Further than Before- Pathway to the Stars

by Matthew Opdyke

  Eliza and Yesha had worked hard to win votes organically from March 2022 and on, to reach minds throughout the nation by the sharing of ideas and through persuasive means, which ultimately reached the hearts of many within and without the growing party.

  The growth of the UP throughout the US was very much gradual and genuine, courtesy of the efforts of Eliza and Yesha, as well as their profound ties with the most affluent and influential people in the US, who also been members of the UP, everything was in place, which rendered the necessary win for their successful bid for POTUS. The media had soaked in the details of their business models, and one-by-one the titans of media joined the “Pathway Revolution.” The world’s top critics learned to broaden their scope from “argument for the sake of argument,” or their traditional form of unbridled chaos, and they began seeing with clarity new solutions to the various issues throughout the World that were consistently being resolved, courtesy of Pathway. They also knew that Pathway existed due to the brilliance of both Eliza and Yesha. As a result, even the critics became part of ‘Team UP.’ Finally, things were looking up in the US and in vast areas throughout the rest of the world. Their bid for the presidency had gained local, public, and even worldwide support. People, the public included, allowed hope to fill their hearts once again.

  Chapter 55: Politics, Section 2

  Today was the day of her inauguration. With her inauguration, she had made a special request shortly following the Electoral College vote in December to both Houses of Congress to also include within her inaugural ceremony her State of the Union speech and the necessary authorizations to prepare for and give a presentation during the broadcast. Both Eliza and Yesha, as Executive leaders of the US, would present a speech, Eliza would give hers with hidden gifts and a few surprises, and Yesha’s speech would be much more concise, but between them, Sky, and Vesha they would reveal all of their discoveries and inventions to the public.

  Together they would charge the masses to become kinder and more enthusiastic about scientific innovation, research, and development, all of which could serve the intent of helping to preserve life, increase its longevity, and ensure that life comes with a much higher quality. Eliza would reveal twenty-thousand new tech cities and towns and the protective shielding around them and the Earth, as well as some policy changes, among other things. Yesha would introduce the twenty-thousand tech cities throughout the solar system and the sophisticated shielding granting each spheroid within it the sustainability of life similar to that of Earth. She would then present Sky Taylor, who would do a brief speech, and Vesha Celeste, who would introduce the IMC to the public. After the presentation, the President would close up. Our Nation would begin to move forward, publicly guiding civilization to go further than we had ever gone before.

  The Speaker of the House made the typical introductions. She wasn’t from Eliza’s political party, but her party had only a narrow lead in the House, and her enthusiasm was morose at best. The Speaker of the House displayed the typical courtesies and fake happiness her professionalism and desire to keep her seat of power required. She had been in her position for years and had a stronghold in an area of the country that had been somewhat uninfluenced by Pathway or the UP, where the constituents there were still very closely knit and of one of the older parties. The time came for Eliza to proceed, raise her hand, swear in, and she did. As she did, the mood within the entire room changed. She dazzled her viewers in a black and white form-fitting pinstriped pantsuit, with a white blouse and a black bowtie. Eliza’s charisma crackled in the air with life-giving charm, awakening the spirits of every onlooker in the room.

  She made her way to the podium, after turning to her left and walking onto the raised floor before it. When the introduction and swearing-in were done, the Speaker of the House sat down, and then she began to address the World. Before uttering her first words, the audience was already ensconced with her crystalline blue eyes, thick black limbal rings, her soft tones and youthful features, her blonde hair gathered so beautifully and professionally upon her head as though it were the wedding day and the demure demeanor she exuded of subtle authority and a deep sense of care for the well-being of each observer.

  “I, President Eliza Amber Williams, do hereby accept the executive office of the US, and do solemnly swear in my own words to protect and serve the citizens of this beloved country, as the President of the US, as a Worldwide Ambassador of Peace, and as the Commander In Chief, where peace does not exist. I swear to protect all citizens and allies from enemies, both foreign and domestic. I will ensure that each member of the cabinet has been fully vetted for their qualifications, their focus on longevity, their unparalleled level of education, experience, wisdom, as well as their measure of character, and their loyalty to the well-being of the People of the United States.

  “As your President, I will take every healthy-minded recourse to forge diplomatic bridges where there are none, and we, as a nation, will move forward by strengthening our ties with other nations who have already graciously worked with and honored their commitments to us in the past. Diplomacy will reach a new standard, other nations will see, in the most genuine form, a beacon of truth, of justice, of mercy, of life, of liberty, of kindness, of health, of education, and of clarity of mind to bring civilization together and become more advanced than we have ever been throughout the entirety of the history of this the human civilization, and all so that we may go further than we ever have gone before.

  “I stand before you, here today in compliance with Article II, Section 3, of the United States Constitution, which stipulates: ‘The president shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he [or she] shall judge necessary and expedient.’

