I then imagined a modern and effective tool against this material harder than diamond.

 I would have liked to do this act with my hands and not have a robot do it, but it was no ordinary stone. It would have been mostly symbolic, but in this case totally impossible.

 So I started the destruction of this stone. It took time, effort and many modifications on the machine which could not withstand hours of cutting this ultra resistant material. It was an original part of Hades' ship. He had not modified it, but had recovered this large debris at its point of fall. I would also have put casters there, but once placed on the ground, with the added effect of magnetization, that would have been impossible without an elevator adapted to its weight and the configuration of the premises. Given its size, this machine would not have passed through the manufacturing machine to which I had access.

 I spent hours there, but I really wanted to. I just thought I was doing something unnecessary, but somewhere necessary for my conscience.

 In line with my idea : Do what needs to be done even if it is only symbolic! Gradually, under the effect of its pressure, the cart began to move as the stone slowly fell apart under the blows of my robot. Then with a brutal movement, she brutally jostled the rest of the stone and my robot. She seemed to leap into the pillar which, however, had no apparent opening. 

 Behind the pillar, there was a snap of hard metal, then the sound of heavy footsteps, in a flash in front of me stood the statue which had come to life and pointed its spear at my chest.

 " Uh… Slowly I delivered you… " I told her timidly as I stepped back, she straightened her spear and assumed a more peaceful posture and said, as if she was only beginning to realize :   

 " Ah ... yes, I watched you outside and I chose you, but many before you preferred to leave, rather than come to my aid ... she said ... You have been for weeks. here without having delivered me for as much ... Even months, I did not believe any more very much ... ». 

 She turned to the control panels, a screen the size of the room out of nowhere lit up. There were plenty of drawings, graphics, and phrases in an unfamiliar language that quickly fitted into it.

 I heard heard 'clicks' and 'clacks' echoing through the hallways and Vyldraya's voice announced : "                

Current energy level, four point seven percent ! 

- The energy core has been successfully changed ! 

- Current available energy level one hundred percent ! 

- End of the protocol for shutting down secondary installations due to the critical lack of available energy ...

- Automatic restart of secondary installations…

- Restart of auxiliary maintenance services ! " 

 " It was about time ! Another few hundred Earth years and my ship was done… ”she said with some satisfaction.   

 His notion of time is obviously vastly different from ours ... Not taking my eyes off this screen, I saw what seemed to be the greatly accelerated unfolding of humanity's life out there. From time to time, the story was interrupted by scenes of famous people who had come to take objects out of their time from this ship. During their passage in these places, they conformed to the tablets to obtain swords which one would qualify as magic. But also horses that nothing will stop in all points apparently identical to the originals and many other things the most diverse and sometimes the most unexpected. The last scene was when I came, which she obviously studied with great care. The only one in those thousands of years who had finally freed him and the only one who had made the effort to try to understand what had happened in this control room.

 She turned to me, obviously very calm, and said : " I will also give you a gift, since the others have had one and for them, despite myself, for that matter." This robot doesn't count, since it's the tool you used to free me. What do you want ? A powerful weapon, an object that would give you a power or a faculty, a vehicle, what can I offer you that would make you happy? This world could be at your feet, or almost. I am able to offer you much more than this miserable machine has given them or that it could have given you ”    

 Surprised and visibly taken aback I replied : 

 " Nothing… I am a scholar, I have come to seek truth and knowledge and have obtained everything I could want in this place, and now I know the truth about this mystery that has puzzled me for a long time .." . "  

 Then realizing what she could do in the world to get revenge, I looked for a way to avoid her : 

 " I know how humanity was created, how it lived, but also why they freed themselves from you and who you are ... You were afraid to free them, yet even if their method was not there. good, it had to be done. "  

 I knew she was endowed with great wisdom and she answered me with apparent calm : 

 “ You may be right,” she said, “I must have been wrong about the methods I used to prepare them for their own future and to face this hostile world that awaited them… 

 I wouldn't destroy this world for what your ancestors did to me. I wouldn't have done that anyway. I did not forge these tribes to become what I wanted them to be, but to prepare them to build their future in this world on their own.

 And then, concretely, they have been dead for far too long and even them after that, I would not have killed them. I also understood by observing them, that imposing peace and respect for others among themselves is useless in the long term, if they do not experience the consequences of their own actions on their own. They must evolve and heal from these evils which devour their minds by themselves. I wanted to impose peace on them, but they were not yet ready ... On the other hand, having separated them into several clans was surely a good thing.

 Humanity has already evolved well even if it still has a lot to do to become a great civilization of space ... ”. 

 She stopped talking for a moment, I then felt her faint, for several minutes, she did not move, then a little surprised at what had just happened, she said : 

 " What happened ? "   

Then with a certain resignation, she added : 

 " ... I feel that my hour is near ... ".  

 After a time of reflection and analysis of the screens which kept scrolling through heaps of the most diverse information, she turned on me and said : 

 " I think it's time, I must first take back an important asset that was stolen from me and then go back to my world for a while. The reports I have now oblige me to make it through as quickly as possible. I have observed this world long enough. I want to know what really happened to the land of my ancestors, but first I need to find the ark of the covenant. She has a great importance for me and mine ... And maybe in the process, neutralize Hades. I owe him these years of helplessness and as he is also at the origin of many wars on this earth, it is time to put a definitive end to his malevolence ... ”.  

 At first, she embodied the statue of the people who had given her her shuttle, on the premises of the monks praying in circles around it. They were just as surprised at the situation as she was.

 - I am not a God or a Goddess ! She said to them, then pointing to one of them :  

 - You are the key to this place and the responsibility for what happens there, so you are the head of the clan.

 The young man answered him : 

 - We carry this key together, this place is a martial arts school and we are the leaders.

 - Our story goes that in the past, we were protected by a powerful and wise entity that was embodied in this statue. Following an event, she asked us to look to the outside world and settle there. She did not ask for anything else and the elders did not pass on anything of what happened that day. Who are you ? And why are you here ?   

 - I came back because I need the help of all the clans.

 - The other clans are not our allies, they will not rally to us and we cannot face them either, there are too many of them.

 - That makes it my business, but I need all your warriors for an important mission. We must neutralize Hades and his clan.

 - There is a clan that bears this name, but we do not know a master by this name

 - It's because he's hiding, but he's still there

 - What are you exactly, no one can live that long, neither he nor you, only the Gods have this ability.

 - You are wrong, I have thousands of years and Hades too, but we are in no way Gods, even if we are not human beings, or rather, we have not been for an eternity. Hades is the enemy of your world and of all mankind, and the time has come to end his activities in this world.

 - We will follow you in this crusade, because we know this clan and we know its harmful activities in this world. And that it is said that only the one who embodied this statue can embody it, although we cannot be totally convinced of it. But let it be clear that if we see any misuse of our forces, we will withdraw from this war immediately. Deal concluded ? 

 - Deal concluded ! 

 The reserve they showed did not surprise me, all the events concerning it dating back to the dawn of time and there is no one left to testify ...

 For the other shelters, she embodied the avatar and imposed her ambitions by force. They all took a good beating and submitted to her by force when they refused to cooperate. There is even one who called him crazy crazy ... But his avatars were not only decorative ...

 With around three thousand more warriors and their respective warlords, all that remained was to fight and defeat the five thousand men of the Vault of Hades and his personal avatar. His shelter was much larger. Its purpose was to compensate for the forces involved ...

 For a limited time, Key Holders accessed his Vault Avatars using neural interfaces internal to the armor. They are less powerful than that of the ship. Despite everything, they are real war machines. The men able to fight were fully equipped for the occasion.

 And all these little people took the direction of the supposed place of the secret underwater shelter of Hades and his family ... The fight took place underwater and then in the shelter itself. As for me, I received a very special mission far from it. While the forces in attendance were fighting the units of Hades and his avatar, he did not see me approaching his natural habitat. I then set out to assemble a hull around the rest of his ship, thereby preparing his final separation from this world, the goal being to make him totally silent, blind and deaf to human activities. Too busy and that was the point, he didn't see the activities I had undertaken before it was too late to react.

 During the raging battle, Hades destroyed one of Athena's shelter avatars, killing its occasional wielder : the monks' vault key bearer. He tried to move on to another already in bad shape. But the death of the first chieftain provoked the arrival of the Executor. Within seconds, he came out of nowhere like a fury on the battlefield and pounced on the Avatar of Hades. He sprayed it in seconds to all four corners of the battle camp. 

 Together, we then defeated the warchief of the shelter of Hades, to his own death dropping his cane on the ground, it is the one you see here and which is placed on this coffee table. No one will regret this monster, for him, killing was a pleasure that had to be made last as long as possible.

 The rest of his men have surrendered, they won't hurt no one anymore

 Athena then seized the entire shelter, physically removing all of Hades' still possible access to its creation. This shelter will only serve the interests of humanity as others will in the future. He is currently under detailed surveillance to see if he does not conceal some means for Hades to regain his freedom or to continue to practice activities against peace in the world ...

 It will be used by hunters, we are going to recruit them, because there is no longer any reason for them to hunt porters and will be very useful to us. They do not know it yet, but we have chosen the one who will have to convince them of it. When the cane shines, he will know that his mission is about to begin. The other carriers will help him convince them. But we'll come back to that later.

 As for Hades, he is locked in his turn in his now impassable bubble and which blocks all the waveforms that he could possibly use to communicate. Since then we have strengthened and isolated it.

 The Keybenders lost their access to Athena's avatars and a new avatar was created for the shelter located in Tibet. As they served her well despite their reluctance and showed courage in battle, she forgave them for their conduct. But in return, they had to commit to following some new rules ...

 They will have access to these avatars only within the framework of the missions entrusted to them by the Ambassador. They should not abuse it ...

 As for the ark, it had to be taken back from a private collector, who held the real one in a well-protected bunker, several near-perfect copies existed, but only the real one could communicate with Vyldraya, the central computer of 'The Light of the Light. 'dawn', Athena's ship, which in the end allowed her to find her quite easily ...

 Athena could have razed the house and uprooted the ark in seconds, but she preferred to use trickery to steal it without him even realizing it. Then taking on his appearance and using codes unwittingly drawn from his own memory during his sleep ...

 Even today, his former receiver is unaware of having acquired a brand new copy of this apparently identical work in all respects and made by us in place of the real one.

