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More than anything else, Q wanted to get to his guitar.
Poor, as an average citizen his whole life, the guitar was important. Q's mother worked in a cow factory where she operated
a meat grinder. There existed a teacher, an elderly man in a neighboring apartment. Weiss knew the finger placements.
He let Q when ten and eleven learn with an old acoustic guitar. The amplifier would be beyond mom's ability to
provide, but a celebration held every three years for the community was something called x mass; this meant that people
gave gifts to one another, and a shop held an electric guitar, a hard wood, solid body with metal strings and a place for
a cord to be plugged in. The television broadcast music periodically with prominent practitioners of the art displayed.
Q sought a purpose such as that. He moved rapidly past outlying buildings.
He avoided cameras if possible. The narrow, quiet road out of town carried a MOO bus now which meant the time of day
must have been just past noon. He trod in that direction. Then he noticed something; one of the jobs people could
do was laundry as tall apartment buildings deposited clothes in chutes. The workers lounged aside on a wooden picnic
table eating lunch. A bin momentarily unwatched held wet clothes that obviously were washed and ready to hang.
A pair of jeans were visible and within reach. Q stole them, and with his previously stolen athletic shoes on uneven
dirt near the city's edge, he dashed away unobserved.
"This is not a game," Robertson yelled into his microphone.
Dozens of city departments heard his directives. "Q should have either returned to the MOO bus or his apartment.
He's not going to run around town with only a hospital garment and flimsy slippers." Robertson lived isolated in his posh, high tier apartment. There existed people above him in the hierarchy,
some were born to more privileged lives, but he was happy he did not need to grovel like the common fools he ruled over.
The speech went well, he reasoned. Pleasure existed in lying to the masses about how much he cared for them. Animals.
Lowly beings who would never even enjoy things such as fragrant mist smoke or a steak. On the spaceship, Angela and Fritz argued. "I'm twelve," she said. "I have the ability to connect with
telepathy. I saw a man on Earth. He was a guitar player ready to get on the Masters of Opulence bus." "He's dead by now," maintained Fritz. "I'm eleven." "So
what?" "If I wanted, I could connect with human beings in the lower ship." "No you could not. If dad found out, you would be punished. It's illegal." Angela did not like the fact that she could not connect with Q again. He got off the bus to
save the cat, Angela became distracted by dad, and she never found Q again. Fritz
did not care what Angela or even dad thought. They would never know. He went to his personal room on the spaceship
and relaxed. One day, a kid explained that relaxation rather than effort was one of the principles of telepathy.
Fritz wanted to practice on a human being in the lower part of the ship. Morris
and Susan resided in the lower part of the ship near the success portal. Once a week, a member of their thriving community
would advance to a higher level. The candidate never returned, and people believed the life above must have been wonderful. "Listen," said Morris. "Jake is acting odd. Rambunctious. Something is bothering
him." "The kids are fine," she replied. "Don't worry about them.
We are doing our jobs. We know what we are doing. Jake will probably be one to move up to the good part of the
ship." "He's too young," said Morris. "That's five or six years away."
Robertson enjoyed pornography and viewing hideous videos of historical cruelty. Many citizens
would never see these. Today, he studied an average video taught in schools which partially tied in with the religion of
Kaaler all attempting to prevent the war of 1000 years ago. The war occurred 800 years after what was then described as World
War II. The 8 billion peasants remained at that number for hundreds of years by acts of individual barbarism such as killing
each other in their neighborhoods. However, famine and disease also contributed to keeping world population stable 1000 years
ago. The largest structure in pre war United States was
the prison. Three quarters of the population was so depraved that the United States had created a gigantic prison complex
which took up three states, Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas. Later, the facility helped when the eastern portion of the country
was destroyed by nuclear missiles while the United States made its final stand in the region west of the Rocky Mountains.
Sophisticated defense weapons were able to prevent any nuclear missiles from reaching this region. However, the entire country
would not be saved. When the war ended, the eastern boundary of the United States was the Rocky Mountains. The central valley
from Canada to Mexico all became the Hispanic Nation as they had successfully won their portion of the war by battling north
past the stinking, hanging wall of the dead which stretched from California to the Gulf of Mexico 1000 years ago. The
purge of the professors then the TV producers, the burning of hundreds of years of DVDs containing ruinous, debilitating mental
TV shows, and famine still were not enough to prevent the war based on the eight billion people. The human race was peculiar
in that regard. It was the only species that procreated, succeeded, and then destroyed itself. Also, corruption and slavery
existed among the human beings of Earth as Monarchies in Europe prospered based on the birth rates of poor African or South
American people.
On the parent spaceship, ten times
the size of the forerunning ship piloted by Zenon, Kall was approximately 1040 years old. At the age of forty, he mastered
his telepathy greatness to contact humans a million miles away on the destination planet, Earth. At that time, the savages
were more than 8 billion, but knowledge predicted such a bountiful food source would wither long before even the lead spaceship
arrived. Zenon's ship carried several hundred thousand citizens with comparable humans existing in the lower compartment. Kall
was venerated as a keeper of the humans, one expected to use telepathy to keep them somewhat dignified and able to comport
themselves adequately. Therefore, it was predicted the planet Earth would have a substantial food supply of approximately
three billion when Zenon's ship arrived. The main ship, Kall's vehicle, would be there 1000 years later. Kall understood
he would be dead by then. The only way he would ever see Earth was by telepathy. In old age, his ability waned, but since
the ship now reached Earth's solar system, telepathy became easier. Angela easily saw dozens of humans on Earth whenever
she wanted. She thought her ability might be superior even to her parents'. Angela knew that the parent ship was 1000 years
behind, and the great keeper of the humans, Kall, possessed legendary psychic abilities. He had been kept alive for over
1000 years by using parts from the humans which routinely were brought up from the lower compartments to eat.
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