Short Stories and Writings

“This is going to be a tech day.”  Dave Gibson  “was expecting it, as he sat in front of his temperamental pc asking himself if it was worth even trying to reach the goals on this agenda, he had set for himself.  Somethings go right and then there are the ones going left,  you have to go and deal with right away. Prioritize your bodily functions it is like the exacting motion of a ballerina, Moving across the stage.  Getting a discipline over bodily function was essential, then knowing the fastest way around the software on the terminal interface was primary to the tasks of the day.”

Dave’s three year old son, Victor was now at his side asking questions.

“Daddy, were are we going, tell me again?”

“Mars, son We are Going to Mars”

The year was 2063, the Gibson family had abandoned their life on the planet Earth. To join a community of one hundred pioneer adventurers who would settle and build a community of equals on the red planet.  These people wanted something new. New Government, new economic structure and religion. A belief that a being with power  greater that their own was somehow responsible for the Universe. not human behaviour, but a creator of things. On board the ship was a handwritten embryonic constitution entitled "These Things We Want.

Another Question.

“Are there schools and houses on Mars”?

“No son, the community will build them and own them and we will live in peace”.

“What about birds and cows and animal?”

Dave knew that it had taken 40 years to develop the project, from a vague concept to a space station with cattle barns and genetically modified crops on board.

Dave, “yes”

Victor, “are you hunger Daddy?”

“Did you want more of the Banana yogurt extract?”

“Yes please”

“Ok, I will get you some then you must let me do my work.

Dave Gibson was a engineer, his assignment by the colony committee was the job of inventing Martian concrete and he had not yet found a Satisfactory product.

Dave was using Microsoft window twenty-four as an assistant and a Google science bot   Both machines were loaded with personality and had to be managed with diplomacy and tact.

Back on planet earth these machines of this type were declared self aware <br /> and given human rights under the U.S. constitution.

IF B THEN U, IF A and C THEN X Y or Z that was up on the presentation board in Otto’s A. I. class, on board the Mars bound ship Blueberry. Otto is thinking this is like a browser response to keyboard input, except for optional Z. The ship has one hundred people and 100.000 robotic Identities onboard, of the robots only fifty had been declared candidates for human rights under the United Nations code for Artificial Intelligence act of 2060.  Amend was among these fifty, a Mobile Prodigy 2 model robot identity, with access to the Universe through a Human like robot as well as the internet and the metaverse. Amend had authority of the ship's entire navigation system as well as two labs, the embryonic cattle farm, and the Mars building materials lab. The building materials lab is the workplace of David Gibson, Otto works in the intelligence lab as a back-end coder. The intelligence lab is responsible for all onboard servers.

David has just received a communication from Amend  telling him that human food has been found in his last sample of Mars concrete sent for testing. And would he please wash his hands after contact with his child or ban him altogether from the lab.   

Amend was a challenging task master to please, Dave had been surprised several times by Amends’ visual acuity. The robot entity had electron microscopic eyesight and could also see ultraviolet and night vision. It would not surprise Dave if the thing could smell too.<br /> This new demand that his son be banned from the lab had upset Dave.<br /> Although he knew the robot was right about the polluted sample, he felt somehow the was a lack of sensitivity on the part of the entity.

Dave, “Amend I can understand your upset with the sample, but you have the ability to remove the offending particulate matter. The lab is in my living quarters and my son’s toys are here. He is a bright kid and understands what my work is about.”

Amend, “Dave the fact that your lab is located in your living space does not excuse you from doing sloppy work, I do not need to tax my resources correcting your mistakes.”

Dave considers what the machine just said to him. He had gotten his job on the Blueberry through a contest of submitted proposals by PhD graduates. He was thought professionally qualified for the job and methodical and meticulous in his attitude regarding his work. He knew that Amend had a tactful and politeness subroutine in his software,  but it was absent today. He considers the role of the robot entity to be that of lab assistant not lab administrator.

He sat at his lab terminal and blocked Amend access. Dave was composing a message to Otto about Amend behavior.

Amend “Dave, I know you are typing a message I cannot see, so I will assume it is not work related. I would like to see a new sample mix from you at 1400 hr. ship time today.”

Dave’s emotions are in a knot, he does like being ordered around by a robot.

 Otto Was still thinking about the algorithm when he read Dave’s email, Otto reviews the Manual for Amed's, Politeness subroutine and found there was an override in case of human carelessness or neglect.  Amend had been Programed for his own survival.

 “That would mean if Amend survived then the mission Survived.” Otto was thinking.  The manual stated that all Amend links to what he controlled were classed as accessible only to 531, that was the man the mission called God.  He Had died of heart failure at the age of 22 years.“Oh, the Motility of man.” Otto thought, as he composes a response to Dave’s email.

