Solomon's Private File #369
These stories about Stephen and Solomon take place starting in the
1950's. Stephen wrote about his life in letters to a penpal, and then
in a secure blog, in case he lost his memory again, in the master
computer in his school for gifted students, which he started attending
in 2016 in a new incarnation, until his death. Now his son Solomon is
attending the same school, and is writing in his own secure blog for
his future incarnations.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
Solomon is 32 in this story, in the Summer of 2058.
Solomon's Private File #369 "Problem Space Ships"
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I shifted to a dimly lit room in an underground city, severely
startling the the people in it. I looked almost like myself, but
compatible to that environment. I said, "Unusual situation for
Originators." The leader said, "I have to agree! Your aura is enormous,
and you can teleport. Are you some kind of advanced Originator?" I
said, "No, I'm not an Originator, I'm God's Senior Agent for all time
and spaces. Something like an executive assistant. Why are you here?"
He said, "I think you know." I said, "I know what I know, but I want
you to tell me what YOU know." He said, "We had some unscheduled time,
and needed a change from constant space travel. This world looked
compatible and safe." I said, "Well, it WAS, to the people who live
here. So you landed, and caved in part of one of their underground
cities. Your people in orbit don't know what to do. So, they're just
sitting on their hands and chewing their lips." Some had to chuckle.
I said, "You know you aren't supposed to have unauthorized contacts
with planets and life forms. Now you might know a little something of
why. Do you?" He said, "I do!" I said, "All your people must confirm
your commitment to God's service to continue in it. You have caused a
serious problem. Your victims have acquired technology dangerously in
advance of their own, and they know something of who you are. They are
contaminated. The last action I was involved in where a species was
contaminated, well, they aren't now, being mostly dead, and so are all
those originators. Do you understand me?" He looked sick, and said, "I
do. If we must die to save these people, we will accept that."
I said, "There is a difference. They didn't accept correction. I can
repair this situation, but that would involve removing the memories
from the local people of their encounter with you, and so they will
never know it happened. To my mind, that is like a partial death. And
some did die. I would have to create false memories for that. I don't
know if I can make myself cause such a deception." We felt a touch. I
said, "Hmm, interesting. I've been given permission to restore the
dead." They were very surprised. I said, "You should know this. He's
allowing it because of his love for ME. Their dead, not yours. I think
you know why." He nodded, and said, "I think we do." I said, "You know
the truth about reincarnation. They don't."
I said, "I've been showing this discussion to your people in other
rooms here, and on your ship in orbit. All stand." I ported them to the
ship's largest conference room. I said, "Here are the stones of your
dead. They will reincarnate among you. I suggest you get busy in
creating the way for them to do that." Some hidden smiles. I said, "You
have another shuttle, and more at your home base. The planet and the
people have been restored to be as if you were never there. Now, please
all link your minds. I'll assist." I did, and they were surprised by my
power. God came into the link and said, "Do you pledge to continue in
my service?" They all did. He said, "I accept. Solomon is my Senior
Agent for all time and spaces. To love and obey him, is to love and
obey me. He wants to say I embarrass him too much. I don't plan to
stop." He left, and I laughed, said, "A preemptive strike!" They were
too in awe, to make a sound. I said, "Don't do more unauthorized
explorations. Bad things happen. You are special people with a special
mission. It's a sacrifice of some of your freedom, but an honor and
privilege like no other. Do you affirm this to me, and to God?" They
did, and they gave me their love, and I gave them mine, and they were
astounded. I shifted out.
I said to the Boss, "Thanks. Don't bring up the habit thing. I didn't
do it this time. I'm innocent! Eh, mostly." He laughed, and send me
some love.
I shifted to the bridge of a big starship, using my original body. I
said, "There is an emergency. Sound the alarm. DO it NOW!" One did, by
reflex. I said, "Fusion power is off. I said, "I'm transporting this
ship to a different sector of this galaxy, near your home planet. Check
the location." Astrogator said, "Confirmed." I said, "Call your leader
to attend this." One did, and she came running, having already started
that. She stopped suddenly when she saw me, and said, "Wow!" I said, "I
expected something else in greeting." Some tried not to laugh. I said
to the crew, "Please report to your Captain." They told her what
happened. I said, "An experimental FTL ship was way off course, and
about to actually hit you. You can try to calculate the odds against
that ever happening, but I'm not going to." Grins and nods.
