Don't Mess With Earth (2 page)

The Terran ship was eight light years from Terra when
it was approached by a highly advanced starship. The aliens
contacted the Terran ship first, informing them they were the
Talgeria, from the star system known to the Terrans as Betelgeuse.
Betelgeuse was over six hundred light years from Terra, but the
Talgerians were exploring the galaxy one star system at a time. The
Talgerian ships seemed capable of traveling faster than light and
had explored fifty percent of the galaxy over the last six hundred
years. There were many other humanoid species out there, but the
Talgerians considered one species in particular to be a thorn in
the side of everyone, and they were known as the Ragnor. Nobody
knew where the Ragnor Homeworld was or even knew what the Ragnor
looked like, especially since they were very adept with cloaking
technology, so attempts to stop their experiments and secretiveness
was met with failure. The Talgerians and their allies were
attempting to develop technology so they could disable the Ragnor
cloak and then show the Ragnor the full military wrath of the
species they had angered. Unfortunately, a device to de-cloak a
ship was proving rather difficult to invent.

The Talgerians gave the Terrans the knowledge
to build starships capable of crossing space faster than what the
Terrans were currently capable of; the Talgerians used and
sometimes created, wormholes, short-cuts in space, to get around
quicker. The Terrans were also given better sensors, shields,
inertial dampeners, and all else required for space flight. The
Terrans asked the Talgerians if they had ever visited Earth, but
the Talgerians said they had yet to make it to the outer rim of the
galaxy. So, after one thousand years, the Terrans decided to send a
ship on a mission to Earth, to see what happened to their cousins
after that great flood had consumed the home planet. They wanted to
see if the Earth humans had made any technological advances at all
in the thousand years the Terrans had been gone, or for that
matter, if humanity even existed on Earth any longer. If the Earth
humans still existed and were advanced, the Terrans would ask about
getting their help with the pesky Ragnor.

Four months after leaving Terra, the scouts
arrived in the Sol System and made their way to Earth orbit. Once
in orbit, the planet was scanned, and once the scans were complete
fifteen minutes later, the Captain of the scout ship asked, “What
do the scans show, Ensign?”

“Sir, the scan of Earth reveals seven
continents; when our ancestors left, there was one giant land mass.
There are one hundred million humans currently alive on Earth, all
living within four thousand miles of each other. I’ve detected no
radio signals coming from the planet.”

“Can you find out where the location is of
the biggest group of humans?”

“There is a large population near the edge of
a desert on their western side, a rather long river to their east,
and a small sea to the north. If you want more detailed
observations, we need to go down there, sir.”

“Commander, would you, two security guards,
and a historian, please go down to the surface and scout out what’s
going on down there.” ordered the Captain.

An hour later, the Terran away team had
landed the shuttle far enough away from any human settlements so
they wouldn’t be discovered by anyone. In the distance, the
scouting party saw pyramid-like shapes and a hive of human
activity, since this was mostly a flat desert environment. Upon
closer inspection thirty minutes later, they saw humans building a
pyramid, and there were two other huge pyramids in the area already
built, along with something being worked on that appeared to be
half man and half lion. The Terrans approached a few humans who
looked like they were in charge to find out what was going on.
Commander Lomanco approached a man on a wheeled vehicle that
utilized horses, and said, “Excuse us; we’re travelers from far
away. What is happening here?”

“Greeting strangers, welcome to Egypt. What
you see is our slaves building a monument to our pharaoh, or what
you may call a king. These pyramids will be our pharaohs’ resting
place until he leaves his body and goes to his next life. These
slaves have built other pyramids and a sphinx, which is also being
built, for other pharaohs, and they will continue to do so until
the end of time.”

“You wouldn’t consider releasing them to go
back to their own land?” asked the historian.

“Land?! They have no land. Their ancestors
freely joined Egypt and now, many generations later, we have
dominion over them. Some of them claim that their God will send
them someone to rescue them and send them home. Well, after three
hundred years, we have yet to see any God rescue them,” mocked the
Egyptian.

