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- 1:02Speaker 2: This is Lee Hanson.
- 1:04Speaker 7: The next two episodes of Alien Worlds will not involve
- 1:07Speaker 7: Starlab or our friends in the ISA. This week, Alien
- 1:11Speaker 7: Worlds pursues a new horizon. We're going to take you
- 1:14Speaker 7: on a mystical journey through a science fiction fantasy adventure
- 1:18Speaker 7: that explores the intergalactic origins of spiritual evil. and how
- 1:22Speaker 7: the inhabitants of the ancient planet of Aletheia set out
- 1:25Speaker 7: to neutralize that evil over 2,000 years ago. Here then
- 1:29Speaker 7: are Olin Soule, Lorene Tuttle, Rucy Taylor, and Roger Dressler
- 1:34Speaker 7: in part one of our special presentation, Earthlight.
- 1:58Speaker 6: Something silent fractures the Illithian midnight clouds, and they slowly
- 2:05Speaker 6: puzzle apart, releasing the ghostly radiances of three white moons.
- 2:15Speaker 6: Brilliant lunar light shimmers down onto Illithia's night side. Darkness
- 2:21Speaker 6: dissolves as far north as the ion refineries at Lachilia,
- 2:27Speaker 6: as far south As the Aviana Sun Tower complex. As
- 2:32Speaker 6: far east as the Lusa Canal Intercept. As far west
- 2:37Speaker 6: as the domed windship port at Dharmas. Huge cloud fragments
- 2:46Speaker 6: break away and drift past the moons. There is a
- 2:50Speaker 6: sudden eclipse of light. Then the cloud fragments narrow to
- 2:55Speaker 6: smoky splinters. curl up into the fluorescent winds of the
- 3:00Speaker 6: aurora sphere and vanish. The moonlight returns, intensifies, expands. It
- 3:11Speaker 6: sweeps across the star flight complex at Calava, illuminates the
- 3:16Speaker 6: celestial laboratories at Sommarie, seeps down to the penumbrian shadow
- 3:21Speaker 6: forest and brightens the pyramid of Deus. which rests at
- 3:26Speaker 6: the forest's perimeter. A canal of dark water flows between
- 3:34Speaker 6: the pyramid and the forest. Iridescent nova blossoms on the
- 3:38Speaker 6: canal bottom sense the moonlight and rise to the surface,
- 3:43Speaker 6: the translucent petals shimmering with color. Docked at the edge
- 3:49Speaker 6: of the canal is a slender Illithian windship, Its triangular
- 3:54Speaker 6: sails fold, its 30-foot-long transparent metal hull low.
- 4:00Speaker 4: In the water.
- 4:03Speaker 6: The huge main chamber inside the pyramid is illuminated by
- 4:08Speaker 6: the pale yellow flames of a hundred thick white candles.
- 4:14Speaker 6: Moonlight streams in through the stained-glass sky windows at the
- 4:18Speaker 6: chamber's peak. Delicately woven tapestries and intricate mosaics decorate the
- 4:25Speaker 6: angled walls. Beneath the sky windows sits Deos, the father,
- 4:34Speaker 6: Illithia's most highly evolved divine scientist. On the carved wooden
- 4:40Speaker 6: table in front of him is an ancient voice book,
- 4:44Speaker 6: its pages embossed with complex hieroglyphs. As he moves his
- 4:49Speaker 6: fingertips over the hieroglyphs, the book voice tells him the future,
- 4:54Speaker 6: reaffirming his dream about another expedition to the planet of Terraloo.
- 5:03Speaker 8: A beautiful woman is blinded by visions of immortality and
- 5:07Speaker 8: falls to sleep in a flower field. A star machine
- 5:11Speaker 8: floats down into the scented voids of summer. A child
- 5:16Speaker 8: is born. A healer of spirits walks across the deep
- 5:20Speaker 8: currents of a faraway sea. The suffering are comforted. The
- 5:26Speaker 8: dying are healed. The dead are reborn. The healer of
- 5:32Speaker 8: spirits ascends to the stars. Terra Lu sinks below the
- 5:37Speaker 8: fiery horizons of an alien sun. Faces look up.
- 5:43Speaker 5: The sky stands still.
- 5:46Speaker 2: Terra Lu.
- 5:49Speaker 9: So many expeditions. So little progress. So many of our
- 5:55Speaker 9: sons and daughters lost. A thousand years.
