Solomon's Private File #375
These stories about Stephen and Solomon take place starting in
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 Fall of 2058.
Solomon's Private File #375 "Neutron Stars"
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I shifted to the flagship of a fleet if starships. I said, "I would
speak to the leader of this fleet." A bridge officer fired an energy
weapon at me. I said to him, "I absorbed that energy. If I had just
deflected it, you would have been responsible for the death and injury
of your fellows here. I am here to save your lives. You might want to
cooperate with that, with some intelligence." He called for the
admiral. They looked almost human. I looked my usual, adjusted to their
atmosphere. She came in, and I told her what had happened. She said to
the officer, "I will speak to you later about this." To me, she said,
"We are in danger?" I said, "Yes. The planet you are to attack, has a
problem." She said, "They sure do! They've been attacking ships and
planets all over this sector!" I said, "That's not their problem, it
was yours. Their problem is they are about to be destroyed. You might
not want to be caught in that."
She said, "Oh! How is that to happen?" I said, "Not too far away from
them, two neutron stars collided. Big energy discharge is about to hit
them. Their solar system is about to be fried." She said, "Have they
been warned?" I said, "No, and they won't be." She said, "We could send
them a message drone." I said, "They wouldn't receive it. Almost all of
their population, they couldn't save in the time remaining. Telling
them what will happen, will cause unjust suffering, and only the worst
of them could escape it. Their species will continue, through some of
their outsystem stations. Er, with some modifications."
She said, "I think I understand. Their pirates will be notified that
their species needs them to help their species to recover from this?" I
said, "Well done. Yes. And be encouraged to ask others for gratitude
building assistance." She said, "The desirable aspects of their culture
are being saved?" I said, "I'm impressed. What are you doing HERE?" She
laughed well, and said, "Activated Reserve. I'm usually a university
professor."
I nodded, and said, "This officer needs some correction. If he had
succeeded in killing me, all of you in the fleet would have died." She
said, "Can you be killed?" I said, "Eh, no." She grinned. I said, "But
he didn't know that." He was about to say something. I said to him,
sharply, "Careful! You lie to or about me, there WILL be consequences."
He remained silent. I said, "Good choice, for a change." She laughed.
She said, "Did you cause the event that will destroy them?" I said,
"No, it was a natural unmodified event." She said, "Could you have
saved the people on the planet?" I sighed, and said, "Yes. You know
there were greater issues involved. The future is long. Sometimes a
little management is necessary. I see the thought. What you remember of
this, is more than what they will remember. You are wondering what my
natural form is. I don't have one." We traded grins. I said, "What you
communicate of this, even if at all, is to your judgement. It will be
interesting to see what that is. Please accept my love." I wrapped her
in it, and did my usual light transformation exit. She gave the orders
that would keep them away from the area of danger.
I shifted to a massive physics lab on a very cold planet, in a form,
while different from the people there, was compatible with their
environment, but didn't look much like me. Most of the room was in
disarray, with a lot of damaged equipment strewn about. I confronted
the person in charge, with, "What were you thinking!" He said, "Who are
you?" I said, "I am Solomon. I might be able to help you, if you have
the intelligence and will to cooperate to achieve it." He said, "I
don't have to take your insults!" I said, "Good. I haven't given you
any, just announced their potential. If this is an example of the
accuracy of your thinking, there's going to be more trouble. You have
shifted the orbit of your world." He said, "As I intended." I said,
"Did you also intend to cause your moon to crash into your planet? Did
you intend to destabilize the orbits of the other planets, to cause
even more of a disaster? Did you intend to murder all your people?" He
said, "That's not going to happen. My calculations show that." I said,
"They do, because you made them show that. Calculated correctly, they
do not show that." I demonstrated that in the air. At first, he refused
to agree with my corrections. Then some others there understood them,
and did, and their murderous expressions helped to convince him.
I said, "There's more. The rotation of your planet has changed. That
will cause increased seismic disturbances, and disrupted weather
patterns. Your planet doesn't have a strong enough magnetosphere to
protect it from the harmful radiation from the sun, that your planet
would receive nearer to it. You have doomed your people to extinction!"
He said, "I did not!" I said, "I suggest you don't keep saying that, or
you will need me to protect you from them wanting to torture you to
death. Do you deserve my protection?" He said, "I don't believe you." I
said, "That's too bad. I can repair what you've done. But I will only
do that if you admit the truth of this, and ask for my help. If they
kill you, I won't help. The longer this goes uncorrected, the more
difficult it will be to fix. Don't take your time."