“What of your enemies, couldn’t they exploit
any displeasure these slaves have with your leadership?” asked
Lomanco.

“Our enemies fight amongst themselves, the
strongest one being the Athenians across the Mediterranean Sea.
They’re fighting the Trojans, Spartans, and Phoenicians; they have
no time to deal with our slave problem or us. Do you plan on
challenging our Pharaoh?”

“No, we don’t want to challenge your rule or
the power of your Pharaoh. I do have a question for you; do you
remember a man named Noah and a great flood that would have
happened a thousand years ago?”

“A man named Noah and a great flood? No,
can’t say that I have. Is it important to the Pharaoh and Egypt to
know of this Noah?”

“No, it’s not that important. May we ask your
slaves if they have heard of this man and the flood?” asked
Lomanco.

The Egyptian foreman gave the Terrans
permission to ask some slaves about their question, but said that
the slaves were probably much too stupid to answer the question.
The Terran scouts found a group of slaves who were mixing mud and
straw together to make bricks, so they were asked about Noah. One
of them replied, “Yes, we have heard of him, which was many, many
generations ago. God promised never to flood the Earth again, so
rainbows appear after every rainstorm. Have the Egyptian oppressors
told you that we are here freely?”

“Yes, they did tell us that. Are you
disputing what they’re saying?”

“Long ago, Joseph, son of Jacob,
great-grandson of our patriarch Abraham, was sent here because a
great plague was to occur. His brothers had betrayed him and sold
Joseph as a slave to a passing merchant caravan, where he ended up
as a slave serving one of the Pharaoh’s men. So God had Joseph rise
to power by interpreting the dreams of some of the powers that be,
they gave him some power over small things, and eventually ended up
as ruler over these lands so that he could control all of the food
in the region and no one would starve. His family, thinking Joseph
was dead, comes to him for food on a very long journey, he
eventually reveals who he is, and they rejoice and celebrate his
return to the family. Eventually, our people were turned into
slaves by the next rulers of Egypt, and we have been praying for
deliverance ever since.”

“I’m sorry to hear that. At the moment, we
don’t have the means to assist you, otherwise we would. Thank you
for your time and we’ll pray for God to deliver you’re people from
this trouble. Goodbye.” with that, the Terrans left for their
shuttle.

The shuttle was flown over the area that the
Egyptians said was experiencing warfare. The Terrans weren’t sure
which side was which, but they could see thousands of men killing
each other with swords and other nasty looking weapons. The ground,
for miles, seemed covered with human bodies. There was a town a few
miles inland that was blazing with fire; most of its people were
fleeing in all directions. There was also a small naval battle off
the coast of the country the two parties were fighting; it appeared
they launched massive arrows that were on fire to cause damage to
the ships and were also attempting to ram each other to cause the
other ship to sink. Commander Lomanco remarked to no one in
particular that he preferred fighting in space and having energy
weapons and shields compared to this primitive warfare. After an
hour of watching the battle, they returned to their ship in
orbit.

Once on board the scout ship, the scouting
party informed the Captain of what they had found on Earth.
Basically, it was a very primitive society, no technology
whatsoever, so there were no way the humans of Earth could help
find out where the Ragnor lived. They also told of the slaves and
the various political and warring natures of the humans in their
respective city-states. The captain decided to return to Terra and
inform the government, to see what else to do about Earth, since
humanity was primitive.

The Terran leadership was understandably
disappointed to know that Earth was primitive. The decision was to
wait another thousand years, then send not only a scout ship, but
the means to leave a permanent base of some sort near Earth or on
one of the planets to observe human progress. In the meantime, the
Terrans met the Santerians, Pegarans, and Agnorians, all of whom
were completely fed up with the Ragnor. The Ragnors’ home solar
system seemed to be cloaked just like their ships, because it was
difficult to pinpoint a stretch of space that was completely void
of a star, planets, or gravity. However, nobody gave up and managed
to invent a limited way to detect cloaked ships, but the cloaked
ships had to be within a million miles of the detector for the
ships to be detected and not near any phenomena in space, and thus
far, detecting any cloaked ships was frustrating for the other
species in the galaxy.

