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They were now well beyond Earth. Headed deeper into space. Interned in their hibernation capsules. The systems monitors locked on and activated their active physical stimuli, their chem treatments to maintain their muscular and other skin tone, body mass and regular induced wave patterns to stimulate cortical responses from the brain.
Eye movements, thought processes stimulated by Alt Realt dreamworld conditions where they interacted within their fantasies of conquest, domination, subjugation.
The co-ordinates were preset for Humanaa colonies 1 as a starting point. They could not have predicted the asteroids, that now pounded the vessel, knocking out the navigational system forward satellites. It locked on to its emergency systems and continued maintaining their life support systems as it ploughed on and on and on.
It was at least fifty Earth years later when the systems reactivated having hit a solar system where the intense flare from the sun of that system recharged the cells on the main systems to the point that they instantly operated the wake up procedures for all the crew!
None of them had aged, the passive inductors had kept up muscle tone, the feeding and migration of waste allowing normal body functions yet chemically flushed with a preserving drug that Lumor had created? It worked perfectly.
Lakir was the first to make his appearance, he was the one who discovered the alarming errors on the navigational systems. On checking the systems data banks he realized to his horror the unfolding truth.
They were light years into the solar systems beyond Jupiter. Way past the 1st of the Humanaa worlds. Activating the satellites he waited patiently to received data back from them. Some twenty four hours of our time, later? He did concede there were promising planets that could meet their requirements!
Planets just like Solus (Earth) One of the planets had to be habitable! Not too hot, not too cold, with a breathable atmosphere?
Capable of sustaining life. if it didn’t already have life. of its own. The others had recovered from their hibernation. Relaxing and working on repairs to the craft.
About a week later, they found, what they were looking for. The planet was almost identical to Earth. It had oxygen and all the right gases, plus it had pinky blue skies, temperate. What looked like plant life in abundance.
Other resources detected of value. OK, so it was one large land mass with the bulk of the planet being water. Not however SALT water but clean fresh water? Water now tested and found to be, containing microbiotic lifeforms. Checked and purified by their systems, rendered it perfect for drinking!
The micro organisms on further examination, were harmless. "We will be landing here." Lumor pointed to the flat area beneath them as the craft slowed, to drop with feet extendind, down. Minutes later the engines came to a halt.
Lumor had not been in the control area when it had landed. He had been busy checking the Regen tubes. To his horror the revelation that the generates genetic banks had been left without power by the main systems. The banks were full of sludge! The tubes with the Regen's in stasis had been compromised. Rotting flesh, within the stasis gel. Useless.
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