EXCERPT FROM MY NOVEL - THUNDERBIRD Wovoka had hoped that war would be avoided, but he knew that the Thawrian ruling classes thought in geo-galactic terms. They, like most ruling classes sought constant expansion of its power from fear of losing it. The Milky Way was not an important sector as long as humans remained primitives. They now considered them a possible threat to be controlled. When Wovoka’s spacecraft Nemesis hit the spacetime wrinkle in space, during his efforts to repair the ship, he noticed something that led him to a brilliant discovery in the nature of reality. The instruments on the Nemesis showed that the ship did not actually ricochet off the spacetime wrinkle, but had hit a shallow wormhole that cast it into another time trajectory. The wrinkles were actually wormholes so to speak. From the idea, he devised two types of cannon. The first was the Anti-matter cannon that shot anti-matter beams instead of positron beams as did the Thawrian cannon. The antimatter beams were electrons whose spins were “time-reversed” and hence traveled backwards in time. These wave inversions followed the principle that by adding the negative or inversed electron amplitude to the positron amplitude the resulting amplitude is zero, or annihilation. The other cannon was Earth based and were simply spacetime-altering cannon that could create wormholes in spacetime or cause spacetime to become denser or thinner at a given point. The thinner subsets created wormholes or time tunnels. The thinnest led to oblivion. The Densest created cloaks and shields. Professor had devised anti-gravity fields that repelled any positively charged matter by an electro-magnetic-anti-gravity negative charged field. It was using electro-magnetism to alter space on a cosmic scale. Wovoka’s ‘Ace in the hole’ was however, Raven and the Professor who could probably annihilate their fleet anytime it appeared. Wovoka knew that if humanity were to have equal rights in the Inter-Galactic Commonwealth, they had to establish their right to rule their galaxy. Wovoka had planned for this fight all along because without the fight, Thawr would have begun to colonize the galaxy as a challenge. He wanted to soundly trounce them, even annihilate their forces and he had set many traps for them. Humans had already trained for the war and executed it in war games. The Dark One and Chaparral had scouted Zeros and Thawr already and had located every vital target. Wovoka had no interest in most of the Inter-galactic commerce. The intergalactic trade brought corruption and items that obsessed the mind, such as the Taboo Plant that soothed you into exquisite slumber and dreams for months. Humanity’s travails with opium were child’s play to the deadly effects of the Taboo Spell. Another commercial nightmare was the Ragan vampire plants whose genomes Krool gave to the Earthlings as a terror agent and used to create the vampiric ivy plants. His only interest was establishing a human foundation whose future was based on peace and harmony. He wanted to establish intergalactic relations founded upon the principals of justice and wisdom. He believed that humans would survive because of their youth and vitality or despite it if this battle were won. They had to prove they could protect their colonies and their rights in other galactic sectors and quadrants. They had to prove that they deserved to be treated as an equal in Circles that looked for weakness. Ruling classes and politicians were the same everywhere and on every planet. They all had their Divide and Conquer Rings. Some will seek alliances to promote their power. He hoped that none, if the battle was won, would seek continued war. The Earthmen charged their engines and the small fleet of two hundred fighters armed with anti-matter cannon, and defended by anti-gravity shields instead of the EM shields of Thawrian fighters, took off for their outposts a light-year from earth in ten squadrons. They set up a cordon of picket ships around the routes Thawrian transports and mining ships usually took. Three enemy scout ships were allowed to pass through the cordon of cloaked Earth ships. Once through, the Thawrian ships flew into a wormhole that sucked two of them into its vortex like a ravenous black hole. They were flung back into time faster than their engines could counter. They were flung so far back into time they would never be able to return. They were on an FTL train into the past without a decelerator. The third Thawrian fighter, astonished at the sudden disappearance of its flight mates, barely had time to report the event when the two, cloaked Earth fighters fired their antimatter cannon at the spacecraft and saw it disappear in a flash of light that would have blinded them if they were not protected by their shielded craft. When the Thawrian command ship could not raise its scout ships, their commander, Admiral Zoxxa was shocked as well as a little alarmed and slowed the approach of his small, twenty-five ship fleet. He saw the Thawrian scout ships vanish and the third disappear in a flash of white light and could not believe his eyes. Back on Thawr, he was ridiculed for the large size of his force for such a primitive opponent, but now he felt misgivings that he did not have a larger force. He saw the same thought reflected in the faces of his crew when they came to accept the fact that their scout ships were lost or destroyed. Rather than feed his ships piece-meal into the fray, Zoxxa decided on a concerted, frontal attack. He ordered the remaining two ships of the scouting squadron to assume the point position ahead of the following main force at one-forth SOL (Speed of Light). The two spacecraft pulled ahead of the main force squadrons in perfect tandem, reducing their speed to one-tenth SOL. At the light year point from Earth however, they mysteriously began slowing down and had to increase their power to maintain their speed. When the main force reached the same point following closely behind the point