Stephen's Outline Part #1
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Now he is an old man, and is
preparing to make some important decisions. This is his outline of his
life after he stopped writing in his logbooks, and parts of what the
outline points to, and then his preparation for what he is going to do.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen's Outline Part #1, A, File Excerpt 2 "Some Inventions"
Part 1, A, From the file marked "Inventions"
With the advent of personal computers, the real digital age was born.
What it meant to us, was we could use our own computers we had
invented, made to look like what was on the market, out in the open.
Anything more advanced, we passed off as Star Trek toys. Not so
strangely, one of us had written some stories which were used in the
series. Me. Under different pen names. Twilight Zone, even more. Outer
Limits, too, and other shows. It was fun. It also gave us ideas for
inventions. We were always looking for ways to do the same things
Adepts could do, but without being an Adept. Like my flying belt, for
example.
One of our most important inventions was a gadget which could track
"Invisible" space ships by their energy pattern traces which showed in
the 4th. We could even recognize different types of transports that
way. So, after '81, we found and captured a lot of the Van. There are
still some out there, who are very wary of being "lost". They didn't
know what happened, and we aren't ready to tell them.
Another important invention was the automatic book to crystal
scanner. It was very hard to do, and had most of the Adepts working on
it for a long time. When it was done, we also ended up with a crystal
reproduction machine, too. We discovered something about the learning
crystals. The more intelligent a person is, the better they work for
him, and he can take new ones more often. While I could handle about 3
full college courses a day, somebody of average intelligence could only
get something out of a less complicated crystal, about one every three
weeks, without too much confusion or mental damage. That's not much of
an improvement over courses learned the regular way, except for the
enhanced memory caused by how the crystals imprinted the information in
the brain.
With the information from what I escaped from the Van with, Rod and
Pete were eventually able to make and tune Port-All crystal sets with
an automatic machine like the Van used. It took a lot longer before
they were able to duplicate my 4th power modules, even with my help.
Even then, they were almost too big to use. The same with the
levitation crystal sets. They never could duplicate the mental control
systems I used. They were very happy when I sent them the plans to make
a tunable 4th radio and TV transmitter and receiver. They didn't just
want to thank me with words, so I had to let them port me there, and
join them in a lot of sex play. I didn't complain about that at ALL.
That led to something similar to psychic object sense scans, using a
crystal managed scanning artificial 4th viewpoint, which sent computer
managed images directly into a storage crystal. That led to another way
to track alien space ships like a kind of radar. That led to tractor
and presser beams, which led to energy and matter screens, which Adepts
could do, but generated by machines. Then we cracked the big problem
wide open. FTL (Faster Than Light) drives for space ships. First we
made a machine which could port itself, and anything else which was in
its sphere of influence. Then we made a machine which could do that in
increments so small, it looked and felt like the ship was moving and
not porting. We put all those features into two new space ships, which
we built from combined plans from the Blue Crab, the Van, and what
Zander gave us, including a copied astrogation database and computer.
That took a very long time. Rod was in heaven though all of it, while
the others were tearing their hair out over the difficulty. Chad
helped, because his biology inventions couldn't be tested or used. Not
that he didn't have fun working on them, after he finished setting up
his very profitable cosmetics division. We bought an island in The
Philippines to put new hangers on it, so we could have more room for
more space ships. We moved the captured Van ships there.
Lasers were invented and used by other people, which were just like
my synchronized light beams I used to fire from my hands, and my Ronald
Rayguns. The others weren't an improvement, but we didn't mind. The
better optics on the market after that, we did find helpful.
Very recently, Chad finally managed a way to preserve Shan's, now
Tomba's, anti-nausea medicine, in chewable pill form, which would last
about a year in a sealed bottle, and it had no bad side affects, except
to prevent heartburn. Which is definitely not a bad thing. I cary a
pill box with me at all times. Well, when I have clothes with pockets,
on.
So went our invention seeking. Details and plans are in the marked
crystals.
End of file excerpt.
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Grant
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