PRELIMINARY STORIES

The impact of an Alien race on the humanity

For thousand of years, an alien race of scientist have been experimenting with animal dna to create new species and following up by observing their short term evolution. The aliens also studied the evolution of men. Their sightings were documented on caves walls, pottery, and temple sculptures. They can travel from dimension to dimension using teleportation methods. One day, one of the alien crafts collided in a mountain in the andes and the
power of the explosion was so powerful that caused the metal parts to melt with the rock of the mountain. The explosion brought the natives and they created a temple on site. Then the site was abandoned and only kept in oral tradition as the mountain of thunder.  The aliens found the site years later while tracking the missing spaceship and used the site as a lab to do experiments on genetically modified animals. There was a critter they were working on which had to be destroyed because genetical failure. 
By accident he escaped and went on rampage. During the alien patrolling they found a lonely man. The aliens asked the guy for help. The aliens trained him so he could help them. They trained him on how to use his inner energy to see the future, to read other people toughs and to use the energy on his hands either to cure or to harm. They asked him for help to find the
critter. But he was not a willing person, he was plenty of selfishness. He murdered the aliens and wanted more power. He became the dominant figure among the tribes in the forest, intimidating people with his powers and using the teleportation technology to travel from place to place.  He made a pact with the Ancas and negotiated a deal, he would get gold ornaments and alcoholic drinks in exchange of women and children to be given to the new deity, the critter that went on rampage from the alien labs, and men to work the mines. Soon after the astronauts landed, the alien race realized that men has entered a forbidden field and began observing more carefully as it could endanger the alien community in the cosmos. They also discovered that two of their scientist were murdered and one of the creature they were working on was on rampage. At the time they land, they see a battle between the nano android and the critter. Hidding behind trees, they realize that humans have come a long way in their evolution as they realized that the astronauts 
put their lives in jeopardy to rescue the prisoners from being sacrificed to the beast and furtherly, the indians tribe from being murdered by the ancas soldiers.
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The quest for Alpha Centauri

After Albert Einstein published his quantum theory, a polish scientist working closely with Einstein developed it further but in secret. Because he was jewish, he was targeted by the gestapo. Knowing that some 
day he and his family could go to a concentration camp, he focused on developing a machine which could teleport them to another place. One day, while working on his machine on the basement, the gestapo
broke into his place, took his family and him and sent them to a concentration camp. Many years later, a Russian family settled in Poland and purchased the house. The then 9 years old only son found the secret basement with the scientist notes but he did not find the machine. The machine was taken by Aliens as they considered a threat to the cosmos. The aliens are the same that appear on infinity. He went to University majoring in physics so he could understand the theory. Many years later, he began works on developing his theory of infinite probabilities. He moved to Montreal as some research were done on the subject at the University of Montreal by mid 90's. Some years later, he had already a prototype
ready for testing. Still curious about who was the polish inventor, he found films on ebay made during the second world war. Among them, there was one which was taken from an archive found in a former military base in Berlin. The tape showed the assault in a house looking like the one he lived in Poland and showed the scientist and his family being taken away. By the year 2010, he has already published his research. Some years later, his work attracted the Scientific community and he obtained a government grant to keep developing a teleportation machine. The discovery of a planet by a traveling space telescope brought news about the possibility of live in Alpha Centauri. Investors funded a project that could use the teleporting technology to send people to explore alpha centauri. By 2015, the teleporter has passed
beta test and is ready for use. They succesfully two no tripulated proves to the moon, to mars and to alpha centauri. An agency takes care on recruiting the people and train them.
By the year 2020, the succesful landing of a tripulated mission to mars gives the final go for a mission to alpha centauri and it is scheduled two years later. However, a religious sect believing that space travel is a prophanity, and the stars belongs to god and god alone has unsuccesfully boycotted
the mission to the moon on the year 2015 and the one on mars five years. This time, they were able to infiltrate into the space docking station and attack the engineers that were launching the spaceship "Destination". 
The Destination was the first in its kind to be able to morph between spaceship and submarine as the possibility of a living star would have a planet with water. It also contained an ai which could talk to the 
astronauts and use some of its extensions modularly as a robot. The sect attempted to stop the launching but instead, they triggered the settings and send the astronauts to another dimension using the teleportation technology. They died soon after from a fire they initiated by using candels to worship after their doings. However everything was recorded in a black box later retrieved by the authorities and launched an investigation. The astronauts, on the other side, just see the docking station disapear before their eyes, then try to establish communication without success and then
they decide to go back to earth, being caught in the middle of an aerial battle. They get a shot in the back of the craft and their flaperon is damaged and lose control and altitude, they have to negotiate an urgent landing, but strong winds led them to what they believe is america,
just to discover that is not the continent they known anymore. On the other side, on their dimension of origin, the organizer of the mission had to find them back because the integrity of the mission was jeopardized.
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The mission crew