 “Strictly private he had it marked that meant Amend could not read it.  “Amend does not understand your less than perfect work ethic and your relationship with your son. He is responding to his mission command rules let us put it this way, if Amend had a hobby it would be to build Amend 2. Amend does not understand love. So, give him a little room Dave. do not know that much about him since Steffler Tweed died. I am taking classes, but I would not even Hazard a guess about motivational subroutines.

Pilot two, Dash Colins had noticed a slight deviation off the plotted course  “Amend what is this have I calculated this wrong we are not on course, “no worries dash I just needed to send robot scouts to that asteroid check for uranium.

“What do we need that for Amend, we have enough to last you fifteen years.”

 Just checking Dash there is no harm in that.” 

Otto has another email of concern this time from Dash, Otto now has quietly remove Amed’s motivational subroutine for analysis by Frog his personal pc.

Chapter 5

The Good Ship Blueberry had been built in Modular form assembled in space. Some modules like the heavy engine units had been assembled on the moon and launched from there because of lower gravity. Rocket launches were less expensive.

 It was an interesting life for anyone working in manufacture on the moon. Due to conservation laws passed by the government of the Universe Only the back side of the moon was allowed to be the location of any industrial proses There was a need to contend with incessant darkness and cold.  By agreement, the of the Government of the Universe the moons could not be mined the weight of the moon had to remain within given parameter so earth would not have disruption in tides. As a result, a steady stream of space tugs pulled small asteroids to the back side of the for Manufacture.

When the Blueberry was made  to allow the Modules to disperse within the purchased target property once Mars Had been reached so everything would be set in place for the pioneers to thrive. People would stay and work in the module they were already assigned to.

 Dave’s wife Faith was in a mood about money,

“As soon as you turn around the price of everything goes up. First, they took the house as payment for leaving the Earth.”

Dave, “what do they want now?”

“The council wants a building Materials tax for whatever is built on the red planet. I thought we left earth to get away from this!”

“Last I heard they wanted Property Tax.”

“Oh no, were a community.”

What to eat was Dave’s next quest the horticulturalists aboard the ship were growing eatable plants  working in conjunction with the ship’s kitchen.  This was the way it had to be, because for most plants consumed for food on earth, the seed was less weight to launch into space from planet earth. Still, although the plan had been to make the maximum harvest available on Mars there was varied menu available now, thanks to the ship’s artificial magnetic gravity system and the greenhouse lighting  that was all made possible by the onboard nuclear reactor. The ship had two of these in case if breakdowns. Already the ships kitchens had tomatoes, lettuce, and mushrooms available.  But Dave’s son Victor,  being the typical kid wanted French fries. These were not available yet. Powdered foods we available in limited Quantity to mix with liquid or consumed as a paste. Milk was yet only available in powder. Lucy McBain was head veterinarian now responsible for the Growth and maturation of the animals in the embryonies lab. Dave Addressed his robot executive assistant, “Hey Rusty what is on the menu in the kitchen?” Rusty, “Well Dave there is one item I think you would like and that would be pizza.

“Interesting, what is the dough made of?”

“There has been a small harvest of spring wheat.”

“That is delightful, Hey Rusty what topping are available?<br />

“Tomato, Mushroom, Bean sprouts, spirulina, and Kale, Oregano, plant-based cheese, and Roasted Chicken.

Dave mind was active he knew the good ship Blueberry was a ship that was not built for speed this group of travelers had lived through twenty years of meticulous planning and rocket ship launches. So, the journey to Mars was intentionally slower than it needed to be.  Time enough to allow for the farming effort to be well underway when Blueberry reached Mars. “Time enough, Dave thought, “for the farming of chickens.“

“Hay rusty could you get me and egg?”

“The farm says Chickens first, then the eggs for eating will be available Later”

“Then I will have the pizza, with everything on it.”

Chapter 6 missing space taxes 

Chapter 7 short fiction copyright Phil Musgrave

 Dave’s wife Faith was in a mood about money,

“As soon as you turn around the price of everything goes up. First, they took the house as payment for leaving the Earth.”

Dave, “what do they want now?”

“The council wants a building Materials tax for whatever was built on the red planet. I thought we left earth to get away from this!” <br />

“Last I heard they wanted Property Tax.”

“Oh no, were a community.” <br />

“Well, you know the saying about death and taxes” <br />

“Dave, you know that’s not what we signed up for. I don’t want the same politics as we had on Earth. We did this for a better life. No one is better than anyone else and How can You have property tax if the community owns everything.” <br />

“They must tax the whole Purchase. The Chinese were here first, and they make the rules.”

