Stephen's Secure Blog #417
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. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
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 is 22 in this story, in Spring of year 12 of his special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #417 "Nagindra to Confed"
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I detected a Nagindra space fleet approaching Confed space. Zander's
team wouldn't be aware of it until they were slowing down. I told him
that, and we had a large meeting. I said "I can't port them out of
their ships until they are off their star drive and are under 5 percent
of the speed of light, relative to where I would port them to, which
doesn't actually have to be the final destination. I can park them in
the 4th for as long as needed to set up a series of ports to hop all
over, to bleed off their relativity issues. I should keep my word and
do that, but when, is the question. If we let them slow down at their
destination, the Confed is likely to notice, and might get all nervous.
Fingernail and claw biting nervous." Some giggles. I said "Even if we
tell them not to. Or I can go into their ships with a viewpoint and
operate them to slow down before they get there. So, in basic terms, do
we want the Confed to know what's happening, or not? Oh, bear in mind
that they might want to go exploring for the source of the ships, and
are completely outclassed." The vote was in favor of me stopping them
before the Confed noticed. I said "This wouldn't be because you want to
see me work, would it?" Some shamed laughter.
Our ship matched their course at a safe from detection distance, and
I sent my hard surfaced 4th projection to the command ship's control
room. I said "Greetings. I am Stephen. You are on a course which will
soon take you into space which I have forbidden you to enter. Please
turn back." The Captain was in the control room, and said to me,
"Please wait for the Admiral to come." I said "Alright. Oh, it's the
same one who I made turn back before. This is going to be interesting!"
There were some hidden grins. I said "Still doesn't run very fast."
Some choked back laughter. The Admiral came in with a different and
more powerful Adept. Before he said anything, I said "You should know
better." He gulped, and said, "I was overruled." I said "By whom?" He
said "By the Supreme Authority." I said "Are are any of those here?"
The Adept said, "I am. I'm the Leader of the military." I said "Are you
aware that I said in the last encounter, that I would transport all
your crew to your government offices, and crush your ships, if you
tried to enter Confederation space?" He said "I am. I didn't believe
you, and I don't believe you now." I said "How strong is that belief?"
He said "I'm here in support of it." I said "If I were to transport you
off your ships while in star drive, well, your destination could be
covered in a disgusting soup of individual ruptured cells. What would
happen if I just turned off all your power?" The Captain said, "The
ship would disintegrate before reaching normal space." I bowed to him,
and said, "Thank you. You have helped me to decide. I will commence
stepping down from star drive now, for all your ships here."
There was a lurch, and the drive vibrations changed. The helmsman
reported what was happening, and that the ship didn't respond to his
controls. The Captain called the Engine Room, and ordered manual
control from there, but that wouldn't respond, either. I said "For your
information, this is far easier for me to do, than it was making that
diamond tree." The Admiral, distracted, said, "Beautiful tree." I said
"Thanks. I'm well known in the Confed as an artist." The Adept said,
"You aren't here!" I said "Oh, here we go again. Well then, who are you
talking to?" I said to the Admiral, "Your planet must have a lot of
rocks." He couldn't help it, and laughed loudly. The Adept tried to
kill him. I contained his energy in a bubble around him, which he
quickly discovered, and stopped the attack before he killed himself.
Still, he was a little burned. I said "I will not allow you to harm
anybody because of my actions. You have injured yourself. Please heal,
and then we can continue." He said "Heal? What do you mean?" I said
"You don't know how to heal? What kind of Adept are you?" He said "I am
the third most powerful of my people!" I said "May I inventory you?" He
said "Do you mean, diagnose my abilities and potential like a teacher
would?" I said "Yes." He said, You wouldn't harm me?" I said "That's
correct. No harm. Might happen later, though, if you try to get violent
again." He said "I can't sense you, so I don't know if you are telling
the truth, but I'll take a chance. If you can do it, you wouldn't have
to ask, because I couldn't stop you."