- 6:03Speaker 4: And it's just beginning.
- 6:08Speaker 2: Deus?
- 6:10Speaker 4: Ah, come in and sit with me, Sabella.
- 6:11Speaker 5: Have you seen the sky, Deus? It's a perfect night
- 6:19Speaker 5: for star flying.
- 6:22Speaker 4: The book said it would be.
- 6:23Speaker 5: Has the book reaffirmed that we're returning to the Veda
- 6:27Speaker 5: sector of Teraloo?
- 6:28Speaker 4: Yes, and it told me about the woman. Her name
- 6:32Speaker 4: is Aram.
- 6:33Speaker 9: She's young and strong and beautiful. And she's never known
- 6:37Speaker 9: the Darkbringer virus.
- 6:39Speaker 5: Elisha and I had never known the virus either. Do
- 6:42Speaker 5: they share the same blood?
- 6:44Speaker 4: Yes.
- 6:45Speaker 9: And because they do, the embryon child implanted in Elishaba
- 6:49Speaker 9: during the last expedition and the embryon child of this
- 6:52Speaker 9: expedition will share the times to come.
- 6:58Speaker 4: The times to come. How are things progressing at Kalava?
- 7:04Speaker 5: The ship was moved to Dome 3 at sunset for
- 7:06Speaker 5: fueling and ancillary pre-flight maintenance.
- 7:09Speaker 4: Has Aram's embryon child been taken aboard? Yes.
- 7:13Speaker 5: Lyria took him into the ship's nucleus chamber at moonrise.
- 7:16Speaker 5: She's holding him in the secondary Genesis tank while Karmas
- 7:19Speaker 5: finishes refocusing the convection lenses on the primary.
- 7:23Speaker 4: And what about Zuriel?
- 7:25Speaker 9: Has he installed the new Peritron refractor?
- 7:28Speaker 5: He's still working on it. He would have finished by now,
- 7:31Speaker 5: but there was a technical setback.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Oh?
- 7:33Speaker 5: When Zuriel examined the new refractor, he found that two
- 7:36Speaker 5: of the waveform links were flawed. There wasn't time to
- 7:39Speaker 5: send it back to Soma Ray, so he's correcting the
- 7:41Speaker 5: flaw with a series of Nimbus filters.
- 7:44Speaker 4: Nimbus filters?
- 7:46Speaker 9: I wasn't aware that such things existed.
- 7:48Speaker 5: They didn't until now. Zuriel synthesized them in the Spectrum
- 7:52Speaker 5: Laboratory in Dome 6.
- 7:55Speaker 9: Is this the beginning of a new era in the
- 7:57Speaker 9: lithium technology?
- 8:00Speaker 5: Well, Zuriel seems to think so. You know how he
- 8:03Speaker 5: is when he does something especially inventive.
- 8:05Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, I know.
- 8:08Speaker 5: Deus, when Aram's embryon child evolves to his final form
- 8:14Speaker 5: and begins his work, will he be alone?
- 8:17Speaker 4: He will at first, but eventually there will be a multitude.
- 8:23Speaker 5: How will it end?
- 8:25Speaker 4: Tears, blood, a heart pierced with metal.
- 8:33Speaker 5: And what will become of us? Will we return to Illithia?
- 8:38Speaker 9: The book didn't know, Sabella, where the journey back should
- 8:42Speaker 9: have been. It was only silence.
- 8:49Speaker 6: Alien World's special presentation of Earthlight will continue.
- 8:57Speaker 5: This woman's sorry.
- 9:02Speaker 10: For keeping you guessing You never know why I'll do.
- 9:10Speaker 10: That's why I'm here confessing. It's because sometimes I feel
- 9:19Speaker 10: like a nut.
- 9:20Speaker 5: Sometimes I don't.
- 9:21Speaker 10: Almond Joy's got nuts. Mounds don't.
- 9:25Speaker 4: Almond Joy's got chocolate eating.
- 9:27Speaker 5: Coconut and munchiness too.
- 9:29Speaker 10: Mounds got chocolate eating and chewy coconut.
- 9:34Speaker 5: Sometimes I feel.
- 9:35Speaker 11: Like a nut.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Sometimes I don't.
- 9:37Speaker 4: Al Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I feel like a nut.
- 9:44Speaker 2: Sometimes I don't.
- 9:50Speaker 11: Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don't.
- 9:52Speaker 10: Alien World's special presentation of Earthlight continues today.