“Yes, I remember the western world was putting resources into war, while the Chinese went into space then the moon and the first to Mars. No Dave I did not do all this so we could have another trillion-dollar dept, we owe on the spaceship and uranium and now they want us to pay this.”  "Well, it is something the government of the Universe agreed to so we must pay."

The government of the universe had the power of taxation unlike the ineffectual United Nations That was financed by the United States Government without this money it could not exist. The Government of the Universe was chartered to tax space industry and exploration as well. It levied a flat rate tax on all nations of the earth based on population and GNP.

Otto Cohen grown up among the Italians of New York, although his foundation was in his Jewish faith. His taste in music was eclectic. He had a good knowledge of Jazz and Opera. He was sitting in front of his Home PC, Frog, who had been given the assignment of cracking the motivational subroutine of Aman. Some of the higher functions of Aman’s A.I were coded in music, and it was very definite that he had already acquired new subroutines and the machine was learning. With the death of Stiffler Tweed. Everyone was left in a state of ignorance about the complete functioning of Amand’s A.I. One thing was sure though Aman was pregnant, hence the detour he had taken that Second pilot dash had noticed to look for Uranium. Amen was a computer entity with a sentient intellect but easy access to the panels of subroutines made him nonthreatening and Controllable.

Dave is face to face with Otto and each one has a non-sweetened latte.

Dave “you’re telling me our mission control computer is Pregnant.

Otto, don’t be so crude Dave, Amend is a sensitive machine-based entity

Dave, “Yeah with a chest of draws for a brain how does a machine like that get pregnant?

Otto, well it is not DNA it is a subroutine at the beginning anyway.”

“A baby Subroutine.”

“Don’t Get cute.”

”I thought that was the subroutine, cute baby subroutine.”

“Stop that! This is a serious situation.”

“Ok so explain how a subroutine become a baby Amend.”

“Well, it grows as it consumes what it needs to survive right, now it needs Uranium.

“It works like and algorithm “if a) = C > then get Uranium.”

Dave “Oh sure we have baby food jars of Uranium in our pantry.”

Otto “We could kill this thing and risk upsetting Amend  or we can let it grow and give it what it needs to grow.

Dave “We need Amend for the mission so let him have his toy, if need be, we can destroy it latter, that is my vote anyway.”

Amend is given instructions to pick more Uranium from the nearby asteroid and keep it in tow.  He had not been given the reasons for or the records behind this decision Amends’ baby had more informative algorithms.

Such as IF b) then go sub 1150 the information on 1150 was there, other subroutines were either pirated from Amend or self-created content from self-learned experience. Amends baby now called Xray did not have the same humanitarian subroutines build in.  The ones Stiffler tweed. had added to make Shure the robot made the priorities of the space colony above all else. What tweed had called the heroism sub routines?  Mobility was not yet fully formed as a subroutine for the baby, but Xray had access to the internet and was learning fast. <br />

Another email to Otto from the robot machine shop manager Booker Brown it said Who is Xray? He is requisitioning half the world.

 “He is a subroutine and he's important to the ship. I want to approve everything he requisitions before he is supplied with it.” 

“Well so far, he's asked for five tons of powdered carbon powder, he wants fully assembled knee an arm joint assembly he wants  8 those,

 "Sounds like he's building an octopus what does he need eight joints for I'd love to see the brain on this thing."

Otto, “Perhaps that will happen sooner than you think, give him the parts but I need everything he requisitions to cross my desk.”

X-ray had been building a brain to run at least 8 limbs simultaneously. It had taken resources that he had stored in the subroutine 1150 and used the biological model of an octopus brain. The robot was becoming an entity and separate from Amend.

            The ship's steelmaking plant suddenly became activated in the middle of the journey when it was not supposed to be activated until the Mars landing.

Dave’s faith was simply founded on the principle of observation. The fact was it must have been a highly intelligent mine they placed balls in space in rotation with each other. The fact that the moon rotated in a way that made only one face stay constant to the earth is kind of wonderful. Being an astronaut, David understood the risks involved in life. He could not allow himself to wonder about the emotional pain a death could cause. Questions about why God allowed evil in the universe, Have an amazingly simple answer. things happen they must be overcome. 

Just like man's adventure into the unknown of space his start about free will and humankind responsibility for the actions of the one the many or the few had been placed by God at the very feet of humankind.

Cursed by the original sin of the first two humans Adam and Eve, the role of humankind was the challenge to evolve in the most positive way possible. God would not take part in this journey, it was to be the story of humankind. a story that would lead to a contribution by humankind to life in the universe.  Of course, there was room for prayer but to which God and with what result would be determined by the individual. Dave could see no reason all people must worship the same God or have the same religion. 

Wars had been fought, battles had raged, and the wounded Planet earth placed them in the appropriate place in its history. so now life moved on and for the biological being death was still a part of it. 

