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Chapter 12

Ted Ra..."

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{{TplDistantRealityChapter|title=Chapter 12|chapter text=Freewill is but a phrase to those wishing to express a choice over an existence of happenstance. The truth is; life is but cause and effect. Freewill may play a role in being a participant in the situation as it unfolds, but when all cards are placed on the table there is only one truth: You are born and you die – where is the freewill in that? 
 
Chapter 12 
 
Ted Randals considered himself lucky. He had a great job, great benefits, great pay and it was something he enjoyed doing. Dr. Loggar was a brilliant archaeologist. And her theories about alien life developing in totally alien environments were absolutely stunning. She was high up in GRID Command, the High Goddess and very pretty. A rarity in a dirty field which aged people too rapidly. Ted had fantasized about her on numerous occasions. She embodied a kind of eroticism and sensuality that only a woman of her age can produce. She had power, money, influence, respect, and droves of young and old men clawing to be in her bed. She was his perfect wet dream incarnate. When she asked him to join the expedition to Necron he had almost fainted. He answered with. “Not yes, but hell yes!” 23 months later, he was still awed about all the things discovered on Necron. Just yesterday, Ted was thinking about the chamber found just before Loggar left for Earth. Everyone was excited about the find. It was amazing. 
Herbert “Herb” Johnson, the team mathematician - magician to most, came storming in waving a hand full of papers. “God damn those fellows!” He shouted. Ted had been reviewing plans to open a new section the scopes had picked up. “Those fellows toy with me.” Herb was dressed in an old olive drab military jumpsuit that was a size too small. It was his favorite choice of attire - secretly the rest of the team figured Herb wanted to be a soldier or something. Only Ted, possibly Dr. Loggar, knew that Herb had a weak heart, too weak for the military but strong enough not to be replaced. 
Ted had said, “Herb, now what?” 
Herb sat his 118 kilo frame down next to Ted’s desk. “Those fellows! They give me simple things to tease me, then when I figured I got a handle on the math they drop a bomb.” 
Ted stared at Herb. He was waiting for the shoe to drop. 
“Here, look at this and tell me what you think.” Herb said, and walked away. Ted now sat looking at the papers Herb had given him. He saw a lot of equations - mostly meaningless to him, but he looked at it anyway. He knew Herb would ask did he read them. Ted would say ‘of course.’ at which Herb would say, ‘what line contains the formula for such and such then?’ 
If Ted couldn’t remember, Herb would lay a verbal assault as if his feelings had been deeply hurt and this outburst of vehement verbosity was the only way to ease his bruised feelings. 
Ted was used to it now and played the game. Besides, Ted thought, ‘Herb always teaches me something and I like that.’ 
 
On the last page of the papers was scribbled an equation which Ted recognized to be a GRID equation. Next to it was some strange symbols that were circled. Just next to that were the words. ‘A modified equivalent.’ 
“Goddess.” Ted whispered, “They had GRID travel!” 
 
That day, Randals walked the halls on the excavated site. It was magnificent to be in the presence of such marvel. Randals often walked the halls before he would go to bed. He wanted the images to be fresh in his mind when he finally closed his eyes. He wanted his subconscious mind to use recent images presented in front of him. He was awed. 
That was Yesterday. 
Ted sat himself down this day to consider all the things that developed. The Electronics team discovered a new power line last night. It was active. The report said that the line was feeding power to a new section that had been previously unknown. Goddess! Ted thought, so what is new? At that moment Herb stormed in with papers in hand. “Had time to think about what we talked about?” 
Ted nodded. 
“Good,” Herb said dropping himself down in the chair. “Here’s another thing to think about.” 
Ted took a single sheet of paper that was passed to him. He read it and looked up. 
Herb smiled and said, “Yes.” 
Ted read it again “Are you sure?” 
Herb chuckled, “You damn right I’m sure. They had time travel and I’m sure they visited us.” Herb sat back and the chair creaked. “So, with all this in mind boys and girls, we ask the ultimate question?” 
Ted thought for a moment, asked, “What did the guys in chronology say about this area?” 
“They think that the area has only been abandoned for fifty years. Count that! Only fifty short years. I was planned and your daddy just had his first wet dream.” 
Ted ignore that last remark. Herb had no way of knowing when his father had a wet dream, if ever! “Where are they? Is that the question you want me to ask?” 
Herb pursed his lips, “You’ve played this game before?” 
“Only with you.” 
“Ha-ha, you comedian you. Yes, that was the question I was thinking.” 
Ted smiled. He got Herb this time. 
“Ted, my good man, not only did these people have a GRID system, they also had a form of GRIDless travel.” 
“What?” 
“They had a warp drive like system. Not only is it possible, it’s fantastic.” Herb leaned forward. “With a little modification, we could have Warp capability too. That’s how they traveled in time! Think of the possibilities. Time travel!” 
Ted leaned further back in his chair. ‘Time travel? Warp Drive?’ He leaned forward. “What else did you discover?” 
Herb chuckled, “A little behind on the reports are we?” 
“Well, it is a lot, and I’m not Loggar, I still have to do her job and mine’s. You aren’t the only one who gives me reports, but you know this.” 
Herb chuckled louder, “Aren’t we so lucky.” 
“Just tell me will ya.” 
“Okay, okay.” Herb paused for all of three seconds. “They wanted us to find this place and learn as much as possible.” 
Ted blinked several times and puffed out, “Yeah right.” He almost wanted to laugh in Herb’s face. ‘What a silly idea’ he thought. “How do you know that?” 
“I was down talking to Milkens . . .” 
“Milkens?” 
“One of the lowly tech folks you people in admin tend to forget.” 
Ted scowled and cleared his throat. “I know who Milkens is.” 
Milkens told me he thought it interesting that all the computer and electronic equipment had multiple port configurations.” 
Ted frowned. 
“They had different output and input connectors . . .” 
“Ah!” 
“Yes, each port is a duplicate with a different set of connecting criterion.” 
“Maybe, they used different devices for . . .” Ted began. 
Herb interrupted, “Please, Mr. Administration, think about it. Each device had multiple port configurations, each one had a diagram showing voltage, well, their symbol for voltage, and each one was connected in parallel. They wanted us to figure out what was going on. And I’ll tell you another thing. Most of the equations I’ve found were accompanied by more and more progressively simpler equations.”
“What?” 
“That’s what I thought. I’d get an equation dealing with logarithms with five simpler, long-winded examples. At first, I thought it was just scratch work. But I kept seeing it in one and two term formulas. When you see x raised to the 2nd in an equation, then you find (x)(x) next to it you begin to wonder.” 
Ted sifted through the stack of papers. 
Herb lean forward, “You know something, else?” 
Ted stopped. “What?” 
“This is only a feeling. But when you add up all the stuff about multi-port configuration, line power feeds, and simplified math equations you come to one conclusion.” 
“And that is?” Ted suddenly had enough of Herb and he wish he would get to the point. 
“We were expected!” 
 
The entities moved at a satisfactory rate, Agegi thought. It had been a mere 30 cycles since the Elders left, leaving him and the others in wait. Agegi saw the entities were smart, not intelligent but smart. They figured things out with some thinking. 
He focused on two in particular; the other one he used to follow had left. The thin one remained. Agegi knew that the other was in charge and that this thin one was in charge until the other one returned. He listened to them talk. A tongue that was at first difficult to follow, but some words were surprisingly similar to the old language. 
The funny shaped one leaned forward and said, “You know something, else?” 
The thin one stopped touching the thin pieces of writing surface. 
“What?” 
“We were expected!” 
The thin one held its breath. 
And if Agegi could have laughed he would have. 

 
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