I pushed my mind into his brain, and looked. I said to him from the
inside, not holding back on my power, +You have many blockages in your
mind and brain, caused by bad thoughts, prejudice, and lying. You are
not able to advance to your full potential because of that.+ I
withdrew. He was in shock, and staggered to a chair, and flopped into
it. The Admiral looked upset, so I said to him, "No, he's not damaged.
He's just emotionally shocked by my power. I am a superior Adept to
him, such that he is to a new born baby. One of my titles is The Master
Adept. There is only one for each galaxy." I said to the Adept, "Will
you allow me to heal you now?" He said, with a lot of respect, "Yes
please, Master." I said "I don't like titles much. My name is Stephen.
It is done." He looked at his arms and said, "Wow!" I said "I hear that
a lot." He made a strange noise. I said to the Admiral, "I think he's
not used to humor, much." The Admiral said, "I'm sure of it. Missing a
lot of fun that way." I said "Absolutely!" The Adept stood and bowed. I
bowed in return, my way.
I said to him, "You are partially correct. I am not here in body.
What you see is a construct for convenience. I really do look like
this. But if you had a wife like mine, you would KNOW why my body isn't
here." The whole control room erupted in laughter, including the Adept.
I said "And I do work all over the galaxy, and my body can be in only
one place at a time. I've been exploring your home planet, and your
empire, as I speak. Well here, elsewhere I'm doing something a lot more
pleasurable." Some knowing chuckles. I said "You have made a ripe mess
of things. Yours is the only society where Adepts rule, and that's why
it's such a mess. We are just not cut out to be administrators. I can't
think of a more boring and frustrating job, than to feed a bureaucracy!
No wonder you fight so much among yourselves, just for something to
break the monotony." He looked surprised, and then thoughtful, and then
with some awakening. I said "It's much more interesting, and a lot more
fun, and supremely satisfying, to explore our abilities, and discover
new things, and to help people. You should try some of that sometime.
You WILL like it. Oh, and your killing of Adept potential children is
species suicidal. Keep doing that, and a lot of other species are going
to be more advanced than you, and then where will you be? Oh, I see.
The other reality is fighting back. Attack of the corpses. Wow! Yes, I
can say that, too." More chuckles.
I said "You had better straighten out your act, or your entire race
is going to be in big trouble fairly soon. Oh, by the way, did you know
your people originally came from my planet? But after the Atlana left."
They were all surprised. I said "Why the surprise? Did you think we all
looked so much like each other by accident?" The Admiral said, "We know
we came from another world, but didn't know it was yours, but it does
seem reasonable now." I said "Here's an image of one of your captors."
They said "Wow!" I said "Here's part of the collection." I showed them
a video of that on Earth. I said "Here's what the world they brought
you to, looked like." I showed them that, and how they were treated. I
said "Your captors got into a war with another more nasty people, and
lost. They died of disease and climate change, leaving you free to
evolve on your own. Too bad you've become as bad as they were. You
learned too much of the wrong things from them."
The Admiral said "How do you know all this, and where did the images
come from?" I said "God is in a part of the realm of the spirit where
all time is one. I'm so close to that now, I can see anything of the
past I want to, and with a complete memory, which includes all my past
lives, going back to before the Atlana left my world 74,000 years ago,
left ME and my work rebuilding it after a disaster, and what I can see,
I can project onto storage media, or as images in the air. And I can
read some of the archives your vanished captors left." The Adept said,
"Your aura. How big is it?" I said "I'll project an image from my
wife's memory. Oh, not that one! She wanted to, well, you might have a
modesty taboo." They laughed really hard. I said "Here's me as of a few
days ago. Oh! Wow! I didn't know it was that big! I see why they say
it's impossible. It is, really. I'm supposed to be over on the other
side, but I have more work to do here." The Adept said to the others,
"He's right. When his mind was in my brain, and he spoke to me, I felt
his awesome power, and one more thing. His love. He loves all of us.
All intelligent beings. He couldn't kill us if he wanted to. He can't
want to. And he can't lie." I said "True. Some might think those are
weaknesses." He said "Not anymore!" Some chuckles agreed with him.
