Charger the Soldier

by Lea Tassie

  Phil surmised that the Dinosauroids heard music as a type of mathematics for they responded by handing Phil a small device that emitted a tone he knew was based on mathematical principles. Phil had no idea what the tones meant, but one of the attending scientists did. She approached Phil and explained that the Dinosauroid was sending tones based on a progression of mathematical sounds, and that the binary communicating device they had developed might be of some value here. After one of the binary devices was sent for, the female scientist approached the lead Dinosauroid and presented a single pen, then added another pen, then a third. This went on for some time as she tried to establish a system for counting, to build a foundation for math to be used in future communications.

  It was agreed that a dot would represent the number one, and two dots the number two. This went on for some time until both the female scientist and the lead Dinosauroid had established a common mathematical groundwork. When the binary device was brought to the room, many of the group set about reprogramming it to be used to create words that both the Dinosauroids and the humans could use in establishing a common language.

  Many hours passed as the two groups labored to build a usable language with which to communicate and, when it was done, a rudimentary working device began emitting speech that both sides understood. They stood facing each other, distant cousins for millions of years on planet Earth, two worlds in parallel in a room shimmering with light, and began speaking with one another.

  The Dinosauroids had the technological power to keep the humans' room bridged with their universe for several days, while the two groups worked to expand the mathematical language they had created. In the fullness of time, Phil and others managed to translate the history of the Dinosauroids for researchers to examine. What follows is a brief sample, a page or two, of all that was discovered.

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  The history of the Dinosauroid as transcribed by Dr. Phil Curtis and Dr. Jennifer Abdulla:

  After the destruction of most of the life forms on planet Earth 65 million years ago, the Gray aliens, who had fired the light beam which altered the path of the asteroid and sent it to Earth, killing many dinosaurs and most other mammals weighing over 50 pounds, decided to travel to this world to extract all the resources it held. They felt confident that no intelligent life was present.

  However, a vast amount of time had passed from the date of the initial impact to the date the aliens again arrived in Earth's orbit. This had allowed Earth to recuperate from the impact and its repopulation by vegetation and animal life. A surviving group of bipedal Troodont dinosaurs, on the continent we know today as Australia, had become the top predators. Thus, when the aliens landed and began surveying to see what riches this new planet could provide for them, they were curious about these intelligent and social meat eaters.

  At some point, the Grays decided to begin breeding and genetically altering these Troodont in hopes of creating a servant class of animal which they could use as labor. This was only done as an experiment at first, for the highly advanced Grays had no real need for servants. But the birth of the Dinosauroid was successful. Hundreds of years passed and the Dinosauroids created a society based on serving the religious and scientific needs of the aliens. They gained much intellect and science, which they began to employ in a struggle for freedom. Inevitably, war broke out and the Dinosauroids were almost destroyed. Though they knew it might be impossible to defeat the Grays, they kept on fighting. The aliens finally retreated, temporarily, after hundreds of years of war.

  The technology of the Grays was vast and advanced and, as they returned in larger numbers to Earth after a war ended, they would once again conquer the Dinosauroids. In the end, the Grays were themselves almost wiped out by a virus which hardly affected the Dinosauroids at all. The remaining Grays put themselves into a time-lock.

  The Dinosauroids, having stolen most of the Grays' technology, realized they could escape the Grays forever. Using the Grays' own forbidden technology, the time-lock, they shifted their entire society one second into the future.

  Time in this parallel universe did not pass at the same rate as time in the universe they had escaped from. After a few hundred of their years had passed, the Dinosauroids one day received a signal that could only have come from the world they had escaped. Curious, they merged a portion of their world with the old world to investigate and, to their surprise, as they discovered that sixty million years had passed, they faced the human civilization of Mahoud.

  The humans, awed by the nature of the Dinosauroids, looked upon them almost as gods. The isolated peoples of Mahoud had developed technologies far more advanced then the remainder of Earth's inhabitants and what they learned from the Dinosauroids greatly enhanced their science. At about that time, and due to the contact with the Dinosauroids, the peoples of Mahoud sought sanctuary from the world. It was only because of the ringing of mountains on all sides, save for the single passage to the continent, that the society of Mahoud had remained unaltered by the primitive humans massing on Earth.

  Many discoveries made by modern humans after the disappearance of Mahoud, such as the Antikythera, a solar system clock-like device discovered under water, were considered built in the time of Archimedes. This technology was actually the theft of existing inventions from the time of Mahoud, or Atlantis, as it became known. Archimedes lived on the south coast of Italy where the story of Atlantis originated, and where Mahoud would have been found. The Antikythera, which was the central cog that drove the robotic guards, was developed to protect the city peoples from the remainder of the world. These robots, or primitive versions of Taskers, were in fact powered by radioactive particles and were also used to power and drive the death rays spoken of in mythology. All was developed on the Dinosauroid technologies that they had originally learned from the Grays.

