It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time 27.1[38]

It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time

 

Ripples of distortion, subtle but influencing, spread out from the Timespace Event. The Timespace Transformation continued spreading out through time, space, alternates and other dimensions.

 

It was only logical that 'outside' entities, who were already aware of what was happening, would act-react but it was also logical that other such entities would become aware of the transformations and act-react.

 

From gods, to living-gods, immortals, mortals and others there would come actions-reactions.

 

In truth it had already begun to happen!

Edited October 20, 2014 by Maharg67

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 28.1[39]

First Steps in Response

Captain Armstrong found himself in charge of the Lunar Surface Taskforce. His fellow American often looked upon him with suspicion, though not all of them, and the Soviets did even more so. The Soviet Union, based mainly in Russia and China, was paranoid when it came to megahumans or any kind of related mutations. Indeed they were paranoid of much. The Capits were not much less so. So he was always be watched but that did not disturb him very much because he kept the important stuff securely secret.

He was also the best person there to command the LSTF and those in command knew it. He had the base rearranged, improving defenses, security and safety. He made it more efficient, taking greater advantage of a cave system found beneath the outpost. That also was secured. Armstrong made sure that the low gravity tolerance medicants were taken by all, on a regular basis, and that all did their regulation exercises in the full gravity fitness units. Havenlanders tended to stay in their own area but Armstrong made sure no Havenlander women were harassed by non-Havenlander men. Biological safety procedures were very strictly kept.

The cave system was a low gravity version of those found on Terra with oddly shaped stalagmites and other natural formations. Insect like critters were most smaller, more harmless, or bigger and more harmless, but some did try to attack moonsuited Terrans or even remote controlled machines.

 

Every hour, or so, Armstrong used special abilities to upgrade, enhance, some bit of technology. He knew that every time he did this the results were carefully studied but in truth the changes could be found in machines already existing on Terra. He laughed when he got an E-mail letter threatening to sue him over copyright for the claim was from the UmbTek Corporation trying to steal copyrights. His responding E-mail message quickly put an end to their foolishness.

 

Two moonshuttles were soon making as many visits to the outpost as they could do, often bring resources teleported from Terra to Terran Low Orbit and then from there to Lunar Orbit. Megahumans could also use the teleporters but metahumans could use them most efficiently and safety, taking much more with them when they teleported; they also used much less electricity in being sent and received. Yet no way had been found to allow metahumans to teleport through world-bubbles with out assistance so they could not teleport from Lunar Orbit down to the outpost. Also metahumans were a minority of megahumans who were a minority of Terran humans so there were relatively few of them free to carry out the teleporter missions.

 

It was not long before the first big creatures attacked the defense-security boundaries of the outpost, the loperhorns being driven off by special effects that allowed ammunition to be saved. After that the first Tyrmans showed up as wary scouts, being of both sides of the Lunatyr Civil War.

 

Armstrong examined some crouching Wayomatyr scouts using night-vision capacity through a video camera set up. The powerful zoom lens, and clever infrared system, had the scouts clearly outlined. The three young adults, elongated humans of torsos and limbs, did not know they were being so closely observed.

 

He reached out with his mind and risked empathic-telepathy, speaking a common language of the Tyrman humans. "We have you marked but I invite you to enter the outpost so that we can discuss forming an positive, useful, alliance between our peoples."

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 28.2[40]

First Steps in Response

 

The Wayomatyr scouts came warily into the outpost, through one of the three main gates, with hurt pride at being so easily detected. They stood in a courtyard area, a kind of practical airlock, staring in wonder at a big MoonEagle framecraft that was just completed and ready to fly in the low gravity of Luna. It had been adjusted to better deal with Lunar atmospheric conditions.

 

Captain Armstrong stood facing them, the scouts having placed their long rifles on the ground. He was easily dwarfed by them, looking up at them from within his armored moonsuit, but they were clearly impressed by the moonsuit and much else that they were seeing.

 

Armstrong spoke. "Why are you in the area?"

 

The male leader spoke. "We are scouts and we are scouting; what more is there to say?"

 

Armstrong responded. "No, you came here in response to reports of 'others' seeing our activity from a distance. That would not be difficult considering the landing of our machines, some of which take off and land. Your people are the Wayomatyr."

 

"Why bother asking questions when you already know the answers." The leading scout humphed in an odd fashion. "You are not what you appear to be on the surface. You are like the psychic-spiritual elder shamans of our people but also others strong with the mindeye. It is not up to us, mere scouts, to decide on an alliance; our leaders will make such a decision."