I said, "Originators are not to harm intelligent life against orders.
Even passively. So, don't do that again. Well, like it will ever happen
another time. Strange universe. But I mean no disrespect to the Boss."
He said in our minds, "I understand. Good work." He left. I said, "I
their awe at me. I shifted out.
I shifted to the bridge of the starship that was the leader of its
fleet. I looked like me, but made compatible with the environment. I
said in their language, "Please ask the leader of this fleet to come
and talk with me." Their neck crests lifted above their scaled lizard
heads, and changed colors, in an indication of strong emotion. One did
call for the Admiral. It came in, looking to be between sexes in it's
cycle. It immediately called for security. I said, "I don't have any
weapons." It said, "How do you know our language?" I said, "I know what
I wish to know." It said, "How have you come to be on my ship?" I said,
"Isn't it actually the Captain's ship?" It said, "True, but I command
the fleet. How are you here?" I said, "I desired it, and so it
happened." He said, "But we are in FTL drive!" I said, "I did notice
that. You still haven't asked the important question." He nodded, and
said, "Why are you here?" I said, "I'm here to help you to not make a
big mistake."
It said, "What mistake is that?" I said, "First, tell me why you are
going to attack another world." It said, "They attacked one of our
ships." I said, "And how do you know that?" It said, "Our ship reported
that." I said, "And what happened to the attacking ship?" It said, "It
was destroyed, but we examined the debris, and deciphered it's charting
system." I said, "What damage did your ship sustain?" It said, "None."
I said, "Was the automatic bridge recorder examined?" It said, "It had
malfunctioned." I said, "Anybody here suspecting something?" There was
some indiction that some did. That wasn't lost on the Admiral. It said,
"They misreported?" I said, "They did. I can show you what happened."
He said, "Please do that."
I did. The Captain panicked at the first contact, and fired
unprovoked. Then he ordered the recorder to be damaged. I said, "That
ship had almost nothing in the way of weapons. Your people murdered
them. Do you intend to continue to do that?" It said, "How can you know
this?" I said, "I can see anywhere in space and back into time. What I
can see, I can record and share. You know how to test that." It nodded,
and said a date and time, and location. I showed a winning a game at
university. I said, "At least you didn't choose something sexual. Most
do, severely distracting the people there." Some had to laugh.
It said, "I must obey my orders." I said, "How wise is it to judge a
people by one ship? Should others judge YOUR people by that murderer?"
It said, "They should not. I understand what you mean. They may be more
powerful than we are." I said, "And they could have more friends." It
said, "True. I see something here. Even if I were to disbelieve you,
you have still shown me some bad thinking and planning on our part." I
said, "And you realize you have a difficult decision to make. A
possible sacrifice for the greater good." It said, "Yes. You won't tell
us if they are superior?" I said, "As you suspect, I won't. This has
annoyed your superiors. Yes, I'm showing them this as it happens." It
said, "How can that be possible?" I said, "I can do a lot of things,
but explain it to you so you will understand, I can't. But I will say I
am unable to lie." He said, "You are holy." I said, "Yes. Your
superiors have other labels for me." They tried hard not laugh.
I said, "They want me to help them to communicate with you. We are
private now. They plan to order you to kill me. You can't. I'm unable
to die. Could be interesting. They won't be aware of this time. Going
public now, with the connection." I showed them on the bridge the image
of their leaders in conference. One said, "Admiral, I order you to kill
that person!" I said, with a presence behind him, "Why don't you do it
yourself?" He said, "You're HERE! But you're there, too!" I said, "Yes.
I'm in a lot of places, with many different bodies. You're not. You can
die. I can't. You might want to be a little careful about that. Strange
how some people need to resist my help in saving their lives." One on
the planed said, "Enough of this. Bring the fleet back." One there
said, "You believe this strange being?" She said, "I don't have to.
