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employing hyperdimensional physics, the Archons go back and forth from our
world to their own.
And if his hypothesis bore fruit, those naturally occurring gateways could be
closed off, or used as peepholes to spy on the Archons as they had spied on
humanity for eons. Or even used as doorways into the past, where the seeds of
humanity's enslavement had first been planted.
Though Lakesh rarely strayed beyond the borders of science, even theoretical, he
had made a study of ancient history, scanning very old texts for clues to Archon
involvement in human evolution. He didn't have to look very deeply before he
realized that the so-called alien/ UFO phenomenon dated back before the
twentieth century, when it gripped public consciousness. In fact, the historical
records of nonhuman influence on Earth ran uninterrupted from the very dawn of
mankind to the present day.
Always it was the same human beings as possessions, with a never ending
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conflict bred between them, promoting spiritual decay and perpetuating
conditions of unremitting physical hardship. And always secret societies were
created by human pawns to conceal and to protect the true nature of humanity
and its custodians or masters.
Loathing once more rose up within him. No matter how deep the roots of their
influence extended, the Archons didn't belong on Earth; they hadn't evolved
here. They were from outside, and they needed something from humanity,
perhaps as desperately as a leech needed blood. He still didn't know what. Even
after all his years of research and study, his work was pitifully incomplete and
inadequate.
With the loathing came guilt. He had helped the Archon Directorate to cull, to
contain and control the masses of humanity and now he wanted freedom from
his guilt and freedom for mankind. Humans, despite all their failings, had at least
learned the concept of acknowledging that others of their kind had the right to
freedom. True, they forgot easily and had to be reminded often sometimes
violently but the history of respect for each other was there.
The Archons, wherever they came from, had no such history. Perhaps they knew
nothing whatsoever of respecting the rights of other life-forms, inferior in their
eyes, which they viewed basically as property.
However, he had come across cryptic references to other nonhuman entities that
appeared to be, at least superficially, more benign than the Archons, and these
entities were always connected in some fashion to the ancient megalithic
structures in Europe.
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He recalled the millennia-old legends of the Tuatha De Danann, wafting into
Ireland on a city of light, with many treasures and superior weapons. They had
built four great cities that were the centers of science and learning. The sites of
these cities were allegedly entrances to the Bru', magic places not inhabited by
humans. The Bru' na Boinne, Newgrange by the River Boyne, was the most
important of these places
The trans-comm unit on his desk emitted a rising and falling warble. He felt a
jolt of fear and he fought it down. Physically he was nearly a hundred years old,
chronologically a shade under two hundred and fifty, and he refused to be
frightened by anyone or anything.
The trans-comm warbled again, then fell silent. It was a sound he hadn't heard in
three months. It was a summons to Alpha Level, to a meeting of the Trust, the
latest incarnation of secret societies acting as insulation between the Archon
Directorate and what was left of humanity.
Lakesh saved his calculations and engaged his comp's encryption lock, though it
was an unnecessary precaution. Not even Salvo would dare to audit his computer
work. Nor could he understand it if he did.
Stiffly Lakesh arose from his desk and shuffled through the work area. His
image as the venerable senior archivist, the devoted servitor to the baron, was
important. Therefore, he always walked as if he were only a few steps from
expiring completely. He actually could maintain a sprightly gait if he cared to
several of his joints were prosthetics, he was on his second set of lungs and his
old, leaky heart had been repaired by surgery and was equipped with a
pacemaker. Bionic replacements for worn-out joints and new organs were one of
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the benefits of sleeping in cryonic stasis for a century. To be of use to the
Unification Program, he had needed to be as fit as cybernetic alterations could
make him.
Once out of the workroom, he entered a short corridor leading to a storage area.
The passage dead-ended at a locked door that supposedly led to a room filled
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