 

The captain copied the same kind of 'humph' noise the other had used. "You are a scout but you are more than a scout. You are also strong with the mindeye. We offer you resources in exchange for knowledge of the Lunar Surface."

 

The male leader spoke. "We call it the Lunar Overworld. There is the Lunar Overworld, the Lunar Labyrinth below that and the Lunar Midworld beneath that. Below that few have ever gone and even fewer have ever returned from. There are a few peoples in the Lunar Overworld, which includes the rich Craterlands, and a few in the Lunar Labyrinth but far more in the Lunar Midworld. In the Lunar Underworld there are the selenites, the hivaca and other monsters. What would you give us in exchange for more knowledge such as maps, notes and the hiring of scouts and guides?"

 

Armstrong responded carefully. "Guns, ammo, knives, tools, blankets, rope, medicines, fuel oil, preserved rations and much else."

 

The scout leader responded. "Then I suggest that a limited alliance would be good for both our peoples but you have not fully earned our trust yet. You are on the very edge of our territories but we will forgive you because you did not know you were intruding."

 

Armstrong nodded. "Thank you!"

Edited October 4, 2014 by Maharg67

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 29.1[41]

First Steps in Response

 

The cave system, running through Ayers Rock, was a dangerous maze that one could too easily get lost in. Areas were lightly, or heavily, sealed off. Metal signs, much to the annoyance of the Azorines, were bolted to walls. Mulder, and Fox moved through a big chamber fastooned with ancient, well protected, Azorine wall paintings. Part of the deal, that the Azorines had made with others, was that such things be well cared for.

 

The art was not only highky impressive, and very ancient, it was also unique amongst Azorine works. For it showed gray flying-saucers hovering over an Azorine village but short gray humanoids, with big heads and eyes, in bizarre spacesuits with elongated bubblehelmets.

 

Yet there was more in the form of silvery globes flying up into the sky and purple comet-projectiles landing in Azorine Territories.

 

Some Bigfoots were depicted doing friendly trade with some Azorines.

 

There was a picture of what looked to be a blue police box from England. A dapper little man stood outside of it with what looked to be a long, colorful scarf. Two young women, in odd jumpsuits, were with him, along with a silvery dog creature.

 

Mulder grinned. "This place is the Azorines' version of the XFiles but much older."

 

Scully nodded. "Including the mysterious 'Doctor' who keeps popping up in various XFiles."

 

There were other artworks, many of puzzling meaning, but one was only too clear. The nuclear explosion, a terrible mushroom, rose up into the air in the distance and was clearly authentic. According to the Azorines it had taken place many thousands of years ago.

 

Yet the strangest art work was the one depicting older versions of themselves, in odd clothing, eating with locals in the common hut of an Azorine village.

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 30.1[42]

It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time

 

It was a very unusual fact that the great majority of standard humanity did not seem to fully know about the Great Barrier Walls though millions lived where they could often see one of them in the far distance, if they wished to do so. The Great Barrier Walls divided off the Known Ordered World from the rest of the Known World and also the Unknown World beyond that. Beyond the GBWs were the Wildlands and some Forbidden Zones and also some Forbaden Zones. From the top of the greatly massive walls, each a kilometre tall, rose a higher energy wall. Along the great wall were dotted tower-forts, each a tower shaped fort, and even bigger tower-fortresses. Only the far fewer tower-citadels were larger. What lived, served, in the GBWs was unknown to most humans and they did not seem to want to know.

 

What needed to be understood was that the GBWs were two way boundaries designed to keep those inside the Known Ordered World, inside it, and those outside of the KOW, outside of it.

 

There were a very few Forbidden Zones in the KOW and only one Forbaden Zone.

Edited October 6, 2014 by Maharg67

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 31.1[43]
Forst Steps in Response

Spacestation Freedom was assembled very quickly over just a week thanks to items being teleported from Terra up to the spacestationship in Terran Low Orbit. The teleporter network-systems, and spacestationships, allowed the quicker and more efficient creating of probes being sent not just to Luna but beyond and satellites for both Terra and Luna. Three orbital spaceplatforms were also set into Terran Low Orbit.

The two UmbTek astronauts, in their own smaller shuttle, were aware of such things through their various instruments. They did not take up much space, did not breath much air, because they were necrolifen reanimants created from necrovats. They fed on a solution of liquified flesh and blood. The scientists, who had created them, had jokingly called them necronauts but the name had stuck to become official.