ships, they encountered the same phenomenon. He did not know it, but that region of spacetime had become denser. He reported the strange events and the possible loss of the two scout ships to Thawrian headquarters and Xaxa was furious. Admiral Zoxxa was furious himself at the rude, blameful language Xaxa hurled at him. He felt he was on a fool’s mission anyway since Oryx had little value and the humans did not pose a threat to Thawr. He boosted his antigravity charges to a full SOL, yet his speed had dropped almost immediately back to a tenth of the speed of light and was slowing. A huge armada of nearly fifty Earth spacecraft appeared suddenly behind them after dropping their cloaks. They fired antimatter beams that annihilated two entire squadrons instantly and almost as quickly, recloaked. Then just as mysteriously as it distorted, the dense region of spacetime normalized and the remaining Thawrian spacecraft leaped ahead at lightspeed, unable to control their amplitude until they had bounced six light years from earth. When they scrambled to make control adjustments, they discovered to their utter amazement that their sensors were detecting nothing. They took visual observations and saw nothing. They were not cloaked, the Universe was cloaked. Wovoka had figured that if matter consisted of quantum waves then the WSM (Wave Structure of Matter) is the origin of all natural laws and the foundation of physical nature. Yet he reasoned further that waves exist in a medium and that medium was space. Space was the wave medium and the origin of natural laws and not matter. Matter and its laws evolved from spacetime. The properties of particles and the laws embedded in them are derived from the properties of spacetime. There are two combinations of the two basic in/out waves that form electrons and positrons, with opposite phase and spin rotation. Thus, matter is constituted of two binary elements. Only two basic building blocks produce the vast plethora and variety of molecules and materials populating the universe. For the electron, the structure is a pair of spherical outward and inward quantum waves, convergent to a center and existing in ordinary space and termed a space resonance. Every space resonance shares its binary wave structure pair with all others in our universe. Thus, we exist in an inter-connected binary universe. In essence, space tells matter how to behave contrary to general beliefs. The scalar waves of space therefore, Wovoka realized, can be altered to alter and manipulate matter. Shadow had once told him, “Space, the vast expanse we all called nothing was running things all along.” Inertia, charge, and other forces are mediated by the pervasive space medium. Space is not empty because it is a quantum wave medium created by oscillating waves from every particle in the universe. Wovoka solved the old riddle of what came first. It was spacetime. Raven had cloaked the entire solar system from the eyes and sensors of outsiders as Earth space-fighters bore in on them invisibly, from the cloak. Xaxa watched the action through the command ship’s communications module and could not understand the turn of events except that his entire fleet was being destroyed without firing a cannon or laser ray. He saw the two squadrons vaporized, he saw the two scouts disappear, and little else because his FTL com link was cut thereafter. Xaxa felt that he had declared war on Wizards. Wovoka could have swallowed the entire fleet into the maws of time, treading against the flow. He wanted Thawr to see its never executed attack and futile defeat. He also wanted to blood his defense force in the event that Thawr did not seek a peaceful resolution of the attempt at blatant imperialism. Raven uncloaked the solar system and the Dark One contacted Xaxa. “This is Dark, Commander in Chief of Earth Defense Forces. I wish to speak with Xaxa, Governor of the Thawrian Confederation regarding prisoners of War and his unwarranted attack upon our galaxy. The attack was a unilateral declaration of war by Thawr and its Confederation against Earth and its Confederate Colonies.” The Dark One had a wry sense of humor and felt quite silly parodying the pretensions of the creatures space built. He must now force the Thawrians to acknowledge their dismal defeat but likewise consider the ramifications of an Earth counterattack and the threats to their own interests. The Dark One had used the “cosmic quantum tunneling” space-time shortcut to lead his twenty-ship squadron to their staging area a light year outside of the Thawrian mining colony of Zeros. It was on Zeros that they extracted the prized youth element SaV, the most prized element in the Thawrian Confederation. The cloaked ships had emerged from their “time tunnels” in synchronized order and took up their stations for the attack. Their sensors located two small mining transports leaving the small Mars-sized planet that glowed blue in the soft light of its blue dwarf star. According to plan, Five Earth fighters burst through the short “cloaking” time tunnel into the airspace over the spaceport of Zeros. The uncloaked fighters executed a blossom pattern that locked them all onto vital targets. Squadron leader Brave had rolled onto the SaV mining complex and dropped five, compressed one-ton tanks of Tombstone upon the small, but vital, processing complex. Red Bear hit the transports with laser photons to disable, but not destroy them. The scalar generator was knocked out, which crippled the defense cannon and communication system. Then the ships peeled off their strafing runs and executed a beautiful roll right that sent the gracefully designed, bat-winged craft on collision courses at the middle of their circle. At the instant when the on looking Thawrians thought they would collide, they shot straight upwards, into single-file, in precision time. Thawrian fighters scrambled from their bases and pursued the marauders while the Dark One, waited in cloaked ambush to spring his trap on the unsuspecting