One said to me, "Can you prove you can do this?" I said, "That would
depend on what proof you would recognize and accept." Another said, "I
see auras. You don't have one." I said, "I do, but it's so big, you are
inside it." He said, "I should be able to feel your power." I said, "If
I let it loose even a little, none here could even think of disobeying
me, and that is definitely not my intent." He said, "You know I
directly perceive molecules, including those of your body." I said,
"You are exposing too much of yourself to these people. They are unable
to believe you." He said, "Extreme times call for extreme measures and
sacrifices." I nodded. I said to all, "Tell me a date and time, and a
place, and I will show you what happened. Please don't make it sexual
this time. Too distracting." Chuckles. Two of them complied, and I
showed it. One said, "I see it's not from their memories. Past time
viewing is confirmed. It should be assumed that you can read minds." I
said, brightly, "I assume that." One said, "Can you lift this
assembly?" I did it with a 4th hand. I said, "These are childish
things. My abilities of this nature do not have limits as you
understand them." One said, "Can you make us think and see, and do,
anything you want us to?" I said, "Yes, easily, but I will not. Free
will is the most expensive thing there is. Consider what you are about
to pay for it now."
One said, "Our existence depends on this one man's decision?" I said,
"He is the cause, so he must be the solution." One said, "Who are you,
really?" I said, "Who I am should not influence the decision." One
said, "Your form here, is that always you?" I said, "Interestingly
stated. I can't answer that in any useful way that I am willing to at
this time. Well done!" He grinned and bowed, which I returned. One
said, "We are being tested." I said, "All life is a test." He said,
"And death?" I said, "Recycling is efficient." He said, "So
reincarnation is real." I said, looking around, "You should hope so!"
Chuckles. The Adept said, "Are you able to lie?" I said, "I am not. And
you shouldn't, or you will make your abilities unreliable." He said,
"That's true. I accept the proof, completely."
I said, "Things must balance. Everything has a cost, even though it
might not be apparent. My price to help is a moral one. Repairing a
problem without repairing the cause, is often a cause of a worse
problem. I don't do worse." Nods. Adept said, "If a person does wrong
in life, will he suffer for it in his next incarnation?" I said, "Did I
ask you to be intelligent?" Chuckles. I said, "Yes, that's how it
works. There's more to that. The more the wrong doer suffers for doing
wrong in the current life, sometimes mitigated by true remorse and
correction, the less he will suffer for that in the next life. I think
some of you suspected that." Nods. One said, "Even entropy." I said,
"Comparable process. What you know of reality, and beyond, has been set
up as self regulating system, with room for free will. You destabilize
it, it will seek a new balance, often to the detriment of the cause." I
said to my target, "A physicist should understand this, and that
personal emotions can cloud that judgement. Are you a true scientist?"
He sighed, and said, "You are correct. I admit my error and the
cause; vanity." I said, "And your decision?" He said, "Please restore
my, er, OUR world." I said, "I will, but with one requirement. All of
you here may not communicate anything of my involvement in this, to any
others. You know it wouldn't be good for them." Adept said, "I know you
will make us unable to." I said, "I hope those here will come to
appreciate your intelligence and wisdom, and keep your personal
revelations to themselves. That I won't enforce." He nodded, and said,
"Thank you." I said, "Prepare for some odd feelings!" Chuckles. And
they did feel very odd. After two minutes, I said, "All done.
Everything's back in the right place in the system, and in the proper
orbits. You probably won't understand the scope of the problem and the
fix. There are billions of pieces of matter in the system that are
affected by even the slightest changes in gravity, that had to be
adjusted. One last thing. About my always form. I er, don't actually
have one. Farewell." I thinned out and was gone.
One asked the Adept, "Was he God?" He said, "I don't know. I just
know he didn't lie. And who he is, is good." One said, "I like him.
Pleasant and humorous." He said, "I think that came from his supreme
confidence. That alone would convince me." One asked the Adept, "You
can see molecules? Was he real? Did he have any?" He said, "His body
did, and when he left, those molecules separated, and went elsewhere.
That's impossible. Like everything else he did." Chuckles. One said to
the Adept, "Your abilities could be a significant aid to us." He said,
"If we don't make that public. Oh! I have new information in my mind! I
understand my abilities more. And there's math! And a message. Because
of my abilities, I can accept this help without damage. Oh, and he
loves us!" They all felt my love then, and gave a lot of wows for it.
I said to CNN, "Two alien actions that show me and what I do, in a
different way." He read the crystal, and said, "A very different way!
mentioned to me." He said, "Accepted. We'll do the show. Bound to open
up some eyes." I said, "And ignorant mouths." Grins.
Mario introduced the show, and said, "We have two alien actions to
show with Solomon. I've seen them. They're different! We'll have
comments after each one." He ran the colliding neutron stars action
first. Then we went to break. Back, he said, "We are accepting comments
about the fleet and planet action. Almost all of them are what I had
planned to ask." I said, "Fire away." He said, "You are allowing that
planet and it's people to be destroyed. Why?" I said, "God manages
things. In that galaxy, things were rather tight in management. There
was no place to move them to that wouldn't give away that it could be
done, which would have caused a severe disruption to many species and
their development, and from that, more death and destruction." He said,
"Could you have moved them to a different galaxy or dimension?" I said,
"Not the people. They wouldn't have survived that without God's help,
which he withheld. I can transport people, even planets of them, inside
a galaxy with no problem, but not out of it in a way they can survive
usefully." He said, "What do you mean by usefully?" I said, "Psychical
damage. Experiences they couldn't recover from. Unless I personally
ported them in small groups, and removed their memories from them. That
would cause different problems with a high tech civilization. And they
were causing a lot of problems where they were, which would have
continued wherever they went."