During the golf war, a black american from New York who had west indies roots got shot during battle trying to defend a platoon that was to be ambushed. He was left paralitic, he received goverment compensations and
was left living on a pension plan. The government would afford the education of his son. One of the survivors, born in Boston had a son who after the war would just keep talking about that hero. One day, the son attends university to study physics, he was marvelled at the research done on teleportation. He dreamed that one day he could use that technology to go to the stars. On the other side, the veteran black soldier, sent his son to harvard 
to study astronomy, he liked the stars and dreamed that some day he could travel to the space. He published an article in a science magazine about the speed in space and the impact of cosmic gravity. 
That article was readed by a french canadian who attended a space camp 
in quebec. He was fascinated in studying gravitation in other stars like alpha centauri. On the other side, a Russian magazine published an article about the possibility of long trips to other stars using a newly discovered teleportation machine created by a russian scientist. He
was so inspired that he decided to start a career in astronomy. By the same period of time, circa 2010, the discovery of nano technology applications in robotics emerged in Asia as a cheaper medium to mass produce robots. A Japanese scientist was involved in the project to create a prototype humanoid using the technology, his son was starting university and he
taking robotics and ai as majors. A few years later, a prototype was released and the son studied the papers and took as project to create a new programming language to calibrate the new robots.
In china, with the coming plans to send tripulated missions to the moon, the son of one of the astronauts spent long hours in the space base with the father assimilating the technology and attending labs. He was a former national champion in martial arts. When he finished high school, he took the aeronautic program so he could become an space engineer. Also, following the plans of the Indian governement to launch a space station, the son
of the owner of a large chain of restaurants wanted to get involved in the project to get excuses to be out of town and dont date a the daughter of another magnate whose family wanted that he married her as
the wedding would bring prosperity to the father economy. Eventually, he heard that India would participate in mission organized by the international space agency and maybe that could be a great excuse to get a visa and go somewhere else as he did not like dating the girl as he suspected there would be an arranged marriage. By the year 2020, the international space agency began recruiting a team lead to stay in the space station. 
That felt very good because he could avoid a wedding by staying in the space station for long periods of time. The other five guys were recruited as maintenance technicians. The crew consisted of two chinese women, one american, two russians and a French Canadian women to lead the mission. Unfortunatelly, the launching of the craft was boycotted when the five technician and the team lead were doing preliminary maintenance work on the craft before the astronauts went inside and were sent to another dimensions as a result of triggering the teleportation settings.
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An hypotetical view of earth

