This bit follows 'The Enemy'
Meanwhile, back at the Ranch
What had started as one room had grown into a headquarters of many acres. Entire ‘Core-Scrapers’ were being built, they had earned that name by delving nearly a hundred kilometres underground. In the mass of information Earth had helped upload into Doctor ‘C’s computers, were some extra-genius subterranean building principles, along with materials that far out did mere fly ash for concrete. Fly ash is such an ineffective material, it’s really only used because it’s been proved it is far too toxic to be freely released into the atmosphere. So large companies decided to turn this waste problem into profit.
Fly ash is the ash removed from the exhaust gas of burning coal at power plants to generate electricity. The ash is removed from the exhaust by air pollution control equipment such as electrostatic precipitators before the exhaust is emitted through stacks or chimneys into the atmosphere. Thus, fly ash is a byproduct of burning coal for heating or generation of electricity. Over 70 million tons of fly ash is generated each year in the United States alone, of which only about 1/3 is used. The remaining 2/3 must be carefully disposed of in order to avoid any damage to the environment.
But when you consider this ash has substances like hexavalent chromium, cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, selenium, thallium and vanadium, along with dioxins; it’s hard to understand why it’s allowed to be used at all, or why the processes that create it are! Earth had uploaded the description of a magnetic field border, which would withstand far greater pressure than anything used in the present subterranean building procedures. Tiny magnets placed precisely, with specific pulses of electricity, could create Colom’s of such strength that would withstand seemingly impossible pressure.
A hundred kilometers down, means about a hundred million kilograms of pressure! There are other problems of course, moisture in the upper levels and heat in the lower. Earth had come up with the most natural hydrophobic biotechnology – bees. Within the delving magnetic Colom’s she requested hexillions of bee’s to populate, as they did so they built their hives. Some molecules interact with or attract water molecules so that they can mix freely with them. Others don't, and they are the substances that bee’s build their hives with. Beeswax is made up of neutral molecules that do not interact strongly with water molecules.
The Bees were encouraged to forage and feed amongst ‘Linum Usitatissimum’, an amazing plant that has been dated back to thirty thousand years ago. It’s used as a fiber to weave cloth with, an oil can be extracted from it for nutrition and medicines or polishing wood, and it is even grown as an ornamental plant in gardens. ‘Usitatissimum’ means most useful, we just had no idea just how useful plain old ‘Flax’ could be. Within the magnetic Colom’s, created with the digestion of Flax, Beeswax becomes completely impenetrable by moisture.
In the lower levels, the construction crews were going where no man had even gone before. For the ‘Flaxwax’ to work the heat had to be extracted somehow. It is not just the heart of the Earth that creates heat at these levels, the core being five to six thousand kilometres down, is still a huge distance from the constructions; but the pressure itself creates a Thermal energy of its own. The magnetic Colom’s neutralize the pressure – but not the heat. Earth needed to create a Thermal equilibrium that was at least habitable, if not comfortable, for Living Beings.
In Thermodynamics, Entropy is a measure of the number of specific ways in which a thermodynamic system may be arranged. Commonly understood as a measure of decay towards thermodynamic equilibrium. The term heat is taken as synonymous to thermal energy. Thermal engineering concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of heat transfer. Earth’s upload included an inner-Earth Thermal engineering that was impossible for mere Humans to perform.
Earth had to use one hundred percent Entropy. All modes of heat transfer where needed. She uses Advection as the transport mechanism of extracted internal moisture substances from one location to another, utilizing the motion and momentum of that fluid; conduction and diffusion to transfer the contacted energy from the magnetic Colom’s and the fluid; Convection is used to transfer the energy of those objects to the surrounding environment, due to its motion; and finally radiation itself, she uses the transfer of energy from the movement of all these charged particles within all these atoms, to convert it into electromagnetic radiation, which she then uses to strengthen the Colom’s.
But there is a reason no mere Human could do this. Although we have access to one and a quarter million trillion liters of water on Earths skin, that moisture is but her sweat, used to make her tears of rain. Like most living creatures she has many, many times more moisture within her body. Scientists are aware of the wet anomaly between five and fifteen hundred kilometers below the surface, but they have no means of accessing it. Nor have they even imagined that she expelled the surface moisture to assist Cyano with his creation of physical forms for life energy.
In a sense, although we are all forms of Cyanobacteria; we are all also ‘blood’ relatives of Earth herself. We are, in all our living forms, mongrels, and mixed breeds – a combination of Cyanobacteria and Planet! And what an exquisite variety of babies have been born from that partnership! When you consider both our ‘Parents’ are of morphological gestations, it is no wonder that we have such infinite differences between our Brothers and Sisters.
The down going oceanic lithosphere, more easily described as the sea beds being forced back under the surface by tectonic movement; carry with them large amounts of water into deeper regions of the mantle or Earths inner body. The water contained within these subducting slabs is thought to remain unaffected by the surrounding high-temperature, since it is contained within the centre of the cold lithospheric or land slabs. It is not the process of evaporation that keeps our H2O pristine and clean, but the pressure involved in submersion.
If this submersive filtration did not occur, we would not survive. All Earthbound life relies on a particular formation of liquid. Given the common name of Water it is a colorless, transparent, odorless, liquid which forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of all living organisms. Everything is made of atoms, they join together to form molecules. Water has three atoms, two Hydrogen and one Oxygen. When anything else is present, it is no longer water.