I said, "Their species will survive in a way that will improve them.
Remember, that was done in a different way on Earth, 74,000 years ago."
He said, "Oh! Yes. Have you saved other planets in similar situations?"
I said, "Yes I have, but not as an assigned action, but on my own, with
God's approval and help. Two systems were in the path of a supernova
radiation blast. I asked God if I could save them, and to where. He
showed me the places in another galaxy. But there was a problem. The
people were to have no memory of the event. One was pre-tech, and one
was in the age of discovery. Both had mapped the stars in their skies."
He said, "I see the problem. They had documents and memories, and
some scientific measurements that had to be changed." I said, "And for
each planet, instantly. I could port the planets through other
dimensions, to reach the other galaxy in that dimension, but life there
would stop. God helped, and I made the changes, but it was quite a
stretch of my abilities. They never suspected a thing, and will evolve
as they are supposed to." He said, "But that wouldn't have happened, if
you hadn't asked God's permission, and his help?" I said, "I don't
know. He could have waited to see if I would notice it, and told me if
I hadn't. Yes, he might have sacrificed those people to teach me.
Remember, I am to him, as the people of Earth are to me. I do the same
thing here, mostly with little success." He said, "Wow! I see that
now." We went to break. He said, "We're going to do a lot with that
after the show, I'm sure!" I said, "Of course." Grins.
Back from break, he said, "That admiral; you liked her, didn't you."
I said with a smile, "Yes I did like her. Very intelligent and
perceptive. A little too much, actually." He smiled, and said, "The
next action is different. In it, you also found someone to like." I
said, "I did. Those kinds of things make me feel a little better in
actions." They ran the action, and we went to break. Back, he said,
"They looked WEIRD!" I said, "As we would have looked to them. I
couldn't look anything like my Earth body there, but I did choose to be
different from them." He said, "I've noticed you do that. Why?" I said,
"Aliens, and I am to them, are supposed to be different and have
unknown capabilities. That causes less of a belief and shock problem,
when I do strange to them things. But when I can, and need to, I do
look like the people there, just for that reaction, if it would be
useful." He said, "Ah! The Situation Manager in action." I said, "I
hope." Grins.
He said, "That person who couldn't see your aura, was he an Adept?" I
said, "He is, and did have some training. He would have been a
candidate for my schools as a child, if we had one he could survive in.
A very different species!" He said, "Would you really have allowed
those people to die, if he hadn't done what you asked?" I said, "That's
not a good question. He was going to do it. The only question was when.
No, there was no 'if'. You still have a problem with that, don't you."
He chuckled, and said, "I do. I guess I'll just have to live with it."
I said, "Remember, I knew all, there. I knew him much better than he
did." He said, "Oh! I keep forgetting that." I said, "You probably
always will. That's human nature for that kind of issue."
He said, "You know some scientists are going to be studying the
things they saw in that action, VERY hard." I said, "Yes. They're
recording the live shows now, for that very reason." He said, "Will
they learn anything?" I said, "Would a pre-tech man learn how a car
works, from looking at the outside of it? Would he even know anything
of its function? Would those scientists ever admit they are in the same
relative condition? Not with their egos." He tried not to laugh. He
said, "Did they learn anything from the fusion in the spaceship
action?" I said, "Let's let that rest. I think I've annoyed them
enough." He laughed. He said, "Do you know who will succeed in that?" I
said, "Yes, I do." He said, "OH! Would you tell us who it is?" I said,
"We know you had to ask, even though you know I won't tell you that."
He said, "True. Would you tell us if the show helped?" I said, "I will.
The show didn't and won't help at all. I won't say any more about it
until it eventually goes public. No, not even if in this century. If
the scientists want to keep wasting time studying the shows, they will
fall further behind, on their behinds. They might as well take a nap,
for all the good it will do them."
He tried very hard not to laugh. I said, "There was an action I was
in, that did have a nap in it. Ah! My people are yelling to me, asking
me to show it. It's one of their favorites. Brings a big smile whenever
it's mentioned. Eh, some other time. Interesting expression." He said,
"Thank you, Solomon, for helping us to understand these actions you've
shared with us." I said, "You're welcome. It was interesting." Off air,
Chuckles.
Galya said, "I hope you show it soon. It's going to be fun!" I said,
"Be with me on that?" She said, "Oh, great! Thanks." I said, "Mom?" She
said, "For the outsider frustrated viewpoint, sure. And to make it
unusual, the three of us together." We worked on the script, with a lot
of grins.
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