The Clone Race

We are of the Cilegna race and for several hundred thousand generations have been colonizing throughout our known universe. We’re explorers in search for the knowledge of new intelligent species or races and for new discoveries in the areas of the sciences for advancements to our own cultural base. This was the way of our forefathers and those before them to continually expand as our population grew. Our exploration ships are of multigenerational design, and our mission is the ongoing exploration and colonization to sustain our race. As our voyages of exploration take us from system to system, time has little meaning, as day and night is determined by the solar day each planet experiences, and their various rotations and orbits have been found to be many. Originally we thought that the shortest distance between the point of origin and a point of destination was the path of a straight line. Once we discovered the concept of travel through the interdimensional planes, that entire formula became almost completely irrelevant. We found that the point of origin, when applied to an interdimensional application, can be aligned with the destination point. To go from one point to another known location is no more effort than passing through a door entryway from one room to the next. Our expanded exploration of the universe now was to map locations to extend our abilities to move about as desired. With the discovery of stable, naturally occurring interdimensional vortexes or wormholes, our range of travel has increased exponentially. We, and now for uncounted generations, exist in a time when time doesn’t exit. There is no difference between what is now, that which was before, or what is to come. There is only existence, and the place is not so much a place as a dimension where location and space has little relevance or reference. It’s only here where the mind’s quest for a challenge has become one with the constant unknowns of what the sciences have yet to discover or to improve upon, and as we were about to learn, perhaps some areas should be left alone.

Our own planet, due to overmining and natural resource extraction for fuels, had created an imbalance that was not identified until it became critical. The major subterranean resources had been depleted to a level that our ever dramatically increasing climatic shifts identified as the catalyst that set it all in motion. The planet core’s rotation was slowing due to the lack of the hematite it needed to maintain the planet’s magnetic field, which in turn could stabilize the climate. Our best minds conceived a viable plan to save our planet, thinking if we could infuse those depleted hematite levels with a fresh source, the core would stabilize on its own and return the safe levels once more. Reduction and conservation was no longer the option. We needed to replace what we had removed. The plan was to create an independent settlement of cybernetic androids to exist on their own for this mining operation and the mineral transport off world.

Dr. Noyle Iaam, one of our most brilliant authorities in android logic systems, excels in his ability to look at a process and improve on its efficiency or effectiveness and feels android mining could be dramatically improved to a higher yield. His successes to make androids learn as they go and increase their knowledge base to independent sentient thinking is about to be tested on a planetary level. Dr. Uriel Resiw, as his young assistant, brings with her a unique line of problem solving that may be just what he needs, but Dr. Sypher, also one of his colleagues, has his own ideas over those of Dr. Iaam. Noyle feels the androids should control their own will to think. Sypher wants to control their will to think.

Greed can feed on the need for recognition of one’s ability, especially if one feels they have been passed over. As the androids evolve and begin to create unexpected problems so do the conflicts of Dr. Sypher. The fight to save their home world may become a fight for their very lives.