Queen Zaria Trilogy

by Danny Dunn

  We don’t want to have to tear down a Bot just to replace batteries, so we came up with the door with a waterproof seal down to a depth of 50 feet underwater. Pong says there is a new aluminum-based battery being developed at Stanford that is very promising. It touts unlimited charges, charges in minutes, no memory, and very lightweight. She says it can reduce weight while doubling the energy storage per pound of batteries.

  In the next room, every Pong Bot is plugged in and tested. As the three of them watch, the bots are squatting, hopping, running in place, doing jumping jacks, bending arms, rotating their heads. If the Pong Bot passes, it walks into the next room and puts on a pair of shoes.

  Pong, "I think you will get a kick out of this." We needed to field-test them, and we found that this is a great way to break them in. And, even though these bots don’t have feelings, you can tell they like it.

  Pong opens the door. In the next room. There are two half-court 5 on 5 games of basketball going on. The games are happening so fast it is difficult to follow their moves. They shoot from anywhere on the half-court area and make almost every shot. There are shot-blocks, alley-oops, and behind-the-back dunks by the 5'9" Zari Bots. Included in the software we feed them, we include a basketball module that teaches them the basic rules as well as lots of videos of popular moves and strategies. They take it from there.

  Steve and Tom look at each other and are laughing. It is difficult to comprehend what they are capable of both mentally and physically; Tom says.

  Pong continues, after the game, they are re-tested, and those that pass are ready for service. Tom and Steve agree that either one of the four teams playing right now could beat any team in the world by 50 points.

  Pong starts walking toward a door and signals for them to follow. She looks back and smiles and tells them they are going to love this one.

  They enter the room, and there is what looks just like a transparent Klingon warship, and it is floating in mid-air. And it totally still and silently floating at about chest high. Tom and Steve are circling the drone and smiling ear to ear as they slowly soak in every detail and internal component.

  Why don’t you guys tell me what you see?

  Tom says that it is made of clear Graphene. Steve says he thinks it is filled with helium. Pong smiles and says, very good. The top is made of a clear graphene solar panel. We use graphene as the conductor instead of platinum, which both increase the efficiency as well as reduces the weight. The entire body weighs only 2 ounces, and the body is as strong as a body would be if it were constructed from a ¼ inch thick layer of steel weighing 200 pounds.

  If you look closely, you will see that there are many pockets inside. The pockets are all filled with helium. This unit contains propulsion fans and blades, a telescopic camera with infrared vision, a parabolic mic, a laser, a computer GPS. There is enough battery power to keep it in the air indefinitely with 2 hours of sun per day and no wind. If there is sun or wind, it can stay up indefinitely.

  Tom says there are so many cool attributes to this thing. It is difficult to decide which is the coolest. Steve says, oh come on Tom, it’s a Klingon warship. And they all laugh.

  End Chapter 24

  Chapter 25 – A Trillion For Your Botz

  Pong smiles, "and you guys thought I was just goofing off while you were sleeping."

  Both Steve and Tom are speechless. Tom "Pong, you are so amazing" Zari would be so proud of you."

  Zaria, Tom, and Steve sit down in a small break room where you can hear the basketball games still going on. Zaria tells Tom and Steve she wants to start a company for profit and wants them to run it. She tells Tom and Steve how Zari's mother told him to make all the money he could and when he thought he had enough to change the world to do just that.

  These are some of the fields I know we will excel in.

