A Campers Dream Page 2

there was only small aisle ways or hallways to walk. The rest of the ship was some sort of machinery. Also it felt as if we were always going either slightly left or right. After what seemed a fairly long walk, we came to a circular room full of flashing lights and more robots standing at work stations. In the very center of the room was a small table with four chairs. Our robot led us there and said, “Please sit down and our directors will be with you momentarily.”

  After sitting down, Virginia said, “I’m a little scared Harry, but I find this very interesting. I sure hope we live to tell about it.”

  “Me too and I don’t feel cold or too hot. I can imagine we are experiencing technology way ahead of us humans. Oh, here comes two more robots, but these appear different.”

  “Yes, but one is taller than the other. I wonder if that is significant in some way,” said Virginia.

  The two robots sat down and were silent while Harry and Virginia took stock of what sat before them. The only difference was in their height and the heads of these two robots. To Harry the bodies were polished metal of some sort, but the heads were made of some flexible plastic. They had two eyes and a mouth, but no nose. It was curious that when they talked their mouths moved forming the words perfectly. Both thought the aliens were amazing. And yet they did not feel any fear or anxiety from their hosts. 

  "We're proud and honored for your accepting our invitation to visit with us. We know you have many questions, but time doesn’t allow us to expound on a lot of questions. I’ll give you a brief view of who we are and where we came from. The focus or subject we’re trying to make will become clear as time goes on.”

  One thing Virginia noticed was their eyes. At first glance they appeared very similar to humans, but the color kept changing from a pale blue to a light green. Also their pupils were pin points one second and dilated the next. Most interesting was when they moved their heads to look at one of the other of us; their eye movement was just a fraction of second behind the head. I soon became used to it and did not pay it any attention thereafter.

  Harry was thinking about how they made sounds without air. To form sounds with the mouth, air must pass through vocal cords assisted by air. He made a mental note to ask about that anomaly later. Meanwhile the tallest of the two said:

  “Our culture name and home planet is not necessary as it would mean very little to you. We come from a long distance from your galaxy. We have the ability to exceed the speed of light in your understanding of distance being measured. As far as how big the universe, or the area we all habitat, we don’t know where it begins or ends, if ever. What we suspect is a power so great conceived the notion of space with habitable globes for various species. You have your earth and we have our earth, so to speak.

  Now to as why we are here and made contact with you two humans is rather simple. You both are writers and will be popular in your given fields. In fifty years from now we want you to publish your contact with us. Explain it in very simple language so all can understand from children to adults, rich or poor, educated or slightly educated.

  We are the directors of a consortium of alien cultures. Each planet must play the director roll of seeing that harmony exists throughout the known universe. The why part is easy to understand, but hard to constantly maintain. We think that to evolve is to share technology and knowledge. We long ago rid ourselves of a biological body to support our brains. At this point in your time, your scientist's think your brains are only being used around ten percent of capacity. Let’s just say that your brain has a lot of room to improve on as far as capacity of knowledge is concerned. Without being too technical, our brains are organic and with our flexible exoskeleton of our heads, there’s room for growth.

  Some history for you to try and understand what and why we are observing your planet. We first came here when the Egyptians were developing various methods of math and science. Without any one's knowledge, we extracted their brains after they died and kept them viable. After the Egyptians we selected brains from your famous people throughout history. And we’ll continue that practice forever.

  I know you want to know what we did with those brains. We let them develop naturally for many of your years in robotic bodies such as ours. After that they can choose what to do in their respective fields. Let’s leave it here for the time being.

  We know you’re curious now about who goes and who doesn’t go. Some names are familiar and some aren't. We’ll be taking you both when your time comes. I’m sorry to say that it’s getting on towards dawn on your mountain. All of us look forward to our reunion in the future. Lots of events are in earth’s future, but trust us we won’t let humans destroy one another.”

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  So ends part 1 of this series of sci-fi adventures of Harry and Virginia Watersfield. In part 2 Virginia’s brain has been transported to the alien's home planet. It’s her story and some of Harry’s life.

  In part 3, Harry passes on and he’s taken to the home planet having the pleasure of reuniting with his wife. They express the wonder of an ancient alien civilization. Come share what appears a Utopian way of life, but is it really? Could it be all a facade?