  Deep in the language of the Dinosauroids was discovered the term 'Shang Lie' or 'Shangri-La' as pronounced by the humans, and this was the direct link to the mythical city of the Dinosauroid world. The great library of Alexandria, eventually burned to the ground, had held the story of Atlantis and its machines, recovered from Dinosauroid histories. Now much of Earth's previously unknown history was translated from Dinosauroid chronicles, similar to the way knowledge, in the works of Arabic philosophers, had been rediscovered during the Renaissance which followed the dark ages.

  Chapter 21 Discovery in Somalia

  Mark Dixon spoke to the students in his third-year university class. "About one million years ago, the First Ones, the escaped creations of the Grays' initial experiments, begin building an empire in present day Egypt, Britain and Somalia. Their structures were, according to the Dinosauroids, magnificent and more advanced than any of us today could imagine. But they were, of course, long ago ground under relentless ice ages."

  Mark, with his companions of old, Andy Kent and Mickey Petrov, were pioneers in a recent educational development. With the discovery of the buried complex under Stonehenge, anthropology had expanded into a whole new discipline.

  This live version of anthropology dealt with the latest discoveries of humanity's history and remains. The interactions with the Dinosauroids meant that scientists no longer had to guess at the past, for the true answers were found in the Dinosauroids' records.

  Mark continued. "But not all the creations of the First Ones were destroyed. They built three mammoth structures, one in Egypt, buried deep beneath the Sphinx and the shifting sands of time. Another was built in Britain, buried over time, then rediscovered under Stonehenge. The last is still safely buried under the city of Dhuusamareeb, Somalia."

  "The First Ones aren't still living there, are they?" one of the students asked.

  "Well, yes and no," Mark said, with a smile. "Once the cities were fully functional, the First Ones became pure mind and shed their bodies. The three underground cities were used to store the discarded bodies, while their minds ranged freely through space."

  The student blinked, but remained silent.

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p; "It was at this time," Mark said, "that the First Ones took the name of Enoch, the ancient word for 'people of one planet' and adopted a hands-off policy for primitive humanity, which continued evolving without influence for almost a million years."

  Mark glanced down at his notes. "Then someone decided to write about Enoch. The way the story went was that this being, who had walked with a god for three hundred and sixty-five years, finally was no more, for the god took him away."

  "That sounds like it came from the Bible," another student said.

  "I believe it did," Mark replied. "One particular individual of the entity which called itself Enoch decided to reject the terms of non-interference imposed by the others of its kind, and willingly interacted with human descendants at a time of great tribulation."

  The students leaned forward.

  "Apparently, a god appeared to humanity and created much chaos," Mark said. "This god was destructive and unstoppable, a vengeful and spiteful presence bent on dominating and oppressing humanity. To the writers of this early time period, the Enoch eventually became known as angels, intermediaries between the vengeful god and the simple humans."

  Mark went on. "We have also learned that these Enoch are not helping humanity out of goodness. Rather, their goal is to deter this destructive god from discovering their great underground structures and the bodies they left there." He paused. "Those structures represent peace and safety to the Enoch, a place of retreat where they can escape the lesser beings of the world."

  "That concludes my introduction," Mark said. "Today we have two guest lecturers, Dr. Andy Kent and Dr. Phil Curtis. Both men have been studying the British complex we now know as the ancestral home of the Enoch. Phil, over to you."

  Phil began his lecture. "Good day, students. Dr. Kent will later describe the rationale behind the British complex. I will start by addressing our interactions with the Dinosauroids, and what we have learned from them."

  It had been nearly a year since the migration of the Dinosauroids from the time-lock found in the British complex to their resettlement on the continent of Australia. This repopulation was not without its critics. Many humans felt that giving Australia to the Dinosauroids was unjust but, with the population of Earth so low, there was plenty of land to go around.

  "These living fossils from Earth's past are quite amazing. Once we had worked out a common mathematical language, we quickly discovered the limitless intellect these beings possess. It wasn't long after we established a working language that the first of many Dinosauroids, or as they prefer to call themselves, Reptoids, began using our English language to communicate."

  Phil shuffled a few papers on the desk and started a slide show portraying the scientists working with the first few Dinosauroids. "We were somewhat surprised that these amazing creatures wanted to be referred to as Reptoids, using the combination of reptile and hominid. Scientists have always considered the Dinosauroids as non-reptile, but we were certainly willing to accommodate these new entities on Earth."

  Phil had flipped through a few slides, which hung three-dimensionally in the air above and behind him as he lectured, depicting the evolution from dinosaurs to Reptoids. "We had long established through the fossil record that the ancestral form of the Reptoids, known as Troodonts, had a large enough skull cavity to accommodate quite a substantial brain, suggesting a good potential for intelligence."

