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The CX, and the Atlantis 1

Universe x1

By Jordan WrobelPublished 4 years ago 11 min read
The car of many and few and far betweens' dreams.

Universal Love, the CX, and the Atlantis 1

Jordan Wrobel.

11/17/2021.

The creation of our Universe is as unknown to me as everybody else… But I will say that it’s good we are not alone. Time is at the very least, mysterious. What we see now is no more nor less strange and mysterious than what we saw in the past. Is it not any less powerful or beautiful. It is twisted and untwisted with the light and the dark. It is strangely beautiful with its power. The ability to live happily is the idea that concerns the narrator in this story.

The year is 2026. We have received correspondence from life in the next galaxy over. There is a lot of life in the Universe. We think in almost every galaxy. The life we have initially connected with wants us to call them the CX, for Civilization X. They are in the closest galaxy to us. They have told us much about their knowledge of life in other galaxies. As they are more advanced than us, and have known of us for a long time, they know our languages very well.

The International Space Exploration Committee is working to build a vehicle called the Atlantis 1. It is called this for the letters ATS1, which represent All Terrain Shuttle 1. This vehicle is supposed to go at very high speeds safely through water, sky, land, and space. The stuff of the science fiction movies of the 2000’s realized. That’s an ATS1. The idea is, to meet with the CX, explore the Universe, learn more about why we are here, and what makes us feel good, happy and content.

Atlantis1 is a Pandora’s box. It is being treated as such. It has algae in clear water canisters visible to the crew that help with the Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen levels inside the ATS1. There are also very pleasant plants growing inside the ship, like small California Redwood trees, ivy, small flower plants of different colors, and much more. Think of a Garden of Eden. Plants breath Carbon Dioxide and exhale Oxygen. Humans exhale Carbon Dioxide, but breath Oxygen. Most air on Earth is made up of Nitrogen, which we don’t need, but doesn’t harm us. The ratio on Earth is 1 to 4. Oxygen 1, Nitrogen 4.

The ATS1 looks like the coolest sports car you’ve ever seen. It’s the size of an airplane that carries about 190 people. It’s in a similar shape to that of NASA’s space shuttles of the 2000’s. It basically looks like a Mercedes Benz racecar used for drifting that is painted Yellow and Green, with Silver, White, and Black lines, of course. It measures 600 feet long by 100 feet wide. The theme for the shape was triangles or pyramids. It’s got three for, again triangles, engines.

The engines don’t pollute at all. The gas they burn in this story releases its exhaust as water vapor, which is what our clouds are made of, naturally. Just a lot of electricity being generated and reused. As you can imagine, the engineers from all over the Earth behind the ATS1 are very smart people.

There are 7 woman and 7 men on the ATS1 when it takes off on June 4th, 2026. It takes about a month to get up to full speed, which is 150,000 miles per minute. Which-- is not slow. In outer space, there is no air, hence, no friction. That being said, it still takes time to get up to full speed, since we’re travelling light years. A light year is the distance it takes a beam of light to travel in one Earth year. So at the present moment, a star is giving off light- hence, light beams are coming out of the star and travelling towards Earth at light speed. Light speed is the fastest known speed in the Universe. It is 186,282.397 miles per second. It is believed by some scientists that it is not possible for anything to go faster than light speed, but who knows? No scientists have ever come close to going that fast in reality.

Their route is aimed at not going straight through a meteor field, essentially. If it does come through debris, it defends itself from debris with many different protective defenses. The main one is a protective negative magnetic shield. So you know when magnets push each other away, they are very strong. Meteors have a lot of Iron in them so, the magnetic field immediately pushes the meteors away, if they get too close.

That as well as hot light cannons, which basically vaporize any and all debris directly in line of the ship 1,000’s of miles off. They do this using heat. The distance which is vaporizes is adjustable. It is also going about as straight as it can. The ship as well as the light cannons. Time slows down for the passengers when it they are moving that fast, but not for people on Earth or other places who are standing relatively still. In other words, when the crew comes back, they will not be as old as their peers.

So it goes. The CX are able to learn our languages and communicate. Its similar to talking to somebody from a different country, for example. The difference is, the CX have gone much further into communication that on than we have. For example, take Earth 3,000 years ago and compare it to today’s world.

Our intent is to share love, peace, respect, and our curiosity with our neighbors. The alien species want and expect similar values. They are very similar to us, in that they live on a rock planet in space and have the same laws of physics as we do. There are males, females, and everything in between, just as there are here on Earth. They have Ocean’s and land. You think our world is strange, try a world in a different galaxy.

The arrival of ATS1 is very respectful and appropriate to what the CX expected and asked for. As you can imagine, many were in tears. In fact almost everybody was in tears. As were the people and animals on Earth. The CX felt love. The humans, felt love. Their very well taught animal friends they brought along, including dogs, foxes, squirrels, monkeys, and parrots, felt love. Above all, everybody felt happiness.

The CX were in some ways much more advanced than the humans, but in some ways less. They knew of a lot similar to what is taught in the martial art, Aikido. Controlling the power we have within us and using it wisely. Where it comes from, and how to use it. It is said to be similar to people protecting each other in subtle ways.

The CX also already knew of many other civilizations in the Universe. Which are very sacred. As you can guess, these civilizations have so much beautiful knowledge that is unknown to us because it is different. Things like clock towers that play just what the being wants to hear, but only that being can hear it. Other beings only hear what they want to hear, and so on. Their languages focus on beauty, and compassion, among other values.

They say that there are a lot of ways to use science that we think of as magic with our bodies, but really, its just science being cool. The CX do things like, push a car up a hill without touching it, as long as its in neutral. They can do that using their control of what in Star Wars was called, The Force. They can actually use it on much larger or smaller things like, for example, cause a mountain to split in two. Out of respect for the world, they reserve big events for special ocassions. It is more like our fireworks on 4th of July.

