Star Fields

Chapter No.182. Life

Chapter No.182. Life

Reality is often murky!

The next day we decided to start by checking our Maui settlement. The original group of humans, or at least human like people, were installed on what was once Kohala on the northern part of Maui.

We decided to go down in a shuttle instead of just popping into existence. No use frightening them or making them think we were gods. After we landed in a clearing near the beach, Alexa and I, along with Alice and Ben, got out of the shuttle and started walking to the main settlement, which we noticed had grown to a sizable town-like enclave.

We attracted a fairly large group of people, both men and women, some of which were holding infants. We noticed that there were lot of children running around. Apparently, our original settlers had become fruitful and multiplied.

A male approached us, and by the fact that he had a feathered headpiece, we assumed that he was the leader.

I held up my hand, palm out. "Greetings. We here to check on how you're doing."

"We are thriving," he replied. "You are the gods that brought our ancestors here. Do you require offerings?"

I had to think awhile before I understood what he meant. "No, we require nothing. As we told your ancestors, we have no intentions of governing or ruling you. Our purpose here is to make sure you are not attacked or suffer from a major calamity."

"You have grown in population," Alexa said. "Are your children prospering?"

"Yes. There is plenty of food and water."

"I assume that you linked up with the people we introduced to the big Island."

"We have done trade with them, but they have not taken control of us."

I exchanged glances with Alexa before I turned back to him. "Well, I hope that you remain peaceful. We will leave you now but remain in orbit to ensure that nothing happens to you."

I assumed that they thought we were some sort of gods that lived in the sky. They seemed to be peaceful, and that's all that we could expect. We decided to take our leave. Unless there was evidence of conflict, we saw no reason to go back down to them. The last thing I wanted was for them to begin worshiping us.

We went to the colony of humans that we installed in what was once the San Joaquin valley of California. Compared to the Hawaiian settlement, this colony had grown quite large. It covered a lot more territory. However, we saw something that we had not quite expected. It appeared that the humans we installed there had developed some technology, or had discovered old human tech. We saw that they had discovered automobiles, probably left over after the collision, and had figured out a way to revive them.

The evidence for this was the presence of what appeared to be a road along the coast of California. It's possible that the road survived the collision event.

Because of this, we decided to avoid going down there. If they were smart enough to have revived automobiles and the gasoline necessary to run them, they might have found weapons. We had no attention of entering into a conflict with them. Better to leave sleeping dogs lie.

Later that evening, I began to get a feeling that we had not found the complete truth about our origins. I didn't like the idea that we had never existed and were just characters in a cosmic play, as Alex put it.

I teleported to the Supercomputer orbiting Saturn and was surprised to find Alexa there using the command station. She looked back at me but continued working.

"Yeah, I had reservations about this idea that we were just created by some entertainment software."

I sat down next to her. "What have you found so far?"