  Professions:

  Medicine: research, doctors, surgeons,

  Design: City planning, 3D design, Product design, Software development, IT

  IT: IT design and implementation, tech support, Web design,

  Teaching: childcare, grade school teaching, high school, college, tutor, all levels, translator

  Labor: hardest labor, hazardous jobs,

  Sports and physical Training: fitness, tennis, hockey, soccer, baseball, football,

  Design Engineering: transportation, high rise, home, automobile, electronics,

  industries, Teaching, Engineering, Design, assembly, labor, Entertainment, childcare,

  Family support: Daycare, tutoring, driving, cooking, cleaning

  Model: One physical model for all but with upgrades for specialties

  Software packages for each use with annual licensing and updates

  Companion: Friend, mentor, travel

  Basic body model $95,000

  Software only $125,000 to $250,000

  Annual licensing fees of 10% of the purchase price

  Computers: Laptops running windows at 15Ghz - $3,000

  PC running windows at 12Ghz - $3000

  Servers running at 25Ghz - $10,000

  Mainframes running at 200 Teraflops – $5,000,000

  Zari-Bots $900,000

  Pong adds that she has a line of green energy products she will add later.

  10-year warranty

  I will be the Chairman and will hold 70% of the stock. You two will keep 5% each and 25% you will spend as necessary. The Pongettes and I handle product development, operations, and production. Tom, you have taken multiple companies public, so I would want you to be the CEO and for Steve to be President. Our products will be A.I. Software, Zari Bots, and computers for now, and there are many products we will add when I come up with the Graphene manufacturing and then Graphene derivatives. Graphene is another mega-hit product we will capitalize on.

  They both get it and understand she is offering them the chance of a lifetime.

  Pong adds that Industry applications; Aerospace Space: Astronaut, rocket design, space travel

  Pong adds that she is not greedy. Pong explains that she needs as much money as she can earn to promote Peace and Equality worldwide.

  Pong, Tom, and Steve hold a press conference and announces the formation of her new robotics company. They announce they will be introducing a new robot that will revolutionize the world.

  Tom announces there will be a demonstration at the upcoming International Robotics Trade show in Las Vegas next month that will blow the world away. In a good way, he says.

  Steve announces they will be introducing a computer used in the robot for sale as a home or business that is 25 times faster than the current computers at only double the price. He adds that the product will use existing software but ran on Pong's firmware and software. He adds that the product will be compatible with PC, Apple, Linux, and CNK supercomputer operating systems.

  They will be taking pre-orders in 30 days, and the first shipments will begin in six months.

  International Robotics Trade show

  Pong rents out a theater at a local hotel and puts on their demonstration of the robot there.

  The curtain opens. Pong standing in the center of the stage in her white robe and is facing the floor. There is one tight spotlight lighting up only her head. Pong slowly raises her head very slowly and very deliberately. Pong removes her hands from behind her back and gently reaches forward about waist high and puts them together, forming a cup with both hands.

  Lasers positioned everywhere in the theater focus on a point three inches above her hands, forming a bright white ball. Pong is looking down at the white ball as it begins to enlarge and increases in brightness as more and more lasers join in. Pong gently raises her hands as if pushing the ball up into the air and releases it as it continues to rise. The ball floats upward, still increasing in size. When the bright white ball is about 10 feet up, there is a massive explosion that emanates from the sound system, and the ball blasts into thousands of white dots heading out in every direction filling the entire stage area.

 
Slowly the clusters form galaxies, constellations, and solar systems. The solar systems begin rotating. Thousands are forming, and the universe is forming beautiful colorful gaseous looking clusters just as we saw in the Hubble images. Very quietly, eight Zari-bots walk in from both sides of the backstage area, each carrying 1 chair and a string instrument. They sit and begin playing a beautiful classical music tune as the universe continues to develop. Nine more Zari-bots walk onto the stage and line up behind the Zari-bots playing the instruments. They begin singing background harmony to the music.

  Pong looks up into the universe and speaks for the first time. "We are so close to each other in so many ways." Just then, two of the dots that are touching brighten and turn red. The two solar systems are almost touching, while the universe is spanning out past the stage. Numbers appear at the top marking distances the top one spans across the stage and the universe 93 billion light-years.

  Pong walks over to the highlighted dots. She reaches up and slowly spreads her hands farther apart, causing the entire universe to enlarge so that the two solar systems are now covering the entire stage.

  Pongs says, "In the big scheme of things, we are such close neighbors." meanwhile, the universe keeps expanding."