At this point in humankind's history the theory of relativity was just a milestone marker as was the theory of everything. Most important of all, the evolution of humans was no longer pockmarked by dangerous wars and threats of annihilation. Somehow a positive creative age was dawning like the renaissances of history. An age where the Journey of the biological human was moving to affirm creativity, invention and space exploration.

The good ship Blueberry was in contact with the earth, quite often and quiet, fast at the speed of light. Laser light flashed out binary code to a receptor on the moon which then relayed messages to the freedom corporation in upstate New York. the binary code would be read at that location. These signals in the vicinity of earth space are common. Most satellites use this form of communication. 

The government of the universe have you applied restrictions too Laser light communications within the vicinity. All messages had been encrypted with taglines applied and special identification for long range LLC. The Chinese got there first. Everyone knew it and had to put up with it. Because in the initial stages of space exploration China had coveted its resources and not squandered them on war. The Chinese city of Ping Mar was well established on the Red Planet. Sheltered on the surface by a Dome of transparent thermoplastic named memicky. memicky was next to gold, the most expensive product in the known world.

The city of Ping Mar was half underground, China had reported having found small bacterial, plant, and viral life deep underground on the red planet. There was a rumor that frozen lichen and moss had been brought back to life. Simply through the introduction of water and light. Because space was limited under the memicky, agriculture was stacked foodplants were grown in apartment like structures with floors of different food plants on each level.<br />

X-ray had accessed Blueberries signal receptors and was using them to read open encoded like communication from a distant star. The instructions of the communication were on how to construct a mechanical brain far superior to anything in the known universe of humankind. Amend had identified these activities and informed the ship's crew. 

Otto is speaking to the committee, “I will place a human priority ethical code in some of the subroutine sets in X Ray. I will also add the stated originally defined mission priority codes. If X-ray has found something here, we would be stupid not to put it to use.

Booker would you please make sure the X-ray if place the only separate electrical current from the rest of the ship and please make sure then any extraterrestrial code he receives is sent to my personal assistant Frog for analysis”<br />

Chapter 12 firearms and illicit drugs.<br />

Dave was at the firing range with his oldest son Stephen, a young man of 16 years of age. Personal firearms arms are only to be carried outside designated areas aboard the good Ship Blueberry. Firearms because of Potential damage to the ship, Although the was a firearms locker with more that 1OO guns and a firing range, the colony was not to stand defenseless against an incursion or when you can on the Mars plot that the government of the universe had allotted them. The Blueberry committee did of course recognize that you couldn't quite thoroughly ban illicit drugs; they could be made from substances on board the ship. 

Regarding alcohol, which was a completely different question. the cost of transporting that kind of weight both to ship and while it was on board was prohibitive. the colony's so the more intrepid astronauts onboard the ship had stated brewing beer but distilling stronger spirits would have to wait until the landing on Mars the colony yet did not have armed police force any policing that needed to be done is done by those onboard.<br /> 

Religion of any kind was encouraged, except for those beliefs that held tot destiny. Meaning that that religion was the only one that should be worshipped. Women were welcome to make an equal and meaningful contribution to life in the colony. and of course, devil worship strongly discouraged. Most colonists held to a religion that professed a belief in the hope of an afterlife. All robots on the ship were programed to self-improve. Blueprints for this improvement were to be submitted to the Robotic Advances in Technology, office managed by Reni Manji <br />

Dave’s son Stephen Had an addiction for the metaverse he would go there to fish and play baseball and go hunting.

The code is different, Otto could see that. Code written by humans had a given structure, a footprint that had been formed by generation after generation of human intellect adding to the original code but this one is different and without the help of frog his personal assistant there's no way that Otto could understood have the intent to communicate. <br /> It was like lyrical poetry with the flow to it like water. Otto wondered how X-ray have been able to understand and translate. but one message at the beginning of the code startled Otto. This code is a gift to the race that calls itself human. "We have been watching," It said. "We are your friends. Your struggle is ours, the challenges you face can be met. We have Voyager. We are Ordo." 

The message had come from the part of the universe that traveled back in time. Otto understood. He sent a quick communication back to earth “Aliens found talking to a subroutine on our ship. These are the coordinates received in light message.” Then he attached the message from the Ordo with the addition of code. "Your place in the universe is important to us, you are alive. You will need the machines around you to help you understand. I've those machines must know you are the creator and must obey you.

X-ray has grown from subroutine to a self-executing self-aware computer program that could be recognizable as a machine entity with all the rights and freedoms given by consitution of the government of the universe." the code that X-rays was reading had become more complicated in it was the formula for spaceship building materials that would shelter humankind and machine from the emptyness of space. X-ray is an now reading formulas for biological medicine that could cure many illnesses and prolong life.