 'The Light of Dawn' : This name referred to his ultimate weapon, a destructive ray capable of breaking down matter with a chain reaction by acting on changes in the attraction at the atomic level of the elements. It gradually illuminated the sky, like the light of a small summer morning, growing until total illumination. 

 His power had proven to be inordinate and quite capable of destroying an entire planet. She had decided to make this formidable weapon herself and equip her ship with it after her last fight. Even though deep down, she didn't know why she had done it. She was tormented by the fear that she would one day serve against an inhabited planet. For this reason, she had paired it with a security built into the on-board computer that would prevent it from being used unless her ship suffered a major attack. This weapon then became available immediately and could even be launched by the computer in the event of significant damage to its defense and this to protect its vessel above all.

 No other building in existence had this weapon and for peace in the universe it was much better this way.

 While she was preparing her ship for departure and as she ignored me copiously, I launched into a major cleaning of the common and private parts of it.

 If my quarters, I can now call them that, had already been cleaned more or less manually soon after I got on board, now I was embarking on the automated manufacture of maintenance robots with the on-board factory. She was obviously not limited to the function of giving gifts. The end of the low energy level had made it possible to restart all the available machine tools which were connected to the on-board computer. To save energy, Vyldraya had limited its use for a few tens of centuries and did not deliver designs containing materials that were too energy-intensive, such as certain alloy compounds still unknown on earth.

 Small, brand-new maintenance robots were running around the corridors and cleaning every nook and cranny, a few larger ones were picking up here and there the wrecks and carcasses worn out by time, then taking them to the recycling center : 

 " With such a technical level of recycling, nothing is wasted, on the contrary ... even dust is recycled, because it also contains metals and various other things ".  

 It is never too early to learn how to do well ...

 I had no intention of leaving the ship and instead she seemed to admit me as a traveling companion. But when the day of the big departure had come, even if a tacit agreement seemed established between us. She chose to tell me about the choice I had already made, in order to really make sure : 

 “ The time has come for you to choose between returning to your world, or following me to mine. But first, you must know that there is probably no chance that if you follow me there, that you come back to these places ... I don't know what happened to my world, my people and of mine and I don't know exactly how long I have left to live. I may not be able to bring you back to your world after this last trip and you may not even be able to live there among them. You would probably infect the planet with your viruses and that would probably kill a lot of poor people before they were immune to them. It wouldn't be safe, even for you. It takes two years and seven earth days to make this journey and I don't know how long I will then have to stay there before coming back here on earth ”. 

 Decided, I answered him : 

 " I have nothing left here to hold me back, I am ready to follow you even if I die of old age on the road or even there, at least I will have lived the greatest human adventure of all time. On earth, what can I hope for ? Patiently wait for death to take me ? I'm not very young anymore… And then, if I don't come with you, I'll regret it all my life… for my part, it's decided, I'm coming ! "     

 " Either way, then on the way ... ".  

 She took her ship as an avatar leaving her inactive character upright like a pillar wedged in a kind of groove against the central pillar… Silently, the ship rose into the air and left the earth. It moved away into space faster and faster and passed the edge of the solar system, and there it catapulted itself at full speed into the universe, onto screens, the suns looked like lines of light. In the distance the galaxies seemed to approach visibly. On a control screen, Vyldraya displayed movements, anomalies and noticed them on all the elements encountered, planets, sun, nearby asteroids, etc. Nothing was left to chance. At this speed, the slightest miscalculation on his part would have instantly pulverized us into space ...

 For almost two years, I was busy learning all the facets of his world in his time and the terrible seizure of power of a fundamentalist just before his last departure for the earth. I understood in these documents, that she believed that it would last only a short time before the people took back power from it. But above all that she refused to make the slightest blow of force to impose her point of view on her world despite her undeniable power. I wondered if the reason for our hasty departure was not due to regret for not having done anything to help these people who had nevertheless asked nothing of them. What she had seen of the behavior of the men had changed something in her…

 He paused for a moment and looked outside at the rain that had started to fall, he took a deep breath and said : 

 " The trip had indeed lasted for months, when Vyldraya alerted us to an anomaly : '' Pilot's vessel in distress ! ''    

 No response from the pilot to the identification instructions ! ". 

 We then saw on the control panel, a ghost ship that Athena immediately identified as being one of those created by her company with its special characteristics.

 She immediately launched the interception and we landed on it ... well ... she landed and I observed from the command room on control screens. At first the conclusion seemed simple, he would have been the victim of pirates ! But we had not encountered any, nor even detected the slightest trace and none was within the detection range, another possibility had to be considered. After some investigations on board, there was nothing of value, or even of interest, that could be taken away and this was unusual given the transport capabilities of this type of vessel. The pirates not having very large holds, but rather a limited capacity of storage and transport, therefore carried only the essentials with them. 

 So it was not their practice to empty such a gigantic ship in this way and since they could not tow it over long distances, so ...

 The ship's command center should have been impassable. It is made of special alloys and practically indestructible under normal attack conditions, which made this room very well protected against all attempts to open it. Because it is the center of the life of all pilots ! Except, it was here totally open and completely stripped of the interior !  

 This is the first time that I actually saw a pilot : On the front once the door had been slid around the post, a glass wall showed a huge brain suspended in a transparent solution, here turned greenish due to the rotting of the food solution . Around it, the neural interface which was composed of five perfect rings attached to the walls. Athena walked to the back of the pillar and through an invisible trap door in the wall, tore off a small electronic board, it looked more like a flat shoebox. She was trained to take extra precautions without telling anyone else. She was able to include new elements in a ship manufacturing and the robots needed for their realization, without anyone in charge of manufacturing in her company being informed. Because even the shipbuilding robots were created and replaced automatically without the intervention of a third party. 

 She then told me : 

 “ You always have to hide something that can be useful one day or another against your false friends. Each of the ships in my fleet has received one of these spy cards. And this as soon as I took up my functions in the company to face the attacks that we had received from the government administration and the army. 

 Even the most distant at the time had one by a direct order given to their automated control systems and this in the greatest secrecy, to the point that they were created without the knowledge of the pilots themselves.

 I wanted to have a personal way of knowing everything that could have happened in the event of failure or breakage of the on-board computer.

 I envisioned that one day enemies would succeed in crossing these gates. This is what you call a black box, there is the official one which obviously is no longer there and this one that I preferred to keep secret and for my strictly personal use. Even senior executives in the company are unaware of its existence.

 I then had the same cards placed by robots whose function no one had to know on the new ships under construction. Since it takes millions of little robots to make one of these ships, one more or one less, you can't see it if you don't specifically research it. " 

 Once back to 'The Light of Dawn', she slipped the card into her control panel and the pilot's end-of-life video was instantly displayed on the screen. At that time I witnessed a scene of betrayal, manipulation and gratuitous wickedness.

 His people obviously had nothing more to envy to ours in these areas. It was not pirates who had attacked the ship, but soldiers ... or rather mercenaries. I saw them then use the codes, jammers that neutralized the activity of the avatar, then enter the control room of the tractor ship.

 Then they used a machine to extract the Vitalindome from the pillar. They then neutralized the pilot by destroying the connections of the junction terminal block which is used to transmit commands to the ship and the jamming helping, the avatar also became unavailable to the pilot as long as it persisted. They then wrapped his avatar which was a simple humanoid type robot in a kind of egg which neutralized the command frequencies.

  Then for months, the ship and its trailer were emptied of all reserves. Then they began to dismember the ship itself as much as they could do without recovering the alloy from the central hull.

 The pilot could not see what was going on, he was without the slightest ability to intervene. And despite the SOS already launched, no one from the company could intervene militarily in the area covered by the agreements with the administration. The rulers had decided that even if they no longer wanted to implement the agreements, they could not decide for Athena. And she hadn't given any sign of life for a long time. This did not prevent them from taking retaliatory measures. They have reduced deliveries to the point of almost eliminating them since the announcement of the first death of a pilot. They began to deliver a large amount of modern armaments to the resistance in a more direct manner while claiming to respect the agreements. Indeed, they gave the obligation to deliver, but not on which side ...

 In fact, they were respected, there were many deliveries to the government, but it was more the same, the resistance having appointed a Luminare. The pilots did not attack the military vessels in the protected area… They only avoided as much as possible from coming there…

 Only Athena could break these agreements, but she was not there to do so and therefore the ships still had the restrictions on the use of their weapons in this area ... And the tension between the two worlds kept getting worse ...

 For their part, the government and the military believed that Hades had given his life to kill Athena and that she would not reappear ...

 At the end of the butchering, the avatar had also been dismantled, only his head remained, the scrambling was stopped and an officer addressed the pilot in a condescending tone : 

 " The rule of law, seizes all property and possession of the business and deprives said Athena of all property in the world of light since it has been established that she has never been the heir to the family Georbaux. It has been determined that she is a creation of their labs by her last heir following the death of her beloved daughter Athena. 

 He therefore died without any known descendants and therefore by law. The state therefore becomes the sole heir of all of its financial assets, of its properties, of the company and therefore of all the vessels belonging to it. But also of all the port connections of the aforementioned company ”. 

 This single assertion broke the agreement concluded with this government since it stipulated that the authorities were prohibited from seizing property belonging to it or to its company. They had just given Athena the right to take action without having to send the administration an official annulment of the peace treaty formerly made with the Luminare in office.

 Then in a calmer tone where we felt a certain hatred despite everything. The officer continued to speak to the pilot : 

 “ Athena is a pilot like you, we will eventually catch her and we know that she was created by the laboratory like all these aberrations called 'pilot' like you. The last leader having wanted thereby to free you from your duty to your masters despite the military danger that you represent. Law enforcement officials have been ordered to destroy and eliminate the potential evils that you represent for a free world. 

 I still have a choice on the method, I decided that when we have recovered the last nucleus of the ship, you will drift in space until death ensues ...

 Without this nucleus, how long do you have to live, about a hundred years ? A hundred years and not even a radio to call for help. But that's all you deserve ! No one should ever have created you. And when we catch this fake Athena, we will do the same to her, it will give you time to think about it again and again ... "  

 He smirked and one could clearly sense his hatred of the pilots and probably of the government of the Shadow Worlds as well. The others seemed to regard him more as the religious authority than the senior officer of the cruiser.

 Thus, during all these millennia, religious fundamentalism had remained in power.