- 10:11Speaker 5: Deus, was the book able to calculate the time lapse
- 10:14Speaker 5: between our departure from Aletheia tonight and our penetration of
- 10:17Speaker 5: Terra Luz gravity veil?
- 10:19Speaker 4: Yes. Eleven solar days, nine phenomenas.
- 10:23Speaker 5: When will we make contact with Eram?
- 10:25Speaker 9: Three phenomenas past sunrise on the morning of the twelfth day.
- 10:29Speaker 9: She'll be alone in a field near her village, gathering
- 10:32Speaker 9: red and white flowers.
- 10:34Speaker 5: Red and white. Blood and purity.
- 10:37Speaker 2: Yes.
- 10:39Speaker 12: Yes.
- 10:40Speaker 9: The two elements that will haunt Aram to the end
- 10:43Speaker 9: of her days. Well, it's getting late, Sabella. We'd better
- 10:48Speaker 9: start for Calava.
- 10:54Speaker 6: As Deus and Sabella walk down the luminescent gemstone path
- 10:58Speaker 6: leading to the canal, a swarm of fluorescent blue spider
- 11:02Speaker 6: moths stream out of the shadow forest. circle the canal's
- 11:07Speaker 6: reflection of Olympia's three moons and streak away into the
- 11:11Speaker 6: flower-scented night. Cybella and Deus board Cybella's windship, move to
- 11:23Speaker 6: the deep circular cockpit just behind the bow, and settle
- 11:27Speaker 6: into thickly cushioned contour seats. Between the two seats is
- 11:32Speaker 6: a narrow transparent black systems console, its surface glittering with
- 11:37Speaker 6: multiple rows of brightly colored control prisms. Cybella touches three
- 11:43Speaker 6: of them, interfacing the windship's guidance system. Your request for
- 11:49Speaker 6: automatic guidance parameters has been received, Sabella.
- 11:58Speaker 11: Your vessel will proceed from the Avatar Pyramid Tributary, through
- 12:05Speaker 11: the Lusaw Canal Intersect, to the Daniel Imbria Tributary Arch.
- 12:10Speaker 11: Automatic guidance will be terminated and manual control returned as
- 12:15Speaker 11: you pass beneath the arch and approach the Galava sub-canal.
- 12:23Speaker 6: Tiny movements fold open the windship's thin metal masts, releasing
- 12:28Speaker 6: a quiet, magnetically generated wind which swells the translucent yellow sails.
- 12:35Speaker 6: The small, graceful ship drifts out into the center of
- 12:38Speaker 6: the canal, turns 45 degrees, and moves forward through the clean,
- 12:44Speaker 6: clear water. Nova blossom particles flaring in its way.
- 12:57Speaker 5: Deus, what is calorescent spectrocyte? I overheard Zuriel mention it
- 13:02Speaker 5: to Karmas.
- 13:02Speaker 9: Spectrocyte was the liquid light fuel that powered our first starships.
- 13:07Speaker 4: We terminated its use long before you were born.
- 13:10Speaker 9: Why?
- 13:11Speaker 5: Wasn't it efficient?
- 13:12Speaker 9: Yes, it was the perfect experimental fuel, Sabella.
- 13:16Speaker 4: Efficient, highly unstable, and extremely dangerous.
- 13:22Speaker 9: During the third expedition, we killed 9,000 inhabitants of Teraloo
- 13:26Speaker 9: with it.
- 13:27Speaker 5: Nine thousand? Deus, what happened?
- 13:32Speaker 4: An accident.
- 13:34Speaker 9: A circuit malfunction caused a fuel bay hatch to open
- 13:38Speaker 9: and an armed spectrocyte fuel.
- 13:40Speaker 4: Pod was ejected.
- 13:41Speaker 9: The pod exploded on impact between two wilderness cities.
- 13:45Speaker 4: That stood near the shore of a dying inland sea.
- 13:50Speaker 9: When Karmus and Lyria went down in a lander to
- 13:52Speaker 9: look for survivors, all they found was a young.
- 13:55Speaker 4: Female in the nearby hills.
- 13:57Speaker 5: Was she alive?
- 13:58Speaker 4: No.
- 14:00Speaker 9: Spectrocyte radiation had transformed her into a pillar of white
- 14:04Speaker 9: ionic stone. She stood like a statue, looking back at
- 14:10Speaker 9: where the two cities had been.
