Early on, when Eliza had introduced both sensor and Jump Gate technologies, she had the cognizance to consider the quantity and type of use, the location, and destination of any information gathering source, the myriad of transport and travel options, and how they would increase dramatically and astronomically as time went by. With her jump gates, as ideal as they could be for small numbers of people who were linked neurologically at any given time, the potential for disaster as numbers increased could be exponential as well.
Eliza had brought this up to Yesha and James first, “If, for example, say a billion people decided they wanted to end up at the same location at the same time without proper coordination, we could find ourselves with a situation that could end up being quite catastrophic.” Eliza knew she, Yesha, James, and his crew had to come up with a system to control destination arrival such that only one source pertaining to a particular Jump Gate was received in one location at any given time. However, for travel and transport efficiency they had to ensure transportation from each source to the desired destination was also seamless and immediate.
While building Eliza’s infrastructure, it was easy to coordinate jumps, transports, and the like every time, via neural links and the associated neural identifications. As such, during infrastructural construction, there were zero casualties. Now that the infrastructure was complete, with twenty-thousand tech cities, each with 10 million domiciles that were capable of modification integration and with a capacity for further growth available at a moment’s notice, as the population grew, things could get complicated quick. So, Eliza, Yesha, James and their growing crews and their families all got into their biopods several times to discuss the types of issues that could occur. After doing so, they came up with plans to mitigate those issues, and then implement their plans. After which, they practiced on inanimate materials, tested the system on multiple groupings of optimized volunteers traveling from separate locations and arriving to the same location harmlessly, and then they could finally test it on those who had elected to not be optimized but wanted to work with Pathway LLC, helping in any way they could.
Going back a pace, the sensors that operated were more easily managed than the jump gates, because there were no known limits to the quantity of information that could be sent and received in a blink of an eye without traumatic results. As a matter of a fact, there were literally trillions of groups of sextillions of sensors with pass-through technology throughout the solar system now tapping into a variety of controlled entanglement factors and algorithms that were already constantly monitoring every possible bit of information, all which was processed within the Twelve Database Moons, which were completed during the third week, and made available via any Pathway LLC interface at any location, immediately. The intent of the information was for safety, scientific clarity and development, and situational awareness as related to living conditions anywhere, further projects, and navigation of spacecraft throughout the solar system.
The jump gates remained easy for Eliza and her team to proliferate and build as well. However, setting up a tried and true coordination system for efficiency and seamlessness of travel to locations safe for personnel who weren’t optimized, while reducing the compromise of physiological health in the most unfortunate of ways that could result if multiple individuals and items arrived at the same time and in the same location, was going to take some effort to build. The computational power was there, and the resources were limitless, based on Eliza’s Solar and interplanetary fusion centers, so plausible travel coordination systems and algorithms were developed and implemented throughout the entirety of Earthling-occupied space, both for now and into the future.
Eliza had gathered her crew together prior to setup and asked several questions. “How can we set up a layered zonal travel network that can ensure that the highest quantity of people, goods, and groups can be transferred in the safest manner possible and in the least amount of time? Should we have major transfer stations capable of conducting thousands of transfers every few moments? Should we create a system of major hubs, major zones, minor zones, and then individual zones? Should we consider destination triangulation such that if, for example, three people jumped from a different jump gate to the same jump gate they would automatically land safely beside each other, using instant computational spatial and coordination delivery?
“My concern is that a space elevator platform or any other space-limited locations could potentially be at over capacity fairly quick and with mortal circumstances if too many people and resources landed at the same place and at the same time. Perhaps we could have resource shipments travel using a completely different, yet somewhat parallel network? When it comes to personnel carriers, networks that are more complex need to be considered. Finally, how about group travel stations? Ultimately, we need to prevent tragedy in every imaginable way.
“Right now, using our neural links we have managed a simple network of safe transport and travel, but I’m afraid that as we grow, this may become much more complicated, and it would be preferable to have an automated growth system set up in the most simple manner possible, for reduction in space, mass, and resource requirements. I don’t want people, for one, burdened with the stress of fear of death, based on timing or accidents, where they find they are trying to breathe in vacuum in outer space, or by otherwise finding their physical health is completely compromised because they happened to arrive in the same location as anyone or anything else at the same time.
“That brings me to the culmination of why we will need to begin considering intergalactic spacecraft that can provide living quarters, eateries, the necessary amenities, forestation, vegetation, sentient ‘wildlife,’ universities, labs, workstations, correctional matrices, medical and psychological services, a sense of team-work, discipline, with an heir of motivation, ingenuity, and organization. With a series of large spacecraft, we can mitigate the issues I’ve mentioned when it comes to large leaps through space. In this way, with the complex environmental maintenance and matter calculation and entanglement triangulation transfer systems, we’ll be able to have entire spacecraft and any designated systems spacecraft jump with their entire cargo hold and crew without any issues. As we create protected bio-environments throughout our and the many other galaxies, we can augment and establish the same system of Major Hubs, Major Zones, Minor Zones, and individual transfer jump gates we’ll build in this solar system and on Earth.” Eliza continued and then dismissed everyone to begin the work.