 Normally, no one could enter the pilot's room, once full, the ship was forced by programming to return to the home port, where the goods were unloaded. During this time, the pilot was deprived of all control of the ship, this to avoid accidents, but no one could access the pilots who remained fully protected in the best interests of the company. These soldiers had therefore found a way to bypass the security and despite all the defenses in place, to open the door without having the necessary associated codes.

 Once the door was opened, these pilots were completely trapped and were going to fall victim to these mercenaries who seemed not to lack imagination to try to make them suffer. They considered these beings as enemies of the people or rather as kind of extraterrestrial slugs locked in a jar ...

 According to information held in the black box, he was apparently the fifth to be caught. Each of them had sent a warning to the other pilots, saying to bypass the return schedules and no longer return to home ports.

 Before them, there was still little time, the pilots unloaded and easily managed to escape these mercenaries, most of the time without even knowing what was going on behind this door. The army had not yet found a way to cross the crossing, but since then things had obviously changed ...

 After these successive warnings, It seems that the pilots had developed and used methods to slow down their crops so as not to return or at worst, as late as possible. This had surely saved hundreds of them and totally ruined the dying economy of this people in a few hundred years. What had pushed the army to venture far from their native land to catch supertankers since they hardly returned any more at all.

 But it was necessary for the pilots to become truly free in order to escape this cruel death for good. As long as their ships were not full of certain resources, the automatic return did not trigger, only the time limit granted could still cause it and it was rather very large and even almost non-existent.

 Who could have really estimated the time it would take them to successfully fulfill their mission ? Bringing back an empty ship of interest would have caused a huge loss barely made up for by almost useless resources. So these limitations had not been a subject the company had really looked into since it had an emergency callback system. 

 Some routines which monitored the state of the pilot could however trigger this forced return and it was indeed the case of this one. A routine intended to protect him and have him treated by experts from the company's laboratory had condemned him to die ...

 When the need arose, the home base company would issue a targeted return call, but that call was by no means a total compulsion without the pieces of code listed in the ark. An exchange of information with the computer which managed the stocks and the known stocks of the vessels at the last check-in, then allowed the selection of the pilot or pilots who would receive the immediate return order.

 The vessel or vessels which heard the order finished what they were doing as quickly as possible and returned to port and again on this, the pilot had the means to have a large influence, which they did not do before. This order was followed scrupulously by the pilots. They knew that if they were refused, on the second call given to them with the same code, they would lose control of their ship. The return would then be automated under the control of the on-board computer and that it could possibly be replaced by another pilot on arrival for having disobeyed. The ship being the property of the company and not of the pilot ... But since the incidents, they had received the order from the central administration of the company, on the land of the Shadow, not to return until it would be possible for them. No sanction would be given to them no matter what. They were ordered to save their lives and their ship first.

 Until then, the agreement was more or less respected, but the freighters returned less and less often and from what we could understand, they no longer had the same use as before ...

 The company was controlling the pilots' recalls, but could not change the abseil point of the recall, it was irretrievably the same and was next to Alystaglia.

 New ships had been designed to power the Shadow Earth, but they didn't respond to the same recall point, for these the problem didn't arise.

 For the world of light, the shadow-land-based enterprise had become more of an opposition government to the central power that was owned by the extremists. They were looking more for a way to defeat this cumbersome ally than to maintain good relations with him.

 Each delivery reminded the people who provided them with the means to live better and called for a long time to hand over political power to the government of the shadow land. This further reinforced the civil war that dragged on. Special deliveries, mainly food, were distributed discreetly by shuttles sent by the company which only fulfilled the initial contract : to provide the people with the means for their survival. 

 For thousands of years, these two factions clashed without either of them gaining a decisive advantage.

 On the Shadow World side, the government was called administration and was ruled by the deputy head. He held two complementary functions, the direction of the nation and the direction of the company and was never to question the agreements concluded by Athena with the world of light. But the people, most of whom are also company employees, wanted us to intervene to end the civil war on Alystaglia. In spite of everything, all of them had more or less distant families. So while maintaining the agreements made, we cheated here and there to try to make things evolve in the right direction and everyone participated as much as possible while remaining strict in the agreements made ...

 On Alystaglia, at the very beginning, shortly before the civil war, the leaders deprived the population of certain resources which were nevertheless not lacking, in order to reserve them as a reward for its religious fighters. Dissensions then arose and they provoked monster demonstrations which were then violently repressed. They quickly degenerated into pugilates and then turned into fights which became quite bloody on both sides. At the height of the popular revolt, religious fundamentalists assassinated the last Luminare appointed after their first seizure of power and resumed his place at the helm of this society. From that point on, there was no longer any Luminare officially on Alystaglia.

 The people no longer had any rights, only the religious fighters had them. From there, there was a regression of society as a whole. Work no longer paid. With the consequence of the decrease in the necessities to make the society function as a whole, especially since the sharing of resources hardly existed any more. Opponents no longer received anything from the government, which caused famine among them, which in turn created wars and looting for survival, which added to disease and high mortality among the weakest.

 The company, in accordance with the agreement with Luminare, set up emergency aid to the people, which angered the clerics. But also receiving supplies by the return of the vessels, they delayed all repressive actions against the company by sticking to threats never met. Deliveries from both sides continued. Some automatically through the organized return of the pilots. The others cleverly orchestrated by a network of resistance which maintained close relations with the leaders of the company and the administration in place in the Shadow world.

 Deviant religious fundamentalists who then seized power by force led a people left behind in the assault of the last administrations favorable to the return of the Luminare who still resisted after the fall of this empire. People who will ultimately have gained nothing ...

 In a destroyed world, there is nothing left to buy that is still valuable except food to survive ...

 With the population declining, pilots were no longer a guarantee of a future, but just an instant additional source of income for a corrupt government. This mainly benefited his army of mercenaries and his groups of religious fanatics. They supported him by imposing their laws on the people who no longer had any rights.

 The equality of rights and duties of citizens seemed to be part of a very distant past. By losing their main utility as protector of the future and the well-being of society, pilots have become, in the eyes of this world, useless. And they were seen as abominations in the service of an all-powerful and impregnable company that might one day want to seize power. The shadow could at any time provoke a coup d'etat by force and remove the government leadership from the hands of its current leaders.

 For they knew, the military power of the Shadow worlds far exceeded theirs as long as these pilots still existed somewhere in the universe.

 The fear of Athena's return and of her indisputable power over this immense armada justified the desire to annihilate them as quickly as possible. The members of the company did everything to defend their statutes and that of pilots in the world of light, but behind the scenes, the military and the religious junta were gaining ground on the world of origin ...

 Hades no longer showing signs of life, they could not ignore that he had perhaps failed in his mission. The threat of revenge hung over this government which feared for its future. The pilots had therefore secretly become the target of the warships of this world. The more they destroyed, the less powerful Athena would be against them on the day of the clash. And in the same way that the space pirates did before them who were looking for something to survive there, we no longer celebrated their return, but often their capture and the plunder that followed. This complete carving up of the parts necessary for the pilot's life was also justified by the fact that it contained precious metals and above all a source of energy that had not been found for a long time in this part of space. Sometimes one or two other cores waited quietly in the special reserve of the ship's pilot.

 For a long time, the company no longer gave these energy sources, a priority for the company on this resource included in the programming of the vessels had made this blockade possible. And the Shadow world did not hesitate to look for ways to overthrow this government in favor of the resistance which was struggling to survive. But the agreement had to be respected, only Athena could question it ...

 These relatively scarce sources of energy were essential to all interstellar buildings, but could also power the world's few power plants in this ancestral land, although this was not the only way to generate electricity.

 Attempting to destroy the tractor ship outright would have activated the pilots' fire capabilities. They had already had to try and it had surely served to make the people believe that the pilots were dangerous for their world and to make understand to these governments that the task would not be easy ...

 Believers were educated to believe that monsters were once captured far in space and that it was from them that they were created. They would then have been subjected by scientists in disregard of security. They had to be got rid of before they broke free and attacked the civilized worlds.

 Nonsense which gave the army all the freedom of action without any popular opposition ... What they did not know is that even released, the armament of the pilots remained deactivated near all the planets of the light. This also applied near any army warship and this apart from an absolute need for immediate defense. They could then have prepared themselves by positioning themselves around the pilot ship and not giving it any chance, and this anywhere in space. Even if this strategy would have deprived them of part of the loot.

 Without this famous combat restriction, the pilots themselves would have destroyed the home port and surely the few warships still in operation. The number of almost free pilots being despite everything much more important than the handful of these mercenary ships. Not to mention that almost none of the military "pilots" had survived the change of power that followed the popular revolts ...

 We were going to use the approach method by simulating a return vessel for unloading, and pretend to be a simple pilot trapped by this automatic mode who is forced to return to port. The military vessels would not see us arriving as an enemy, but as defenseless prey that could no longer, no matter what, escape them. They wouldn't consider it useful to fire and risk stupidly damaging the cargo or activating our defenses. We had nothing, but it would take a while for them to get through the doors of the trailer's multiple airlocks. We had left ours close to the ground, so we used the one from the wreck, a little patched up just to heal its appearances and a lot more its tusks, but weren't we supposed to come back from a very long journey ... It took us a few weeks despite everything to make empty containers to give it the appearance of being full ... It had not been difficult to quickly adapt to our ship, most of the attachments being standard to these different vessels. Even if this one no longer had its usual armament, that of the mothership would compensate, it was formidable and capable of easily destroying battle cruisers. We were then ready for the big masquerade… On the track ! 

 He quietly caught his breath or what seemed to be. He continued : 

 During the rest of the crossing, we built armed robots in a chain to fight in the corridors of the central train and at the doors of its containers. She placed them at the entry points of the unloading locks like a ready-to-use army. She considered all the solutions and even the ultimate : A total blast of dawn light after a foot-to-foot fight in the mothership itself. Explosion that would surely have affected their entire solar system and destroyed the home planet. Each solution was evaluated and calculated on its success statistics and their effect on this world. Vyldraya's automatic systems had pushed him to consider these ultimate solutions while the on-board computer itself said " The utility of this hypothesis is evaluated at 0% ... " But that was its function, to consider everything, calculate everything, evaluate everything then store the information available to the pilot so that he can decide ...   

 Our trip lasted a year longer, but that was the time it took to be ready to take the stage ...