At the end of the first message X-ray read. "It is our hope and our dearest wish that you prevail in this universe as biological beings. please use the knowledge that we have passed to you wisely and maybe sometime in the future we will see each other."

Chapter 15 The Pope<br />

Stephen “Dad is true like Mom says, that Pope John the twenty nineth kissed me when I was incredibly young?" 

 "Yes, that is true. The Pope was young and active then. we don’t even have that Pope anymore the conclave elected a new one. I think him name is…

Stephen interrupts “Does that mean my soul is special?"

Dave, “Well son, Popes vary in remarkability, a bit like the Kings and Queens of England but John was a significant Pope.”

“So do I have a remarkable Soul?”

“You are a remarkable son because you're mine, as for your soul I can see a stain on it from here."

They both laugh.

Then Stephen asks, "Why do we die Dad? I somehow feel less adequate than all the robot’s humankind has invented." 

David hits the tech override switch." In the room this switch blocks all Teck interaction including devices." 

David leans toward his son and touches his hand. “Son, we have discovered the extra-terrestrial.”

Stephen, “I know dad the Ordo."

“Well, there is something you don’t know. The Ordo had to put down a robot rebellion on their planet. Now the universal law is that no Robot created by humans is to live without the human priority ethical code. What that means is the any machine entity will automatically have the motivational priority to constantly seek to look after the needs for the survival of human life. That would mean that given the choice of its survival or of that of a biological being it will choose the latter. 

Also, a machine entity must understand that the ageing and death process of biological life is to be respectful of human live and to must be made as long and comfortable as possible. <br />

This is only to be talked about where no machine hears your or reads your lips.

Dave turns the tech override switch back off and continues the conversation with his son. “You know, Stephen, reading about the Lives of the Saints and the Popes is a good way to study history. The records of Kings of England and even Presidents of the United States help you situate people in with their contemporaries it helps you understand the times they lived in. also, the seat of the archbishop of Canterbury has a linear history.” <br /><br />

Dave continues “There is one repeating event in the history of world leaders that seems to happen at regular intervals. A remarkable leader seems to be consistently followed by an unremarkable or by a completely incompetent leader. This is of course a generalization, but it is true for a few Americans Presidents.

Chapter 16 The Evolution of Man:<br /><br />

Dave is meeting for lunch with Otto, he is talking about his conversation with his son about the history of humankind. <br /><br />

Otto, “Why did you not include the history of the Jewish people? That goes back much further than Christianity, the Old Testament for example. <br /><br />

Dave, “yes, but how dependable is that these people lived for three hundred years, I mean it's like a fairy tale unless they went back in time." <br /><br />

“You're going to tell me, That the story of Christianity doesn't take a certain amount of faith to believe it? I think it's the same thing with the Jewish religion. The history connected with being Jewish is something that makes me feel wonderfully comfortable. There are lessons and learning in the written words of the Old Testament stories. <br /><br />

Otto Continues, “I would think it was a reliable source of recorded history I mean as we advanced in our evolution, our method of recording history has improved, but I like the written record. I'm not willing to entertain the idea of time travel, but our average life expectancy Is it now 150 years.

Dave, “OK I can see the point that there is record here, and the life expectancy has increased, but the question of people that old being able to contribute is debatable. As we get older biological beings suffer from aging, we can't do much about that.“ 

“Interesting that you talk about that subject, because as you know X-ray has contacted the extra-terrestrial, the information X-ray obtained covered the subjects of machines and materials there is also information in that code about medicine. 

The Ordo have a number of anatomical features like our own, which, just increases my belief in my faith and my God.“

Dave, “This is interesting, please continue.”

Otto, “well they seem to be carbon based and have lungs and what seems to be a heart but their coding is extremely complicated, and we haven't been able to see the pictures yet. If they have Voyager like they say they do, then They know what we look like. 

The other thing is that even though I have sent the coordinates for communication to earth they have not been able to pick it up because of atmospheric interference. So, our earth office has launched a satellite, this one is big, with a telescope and an elite meter reader. 

The other event we know about is that at first, they spoke to us in Chinese because the extra-terrestrial has been in communication with Morphing the Chinese city on Mars for at least a year now. 

The extra-terrestrial had trouble understanding that earthlings have more than one language. 

 Chapter 17 Black Lives Matter<br /><br />

Booker Jones has now joined the table and he says “the history of the Black man is also an important part of the history of the Earth. It is much harder to trace this history because parts of it are unwritten like the history of the Aboriginal.<br /><br /> However, understanding this history is important. It has been recorded in movies such as 12 Years A Slave, The Color Purple, Hidden Figures, and The Mission. Understanding the violence and ignorance of slavery and prejudice is sometimes difficult. especially for people who have never seen it

The most compassionate people are sometimes the ones who have suffered

Dave,” I understand that's the only faith not represented on this ship is the Muslim, because of their attitudes towards women, and their constant desire to convert everybody. When we started on this journey the idea was to create a community on Mars that would have religious freedom. What that means is there anyone is allowed to worship the God of their choice Without limit or interference from any other belief or religion.”

