Free Guardian Stone 1: Stone Genesis by Don Koch Page A

problem with any of this, please let me know now or privately but soon. These enhancements are not something we advertise or flaunt, but when they are needed, they are there. You will find that you have vision acuity up to about 25x. If you are a birdwatcher, you won't need field glasses to do that anymore. Meanwhile, Sam and I have some honeymoon time of to catch up with. Just let Barana know where you want to go next. As part of the command team, you have use of her instant transport system at all times. We can start the enhancement process immediately for those of you who are ready to give it a go."  With that Hank and Sam disappeared. Everyone else told Barana that they were ready to start immediately including the Reevers.
    George and Miriam were already discussing what they needed to do to move to the station. Their quarters were more attractive and spacious than those at home and the view of the mountains was awesome. They felt that the move could be smoothly done in about three months including helping his employees to transition to whatever they wanted. He expected that many would want to come to the station.

Chapter 6: Antoran Starship/Stations Part 1
     
    General
    There are three types of Antoran Starship/Stations, Types 1A, 1B and 2. Technically, these vessels are starships, however they are so large and their functions so all encompassing that the term Starship/Stations seems to be a better descriptive fit. They are referred to as Stations for brevity.
    The motivation for the construction of the Type 1A and 1B classes of vessel was the impending Glarin invasion of Antor discovered in the year 1498 AD (Earth calendar) about 15 years before the arrival of the invasion fleet. The Antoran people determined that their best course of action for survival was to evacuate the planet.
    The challenge before them was how to evacuate 1.5 billion persons to a location sufficiently distant to allow for their survival and to do so in the time frame with which they had to work. They also had to transfer as much of their technology base as was possible. This led to the conceptualization, construction and use of the Type 1 stations. They succeeded in moving their entire civilization to Antor II in the Tau Ceti System, a distance of 3,162 light years from Antor. Tau Ceti is about 11.9 light years from Earth. In the process they removed everything of potential use to the invaders, particularly their technology and stores of the super metal Herculenium (closest English translation).
    Two operational Stations were built and outfitted. The first of these was 260 miles in length and was the prototype Station One. The second was shorter at 200 miles in length. The decks that in the future would be the warship flight decks and the military training decks were utilized to house food supplies sufficient to feed their population for two years. A sufficient number of dwelling units in the inner habitation zones were converted to stasis storage units similar to those now found on all stations to transport 90% of the population in stasis. This helped to reduce the food and oxygen requirements for those managing the evacuation. A third hull was built, also at the shorter 200-mile length but the farm and habitat sectors were not installed. Instead, those spaces were fitted with numerous temporary decks to warehouse as much equipment and material as was possible to load into the vessel. A large commercial freighter was connected to the inner hull in the core. This was then linked to the power systems of the vessel and used to maneuver and operate the vessel. The journey was expected to take six months, so this temporary arrangement was workable. The last of the 1.5 billion Antoran population was removed about two months before the arrival of the Glarin.
    Currently, 20 Type 1 Stations (one Type 1A and 19 Type 1B) are fully operational and provisioned but not fully occupied. The construction of these stations was completed in 1548 at Tau Ceti and