Logic and reason tells me we are wrong in this. Even if we were
attacked, the risk in attacking an unknown people is too great for our
people we are responsible for, to accept if they knew." Another said,
"One ship attacking one of ours, if it happened, could even have been a
mistake."
The leader said, "I see. I order the fleet to return." Admiral said,
"I acknowledge the order." I said, "Now I will tell you more. Their
ship sent a message drone while it was being attacked." He said, "They
must think we are hostile!" I said, "And you're not?" He said, "Oh! Er,
would you tell them that it was unauthorized, and that the Captain of
that ship will be punished?" I said, "I already did that. I also gave
them the same kind of information you took from their ship. I offer one
more service. I can transport the fleet back to your system, almost
instantly. You might consider the added protection something of a
comfort." One there had to laugh. Leader glanced at her, and said to
me, "Please do that. Thank you for your help. I apologize for being er,
unpleasant." I said, "No problem. I'm used to politicians expressing
more hot air than wisdom. Be well." I said on the ship, "Connection is
terminated. You can laugh now." They did, and well.
I said, "Pass notice they are going to feel some very strange things
in the ships." They did, with grins. And then they did feel that, more
than they expected. I said, "You're in your home system now. They won't
honor you as they should, but I know your good quality and bravery.
Never doubt that. Will you accept my love?" They did, and I gave it to
all on the fleet, glowing. Then I changed into a ball of light, and
faded away. I said in the air, later, to the Admiral in it's office, "I
know what you were going to decide. You have my sincere admiration." It
said, "Are you God?" I said, "No. His Senior Agent for all time and
spaces, yes. Please try not to make people disbelieve you with that."
It chuckled, and said, "I won't. Thank you. Would they really have
beaten us?" I said, "I hope you didn't really think I would tell you
that." It laughed. I said, "Be well."
I said to Mario on a CNN show, after that action was broadcast,
"There we saw how a first contact can go very wrong, and start an
interstellar war." He said, "Yes, and that was very much an example of
a small incident expanding into a very bad thing for billions of
people." I said, "And caused by dishonorable acts." He said, "Yes,
that's important. It also showed the honor of the Admiral. He was going
to disobey his orders?" I said, "If they hadn't recalled him, yes, he
would have disobeyed the orders to make war. His leaders would have
considered that dishonorable oath breaking, and they would be correct,
in that frame of reference. But in the larger galactic frame of
reference, it would be, with his sacrifice, the extreme of an honorable
act."
He said, "So, what is honor has to be judged in context." I said,
"Yes, and people usually choose the context that will allow them to do
what they want, rather than the better, larger, more true context, that
would not allow that. Here's an example. Suppose your wife is a serial
murderer, and you can only stop her from killing more people, by
helping the police to catch her. But in doing that, your daughter who
doesn't know about the murderers, and if she did, wouldn't want you to
make her mother go to prison, will hate you for the rest of her life.
What do you do? Honor your family, or the law and society? Some have
chosen each of those options. Many people value the smaller, local
good, over the greater good, not realizing that working for the greater
good also helps with lessor issues. The Captain of the attacking ship
concealed the action, in protecting him and his crew from punishment.
But in doing that, he almost caused the extinction of his entire
species, including himself and his crew."
He said, "I see. And the families of the victims of the serial
killer, when she is eventually identified, could attack HER family, and
the husband and daughter, who didn't report her. Wow! I see the lesson
very well here!" I said, "You do. Well done! That's why I show these
actions. ALL of life, everything we experience, can teach us something,
if we are open to learning. Specific things, that are a little more
obvious, can help in that. I like helping. That's what I'm for. I hope
that people are able to improve themselves, from what I share with
them. Thank you for allowing that to happen." He said, "You're welcome.
We view it as a supreme honor, that you've chosen us to help you help
all the people of the world." I said, "Now you know how I feel about
this, with God." Director ended the show. After I told him to. I hugged
all the crew. There were a lot of good comments about the show.
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