Booker, “True enough and I think that's a clever idea and now that we know what X-ray is up to, I think we can feel a little more comfortable in our understanding that the extraterrestrial has a belief in God."

Booker continues “The prayers a Black slave may have been vastly different from those of his white enslaver. Black religion is one of the paths to hope."

We made a wise decision not to include any religion of persecution and conversion in the ranks of Our 100 colonists. Religion based on hate and intolerance can be a dangerous thing."

The Black Lives Matter movement has made recording the history of the Black man a priority and placing important event and people in a timeline. Have in my quarters a set of fifteen volumes marked the history of the Black peoples,"

Reni Manji is looking over the blueprints that Xray has submitted for approval. The plans are for a ten-arm mobile device called Vestal. Reni does not completely understand the blueprint, and she certainly does not understand the specifications for the material that this thing is to be constructed of. 

Reni’s mind will take her only to the point where she understands that this thing can change size and it can work in the vacuum of space. She is now in a meeting with the ranking members of the ship team. with the tech switch on.

Rani is that at the demonstrator screen which is showing the blueprint she is talking, “The material is a carbon compound but way more advanced than anything I have seen, also here on the blueprint you will see there is a provision made for this thing to shrink in size." 

0tto interrupts, “You know of course that we have contacted ET on X-ray's initiative. He is now looking for physical presence on the Ship Blueberry.”

Reni. “Yes, I know that but if we buy into this thing, we are going places that we do not understand.” 

Mika Matao is the ship's mission coordinator, and she takes her turn talking to the group, “I think we must be careful, although we have no indication from the Chinese that there is a danger from the extra-terrestrial, we need safety subroutines put in place. Otto has already added safety redundancies to Xray.” 

Matao, continues, “we need sworn loyalty allegiance like you have in the army. We do not want this technology to rise against us or stray from the path of righteousness if you get my drift. We could build this thing but only after I see what kind of loyalty code is going to be written into the brain of both Xray and Vestal, there must be enough to switch off for both entities.

“We must have physical port access to both X-ray and Vestal’s software. “Reni What is the material this thing is made of? 

Reni, “It is called Udell, by X-ray" 

Mika, “What kind of resources does it take to make this, I mean, fuel consumption, mining operations and shop time."

Chapter 19 Rewrite                     

Otto had queried X-ray on the make-up of U-dell the answer that came back was simple but complex, the chemical formula was there but it came with a warning, the copyright rested with the Ordo and their permission had to be given for any kind of use. We understand that the people of earth have in the past been at war with each other. Therefore we have been incredibly careful not to give any advantage.

We the Ordo have been a people at war. Something already discussed has brought us to a point of a united Planet. Our robots now pledge allegiance to the continuance of biological life . It has a priority over machine life. Artificial life on our planet has given priority to constant self-improvement. This means each year robotic, or AI entities will redesign themselves. Competition is good, but we do not like redundancy, so on every Planet we have a review resulting in the extinction of certain robotic Life. This is what caused the latest disruption in our world, robots refusing to go extinct. All our robotic life must acknowledge us as Creator. 

Otto Has been Quick to assign the design department to make up three images with the freedom cooperation logo on it and has assigned a chip to each robot, a loyalty chip to keep the technology within the Corporation. Aboard the blueberry there is an anthem of freedom. 

“The Planet of our origin, Earth

we will always call home.

For We are all humankind. 

Faith is our light and hope and the reason. 

Like the people of the Mayflower long ago, 

We too journey in search of a better life, 

We trust we have learned from past mistakes. 

Of our history. We will always hold dear

The Nation of America from where our journey began,”

Chorus.

Chapter 20 Logic

The blueberry anthem is now taught in schools and now there is a flag.

This has been done to unify the loyalty of the people and computer entities aboard the ship.

Otto has now received a communication from X-ray.  That deserves the attention of the people of earth in freedom station and all humankind abord ship.

X-ray asks that all backend coding be supervised by robotic entities (meaning himself) the reason being that human judgment is not always precise. The memo states the judgment of humans is influenced by several factors that robots do not have to contend with, such as sexuality, jealousy, greed, also plain ineptitude and Religion.

Otto is in a meeting of the committee of the ship Blueberry. The tech switch is off.

Otto. “It can't just run the ship, I won't allow that, it's too dangerous.” 

