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

too.”
    “Yes, my love,”
replied Millennia, looking at the new world on the viewing screen and
“handling” it with the four-dimensional interactive computer holographic
projector.
    “It’s not our
final dream, dear,” says Cruise. “But still a dream come true. We may now be
retracing the steps of our ancestors.”
    They had barely
entered a new galaxy when Infinity’s alert had sounded and she brought the
whole galaxy on all screens on board. A four dimensional holographic image emerged.
Infinity slipped into Super Hyper Warp Drive 5 and gradually, step-by-step,
boosted speed until she was at Drive 25. They were still more than 10 million
light years away from the only solar system in the galaxy that emitted the same
type of gamma rays and radiation, as well as electromagnetic microwaves and
plasma as Earth’s sun. Since Infinity kept maintaining and upgrading herself
regularly, it was similar to the body reconstructing all of its cells over and
over. She was now able to take the thrashing Drive 25 would give her.
Travelling at 10,000 times the speed of light, they reached the New World in
eight-hours, forty-five minutes and fifty eight seconds.

 
 
    Already
programmed to slow down when the proper distance from the target solar system
was achieved, Infinity slows down to normal hyper speed. The whole being of the
vessel is disrupted and even some of the super Plexiglas dividers and doors are
smashed as Infinity downshifts from Super Warp Drive 25 to Hyper drive.
Fortunately, no one was hurt, but the majority of the population was quite
alarmed to say the least. Since it was the sleeping phase called “night” on
Earth, many of Infinity’s inhabitants were rudely awakened by the sudden
reduction of speed resulting in a “warp shake”.
    “What is going
on?” Inquired Commodore Yerne Adno, who was voted in by the people. He was a
half-blooded Quewythian born on Infinity eighty nine years before and   became the voice of the people. “Everyone
is frightened that something has gone wrong with your Infinity. More like ‘A
Turn of Nutty’ to me.” Turn of nutty was an expression derived from the old
Earth archives of a nut being turned by a wrench. The nut was also a term used
to describe a mentally unstable person. “We have never seen any skies or felt
the grass like on Earth beneath our feet and now you subject us to this.”
    Cruise and Millennia
could not waste precious time arguing with politicians, so they had set up a
chain of command system, which Cruise learned from Earth’s data of how they set
up their armies.
    Cruise’s
spokesperson, a female born on the vessel, the beautiful and intelligent Rhapsody
Karjoy, was more than gracious and polite towards the rather ambitious
politician. “Why, Commodore. Does a little ole’ Warp Shake send chills up and
down your spine? What, are you afraid we might go spinning hopelessly into
space?”
    “Don’t mock me,
young one,” said the scowling man.
    “Why I’ll have
you know,” whispered Rhapsody with widened eyes and a large smile, “We have
reached the solar system of New Earth, and will be arriving at our target
planet shortly.”
    Hearing those
words, the commodore could do nothing else but fall to his knees and cry.
“Please tell me your not kidding me. You usually kid me. Please don’t be
kidding me now.”
    “You heard her right
the first time, Commodore,” spoke a voice that sounded like the boom of a
canon. It came from up top of the fifty stairs that Rhapsody had just descended
after her briefing face to face with Cruise Liberty; Prince of the Twelve
Galaxies Cluster. “Our Kingdom has just expanded and now spans fifty more
galaxies where our brethren live and thrive. Let us mark this one as the fifty
first.” He lifted his hand and right in front of the commodore’s face appeared
the four dimensional image of the solar system containing Earth II. “This is
where we are now, Commodore.” Cruise points to a spot at the edge