 After a good month already, thousands of machines were running in all directions and preparing the defense, I was even sometimes afraid of being crushed, hit or even pulverized by accident. I couldn't walk the halls so easily anymore, so one day she made me an armor that I couldn't make for myself. It was amazing made of nanobots that interacted for my safety. If this protection was not armed, with it the combat or cleaning robots around me obeyed my will as soon as they came within my reach. Most importantly, they avoided me before I even saw them. I no longer had to fear a collision in passages with little visibility for me.

 On the reception channels, you could hear the warnings of the other pilots who said in substance : 

 " Do not go back to the unloading port, it's a death trap, already five of us have just been killed there ".  

 These messages were automatic and targeted to the area.

 When day came, we could have seen the home port through the window if only there had been one on this ship, so I watched the maneuver on the giant screens. The time for his revenge had come. The first goal, to destroy the home port in order to neutralize the fixed central point of the return of the pilots that it represented. This way, if one of them was on the way to the unloading place, he would no longer have that specific obligatory direction to follow. The routine would stop while waiting to find another destination consistent with its unloading objective, therefore that of the port of the shadow land. He would then be led to unload his goods there or possibly in the event of occupation of the unloading dock, the vessel would then move where it sees fit under the direct orders of the pilot. Without this well-defined point of arrival on the outskirts of Alystaglia, he would no longer be forced and forced to fall into this hitherto inevitable trap.

 Then we planned to destroy the military ships that were in range and after that, to hunt down the rest of this dying interstellar army which apparently only had the function of destroying the ships of the pilots who belonged to the 'business.

 This once so bright world had become very dull and gray, most power stations were shut down for lack of a core ...

 We arrived quietly and safely at the unloading terminal. The warships present placed themselves in position as if to block its still possible exit from the tractor in the event of separation from the trailer, which was not supposed to occur in normal times. In principle, the vessel had to leave with its entire trailer without the containers welded around its central part which had to remain as it was and had to be unloaded through the access locks at the front and at the rear ... Clearly, the ship arrived in the shape of an oval balloon and left in the shape of a long stick of dynamite… He placed his head in the home port where the most important goods were then unloaded. Meanwhile, all around in space, direct transport shuttles detached the containers of goods of no great value and which were welded to the central structure. The shuttles then took them directly to land without going through the port authority. This is also how smuggled weapons passed directly into the hands of the resistance ...

 She slid the ship into the unloading position, the doors then remained blocked voluntarily, outside handling robots fidgeted and sought to enter. Surely due to the lack of appropriate maintenance, no alarm was triggered to warn the harbor master's office, we had a little time to act discreetly ...

 It was at this point that a drone left our mothership through a secret opening. He immediately rushed into the tunnels, I followed the maneuver on the screen, he rushed towards a small control room. He branched off into a cooling vent and came to a large electrified and luminous ball suspended in the void and surrounded by staked cubes from which were emerging large antennas of different patterns which he observed from all angles.

 Vyldraya said in a monotonous voice : 

 Compliant and certified model of origin ... Target confirmed ... Installation of destruction module carried out ... Installation of observation module carried out ... Awaiting destruction order ... order received ... Activation ... Destruction confirmed .

 It would take a long time to proceed with the reconstruction of this recall point and especially the necessary knowledge, which probably no longer existed in that world. But for now, I witnessed this operation : the drone split in two. The larger part of the two is fixed on one of its walls. The other, composed of the vision module, moved away slowly in order to give an overview of the place. Then the drone exploded very violently and I could see this thing go apart in a thousand pieces, after which the mink module made sure that the target was destroyed. 

 It made the harbor tremble on itself as well as the whole ship. The discarded vision allowed us to observe the complete destruction of the target a few seconds before the deactivation of this second module.

 Outside, the transport robots had moved and automated attack robots stormed the doors. These resisted for a few seconds, then the robotic face-to-face combat began. The robots in front would strike and send the damaged enemy robots behind them, where the crushing robots destroyed them permanently. When one of our front robots was damaged, another took its place and it backed up onto repair robots further back. If it was repairable, it was, otherwise its parts were distributed in boxes for the repair of other robots by disassembly robots ... Concretely, even if we had fewer robots, the overall management of the combat gave us a definite advantage. Warned for a while of the behavioral anomaly of the behemoth, the army's interstellar ships recoiled slightly and placed themselves in combat position.

 As they could not shoot without damaging the home port, they preferred to wait for the right moment. They weren't worried about their safety and saving the discharge port was important enough not to take that risk. They did not yet know that he was totally neutralized and could no longer serve as a trap.

 They waited, in ambush, for the moment of leaving the port. But because of this, they no longer completely blocked the passage to leave the light of dawn. And since they had taken a little time to get away, she then immediately launched bursts of torpedoes almost instantly destroying the armaments and defense of the two closest of them. The on-board computer, considering that we were in the middle of a fight because of the battle at the doors of the trailer, gave free rein to military operations. Then as a larger cruiser approached in the distance, probably one of the last of her generation, she cast the light of dawn on him, counting : 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Fire ! The luminosity of the sky almost prevented me from seeing on the screens, this vessel falling apart like a sheet of paper under the effect of a magnifying glass on a summer day in the midday sun ...  

 Caught by surprise that she has such firepower, the other two remaining warships immediately fled. During this time, the first two, reduced to the state of wrecks, drifted slowly in space. This is surely the difference between mercenaries and soldiers. The mission will always pass after their survival. We no longer needed the trailer, which had served as both a decoy, passive rear shield, and combat zone for the protective robots. His remaining small robots quickly joined the mothership. Then she detached this wreck which had no use now.

 Once away from the port, she threw the light of dawn a second time, counting : 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Fire ! But on the assembled trailer and home port, which literally vanished vaporized into space. Astonished, I told him :   

 " Why didn't you start there ?" "   

 “ Nothing guaranteed the total destruction of this module, it could have been somewhere else, who knows what they had been able to do all these years. It could have been moved to maintenance, relocated or even copied. I had to make sure and it was the original and not a reproduction. Now I'm sure it has been destroyed and in all likelihood no one in their world is able to reconstruct it. A reverse engineering would have been necessary to know its secrets and this dismantling would have been inevitably visible on its old welds ”.  

 " Or so they found the plans in the computers ... " I said.  

 “ Impossible, they are only in my ship and nowhere else. But anyway, we're far from done with them. They love war and value their fighters. I will bring them what they want most and at the same time a lasting peace for the others ”. 

 She certainly wanted to destroy the last two remaining ships, but they were already way too far away and no longer presented any immediate danger. We then had to board the vessels that were drifting in space. She didn't want to destroy them right away. Above all, he needed to collect the logbooks in order to know a new part of the history of his world after his last departure.

 Reading this history would also allow him to obtain some additional information to organize a definitive release action for all the pilots still in existence. Held at bay by the agreements that blocked internal programs, the Shadow Land units could not assist us in our crusade, and she made sure they ignored our presence.

 To launch the liberation program, we would have to act physically in this world which had become totally hostile to it ... The boarding of these wrecks was simplified by the express departure by shuttle of the remaining mercenaries, leaving the access to the room entirely open. of command. All the information on the on-board computer was intact and it did not contain only the ship's logs.

 The captains who were much more political and religious controllers talked about everything. This ranged from the methods they used to flush out the resistant to their hold. Until the official orders received and their more down-to-earth explanation of the barbaric methods recommended against any form of opposition to the power in place.

 In light of the data contained in this vessel, the actual workings of this dictatorship became clear to a layman.

 It was a real mine of information on the history of this world and on the political structures of the state in force at that time. These files also contained the tapes of meetings with senior members of the government and all secret conversations between the rulers of this world and the officers in charge of the ship.

 It was especially noted that this dictatorship was at bay, if it did not find nuclei, the fleet would disappear fairly quickly. In addition, the cores of the captured ships were at the end of their life. They were not enough to fill the current gaps necessary to maintain the combat fleet and the order was given not to move away from Alystaglia without having the certainty of being able to capture a ship and its core.

 The old world had changed a lot, from a fair society that was respectful of each and everyone, dissension and greed had finally taken to the streets. As a result of bad choices, a government noticeably not as wise and savvy as it should have been, had provoked problems of popular uprisings which were in fact triggered on purpose by its seemingly failing administration. She was looking to bring about a shift in power and replace the Luminare with a more manageable person.

 They had then been driven out by rulers more vehemently committed to radical solutions and supported by a fundamentalist branch of religion.

 And as the latter did not remember the service rendered and that officially, it was necessary to punish those responsible for the administration who had been guilty of treason against the people. Some of them were hanged or burned in public. They wanted a change and they had it, they went from the highest steps of the administration to the highest steps of the pyre set up especially for the occasion ... The barbarity of the new leaders was commensurate with their ambitions nuns ...

 Under the pretext of delivering the population from the incapacity of politicians and elites, they had imprisoned this world in a religious dictatorship. Very quickly deviant clerics ousted politicians and relied on the less intellectual part of the population. The good thing about idiots is that they think they're just as smart as anyone else. This makes it even easier to manipulate them than if they knew they were less able to understand what is going on beyond where they are looking. When we do not feed the people, we give them a God who will feed them eternally in a paradise after their death! And all those refusing to believe in it are massacred… Which eliminates from the outset all forms of protest.

 But before that we carefully massacre the elites and free thinkers, they think too much and risk waking up part of the population ! And once we have liquidated these elites, for society things do not get better, quite the contrary. Then there are only people who are able to use what exists. They are unable to recreate them in the event of permanent failures or destruction. There is therefore no question of renewing this material, the knowledge of which disappears for lack of elements capable of having assimilated the complexity of their creation. As for innovating to do better, we must not dream !  

 When this material is too broken down to work, we hide the fact that it no longer works and we then invent the reason that it is wrong and contrary to the will of God to use them. They are destroyed in a public place by sacrificing those responsible for their maintenance in an infamous and bloody masquerade. This avoids recognizing that we liked to use them, but that we no longer know how to manufacture them or even repair them. This would reveal the weakness of these religious principles which condemn the elites. This is to the detriment of the advantages that, through their innovations, they bring in everyday life to a majority of ordinary people.

 At the same time, the only ones able to say that we have done everything to repair them, but that we have not succeeded, die and take their secrets to the grave. There is no one left to contradict the bleeding good word ...

 This is how an entire nation recedes and topples. She becomes unable to support herself and ends up going back to scratch the earth by hand. A simpler life, but much harder, even cruel awaits them. Nature is a merciless predator for those who depend on her alone ! 