They can use their finger to charge their phone with the electric current running through their body. One of their favorite skills is understood by very advanced ones similar to healing the injured with their hands. It’s making themselves beautiful or others beautiful with their hands. We don’t know what the words for this are right now, just that it can be done. Maybe electricity, maybe something else, the science to humans is not clear on that yet. Meaning I am in Calculus 1, I don’t get Calculus 5 yet, but if I keep working on it, someday I’ll get there. Or I am a middle rank belt in Aikido, but the Sensei is a black belt, which is a top rank.

This being a special ocassion, the CX, which are not all one species, but can communicate with each other and the humans, had made plans to celebrate, respectfully. The welcoming ceremony was similar to prime ministers from other countries meeting. They sent 4 flaming arrows out into space in different directions with art from children attached. The art exploded into pretty colors in the sky. They were very, very pretty colors, and very, very big explosions. The explosions happened on the edge of the atmosphere. They did not make much sound, because there is hardly any air up there. Sound needs air, otherwise there are no vibrations to make, hence no sound.

The colors were bright, and all colors of the rainbow. Some represented animals, like Pokemon, or Giraffe, or CX species, we do not know yet. Yes, the stuff of legends. The music sounded of flutes, bongo drums, guitars, trap beats, beautiful singers, and melodic lyrics to wonderful music. The CX were beyond beautiful to the human eye. As were the humans to the CX’s eyes.

Some CX had red eyes, with Grey pupils. Other’s had as many as 11 eyes on different parts of their bodies. Some had long tails, with ears at the end. With blue, pink and yellow fur. Fur that could conduct electricity and be used to freeze water.

The music ceremony ended after 5 minutes. The humans were to stay and recover from their long journey for a month, then head back to Earth with what was agreed was appropriate.

When asked about conflict, the CX folk had a warm reaction, albeit appropriately with the right amount of respect. They said, that conflict teaches one important lessons. Those lessons eventually show enough wisdom to know how to feel about conflict. They said it is natural as is going to the bathroom, but how one deals with it is entirely equivalent to ones experience.

The CX saw that the humans were of less expertise on such a matter. The CX said, that is fine. Use what works for you, and let the rest go. The people said that they had heard this before. The CX said, they have a long way to go. They said that experience makes clear what is intended if one knows where to look. That is beautiful they said. That may seem strange, but one must be able to accept that they can be good, or are good. That its hopeful that they are good, and please be good, that’s good.

The CX made their living on a planet similar to Earth, in that it is a rock planet, not a gaseous planet. In other words, there is solid land, gas planets, like Jupiter or Saturn, as far as we know right now, do not have any land so to speak of. The CX desired for humans to call their planet Light. The felt that for reasons we do not know yet, light would guide us in the right direction, or guide us home.

Light is a lot bigger than Earth. About 10 times the size of Earth, you could supposedly fit 10 Earths inside 1 Light. Light has 3 moons. They are fairly evenly spaced around Light and of various sizes smaller than the main planet. The moons are inhabited by some space science stations of the CX. Small cities, really. Light has many different countries, with many different cultures and laws governing their lands.

The main principle seems to be the same. That of respect, compassion, and many other positive attributes. The most powerful, or rather, the country leading the planet, if you will was called for the humans, Vastness. Vastness for reasons to represent how large things can be. The other countries were very similar, but it just kind of worked out that Vastness made the most sense over time to be the leader with a lot of things.

Everybody did their part. Other countries specialized in different things, and were accredited for their unique skills. Vastness had a sort of President in their government. She was about 8 feet tall. She looked similar to women on Earth. She had long beautiful legs, etc. She also had a tail and ears similar to a doe’s. Her eyes were rather large, but very wise. She wore a suit similar to what men on Earth wear, though styled for a female.

Her coat was blue, black, white, and light green. She knew she was very attractive to the men of the crew, which did flatter her. She was about the most humble being the crew had ever met. She explained to them that she did research with help from people on Earth and was most intrigued with the strength and resilience some had displayed to overcome hardships.

To her, this was the greatest achievement of modern civilization on Earth. People sometimes display such courage, she said, and she was proud of that. It made her emotional. She could not understand why anybody would miss that at all. She said it provided such profound respect for oneself and others.

As their time went on, they got to know the CX, and the animals made friends as well. The CX explained their world and lives, as did the humans and animals, as best they could. There was much fun around the pilots, who were knowledgeable, kind and adventurous. The CX shared these qualities. The humans wanted to do their best to convey all that is good that we have accomplished on Earth, which is a lot of things.

The children of the CX, or their young, were probably the most strangely beautiful to the Atlantis1 crew. Their curiosity and purity, just dumbfounded the crew. It was adorable. They were so-- happy and free spirited, and cute. Little people. They had all kinds of different beautiful attributes.

The departure was beautiful and full of content smiles. The people learned further that learning knew things only improved their lives even further. Though they would miss the CX, they knew not to feel sad about that. For neither party wanted to ever feel sad again.

The crew returned home a little longer then 2 months later. They had aged beautifully said their friends. Much accolades were made, but that did not concern the crew as much as the experience. What the experience taught the crew, and how to continue to progress and share and improve this knowledge with others is what concerned the crew. Knowing that there are more civilizations in the known Universe, and to be able to send new crews out to meet them was more than enough to feel happy about. The next crew would be more prepared. For now, though, I think we are just happy to be home.

-Jordan Wrobel. 11/17/2021.

short story

About the Creator

Jordan Wrobel

just a skateboarder. I’m happy with all the good work out there. Keep it up!

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