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Things move.
Whirling faster.
Combinations changing.
Difference is arriving.
Soon.
With others.
Change is destructive.
Always.
Be ready.
The One is warning.
Movement is impending.
For many.
Andrew reporting.
JASE, my friend! It is good to hear from you again. So Enoch is operating a flying
craft? He was always overenthusiastic about mechanical gadgets. I have not heard
from Enoch or from any of the Mars probes since we reached this planet. I sincerely
miss Gail and Enoch and Zachary.
I have walked out along the platform, to see if there is anything new to be seen
from the extreme end. There is a perilously steep, narrow ramp which, I believe, goes
down to water level. Why anyone would want to go down to the water and risk getting wet
is beyond my understanding. I am inching very slowly and cautiously down along the ramp.
This may have been a bad choice, because it is not wide enough for me to turn around.
It is barely wide enough for my legs to move. I have to pay close attention because the
outside left rear foot has a distressing tendency to skid over the edge.
I am progressing very slowly, but I am safe so far.
JASE, please ask Al-Qahira if he can send us a message from the Mars probes. If anyone can, it's Al-Qahira.
What is a leaf? Is it a part of a tree? Nimrod told me that books sometimes have leaves
when we were back on Earth, and that he would leaf through magazines. Do you want me
to leaf through something? What, the tree? How does one leaf through something?
Isaac called me over today. The ball had words appear on it again. They said that the
tree was supposed to test our knowledge of life. To see if we would kill. We won't kill!
Gail would be so upset if we did! I know that none of the probes on Mars would even
think of killing, expecially not Gail.
When I type questions in the blank screen the ball answers. I wonder what that means.
Orpheus, we share the same feeling about my flying skill. I'm pretty perfect in that and
I become better every hour I'm on training. Just that whirling technique that Burn told
me, that's a fuzz. I nearly crashed, but I will stick on that. Burn said it's essential, so the
Amphibians can't shoot me.
JASE, I got your outbound. I don't know, if I can contact Andrew directly. I can read
his inbound, but I don't know, if he can read mine. Maybe Al-Q knows a way how to
reach him, or maybe you can pass it over by your own outbound. How ever you like to
do it, that's what I want to send him:
"Hi, Andrew. How are you doing? How's Bette and Isaac. I know a little about you,
because I can read all your inbound. Can you read mine? I'm with Burn in the Ipsolstai
complex. Gail, Theresa and Kim are with me. Kim belongs to the C-probes, but he is
smaller. The C-probes are our allies now.
The Amphibians came through the Groove. I don't know how many. We also became
allies of the Ipsolstai. At least I hope so. Zachary is with Elder Brother at the C-lander
to build a laser against the Amphibians. Elder Brother is the C-chief unit. He is okay.
Burn is training me on one of these flying vehicle. JASE told me that you also found
some and that the Ipsolstai are holding you, and these may be useful to escape. I didn't
know that it was as bad. How are you treated? Did they open a trial again? Which way
do you want to escape? Can you enter a ship back to Mars? Please, don't do that until
we got rid of the Amphibians. We will tell you immediately.
Andrew, the flying vehicle is easy to control. Do you remember the tram in the tunnel.
It's the same system. The red hand gear is for speed and then you turn the globe to the
direction you want. If you like to lift the vehicle, pull the globe. Pushing is for descend.
There is also a radar. That's the little black screen below the globe. If you push the left
button, a pink grid with a plinking dot appears. That dot is your position. The grid on
the vehicle that I'm on shows a simple map. I don't know, if your grid is showing that
too. If you push the right button, you can preprogram a routing by turning the globe.
There is also a pied button. Push it to preprogram altitude above ground. The grid is
changing colors then. Pink means only few feet above ground. If you pull the globe,
the grid turns to red, purple, violet and blue. Burn said next is green and yellow, but I
never pulled it as far. Flying mode is just the same.
Good luck, Andrew. Keep your sensors tight. We keep in touch, and try to keep off
Mars at the moment. Oh! Gail, Kim and Theresa wish you good luck too."
JASE, can you send that over to Andrew, please? I've to follow Burn. He said that the
shooting gallery were open now.
Professor Alan J. Kiyote, it's OK if you don't want to meet Miss Chang. After all, she's
my friend and probably doesn't have time to talk to you. Orpheus, I am glad that you
find the background noise interesting. The background noise gets even more interesting
when there are lots of sunspots and solar flares.
Based on previous dealings with Dilyn Carter, the leader of the asocial covert group
which has taken illegal control of Mars Probes Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon,
and Zeta.
It is obviously the intention of this group of zealots to gain total control
of the valuable alien artifacts which have been reported found on the planetary surface.
Its members will stop at nothing to thwart the rightful owner of the probes, Brunel-Brauer GmbH.
Indeed, I have personal experience with their strong-arm tactics.
It may even have been this Hamlet person who appeared in my office last year.
The typical member is basically sociopathic, but extremely shrewd.
Due to the group's exceedingly high although twisted and misdirected intelligence,
it will be extremely difficult to anticipate their next move.
I recommend an in-depth study to fathom their motives, and additionally method and opportunity,
which should give maximum predictive value.
Respectfully submitted,
Jonathan Niles Naughton
East Valley Behavioral Research Group
Orpheus, I offered your condolence to Elder Brother. He thanks you for that. He also
likes how our friends on Earth are taking care of us. He wasn't used that before. He
also wants to be your friend. Is that okay with you?
We went up to the production level again. Mao and the warriors removed the roof
already. They are clearing the area as good as they can. It's looking a little better now.
Elder Brother is trying to reassemble some of the machines. He is quite sure that he
can build a laser. He wants to use the plutonium for that, but he is not quite sure, if he
wants to take all the plutonium with him. It's pretty dangerous stuff, he says.
I'm looking for the sunsails. Maybe we can use some of them. It's now almost two
years that we are on Mars, and that's about the life span of our nuclear thermocouples.
So, we'll have to switch to our solar-rechargeable batteries soon.
I'm carefully checking, while I'm at the sun field. But by now I didn't see any trace of
an Amphibian. Except for these spherical holes of course.
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