Chimney (1)

The conversations between Chapa and the vibrating Blue whose life he saved and became his best friend, were usually conducted through an interpreter, who had a quick ability to absorb and understand languages ​​originating from different planets. I have already described this interpreter, in the stories of alternative history, according to what Chapa told me about him. Chapa always believed that in the mind of the interpreter, who was originally a natural creature, a powerful computer was installed. The interpreter himself argued to Chapa that all the 'languages' in the universe, human languages, animal languages ​​and all other languages, are built on a number of basic pronunciations, which fold into the content the possible varieties of meaning. You just need to be experienced and skilled in reading.Although the telepathic internet could be used, there were some, including the Blue who was discovered as the sector commander and added Chapa and his crew to be under his command him immediately after his rescue from captivity, who preferred to use a mediator, stationary or naturally moving, to talk to those next to them. Chapa hypothesized that it was because of something parallel to formality, that he undertook from the class in which he was the vibrating Blue, which was already known to carry his eyes, that is, what was responsible there for his senses of focus in looking, to something much higher and more important than a sector commander. And perhaps it was a kind of courtesy and respect for the other as an individual with privacy, a concept that maybe is not recognized on all planets, certainly not among the Order of Warriors of which Chapa was a member, in which over time he almost forgot his identity and self. For many conversations, the interpreter created, according to the Blue's instruction, a protocol that was 'printed' immediately from somewhere in the interpreter's body on an output that was a bit reminiscent of white toilet paper …

Everything revolved around something that, in Chapa's eyes, resembled spirits of a revolution, something he remembered from a student demonstration on the streets of Quito about a month before he was abducted, but in more masses, it was something that blowed over trillions of miles, and as if loaded the atmosphere at every station which the Blue and the rest accompanying them, passed. There were vibrations that carried rage, a strong desire of the masses to dismantle something. This something, Chapa knew, was in a small constellation, from which this whole matter of the federation was conducted. Chapa knew that the Blue on its way there, carried on a broad inter asterisk sympathy, to shake the rotten and of-planets-detached establishment , which abandoned the citizens of the Federation and prevented a timely supply of power to the sectors, and was responsible for countless private disasters brought by the sudden war. Chapa was promised it would be interesting, but at this point he wanted to go home.

It was clear to Chapa that agreement to his return home was conditional on action on behalf of the federation. Chapa learned over time that it was not only he, who was abducted, but every planetarian 'person' who came to the places and the knowledge he came to, was thought 'in the universe' as one who came to the Holy of Holies, one who would return to his planet as having power that distinguishes him from the rest near whom was he born. The sense of justice that underpinned the formation of any interstellar federation could not bear it, that any stellar individual would gain an advantage over the other individuals of his kind, without investing it in favor of the whole civilization, local, systemic or cosmic. Even when it comes to Chapa, who came from an unimportant area and the rest of his peers had an ‘inferior classification’. To Chapa, who could easily agree with the logic of this cosmic idea and also identify with it, it was clear what he intended to do with the knowledge he had acquired, with the power he had received, for the sake of his contemporaries and those around them, in the distant and backward blue knob. He was also sure that what he was about to do would fit into the revolution that the Blue would bring about in the Federation, and serve as an example to the rebels. Even the blue seems to tend to agree with this.Near whom was born. The sense of justice that underpinned the formation of any interstellar federation could not bear it, that any stellar individual would gain an advantage over the other individuals of his kind, without investing it in favor of the whole civilization, local, systemic or cosmic. Even when it comes to Chapa, who came from an unimportant area and the rest of his peers had an ‘inferior classification’. To Chapa, who could easily agree with the logic of this cosmic idea and also identify with it, it was clear what he intended to do with the knowledge he had acquired, with the power he had received, for the sake of his contemporaries and those around them, in the distant and backward blue knob. He was also sure that what he was about to do would fit into the revolution that the Blue would bring about in the Federation, and serve as an example to the rebels. Even the blue seems to tend to agree with this.

There was one more jump before them, after which they will say goodbye. The Blue with its forces will fly from the same station, a floating point in space, to which they will jump, straight to the same small group of adjacent solar systems which are the sit place of the federation's central government, while Chapa will fly away in another spacecraft, already waiting for him, to take him to another jump, which ends at a point from which he can reach in a few hours, less than a day, to his home ball, Earth. Chapa remembered the environment where they waited for takeoff to the jumping position, a land full of something like white or yellow sand, caressed by white sun, above steel gray sky and in front of a large lake. Zvi assumed, according to the distance estimates described by Chapa, that it was in the system Epsilon Aridnus or Sirius A. I described such a world in the penultimate stage of alternative history.

The vibrating blue suddenly disengaged from the group of escorts in which he was surrounded, emerged from the darkness of the space that surrounded them and approached Chapa, who was standing aside, looking over the view. The interpreter was not around at that moment, but Chapa understood his signals well, and knew that the blue wanted them both to enter the chimney during the jump, and speak only telepathically, without an interpreter.