The Alexandro Chronicles: The Conflict against Neo-Earth

4. Building the First Ginian City, The Leader's Terrible Mistake

Blake was pointing at the same area where he started building his home. He wanted the first Ginian City to have the best, unobstructed view of the ocean and the morning sun. Jill, Janie, Lee, Nelson, Ana, Angie, Sarah and Elizabeth escorted the remaining population to the shuttles; the fighter pilots went into their fighters and went up the mountain. The next day, Blake and the others woke up to the sound of construction going on, he got out of his ship and noticed that several dozen construction bots were building a castle where he was building his house.

"What's going on here?" Blake asked.

The foreman who was supervising the construction bots turned around and saw Blake standing behind him. "Hello Blake. The people were talking this morning and since you and your family were the ones that led us to the magnificent new world, we'd figured that you should be our new nation's first leader,"

"That's very kind of you; but this castle,"

"Don't you like it?" Foreman Jones asked.

"No, I love it; but isn't it a bit much?" Blake asked.

"It's for you and for your family to live in. Don't worry Blake; we won't make it too extravagant,"

"Thank you," Blake said.

"But as you can see sir, our best construction bots are using whatever materials we have to build our first city. Do you have a name for the city?"

"I do," Blake replied. "I thought of the name the other day, from this day forward, Ginia's first city will be called Alexandria,"

The foreman approved of the name, he also informed the populous and they too approved of the name. The construction bots worked tirelessly at an incredibly high pace, making sure that the palace would be safe to live in. After a month of construction, the castle was complete. The bots then began working on the entire town itself. A ceremony was done as Blake placed the first stone into the city's outer wall. Meanwhile, in space, the eight thousand shuttles were still on their journey, they had located a planet very similar to Earth, they've dubbed it Neo-Earth; but as they we coming out of the quantum jump, they were in the old Frigidarian System. As the shuttles were passing by the star, President Wayne's shuttle detected an object orbiting the star.

"Sir, should we investigate it?"

"Polarize the screen and have the shields to maximum, let's see what this object is," Wayne said.

The shuttle pilot put the shields to maximum and polarized the screen. He flew close to the star and got close to the object. To everyone's surprise in the cockpit, it was a large chunk of ice. The pilot scanned the ice block and found a faint life sign within it. Wayne ordered the pilot to teleport the ice chunk to the cargo bay. Once the ice chunk was onboard and the shuttle well underway, the scientist began examining ice chunk. To their surprise, the chunk of ice wasn't melting, not a bead of water was dripping down it. The scientists scanned the ice chunk and saw that there was indeed a faint life sign within it. They were about to take out their laser cutters when President Wayne appeared in the cargo bay.

"Report,"

"Well sir, as you can see, this chunk is very thick; but what's really peculiar is that it's not sweating. It is ice; but it just won't sweat, not a bead of water is on it,"

"What about the life form, any key features about it?" Wayne asked.

"The ice is too thick to make out any facial or key features and our more intrusive scans are being bounced back," Oswald replied.

"We were about to use our most powerful laser cutters to break through the ice,"

"Belay that; wait till we get to our new planet. Lock down the cargo bay, make sure no one enters this area," Wayne instructed.