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CHAPTER 20The Chetenians in Their New Sunsystem “All right,” said Dagolo, “we shall continue, because our time is running short, and so we shall go right on with this theme.” Dagolo motioned toward the Pallian being to continue with the presentation. He looked at me, laid his hand on my chest, and nodded to me. Only after I responded with a similar gesture and laid my hand on his chest, he allowed the computer to then continue with the explanations Very carefully the Chetenians prepared for their debarkation onto the new planet. They searched out a valley where there would be wide shallow rivers crossing it, and this would be where they would build their first city. Already the landings in the valley fascinated them incredibly. It was beautifully untouched and unspoiled, and was covered with flowers. It looked like an entire copy of their old home planet. It had wonderful wide green valleys, wide forests, rivers and lakes, and wonderful mountains in the distance. It had endless variations in animals that populated the beautiful valley where they first landed. Ten years passed until all the beings aboard the mother ship had landed and settled on the surface of this new planet, and until they had reestablished all their machinery and devices, and all the technical instruments from the space ship down into the valley. After forty years there was no more use for the old and abused mother ship. The systems of the old relic were used for a last and final trip with no return. A little later the glowing mother ship disappeared from view forever. From their first city they took into their possession gradually, that which they had been longing for for so much time. In order to use their highly modern instruments, devices and machinery, that were built according to the plans of their old homeworld, they had created pulsating with life cities raised out of the ground. Industry, agriculture, development, etc., adjusted to the growth of their villages and housing. Gradually their interest in space flight disappeared for the Chetenians. The once very desirous fast support craft for the mother ship were no longer used. They were hopelessly deterioriating. The old landing port was converted into a Nature Park. Now and then one spoke of times past, but even those memories were fast fading. The succeeding generations would only read about experiences on the space flight, but they could no longer imagine the hardships experienced. Nearly 700 years long they lived in contentment and free of worry. The nation of space traveling beings was lapsing more and more into forgetfulness. Only a few people, mostly scientists tended to the memories of the once past expanded space flights. After more time, even those could no longer find the archives. The ancestors of the Chetens had once maintained good records of the migratory and interplanetary space flights, but even those had become lost over time and become legend. One day, an excavation in the Nature Park struck an elaborately secure bunker system, which turned out to be the lost archives about space flight and technology. For subsequent generations all these records were copied into a microelectronic storage system. The finders were absolutely excited. They had found what had been looked for for so much time, so long. For many weeks they reported and told each other about the discovery of this precious information. Yet, though they were not able to fully decipher this information, only a little time passed before the specialists in data research were able to decipher and fully interpret the old records. From here on a new era began. A time when one had remembered space flight again and a whole history began evolving around the old records of space flight. Every child, every old person, had begun to realize what had happened long ago. From that developed a strong desire to enter the Cosmos again and fly. Within only 50 years they were able to remaster the old technologies and techniques, those used by their ancestors. There appeared a gigantic Cosmodrome facility. From there every day a small transport ship would rise up into the heavens to test the newest developing technologies and devices. It was not long before they were building mighty space ships again. They lovingly called the first of them “CENTRO”. It was the beginning point for many successful continuous missions into space once more. Powerful team wishes matured and were fulfilled. Now they wanted to richly explore those flights into space. But for those ambitions the necessary raw materials were very limited on the Chetenian planet. Feverishly they searched for materials, and they found some on the four moons that orbited the planet Cheten. They found metals in their highest purity there. Mighty layers of crystallized sands with a high degree of purity as well as many other important raw materials were found. The smallest moon contained a special iron in a trimetal deposit having high amounts of platinum, silver, and aluminum as well as lesser amounts of gold, molybdenum, magnesium, etc. The Chetenians called this trimetal “shirateen”, mixtures that they did not have at all on Cheten. The result of the matrixed product was that they had the actual quality metal that was needed to create the new space ship. It was very hard and had a high resistance to cold and heat and acids. This matrixed material enabled them to build the outside skin of the fastest space ships. They immediately began to process all this industrially. Incidentally, this was the only moon capable of supporting such efforts. Download 4.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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