CHAPTER VII Pre Launch - 4
SCENE 07-4 – Training contact
Scene 07-4 – The Red Book
Location: Symbionic command chamber of the starship
Time: 01.08.24 – 09:15:00 UTC–5
Setting: Niajin activates symbionic mode
SAI: request for primary access confirmation.
NIAJIN: authorization granted. Initiating symbionic connection.
SAI: bidirectional neural link active.
SAI: secondary access — Eugene HSP328. View-only mode. The entity will be authorized to speak with you in this mode. Awaiting authorization from the biological entity.
All at once I found myself facing her, or something that resembled her. Her skin was faintly luminous, her black eyes gleamed, and she turned to me with her angelic smile.
"Good morning Eugene, this conversation takes place through our minds and the starship’s SAI. You can speak to me, while I am in symbionic connection with the starship’s SAI."
"I don’t understand where I am."
"This is not a place, it is a mental state; what you see around you is a holographic construction of the SAI: it may or may not be similar, different, or identical to what physically surrounds you.
This system bypasses ordinary physical means — screens or buttons — and relies solely on a neural network linking the three units: the starship, myself, and you.
This imposes considerable strain on your mind and exposes you to an information flow at the limits of your capacity. Thanks to your genetic basis and your intense training, physical and psychological, you are able to perform these functions; nevertheless, your mind is at its limit.
We will soon begin the training phase for the tasks ahead. Every member of the crew is entering communication with the SAI through holographic projections of my symbionic organism.
The neural stimulus load can overwhelm the brain; if you experience nausea or neurological symptoms, tell me. The boundary between life and death in symbionic activity is extremely thin. Your mind could remain trapped here and the result would be brain death, as you know.
Your first difficulty is to understand the interaction between the commander of the ship — myself — and the Communications Officer — you. You must accept that our minds are communicating and that what you see is not material reality but a projection."
I felt overwhelmed; everything around me flooded inward, as if I were receiving a wave of optical-fiber signals rather than seeing.
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Still, I could recognise the starship’s command room — but only for a moment.
"Display mode: navigation."
I found myself aboard a two-seat exploration craft. She was beside me, closer than she had ever been since the day I had held her in my arms.
I learned quickly: it was enough to look at her and her instructions remained written in my mind like data on an SAI’s physical memory. I was the physical support.
The craft moved toward the starship’s wings. Niajin gave instructions.
"Photon engine check. Wing auto-expansion, progress status."
I heard the SAI in my mind and its voice matched hers, like an echo replying to itself. Her face looked at me from the screen with refined gentleness; her smile flooded my thoughts.
Photonic wing auto-expansion initiated.
Direct solar absorption: A = 88.564 m2.
Expansion rate: 0.01 m2/s.
Required takeoff surface: 1000 m2.
Estimated completion of initial expansion: 2.1 days.
solar_field_area: 100 ha
photonic_absorption_rate: 1.35 GW
daily_energy_yield: 41.2 GWh
efficiency_mode: active
Photonic wing auto-expansion initiated.
Direct solar absorption: A = 88.564 m2.
Expansion rate: 0.01 m2/s.
Required takeoff surface: 1000 m2.
Estimated completion of initial expansion: 2.1 days.
solar_field_area: 100 ha
photonic_absorption_rate: 1.35 GW
daily_energy_yield: 41.2 GWh
efficiency_mode: active
Fusion engines: Deuterium–tritium fusion engines for initial gravitational expansion not operational.
Tank filling in progress.
baseline_D?O_enrichment: 78 %
water_cycle_status: reactivated
prep_phase_duration: 6 months
D?O_fill_mode: accelerated
D?O_tanks: 100 %
atmospheric_intake: active
intake_function: retain_D?O / release_excess_H?O_as_breeze
total_water_capacity: shields + ECLSS + ark_modules = max
mineral_consumption: Fe–Si–Mg–Al–Ca complexes
restitution_required: enabled
restitution_calculated:
H?O_mass: 1.86×10? kg
minerals: Al-trace silicates + Fe/Mg micronutrients
restitution_phase: Earth–Venus–Earth (natural satellites: Atira, Ayló’chaxnim, 2019 AQ3, Bennu)
release_mode: high-altitude_vapor + photonic_heating + orbital_mineral_release
ecological_effect: sustained_rainfall_under_wings: detected
amazon_forest_recovery: ongoing
surface_runoff: ancient riverbed reforming
groundwater_flux: rising
local_event: new_stream: active
karst_channel: reconnected
botanical_nodes: pitaya_tree + huarango_tree (growth elevated)
mass_balance_policy: within_parameters
launch_protocol_T_minus_28h: compatible
days_to_launch_min: 4
days_to_launch_expected: 5–6
Days remaining before final countdown: 2.1
On the craft’s display the data streamed continuously. My thoughts interacted with the SAI; it magnified the details I wanted to see. The feathers expanded in dendritic patterns; droplets formed and fell. It rained on the gelified forest, the gel dissolved. Plants, after fourteen millennia, absorbed water and minerals again and resumed photosynthesis. Niajin told me through the SAI that the first purpose of our activity would be to restore the water cycle over the Amazon desert.
The process had already begun: water, like blood in Earth’s veins, flowed again through the gallery and the canyon where she had walked and left her footprints. A small stream strengthened the spring, and in the desert the breeze made Cistanthe bloom in magenta under the starship’s wings. Near the spring, where she had stepped, a pitaya plant born six months earlier grew rapidly, and the huarango beside was already a little tree, fed by the rising groundwater.
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