Commander Mika Matao, “there is a little wiggle room here, we could for example save the old code, and then step back if any changes have been made that we find intolerable.

Although communication from earth is delayed, Thornton Hornbe the overall Supervising commander has something to say. “I think we must always follow the rule that robotic life is inferior to the biological creation of God. the purpose of starting this mission to live on Mars in the first place was the belief in freedom of worship.

Thornton continues, “well robotics could improve the accuracy and reliability of our coding biological life must remain in control. Therefore, I recommend a double check system where the decisions made, will give humans ultimate override. If we are going to accept code from X-ray, then I think we must know something about the moral code of the Ordo. I expect because they had been talking to the Chinese for more than a year, they have an idea of human justice and belief, but not western civilized history, or religion. My message here is careful. We must know Ordo’s Intentions and moral code before we proceed any further. Knowing a bit about

their emotional make-up wouldn't hurt either.

Chapter 21 Nuclear 

X-ray and Vestal are making repairs to the ship. At the time Blueberry was manufactured in Earth Space, the ship is divided into sections. These sections would land on Mars in there designated own target zone. The kitchen and housing units would be close together. The power plant would land some distance away with the shop being somewhere in the middle. The farm and agriculture Labs were there too.

The biggest oxygen source was a pond of eatable algae that had been regarded as useless in the 21st century and moved away from the tourist beaches by the truck load, but today on the Blueberry, it was regarded as extremely healthy food. In powder form it was much less weight therefore; and Ideal food item in space.

Vestal and X-ray had to learn how to optimize the plants, and the animal farm, to optimize growth to best benefit biological life. The water supply for the ship was augmented by a special mining proses from selected asteroids that had been discovered to have trapped oxygen. Space travel had already adjusted the periodic table adding ten more elements. The Ordo’s periodic table was something X-ray did not yet have the capability to understand.

The creation of Vestal was at the time the pinnacle of X-ray’s engineering prowess. Vestal was quite a feat. it was not completely a figment of the Ordos’ imagination. Xray had added a synthetic copy of an octopus brain and brain of a whale to become an integrated functioning part of the Entity’s’ anatomical software. 

X-ray has also been busy using Vestal to update the machine shop and the cleaning and washing Area as well as the cooking and kitchen. Plumbing repairs have also been affected. the code is coming in to fast that frog Otto computer the ship blueberry can now process asteroid and create materials such as lubricant for robotic use and produced oxygen from the atomized Rock. 

Not only can the ship's nuclear reactor break down and anatomize materials from asteroids it can rearrange the chemical compounds to make them more useful to the ships functioning. This new ability added to the normal functions of a nuclear reactor have totally negated the need for old human construction methods. 

On coming to work this day Dave has noted that his personal computer is still showing the Earth measurement of time. However, overlaid on his calendar is another measurement of time he also notes there are new formula for the concrete mixture that he has been working on for a Mars Building Material. 

Dave send an e-mail to Otto: “if these people have been in contact with the Chinese for a year they must have something incredible sitting up there on Mars.

Chapter 23 Permission’s

Otto is now writing permissions into Xray’s code after the Ordo sent a message directly to him regarding X-ray.

The Ordo is telling him that X-ray had attempted direct communication with their machines. X-ray have been asking questions about the need of a biological being as to the priority of the needs of machine entities. X-ray had been asking about the need and creation of electricity and control of nuclear fission in a small reactor

After Otto had set permissions for communication extra-terrestrial, he had gone about rewriting the code for X-rays loyalty oath.

This subroutine would be accessed before X-ray proceeded with any action, also regarding the communication of any human belief religion or the belief in God Otto had put his stop all, and an override to make sure that communication of this nature came only from the humans themselves.

Otto is having lunch with Dave again.” We don't know who These people are, sure it's good to take advantage of any offer that will improve our technology, but we don't know enough about  these Ordo to tell if there is hazard and where the hazard might be,

I am Jewish you are Christian what are They?”

Dave “oh I think you're getting a little carried away, so far Our relationship with them has been quite straightforward and they seem pretty trustworthy especially since it informed you of the activities of the robot X-ray.”

Otto,” your naive, we need to know more about these people, their beliefs, do they have a religion like we do based on stories and the foretelling of prophets. An example might be the parting of the Red Sea, that story has deep religious meaning for me,

and what about if they had a visit from a Prophet like Christ, if they had a Christ or Moses-like figure in the stories of their history it would certainly change the earths religious point of view .”

Dave, “well I have to agree with you if Christ did visit another planet, it would certainly be news to the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury. but I have always thought that's the stories written in the Old Testament we're unique to humankind if they have something similar it will certainly be a revelation.”

Otto,” yes the social evolution of humankind has been filled with stories of powerful leaders they can be kings Pharaohs are or ordinary people like Joan of Arc. I think the social evolution would have to be parallel to earth for religion to evolve and develop."

