Meeting

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Meeting

Life in the galaxy was more abundant than it once, tens of thousands of years ago, they had imagined, when they were still a nascent colony born out of nowhere on a hostile planet. The humans of ancient Perseus, had expanded in a large sector of the galaxy, had terraformed and colonized many worlds, and were counted in hundreds, humanity was no longer a species confined to a planet that served as home and prison Same time.

In the search for habitable planets, thousands of worlds had been discarded, not for their uninhabitability, but for being inhabited with an immense variety of life forms, most of them unicellular, in some cases complex, and only once, with advanced intelligence.

It had been a decision of Parliament that should not intervene in any inhabited world, and if during the process of terraforming some, there were signs that reveal the emergence of life forms not planted, the process should be abandoned and evaluated in the future , in order to determine if it had been the product of this or by the planet's own conditions; several worlds had to be abandoned for this reason, some of them with incomprehensible explosions of life, as much for their variety, as for their rapid evolution.

From strange forms of life with a silicon base similar to crystalline structures, with vital shells that made them look like simple rocks, forms of plant life that moved nimbly in massive migrations in search of water sources and nutrients. Worlds inhabited by gigantic creatures, including the largest life form ever found a plant organism that covered a tenth of the surface of the planet.

However, until now only an intelligent alien species, from the human parameters, had been found, the Goeis, a race that inhabited the old world of origin of humanity, the Earth, and that raised conflict when they set out to recover ancient records of their past, that would allow them to know their origins.

The Icarus exploration fleet, consisting of thirty ships, had the mission of creating a route that would link the galactic region inhabited by humans with Perseus' arm, the journey had taken four hundred years since they emerged from the last bridge, they were already formally in the arm of Perseus and were preparing to begin the construction of the first bridge they had planned to build, once installed the transit between the arm of Orion and Perseus, through the area of ​​low star density between them, It would be immediate. Once this phase was completed, they would continue to enter this new region, until completing the installation of another five bridges, until reaching the outer arm.

The bridge was almost active, when a transmission was received in all the ships of the fleet.

-Captain Tylor, we received an encrypted laser signal with more than ten Brontobytes of data! - exclaimed the engineer in charge of communications.

-It is not possible, the bridge is not active yet, what is the source? - Tylor asked.

-It seems to come from less than a light year from here, but the sensors do not detect anything there - the engineer answered.

-Can you decipher the transmission?- Tylor asked.

-Yes sir, it's the old Perseo encryption protocol, do you want to see it? - asked the engineer.

-Of course I want to see it!- Snapped Tylor, -get it at a safe station-.

After a couple of minutes of tense silence, the engineer approached Tylor's seat with a small holographic projector in his hand.

-With your permission sir, you have to see this- he said fearfully while activating the projector's interface.

A human face of androgynous appearance was projected in the space in front of the captain's seat, in the middle of the bridge.

-I salute you captain Tylor, your fleet is welcome, you can call me Quin, I was commissioned to receive and guide you through this sector, also answer your questions- said almost expressionless the face that seemed to float in the air.

-Greet Quin, who are you? - Tylor asked, keeping a cool expression, as he looked directly into the empty eyes of that strange face.

-We are not a us, in reality we are one with many identities, we have abandoned individuality, many millions of years ago- the bridge crew maintained their stupefaction, while observing that with attention, -we do not have a name as such, to me Particular identity can be called Quin-.

"Where do you intend to lead us?" Interrupted Tylor.

-Where you need to go Captain- said Quin -consider me a tour guide, as I told you, you are welcome to this sector, you are free to go wherever you want-

-Then guide us to where your people are- Tylor indicated impatiently.

-I do not have people, as I said, we are one and we are not in any specific part, we are in all this sector of the galaxy-he answered unalterable.

-Do not you inhabit a world then? And you, are you an artificial intelligence?- Tylor asked, settling himself on the chair.

-We had several worlds millions of years ago, no longer, and I'm not exactly an artificial intelligence, although my existence is only possible inside a computer system, our entire civilization has long since replaced its existence in the physical world with a completely electronic - some members of the crew stood up on hearing this - we exist in a network of several million nodes that are scattered over several hundred light-years in this region

Original text of @amart29, Barcelona, ​​Venezuela, March 2019

Thank you all for your attention, I am attentive to your comments and observations, until next time.

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