The Adept said, "When you go, will there be another to replace you?"
I said with a grin, "Yes. Disappointed?" He said "I have mixed
feelings, which I assume you know." I nodded. I said "The next in line
has slightly different abilities and strengths in them, but can do
almost all I can do but see the past. And will have my kind of love,
too. Adepts can't progress much above your level without love, and
without clear thinking, which prohibits lying. I've archived your
history, so when you are worthy, it will be available for you. Killing
children! What happens if you try to do that to one like me? Yes, in
the last, and in this life, I came into my powers almost all at once,
at a very early age, before my potential fully showed. I suggest you
stop killing children for that reason, and for other, more obvious,
reasons. Would all of you like to feel their deaths all the rest of
your lives?"
I said to the Adept, "There is one more thing I should tell you. You
will be changed in their perception. I didn't do it physically, or
psionically, but being with and understanding something of who I am,
and hearing my words, has caused you to change yourself. You should be
prepared for the consequences of that." He said "Thank you for your
warning, and for the consideration behind it. Will you visit my planet,
and our other Adepts?" I said "No, not at this time. I have said all I
want to say at this time, which they are seeing and hearing as it
happens, which isn't easy to make happen, from this changing space to
theirs, at the same time as I'm projecting it in all your ships with
you. There is another reason, which you are beginning to suspect." He
nodded with dejection. I said "You know the feelings your people
express. I would find them to be very disturbing. Distasteful. Worse
than I can say with civility. I would rather my friends and family not
be subjected to my reaction to that, which they don't deserve."
I said "It is now safe to emerge into normal space." There was some
vibration, and some shaking, and then it was over. I said "My wife is
offering you something before I send you home. If you agree, we will
visit here in person." The Admiral, the Captain, and the Adept, all
asked for that. I stopped the projection, and we ported to the bridge,
from our ship, which had kept pace with them, and had turned on the
reflection absorbing screen so they couldn't detect it. I said "Meet
Rose." They all bowed to us. The Adept said to Rose, "Your aura, while
not as large, is very big! Bigger than ours. Are you who will be next?"
She said "We don't know when he will go, even though he does, so we
don't know who in the Galaxy will be strongest then. We think it will
be one of his students, though." He said "Oh, you teach!" I said "Not
directly now. I'm too powerful." He said "I can understand that!" I
said "Someday, some of your people who qualify, will be invited to be
our students. If you don't kill them first."
I said "Now I will send you home. It's going to be a little crowded
where you're going. Sorry, but I did give my word. You in this room all
have memory cards of this er, encounter in your pockets, and more are
in the offices concerned. Farewell." I ported all in the ships to
government offices. Rose and I ported back to our ship. I said "What do
we do with the ships? I said I would crush them, but not where I would
put them." Minster said "On the small moon, in a big pile!" I said "Any
other suggestions? No? Done. It's visible to the planet. They might
notice it soon. Any comments on the operation?" Rose said, "Did you
really have to put love and peace all over their clothes?" Those who
hadn't looked, joined in the laughter of the others. I said "This time,
at least they have them on." More laughter.
Minster said, "You mentioned the naked corpses." I said "Had to,
being the all seeing Adept to them, but I connected it to the other
side." He said "Yes, but will they notice they don't really hurt
anybody, but just squirt their psionics away?" Hawk said "Stephen was
nice and a healer, and showed and said he was close to the other side
where the corpses are supposed to come from. The other side and Stephen
are nice, and so don't do really bad things, but don't have to be from
the same person." Ichi said, "He did that deliberately, and not just to
contrast him, with their Adepts. He works for the other side like the
corpses do, but not doing the same things, from their viewpoint." Rose
said, "Right. Who could imagine gentle Stephen, attacking people as a
rotten corpse?" Zander said, "I still have trouble believing it." They
laughed. I said "Pool party?" Then we were there, and all had a really
great time, which didn't have much to do with the pool.
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