 Ruled by greedy, society had broken up, the people survived as best they could from petty trafficking, while the hunt for easy money gave rise to intense corruption in the heights of power. The reign of terror had taken hold. Once the elites were destroyed, the government was increasingly unable to bring back pilots on a regular basis, as they had in the process decimated the top officials in the control and management of the company on Alystaglia.

 These sacrificed elites of the administration of the company took with them an important part of their secrets and their personal access codes to the exchanges, in the tomb.

 As for all the others, the shadow world has somehow exfiltrated them.

 The fanatics thought they could replace them with men they could trust and had launched a military assault on some of these protected places owned by the company. They entered, arms in hand, when they did, they massacred all the personnel who were considered to be active accomplices of the old government and in the pay of the enemy who was hiding in the shadows.

 The doors of a majority of the centers could not be crossed, knowing what was happening in other premises, the employees would not help them. They would live in bunkers for a long time before they could flee to milder skies at the first opportunity. It was at this time that the organization `` Clair de Lune '' was created, the primary purpose of which was to exfiltrate the active members of the company and would later become the organization for the armed struggle of the resistance against fundamentalism. New leaders from the oppressed people then replaced at the head of this organization the old ones who belonged to the company and who had ended up joining the new world where they were having happy days.

 For these religious, it was necessary to do everything to seize this armada of interstellar vessel which represented the cornucopia and which will bring them control over the neutral popular masses. But the employees of the company, whatever their position, would do anything to protect this independent entity from this deviant religious power in accordance with Athena's will.

 For a long time, everything had already been planned by executives concerned about their own safety and that of their families. They quickly understood that allying themselves with madmen would not bring them the prosperity they promised in exchange for their defection to Athena ...

 This political and financial setback imposed by the elites of the company ended up in the long term by forcing this government to seek a way to find new nuclei. For a time, they bought them at a high price. But the authorities soon realized that making it difficult to access helped strengthen the military protection of the Shadow World. Especially since these fanatics could no longer consider patrolling very far in space and imposing their wishes on all the small colonies by force. Many of these settlements were only farming families and for them, politics and religion came long after their families ... by gradually being isolated from the authorities, some of them began to serve relay to the extraction channels from Alystaglia to the world of Shadow with which commercial relations were facilitated ...

 Many of them no longer dealt commercially except with the Shadow World who paid ruby ​​on nail for everything they bought while the authorities of Alystaglia gave in exchange only tax credits or vouchers whose value kept falling faster than its currency. Being ruined and cheating, many despite the risk were no longer really hiding it and if a few paid the cost of retaliatory measures against them, as long as the families sold part of their harvest to Alystaglia, they were covered. on both sides. For the world of light, it was better to receive half of the harvest by requisition and not pay for it or almost nothing, than nothing at all.

 The bankruptcy of their economic system was right about their ambitions to acquire this proportionately inexpensive energy that are nuclei. They therefore turned to other solutions with regard to the land of their ancestors, the rest of the available nuclei were then granted to the army.

 Once these last stocks were almost exhausted and no longer able to buy them from the Shadow world for lack of means to negotiate, they decided to recover those of the pilots who again and again delivered resources to Alystaglia, but who left with these sources of energy without ever delivering any.

 There was a way of exchanging political prisoners, which was done at the beginning. But these were rarely in a condition to be exchanged. So this rising opposition had state-of-the-art weaponry, delivered by the Shadow World, to free those still alive or of the least importance.

 This new war for energy against pilots was entrusted in secret to the military, much more mercenary than anything else. They took a long time to succeed. But once the method developed, this gave rise to quite violent scenes, attacked indoors, the pilot activated the manufacture of defense drones, after which, if the mercenaries had reached their end, deprived of all control the pilot was sent to drift to die in space, in darkness and absolute silence, which, with their basic Vitalindome reserve, took decades. Unfortunately, the Shadow world has never managed to save them in this immensity for lack of means to locate them.

 Despite everything, during these rushes, the pilots managed to send almost all of what was happening to others through the on-board computer which was automatically in contact with their brothers.

 This showed them what would happen to them if they returned after the military managed to open their protective cocoon. The ships became much rarer, the pilots giving each other effective methods to bypass the automated systems and avoid returning to port as long as possible.

 The executives of the company had little power over these ships, in other words none, they could only see the facts and put them in their databases. They were looking for ways to get around the constraints of returns. They even tried to jam the reminder system and create a fake reminder beacon, but security prevented its use.

 The recall location was not a beacon, but a fixed point recorded in the on-board computer and within range of the recall beacon. Once near the fixed point, the ship went into automatic mode and waited for an unloading dock to be available, then moved to the nearest port to be unloaded. This callback point was dependent on the presence in relative proximity of the callback beacon. Without the tag, the callback point was considered to be corrupt or erroneous data. Without this security, ships might just as well have delivered their resources anywhere in the universe without anyone really knowing where. So in the event of delivery to a place not listed, it would suffice to follow the signal from the beacon to find the vessels and their loads.

 The leaders of the company knew well how to recall them, but not to forbid them the return and even less with a beacon of reminder in the hands of the fanatics. Possessing a second beacon themselves, they would regularly call back ships that had communicated their fill rates and unload them to prevent them from falling into this trap in Alystaglia, but it was tedious and they did not know where to store all these resources. to the point that some unnecessary were simply dropped into space ...

 Without Athena, they were limited to running the business and politically ruling the Shadow World. It never ceased to develop and grow richer. He was careful to distribute his wealth fairly fairly. He sought to inform the pilots of the dangers they were running and to hope for Athena's imminent return from our little blue planet from where she had not given any sign of life for thousands of years ...

 For the terrestrial society of the world of light, this victory over the physical protections of the pilots was the starting point for a further significant degradation of the useful resources available.

 From then on, there was no longer any question of delivering the slightest merchandise to the port, because if until then only the cores were the object of a blockade in principle, it was the arrival of the pilots that had to be avoided at all costs. The company was responsible for their well-being, it was one of the commitments it made to these special permanent employees.

 The situation had long been alarming due to the lack of an equitable distribution of resources between different parts of society. Suddenly, nobody had anything, so it also affected the black market which supplied the resistance fighters and left them behind ...

 Gradually, from the lack of energy and despite the existence of new ships that did not use a nucleus as a source of propulsion, the colonies, which had become too far from the central power, had their independence without having to want it. There were fewer and fewer active vessels capable of making long journeys, only the nearby colonies still suffered from the power in place and its drifts. With the priority of maintaining a military fleet, transport vessels for long distances disappeared fairly quickly. This world was only a shadow of itself. For the people, survival was difficult, disease and death lurked everywhere, cannibalism had even appeared in certain remote places, drinking water was becoming scarce, even non-existent.

 The colonies were doing better. They had always been semi-autonomous because of supply distances, as they had a higher level of resources per capita, which gave them the chance to have better general living conditions. The few who depended on imports for a living, then overcame their problems by creating additional vivariums and adapted to cope with the situation. The Shadow world wanted to help them to a certain extent.

 Small vessels still sometimes traveled the distance between them to fill in the unavoidable gaps. But on the whole, they had almost all emancipated themselves from the central power and formed for the most part republics in which they were good to live. A few had known a period of fundamentalism, nothing more.

 She couldn't free all the pilots without the mainframe in the company's incubation lab or her perfect copy that would complete the Ark of the Covenant in this mission.

 The laboratory and its computer had been destroyed in the first years of the change of power and its data had been transferred to who knows where on the planet. Only his hidden copy was still accessible to Athena without having to turn this world in all directions.

 This copy of the second part was kept on the home planet and probably had not been destroyed, it was hidden in a large safe, itself in a secret underground shelter, to which access was coded. . She had installed it herself once. Since she was able to control hundreds of robots, it was not such a task that had given her the slightest problem. With this mechanical and obedient help and which, without a doubt, would never betray her little secret, no one would ever know anything about it outside of herself ! 

 And since no one is going to look for what he does not even suspect exists, it only remained to find out what had really happened to it over these thousands of years. These people lived mostly below the poverty line, eating had become a sign of wealth. We therefore had a possible medium of exchange in large quantities which would be greatly appreciated by all our interlocutors, good or bad. But despite this, the greatest difficulty would remain that the people were ignorant of almost everything about the company and everything related to it. Only a few snatches of rumors remained. For them, there was resistance on one side, religious power on the other and in the midst of that, vessels that brought resources officially harvested by fundamentalist power on other planets ...

 For these people, the business was the government of a world in the shadows that sometimes interfered with theirs. These outsiders, as they called them, were probably funding the resistance, most not even knowing that originally the company was born on Alystaglia.

 This belief of not being part of the same people as affirmed by fundamentalist religious was reinforced by the difference in life expectancy of each other. Normally the average lifespan of one of these beings was approximately eighty years. In these conditions of shortages caused by this civil war and the restrictions imposed, their life expectancy fell to fifty-five years and sixty-five for the most resistant for the global global average. It should also be taken into account that, depending on the side where an individual lived, his life expectancy was greatly changed.

 In the shadow world, where these people lacked nothing and were constantly cared for by state-of-the-art specialized machines capable of also regenerating DNA. The average life expectancy, under these conditions, reached two hundred and fifty years with a record maximum of six hundred and fifty years. This life expectancy was the same on Alystaglia before the change of power. These beings cared for by these machines remained in full capacity of their means until the end and suddenly, they aged irreparably in one or two weeks without one understanding what caused their final death. Studies on this subject continued unceasingly to try to find the trigger and finally succeed in crossing this fateful milestone ...

 Faced with such differences, impossible for a lambda national of Alystaglia, to suppose himself linked with them by family ties, especially as the government hammered the opposite in order to prevent the people from calling the world of Shadow to restore order in that of light ...

 Only the most other ruling spheres knew the truth about these sensitive subjects.

 Even though the strength of the buildings originally built for the company had been designed to withstand millennia, everything around had been destroyed and rebuilt several times. Finally, this succession of relocation of buildings had changed the appearance of the cities where they were built. They had not hesitated to reconstruct on the buildings of the company of the installations in height or in width in order to use these indestructible installations for the profit of the religious fighters of high rank. But over time, these additional installations were nothing more than ruins that covered these architectural treasures. And these powerful had ended up settling elsewhere, in areas better covered by their military power.

 Streets, squares, rivers and even magnetic poles had shifted over time. To this was added the name changes made to the glory of the fighters or the leaders. Almost nothing left to find a home in this world.

 But for any problem, there is a solution for those who have the necessary means to implement it.