When the time came to return to Earth, a
large cargo ship was sent with the explorer ship so an outpost
could be built for observational purposes. The fourth planet in the
Sol System was chosen as the base, since the dust storms on the
planet made for good cover and wouldn’t be detected unless a
starship was orbiting the planet. The Terrans arrived in Earth
orbit twelve hours later, scanned Earth as the other ship had
previously done, and still detected no radio signals. There were
two hundred million more humans alive on Earth, which prompted one
of the Terrans to say, “These humans must be incredibly dumb to not
have advanced to beyond a bronze, iron, or steel age. Even their
population has grown slowly these thousand years.”

“We don’t know what has happened for them to
stay so primitive. Going by the records of the previous mission, it
was observed by Commander Lomanco that since slaves did all of the
work, they probably didn’t see the need to do any kind of research
and development. As a result, people could die from any number of
diseases, war, or accident, which could explain such a low
population. So, that’s why we’re here, to find out what is going on
with them and see if they’re advancing in any way.” the Terran
captain said.

The Terrans sent two shuttles to the biggest
areas of human concentration, Europe and Asia. The Terrans found
out that these to continents contained the Roman Empire and the
Chinese Han Dynasty, but neither had much contact with each other,
only the occasional informal trade agreement. One shuttle landed
near Rome, the capital of the Empire. The Terrans walked through
the city, noticing the massive structure known to the Romans as the
Coliseum, plus taking note of the primitive sewer and plumbing
system, the cobbled roads, and a huge amount of slaves doing all of
the major work. These slaves, when the Terrans asked, were former
soldiers or citizens of countries and city-states that Rome had
conquered. The Terrans also asked about Egypt and their Hebrew
slaves, and was told that Egypt was now part of the Empire and the
Hebrews were in Judea. The Terrans also found out that the Roman
Empire expanded this entire continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to
the west, to the island of Britannia in the north, to the Rhine
River in the northeast where there were tribes constantly at war
with Rome, to the Chinese border in the east, and most of North
Africa. Julius Caesar, their current leader, was responsible for
making the Empire into what it was today.

As the Terrans approached the capital
building of the Empire, a commotion started at the top of the steps
of the building. A man was stumbling down the steps, being pursued
by a dozen others with knives and blades in their hands. The man
appeared to be a leader of some sort, but the Terrans weren’t sure
until the humans around them started saying that the man being
pursued was Caesar. The others caught up to him and began stabbing
him, while Caesar’s robe was becoming soaked with blood. As Caesar
was about to fall over, one man approached him, they had a few
words, and then the man brutally stabbed Caesar. Everyone heard
Caesar’s last words, “You too, Brutus?” The leader of the Roman
Empire then collapsed and died. The Terrans were shocked, they had
never seen such a brutal assassination, and even the Roman crowd
was silent, until another man appeared. He was dressed like a
soldier and the crowd seemed to know who he was, because they
cheered.

He asked for the crowd to quiet down, and
then spoke, “Julius Caesar, our life-long leader, the man who made
the Empire into what it is today, is dead. The Senate felt that
Julius was taking too much power for himself, so they removed him
from power. I, Mark Antony, will take over, with Queen Cleopatra of
Egypt by my side. We will defeat and crush our enemies. All who do
not bow down to our greatness will fear the Roman Empire. All hail
the Empire!”

The crowd erupted with chants of “Long Live
Mark Antony” and “Long Live the Empire.” The leader of the Terran
expedition to Rome said, “This may turn into a civil war, we need
to make sure we stay out of it. But, as long as we’re here, we need
someone to observe the various activities of humanity and the
report back to Terra. We should get back to our shuttle before this
crowd turns ugly.”