Witam Państwa,
Z racji suchości twórczej i choroby nie mam żadnego nowego wiersza. Za to napisałem ten oto rozdział do opowiadania, nad którym pracuję. Zapraszam do lektury.
Every story has a beginning.
Some stories call for heroes - people chosen to do heroics they believed they would never dare to do. Other stories show us that a single event, unexpected and unbelievable results in an avalanche that changes the status quo forever.
This story began a long time ago, in the Milky Way galaxy, called differently by a race that arrived here, seeking refuge on planet Terra, later known as Earth.
Race known as Alterans.
They formed an Alliance of Four Races, seeking to protect this galaxy and explore science together.
In one world, a devastating plague almost wipes out the Alterans, causing them to flee to a neighboring galaxy they called Pegasus, and eventually die out after fleeing from an enemy they created there. Some passed on their genes to humans, rest became an energy beings.
This isn't one of those timelines.
Here, Alterans abandon Terra after they locate a new planet on the other side of the galaxy, full of necessary resources, reseeding the entire half of the galaxy in the process.
For millennia, new races has risen and fallen, a new, more advanced technology was developed by the Alliance, a hostile race called the Goa'uld was destroyed by Alterans and Asgard, one of the members of the Alliance. Orion Arm remained abandoned for a long, long time.
Until two kids, a nine year old Agnieszka and her best friend, nine year old Karol, decided to explore a local mountain near their village, unaware that they would soon enough feature in the history books…
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C'mon, Karol, I want to see this hole that recently revealed itself - moaned Aga, desperately clinging to her best friend and trying to convince him to see what's inside. - Just a peak, please!
-It's dangerous, Aga. We could be trapped, break a leg or something worse - countered Karol, more level headed in their friendship - If we leave without informing anyone and something happens to us, we would be in so much trouble!
Aga didn't back down.
If we tell your grandma and grandpa, they would tell your parents. Then we wouldn't be in trouble.
They forget my name all the time. They would forget about us quickly, and our parents would worry about us.
Impatient Aga finally shouted - I'm going to the hole to explore. Stay here if you want, Karol. I will go on the adventure alone! - storming off from the house and running towards her destination.
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The hole was big enough for an adult man to go through. Revealed by a recent avalanche, free of ice and snow, located just on the ground level, promised interesting adventure for everyone who is willing to explore it.
Karol and Agnieszka were standing just before its entrance, both with flashlights and fascinated by it's size.
We must be careful - Karol said after a minute of mutual silence - I'm afraid a single rubble could bury us inside. Don't leave my side and don't touch anything.
Okay - Aga replied timidly, seeing it's not a small hole, but a large one, suddenly really afraid.
They entered the cave together. First thing they noticed is the space - it wasn't a small cave, but the largest they ever saw, spreading in all directions. So large that even flashlights didn't showed any walls.
They started to walk forward, pointing towards the celling their flashlights barely reached. They saw a smooth stone, no signs of any water or stalactites. This looked artificial, but beautiful.
Aga broke the silence.
Indeed, Karol directed the light into the structure where Aga was pointing.
It was a ring, enormous one at that. He couldn't see exactly the details, but the shape was unmistakable.
Together they walked closer, constantly alert that something was going to fall on their heads.
Karol and Aga looked at this ring, now just before them.
The inner ring of this had some kind of symbols. Karol suddenly noticed one, than another, then another that were seen by him somewhere. But where?
Suddenly he remembered.
A few years ago his father showed him an old TV show called Stargate SG-1. They watched all episodes together. Karol liked Dr. Daniel Jackson - a smart archeologist that solved the mystery of a giant ring, just like this one - and got to explore the galaxy.
He connected one of the symbols to the Scorpio symbol in the show. Another was almost identical to Crater, and that one on the top looked like the point of origin in this Antarctica episode.
Was it possible that Stargate SG-1 was real?
Aga - Karol couldn't contain his excitement - we must told our parents about this ring.
Why? - Aga looked suprised and worried about her best friend.
Because if I'm right, this ring will change the world. Our parents must tell the government immediately.
Agnieszka still looked lost, but followed Karol as he went to the exit.
Two kids didn't know it yet, but fate of the human race would be altered that day.
For the better, of course.
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A young man cursed as he was working in the lab.
He was so close to fixing this circuit. Why it wouldn't work?
15 year old Adam Kordowski was a genius, in true meaning of this word. After all, very few kids build an working diesel engine at five, and cracked the way for fusion reactors to produce more energy than they use as a ten year old. Hailed as the real life Tony Stark, Adam was unimpressed by the media.
He just wanted to built and invent.
Yes, the money be made for selling a fully functional fusion reactor to mass produce made him billions, but, aside from building a most advanced lab, he didn't touch the rest of the money.
He was currently focused on building a hoverboard, he just needed to repair this troublesome circuit.
As he finished, a voice of his trusty AI called S.I.S. (Special Intelligent System) spoke:
Sir, an e-mail arrived from the government. They seem to request your assistance on a semi secret project.
Semi secret? - Adam asked, inspecting the circuit, making sure it was as it should be.
According to the government, they found a real life Stargate in southern Poland, just inside one of the mountains.
What did I tell you about pranks S.I.S.? - Adam was uncertain, but his AI was pranking him, he thought.
See for yourself, Sir - S.I.S. showed Adam the mail on a holographic screen.
Adam was forced to concede it was true. Polish government send him an offer - he would run a Stargate program legally, under protection of the government. He would take the brunt of the funding and he was responsible for running this program as he saw fit. Polish government would be able to buy any reversed engineered weapons and technology before anyone else. Basically, they would become technologically advanced without spending billions of zlotys. Adam could work on alien technology as much as he wanted.
Adam didn't know it at the time, but his involvement would begin a new chapter for a human race.
Age of Space Exploration.
And it was possible because two nine year olds found a device hidden under the mountain, changing the world as they knew it.
As such, a Polish Stargate Program was born
Dziękuję za uwagę, zapraszam do konstruktywnej krytyki w komentarzach i do zobaczenia za tydzień,
Wiktor Kruk,
11.10.2024