- 14:17Speaker 6: The perimeter of the Shadow Forest slowly fades into the
- 14:21Speaker 6: night as the winged ship leaves the Avatar Pyramid tributary
- 14:25Speaker 6: and sails out into the Lusar Canal Intercept, the vast
- 14:30Speaker 6: artificial lagoon where all of Alithea's equatorial waterways converge.
- 14:40Speaker 4: Deus settles back in.
- 14:42Speaker 6: His seat, looks up at the three moons through half-closed eyes,
- 14:47Speaker 6: and slowly wills himself into a memory trance. A chill
- 14:54Speaker 6: surges through his body. The nuclei of his secondary blood
- 14:58Speaker 6: cells divide, releasing the organically stored experiences of another time.
- 15:05Speaker 6: Then a bright Russian sound only he can hear takes
- 15:09Speaker 6: his mind 1,000 years into the past. Sunlight and warm
- 15:18Speaker 6: winds touch his face. He glides over the sea of
- 15:22Speaker 6: echoes in a small windship. In the bright pale green
- 15:27Speaker 6: distance is Reliever Island. On it stands the great white
- 15:31Speaker 6: dome of Illithia's exobionic observatory. The observatory has been receiving
- 15:38Speaker 6: and analyzing scan tracings from two drone flyers which are
- 15:42Speaker 6: exploring the void of the nine worlds in the far
- 15:46Speaker 6: galaxy of Sirius. Both flyers have discovered something unexpected and ominous. Diavas,
- 15:54Speaker 6: the observatory matriarch, is concerned.
- 16:06Speaker 4: Have you confirmed it, Diavas? Yes.
- 16:09Speaker 12: Sit here beside me, Deus. I'll transfer the visual data
- 16:12Speaker 12: to the wall screen.
- 16:15Speaker 6: An abstract three-dimensional scan pattern fluoresces onto the large triangular
- 16:20Speaker 6: wall monitor and slowly becomes a geological image of multilayered
- 16:26Speaker 6: earth and volcanic rock. Embedded in one of the layers
- 16:31Speaker 6: are the mummified bodies of three nude humanoid women. Next
- 16:36Speaker 6: to them are five black skeletons whose grotesque skulls resemble
- 16:42Speaker 6: the heads of ebony gargoyles. Each skeleton lies against a
- 16:47Speaker 6: secondary pattern of thin black bones, the bones of what
- 16:52Speaker 6: were once.
- 16:53Speaker 9: Large, bat-like wings. Another world contaminated by Darkbringers. Is it
- 17:02Speaker 9: a planet in this star system?
- 17:04Speaker 10: No.
- 17:05Speaker 12: It's in the Sirisius galaxy. Terraloo, the only inhabited planet
- 17:10Speaker 12: in the void of the nine worlds. Drone flyer Septus
- 17:13Speaker 12: began transmitting these substrata images seven days ago.
- 17:17Speaker 4: Was it a full-scale invasion? No, it was.
- 17:21Speaker 12: Confined to a relatively small area near Terraloo's equatorial meridian.
- 17:25Speaker 4: When did it happen?
- 17:27Speaker 12: Nineteen light eons ago, just as Terraloo was entering its
- 17:30Speaker 12: third neuroevolution. They lived in caves then, Deus. and ate
- 17:36Speaker 12: the flesh of things that crawled and flew.
- 17:40Speaker 4: How large was the attack force?
- 17:42Speaker 12: One Darkbringer Legion, probably an inquest unit. They invaded the
- 17:47Speaker 12: cave settlement, killed the males and children, and then attacked
- 17:51Speaker 12: the females. The same assault methods they used here, and
- 17:56Speaker 12: on Anianus and Telluria.
- 17:58Speaker 4: Why didn't the assault extend beyond that one area?
- 18:01Speaker 12: The region was destroyed during the attack by a first
- 18:04Speaker 12: magnitude strata convulsion and volcanic eruptions. An enormous chasm breached open,
- 18:11Speaker 12: and the entire settlement collapsed into it. The Darkbringer Armada
- 18:16Speaker 12: was probably in an observation orbit during the assault, but
- 18:20Speaker 12: when they saw the instantaneous destruction of an entire legion,
- 18:24Speaker 12: I think they became frightened and moved out into deep space.
- 18:27Speaker 4: Yes, you're probably right.
