The Return Of The Muse

I mentioned in one of my previous posts that many current and extinct species on Earth came from other planets in our solar system.  That was back in the days when many of the other planets were habitable, and they were connected with ours by anti-gravity ether streams that allowed sailing ships to travel in outerspace. Perhaps the most notable (and ferocious) transplanted species was the mastodon, which is native to Mars.

When the first Roman explorers landed on Mars around 220 AD, they encountered powerful wandering tribes of Hittites who used trained war mastadons for combat. Hundreds of years later, after the Romans conquered the Hittitites, the mastodons on Mars became extinct. The only mastodons left were the ones which the Hittites had transplanted to Earth around1100 BC.

The Romans soon realized that the Mastodon was the cornerstone of the Martian ecosystem. Without it’s controlling power, many of them more aggressive predators began taking over the planet and killing off the weaker species, destroying the food pyramid bottom up. The Romans realized that unless the mastodons were brought back, their entire meat supply would be gone.

So in 815 AD a group of Romans set down on North America and captured twelve Mastodons which they brought back to Mars aboard 6 gigantic triremes. The next year they came back for twenty More. By 850AD a total of 213 mastodons had been returned to Mars. The rest of the Mastodons on Earth were now extinct.

Back on Mars some of the mastodons were set free in the wide open spaces to breed. Their population soon rebounded into the thousands. But many more were herded by Roman “cowboys” for their meat. The Romans drugged them in order to keep them docile. However, they had to release them from the potions in order for them to mate. Breeding season was a very dangerous time: lots of herders died.

By 1000 AD there were mastodon herds all over Mars. About 10,000 were in the wild, with another 120,000 being herded. Soon the great Bamboo forests to the north of the planet were greatly trampled, and the grasslands were mostly eaten up. This development caused the Romans to re-evaluate their dependence on Mastodon meat. Soon laws were made to limit the herds, and the natural ecosystem once again regained balance.

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A Science Fiction Epic Poem

Copyright © 2007 by Daniel Schilling

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Chapter Fourteen

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 One problem that the Romans and other ancient empires had when they migrated to outerspace, was a lack of good surveillance. The ether streams allowed their wooden sailing ships to be essentially transformed into space ships, but this could not make up entirely for their lack of technology. Space may have been an empty vacuum as far as the eye could see, but one must remember that the human eye cannot see very far, especially without glasses or contacts. Add to this the fact that the Romans could travel the ether streams at dizzying speeds up to 800,000 knots, and you can see why the lack of good surveillance was a problem.

The ancients really had no way of solving it. They had to assume that there was nothing in front of them as they soared down the streams at insane speeds. When it came to defending their planets, they faced the same problem: There was no good way to communicate between the planet’s surface and the orbit stream.

The Romans partially solved this problem with telescopes. This phenomenon was discovered by accident by Caesar Marcus in 1000 AD while hiking in the Martian outback. The emperor fell inside  a valconoe with glass vents. The inside of the mountain was naturally transformed into a three dimensional holographic chamber displaying objects deep in space. Using this mountain, the Romans were able to accurately predict the timing of the Klaron invasion, and the Chinese counterattack.

The following is the passage from the SkyPath Scrolls that documents this event:

Chapter 28

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When the Romans immigrated to Mars Circa 200-600 AD, they were forced to develop new battle strategies for the new terrain. They found themselves on a world with fewer seas and generally less vegetation than they were used to on Earth.  As a result they had to spread their population centers farther apart than they had in Italy, and therefore they became more vulnerable to their enemies.

            There were many smaller civilizations on Mars in those days, and none of them favored the newcomers. Perhaps the fiercest were the tribes of camel breeders descended from the ancient Hittites.  They lived in the mountains and deserts and were experts at guerilla warfare. In order to defeat them the Romans had to develop what became known as Crater formation.  They adapted their use of the phalanx for semi-geurilla warfare by teaching their  centurions to hold out for days against stiff odds using nothing more than the sides of a large crater for walls, and their large battle shields for a roof.  This strategy was not without it’s flaws, but the Romans used it with great success. Finally, at the battle of little Pompei in 592, the Romans established themselves as the primary rulers of Mars, by securing the ancient Martian citadel for their own. This victory came not a moment too soon, for already the flood of refugees from Earth had diminished to a trickle. The Roman Empire there was little more than a memory.  But on Mars it still flourished.

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The SkyPath Crusade

A Science Fiction Epic Poem

Copyright © 2007 by Daniel Schilling

All Rights Reserved

Chapter Thirteen

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I made mention of the fact in one of my previous posts that some ancient humans may have made it as far away from the sun as the Kuiper’s belt. Although most of this is speculation, there does seem at least a little hard evidence in literature that the ancient Mayans did indeed go to Pluto.

The Mayans, like all the ancient empires, traveled though space on sailing ships utilizing the ether streams. Temperatures in the ether streams were always near perfect for humans, since they channeled heat from the sun outward at sub-light speeds. Thus ships sailing as far at as pluto or farther could still be warm and toasty.

