Sample of PLANETOID: THE CHRONICLES OF RELEC-VOTH
by John Adams Theibert Jr.
On the thax’s home planet, called Relec-Voth, a thaxian, named Uveta Nen, was studying a collision between two huge metallic planetoids called Blartheon and Glatheon. Uveta saw ember-like orange and red-spider-web-like patterning covering the surface of each planetoid, characteristic of them, called yar-variant planetoids, on his computer screens.
These planetoids were so named because of the metallic microbial life form that lived on their surfaces. The yar-variants were largely speculated to be an intelligent form of life. So far the yar-variants had been benign to the thax ever since their discovery one-hundred years previously, yet all that was about to change.
When the two huge planetoids met, they coalesced in a brilliant display of light and symmetrically spewing debris forming a dark ring of red around the blinding white-hot collision point. It was by far the most spectacular planetoid collision ever recorded by the thax, yet it happened two far out in space for any land-based telescopes to see properly.
However, a nearby satellite was greedily categorizing and calculating the episode for the Phordrun Lab’s data banks. This solar system was filled with millions of these planetoids and billions of other smaller asteroids, but this newly forming planetoid would become the largest.
It would even nearly rise to the level of a planet, some nineteen-hundred miles in diameter. After doing some calculations Uveta discovered that the newly formed planetoid would collide with Relec-Voth in about 24 years. Uveta was in disbelief, but on doing some research, he discovered that there was mounting archeological evidence of similar impacts on Relec-Voth millions of years in the past.
Uveta Nen decided to report his terrifying findings to some of his colleagues so that they could help confirm them, or, rather, hopefully, refute them. He invited Clal Dra, an astrophysicist, and Valth Cani, an extraterrestrial biochemist; to meet him at the observatory he worked at, the Phordrun Laboratory, in the Bovel-Hexel Mountain Range in Cuchekubon.
The Phordrun Lab was a small privately owned institution for cosmology and yar-variant research. “Welcome, Theo Dra and Theo Cani, I hope you had both safe and fast trips here. I have a very, troubling, discovery for you to help me with. I actually hope I am not correct on this; it is so disturbing. If you will please both come this way I will show you my results,” Uveta said as he led the two thaxians from the lobby, down a long curving hallway, to a security coded elevator. Uveta entered a security code and the party took the elevator, to Uveta’s observatory, up the side of a steep cliff to the top of a dome-shaped mountain. Thaxians normally call a philosopher of science a theo, which is similar to the title doctor.
Uveta’s clear blue plastic robe allowed his translucent blue humanoid body to show through clearly. He was tall and slender not unlike many of his race. His oval head was bald and pointed at the chin, and his skin had a similar translucency to that of a tainted blue wineglass. Under his skin, a maze of clear blue veins pulsated with his lucent blood. A clear outline of his glasslike skeleton and internal organs came through his body.
Clal Dra was a clear yellow thaxian wearing a bright translucent orange robe. He was a head shorter then Uveta and a bit wider. Valth Cani was also a clear yellow thaxian who wore a clear olive-green robe. He was slightly shorter then Uveta, but just as slender.
Theo Nen led the group from the elevator to his observatory across a series of catwalks. As they came into the main observatory they could see a simulation running on several computer screens that filled an entire wall.
The computer model depicted the planetoids as red dots and their trajectories were thin yellow lines. After collision and unification, the resulting trajectory of the newly formed planetoid made a direct path through Relec-Voth’s orbit depicted in green. “I know this looks bad, but if you can find the errors I hope our in my research, we can avoid having to take the results to the Predictorate,” Uveta said.
The Predictorate was a large group of the highest ranking theo predicts in the world that had formed a global coalition to better the world and help in governing and advisement of the few remaining independent countries, which were not under their rule directly. “Theo Nen, if these data are correct we will need to come up with some concrete steps to stop this disaster before presenting these findings to the Predictorate. How long from now does the model predict the impact will take place?” Theo Dra said with a sense of shock and bewilderment.
“The impact is predicted to take place in about twenty-four years.” Theo Nen pushed a button on the computer console with one of his blue translucent fingers. “This should speed up the simulation,” Uveta said as his large oval clear eyes started to flicker as if little golden fireflies were in them due to his apprehension.
The red dots started to move closer, and then merge then the trajectories changed. The new planetoid, dubbed Gajaltheon, was a bigger red dot that moved along the impact trajectory. The simulation finished when Gajaltheon reached a large blue dot, representing the thaxian planet Relec-Voth, with an impact and a flash. The visiting theos were alarmed but wanted to make sure that this was only a mistaken calculation. “This is too unbelievable; there must be an error here,” Theo Cani said. “I know that the yar-variants would never allow this to transpire. It would be fatal to them as well. I have been studying yar-variants for fifty years.
“The collisions that they make between their planetoids are meant to demagnetize them, but still most of the microbes survive the impacts. They do it so that they can colonize the demagnetized asteroids or planetoids so they don’t run out of them. Therefore, if they make an impact on a planet they can be caught in the planet’s mantle and without a micro-fusion environment, they could never escape. So it is not in their interest to do this. It simply is erroneous. Trillions upon trillions of them would die,” Theo Cani said.
“That may be, but what about the recent archeological discoveries that suggest impacts have happened millions of years in the past,” Theo Dra stated.
“It is preposterous that you side with someone that has only recently made any discoveries. Theo Nen is not qualified enough for this to be correct,” Theo Cani stated.
“This is why I have asked you to come, theos. I do doubt my calculations are flawless, but I am still very concerned about these findings never the less,” Theo Nen said.
“I suggest that we make a conclave to investigate this before this farce gets out of hand. It will take more than us for these data to be rendered erroneous and unusable,” Theo Cani argued.
“It is quite possible that we will have to redo all of the research for something of this magnitude,” Theo Dra said.
“Don’t be ridiculous. You give him too much credit Theo Dra. He is an amateur by our standards,” Theo Cani said.
“Then let’s start the conclave. I will send out a classified memorandum to my colleagues at Quravi College you send one to Khoorth and we will get to the bottom of this,” Theo Dra said.
As the conclave assembled at the Phordrun Lab they reviewed the data that Theo Nen reported. After hours of debate and review the conclave gave a recommendation for reconfirming the data with more advanced equipment and at several locations worldwide to be sure all the data was cross-confirmed. The conclave contacted the few free governments that remained in order to make a reconfirmation before sending the findings to the Predictorate.
This was so that before they sent the data to the Predictorate that it was as flawless as possible and corroborated with several sources beforehand. The Predictorate would have advised them to do that anyway, but the conclave thought that they would have given out the advisement to too many laboratories, and a leak would have been inevitable. The leaks could have caused world panic, which could undermine any serious global action.
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