  “Please note, that I have found it necessary and expedient to make my first amendment to the United States Constitution include ‘or she’ into Article II, Section 3. I will also introduce many tenants that I deem necessary and expedient, in a recommendation for your consideration and affirmation prior to leaving today. There is much to do to increase the well-being, quality of life, and clarity of mind of every living being in our Nation and worldwide. Thus, we’ll begin.”

  At her brief pause, applause from every person in the House Chamber was heard.

  “Thank you,” Eliza paused, waiting patiently, understanding the hope within each person listening, as every person in the room stood to give her a standing ovation. She then continued to wait with a Presidential smile of approval to the crowd for their roar of support as it increased to decibels that had live media going ecstatic and decreased until it reached its appropriate silence.

  “Ladies and gentlemen, each of you here, or watching, or listening to this are also to be applauded for participating, in one way or another, in the success of our Nation. For matters of brevity and clarity, however, as much as I enjoy long-held tradition, this is a new day, and I would kindly ask that following the previous applause, for which I am grateful, please remain seated and hold further ovations until my address here has been completed. Thank you.”

  Eliza paused, just to make sure her request had been heard and that due respects were paid. She looked at every member of her audience and smiled. She noted that each person present was listening very heartily and hanging on to her every word. Eliza then nodded, ‘yes,’ three times, engaged with Yesha Alevtina, Vesha Celeste, Erin Carter, Joanne Gallant, Sky Taylor, James Cooper, and the rest of Pathway via her neural link, and continued.

  “Today’s State of the Union and Inauguration Speech will be different from time’s past. Today I will give you my heart, my experiences, the roads I’ve traipsed upon, the visions I’ve had, and the resolve shared with so many amazing individuals to realize these visions relating to the preservation of mankind, clarity of mind, and continued health for a very, very, long time. I will unfold before you a new reality and our visions for the future, with much more clarity, for our nation. I will show you how
our plans and many completed pursuits have already benefitted our world and our solar system, and how we will raise the quality of life Universe-wide.”

  Eliza talked, and the audience sat as requested, but did so in serenity at what they heard and saw above and around the President as she gave her speech. What each person in attendance, camera professional, and broadcast viewer witnessed, was a scene they had never seen, and never imagined would be or could be seen before. Everything presented before their eyes was a reality much to their astonishment and awe, and people watching remotely rushed to those who were listening remotely and informed them to make haste to a visual broadcast; it was a synopsis of the growth of Pathway LLC to Pathway Industries, including a brief display of Pathway’s large corporate buyouts, and the positive and healthy changes that had made Eliza the richest person in the world and the only Octodecillionaire in every viable manner that mattered.

  Long before her speech, Eliza had seen fit to work on her own on a variety of projects. She had also worked with Sky Taylor, Yesha Alevtina, James Cooper, Amber Blythe, Erin Carter, and Joanne Gallant on many other projects. Finally, she had worked with every member of Pathway to create cities in the US to replace every city and town in America, and then throughout the world, protected by a very sophisticated barrier that provided defense, invisibility, and undetectable particle re-navigation, such that aircraft and other vehicles would go around it without detecting the city or realizing they were traveling over or around it.

  In the most barren, desolate, and austere locations throughout every region and country in the world, she had built undetectable cities and towns to take the place of every living domicile and provide eco-friendly industry safe harbor. She designed the environment to be beautifully laid out with forests and jungles that blossomed year-around. Each city and town, and forest and jungle pertaining to it was teeming with fruits, vegetables, nutrients, and flowers of every beautiful scent and color. In, throughout, and around every city and town there were parks, rivers, streams, cascades, waterfalls, surfing waves, lakes, and beaches where water had an ever so careful balance of healthy minerals and microbes. Creatures of every kind existed within and around these cities, sharing nourishment with each other and without predation.

  Gone was the brutality, and in full supply was nurture, domestication, and sentience. A human with a neural link could listen and converse with each and every creature, all of whom acted as counselors and performed tasks within careers they found suited their nature, but in a way that contributed to longevity and wise use and sharing of the abundance of resources.

  These new tech cities and towns, much like the Tech Cities and towns throughout the rest of the solar system, were imbued with robust high-rises, large and spacious centers, wide streets with wide sidewalks for bicycling, a separate one for walking, and several others for strolling with family pets, or creature friends, with all of the facilities necessary for natural or organic creatures and people. The lighting throughout each city was such that it provided a sense of warmth, safety, and ironically a very clear view of what was around anyone while still allowing all to look up into the night-time sky with increased clarity on the visibility of the stars, constellations, nebulae, and galaxies.