The process of evaporation and formation of clouds, raining down tiny droplets of moisture, is merely a more successful way of distributing surface water more evenly. It is within Earths body that metals, minerals and other pollutants are drawn out; and her body does not perceive these excess materials as waste. When Cyano’s kind created the atmosphere, which then in turn created the bubble which we call the Ozone layer, that surrounds the entirety of Earth – a limited amount of materials were presented.
A limited amount of materials being used by an unlimited, eternally evolving, amount of life forms. Earth is the Queen of recycling. From every droplet of every cell she will extract everything, and re-distribute each item to reinforce every category of form. The hardest working Woman on our Planet – is our Planet! She is also our most intelligent and strongest form of life! As it is not just water that needs to be distributed around her body, she has devised a processing system that combines many needs.
Yes she has the strength to move solid matter within or without her body, but she has the intelligence to know it is not the most effective manner in which to do so. A liquid or viscous matter, set on a path of continuous motion, will unendingly attend to all manner of requirements. If you add water to rock or metal you get an increase of melting or lava. In turn this will give you an increase of effect ability for all material distribution. This mixture of moisture and solids in a liquid form, is to Earth like our blood is to us.
So to simplify a very complex strategy, Earth diverted the plasma of her blood around the bases of all the magnetic Colom’s, to act as a cooling and heat extraction system. The Core-scrapers became like Tumour’s in her flesh, and her body conformed around them. This made these constructions ‘living buildings’, the walls have a blood-flow that is regulated by a heartbeat! The temperature within them may fluctuate, according to biological changes within Earth herself.
This form of living tunnel is perfect for maintenance, for just as when we cut our skin the blood coagulates, dries and seals the wound; so does Earths blood for any breeches in the outer Core scrapers walls and base. She had effectively given us a haven from the forces of non-atmospheric space that was to bombard her skin. Though there were so many more technical details, more effective ventilation and environmental conditioning, a means to use heat and the magnetic force to generate electricity, and many medical advances to name but a few.
With these new buildings delving deep into true ‘inner’ space, the habitable area of Earth had effectively doubled. With additional supplements of information, for example the explanation of how Cyano’s ancient kind use radioactivity to convert water into Sunlight, huge plantations and farms could be constructed underground. Additional explanations like how to extract the water from the rocks and minerals at certain subterranean levels, were all a part of preparing living forms for the unsurfacable era; when the Earths outer atmospheric ‘force field’ shuts down.
The numbers of what had become known as ‘The Earth Haven Society’ had grown exponentially, the Governments of all countries on the Planet were now involved. Amongst Presidents, scientific and mathematical geniuses, religious leaders and philosophers; Niqua was still the main communicative link with Earth herself. This was of Earths own choosing. Niqua was of average intelligence, she did not have a focus on any specific area but she did have an electro-chemical malfunction within her body.
This malfunction, diagnosed by her own species as depression and anxiety, was actually a blessing in disguise. For all those living beings that suffer from these aliments are indeed from a strain that are recovering from the prehistoric attacks of Rhynios armies. With over three hundred and fifty million sufferers, this manifestation is seen as a global plague. But the actuality is that it is a living healing, Rhynios secret weapon was back-firing.
As the positive descendants of Cyano were subjected to an overload of Terror, it was as if their soul’s eyes were being opened. No longer could they be blinded to the pain and suffering of the evil forces that tortured them. Not only could they perceive and remember evil deeds, but they were retaining those memories. The selective parts of the brain, that had been mutated by Rhynios introduced chemical of Terror, were repairing. Within a few generations Cyano’s descendants would be able to function with their original complete abilities.
And within that first upload Earth had installed a neurological scanner that could identify this rising ability. An ability that would not be held within Rhynios descendants. This would give ‘Earth Haven’ a way to filter out the enemy inside the positive fortress. Niqua would be required for the building and testing of the prototype, as her abilities were all but completed – generations ahead of the times. Her anxieties were a form of sensing evil, her depression a reaction to the numerous amounts that surrounded her.
This filtration was essential, every day the enemy was gaining access to highly technical information; information that they would twist. The certainty being, they would use it against us. It was understood that the enemy would be building their own Core-scrapers, and they would be duplicating all of the systems involved in them. But Niqua assured her leaders there was a confidence in her link to Earth. The enemy had been needed, certain skills, certain basic knowledge – general man-power if you will.
Earth had a plan, still obscured from Niqua’s vision; but she knew the enemy would dissipate, disappear, or disintegrate. But now was not the time. Many innocent beings were mingled with the enemy, to save them, Earth had to keep the enemy safe as well. After the filtration, it would not be long before it would be impossible for either side to interact with the other. For now the importance was to gather life forms, the more that could be gathered, the more that could be filtered.
The emergence of this negative force was not factored into Earth’s original plans. Having had Billions of years to concentrate on what needed to be done, she now had a mere Century to reorganize her thoughts. A problem which took all of her conscious thought not to blame on her best little friend. This one cynical energy had disrupted all of her best laid plans. Her desperation was intense when she realized, she could not save us all.
Those positive descendants of Cyano that remained within the Enemies grasp, would still have a chance. But the percentage of that chance would reflect upon the percentage of repair that those areas in their brains had performed. There would be those that although continuation of life was impossible, continuation of positivity could still be. As in any War there would be the need for sacrifice. Like double-agents on suicide missions.