- 18:29Speaker 9: They always did become blind with confusion in the presence
- 18:32Speaker 9: of unexpected planetary convulsions. Have the reproductive organs of the
- 18:37Speaker 9: dead females been analyzed?
- 18:39Speaker 12: Grown flyer Erebus transmitted its scanner analysis last night. The
- 18:45Speaker 12: bodies of all three females contained traces of calcified Darkbringer
- 18:49Speaker 12: insemination fluid.
- 18:51Speaker 9: Have you received a retrospective survival projection?
- 18:54Speaker 2: Yes.
- 18:56Speaker 12: According to the residual bio time scan from drone Erebus,
- 19:00Speaker 12: there were over 800 female survivors. All of them inseminated
- 19:06Speaker 12: during the assault. None of their newborns had any physical
- 19:10Speaker 12: Darkbringer characteristics, but they all emerged from their parent mothers
- 19:15Speaker 12: saturated with the Darkbringer anti-light virus.
- 19:19Speaker 4: Has the virus evolved with them?
- 19:21Speaker 12: This morning, from an orbital distance of 300 demovectors, drone
- 19:26Speaker 12: septus hemo scanned the entire population of Terraloo. It saw
- 19:31Speaker 12: the virus in the blood and bone marrow of every
- 19:34Speaker 12: male and female, regardless of tribe or age.
- 19:38Speaker 9: And has the virus affected them in the same way
- 19:40Speaker 9: it affected us?
- 19:41Speaker 12: There are variations, even some resistance at first. But in time,
- 19:47Speaker 12: the virus flourishes, and the inner lifeforms grows dark.
- 19:52Speaker 9: Without any evolutionary interference from us how much longer will
- 19:57Speaker 9: the virus control Jeralu.
- 19:59Speaker 12: A minimum of 500 centuries.
- 20:02Speaker 9: But by the end of that time the entire Sirius
- 20:05Speaker 9: galaxy would be contaminated.
- 20:06Speaker 12: There's only one choice isn't there.
- 20:10Speaker 4: Yes, an expedition.
- 20:13Speaker 9: We know the inner light can be resurrected through induced
- 20:16Speaker 9: evolution meditations. We've proved that here. We've proved it on
- 20:20Speaker 9: Anianus and Telluria. Diavis, do you see any reason why
- 20:25Speaker 9: our spirit magicians couldn't teach the meditations on Terraloo?
- 20:29Speaker 2: I see two reasons.
- 20:32Speaker 12: The Anialight disease wasn't as advanced on those planets. And
- 20:36Speaker 12: where Anianus and Telluria were both entering an age of radiance,
- 20:40Speaker 12: when the invasions came, Taralu is still hyper-primitive and superstitious.
- 20:45Speaker 12: It would be impossible to land ships there without terrifying.
- 20:51Speaker 12: Our teachers will have to come to Taralu from within,
- 20:54Speaker 12: not from without.
- 20:56Speaker 4: Embryons?
- 20:57Speaker 11: Yes.
- 20:59Speaker 12: Created from your blood and implanted in their females.
- 21:04Speaker 5: It would take time.
- 21:08Speaker 8: Be dangerous.
- 21:10Speaker 12: But in the end the virus would be neutralized the
- 21:13Speaker 12: life would be resurrected and Terra Lu would no longer
- 21:16Speaker 12: be divided against.
- 21:22Speaker 9: Itself Terra Lu Terra Lu.
- 21:28Speaker 13: So many expeditions it would take time so little progress
- 21:35Speaker 13: it would be difficult So many of our sons and
- 21:39Speaker 13: daughters lost.
- 21:42Speaker 4: It would be dangerous.
- 21:43Speaker 2: A thousand years.
- 21:46Speaker 8: But in the end, the virus would be neutralized.
- 21:50Speaker 11: The light would be resurrected.
- 21:52Speaker 12: And Terralil would no longer be divided against itself.
- 21:56Speaker 8: The others.
- 22:08Speaker 4: Diave.
- 22:08Speaker 9: Deus?
- 22:08Speaker 4: Deus?
- 22:09Speaker 12: Ah, Sabella.
- 22:16Speaker 9: I was just remembering an old friend and a hundred
- 22:19Speaker 9: other nights like this and a hundred other expeditions.
- 22:23Speaker 4: So much time has passed. So many of Alithea's sons
- 22:27Speaker 4: and daughters have been lost.
- 22:29Speaker 9: A thousand years and it's just beginning.