  Complexity within the many beautiful and creative edifices existed through both art and appeal that were cogent with the collective wishes of the minds of those who would dwell in the cities and towns. There were restaurants of every type, all using clean-meats, organic vegetables, fruits, herbs, morels, and spices. There were tea and coffee gardens that were peaceful, providing hydration with lush flavors of favorite tastes, nutrition, and heightened senses throughout each day, until the mind rested upon the pillow at night, where more training would ensue and then relaxation and a break would take place until morning.

  Within each city and town were scientific laboratories, public health centers, correctional coaching and mentoring facilities, advanced education centers, modernized agricultural high-rises, entertainment exposition buildings, and very large sports arenas, that included a complexed environment and capabilities suitable to every sport imaginable, from ski resorts, to football, to surfing wave centers, and much more. These edifices were such that every bit of infrastructure was more than a unique high-rise, with domiciles, jump gate terminals, and parkways, which complemented the forests, jungles, and other buildings around them in a magnificent way.

  “What you are seeing is a tech city known as New Chicago. This new city has many visual aspects that will remind you of the architecture of Chicago itself. They are built by ever so carefully meshing the wishes of the minds living within the Chicago we all love to create what you see here. This is created using my own funds combined with your collective imagination. This is a gift to every citizen of Chicago; there is room for every citizen there, and many more.

  “Over the last three years, this and many other cities were built and under the protection and shroud of invisibility and re-navigation technology. These buildings are breathtakingly so advanced in purpose and aesthetic that all who behold what is before your eyes will no doubt fixate upon what you see, and this is just one of many currently uninhabited new tech cities and towns throughout the United States and its territories. What you now see playing behind me, is New Chicago’s skyline, the many physical features within it, and the environmentally-melded aspects in and around its many buildings.

  “The architecture, throughout this and every tech city and town, has the ability to captivate any human mind because each of them will be unique, beautiful, clean, and as creative as the collective mindset of every one of the city’s inhabitants. Each city will also have the capacity to provide domicile to many more families, career professionals, visitors, and tourists. I am sharing these accomplishments with you to let you know and see that great things are already here and still yet to come. No matter wealth or poverty level, you will have a home that is more state-of-the-art, luxurious, and beautiful than anything you ever thought you could have. After this meeting, each city and town Mayor will be trained in the Virtual Universe and then given the necessary codes to serve the people within their new and beautiful location.

  “If you look around the city before you, some of you may recognize it because of its unique qualities. This city takes up more space, because in it you will see vast stadiums, sports arenas of every sort, art symposium edifices, opera houses, vast high-rises for domiciles and businesses of every sort, and every industry and building necessary to run, maintain, and enjoy this location, all infused with forests and jungles with fruit, vegetables, herbs, spices, morels, and healthy microbes and minerals of every kind, with sentient wildlife that can converse neurologically with any individual that has used a biopod for physiological and neurological optimization.

  “There are many methods of travel in this city, just as in every tech city or town, from hyperloop terminals, to extra wide streets for optimized vehicles, vehicles that use cold fusion cyclically requiring nothing more than what is in the air that you cannot breathe, and work with the monopole and dipole systems within the streets and buildings to allow vehicles to fly in the air in a very sophisticated network of layered navigational pathways. Likewise, every building and high-rise will have physically covered parking areas with parkways that have wide roads and wide places to park. There are jump gate terminals in every building and at every level. Any individual who has been through the Virtual Universe training program can coordinate and setup teleportation points from their home, to their lab, or to their office, work center, back to home, and then to a jump gate terminal with options for daily micro-vacations, and then back to their home for training, entertainment, and rest. All that is built, functions to one-hundred percent effectiveness, to provide levity, efficiency in travel, and increased time for healthy activities throughout each day.

  “Life is about to get quite fantastic, and I assure you there is a lot of benevolent purpose behind all of this. For one, we need to preserve life, and in a way that br
ings joy and meaning to our very being. We need to have the ability to adapt to environments already teeming with life, rather than destroy entire sentient ecosystems wherever we travel. We need to have a healthy and robust focus of love, beauty, and kindness that will allow us to advance civilization in a manner that demonstrates genuine empathy, compassion, and respect for each other’s uniqueness and irreplaceable individuality, while attaining full understanding for each other mitigating issues that would threaten our existence throughout the Cosmos.

  “All of what I am presenting to you, during this historic State of the Union, has the ability to see us through to promise, so long as we combine our efforts to become a worthy, gentle, yet powerful and spacefaring nation, world, and solar system, so that rather than navigating space destroying planets and leaving desolation in our wake as a scourge, we can bring life and abundance where there is none, teeming with similar living environments very similar to the one before you, in the display behind me, and become givers of life and beauty. What you see is an example that we can take desolation and give it life and vibrant beauty, and in turn, we can adapt ourselves to blend into the environments, so we can live where different forms of intelligent life already exist. In this way, we will find ourselves more capable of creating diplomatic bridges wherever sentience is possible or existent.

  “Someone asked me once if aging is considered a disease, I told him that it was, and this is what I said: