In
a science laboratory deep somewhere in one of the oceans, seas, and
lakes on Earth, dressed in lab garments, the scientists, were
non-humanoid forms, NHFs.
The
laboratory was huge. There were NHFs at tables and desks; some
walking about. Most were viewing television news of violent crimes
all over the world; typing swiftly on silent keyboards as they
watched, deleting, re-typing, back-tracking, and other processes
unavoidable in hasty typing:-
"In
the news, a man, 30 years old, raped a woman, 72 years old, after
murdering her brother, 64 years old.
A
man, 42 years old, raped and murdered his niece, 11 years old. He was
jailed for life, but was paroled after he had served 10 years because
his sister, mother of his victim, forgave him.
A
couple, 22 and 26
years old, was arrested for abusing their six children.
After
the children were removed from the custody of their abusive parents,
the parents were freed on bail.
A
cyclist, 29 years old, defiantly rides on the sidewalk and kills, by
accident, a pedestrian, 79 years old. He rode off.
A
Grandmother, 85
years old, who arranged the murder of a family member, was serving a
life sentence. After serving 10 years of the sentence, she was
paroled because she was going blind and was suffering from dementia.
A
Father, 44 years old, murdered his daughter, 19 years old, in cold
blood, in their yard by driving his car over her, twice. He was
sentenced to twenty years in jail. He was paroled after serving
eleven years.
A
man, 36 years old,
on his motorbike, knocked and killed a boy, 12 years old. The man was
travelling above the legal speed limit. He was released on bail until
the court trial.
A
man, 25 years old,
in his home, shot to death his parents, his sister, 26 years old, and
his sister’s twins, 6 years old. He was jailed for life. He was
paroled after serving twenty years.
A
man, 24 years old,
attacked and raped a woman in a church yard. He was jailed for nine
years. He was paroled after serving five years.
A
man, 44 years old,
was drunk, driving with an expired licence, over the legal speed
limit. He crashed into another car, killing the driver instantly, a
woman, 54 years old, a Social Worker. He was granted bail, awaiting a
court trial.
A
hit-and-run
driver, a man, 24 years old, mowed down a married couple crossing a
road, while he was being chased by police. He was jailed for eight
years, and paroled after serving five years.
A
man, 23 years old, stabbed his father to death with a kitchen knife
in their home. He was not tried for murder because he was diagnosed
as mentally ill. He was sentenced to be detained indefinitely in a
facility for mentally ill persons.
Two
boys, 14 and 15
years old, murdered a boy, 14, by stabbing him with a sword hidden in
a walking cane. They pretended to be his friend before attacking him.
After they had murdered him, they left his body at the roadside, and
stole his motorized scooter. They were tried for murder, and were
found guilty of murder. Because they were underage, their sentence
was begun at a minimum security prison.
A
woman,
twenty-eight years old, was charged with murdering a baby, one year
old. She was sentenced to ten years in jail. She was paroled after
serving six years.
A
man, 47 years old,
abducted and raped a Primary School girl in a remote banana
plantation. He was tried in Court, found guilty, and sentenced to
life imprisonment. He served twenty years and was paroled.
A
man, 48 years old, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. He
was paroled after serving twenty-one years in prison.
A
man murdered his neighbour when she was home alone. Sentenced to
life, he was paroled after forty-five years.
A
man murdered a mother of four children. He was a fugitive for seven
years before he was caught. Sentenced to life, he was paroled after
twenty-four years.
A
man, a teacher.
For twenty-nine years he raped little boys. He served the whole
twenty-five years to which he was sentenced. He was released.
A
man, convicted of murder, was sentenced to life. He served thirty-one
years before being paroled.
In
other news,---------."
At
one of the larger and more important-looking desks, two NHFs were
seated at opposite sides, engaged in an obviously troubling
discussion.
“That’s
it, then?” “We’ve known for years it was coming,
but we’ve been hoping that something would happen that would
alter the direction. Headquarters from beyond this Galaxy has finally
given up hoping, and decided to accept the science indicators.”
“How
much more time have we been given?” “Not more than a year
for us. Some of our smaller centres have been given permission to
pack up and leave any time now. Reports are coming in that a few have
jumped at the opportunity and have already abandoned this hopeless
world.” “Good for them. Let us try for long before this
year’s end.”
The
laboratories were set up on Earth many, many thousands of years ago
by highly advanced interstellar non-humanoid forms, when they
discovered the beginnings of a sentience, among myriads others, akin
to what theirs was at their beginnings millions of eons ago in
another Galaxy. As theirs was, this was one of the countless
different directions continually exploding into existence in the
natural evolution of sentient matter throughout the Galaxies.
Up
until the end of the nineteenth century, each year they found
increasing numbers of persons on this world worthy of being
transported, in their dying seconds, to their own NHF world in
another Galaxy where the humanoids were steered into an advanced
sentience capable of developing their own substance into immortal and
continuous humanoid evolution.
On
many worlds throughout the Galaxies where NHF exploration discovered
biological life, humanoid and countless others, NHF science has
attempted, and in some of those worlds, is attempting to guide the
evolution of life into a direction towards everlasting evolution.
NHFs
have long, long ago achieved an algorithm that revealed the mechanics
of immortality. The NHFs know the direction of evolution that led to
the building of the algorithm, was begun by a humanoid civilization
on a far away galaxy long before the first appearance of NHFs. That
humanoid civilization had not travelled beyond their own world within
their galaxy before their evolution came to a violent end.
The
present dedication of NHF science to humanoid development on any
world in any galaxy is driven by the hope to eventually retore
humanoid evolution to the height that brought about its invention of
everlasting self-sustaining and self-advancing non-humanoid
evolution.
Non-humanoid
science, as incredibly advanced as it has become, has, nonetheless,
met with only discouragingly small success on Earth, so far.
Each
year far less than a dozen or so humanoids have been found to show
enough potential to merit being translated and transported to the NHF
home for advancement. Moreover, the NHF endeavors in their own
galaxy, as well, has not been successful in developing even one
humanoid into equality with non-humanoid immortality.
Evolution
of sentience, humanoid and countless other, on Earth has not yet been
found to have the capacity for self-renewal in perpetuity, on their
own.
From
the beginning of the twentieth century, the numbers of humanoids
qualifying have been drastically plummeting. The humanoids on this
world are self-destructing as they did in those other worlds the NHF
had to eventually abandon.
“Sad.
Another humanoid evolution self-destructs.” “Uh-huh, and
meaning, too, that one more attempt of ours fails.” “On
the other hand, ----.” “What?”
“Remember
that strange element one of our laboratories uncovered deep inside a
humanoid's biology?" "When? As far as I remember we
exhausted human biology thousands of years ago." "We had.
This new discovery was so minor and irrelevant, we completely ignored
it at the time. Four thousand years ago, or so. It was rarely found
in humanoid biology. But in the meantime it has grown on its own,
until nowadays it is a major component that shows up no matter which
aspect of humanoid biology we look into. And our calculations are
indicating it is a part of humanoid biology nowadays in millions, if
not billions, of humanoids."
"It's
been given a designation?" "Yes. Two." "Two
designations." "A precise acronym by our scientist, the
first one who uncovered it; and a name by the human scientists who
found our precise acronym too cumbersome."
"Our
acronym?" "ARZAARZE." "Oh, that acronym. I'm on
the side of the humans. What's their name for it?"
"Righteousness."
"Righteousness? "Uh-huh." "Meaning?" "They
say, 'life at its best, even to the extent of killing other life that
impedes life being its best.'" "Humans came up with that?"
"Without any help from us."
"Which
means it will probably take them nowhere, like everything else they
have come up with, without any help from us."
"Probably.
Although, there's one human focusing so intently on this
"Righteousness", she is acquiring extraordinary abilities
through it. She's been evolving faster in the direction of our
capacity for self-renewal in perpetuity." "All right,
focus on her and help her all you can in the little time we have left
on this failed world."
A
few weeks before the end of the year, the NHFs, who had been on Earth
for many, many thousands of years, abandoned Earth. Before they left,
leaving no trace of their stay, they grafted into the genetics of
that "Righteousness" human, a woman, their acronym,
ARZAARZE, and the calculus to its algorithm.
"Good
evening. Welcome to th six o'clock news.
"A
man, 30 years old, raped a woman, 72 years old, after murdering her
brother, 64 years old. When the police arrived, they found
the
murderer-rapist’s headless bloodless body next to the corpse of
the brother.
A
man, 42 years old, raped and murdered his niece, 11 years old. He was
jailed for life, but was paroled after he had served 10 years because
his sister, mother of his victim, forgave him. A week after
he had
returned home, his headless bloodless body was found in the backyard
by his sister. The disappearance of the five members of the Parole
Board was treated as suspicious by the Police.
A
couple, 22 and 26
years old, was arrested for abusing their six children. After the
children were removed from the custody of their abusive parents, the
parents were freed on bail. Their headless bloodless bodies
were
found in a park around the corner from the Courthouse where their
first court hearing had been scheduled.
A
cyclist, 29 years old, defiantly rode on the sidewalk and killed, by
accident, a pedestrian, 79 years old. He rode off. Two days
later
his headless bloodless body was found on that same spot on the
sidewalk.