It came to pass 4500 years since the first civilization rose and developed writting. By this time, dinosaurs still roam earth as there has not been any major disaster that could have exterminated them. For hundreds of thousand of years, man have coexisted with other hominides and all kind
of living species. Most vegetation have adopted plactonian and jelly fish shapes and big mushrooms have populated the planet. Many hundreds of years before the rising of the first civilizations, humanity has spread to most corners of the earth, as hunters, they followed their preys, making their way across land. They have learned from other hominides how to hide from flesh eating dinosaurs, finding shelter in caves, trees to protect themselves. They have populated only the continents that were joined by land, as traveling by sea became impossible because sea monster. A barbarian tribe stood the time and developed into a flourishing civilization which eventually split on 
two groups, one going high to the mountains and the other going to the west. However, they maintained communication. The tribe heading west built fortress to get protected against flesh eating dinosaurs. The one in the mountains did built cities suspending on top of the mountain. They were unaware of other 
civilizations residing south or east. They communicated by using birds to send messages from one place to another. By the year 2000, the western tribes have developed into kingdoms, each kingdom was formed by a group of fortresses. They developed the believe that the earth was flat after attempting navigation and seeing their sailors dissapear in
the horizon and never coming back and underneath, monsters holding the land. They did not  allow any exploration overseas. The eastern tribes who were living in`mountains were not interested on sea exploration but became great 
astronomers because in the mountains they had a better sighting of the sky. They shared their knowledge with the west and the westerns`began loving it too and dreaming of one day flying to the sky. By the year 4000, 
they began working together on an attempt  to develop flying machines. It was not than 400 years later that they were able to make something that could work and so, they were able to visit each other using a flying
artifact. They improved their means of communications mediums and developed non digital computers based on small rolling balls.
However, one day, the western kingdom was hit by a epidemy and slowed their research as many people died because lack of hygiene in their fortress. By the year 4450, the easterns were able to send the
first men to space. But, because their focus on their technology, they voided to help the westerns and that caused bitterness. Twenty years later, the westerns have recovered and became the energy suppliers of the easterns so they could be able to build a space station. But the 
westerns realized that they were exploited as the eastern offered poor compensation in exchange for fuel to feed their spacecrafts. Then the western declared that they would halt production if the eastern did
not increase their wages. The easterns refused and later found other resources of energy and launched a tripulated probe
to space, after orbiting earth and realizing that the earth was round, the westerns felt insulted and their believes turned down and planned to boycott the easterns space program. One day, one of the probes experienced technical problems and fell on one of the western fortress killing thousands of people.
That caused the outcry of the kings and they declared war. The kings united to become the western coallition and attacked the easterns floating cities with rudimentary airplains. The easterns cities became the 
eastern alliance and used their technology to attack the fortress in the west. The kings summoned adolf, as their military head. Adolf eventually betrayed them and took them as hostages and he self proclaimed as the supreme leader.
On the other side, laden has become the most influential men for the rulers of the east. One day, they meet each other secretally and agree that they could take possession of great lands and resources by putting armies to fight on the land, decimate the land and allow one of the armies to win each time so the winner could take possession of the land. That meant popularity among their own people.  Then use the land for their own pleasure. However, the people live in extreme poverty and the men are lured to join the armies.
A subersive organization are aware of their plans and try to find probes to show to the people that the war is just a plot. During those days, just opposed adolf initiatives. They disarmed the soldiers before the battles and rescued innocent people. On the other side, God has sent his only
begotten son to bring peace and during the rule of Adolf, he just ridiculised him.
As per the last one hundred years, there has been a limited focus on exploring other lands because on one side, the westerns had to focus on restoring their people after many died, on the other side,
the eastern have been focused on developing a space program. Then, the war explodes, dropping any plans for oversea exploration for another time, thus leaving the continents untouched. The far east people, by that time,
lives behind big walls to get protected against dinosaurs. The unknown continent has developed into a flouricent civilization were their only focus is on human sacrifie to please the flesh eating beasts. 
And the southern continent still lives from hunting, ignoring what is in their surroundings. That is the world where the astronauts landed. 

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The unknown continent

During men darkest days, their food supplies relied mainly on hunting animals and occasionally, eating the dinosaurs eggs. There was a point when they crossed from one continent to another and eventually settled there, as not many species of giant dinosaurs were living there, they found a more suitable place to live, building cities and temples and worshipping the sun and the stars and fast evolving into a sophisticated civilization. They became astrologers, agronomists, and along the time, expanded into an empire that covered the southern part of the continent. By the year 4000 (western time), they became engaged into a civil war between two fronts. They
finally negotiated peace as they realized that too many men were dying and agreed to grant leadership to a single leader who in turn would lead for a few years and would pass the leadership to the second. This initiative gave rise to a new dinasty whose offsprings would inherit the power. 
However, there was a time were the dinasty engendered twins and made it difficult to decide who would become the ruler. They were tested but one of them demonstrated to be ineligible due to his drunkenness. As he was humiliated, he withdrew somewhere else. One day, while in the mountains
he saw a temple built from a spacecraft. He heard legends about it. He get abducted by two aliens who asked for his help to find a critter that escaped from their lab and only a human could ask other people if
they have seen the critter. As a reward they showed him th secrets of the universe and how they can teleport from one dimension to  another. He learned how to use his inner powers for telephatie, to see the future, use the energy on his hands to heal or destroy. But he was not a good man. 
He wanted power, he wanted to learn how to teleport from one place to another. The visitors tough him how but then, they realized their big mistake, as the man was driven by selfish ambitions. He killed them 
and took possession of the teleportation unit and withdrew to the forest. His drinking habits made him negotiate a deal with the Ancas, the descedents of the Incas, so they could supply him with drink and gold. In exchange, he promised he would supply them with women and children to sacrifice to
their new god, a monster which was about to be destroyed by the murdered aliens because he was the result of a failed genetical manipulation, and give away men to work the mines. He assumed the leadership of some of the tribes in the forest, known to be very healthy people as their supply of manpower and sacrifice. The population is scared seen the powers the sorcerer learned from the aliens. By then, there was a couple engaged in a relation in one of the tribes. The sorcerer picked the girl to become the next sacrifice. The tribe was also aware of an ancient legend that was passed orally that some
people coming from the sky would fall on earth one day and bring freedom. That is the time when the astronauts fall on that land as a result of being attacked when they arrived into this dimension.

