Infinity by Charles E. Borjas, E. Michaels, Chester Johnson Page A

born on Infinity after crossing a quadrant.”
    Infinity scans
the present galaxy for a suitable world. She finds planets that are uninhabited
and unsuitable for life. She also finds planets with life, but the life she
discovered is so primitive and backwards that they consume each other. They
would soon become extinct. Another planet has a civilization at war with each
other. They are not a biological match for Cruise and his space family. All of
the specifications had been programmed into Infinity. All the hopes and dreams
of the crew, and now the new brood of offspring that had been born in space
have been recorded and are being considered by Infinity as she endlessly scans.
    The laws of
physics and all of the elements have to be the same as Cassiopeia and the Twelve
Galaxies Cluster. All of the beauty and splendour has to be a reality.
Terraforming did not exist anymore. It had been outlawed and was now obsolete. Planets
that previously had not one iota of hope for every having life had been
miraculously terraformed into magnificent havens. However, most of those
planets turned out to have an unstable core. The trauma of the terraforming
process was too great causing eruptions and eventual decimation of the planets’
surface.
       Of course Infinity was capable of
producing the necessary elements and biological building blocks to transform a
planet into a paradise. However, the ethical principles overweighed the
practical.
    Terraforming
only worked on a planet that already had life, or had it at one time and only
ruins or traces were left. There were plenty of barren wasted planets that
could never support life, even in a million years. The universe had already provided
plenty of planets that needed no terraforming. They were far flung and it took
some time to find them.
    Infinity’s ever
evolving artificial intelligence had collected billions of yottabytes of data from
their journeys through space. The technology she has captured in her data banks
from races even superior to the Twelve Galaxies Cluster in such knowledge, but
lacking in understanding was unfathomable. Infinity’s good intentions and
energy could not be wasted on barbarous and desperate attempts to bring an old
dead waste of a planet rock back to life again with no guarantee that the
process would hold.
    The data banks
in Infinity’s unlimited storage held enough knowledge about the physical
conditions of Earth, “The Blue Planet”, that she could find such a world that
would be perfect for giving a new start to the remaining crewmembers and their
ever growing families, Cruise and Millennia, and also their fifty three
offspring, not including the one to come. The population of Infinity was now
three million two hundred thousand four hundred and sixty two. They needed to
find a planet soon before Infinity figuratively split apart at the seams. Of
course she didn’t have any seams.
    The days and
nights were based on the biorhythm of Infinity’s population. From this Cruise learned
that twenty four to twenty five time phases equalled one day. From the
databases of Infinity, he also learned that because of the Earth’s shifting
axis, the span of time for daylight from the sun was shorter in the colder
seasons and gradually returned to longer times of light in the warmer seasons.
That was the cycle. Earth had regular cycles of days, weeks, months and years.
This knowledge and much more was obtained from Infinity’s database and taught
in the schools and even universities that were on the vessel.
    They learned so
much about Earth that everyone would surely feel at home when a planet with
Earth’s specifications was finally found.
    “The decision
has been made final, my dear,” said Cruise to Millennia. “Infinity has found a
planet nearly the same as Earth. Only it is bigger, but the land mass is proportionately
the same to the quantity of water. Climates are similar, vegetation is very
similar, but also exotic forms of life exist there