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still appreciated as long as it is aligned with the explicit objectives of its leaders. Because it is a synthetic race, it can be produced in a controlled environment and its population can be increased or decreased depending on the whims of its leaders... Anne: Didn't you just say it's from a galaxy that's 2.6 million light years away? I mean, assuming they were able to travel at the speed of light, it would take them 2.6 million years to come to our planet. And you said earlier that they didn't even know about Earth yet...right? Dr Anderson: The Corteum come from a planet that is 15,000 light years away, and yet they can come and go between their planet and our planet in the time it takes us to travel to the Moon—a mere 250,000 miles away. Time is not linear, nor is space. Space is curved, as your physi- cists have recently learned, but it can be artificially curved through displacement energy fields that collapse space and the illusion of distance. Light particles do not displace or collapse space, they ride a linear line through space; but there are forms of electromagnetic energy that can modify or collapse space. And this technology makes space travel—even between galaxies—not only possible, but also relatively easy. Anne: Why did you say "your physicists" just then? Dr Anderson: I apologise. It's just a part of the conditioning of being isolated from mainstream society. When you operate for 30 years in a secret organisation like the Labyrinth Group, you tend to look at your fellow humans...as not your fellow humans, but as something else. The principles of science that the Labyrinth Group has embraced are very different from those taught within your...there I go again...within our universities. I must be getting tired. Anne: I didn't mean to criticise you. It's just the way you said it—it sounded as though an alien or an outsider said it. Dr Anderson: I qualify as an outsider, but certainly not an alien. Anne: Okay, back to this prophecy or alien race. What do they want? I mean, why travel such a far distance to rule Earth? Dr Anderson: This seems such a funny question to me. Excuse me for laughing. It's just that humans do not understand how special Earth is. It is truly, as planets are concerned, a spe- cial planet. It has such a tremendous biodiversity and a complex range of ecosystems. Its natural resources are unique and plenti- ful. It's a genetic library that's the equivalent of a galactic zoo. The aliens that are coming desire to own this planet and add it to its colonisation plans. As I've already mentioned, this is a syn- thetic race, a species that can clone itself and fabricate more and more of its population to serve the purpose of its colonisation pro- gram. However, it desires more diversity, and Earth will repre- sent an opportunity for it to diversify. Anne: So where are they right now? Dr Anderson: I assume they remain in their homeworld. To the best of our knowledge, they haven't crossed into our galaxy wat yet. Anne: And when they arrive, how will the ACIO or Labyrinth Group know? Dr Anderson: As I said, the ACIO has already done a signifi- cant amount of intelligence-gathering and even selected scenarios and intervention points. Anne: So what's the plan? Dr Anderson: The most logical approach would be to travel to the time and place when the causal thought was born to explore the Milky Way, and, through MRP, expunge it from the memory of the race. Essentially, convince them that of all the wonderful, life-inhabited galaxies, the Milky Way is a poor choice. The Labyrinth Group would implant a memory that would lead this race to conclude that our galaxy was not worthy of their serious exploration. Anne: So some other galaxy becomes their next target? Wouldn't we bear the responsibility of their next conquest? Aren't we then perpetrators ourselves? Dr Anderson: This is a fair question, but I'm afraid I don't know the answer. Anne: Why couldn't we, using this MRP technology, simply implant a memory not to be aggressive, to tell this race to stop try- ing to colonise new worlds that aren't theirs to own like property? Why couldn't we do this? Dr Anderson: Perhaps we will. I don't really know what Fifteen has in mind. I am, though, confident in his approach and its efficacy. Ammnae Dat oar that wan Anne: But you said earlier that you feared for your life...that Fifteen is prob- ably trying to hunt you down, even as we speak. Why are so you confident in his sense of morality? Dr Anderson: In the case of Fifteen, morality doesn't really play a role. He operates in his own code of ethics, and I don't pretend to understand it all. But I'm quite certain of his mission to avert take-over by this alien race, and I'm equally confident that he will choose the best intervention point with the least influence to the overall species of this alien race. It is the only way he can acquire BST. And he knows this. Anne: We're back to God again, aren't we? Dr Anderson: Yes. Anne: So God and Fifteen have this all figured out? Dr Anderson: There's no certainty, if that's what you mean. And there's no alliance between Fifteen and God—at -_—_—_—_—oO" ef” Word, SPECTACULAR, (CAN we GET THE video? a ce vy Vv 1.) ~) 54 - NEXUS APRIL —- MAY 1999 Soh.