- 22:37Speaker 6: Alien World's special presentation of Earthlight will continue.
- 22:45Speaker 2: Uh, pardon me. Isn't that a Cadbury chocolate bar? I've
- 22:48Speaker 2: never tried one. Oh, that's too bad. Do you mind
- 22:51Speaker 2: if I have a teensy piece?
- 22:52Speaker 4: Hey, you took my bar.
- 22:54Speaker 2: I'll just take a little bit.
- 22:56Speaker 4: It was for my wife and me.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Oh, she'll love it. See, this is great. You know,
- 23:01Speaker 2: you can get carried away with this stuff.
- 23:03Speaker 4: Yes, I've noticed. Oh, come on. It's a big bar.
- 23:06Speaker 4: It's getting smaller.
- 23:07Speaker 3: When people get a taste of a big, thick Cadbury
- 23:10Speaker 3: chocolate bar, they get very carried away. Because only a
- 23:14Speaker 3: Cadbury bar is so rich, so creamy, so Cadbury. And
- 23:19Speaker 3: with the big size Cadbury chocolate bar, you get a
- 23:22Speaker 3: big choice. Cadbury fruit and nut, Cadbury almond, Cadbury caramello,
- 23:28Speaker 3: and of course the big favorite, Cadbury milk chocolate. So remember,
- 23:33Speaker 3: when you get your Cadbury, be careful. Because with Cadbury,
- 23:37Speaker 3: people can get very carried away.
- 23:39Speaker 7: Uh, can I have my Cadbury back now?
- 23:42Speaker 2: Your Cadbury? Oh, I guess I got carried away. You'll
- 23:46Speaker 2: get carried away with Cadbury.
- 23:53Speaker 6: Alien World's special presentation of Earthlight continues.
- 23:57Speaker 5: What did you do after the Darkbringers killed your parent, mother,
- 24:06Speaker 5: and father?
- 24:07Speaker 9: I escaped into the wilderness of Bas with a group
- 24:10Speaker 9: of scientists and technical magicians from the city of Tialin.
- 24:15Speaker 4: We thought we'd be safe there. But three days after
- 24:18Speaker 4: the initial attack.
- 24:20Speaker 9: Darkbringer annihilation squads began saturating the atmosphere and.
- 24:23Speaker 4: Waterways with the virus. Eventually, we all became infected to
- 24:27Speaker 4: some degree.
- 24:29Speaker 5: The effects of the anti-light disease have never been described
- 24:32Speaker 5: to me, Deus. What actually happens?
- 24:35Speaker 9: It begins with an underlying discontent with the ceremonies and
- 24:39Speaker 9: celebrations of life. Intelligence is corrupted. Emotion displaces logic. Imagination
- 24:47Speaker 9: ceases to evolve. the ability to separate the symbols of
- 24:51Speaker 9: existence from existence itself disappears. And so does the belief
- 24:56Speaker 9: that all life is sacred.
- 24:59Speaker 4: The effects are irresistible.
- 25:00Speaker 9: And inescapable, even in the unconscious sanctuaries of sleep.
- 25:05Speaker 5: How long were you in the wilderness?
- 25:06Speaker 4: Twenty-five years.
- 25:09Speaker 9: Do you know the story of Vershila?
- 25:13Speaker 5: Oh, some, but not all of it.
- 25:15Speaker 9: Vrshila was a mantric high priest who came to us
- 25:19Speaker 9: in the wilderness during our 25th year of exile. He
- 25:23Speaker 9: told us he had cured himself of the anti-light disease
- 25:26Speaker 9: through a series of induced evolution meditations. He had discovered
- 25:30Speaker 9: the meditations in the Prasana Utvalya Jewel, the ancient Illithian
- 25:35Speaker 9: poem of creation. He taught us the meditations and we
- 25:39Speaker 9: healed ourselves. Then we went out from the wilderness and
- 25:42Speaker 9: secretly taught the meditations throughout.
- 25:44Speaker 5: Illithia And the revolution against the Darkbringers began 50 years
- 25:49Speaker 5: after that?
- 25:50Speaker 4: Yes.
- 25:51Speaker 9: Our technical magicians built secret subterranean laboratories where they created
- 25:56Speaker 9: ships armed with powerful liquid light injectors. One year after
- 26:01Speaker 9: our ships rose up against them, the Darkbringers abandoned Aletheia
- 26:05Speaker 9: and the.
