Free Tomorrow's Paradise World: Colonize by Charles W. Armstrong

always be remembered as a warning for future generations, so that we do not walk down the same path again. Our people could have been entirely wiped out with no survivors. Our planet would have become an uninhabited wasteland. We need to establish a new way of life, a simple, self-sufficient one that will create lasting peace for all future generations. To this goal, the rebuilding of a peaceful new world, I will dedicate the rest of my life. The processes that will eventually bring the conditions of paradise back to this world, will from now on be an important part of my life’s work. Conditions here will one day highlight the meaning of this world’s name. A paradise it was and a paradise it will once again become.
    Captain James Talbot
    After reading this, Victor looked up at Taerg and said, “I am so sorry that my people were involved in that horrific conflict, it caused such unimaginable death and destruction.”
    “Your people are really my people Victor and this account shows that both sides caused the destruction.”
    “Yes, but we abandoned you to scrape out a meager existence in as Captain Talbot calls it an age of darkness. How could we have so callously done that?”
    “Perhaps it is true that your people did not know how stranded we really were back then. Victor you talk as if it is all your fault, but did you live back then? Did you cause the destruction?”
    “No but my ancestors did.”
    “My ancestors were participants in the destruction as well. If we look far enough back in our ancestry, we are bound to find some individuals who made serious mistakes. The captain is right, we need to learn from our mistakes as a people so we don’t repeat them. Look around at our paradise world, we have recovered quite nicely. There are many people on this world once again. We don’t know exactly how many there are, but it has been estimated that there are as many as four billion happy, contented villagers. Our planet has recovered and there is plenty of room for the expansion of our villages. The captain’s efforts and those who joined him in his life’s mission were successful.”
    Victor smiled and said, “Taerg in a sense you are like a brother to me, now more so than I realized.”
    “Victor, have you looked into a mirror lately?”
    “I have to admit, not very closely. I’ve been just splashing some water on my face and heading up here. Why do you ask?”
    “I noticed today that your eyes have a slight orange tint to them. Very slight, but it is there. Perhaps if you stay here longer they will turn orange like ours and perhaps your skin will darken too.”
    “You mean I will finally fit in?”
    “I’m not saying that,” Taerg smiled, “only that I think you are starting to look more like us.”
    Changing the subject Victor said seriously, “This one entry has given us so much information. We have a lot to talk about with the grand council.”
    “Yes we do. I have a question regarding the log entry we just read. Do you know what those numbers mean after the word date?”
    “Yes, thankfully, I do. They give us much more information concerning the obscurities of time issue that we were facing. Let me explain them to you.
    First, I will explain the meaning of six point two. As you know, one rotation of your moon takes five days. Your moon performs seventy two rotations in the time your planet completes one orbit around your sun. So the first number means, the second day of the sixth rotation.
    The dashes in between the numbers are only to separate them. However, the first two numbers are closely related. The second number is the division number. Your year has three hundred and sixty days. The seventy two rotations were sectioned off into six sections of sixty days each, for simplicity. Each sixty day section is called a division. So therefore, the second number means the fifth division.
    Each time your planet orbits your sun, it completes a cycle known as a year. So the third number is how many