The Divine Dissimulation [Complete]

Chapter 21 The Creation of Eden

The construction of Eden and the Divine Control Centre began in 2790 after Lucifer's ploy had secured all the required shipments. The angels built the Divine Control Centre on B528B first, as Abraham needed to get the control centre up and running.  Abraham felt that his physical years were running out and he wanted immortality through transferring his mind to the Divine Dimension using the Divine Detector machine. Once the device was set up several fusion-powered power plants were built to fulfil the energy requirements for the Divine Control Centre and the Divine Detector Machine.

Since the energy needs of the project were immense, the base consistently needed a supply of fresh hydrogen to provide the fusion reactors with fuel. As there was no water to split into hydrogen and oxygen, Abraham bought a series of automated shuttles transporting compressed liquid hydrogen from the atmosphere of Jupiter to the base. These automated shuttles were sturdy, low-maintenance and were fuelled with the hydrogen collected from Jupiter's atmosphere giving them properties like an infinity machine.

The next step was to create the gravitation on B528A, which was the larger of the asteroids, meant to be the habitat for Abraham’s subjects. Gravity was created by putting fusion thrusters on the asteroid and making it rotate. Once the gravity was in place, the asteroid was terraformed to resemble the Holy Land 4000 years earlier. 

An unsurpassable problem on all the colonised worlds was to get a fully functional ecosystem on Eden. Even after 700 years of space colonisation, humanity was still not able to replicate the intricate ecosystems found on Earth anywhere else. Most colonised planets were barren when it came to other life forms except for the mice, the rats, and cockroaches that always followed human societies and the occasional pet animals such as cats and dogs. Although the technology existed to create worlds that could sustain human life the challenge to develop functioning ecosystems on the colonised planets was still an unsolved problem. The challenge was because it difficult to predict what effect the introduction of new species on an alien world would have. Abraham had not an intention of getting the echo system working on Eden before inhabiting it. What better proof could his followers get that he was divine than the fact that he could introduce new species as time went along?

To create the atmosphere of Eden 20 layers of nanotechnology plates were floating 1 kilometre over the surface of the asteroid and at the edges of Eden. The purpose of these plates was to stop Eden's atmosphere to dissipate into space, and to protect its inhabitant from the harmful background radiation. The plates were kept together by a high-powered electric current and a magnetic field created from several generators on the bottom of the asteroid. The plates combined with the asteroids magnetic field had the same function as Earth's magnetic field and ozone layer in keeping the surface with a breathable atmosphere, and protection from radiation. To keep the atmospheric pressure breathable, there was continuously pumped in more oxygen and nitrogen so that the atmospheric pressure was like Earth even though Eden was a lot smaller.

The water on Eden was found on the asteroid, as it was possible to start pumping up the previously frozen water once the asteroid had warmed up. All the crops and the plants on the asteroid were genetically engineered versions of Terran crops that was designed for the soil and climate conditions on Eden.

Eden was an artificial world, and its climate was always the same. Eden inhabited side always faced the sun, and it had two mornings, two middays and two evenings every 24-hour day, but never any night. This was because the world was rotating from North to South instead of from East to West as on Earth.  Fusion thrusters on the dark side of Eden created the rotation, and it was necessary to maintain rotation to have enough gravity on Eden. The gravity created by the fusion thrusters was equivalent to the gravity on the moon (1.6 meters per second) or roughly one-fifth of Earth's gravity. 

The North to South rotation of Eden was a unique feature that did not exist on other human space colonies. The reason this feature was that the Edenite nights was too cold to be liveable for humans with Bronze Age technology. Eden was not perfectly spherical which made the curvature and the horizon different from how it was on Earth. From the top of Mount Sinai, the created mountain in the centre of Eden; one could see the vast darkness of space.

The climate around Mount Sinai in the centre of Eden where the human settlements was located was around 30 degrees midday dropping to 10 degrees in the evening. Every day, water evaporated in the middle of the day to come down as rain in the evening when it got colder. Closer to the edges of the liveable part of Eden the climate was a lot harsher and erratic. The climate near the edges was harsher; because the Nanotechnology plates that kept Eden's atmosphere was not always 100 per cent airtight. This sometimes led to forceful winds pushing towards the edges of Eden as the pressure difference led to air sipping out to the void outside. Due to the leakage of air, air was constantly pumped in to Eden to keep the desired air pressure.

To make sure that everyone on Eden knew what time and date it was there was also a large hologram displaying the time and date on top of Mount Sinai. Keeping track of time was important as Abraham planned to punish anyone not honouring the sacred days harshly.

With everything planned for the Eden project, Abraham left command to Lucifer so he could retreat to the timelessness of the Divine Dimension, where time could not hurt him.