Star Fields

Chapter No.151. Journey to knowledge.

Chapter No.151. Journey to knowledge.

Knowledge is more valuable than riches.

I was about to hear what George had to say about the aliens who came up with a new technology that could increase our advantages over Tyco.

"The alien species is unlike anything we've ever seen," George said. "We found out about them by accident when they came to Earth a decade before Lucia and I began our work to create an artificial human. They landed their space craft in the Riserva naturale dello zingaro nearby our villa on Sicily. We once worked as horticultural scientists for the government and that location has plenty of very unusual plant life."

"How did you go from plant science to android tech?"

"It was because of our contact with the aliens. We were abducted by them. They took us to their planet."

"I don't understand. Why were they interested in you?"

"Because they are plants."

Everyone reacted to that by whispering or sitting up straight.

"Are you saying that they were plant beings?"

"Yes, they depend upon photosynthesis to supply biological energy, but they don't employ DNA to reproduce."

I smiled. "Ah, hence this is where the abiogenic concept came from."

"Yes."

"Why would they give you that technology?"

"They didn't. They abducted us to obtain information about Earth's plant life. They extracted it from our memories."

"And, that's where this new advanced storage concept came from?"

"Not directly. We were able to understand their science because they communicate by mind meld."

"Like the. Vulcans?"

George tilted his head and gave me a confused look.

"You know, the logical species from Star Trek. They were able to mind meld with people using some sort of spiritual contact."

"They used a device to do it to us, but we were able to understand their science and technology through it. I'm not sure they intended that, but that's what happened. I suppose they really didn't understand how our brains worked."

"So, let me get this straight. The reason we exist is because you two were abducted by plant aliens who extracted your knowledge about plants and allowed you to tap into knowledge about their science, which included abiogenics and quantum data storage."

He nodded.

I turned to the others. "That's without a doubt the wildest thing I've ever heard. But I'll take it. We need all the technology we can get."

"I'll need to go through the math," Molly said. "But first I'll need to understand how it violates quantum mechanics theory."

"We can give you that, signora," Lucia said.

I turned to Alexa. "Maybe we might be on the right course now."

"Are we going to go visit the plant aliens?" she asked.

"No. The last thing I would want to do is lead Tyco to them." I turned to Lucia and George. "Are you aware of any other Space Command scientists that might be able to help us defeat Tyco?"

Lucia and George looked at each other before Lucia turned to me. "Yes, there is a theoretical cosmologist by the name of Naguib Husini and a chemist by the name of Phyllis Goble. They worked with us for a time before that bastard Tyco murdered them.