Everyone got their heads together during the first three weeks of 2008, with Vesha Celeste, Najem Grace, Jasmine Belle, Matsu Kashi, and Anastasia Renae recruited and leading the innovation teams. Within a month they had been in the Virtual Universe about three-hundred times together, and another three-hundred times individually, and they were sure they had developed and improved upon a gate network that just might work and automatically allow for growth meeting all of Eliza’s criteria. Eliza had the answers the first day, but all of the infrastructures except the spacecraft had been built and was currently being maintained by volunteer citizens, families, sentient creatures, and nanos, so since she had delegated, it was time for her entrusted associates to come up with a reliable plan. Each volunteer was brilliant, but only two had been optimized. Vesha, Najem, and Jasmine were non-optimized members, and Matsu and Anastasia had been fully read-in. Nevertheless, Eliza knew she needed to afford them an opportunity to put their neurological capabilities to work.
Unfortunately, the greatest contributor, Vesha, after her husband passed away, was beginning to suffer more severely from the effects of dementia. She had been an honorary member, not required to be optimized in any way, but served in Pathway LLC at the time because of her personal dedication and quest to understand her Universe. Once she was near the close of their discoveries, she settled into Princeton’s retirement homes for proper Real-World care and treatment and handed a majority of her work over to Anastasia. Najem and Jasmine visited Vesha regularly after that.
Anastasia Renae, taking the helm as chief particle physics and quantum computing team lead, worked closely with Matsu Kashi, theoretical physicist and data analytics extraordinaire and finalized their plans, developments, and prototype system, ready for presentation to Eliza, Yesha, James, and their growing crews. When they were ready, everyone was advised to meet in the Virtual Universe via neural link, and once everyone arrived and linked within the cooperative compartment of their minds and experienced the Virtual Universe simulation of it all as if it were real, they demonstrated the new jump gate automated growth and multi-transfer process in its physical form and in its entirety.
The system was set up as such:
At first, every jump gate-licensed Pathway citizen, and fully read-in, or non-optimized and honorary member, would receive a special “chameleon” watch that served a greater purpose than merely going well with optimized individual’s chosen attire for the day. It would also provide a unique neural identification tied-in link to the Twelve Database Moons, for the purpose of gathering all of the information pertinent for the individual being transferred, sequencing the timing of any other jumps, developing all of the entanglement criteria, and landing one source jump a safe distance away from any other arrivals. When one would arrive, they would find themselves at first on a conveyor belt-like object, yet much more sophisticated and pleasing to the eye, safely navigating away from the gate with the opportunity for a mini watch-based jump, yet another safe distance from the gate on a grid with a secondary or tertiary minor jump immediately after that until all same-destination arrival personnel were safely walking away. As the population grew and more personnel and shipments were transferred back and forth, nanos that maintained a particular jump gate would summon more nanos to create a new gate laterally, and eventually into multiple floors.
As growth continued, the largest jump gate centers would be called major hubs, and no matter the expansion of humanity, within the observable Universe, there would be twelve zones linked via the Twelve Database Moons to a central hub on Earth. Major Zones would be a common-sense division of the Major Hub zones within one of twelve spatially-divided areas within and throughout the known Universe, temporarily spread out through the solar system alone. Minor Zones would be broken down further into as many weigh stations and travel hubs as needed to accommodate everyone or anything being transported back and forth. Earth itself would have its own minor zone network, as would any tech city. Finally, individual zones were just that. A person could have a jump gate at home and in their office, from which they could have a network of individual zones setup based on where their duties would regularly require them to be and their Neural identification would be synced up to allow for transportation. The jump gate nanos would constantly maintain their function, and each zone would be linked in one way or another to the Twelve Database Moons for all of the necessary information processing and transfer.
Anastasia and Matzu rolled out the closing part of their plan, and in that final point, mass travel came into view. Each hyperloop, designed for mass transit, would also be connected to the jump gate system in a parallel entanglement manner. Two-hundred-twenty people or more could get on one hyperloop passenger system, which would operate just like any airport or train station system, with the times of the destinations, their arrival and departure, all automated and planned in advance. Almost everything would be similar to the mass transit systems when it came to coordination, the only difference would be that once it passed through the jump gate it would be in the desired arrival location near instantaneously, and without any tragic events. Luggage, resources, etc., would travel in parallel encapsulated by a container with a paired identification to the item chaperone. During travel, they would not intersect but arrive at the location at the same time in a private room or warehouse in the desired overall location. The chaperone or item-linked owner would then be mini-jumped to the location of their neural identification-paired items as shipped. From there, they could be individually jumped to their home, their business office, or warehouse where only one or two or just a few could coordinate easily.
