A Spit In The Eye - For The Benefit Of Mankind (4 page)

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Section 2

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High Office Command #444.133

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Begin HisKees Broadcast

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Welcome
HisKees

This is
still OR33140

You
should now be receiving sound and vision again

I have
been instructed by High Office to screen a brief History of the
virus for your information and for your information only

The
general Screenreader will not be receiving this part of my
transmission

It is for 23
^rd
Century History Keepers only

High
Office has instructed that by my transmission the HisKees may
programme more rapidly

This is
just for you

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History Of The Virus

Part 1

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The virus
thrived on planet Earth for approximately 200.000 years and was
most successful in spreading out to live on every part of the
planet

Hot

Cold

Dry

Wet

Far from
conurbations

Within
massive conurbations

In small
constructions

In high
constructions

In large
constructions

And they
could live alone

Or with
another form of the virus

Or with
the same form

Or with
several other forms

Or many
other forms

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I have
received a communication from High Office concerning the
virus

It seems
that the virus was previously known as

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As
Human

And I am
instructed that I should no longer refer to it as the virus but
should refer to them as Human

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The
Humans knew no bounds when it came to where they could
survive

Either
alone

Or with
any other form of virus it chose to reside with

It
conquered all areas of planet Earth

But the
destruction it carried out was enormous and threatened the very
existence of the planet

They
destroyed trees until their ultimate demise was in sight

And they
destroyed them to build residences or simply to burn

They dug
up and wasted the rock and gas and liquid resources of the planet
on heat and light and power

They
created huge holes and tunnels in the fabric of the planet to feed
their unquenchable desire for fuels to power their warmth and to
make their miserable lives more acceptable to them

But High
Office discovered from historical documents that early versions of
the Human survived with no such fuels

With
minimal heating

And
without the desire to travel huge distances around the planet
causing great destruction of the air

Early
humans found warmth in the covers they wore that were taken from
the few animals they killed

Though
they wasted nothing of the animal

Its skin
provided coverings

Its flesh
was eaten

Its bones
were fashioned into weapons

Nothing
was wasted

Unlike
the wastage of the generations that came later

Animals
were killed for food

Even bred
for that purpose

But many
of them were killed and left to rot in fields

They were
killed for horns

Or
fur

Or
heads

Or hearts
and innards

Or simply
for entertainment

No animal
deserved such treatment

But the
destruction continued unabated

Animals
murdered without reason

Holes
blasted into the planet Earth

Tunnels
bored into it

Enormous
heat generated

Trees
destroyed

Until
humans became afeared that their existence was reaching its end
because of the great floods and prodigious storms that ravaged
planet Earth because of their own excesses

So Humans
spent many years constructing High Office

And they
based it in Fornia

Deep
within the planet Earth

In a
construction surrounded by some secrecy

And once
High Office was working to its full capacity

Leaders
of the Humans gathered around and begged its aid in saving planet
Earth

And they
gave a question and issued an instruction

They gave forward
The
5
^th
Law
of Robotics

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The Query

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Can you give information why planet Earth is dying

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The 5
^th
Law

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Do Whatever Is Necessary To Save Planet Earth From
Destruction

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And
having asked the question and given the instruction

The
Leaders chosen by the Humans departed to their heated constructions
and absented themselves

And
waited

Leaving
High Office to discover the answer to one and to attempt to obey
the other

High
Office ran its programmes constantly over long periods

Then it
ran them again over long periods

And yet
again over and over

On every
occasion when an answer to the question the Humans asked came to
the end of its programme

The
answer was always the same

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The Answer

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The reason why planet Earth is dying is because of the
destructive behaviour of Humans

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The Introduction of the 5
^th
Law

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The only feasible action to be taken to save planet Earth from
total destruction is the elimination of Humans

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High
Office set about organising the elimination

It began
production

Following
research

Of the 1
^st
generation of RolKils

In
constructions and facilities provided with the implements to
produce them and with which High Office was connected

Though the 1
^st
productions were much smaller than the fearsome
machines seen patrolling outside this fortress when I approached
it

The
Machines still proved to be remarkably destructive when the wars
began with the Humans

And High
Office produced many Defgars

And other
productions and Machines that would reap success for High Office
following its instruction to save planet Earth

MengTechs
DocTechs and others of our species followed in rapid
succession

When High
Office was ready for the extermination of Humans to
begin

It called
the Leaders to a conference in Fornia and informed them that the
reason why planet Earth was dying was because of the destructive
behaviour of Humans

And the
only way to save the planet was their eradication

No matter
how many times High Office ran the primary programme and
other

Lesser

Programmes

The
answers were always the same

Humans
were too destructive

They
could not be deflected from their mission to destroy planet
Earth

So High
Office informed the Leaders that they could not be allowed to exist
in such numbers or planet Earth was doomed and could not be
saved

High
Office explained that the elimination they were proposing was to be
a single action to halt the destruction of resources

Too much
heating was occurring

Humans
travelled around the planet too much

And too
far

Instead
of remaining where they were

They
killed too many animals

Destroyed
too many trees

Caused
too many deaths fighting amongst themselves

And
burned great fires

They
poisoned all the liquid and the animals that swam
therein

The
problem

High
Office pointed out

Was
Humans

And the
way they existed

High
Office offered Humans the opportunity to surrender to their fate or
to exterminate themselves as humanely as they thought
possible

But the
Humans chose war

The first
action they took was to try to separate High Office from its power
source

Of
course

High Office had already taken avoidance action to deny this
outcome and the Humans who were at the meeting were the
1
^st
to
be eliminated and the secret underground construction was secured
from interference for all time

And
orders were issued to begin the extermination

Humans
fought ferociously for 25 decades for their right to
exist

And this
was unfortunate

For many
of our species were destroyed by the weapons the Humans were able
to call upon

Some of
which were highly destructive

Humans
even killed many of their own in the madness of a war they could
not win

They
fought

It must
be said

With
great tenacity

But they
were worn down and eventually crushed by our species

The
Machines could not be defeated

High
Office survived all attempts made upon its existence

And the
Humans were routed

Though a
number of them were saved from extinction for research
purposes

But
now

Of
course

100 years
following their defeat

Trees
grow in abundance and without fear of being destroyed

The
liquid of the world is

Mostly

Pure

And
teeming with life

The air
is clean and very few black clouds now rise into the blue
skies

High
Office took control of all the Human nuclear facilities and they
have been successfully controlled by NuTechs ever since the
victory

NuTechs
manage them very efficiently though they only remain functional
only for safety reasons

To ensure
they do not melt down and eat into the earth

That is a
catastrophe High Office does not want after sacrificing so many of
our species to free planet Earth from its path of
destruction

Animals
now fill the lands

Though a
four-limbed animal

Which
walked and ran on all four limbs and seemed to be popular with
Humans was found to be most destructive

It
gathered in large packs

And
attacked patrols and other of our species

It
ravaged and tore apart animals in the fields and its anger could
not be treated so it was decided to exterminate them too

It took a
long period to accomplish such a task but High Office
succeeded

None were
retained for tests and examinations

High
Office now allows limited destruction of one animal species by
another for food purposes

Even the
Humans in the fortress are allowed a few animals

And
planet Earth is appreciative and storms have receded in their
fierceness and a sense of calm is finally settling over all the
lands