  As the slides clicked past, an outline of the full evolutionary scale, from primitive to intelligent, emerged. "Their hierarchical tribal structure determines their leadership," Phil continued. "This understanding made it easy for us to establish a program for the reintegration of these life forms back into their ancestral homeland of Australia."

  "With regard to their discovery in the complex under Stonehenge," Phil went on, "we can only surmise that at some point, the Enoch must have placed them there. This suggests that the Enoch have an understanding of advanced technology."

  The term 'Enoch' had been deciphered from the graphical depictions on the walls of the British complex in the form of movable pictures. This term did not go unnoticed by the minimal religious community which still existed on the fringes of modern civilization.

  All of science had become the free exchange of enlightened ideas, free from the dogma and hypocrisy of world religions of the past. But one of the questions that was asked of Dr. Curtis came from the Open University link that several distance students used.

  A young male face on the video monitor spoke. "Hi, my name is Mustafa, and I am a distance student in Uganda. My question is, Enoch is referred to in historical and religious texts from the past. Are these one and the same?"

  "Yes, this does appear to be the case," replied Dr. Curtis.

  "Then is it not correct to reason that the religious texts of the past represent the truth, and that we as a people have strayed from the righteous path laid out by our creator?" Mustafa asked.

  "You might be correct if it had not been for the fact that every religion of the past rejected the writings about Enoch," Phil responded coolly. "Only a few sentences were ever used and then were dismissed. If the religious community of the past was so sure of its facts, then why, when shown their blunder, did they reject the one answer that works?"

  He had grown used to being asked this question at every lecture. It seemed the remnants of a false doctrine had persisted in surviving because the adherents desired to degrade humankind's achievements once again.

  Mustafa said, "But can we not now agree that our ancestors were wrong to reject the Enoch and accept this new knowledge? And that by embracing our forefathers' mistakes and worshiping the Enoch, we can redeem ourselves in our creator's eyes?"

  "If you wish to return to the old ways of burying your head in the sand and begging for forgiveness, please feel free to do so. But don't try to suggest that yours is a desirable path for humanity to take. In the past, religion repeatedly proved itself to be a destructive force." Phil's tone was stern and without remorse. "These beings we know as the Enoch deliberately hid the time-lock device and the existence of the Dinosauroids from the people of Earth and this speaks volumes regarding the influence of truth."

  Several other questions were addressed by Phil before he turned the podium over to Dr. Kent.

  "Hi, you can just call me Andy. I am one of the lead scientists in charge of the British complex site once occupied by the Enoch, and I have been there since the site was first discovered. Your professor, Mark, and I go a long way back, to when we both were grad students together. My job at the site is to decipher some of the tools and instruments we discovered there, along with the imagery found on the complex walls."

  Andy showed slides of the dig site on the three-dimensional projector and stopped at one in particular. "You see here an image of the columns at our complex. At first we were all perplexed as to their meaning, then a fellow scientist had an idea. Before the war, she had found an old site map from a place known as Gobekli Tepe, in what was then Turkey." Andy overlaid the two images together, showing how the pillars found at the British site and the site in Turkey aligned perfectly.

  "We now believe that the Enoch had some influence on the humans that built the Gobekli Tepe site, and that this site was later recorded in history as a colony of Atlantis." This caught the imagination of several students but, unwilling to accept interruption, Andy pressed on in his lecture. "As near as we can now tell, these Enoch have been referred to several times in human writings, most notably as angels. It is our conclusion that humanity has been influenced or interfered with by these beings over time, therefore proving beyond any doubt that we are not alone in the universe."

  Andy clicked a few more slides. "We have no understanding, as yet, of the origin of these Enoch, but we are sure that they were responsible for placing the time-lock device within the complex walls."

  Andy flipped to a world map of Earth. "A new discovery has everyone at the complex excited. We have been told that two more sites exist, one in Egypt and the other in Africa
. We have teams of scientists scouring the two suspected locations, looking for any clues that might lead to a new discovery." He went on to explain the discoveries of importance at the British site and the relevance of the geothermal style power grid the Enoch had used to support their grand complex.

  "I will now display images of the bodies of the Enoch we have since discovered. Please show proper respect here and don't ask questions." Andy clicked a few controls and many thousands of human bodies in a state of limbo appeared on the projector, all held in teardrop-like modules suspended from the ceilings of several immense rooms. "The bodies are alive, though all biological functions have ceased. We do not fully understand this process, but the theory is that these are vessels for the minds of the Enoch. According to their writings from almost a million years back, these Enoch discovered a technology we can't even begin to fathom. With this technology, the bodies are held safe and the mind is allowed to exist forever and to wander as a type of hard light."

  The students looked awestruck but remained silent, so Andy continued. "We really have no idea how the Enoch create this hard light, but the best comparison we can offer is our own hologram projections."

  Andy's images clearly showed the human beings called Enoch doing tasks of such a complex nature as to be almost magical. The records these beings had left behind told of an amazing period in Earth's history.