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THE STORY

By the year 2020, a space telescope ventures towards the end of the galaxy and maps the area covered by Alpha Centauri. The signals are received by the international space agency and processed. The scientist discover elements similar to water and oxygen on one of the planets as they assume that there could be live. The news have moved across the entire scientific community. They have celebrated the arrival of the first men in mars a short while ago and their reputation has been strenghtened by the consitent missions to the moon as there are plans to build a station. The news are broadcast on TV at the same time as members of a sect have been arrested in attempting to stop the trips. At the same time, news of plans to incorporate a recently technology of teleportation are announcing as the international space station have already tested the technology by sending probes to the moon and mars. Shortly after the news are release, the space agency focus on organizing the project. They set a Canadian company to build the spacecraft Destination, which should be unique  in its design as it would morph between spaceship and submarine when reaching the planet. They launch a decentralized recruiting initiative to bring people into the project. They also work with both Indian and Chinese governments to make them join into the project. The plans is to recruit people for both the crew going to Alpha Centauri as well as the one to run the space station. The recruiting process give everyone the chance to be elected for the crew among all the technicians and engineers hired through a ballot. Even tough every one wants to go, only six will be selected. The ballot select two chinese women, two russian men, one french canadian woman, one american man. The rest get disapointed. During the preliminary stages, the Destination is tested on site by five technicians and a team lead while the crew is waiting on the space station. They are unaware that a new spacecraft has arrived and unauthorized people have enter the space station. These people are part of the sect that has attempted many times to stop the launching of spacecraft as they think that space is for god and god alone and men is committing a prophanity by sending missions to the space. The have tracked the engineers who arrange the launching, the render the engineers unconciensous and try to stop the Destination from moving any further, unaware that the crew are just maintenance technicians tunning the system. They trigger the instruments and without wanting, they calibrate a new speed for the Destination and then open the teleportation field. Seen that the Destination has disapear, they light their candles and begin praying thinking that they failed in their mission. One of them trips on the candle and initialize a fire where they die. Upon arrival of fire rescuers, they find them death and they grab a black box which has recorded the event and bring it to earth as authorities can look at what happened. On the other side, the maintenance crew is confused after having seen th space station disapear, they try to communicate but they heard only static. They decide to go down to earth. After exiting the clouds, they see a number of spacecraft fighting against each other, they try to avoid the shooting and turn to one direction, but they are followed and shot in the rear. Unable to keep control, they are comtempts to follow the direction of the wind, but they see that and spacecraft is following them, then lose sight as they aproach the sea. They morph into a submarine and enter the sea and end up in a river in the amazonian forest. They get out and send the russian to explore the land with a high tech motorcycle. He find a village and then returns. They go to the village with their android ADAM, built on nano technology, is considered fit for the hardest tasks. The enter into a village and the Indian emerge from their houses and bend towards ADAM and begin worshipping. Not understanding of what is going on, the japanese try to initiate a communication as he has studied some native language from the amazons. With difficulty, he made himself understand and question the natives. The natives tell him that they have been waiting for this moment as they are experiencing hardship. Their wives and kids are being taken away by a sorcerer to be used for sacrifices, their men are being used to work on the mines. The make a deal with the natives asking the directions to the mine, as they need to process certain metals to replace the rear of the Destination. One of the natives volunteer, as his girlfriend has been recently taken and will be sacrificed. Way behind, there are some eyes looking with envy as he does not like the new visitors. He is the sorcerer who also confuse the astronauts for the legendary people. The aliens who he killed many years ago. He decide to kill them again. He has the power to teleport and then he travels to the andean mountains to talk about an attack that will decimate the opressed village. The ancas begin their journey. On the