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a success and the first drozen could make the pioneering journey to another planet in an instant. They informed everyone the sun emits beams in every direction that travel many times faster than the speed of light. These beams could be broken down and sped up again using a device consisting of lots of mounds strategically placed. A biological object could be picked up by the broken down beam and then dropped off on solid ground. The conditions were that the object or craft had to be travelling at any speed but in the direction exactly towards a surface of solid ground and in the correct alignment of the mound system.
The theory went that this system would work for any distance in space only that the difficult would arise when the target was smaller. The theologists had already sent an array of organic objects off to other planets in the solar system by rolling them in the right direction. Having had radio transmitters in them the results were as expected, they were picking up signals from the other planet immediately after sending them off.
The time had come to send a crew to one of the planets. They had chosen Mars because the crew would have to fly back using traditional means as the system could only send craft outwards in the solar system. With the time set a window of five minutes was allowed for the three crafts to travel slowly in exactly the right direction and be transported instantly through space.
Just before dawn the crew waited excitedly for the cue from the theologists to fly their crafts along a painted line and disappear from the surface of Venus.
It worked; they had radioed back from Mars to report that they had all made it. They had been dropped off and it was said they hadn't even realised that it had happened. The three crafts had been set down in three different places along a line because of Mars and Venus's movements. Before the three crews had even set about travelling back the theologists were working to schedule transportation to another solar system.
Because they didn't know the location of any planets in other solar systems it would be a case of trial and error. They had guessed all the stars would have solar systems like theirs and would just point just to the side of a star. As Venus would move in its orbit, the line of transportation would sweep and if it made contact with solid ground the transportation would take place. Concentrating on one of the brightest stars, estimated to be the closest, they began rolling biological balls. Only this time they had made channels so the balls would roll in a more precise direction. After countless attempts on many different sites, one of the balls disappeared. The exact time was recorded and the procedure was repeated. One hundred dawns later the ball disappeared again. Another hundred dawns later they sent a craft fully fuelled with instructions to find a planet in that solar system that had a breathable atmosphere. The result was a success and the drozen in the craft radioed back immediately to say they were on a planet like neither planet in the solar system they had come from.
They were able to send by radio detailed reports of the where-abouts of other planets in the solar system. Within thirty dawns the most ideal planet was in the right position and a large craft was transported to build a return transportation system.
The drozen now were a galaxial race, though with so many other life forms in the milkyway, their home was still on the planet Venus. Not that it mattered much where there home was as they could travel the galaxy free of cost. Transportation systems were built on Earth and on Mars that enabled transportation to more distant stars, as they would be more accurate in the sweep.
A problem was soon to confront the drozen, a problem that would face all races some time or another. They would run out of fuel. Despite the fuel free transportation system they still needed fuel to get around a planet and to move from outer planets inwards. The latter was solved by using a very accurate and complicated mound system that used a far away star as the source of the instant beam. This then in turn enabled them to mine for fuel on the earth, moon
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