and disorganized defense fighters. The Earth fighters did not use their anti-matter cannon on their targets on Zeros to limit damage and unnecessary death. As the sleek, red Earth craft disappeared behind the cloak with laser photons rebounding off their Anti-grav EM shields, the fifteen Earth craft were in perfect alignment to receive them as the Dark One signaled the order to open fire on the onrushing ships. The bat-winged craft spat out their black-energy bolts into the ranks of the heedless enemy. The only omens of their peril were the red glow around the antimatter EM waves that sought them out. The rounds began hitting the targets and great explosions were seen in the dark Zeroan space that signaled the end of armed resistance. The antimatter explosions were so powerful that those Thawrian ships not hit were destroyed as well. The Dark One sent in the same attack squadron that circled the undamaged corporation headquarters building. One landed and Red Bear emerged from the craft, met with the Governor of the corporate colony, and received his surrender. Xaxa responded to the Dark One’s transmission with a simple announcement of his presence by the communications unit, “Governor Xaxa awaits your communication Sir.” The Dark One replied, “Hello Governor, how are things today? Fine I hope. Things are not so well with me though. You see, I was forced to destroy two enemy fleets and capture the rarest resource in the Thawrian mining conglomerate. It pains me because I may be forced to, er, shall we say, sneak up on your home planet next. Now that will not be fun for anyone, now will it? Tsk, tsk tsk. It is especially a shame because we have no need for SaV or the thousands of colonist slave laborers here.” The Dark One needled, “As you have unilaterally declared war on Earth, it is up to you to seek peace from us now don’t you agree? Of course, you will announce your terms to us within five Earth Days or before then if you seek peace with Earth. We are in possession of Zeros and its population is now considered as prisoners of war. As there are no legal protocols established between our galaxies, the intergalactic war you have declared is being waged without restraints or rules of engagement. You have taken upon yourselves all of this power, for little gain and dishonorable demands upon us to recreate your Thawrian zoo on Earth.” In feigned Napoleonic style, the Dark One Stretched to his full, great height and intoned, “To ensure the security of the Earth and the Milky Way Confederation, in return for peace, we demand: “That you recognize the Milky Way Galactic Confederation as the ruling body of the Milky Way and its right to limit, ban, and control all colonization, mining, sensor stations and commerce everywhere in the galaxy. “That you further agree to the terms set herein in a treaty that accepts Earth as an equal member of the Intergalactic Commonwealth.” The Dark One then engendered his last demand as an offer. “In exchange for return of the Zeros colony and its thousands of prisoners who are actually now our slaves, we desire the freeing of the human slaves of Thawr and their transportation to our colonies in the Cygnus Quadrant. We seek further, a ban on cloning humans in the Thawr Confederation. Indeed, it is a practice unique to Thawr. In recognition of the hostility of the Ruling Blue Thawrian class to Earth, Earth will only negotiate with Red Thawrian negotiators.” With a sincere look of dour condemnation, the Dark One awaited Xaxa’s reply. The Dark One had made no great demands upon Thawr, especially when the offer of the return for Zeros was included. What Xaxa did not want to concede however, was a defeat that would overthrow his ruling coalition in the governing body. Yet the crafty Earthling was actually demanding his ouster in return for easy terms! He sensed a rebellion already when he heard the numerous approvals of the Dark One’s terms from the other members of the governing council. When Xaxa turned to face them, he saw their decision written on their faces. The Machiavellian rules of ruling were universal and he saw that the Earthling had watered the seeds of conflict of their divided society. Red Thawrians were being offered preference over Blue Thawrians, human clones and half-breeds were being emancipated, and Blue Thawrians were to lose much of the prestige they had enjoyed throughout the Commonwealth and Confederation. Such was the nature of politics. Continuing the war he knew was unacceptable to most Thawrians who had paid little heed to Xaxa’s declaration less than two weeks earlier. Now their home planet was in danger from a pack of space wolves that had just annihilated the cream of their Defense Fleet and had captured their most profitable colony. His interfering in the politics of a primitive society enabled them to make a quantum leap into the future and challenge their intergalactic supremacy. He had been selectively condemned by the Earthling and knew it was a backhand demand for regime change. He knew that demand will find resonance in Thawrian society too. Although not echoed by the board of governors, he knew that calls for his ouster would definitely occur during the selection of Red negotiators. Dark, the Earthling’s easy demands may cause a major revolution on Thawr and within the Commonwealth itself. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE From Here to Eternity The Unknown beckons the mariner Whose eye scans the horizons new The endless stretches of dust and stars And time he passes through while roaming the spacious mansions The flow of time impels him on yet in time’s distant expansion his here, one day is gone … From here to Eternity the horizon no mariner yet has seen for all will observe their last horizon that today is but a dream leaving Footsteps covered in the dust of time winnowing through the dark unknown and only time will remember the name of the dried, forgotten bone from the Songs of Red Wolf.
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