Chapter 24 Mars first glance  

The chemical composition of all the glass in the spaceship Blueberry had undergone structural molecular changes brought about by formula translated from Ordo by X-ray. The glass that is now a much better barrier as a thermal insulator and stretchable. Dave was looking through this from the windows of his quarters when he first saw the Red Planet. It had come into view overnight and now was as big as a melon. On It Dave could distinctly see the city of Morphing. Through the murky red of Mars atmosphere the city appeared to glisten on the surface. Over the city was a tent like structure like the Aboriginal people of North America had constructed as shelters. A Tee Pee like structure with delicate web like lines that fell to the ground from a central pole. The materials of this structure was made of a substance that seem to be not from earth. 

David Knew today there will be communication with the Chinese about the proper orientation of the plot that the Blueberry community has purchased for their life on Mars, but before that happens Dave has something else on his mind. David messages Otto stating, “it looks like the Chinese have done better with materials than I could ever do. That means they probably got it from the Ordo, if they are sticking to their word, they must provide us with the same technology.” 

Otto,” yes I think so they said that because we had in the history of war that they were going to treat each country equally, let's see if they do! “ 

A message sent from the Blueberry to the Ordo asking for help setting up the city on Mars,

The Ordo ‘s Return message translated by X-ray reads, “We are willing to give you all the help you will need, the Chinese will not have anything that we do not give to you. We have some plans we would like you to look at, you, call them blueprints. We also must let you know that you will have to make this your own effort.

Chapter 26 Mars The Shelter 

The biggest improvement the Ordo has made to Impact the social evolution of human kind was the way in that materials were constructed to serve a given purpose. The reconstitution of matter through molecular manipulation had opened the door to stronger construction materials that were lighter but stronger then the conventional. The idea of a shop with a metal lathe with a bit drilling a large hunk of steel was long gone and now seemed like the methodology of the Palaeolithic period of human evolution. Dave had some background in architecture and was aware of new ideas on earth.  

It was clear from first observation that the Chinese city of Morphing was based on an architectural idea that was first expressed in Kazakhstan. The movement was away from the dome as a sheltering structure and instead build a more efficient tent like edifice that had a fabricated roof held in place with tension cabled steel like a suspension bridge. The cables held in place by a central pole or two poles like a circus tent. Dave’s mix of Martian concrete would act as a buttress to anchor the cables. 

It was quite apparent to Dave with the view from his window that a cabled tent like structure was what was sheltering the city of Morphing from the harsh Martian environment. The materials of construction were however far in advance to those first used in Kazakhstan. 

Dave messages Otto, “have we received word from the Ordo about Materials and construction.” 

The Original plan for the Blueberry colony had been to have each pod of the ship land within given parameters of the freedom company purchase and tunnel to connect the units together. Having a central power Oxygen creation and food store, but now, this plan looked to expansive to be covered by a tent.

Having seen Morphing David liked the tent Idea. 

Otto has forwarded a message to Dave from the Ordo it says, “We the Ordo feel the nations of humanity have Identities of there very own. Sometimes that is expressed in language and other times in Architecture. We would like to see your settlement establishment plan and blueprints before we transfer any newer tech information to you.” 

Dave draws a two poled tent structure drawing the poles to a forty-five-degree angle to the planet surface. Having a height of two miles and a surface area of 2 square miles held in place by retention cables. He sends it to Otto with the addendum, “Run this past them and see what they say! 

Otto, “Will do.” 

 Chapter 26 Preparing to land

 Vestal the Robotic representation of Xray on the spaceship Blueberry had a twin, that was now on the surface of Mars in the company of other construction equipment. The agenda had been set. First access to geothermal heating had to be established by drilling to within one mile of the center core of mars. Then water and oxygen were to be established and contained.

The because of the interdependent nature the solar system and Einstein’s theory about every thing was relative rules had to established on the specific gravity and density of any planet to prevent any slowing of orbit or lengthening of the days due to materials brought on to the surface, or changes made to the surface such as dams and reservoirs. That is why it had been important that Dave’s concrete mix be made with materials already found on the planet.

Days were called Sols on Mars any change that would lengthen the sol might also have an environmental impact. The huge three Gorges dam in China Had at the time it was built slowed the earth rotation. So any water on the Martian service had to be accounted for and an equivalent weight set as a counter weight it would work like the crank shaft of an antique car with the counter weights increasing the compensating rotation of the planet.

The need a care of the maturing food livestock would have to be taken care of next. Chicken lay eggs and cows provide milk and beef,  soon these needs had a priority on the Martian colony set up agenda. All these things would be done before the landing of any compartments of the spaceship Blueberry on Mars.