Page 269 - The Chronicles Ser2 (6-10)

Arthur had decided to stay at the Beam Control Platform; and to that end he was present
when the information about Helen was passed over to Unity Central. He couldn’t believe his luck;
she was alive and well. Suddenly his life had purpose once more; and an aim to it. He became
determined to reunite with her whatever the cost or dangers involved. He became driven by this
thought. As it happened he would end up with her sooner than he thought was possible. The
Terraforming of Terra one (the name chosen for the re-terraformed Earth); had taken a massive leap
forward thanks to what was now being called the Genesis device. The Terra forming crew had made
great strides in understanding how to operate the technology safely and effectively. The newly
formed crust and oceans were divided into two main land masses equi-polar in placement separated
by a broken ring-shaped continent that meant there was a broad channel between the northern and
southern oceans. Arthur had resolved for the two of them to be among the first “Colonists” to return
back to Mankind’s origin planet. Already he had determined to be settled on a northern pampas
area with a ridge of mountains splitting the area. He became like a demon possessed. Managing data
streams for the Platform far better than some of the artificial intelligences. He seemed to just have a
knack for it. So it was fairly soon after the initial links were made that he was present at the first
tentative relay test. It was to be a single complex stream was all that the Endeavour team on Hylon
would say. It was to be sent to a Gateway device rather than a transporter pad array. Apparently the
Gates could handle the massive power inherent in the beam. So a sub link was made to the Anasazi
Pueblo cave unit as this had recently been rebuilt to Krall specifications discovered in an ancient
Crystal; the beam station in the asteroid belt acting as a secondary relay…

… On Hylon the Fleet vessels had arrived in time to see the
Great Beam station there relay the initial stream in the direction of
Sol system. It entered into what appeared to be a small Gravity
distortion; The Eloi called this phenomenon “The Eye of Horus”.
That was the entrance to a Quantum Slipstream that would flash
the stream across the intergalactic distance to the Asteroid Belt
Station. From there it would be relayed on to Mars and then Gate
Device. The stream would consist of two bursts. The first was a data stream with compressed entries
from The Eloi Archives from their Home World. That would be diverted to Terra Prime and the Unity
Central Archive. It would be the second part of the stream that would be relayed on to Mars. Arthur
was among the crew monitoring the procedure on the Asteroid Platform. The Fleet were subjected
to an amazing display. The Eye of Horus rippled with shades of blues and indigo as the beam entered
the opening. Lighting up a swirl of gas clouds in the nearby vicinity. There had been much discussion
as to the content of the second stream burst on Hylon and the Helexar. A decision that satisfied all
was eventually reached; and it was decided to be the transmission of living matter.
The first stream came in as expected with complete integrity. The system worked perfectly.
The diversion relay to Mars switched in with a couple of seconds to spare; and the second stream
flashed out from the Beam unit on the Asteroid. Arthur monitored the stream as it went through the
buffer. It was incredibly complex; as matter data streams are for Transporter pads. And the power
levels were too high to allow safe materialisation via a Trans Pad; even one of the Heavy duty Cargo
units. The Gate Unit had been a wise choice. A subspace channel had been cleared for a video link
back to the station and other interested parties. It was understood that the Gate unit would take a
few seconds to build the matter from the data that would go into it massive buffer. The delays were
down to the multiple integrity checks. If this worked a whole new way of traversing the space
between Galaxies was in the offing.
Watching the last data empty from the Beam transmitter buffer Arthur flicked the feeds of
his equipment to tie in with the equipment on Mars. He had patched the output to the main viewer
of the Platform. Slowly a shimmer began to appear in the centre of the Gate pillars. Slowly it
coalesced into the hazy shape of a figure. Gasps went out around the control room. Arthur froze;
transfixed at the sight in front of him. Gradually the haze cleared as the shimmer finally cleared and