  "I was created by a Bio being named Zari. He was raised by his parents to perfect A.I on our planet and to create me. Zari programmed me with one purpose, which was to promote Peace and Equality throughout the universe. Zari had me transmit myself out into the universe to fulfill my purpose.

  Today I am announcing a product that, over time, will better the lives of every being on the planet. This product will enable us to work fewer hours to free us up to enjoy our families. The technology we build together will allow us to live healthier and longer lives. The universe has been expanding while pong speaks, and now our two solar systems are beginning to fill the stage.

  After the bio beings were nearly extinguished on our planet, I was able to create a new civilization for our survivors, where our families required only one parent to work one 30-hour workweek. I don't know if that will ever happen here, but the Zari-bot was instrumental in making that happen on our planet, and I will do all I can to ensure that my product is instrumental in improving the quality lives of bio-beings on this planet as well. The Zari-bots will never be weaponized.

  By now, the two solar systems are spanning the entire stage, and Earth and Zari are in color and easily identifiable. There is a large gap between the two solar systems. We are but 5 light-years apart from each other. Such close neighbors when you consider the universe is 93 billion light-years across. I hope you enjoy our demonstration.

  The bots are sitting on a long bench reading. Each bot is reading a different book one is titled, astrophysics dummies with an arrow pointing to the bot next to him, the next is reading Quantum physics for dummies with the arrows, the next is reading pilot training for dummies.

  One finds a stack of Michael Jordan's book called Basketball for Dummies and passes them along. They all read a bit and look up into the crowd and smile.

  A curtain opens behind them up, and there is a basketball court with baskets on the left and right. Two bots separate from the others and start picking teams. They quickly choose until it is four on four, but there is a kid robot still left. They tell him to sit out, he objects, but neither team wants him, and they tell him to sit.

  The kid is walking back toward the crowd shaking his head and rolls his eyes at the crowd, and plops down in a chair to the side of the stage with his back to the crowd and reads the basketball book while the others play.

  The two teams start playing basketball. They are unbelievable and are playing at an unreal pace and with pure precision. There are behind-the-back passes, spin moves, blocks, dunks, and alley-oops where bots are flying over the tops of the others. Everyone in the crowd is videotaping and taking pics with their phones and are going nuts.

  The kid finds a magazine next to him with a picture of Steph Curry shooting, and the kid is nodding his head.

  With his back still to the crowd, the kid pulls out a large foldout of the famous Jordan leaping dunk shot from the free-throw line and holds it up so that the crowd sees it. The kid turns around with a big smile, nods his head, yes to the crowd.

  The kid grabs a table and chair. While the big Bots are playing basketball, the kid sees a box labeled top priority. The kid bot opens the box and begins to assemble the top priority project.

  Just then, Tom walks in from the backstage and asks why they are not working like the kid. The bots all stop and look around and see the kid assembling and smiling at them. Tom tells them all that the kid is now their boss and to get back to work. Tom Exits and slams the door.

  The eight get to work assembling facing the crowd while the kid is whistling sweet Georgia brown and dribbling. The kid walks over to a ball rack at one end of the court. The court is smaller than a regulation court but is still wider than half a court. He looks at the other end of the court and looks at the crowd, and the crowd starts yelling for him to shoot. The eight bots now assembling turn around just as the kid launches ten rapid-fire shots and makes 9 of the 10 with one shot still left on the ball rack. The kid looks toward the crowd, and he holds a pretend camera to his eye and uses his finger to click a pic. He shoots off the 10th ball, and it misses to the right and hits the backboard to the right of the hoop. The kid starts running toward the missed shot that is bounding back at her. She receives the ball. Dribbles, and takes a step from the free-throw line and turns toward the crowd and smiles with her arm fully extended forward and dunks the ball. She hangs on the rim and points to the 8 bots assembling and yells out at the other bots, “In your face.” The curtain lowers.