 

UmbTek considered the necronoids to be expendable but the monstrous corporation considered most of its minions to be expendable, including living humans of quite high official rank, semiofficial status and unofficial kudos.

 

The necronoids did not know this and would not have cared if they had known; they were very straight forward entities. They had no real feelings, no doubts, no real thoughts.

 

They were waiting for the probe, that had been sent down to the Lunar Overworld, to return. Already it was late but their attempt to communicate this information to UmbTek Command had failed; the radio communications were being blocked.

 

The blackship was detected by the small UmbTek shuttle only at the last moment. It was vastly overwhelmed by the great black shape. Then it was gone as the self-destruct network-systems destroyed it but just before that happened the two necronauts, and some items in the shuttle, vanished as they were teleported away.

Edited October 4, 2014 by Maharg67

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 32.1[44]

First Steps in Response

 

The fighting was made difficult for those entering the temple because they were trying to capture as many of the drugged, fanatical, followers of the cult as was possible. The good thing was that while many of the followers were armed, they were equipped only with a mixture of moderately powerful handguns and their drugged state made them over confident but also clumsy and easily tricked.

 

Mulder helped bring in another sedated follower, a young man, with a stretcher that a SWAT medic used with him. Civil Police Officers had arrived along with paramedics and a handful of doctors, nurses and orderlies from a hospital. The hospital was a special one meant to deal with special cases and it sent out medical teams in strange situations like that one.

 

Scully, a trained doctor with some very special extra training and exotic experiences, was bending over a sedated woman on a portable trolley bed. She was looking annoyed and puzzled. Then the brunette saw her husband and smiled lightly before speaking with a tone of concern in her voice. "UmbTek is at it again unless the superdrug used here was bought or stolen from them. It is Necrodol."

 

Mulder frowned. "Necrodol, the superdrug that makes you at least partly undead! I remember the XFile."

 

What he did not say was that the secretive organization of supersoldiers, FEAR, had dealt with the case by infiltrating an UmbTek secret base and destroying it. UmbTek got away with their crimes, there, only because of security, and political, complications and stupidity along with some corruption.

 

FEAR: First Encounter Assault Recon!

 

Mulder did not speak of the Cult Conspiracy; he did not have to and he knew it was better not to do so there where there were so many strangers. The Cult Conspiracy had been linked to other conspiracies, including counter conspiracies, to the alien Grays, to a series of questionable research-development projects and much else. UmbTek did have links to the Cult Conspiracy but those links were not straight forward. The same was true with another big corporation, though smaller than UmbTek by far, that was called MassDynamics. Then there was the ATC (Amachan Technologies Corporation) as linked to the Alma Project and others in the city of Fairport.

 

Scully nodded. "The victims only got light doses of Necrodol so they should be okay after given special treatments. I doubt that any of them will have any useful information. Were there any valuable finds made in the temple?" She was pretending that they two had found nothing.

 

Mulder shook his head. "The TrueLife Movement has scattered, has gone underground, abandoning all of its official sites including temples. They left many drugged followers behind along with lots of resources but they took much with them as well. What their real intentions were is unclear but it may have been simply to make a fortune from selling false longevity treatments to foolish people."

 

The average age of people was about 200 years and people could remain youthful right up to the last two decades. Yet people often desired more than that. Havenlanders had an average lifespan of 300 years, as did many megahumans. Necrodol had a false reputation for increasing a lifespan and for returning youth; yet the strange death of the Senator indicated that clients had been getting more than does of Necrodol.

 

Work went on with saving victim followers of the TrueLife criminals.

Edited October 4, 2014 by Maharg67

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 33.1[45]

First Steps in Response

The find was a shock to all but Armstrong. He pretended to be so, just for appearances sake. The moonlander was both like and unlike the ones that they were using. Armstrong, himself, soon worked out that it was meant to land and then take off in an airless light gravity situation. The machine had no design adaptations to deal with atmosphere, no stabilizers and no low gravity parachutes. There were no devices to draw in atmosphere and filter it before utilizing it.

The astronauts were in bulky, non armored spacesuits that seemed rather fragile. There were indications they came from a nation called the United States of America but was it the United States of America that was known to the group? The symbols, the flag, were different for the current USA had more stars to represent the taking in of Canada, Mexico and Panicama in as States.

Everything, including the astronauts were frozen inside a substance like largely transparent blue ice but it was only cool to touch and very hard with no ice like slipperiness. They were also in metallic stone alcoves that were filled with the blue ice like substance.

