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21 religion; they took those teachings to their home planet; many "temples to God" were built on NESAR planets; after 5 years hostilities broke out between families over these religious ideas & increased & spread to other planets causing war which lasted 7 years & destroyed stars & planets even creating a black hole in the NESAR galaxy; prior to this they had lived in peace for 17,000 years; other extraterrestrials intervened to stop the wars, forbidding the NESAR people to return to Earth After another hyper-leap they have traveled 960 decillion light-years from the SOL System to the Galaxy of "ASAP" to the planet "Desmon" inhabited by humans "something like equivalent to your Middle Ages" who live in "greater villages" like those in Earth's oriental regions; a second nomadic race also lives here in huts made from plants & bushes; there is a giant sun in this system "which will die after some millenniums"; there is a moon 4 times the size of Earth's moon which will tush into the giant sun in about 3,200 years "because the 3 cosmic bodies work slowly towards one another"; the humans on Desmon will have developed technologies which will enable them to escape the planet, if this doesn't happen "then help from outside would be brought in. This is an obligation under cosmic law"; Meier & Semjase unable to talk with these humans "nor on any of the worlds which we will visit in the next few hours"..."we are only allowed to be seen where the concerned evolution allows this" Next hyper-leap 700 sextillion light-years from Earth to the Galaxy of "Nepon", the system of "Lesa" with 2 sister planets of immense size (one is inhabited by human forms of life) and their giant moon 520 times larger than Earth; "on these worlds also we will undertake a short flight"; Meier takes photos Next hyper-leap, still in the "Lesa" system ("which is very extensive and must be crossed in hyper-leaps"), to a planet in similar size to Earth that has oxygen and an Earth-similar atmosphere but the surface is more like that of Venus; the planet has "quite primitive plant & animal life but was in earlier times more populated. A cosmic event destroyed all and reduced it to stone for millions of years. For some millenniums now the conditions are changing again and new life is developing itself"; waste-, water- & forest-regions, and desert-like landscapes consisting "partly of massive rock, mountains, and very fried and brittle stones"; mountains no taller than 2,000 meters and look similar to the mountains on Venus; Meier able to photograph through the beamship's hatch opening "for the atmosphere is very well suited for all of us" Next hyper-leap 30 trillion light-years from Earth to the Galaxy "Mara", the system "Taro" with an enclave of stars; "most worlds of this system appear blue in color"..."are all still actively volcanic, and after some millions of years the first life will start developing itself on them" spots a "flight machine", Semjase tries to contact it "with some of her instruments, and also talks in a not understandable language for [Meier], characterized by fully strange melodics ("a speakable language of signs or symbol pictures"), and speaks into an instrument" but has no success since the creatures "do not maintain intergalactic communication" Next hyper-leap 480 quadrillion light-years from Earth to the Galaxy "Deron", the system "Exes", "this star cluster consists only of volcanic worlds which radiate their own light power...it is still rather dark on these worlds. The light only penetrates to the outside, but is not able to illuminate the world's surfaces"; Meier photographs some volcanoes Next hyper-leap to a system with a star cluster (3 billion kilometers from the beamship) and a giant ice-world planet 11 times larger than Saturn Meier asks about the security distance from planets needed in hyper-leaps, why Ptaah doesn't observe that in these hyper-leaps; he explains "with my ship we have much better capabilities for overcoming distances. The technologies of our ship enables us to also neutralize time...by this process it is possible for us to achieve a safe distance in less time and to then transmit"..."on the one hand we neutralize the time until shortly before the point of departure, and on the other we generate in the space a neutral timeless tunnel through which we can then overcome within a split-second the short distance for safe position"..."the timelessness tunnel is indeed easier to handle than a hyper-leap. Such a tunnel can only be generated within certain distances, in which the sort of environment must always be regarded. In different galaxies and systems the different energies limit the extent of a timelessness-channel..." Meier asks if "there exists in our Universe forms of life at about the same position in evolution as we humans on Earth"; "The variety of The Creation knows no limits." - Ptaah After this great journey Meier will be one half hour younger in relation to other Earth humans; his wristwatch "always goes crazy when I get near Semjase's ship"; he is not tired, hungry or thirsty during this long trip because he has eaten some Plejaren fruits & vegetables for dinner which are more nourishing & thirst-quenching than Earth produce, able to calm hunger & thirst for up to 90 hours; Stevens annotation - Meier given an apple grown on the Plejaren great-spacer which he gave to Guido Moosbrugger who saved it for months, it hadn't begun to rot even up to the time of examination by the Stevens/Elders/Welch team because "produce grown aboard the ship was cultivated free of destructive bacteria"; Meier not tired because the air aboard the great-spacer has higher oxygen content than Earth air "and also the compound of other elements is somewhat different", "the different composition of the air keeps us awake Flying over one of the volcanic worlds of "Taro" Meier