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vessels now?”
“Get another piece of paper out, this will be question number nine.”
That night, in the privacy of his room Victor reviewed the video of his mission to the moon. He had this nagging question in the back of his mind, concerning the plant and animal life there. He was scanning through each individual frame when he came upon a flowering plant that he recognized. It was not exactly the same as the flower that some people had in their gardens here, but close enough. He knew that the lighter gravity would have a minimal effect on the plant life there. The plant here was a little closer to the ground, with slightly smaller petals on its flower. The one on the moon had taller stalks, slightly larger petals and was the exact same color as the ones here. This is what he would expect if they had brought the plant life from this world to terraform their moon. The plant life would adapt to the new environment. These people at one time were reasonably advanced in their technology. What happened?
The next day he showed the entire video to Taerg who noticed other plants and was naming them off one by one.
“Victor, why did you not reveal this to me earlier? I would have realized this right away.”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t even think of the connection until yesterday, when we discovered that your people were technologically advanced. Now though, it makes perfect sense that they would use the plant life from their own planet to prepare their moon to be inhabited by future generations.”
“Once our planet is filled, how will we expand to the moon if we do not have the necessary technology to get us there?”
“That is a very good question, put that down as number ten. It is a question that we should ask the grand council. Are there any other questions we need to write down?”
“How about this question: Why do they call this the Cavern of Lights when there are no lights except the fireplace and these oil burning lamps that we bring in every day?”
“I would not put the answer to that question high on the urgent answer list, but it is a legitimate one. I guess that will be number eleven.”
They continued to devour the directive documents one by one. They were covering them more rapidly. Now that they had learned most of the obsolete terms used in these documents, it was easier. There was little lost time trying to figure out the meaning of certain words. After two weeks they were roughly half way through the directives. Unfortunately, they did not find answers to any more of their questions. This was beginning to frustrate the both of them, but especially Victor. He had the notion that they would have more information by now. The only distinct reference that arose every so often was only an allusion to the “chamber of the past.” The phrase was always connected to future expansion and the colonization of the moon. These remarks were reiterated several times, although without any helpful details. Consequently, another unanswered question was added to the list.
“Taerg, what do you think this chamber of the past is? Do you think that it is another cavern somewhere in these cliffs or maybe somewhere else?”
“This is the only cavern known in this part of our world. All the others that I know of are about a thousand miles away. They are not special, simply caverns that are empty and smaller than this one.”
“That is strange. It seems to me that if it were mentioned in connection with this cavern, it would at least be close by. If not directly connected to this one.”
“We already explored the whole cavern and we did not find any other connecting chambers.”
“Yes I know, but maybe we should look more closely. We will do this after we finish examining the directive documents of course. I would also like to analyze your earliest historical records in addition to these directives. Some of the records even predate these directives, according to what we have discovered so far in them. Not
“Get another piece of paper out, this will be question number nine.”
That night, in the privacy of his room Victor reviewed the video of his mission to the moon. He had this nagging question in the back of his mind, concerning the plant and animal life there. He was scanning through each individual frame when he came upon a flowering plant that he recognized. It was not exactly the same as the flower that some people had in their gardens here, but close enough. He knew that the lighter gravity would have a minimal effect on the plant life there. The plant here was a little closer to the ground, with slightly smaller petals on its flower. The one on the moon had taller stalks, slightly larger petals and was the exact same color as the ones here. This is what he would expect if they had brought the plant life from this world to terraform their moon. The plant life would adapt to the new environment. These people at one time were reasonably advanced in their technology. What happened?
The next day he showed the entire video to Taerg who noticed other plants and was naming them off one by one.
“Victor, why did you not reveal this to me earlier? I would have realized this right away.”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t even think of the connection until yesterday, when we discovered that your people were technologically advanced. Now though, it makes perfect sense that they would use the plant life from their own planet to prepare their moon to be inhabited by future generations.”
“Once our planet is filled, how will we expand to the moon if we do not have the necessary technology to get us there?”
“That is a very good question, put that down as number ten. It is a question that we should ask the grand council. Are there any other questions we need to write down?”
“How about this question: Why do they call this the Cavern of Lights when there are no lights except the fireplace and these oil burning lamps that we bring in every day?”
“I would not put the answer to that question high on the urgent answer list, but it is a legitimate one. I guess that will be number eleven.”
They continued to devour the directive documents one by one. They were covering them more rapidly. Now that they had learned most of the obsolete terms used in these documents, it was easier. There was little lost time trying to figure out the meaning of certain words. After two weeks they were roughly half way through the directives. Unfortunately, they did not find answers to any more of their questions. This was beginning to frustrate the both of them, but especially Victor. He had the notion that they would have more information by now. The only distinct reference that arose every so often was only an allusion to the “chamber of the past.” The phrase was always connected to future expansion and the colonization of the moon. These remarks were reiterated several times, although without any helpful details. Consequently, another unanswered question was added to the list.
“Taerg, what do you think this chamber of the past is? Do you think that it is another cavern somewhere in these cliffs or maybe somewhere else?”
“This is the only cavern known in this part of our world. All the others that I know of are about a thousand miles away. They are not special, simply caverns that are empty and smaller than this one.”
“That is strange. It seems to me that if it were mentioned in connection with this cavern, it would at least be close by. If not directly connected to this one.”
“We already explored the whole cavern and we did not find any other connecting chambers.”
“Yes I know, but maybe we should look more closely. We will do this after we finish examining the directive documents of course. I would also like to analyze your earliest historical records in addition to these directives. Some of the records even predate these directives, according to what we have discovered so far in them. Not
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