other side, the astronauts and their new guide go to the mines after expending the night in the village and hooking up with the guide listening his flute music. using their high tech vehicle. They find the metal but now they have to figure out how to process it. The guide tell them that the ancas have all the technology to process it but the have to travel to the andean mountains which is many moons away. They think that they will have to figure how to travel so far. As they get out, they are attacked by a flesh eating dinosaur. Horrified, they are like paralized and as the saur approach the american to eat him, the guide distract him, but in the process, he is devoured by the beast. And then the beast is blew out with a bazooka. They decide to take the transport unit and go to the andean mountains. They are attacked by two giants who toss the transport unit to a precipice. The astronauts kill them with their laser guns. Not knowing what to do, they walk and make plans. Then they see a shadow hidding in the trees. They send ADAM to get him. The campture the pilot of the spacecraft that followed them and shot them. He speaks a germanic version of english. They question him and they realize that he is part of a troop that is to fight to win a war for the supremacy of the land. That leave the astronauts very confused as they have never seen someone dressing that way and speaking that dialect, they dont know where are the western kingdoms and they take him as insane. But he insist that all that is true and the astronauts wonder if they are in another dimension. The pilot tells them that he does not want to fight anymore and his war years are over. He is told what the astronauts are dealing with and the pilot tells them that he doesnt know nothing about this land because flying technology is new in his culture and before that, navigation over the sea has been abolished as the people don know what is on their surrending. He decide to join them in their mission if they agree to fix the spacecraft and go where there is not more war. They communicate with the Destination enbedded AI which assist them with their mobility problem. The AI tell them on how they can build a balloon to fly to the andean mountains. Then, they build a baloon and fly to the mountains. From far, they see a strange structure. That was the ufo that crashed many thousands of years and the indians built a temple around it, then it was abandoned and became a legend. Then the aliens built a lab on that site latter to get killed by the sorcerer. They decend but get attacked by a giant condor. They managed to get there safely. Inside, they explore and discover an alien lab with a cage that aparently did host some living critter and look like it escaped. They also find the bodies of the aliens murdered and see some holograms recorded at the time they were murdered. They see that is the sorcerer who did that. They also find instruments to refine the metal and shape it to be in working condition. Then they talk if they should live now and forget about the rest. But then decide to rescue the slaves and the women about to being sacrificed. After a decent trip to the city. They find the first women to be sacrificed is the girlfriend of the late guide by looking at her collar, the same as the guide. They shot the sacerdote and get in trouble as the ancas attacked them in anger. ADAM clugger them but the machine that send orders to ADAM fell by accident and ADAM is without control. A huge critter emerge from the darkness in anger. That is the animal that escaped from the alien lab. He attacked the astronauts and is about to kill them. But ADAM comes from behind. He has swith to auto defence, a new program that the chinese has made. He has also increased his size using another program auto adaptation. He fight the critter and put it into an underground hole as the critter will never be able to get out. One of the astronauts discover the sorcerer body in trance, as he has teleported himself to the jungle, leading the anca soldiers to decimate the villagers. They have to figure out ways to get back as they learn from one of the ancas that soldiers have been sent to kill the villagers. One of the prisoners tell them of an underground river they can use to get there faster. The go underground and are attacked by strange little people. Then, there is an underground earthquake that speed up their journey. They are back and one of the astronauts goes back to the destination with the new component without being noticed. The other go to the village to rescue the people. But the ancas are too many and ADAM is not capable to cope with all of them. Then, they see the astronauts and run after them. They are caught in a cul-de-sac. Suddenly, the Destination emerge shooting the ancas who run away. The villagers have been saved. But the action of the astronauts were followed by the alien scientist who realize the qualities of the astronauts trying to risk their lives to save the villagers. Then, the astronauts pilot the destination again and go towards a place where there is not war and they will live in peace.