A
Grandmother, 85 years old, who arranged the murder of a family
member, was serving a life sentence. After serving 10 years of the
sentence, she was paroled because she was going blind and was
suffering from dementia. Three days later, her headless
bloodless
body was found on the kitchen floor in her son’s home. The
disappearance of the five members of the Parole Board without a
trace, was treated as suspicious by the Parole Board.
A
Father, 44 years old, murdered his daughter, 19 years old, in cold
blood, in their yard by driving his car over her twice. He was
sentenced to twenty years in jail. He was paroled after serving 11
years. His headless bloodless body was found 2 days later.
The
disappearance of the five members of the Parole Board without a
trace, was treated as suspicious by the Police.
A
man, 36 years old, on his motorbike, knocked and killed a boy, 12
years old. The man was travelling above the legal speed limit. He was
released on bail until the court trial. Days later his
headless
bloodless body was found on the spot where he had killed the boy.
A
man, 25 years old, in his home, shot to death his parents, his
sister, 26 years old, and his sister’s twins, 6 years old. He
was jailed for life. He was paroled after serving twenty years. Days
later his headless bloodless body was found. The disappearance of the
five members of the Parole Board without a trace, was treated as
suspicious by the Police.
A
man, 24 years old, attacked and raped a woman in a church yard. He
was jailed for nine years. He was paroled after serving five years.
In the same church yard days later, his headless bloodless
body
was found. The disappearance of the five members of the Parole Board
without a trace, was treated as suspicious by the Police.
A
man, 44 years old, was drunk, driving with an expired licence, over
the legal speed limit. He crashed into another car, killing the
driver instantly, a woman, 54 years old, a Social Worker. He was
granted bail, awaiting a court trial. Days later his headless
bloodless body was found at the roadside where the Social Worker had
died.
A
hit-and-run driver, a man, 24 years old, mowed down a married couple
crossing a road, while he was being chased by police. He was jailed
for eight years, and paroled after serving five years.
His
headless bloodless body was found at the roadside where the couple
had died. The disappearance of the five members of the Parole Board
without a trace, was treated as suspicious by the Police.
A
man, 23 years old, stabbed his father to death with a kitchen knife
in their home. He was not tried for murder because he was diagnosed
as mentally ill. He was sentenced to be detained indefinitely in a
facility for mentally ill persons. Not long afterwards, he
was
kidnapped from the facility. His headless bloodless body was returned
in a garbage bag a few days later.
Two
boys, 14 and 15
years old, murdered a boy, 14, by stabbing him with a sword hidden in
a walking cane. They pretended to be his friend before attacking him.
After they had murdered him, they left his body at the roadside, and
stole his motorized scooter. They were tried for murder, and were
found guilty of murder. Because they were underage, their sentence
was begun at a minimum security prison. On a day, in
daylight,
they were ambushed in the recreation yard, and beheaded, bloodlessly,
in full view of other inmates. Their heads were never found.
A
woman,
twenty-eight years old, was charged with murdering a baby, one year
old. She was sentenced to ten years in jail. She was paroled after
serving six years. Her headless bloodless body was found in a
garbage dumpster. The disappearance of the five members of the Parole
Board without a trace, was treated as suspicious by the Police.
A
man, 47 years old,
abducted and raped a Primary School girl in a remote banana
plantation. He was tried in Court, found guilty, and sentenced to
life imprisonment. He served twenty years and was paroled. His
headless bloodless body was found in that same banana plantation. The
disappearance of the five members of the Parole Board without a
trace, was treated as suspicious by the Police.
A
man, 48 years old,
was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. He was paroled after
serving twenty-one years in prison. Within days of his
release,
his headless bloodless body was found where he had committed the
murder. The disappearance of the five members of the Parole Board
without a trace, was treated as suspicious by the Police.
A
man murdered his neighbour when she was home alone. Sentenced to
life, he was paroled after forty-five years. Within a year
his
headless bloodless body was found at the City dump yard. The
disappearance of the five members of the Parole Board without a
trace, was treated as suspicious by the Police.
A
man murdered a Mother of four children. He was a fugitive for seven
years before he was caught. Sentenced to life, he was paroled after
twenty-four years. His headless bloodless body was found at a
roadside. The disappearance of the five members of the Parole Board
without a trace, was treated as suspicious by the Police.
A
man, a teacher. For twenty-nine years he raped little boys. He served
the whole twenty-five years to which he was sentenced. He was
released. Within days, his headless bloodless body was found
on a
roadside bench.
A
man, convicted of murder, was sentenced to life. He served thirty-one
years before being paroled. His headless bloodless body was
found
nailed upside down, naked, to a construction site wood wall. The
disappearance of the five members of the Parole Board without a
trace, was treated as suspicious by the Police.