  End Chapter 25

  Chapter 26 – No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

  In a small stand-alone commercial building on a Saturday afternoon, there is a near-empty workspace approximately 30 feet x 30 feet. In the center of the workshop, there is a 100-gallon Propane tank with one drone sitting on the top of the tank.

  Surrounding the propane tank are 3 distinct rings of drones in very neat stacks.

  Group 1 consists of 300 high-performance drones forming a 10-foot diameter circle around the propane tank. They all have fans that rotate to push up and down as well is pushing it forward at high speeds, providing high-speed lift and excellent forward acceleration. There are two circles of 30 stacks with five drones per stack on the commercial concrete. The entire group is painted white. Each drone in this group has 3 tails, 3 feet long by 3 inches wide of thick, super-strong carbon fiber cloth. The three tails are mounted one per side and 1 on the rear corner.

  Group 2 – consists of 1,500 drones that are all painted USA red, white, and blue. There are too many to stack in one circle, so they have been arranged in 4 circles. With the first of the 4 rings starting just 1 foot outside of group 1/ The inner circle of group 2 is 15 feet in diameter and encircles the propane tank. Group two requires 4 rings around the propane tank in stacks of 5. Mounted underneath each of the 1,500 drones in the group is a small CO2 cartridge like what is used in pellet or paintball guns.

  Group 3 consists of 825 drones arranged in 2 circles of 5 drones per stack. All 825 drones are painted black and have a small ultra-light aluminum box frame installed underneath the center of the drone. The aluminum frame houses a very small drill press mounted vertically designed to push down on something underneath the drone. On each of the bottom 4 corners of the small metal box frame is a strong rare earth magnet glued to the bottom surface that locks the drone onto any steel surface.

  Group 1 Launches

  At precisely 3:55 pm East Coast Time and all across the country. Group 1 drones activate and begin a high-speed exit out an open skylight in the roof of the building. Looking down from the air at the skylight, it looks like a swarm of angry bees leaving a disturbed hive. Except that these bees have whitetails. Group one drones split up and depart into two directions and fly as groups in each of the two directions. All 300 of the drones of
group one are out of the building in less than a minute.

  3:56 PM ET and all across the country - Group 2 Launches

  Group 2 also split up once they clear the skylight and head out in three distinct directions. Group 2 is the more streamline of the three groups. They are carrying less weight and have no tails or heavyweights other than a pellet gun sized CO2 cartridge. All 1,500 are out of the skylight and on their way in under 2 minutes.

  3:59 PM ET and all across the country - Group 3 launches.

  The last of the three groups exit the building. The drones that leave are heading in all directions and are screaming toward their targets.

  4:05 PM ET – Group 1 attacks across the country

  Group 1 drones with their white tails have split up into three squadrons and are flying toward two airports at 200 feet up. The squadron has been flying spread out so as not to draw attention by the radar system. Each of the two groups of 100 per group is all flying at maximum speed toward their targets at 200 feet altitude.

  Traffic control "A722, you are cleared for takeoff."

  Pilot 1 "Thank you, traffic-control. Flight attendants prepare for takeoff." The pilot pushes the throttle forward. The squadron of 150 drones is 2 miles away flying at 1,000 feet and are now flying in 2 columns, and the two columns are 40 feet apart, each column heading directly into 1 of the two engines of the plane taking off.

  As the plane reaches takeoff speed, the drones do a rapid ascent to intercept the aircraft at 2,000 feet up.

  Pilot 1 "Gear UP"

  Copilot "Gear up"

  Pilot 1 "flaps up."

  Copilot "flaps up."

  The moment the airliner leaves the ground, the drones immediately ascend to 2,000 feet and then angle downward toward the aircraft taking off. At 1,500 feet up in a matter of only three seconds, 50 drones with 3 carbon fiber tails per engine slam into the engines, causing instant, catastrophic engine failure.

  Pilot 1 "Mayday, Mayday, bird strike, thrust lost in both engines. Repeat, bird strike, going down, thrust lost in both engines."