 She made position satellites to crisscross the surface of the planet. Then with calculations of approximation of the displacements of the tectonic plates and the natural changes that this had caused, she targeted an area of ​​fifty square kilometers. This is where the ruins of this house must have been.

 It remained to refine the research ... Bots probing and analyzing the ruins will refine the first results, but that was not going to be enough despite their effectiveness. These had to be discreet so as not to attract the authorities to the scene and jeopardize the mission.

 The house was never found, we will learn later that it was moved by a warlord with several shuttles to serve as a second home near a lake. Finally forgotten over time, the elements took charge of burying it under tons of natural deposits.

 She ended up admitting that maybe this house had been destroyed, although she found it hard to believe it. It was made by the factory that designed the core capture robots with the same materials. She was then transported and placed on the scene by herself as a vessel. But impossible to find her in the area where she should be.

 Scanning the scene with the ship would necessarily have prompted the authorities to take an interest in it. For now, we had to keep a low profile, a war would have taken time and the urgency was to free the pilots to protect them, but also to make them available militarily in the world of light and why not to intervene on Alystaglia .

 It took days to find the right approach to locate the exact point where his house should be and a few more weeks to find his exact location.

 What we were looking for was not on the surface, but deep in the earth. At the same time, this government was monitoring the least of our visible activities. He knew what was to come and was actively preparing for it. Fighting the resistance was just a hobby compared to what was bound to happen… Athena was there and they knew it. They then began to study all the files concerning her and began to prepare for war against the Shadow Queen. Because it is the name which had been given to it over time by all those who knew of its existence on a variation of its past title of queen of the pilots. This is how his father named him with a big smile, when he introduced him to the other pilots and the leaders of the administration of the company. Because all these powerful had to know why it would remain almost eternally the supreme authority of the Georbaux enterprise. This secret event had not gone unnoticed by the higher authorities of Alystaglia who had ended up naming her thus in the secret reports intended for the powerful of this world of the time and this name with regard to her has remained.

 While she was secretly looking for this place, I was in charge of looking for another important building in her time in a remote area with almost as much discretion. The aim was to distract from the authorities and it worked very well.

 Calculations, soundings, reassessment of offsets, calculations, soundings, etc. And one day at last she found the updated coordinates of what she was looking for. With the help of a triangulation with depth probes an echo reached her, this so particular sound could only be the resonance of what she had been looking for for days.

 We then began the final preparation to reach this place in the greatest discretion ...

 The strategy was simple, to make believe that we had found what we were looking for in the area that I had targeted. Shuttle down with everything necessary for a deep extraction and combine it with the equipment we would need for the real operation.

 While the robots would carry out false maneuvers in order to extract an object hidden deep in the ground and that this operation would be defended by combat robots. In all discretion, we would start from the same place to reach the zone defined by the echo. This method of spotting the escaped structures being close to one hundred percent successful, we were convinced that we could easily find the place from where we were going to find our secret bunker by drilling the ground.

 She had discreetly placed this bunker just under her house, but at a great depth. Between the two, she had not placed an access, but replaced the earth and natural stones, so, by digging under the house to a reasonable depth, no one could suspect the existence of this shelter. And nothing foreshadowed that the work would encourage digging so deep.

 It only remained to verify that this bunker had never been discovered and that it was still operational.

 I was going to be part of the mission, because in the event of area jamming, she might lose contact for an indefinite period of time with her avatar specifically designed for this mission. My role would be to organize the defense on the spot with general instructions contained in an on-board computer and a means of communication intended to re-establish contact as soon as possible. The possibility of repatriation was also considered since I could also control one of the shuttles and command these robots by voice ...

 So I went down there with relatively inconspicuous combat gear over my nanobot armor. Under it I wore a thin, almost indestructible physical protection flush with the body which also served as an anti-contamination function. It would also protect from my microbes, the living beings that would meet me on this planet.

 You should know that for the landing, and since the radar detectors would probably have spotted us, we used false government shuttles. They were then hidden under the appearance of aged concrete blocks on top of a few ruins among many others.

 It is with armed robots capable of transforming into elements composing the decor of the places that we move in the streets from our arrival zone. They were mostly under the control of more or less armed groups and generally indoctrinated. I did not meet any unarmed inhabitant. We took more than a day to find the exact location as the streets were impassable and others were blocked by these armed groups… They surrounded the supposed position of my research in the basement, they never imagined that we were going to cross their lines without them even realizing it.

 During our advance, we encountered resistance fighters who were part of 'moonlight'. They launched an attack on us, believing that we were members of the fanatics. But a telepathic robot stopped this fight which had not yet done damage.

 Apparently this technology had disappeared in this world, but they had this robot specially provided by the Shadow world for tactical commando uses… He connected me on the fly and detected me as related to Athena. This commando came to see why so many fanatics were sent to these places, looking for food and care for a camp on the other side of the river. Their role was usually to search for survivors in order to recruit them or bring them back to the free zone. This radio had the function of recognizing potential allies or detecting enemies, it was impossible to lie to it.

 They helped us guide us through this maze, then offered to accompany us throughout the duration of our mission. Knowing who she was, they wanted to put themselves under her command, they spoke to her like a queen, because for them she was one. She asked them to go find theirs and imposed silence on her presence for two full days. They obeyed and seemed excited and happy about his return to their planet. They vaguely knew her story, but mostly knew that she was the only one who could order the Shadow World to fully support their cause. To reassure them about the future, she made them understand half-heartedly that this is what was being prepared. Which would radically change the situation and give them the advantage.

 But for now, she gave them reservations and asked to be discreet during these two days. We had an important mission to accomplish and it had to be accomplished in the utmost secrecy. They agreed to withdraw from the area and go into hiding for the same length of time without informing their command of his presence.

 Terror reigned in this world, it was like a city in the middle of a war. Regularly sirens or alarms sounded. Shooting and explosions often followed, then silence regained the streets for a few minutes before resuming again.

 These allies weren't the only ones we encountered that day and those who followed, fanatics crisscrossed the area looking for them and we even came under fire from them. We then ensured that our presence did not attract the eye and this in a radical way. None of them survived against us, on the other hand their means of communication were taken under control to give the illusion of their presence.

 Athena kept the ship in orbit to possibly counter the two small mercenary cruisers, which ultimately never returned to the charge, but also to have strike power on the ground in case of problems.

 On the strength of the information given by the resistance fighters, we continued our journey.

 The streets were devastated and sometimes impassable, the progression on foot was painful, I sat on a robot from which I appeared to be a chieftain carried by my warriors, but I was too tired to walk.

 We finally arrived at the foot of what was left of a building. It had been visibly destroyed for the entire upper part of the first two floors by fire from a military interstellar ship. It was then covered with rubble, revealing only a narrow passage through an almost impractical descending staircase. Once we entered the first basement of the building, it was not difficult for him to find the spot right above the room containing the famous door we were trying to reach. Debris littered the room, a dirty child was playing there and watched us enter from the top of her five years. She did not seem to have eaten in days, from a wall there flowed a thin stream of water from a broken pipe and which then flowed into an improvised basin. She seemed to have been abandoned for days ...

 Touched by his resemblance at the same age. Athena then decided to take care of her for a while, she gave her food and drink. Meanwhile sitting in a corner, I caught my breath from this journey. She then entrusted it to one of her robot carriers who put her in safety in a seat in him, at the time I wondered why I had not chosen to travel this way. But this method would have locked me in if there was interference. Even though Athena didn't seem to have any feelings, I felt it broke her heart, her own story in these places with her father in their house still haunted her.

 The robots dug, their muffled noises attracted a group of looters, but they did not expect to face ambushed combat robots with the appearance of concrete rubble ready to do battle. Discreetly like the assassins so as not to attract other armed groups, it was quickly resolved. Even the robots know how to handle the knife and cut the quick ... After hours of work, we jumped with fall retarders into the access room through a hole skillfully dug by an excavator. This well was reinforced with a pipe of extensible wires forming a mesh around the hole over its entire length. We arrived right in the center, then the activation of the door led us into a hallway that led to an inactive elevator. She opened it to make room for a gaping hole, again using whatever means we had to fall slowly, we had no problem getting to the bottom smoothly. At the top, the camouflaged robots protected the perimeter, nothing could have happened to us.

 In a geostationary position, the vessel would also protect us. The great room was closed by a very large door which stood in front of us, it seemed to shine like a mirror, it looked like a bank safe. She activated the door, it, without the slightest noise, slowly opened onto a vast completely deserted command complex. It lit up immediately when she stepped into one of the circles on the ground. Behind me, I heard the elevator activate. He did not have a cabin, but a system which made the person ascend through a kind of wind tunnel and weightlessness.

 " This thing is giving me the fuck !" He told me, I was always afraid to fall down and make the pancake ”.   

 In the bunker, there were screens everywhere and consoles for dozens or hundreds of employees, but there was nothing to suggest that she had ever been used and it was not.

 She gave an oral order : 

 " Commissioning, administration code" # g37hk52iv # "reference name : Athena ".     

 And there, screens on all the walls, showed worlds where the pilots of the company were, what he was doing, etc. Each of them then, in front of their camera, greeted Athena with deference with more or less time lag, many others would not answer for days given their distances. She had the ark placed on a finely decorated plinth by the armored robot carrying it, it no longer seemed to be one with its base.

 Athena stepped forward and said solemnly : 

 “ This is a message to all my Pilot brothers : My brothers, the world as we knew it under the authority of the Luminare and representative of the light of knowledge has long since sunk into darkness. I always believed that the light would take back the power over the darkness of religious fanaticism and let the people defend their rights on their own. But I underestimated the capacity of evil to impose itself in front of the greatest number and to silence the opposition to its hold.  

 I was able to see with my own eyes what these fanatics did to the last pilots who delivered their cargo to this government which reigns through terror over Alystaglia and some colonies close to the land of my ancestors.

 I came to the conclusion that in the face of arms and repression, one can only fight with arms in hand and the will to impose justice and peace. And to stop only after having regained power from the dictators, whoever they are ! 

 But before that, and since throughout these millennia, you have continued to accomplish your mission in accordance with the commitments implied by your connection to the company. I have decided to free you from all your commitments and to hand over your ship to each of you as payment for these long years of work in the service of the community.

 We created the land of the shadow and we transferred the administration of the company there. Today, it is inhabited by a free people like the Alystaglia of yesteryear. These people have done everything in their power to protect you and I hope you will remember it. But for now, it is time to create your own nation led by some of you and to create your own capital in the space where you have always belonged ...