In those days of course, all the planets (minus gas giants) had water and oxygen. This was before the solar apocolypse of 1454 AD. Pluto was a dead frozen planet, but a frozen planet with H2O and air. It had ether portals on it (who knows why) and these portals actually heated the planet making it habitable for areas up to a hundred meters wide. Each ether portal, ofcourse was made up of about 100 separate stands within a square mile, and there were probably three ether portals on Pluto.

The ancient Mayans, then, when they sailed here, landed and found themselves surrounded by ice except for these small warm patches where they could cage animals or plant gardens. We believe that up to 300 stayed here long term, perhaps because they were stranded. They used the warm areas for plants, and then burrowed into the surrounding ice cliffs in order to make homes.

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The SkyPath Crusade

A Science Fiction Epic Poem

Copyright © 2007 by Daniel Schilling

All Rights Reserved

Chapter Twelve

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When the Romans migrated to the Mars from 200AD-600AD they bypassed the moon without hardly setting foot on it.  Other ancient civilizations from Earth likewise never gave it much attention as they explored the ether streams looking for new homes.  The reason for this was simple. The moon had a breathable atmosphere just like Mars, Venus, Titan, Tritan, Mercury, Ganeymede, Callisto, Europa and Io did, but unlike these worlds, it had absolutely no plant or animal life.  Therefore colonists on the moon had to be sustained by imports. There was really no value in the moon rather than a stepping stone into outer space.

Nevertheless a number of civilizations did build small colonies on the back side of the moon.  The Ancient Persians built some castles there from 100-400 AD when they attempted to come back from the moons of Jupiter and retake Earth. The Ancient Mayans, also colonized it from about 390-870 AD. The Mayans, unlike the other ancients, were not really interested in space colonialism. They went to the moon to mine gold and bring it back to Earth. They seem to have been very successful.

Starting around 900 AD, the Eastern Roman Empire, or the Byzantine Empire, built small castles on the moon, for the purpose of Embassies to negotiate with the humans living in space.  This was the last link between Earth and the space-dwelling humans.  The Byzantines kept a small compliment of men on the moon all the way until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. In 1454 the ether streams connecting the planets collapsed, and the moon was one of the first planets to revert back to an unlivable environment.

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This just in: the ancient Egyptians who sailed to the planet Mercury on Papyrus ships have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

“We like her because she’s like us,” says Pharoah Ab Dab Du, current ruler of Mercury. “Her Health care system reminds me of the one that I use to treat my 100,000 slaves. Whenever they claim to be sick I decide what illness they have, and whether or not I want to treat it. If they’re someone I don’t like I mis-diagnose it on purpose so that they die.”

For those who are not aware, the ancient Egyptians sailed to Mercury thousands of years ago when their Earthly empire began to die out. They have to migrate daily away from the hot sunlight in order to survive. 

“This too, gives me reason to support Hillary,” says Ab Dab Du, referring to his daily migration cycle. “I can appreciate someone who changes positions a lot.”

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President Gore stood tall and proud in front of the podium, exuding confidence from his stony face. The members of the press stood and clapped as he came in: a rarity for them. This was the same man who had alienated half the country by winning the presidential delegate count but losing the popular vote. But now, for one moment in time, even the Republicans were his allies.

            “My fellow Americans,” said the President, in his deep drolling voice. “Today something has happened which has not occurred in over fifty years: nuclear weapons have once again been deployed as a weapon against humanity. This time, however, they were not launched for the specific, albeit controversial, removal of tyranny, but to usher it in. Those who bombed the world today want us to believe that they are fighting for God, but we believe in a God of peace, not war, who embraces graciousness and kindness to all. For this reason I call on all religions: Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Hindus to unite as one against the enemy of extremism. Together we can win, divided we cannot.”

            There was lots of cheering. Everyone around me was talking about what a great president he was.

            “And so,” the president continued, “I want to make something clear. None of the nuclear weapons detonated today were activated on United States soil. However, the fallout from the Van Couver explosion has taken it’s toll within our borders. What happened today was a declaration of War on Australia, Canada, and Vietnam. Australia and Canada are two of our closest allies. Additionally, many of our troops once died on Vietnamese soil. As a result we are spiritually concerned about what happens to that country. Therefore I issue the following statement: We are at war with whoever is at war with them…!”

            “Finally, before I conclude this speech and evacuate to an undisclosed location, I wish to announce the creation of a new federal agency: The Department of Homeland Security. This department will be responsible for immediately securing our borders and preparing us should there be a similar detonation on US soil as has occurred to our three friends today. Some of my closest advisors are already drawing up fail safe plans to install checkpoints between state boundaries, and if necessary, developing a system to quickly and efficiently transmit nationwide information concerning alerts, new rules, and curfews. I humbly ask each loyal American citizen to follow these emergency laws to the letter, should they become necessary. My God grant that we never have to use them.”

            “Thank You.”

This story is a re-post of “AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HOW I DISCOVERED THAT ROMANS USED TO LIVE ON MARS-PART 11″

This account contains some imaginative symbolism

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