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

slid open immediately. They peered outside and saw that they were on the other side of the cliffs overlooking the sea. It was a vertical drop to the waves below, a smooth rock face all the way down. Through these doors is where the ship would enter and then land in this enormous docking bay. They closed the doors and realized that this was not the source of the breeze in this chamber. In between two panels on the wall was a small passageway leading up to somewhere. They followed the steps up to a level place, with a stone railing overlooking the sea. There was a stone table with a bench next to it.
    “Your people in general,” said Victor, “never knew about this place because it is inaccessible from the outside. The smooth cliff face made it too dangerous for them to even attempt to climb up here.”
    Taerg nodded his head in agreement. They went back into the chamber and examined it more closely. There were tools and spare parts lying everywhere on benches with wheels. Victor went aboard the ship. Its hatchway was already open, so he walked to the bridge and looked above the doorway inside and saw the nameplate for the ship. She was called Advisor 17 . He leaned forward and tried to turn on the power, but the instrument panels would not even light up. There was no power for some reason. So, he went into the small engineering room and discovered that cables for power were disconnected from a part that was missing. He went outside and looked more closely at what was on the tables and carts. There were various tools and spare parts. In a few moments he found what he was looking for, a circuit panel box that had been removed from the ship. He looked closely at the circuit boards within. There were twenty-five circuit boards in it. Of the twenty-five, only three looked fine. The rest were all melted and destroyed by an onboard fire that had been quickly put out, but the damage had been done. The fire must have happened while the ship was still in the docking bay. She would have crashed or been sent adrift in space if the fire broke out during flight. Perhaps Captain Talbot had attempted to fix a smaller problem but he only made matters worse. In any case, the damage was done and it was quite significant. He looked around for spare circuit boards. They had all the components there to make up a typical circuit board, but none were built. Captain Talbot was obviously not an engineer or even a technician.
    “So,” said Taerg, “do you think you can repair this ship?”
    “If this is all that is wrong with it, yes I can, with a little patience and time. I may need to send you out for some supplies that I will need. Although, you know we will need the permission of the grand council to tackle this time consuming task.”
    “Yes, that is true. I think we have enough to report our findings to the grand council. They likely will allow you to proceed. They will probably agree, when we tell them about Captain Talbot’s idea that we will need this technology. It will be essential, in order to travel to the moon when our planet is fully populated.”
    “I hope so, but I am going to propose another use before then. I think that both you and I should travel to the mothership, to communicate with my people the true situation here. We absolutely need to do this, in order to avoid the colonization of your moon, by my people.”
    “You want me, to fly in that thing with you?”
    “Don’t worry Taerg, I’m a good pilot. I just haven’t flown this model yet. It is very old.”
    Taerg smiled and said, “If you say so Victor. I trust you.”
     
     

Chapter Six: Ambassador Taerg
    Two days later they were once again before the grand council. It turned out that they did know about the chamber of the past. Each of them had been inside and viewed the ship. They knew about their past since they had all read some of the historical records. There were only two things that they did not know. One, was that Victors’ people were the ancestors