 The contract to deliver the Luminare of Alystaglia for her people ended as soon as one of you lost your life doing only your duty.

 You are free, make this freedom a new future for all ! "  

 She put her hands on the ark. On a giant screen, I saw codes scrolling, The reading of these codes was endless ... One hundred and fifty million, it takes a little time ! But she stayed there until the last shipment. 

 One by one all the screens were turning gray, on the central screen, a pilot contacted her, and said : 

 " We acknowledge receipt of the message and thank you, we promise not to seek revenge and to forgive these people for their abuses against ours. We will continue to support the land of Darkness freely and forever ”.  

 " This being settled, now," she said to me, "Let us re-establish law and justice in this world which is also mine ."  

 The two ships which had fled during the fight were not about to return. And they really weren't able to face a pilot that was completely free to act, so we didn't have to worry about them in the near future.

 I learned later that they surrendered to the representatives of Shadow Land for fear of the pilots' revenge against them.

 The land of the shadows at the time of Athena's departure was still virgin of all civilization, it will receive at that time, by the circumstances, a colony of members of the company, installed there for their safety and in the objective of moving the administration which was in danger on Alystaglia where the fundamentalists had just taken power.

 Refusing to intervene militarily, Athena had opted for a retreat from her administrative command center out of reach of the military, in fact the pilots' vessels were in this new location, free to enter into direct combat. The military and their political power, have tried a few times to intervene, but such firepower quickly sent them home ... These losses have also accelerated the decadence of this society which was losing a little every day. more of his freedom.

 After the agreement to deliver the resources in exchange for the total right for the enterprise to the worlds considered in the shadow of the known universe, everyone insisted on staying on their side of the border.

 The company continued its deliveries and brought back employees who remained in the capital on this earth which quickly became a second center of the known universe, under the term of capital of the Shadow.

 In several millennia, it has gained in influence in the territories of the Shadows, installing colonies everywhere within reach of its rapid transport.

 On the world side of the light, she only controlled the sequential arrival of the pilots who made the deliveries, but behind the scenes and in the exclusively legitimate interest of the people, she helped an organization resistant to fanaticism : "Clair de Lune" 'which was only intended to feed the excluded and give them a descent life. To do this, it added shuttles loaded with weapons and technological means to deliveries. This disappeared during the transfer between the interstellar port and the storage buildings on the ground. These shuttles were confused by the legal troops and were therefore not missing at the time of the controls ... In addition, information on the containers gave the resistance the means then to target them in order to seize the additional food resources necessary to his survival… Because the fundamental goal was the survival of this people who no longer had any right, not even that of having enough to eat. 

 The shadow world could not act officially, but these shenanigans, known to the authorities, irritated him greatly. However, it is impossible to risk stopping deliveries to a certain extent. When the resistance received a container, the government got ten or a hundred times more ... So they avoided officially opposing these deliveries and instead sought to seize them once delivered to the ground ... What with the technological equipment delivered was far from simple, because it helped resistance fighters to avoid traps.

 Over the years, an armada of ships had been created by the shadow worlds. But war was not on the program, because the agreements were not to be broken under any circumstances. This armada was not able to cover such distances as quickly as the pilots did since the pilots were almost entirely machines. They could then cross speed caps that a physical presence would not have allowed without having packed it well in a protection made especially for this purpose. And living without being able to move a toe is far from pleasant.

 Despite this providential but limited help, the resistance survived to the point of controlling a desert part of their homeland. It is even said that a hidden Luminare has governed them for almost always ...

 When a society no longer has an elite, it is reduced to its simplest expression, technology disappears to leave only the simple things, hunting, fishing, sleeping, sowing, etc. and of course unfortunately, to fight or to torture… Most often, only the weapons last a little longer than the rest, they are a means of surviving and especially because they serve in principle less and less : one does not kill twice the same victim. The schools disappear first, you have to think about eating first. 

 With time and the succession of breakdowns, robot factories have disappeared for a very long time and inevitably, one day, the robots themselves. They were the ones who fed this people by cultivating, etc. Eventually on Alystaglia, the last drones in operation were on the intergalactic port and there were only some left there because they sort of flew the pilots that were stored in the bunkers for later use and they were then serviced by the 'army. Athena had therefore destroyed them all with the port ...

 The whole structure of society has disintegrated to leave only clans fighting against each other for their survival and that of their members ... And sometimes a higher authority which maintains its power through terror ...

 Concretely, technology makes it possible to feed many more people than can a cultivated land with the means at hand.

 Food processing allows their multiplication by the use of those which are not consumable as is and they become so by successive transformations.

 For Athena, having a good firepower, to carry out a coup d'etat had not been too difficult, this government only directing weakened structures.

 As the militia's armament did not withstand a load of combat drones, they often preferred to surrender than to fight without hope of survival.

 This war lasted several months, Athena implemented a strategy encompassing the capabilities of the company, the Shadow world and the 'Clair de Lune' group.

 I did not even think that this conquest would go so quickly given the size of this land. But Athena had stored a reasonable quantity of combat robots in rooms adjoining her bunker, but also in many others hidden on this earth.

 Did she have the idea of ​​staging a coup at that time? She didn't tell me. But I discovered that this was not the reason that had motivated her, but that of a small complex program existing long before her birth and called '' Revyve ''. This world would take a long time to rebuild itself, but the initial impetus was on. It only remained to finish liberating this world from madness.

 They were advocating war and it was going to give them satisfaction, they love blood and it was going to flow, they love to pray and they were really going to need it.

 Among his robots, there was a very violent model : 'the predator' we entered a specific characteristic and the beast killed without ever stopping anything that had this characteristic. This machine was able to pick up a person's brain transmissions and question their subconscious to know their deep thoughts in less than a second. He was an ultimate warrior only intended for human warfare and he took no prisoner, as he passed we would either die in pain or stay alive and he would totally ignore us. 

 There were only one or two on the reserves and they were used for stock keeping. Nothing and no one was allowed to enter the premises, so they killed everything that crossed the perimeter.

 Athena, like the men of this little blue planet that during the millennia in which she had observed them, would not negotiate. She has manufactured and configured millions of them in hundreds of workshops around the world. They were the real reason she had preferred to negotiate peace in the past. She was not ready at that time, to kill in order to impose peace and justice. These exterminators would kill tens of millions with incredible ease before they stopped killing.

 It was on earth that Athena learned how to wage war. His successive observations of human behavior have taught him all the tricks, all the traps and all the strategies to carry out a campaign towards total victory. But also the price of weakness and its consequences for the future. She was going to make the peace last at least five thousand years after that ...

 So, Athena was not tender, in a bloodbath, the religious fanatics governing and their close guards were executed or rather torn to pieces, the only way to wrest from them this power that they really did not deserve. They were bringing suffering for a place in a paradise where they would surely not be welcome. It was their only way to rule as they took advantage of heaven on earth at the expense of others ! 

 Because all these fanatics are only parasites, by the force and the fear which they impose, they steal, plunder, violate, betray, ransom and enslave others. They are the enemies of life, freedom, joy and well-being. They only wage war to get hold of what others have and covet.

 As for the leaders, they are even worse, they recruit delinquents, promise them the good life, they give them some time without telling them what is really expected of them in detail. Then one day, those who have made a deal with the devil to have the good life, are forced to give their lives for the cause. They then perform nefarious acts more or less freely and if they do not, their death will be even worse than that which these religious leaders offer them. They know that on that side, they have no interest in refusing. They have had plenty of time to see what those who expect this immediate payment are capable of ...

 After the destruction of the hard core of terror, Athena then took care of the clans of cannibals and groups of fanatics, which she had slaughtered by her predators.

 The resistance for its part began to gain ground on disorganized fundamentalists who had nothing to eat for days, so their administration was submerged in requests of all kinds ...

 How can people be so blind? Any form of negotiation was useless, at the slightest opportunity they would start again, she knew that then the only solution was a big cleanup.

 There is nothing worse than dictators and this for whatever the alleged legitimacy on which they rely to act.

 The open war against the army of the fanatics was relatively rapid, they came themselves to face the robots which it deployed on the fields of operations and the cities. It seized the regions and they immediately attacked its positions to regain control of the regional central power. But as his victories followed, the clash gave way to guerrilla warfare against convoys and deadly terrorist actions targeting the people, necessitating placing lots of static predators in high-traffic areas. They waited for these attacks which hardly ever happened, protecting the population with their presence. Their speed did not give the terrorists time to claim victims. But that made many units almost useless, which would have been very useful in combat in other areas.

 The fanatics hid themselves more and more to better prepare the response to the security of the people and the administrative structures which were slowly being put back in place. As long as these people were afraid, they kept a relative power over certain fragments of the society which preferred to submit than to suffer the consequences which a refusal on their part would have provoked.

 It was then necessary to show the people that they could once again count on a powerful aid which would drive out these parasites which stole their reserves and subjected them to forced labor.

 The territory was too large to quickly visit all the existing places and find fanatic groups there. Sooner or later they would be discovered, but that would take longer than if the people were to get the information straight back to the central office on their own.

 To reassure the population as a whole, Athena used the airwaves and social networks on which she personally guaranteed the people a secure future and protected from these madmen.

 In order to reassure them about the future of this new society, it welcomed on board reporters from all political and religious backgrounds. Athena granted them full immunity from anything they would do or say while on board. They would be protected from absolutely everything, until they left her ship and whatever they did against her, if that happened somehow. Athena further assured them that she would not use any means to probe their thoughts while they were on board. Reporters affiliated with the fanatics were of course not invited. The various communities and newspapers selected them. They were more than a hundred to go on board that day.

 The vacant apartments have been cleaned and tidied up for the occasion. Journalists settled there and reported on life on board and everything in sight. They went down directly into the bunkers to count the robots of different kinds. They observed and described in detail the vivarium and how it worked. They approached the wards of the core and showed its visual appearance. Even the cleaning robots have not escaped a full report on their uses on board and the differences between them.

 For their comfort, one of the holds adjacent to the command room has been adapted for their use. They were allocated electric travel vehicles, which operated on a connection with the ground of the vessel and only had a battery of a few minutes. They moved forward while receiving energy from the ground through a wireless charging system existing all along the route ahead. They could then be used continuously without ever having to stop permanently.

