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Make the Gods Wonder

By

James M. Ward

Background

Three hundred years ago mankind lived on 77 different worlds and explored all

through space. At the exact same time in all of the 77 solar systems and along all

the space lanes used by humans, alien battlefleets attacked in a coordinated melee,

attempting to destroy all of mankind in one massive wave attack. Mankind’s S-ships,

robotic attack spaceships, used in man’s defense, computed battle defenses on all

77 worlds was useless to try and save all of the 77 worlds. The artificial intelligences

(A.I.s) of the ships came to the same conclusion at the same exact time. Each of the

S-ships gave up their normal duties and flew to Earth Prime to protect it from the

invaders. They weren’t in time to save the Earth. They did save what was left of the

solar system.

During mankind’s expansion, Earth’s moon turned into a tourist center. Three

different huge domes were transformed into bits of Earth’s past. There was an

Egyptian dome, a Camelot dome, and a roaring ‘20s Chicago dome. Each of these

provided the culture and supposed action from those legendary times. The aliens

had planned on capturing those domes to study what was left of humanity. The

mankind’s A.I.s (artificial intelligences) working in labs under the domes had a

decision to make. Their primary program ruled they must do everything they could

to protect their human charges. Over night, the programming of the humanity

under the domes drastically changed. The people in the three different domes took

on the belief that they were actually living in the age represented by the domes

they were in. An intense breeding program took place. After three hundred years of

controlled breeding, the humans of the domes were perfect physical specimens.

Now there was a problem. There were special minerals needed for the maintenance

of computer systems and the closest source was on Earth Prime. The androids and

A.I.s shook their computer brains at the thought of what was needed next.