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Zy spoke about a cartoon he had seen. It showed an unemployment line trailing in the distance into a grave.
The intensity of Zy and Olaf's talking had the strangest effect on me. Time and time again the Gorans came to mind that Werner and I had caused to be destroyed by our own intervention in the galactic struggles.
"We had the best intentions in mind," said Werner when I brought the subject up.
In response to the way Olaf had reacted, as I tormented myself with this incidence, I asked Olaf what he would have done. Would he have done the same thing as Werner and I? I could still see the Gorans' ship in its final power dive. We could have zipped it back to the fleet before it exploded on impact.
Olaf just shrugged his shoulders. "I wasn't there. You must search for the principles involved. I might have relocated the entire fleet to a different galaxy. But what we did in the end of the 'O' people was better. We elevated the 'O' people to a higher state of living. We might have even taught the Gorans that they are not all powerful, that in fact their chosen way of life is a rather stupid way to live. I knew that the 'O' people's demand on themselves to find a victory without violence and destruction of anyone, was the only option they had. I think I was the only one of us who understood at the time that what they were searching for was the only option that would actually work. This conviction came out of our failure before."
I tried to listen to Olaf and Zy as intently as I could, especially when they compared the episode of the Gorans to their earlier experiences. Also, I had insisted that their story be told. Now its essence was almost escaping me under a burden of emotions that seemed too immense to grasp. Nevertheless, the agony seemed to have put their story into the kind of perspective in which it must be seen. But how does on draw such a perspective? Two civilizations have been destroyed with the intention to save them. Quian was destroyed totally, and Gribbork by 93%. Was that also an echo of the future on Earth? I suddenly realized that Olaf and Zy, with their brutal intervention, might have actually saved Gribbork so that it faced a better future than the Earth might. Gribbork had remained pristine, clean, and unpolluted. The Earth had already been pushed past that threshold, being globally polluted with nanometer sized particles of alpha radiation emitters that have a half-life of 4.5 billion years. Millions of kilograms of uranium had already been vaporized in a new form of gas warfare and ejected into the global atmosphere, with fifty times more to come. Those minuscule gasified radiation emitters were already killing people by the millions all over the world, while the door for more remained open. They were the byproduct of DU bombs, bullets, and shells that had been create to penetrate armor like a hot knife cutting through butter. The people on Earth were told that DU stands for depleted uranium, but description involves a lie. The weapons uranium is only depleted of a minuscule isotope that is needed for making atom bombs while the remaining uranium keeps on emitting alpha radiation that people were now inhaling with their every breath. Being gas-like the tiny radiation emitters get into every part of the human body, even into the reproductive cells where they shoot off their cannons of nucleonic particles that wreck DNA chains and cause numerous types of cancer, horrible birth defects, and a wide range of diseases including diabetes. The Gribbork people had been spared that exposure, while the people on Earth faced fifty times more to come, war after war.
When World War II ended and the guns fell silent the dying from war stopped. That was the salvation on Gribbork, but on Earth, when the wars stop, the dying continues and will likely go on forever to some degree, slowly wreaking havoc on the human DNA, perhaps distorting it over the ages to come. The people on Gribbork were lucky in this sense. I realized that in a few generations the remaining society on Gribbork would likely recover itself and create a new civilization that will become rich and viable once more. Earth might not be so lucky unless its oligarchic liberal system is shut down that is strangling society and demanding evermore wars, destruction, death, and depopulation which the DU weapon serves efficiently for all times to come.
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from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche
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