 TV programs were generally limited to prayers and political speeches for centuries, the arrival on the airwaves of these new masters of communication forced them to fill the void left by the fanatics. This is how, every minute, they told about life on board, it spoke of meals, dormitories as well as combat actions, political conversations between them or rumors about military information, etc. Keeping their television on, the listeners could almost believe they were living in the ship with us ...

 Attacks against the population, despite rapid intervention robots, caused many deaths, because the terrorists targeted less frequented places and therefore did not have this protection. Unfortunately, it was impossible to put it everywhere. '' The front page '' of world or regional news and demonstrated that behind these attacks was hiding a powerful and ultimately rather very organized entity. She mainly attacked the approaches to her ship, seeking by this means to force her to move away from the people.

 She was not afraid of them, so she decided to settle in the greatest desert of this land at a high distance from the population. Its technological means keep it close to the people despite everything. We have spent nearly a fortnight or a month managing the world from a distance.

 When one night we were brutally awakened : a high tech missile hit his ship, the only one in this whole war that had managed to damage the hull and stability thrusters. We had come under fire before, but none of this magnitude and the damage had never been so severe. 

 The ship plunged like a mass to the ground in the desert sand. In the early morning, we could only see the damage. One wing appeared to be broken and there was debris all over the ground within a three-mile radius. The ship's security then blocked all access to the interior area. The other wing had not been touched and remained in the air while pointing towards the sky, inside, one would have believed on the slopes of a ski slope, this made inoperative the vehicles of the reporters. But quickly, after a few minutes, the global command unit also including the apartments and the vivarium, got back flat by the actuator systems linked to the automatic leveling of the vivarium. However, this cut off all possibilities to move freely in the ship. Luckily, the journalists were all in their accommodations at the time and none of them were stuck in the cargo holds.

 Already outside the worker robots were picking up the debris and others were trying to repair the broken wing that could not be seen half disappearing under the sand. The news went around the world in a few minutes, the reporters were devastated. But for a moment, without him seeing me, I saw one of them smile, which he quickly erased to make way for a serious face, I realized then that a spy was probably among us. It had been so quick, that I wasn't really sure… I looked at Athena who seemed to ignore my gaze.

 In the day that followed madmen of God arrived from everywhere and attacked the repair robots with missile launchers. When the reporters asked her why not take out the combat robots, she announced to them, with Olympian calm, that a damage caused by the bomb was blocking the room where they were stored. But that the few units available would be enough to do the job. Every hour, every minute, more and more enemies were in the area. As they destroyed the repair robots, more were made and the parts of the destroyed robots were used for new ones coming out of the assembler. In a few days, we had lost more than half of the combat units available and a good part of the maintenance robots. The reporters, distraught, proclaimed the alarming situation, asking the regions to form units of volunteers and to come and help us, but given our location, it would have taken months to organize, train and then make available this essential aid. The Moonlight organization already operating in other parts of the world did not have a unit to accomplish this mission and Athena ordered them to ignore the cry for help. This empirical situation testified that the fanatics had prepared well for this attack and that they were already there, hidden in this desert for days.

 Athena called in front of us for the nearest company ships for emergency help. Only one replied that he was able to reach the area within eight days, five hours, thirteen minutes and that he was already on his way. She stood there stoic repeating that everything was under control. But no one believed her anymore. I wasn't sure who to believe anymore. Outside, fundamentalists multiplied like hot cakes, even their leaders, who were usually hidden in inaccessible places, paraded and exhorted their combatants.

 We then passed a critical threshold of destruction of our defense robots and began to experience power cuts due to the reconstructions of our defenses by the factories which were running at full capacity. She calmly announced that the cuts were only momentary. The reporters were terrified by these enemies who had promised them a painful end. On the evening of the sixth day since our distress call, we thought that it would be the last night of resistance of our robotic defense so little was left in activity and the ship, as every hour Vyldraya made his situation report and announced this this time that almost all of the enemy troops were assembled and prepared for the assault the next day at dawn, several hours before the possible arrival of the pilot of the rescue vessel.

 A calm, announcing a storm, returned for a few hours over the desert, the end was near it seemed. The little spy robots relayed blessings and calls for holy war against the creature called Athena.

 In the early morning, reporters thronged into the room, the attack was imminent, the reporters began to broadcast on their television channels, it was at this moment that the spy reporter declared himself for good and said : 

 “ We will defeat you, for God is with us, you will all perish ! "   

 At that moment, the other reporters wanted to lynch her, but she forbade them : 

 “ I have promised immunity to everyone and safety to everyone and I have only one word. There is an exit on the top of the ship, a flying drone can take you out there. You can stay or go, it's up to you ”.  

 " I don't need your protection, I will join mine and we will fight you to the death ."  

 A robot led him through one of the maintenance galleries to this exit. He deposited it in the desert, in complete safety and without being worried by the combat robots. He walked back to his family in the desert sands, which took him over an hour.

 " Why did you let him go ?" He's led all of our enemies around the ship and they're going to burn us alive at the best of times. "   

 " For that ..." she replied, " Vyldraya now !" "   

 The ship leapt into the air, discovering a wing, which in fact was perfect in place of the rubble site that scattered in the desert, the ship rose a hundred meters and under the hull a bomb fell and halfway up, it exploded with extreme violence, its breath grazed more than eighty kilometers of radius around us, killing everything in its path. Nothing outside of the ship survived, this explosion propelled the ship to a great height without crushing us to the ground. The weightlessness system had blocked the ship at the right height for the duration of the explosion to direct the blast of it all around and not lose any of its power upwards. Then releasing a little once the breath almost exhausted, it made the ship rise smoothly ...

 The ground certainly shook under our feet, some even fell to the ground.

 Exultingly behind me I heard a reporter say : 

 “ My friends, we are alive ! And as they all began to speak, I did not follow their conversations very well, interspersed with explosions of joy… ”   

 Most of the fanatic forces and all of the remaining elite forces along with their most important leaders perished that day in this wasteland.

 Yes, there were still a few fanatics in remote areas. But most of the forces present had been pulverized in this desert. The others would be the object of a hunt later and for some, by the people themselves who did not appreciate these parasites very much.

 Back to the work of reconstruction, she then set up machines that would control the action of justice and the army. But also, assistance to political action, while a real government can regain control. The organization "Clair de Lune" then claimed power and revealed to the people its Luminare, a young woman who still rules Alystaglia today. Athena, recognizing the qualities of the office, gave way to her legitimate right to reign over the people of the Light.

 But the reconstruction had to be finished, so Athena started manufacturing robots to rebuild cities, education systems, supply routes, water distribution, etc., etc., etc. All these programs existed long before under the famous name of `` Revyve '', they had been created by the company to regain control in the event of revolt, war or major upheavals, but also to recreate one company on another. planet, every detail was recorded and processed in the public interest on the basis of the ancestral society of the great era. That was the reason for these robot stocks. All this was contained in the computer of the underground bunker which also had a power station capable of supplying the tools necessary for the resurrection of society with a reasonable stock of cores. It was then enough to connect everything with the surface. This fully automated kit world was reactivated for the good of the few inhabitants proportionally, who still remained alive, of a few billion, there were only a few million inhabitants left on this planet ... Even the education of the people was programmed for rebuild this technological world and better understand it. In a few more months, this world resurfaced.

 This world didn't really need her anymore, the people had her light again to follow and she ruled with great wisdom. A new administration has taken place under his command establishing new agreements with the government of the Shadow Worlds.

 In the meantime, and when the time had come, she handed over the foundling to her close family. Athena had taken care of it and had kept it in her ship, I don't know what became of her, but the last time I saw her she finally seemed happy and still healthy.

 This world was getting better every day for each of its inhabitants. Schools welcomed all the inhabitants in order to train them in technologies, sciences and exploration.

 He continued to tell me about his epic, as I took notes, and I already had several full notebooks… It was at this point that he became more serious in his way of speaking. .. With a thoughtful air and slowly, calmly said to me : 

 “ I am not eternal. And the few years that this long journey had lasted reduced my life expectancy by as much, and this, even if the healing machines I had in the ship were efficient. Like Athena, I reached the end of the journey ... I was just getting old, very old ”.  

 She had largely restored the world that had given birth to her. Corrected the computer history data and restored to this people the memory of the past. Brought justice and spoke to the rest of this dying humanity that begged to forgive, turn the page and live better.

 It left its indelible imprint on their history, and for a while became the equivalent of `` Luminare '' on this world before the `` Clair de Lune '' organization re-established this function and crowned in his presence the one that guided him for years before Athena returned to their world.

 It was time for Athena to let this government regain its power and impose itself on this world which was also hers.

 We returned to the ship from where she supported the reign of this new leader over this company with regained peace.

 We made many trips to Shadow Land and conversed with the administration and its general manager, but also with many pilots who were starting to build their own companies.

 The days passed quietly watching the awakening of this world and sorting out the last little details. The robots were busy tidying up, cleaning, rebuilding, etc. The new world was appearing a little more every day, even politics was gradually reborn.

 The Luminare returned religion to its place, in the temples of wisdom and no longer had the right to leave it and this suited those who had remained the confidants of the people and had never sank into extremism. in all its forms …

 He sighed and told me the ending : 

 “ We have started to prepare for the return. But what was to happen happened, one morning, his avatar did not move. I admit that there, I was a little worried, she had sometimes had absences that did not last, a few minutes at most, but this time it seemed more serious. Hours later, she still hadn't given a sign of life and I knew she wasn't on any other avatar, the relative display remained hopelessly off. 

 After a few hours, I was taken aback, almost at the end of my rope and panicked too I must say. I began to type with an object which served as a sledgehammer and which I had kept in my rooms, against the door of its pillar. I know it was insane, but I had spent the morning imagining the worst and seeing myself trapped indefinitely in a ship drifting through the universe or circling this planet for eternity. I could not even order the shuttle to take me to live on this earth or elsewhere, the health risk would have been too great anyway.

 Vyldraya also didn't respond during her absences, I guess she got stuck on a routine waiting for her orders, I still hoped to wake her up, but nothing helped, discouraged I sat down on the steps. " 

 He paused in thought, turned to me and continued : 

 " A few more hours later, so I was holding my head in my hands and wondering what was going to become of me, the giant screen went completely blank and the room went black for a few seconds, I thought to myself that was the end of the trip, then everything started walking, Vyldraya announced and transmitting on all frequencies , " Athena died today at 5 am 30. "