Then there was the metallic stone ancient alien artifact that filled much of the cavern chamber with a floor, walled and ceiling area along with cubes, orbs and other shapes melded to the walls. They found other alcoves with a flimsy looking open vehicle with only two seats, a two wheeled handcart and even some golf-clubs and golf-balls. Had the astronauts gone all the way to the 'Moon' just to play golf?

 

There were other items in other alcoves that were mostly smaller in size. Armstrong suspected that they were copies of things that had come in the EagleOne, was it was called. Everything, even the astronauts, were some kind of strange copies.

 

What did it mean?

 

The Eternal Seeker, that he was linked to as its avatar, knew that the ancient alien power-artifact had created copies as part of a far greater network of such power-artifacts. The purpose was quite alien and though the Eternal Seeker had understanding of it, the ES-avatar could never understand such things. Armstrong did gain the strong impression that when real astronauts had landed on a different version of Luna, they had been somehow recorded along with their gear.

 

He touched the ice like substance encasing the golf-balls and it vanished with a shimmer. He pulled out the three golf-balls, that were exactly like known golf-balls, and at once the alcove filled with more blue ice like substance. Soon a ghostly image of three golf-balls appeared and slowly began to become solid. The blue substance served many purposes and one was safety to stop people putting their hands into the alcove until it was safe for them to do so.

 

Everything was carefully analyzed that was taken out. There were tubes of toothpaste like food, special spacesuit adapted tools, basic electronic devices, sample scoops and a few other items. There were no weapons. The technologies were less advanced than those of the group but not greatly so. The group could use the items as they were duplicated, perhaps endlessly.

 

Yet Armstrong stood there, examining the basic LunarRover being carefully pulled out of its alcove with its bulky video cameras, and knew that what was there indicated something far more important than a 'free' supply of useful items.

Edited October 20, 2014 by Maharg67

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 34.1[46]
It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time

No more comet-projectiles were being launched from the Lunar Overworld towards Terra. Even if they had been if would have been very hard for them to get past the newly emplaced, and expanding, Orbital Defense Security Network. The Lunatyr War was coming to an end as other factions joined with the Wayomatyr to crush the Protomatyr, many in a very opportunistic fashion that displeased the Wayomatyr. The Wayomatyr had been gaining a small, but steady, flow of equipment-supplies from the Terrans and, after the signing of an official temporary treaty, the flow expanded. It was not just military oriented and educational training materials were much in demand. Classes were held to teach the tall, thin, locals how to better use what was given.

In turn the Wayomatyr gave much knowledge about the Known Lunar Overworld, as they called the regions that they knew of, that the Lunatyr knew of. This included ways to best use local resources in a balanced, careful, fashion. They warned that it was best not to be too active in the open or to create large, active, settlements that 'could draw the wrong kind of attention'. Yet they would not state clearly what this meant.

With the Terran mass media networks giving press release bulletins, on Terran activity on Luna, there was much public interest in what was happening. There was also increasing demand that Terrans create a colony in the Lunar Overworld, even a huge one to relieve the pressure of growing populations in the Known Ordered World of Terra. Many Terrans assumed that because Luna orbited Terra, was classed as Terra's moon, that it belonged to Terra. As legalities went this was false but many behaved as if the peoples of the Lunar Overworld were trespassing in Terran territories. It was madness but one hard to argue against. None of this was happening with the Havenlanders or any megahumans who had no desire to go to the Lunar Overworld or to have large numbers of standard humans do the same.

At the same time something else was rising amongst Terran humanity, a network of megahumanity like the omnihumans of the Havenlands. They shared a secondary mind and they were semiautonomous individuals to the whole as were the omnihumans. They worked to survive and to change the world peacefully, positively, and carefully but they also prepared for survival if they needed to. They were the Cellnetworks. From early on the Cellnetworks were at odds with the Cult Conspiracy and factions linked with it. In being so they automatically became part of a very old secret war.

 

The zombie outbreaks, in the Known Ordered World, ceased! The number of paranormal incidents, and more major events, was slowly-steadily on the increase. Not all were hostile but too many of them were and many non hostile ones were still disturbing. The increasing paranormal activity were focused in a few places such as NewYork, Ayers Rock City, London and some islands in the Caribbean but more so in some ancient, dark places; of these most were Forbidden Zones and there was the one Forbaden Zone.

Edited October 6, 2014 by Maharg67