The system was simple yet complex and provided room for automated and endless growth, with near-seamless transportation and shipping. Improvements would never be turned down, but for now and for quite some time everyone was at ease with the process, so Eliza, Yesha, James, and crew had every aspect established and brought online. Once it was ready, they tested the travel or jump gate system in every way with one-hundred percent success. If given a specific mission, properly approved personnel could create a new jump gate location between two travel points, in order to carry out that mission. Things could now navigate quickly, the various hubs and zones looked magnificent and sturdy; they were designed for optimized transfer and transport in every possible way, and now, things could grow exponentially without a single issue.
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Eliza avoided considering public stock value at the very beginning, or from 2008 through this current point in the young life of Pathway LLC. Instead, she declared every aspect of Pathway LLC as private or member-owned. Even though all wealth was directly linked to Eliza’s initial investments, she knew everyone had dedicated time and effort to what had been done and what was currently going on, and she chose to compensate everyone generously, and reinvest the rest into research, development, and improvements. She set it up in this way more essentially to justify the increasing wealth of each member of Pathway LLC and to expedite any development and distribution of products or services that were ready to go public.
She also realized that she, Yesha, James and their growing crews of Pathway LLC needed to distribute certain things publicly so everything that was covertly sanctioned and even recognized as legitimate by both governments could be approved for dispersal and therein find a way to exchange the equivalent wealth of her initial efforts, designs, and developments. She had set up a conversion system from her own economic system of Solar Credits to US Dollars, through terrestrial trade. While their capital throughout the solar system was huge, on Earth much of their capital was reinvested in research and development and every other aspect of the company, to include ensuring every employee was taken care of better than any other person on Earth who had not raised a finger or spared a neuron to contribute to its preservation.
At the same time as this went on, more of the self-replicating nano-bots received constant updates from Eliza and Yesha and their growing crews. Emerging and quickly-growing teams of read-in scientists and data analytics professionals also worked with Eliza and Yesha on encodings that enabled the creation of invisible shields that protected the Earth, the Moon, the outer planetary moons, as well as the dwarf planets Pluto and Eris, among many others, and they made possible the most optimal of living conditions in a manner that was undetectable in each location of each planetary and moon-like spheroid outside of the tech cities. They oversaw the creation of a system that would preserve the life of the Sun, rendering Earth life-sustainable for at least a few trillion years longer than expected—every few trillion years they merely needed to perform maintenance and upgrades, which they were currently doing and had set up a seamless auto-maintenance system to do so, and by doing so they protected the life of the Sun indefinitely.
When James, Eliza, Yesha and each of their growing crews were done with all of these projects, the final project involved something as simple as kicking back, relaxing, sitting down, enjoying each other’s company, and meditating together, in the group biopods, the single biopods, and in real life in one of Eliza’s many flora and fauna refuges, filled with sentient creatures—who volunteered to help in every and any way they could and happened to love Pathway LLC and everything it stood for.
Each of these beings was happy at any time to be muses, listening to and inspiring, and even helping the LLC workers with the more finite details. Some of these creatures were artists, craft workers, architects, artists, and even philosophers.
Eliza, James, and Yesha, as well as their crew members, ta
lked about all of their accomplishments within the Virtual Universe, and then while camping in the flora and fauna refuges, and once they had all deliberated, each member was given a break. Traveling home was speedy using the jump gate terminals to jump to the jump gates within their domiciles in their associated tech cities. Many Pathway LLC citizens, who had been fully read-in and optimized, went and traveled worldwide to conduct missions to help recruit and rescue others, conducting countless acts of heroism, while being careful not to spill beans in a public manner too much.
After the building of each piece of infrastructure had been completed and the construction of the shielding and structural preservation capacities of the solar system had been done and in place, and everyone else went to their domiciles or on their missions until further instruction, Eliza, Yesha, and James went to Eliza’s estate, looked up at the stars near the statue of an angel overlooking the coy fish pond, sang the song, “Shine,” from Depeche Mode’s Exciter album, looked upon each other, shared their thoughts via their neural links as they overlooked their amalgamation of accomplishments, thought about the neighboring stars and were pleased. This was precisely the time when Yesha had finally won James to her side of thinking because they both had finally convinced Eliza to pen her book, called “Pathway to the Stars.”
Eliza, thus, took up the challenge.
In her book, Eliza suggested the need for humanity to evolve—that we could take the slack off of the backs of Mother Nature and the Universe, both of which had done so well thus far over extraordinary amounts of time, that we could make the most out of living in lands once thought desolate, and allow Nature as well as those who preferred nature over nurture to take back the unbridled forests and jungles until humanity could integrate advanced and beautifully creative tech cities in harmony with the environment and the ecosystem.
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