- 26:06Speaker 4: Age of Radiance began.
- 26:11Speaker 6: As the winged ship approaches the Tenille Imbria tributary arch,
- 26:15Speaker 6: it passes a Sun Tower complex construction site on the
- 26:19Speaker 6: lagoon's northern shore. Polished metal saucer-shaped hover drones lower huge
- 26:26Speaker 6: white Sun Tower obelisks onto thick pads of fluorescent synergite.
- 26:32Speaker 6: Giant constructor tripods stand in front of the huge synergite blocks,
- 26:37Speaker 6: their long, flexible arms coiled around the 400-foot-tall sun towers,
- 26:43Speaker 6: guiding them into place. The complex is surrounded by multifaceted
- 26:48Speaker 6: solar energy domes and power dispersion pyramids made of thick.
- 26:53Speaker 2: White crystal.
- 26:58Speaker 5: Did you see Shiva today?
- 26:59Speaker 4: Yes, we walked in the forest this morning.
- 27:01Speaker 5: How does she feel about the new Sun Tower complex?
- 27:04Speaker 5: It looks as though it's nearly finished.
- 27:06Speaker 4: She's delighted with its progress.
- 27:08Speaker 9: The iron refineries at Lahilia and the floral hatcheries at
- 27:11Speaker 9: Vianatet are already drawing power from it. She estimates it'll
- 27:15Speaker 9: be fully operational in another six days.
- 27:20Speaker 5: We'll be halfway to Terraloo in six days.
- 27:24Speaker 4: Sabella....
- 27:26Speaker 9: Are you concerned that the book didn't know if we'd
- 27:29Speaker 9: be coming back?
- 27:30Speaker 5: What will become of Aestheus if the ship should fall
- 27:34Speaker 5: into a star?
- 27:36Speaker 4: The prospect of death doesn't disturb you, does it?
- 27:39Speaker 1: No.
- 27:41Speaker 4: No, I thought not. Then what does?
- 27:46Speaker 5: Rebirth. Have you ever imagined... What it would be like
- 27:53Speaker 5: to be reborn on some other planet. One that wouldn't
- 27:56Speaker 5: care about our secrets or understand our ecstasies. Or forgive
- 28:01Speaker 5: our failures.
- 28:03Speaker 4: There's no such planet, Sabella. Not in this universe.
- 28:24Speaker 6: Was written by Ron Thompson and starred Olin Soleil as Deus,
- 28:29Speaker 6: Lucy Taylor as Sabella, and Lorene Tuttle as Diavas. Associate producer,
- 28:35Speaker 6: Ron Thompson. Engineer, Stu Jacobs. Music director, Tom Rons. Assistant
- 28:42Speaker 6: to the producer, Jim Cook. Technical consultant, Peter Skye. Alien
- 28:47Speaker 6: Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen and
- 28:52Speaker 6: was distributed by Watermark Incorporated. And so, until next week,
- 28:57Speaker 6: this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for
- 29:01Speaker 6: the conclusion of Earthlight from the Elsewhere and Elsewhen.
- 29:05Speaker 4: Of Alien Worlds. Alien Worlds.
- 29:21Speaker 6: Peter, Paul, and Cadbury Chocolate Bars hope you have enjoyed
- 29:26Speaker 6: Alien Worlds. So, to help you get over your fear
- 29:31Speaker 6: of phone watch, I want to try a bit of
- 29:33Speaker 6: word association.
- 29:35Speaker 2: Just say whatever comes into your head after each word
- 29:37Speaker 2: I say, okay? Peace.
- 29:39Speaker 9: Lange.
- 29:40Speaker 4: Home.
- 29:40Speaker 12: Alarm.
- 29:41Speaker 11: Window.
- 29:42Speaker 6: Motion sensors.
- 29:42Speaker 2: Front door.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Video doorbell.
- 29:44Speaker 6: Time.
- 29:44Speaker 4: Fifteen seconds.
- 29:45Speaker 6: Trevor, these words are supposed to be neutral.
- 29:48Speaker 12: They were, until phone watch added all the good stuff
- 29:50Speaker 12: to their alarms.
- 29:52Speaker 1: Get the Alarm Burglar's Fear for just € 59 with 24x7 monitoring.
- 29:55Speaker 12: Don't be alarmed. Be phone watched.
- 29:57Speaker 8: Offer end September 30th.
- 29:58Speaker 12: Monitoring fees and terms apply.