The Divine Dissimulation [Complete]

Chapter 10 Abraham Goldstein Envisions the Eden Project

Abraham Goldstein watched the sunrise in his massive private garden. The sunrise and the sunset of Antarctica were two of the greatest moments of the year for him. As Goldstein Tower was located on the South Pole, the sun rose at the spring equinox on the 23rd of September stayed up for six months and set at the autumn equinox on the 21st of March. Abraham loved to see the natural sunlight again opposed to the artificial one he had to settle for during the winter season.

150 years earlier, before the Goldstein's had colonised Antarctica, they had launched several large orbiting satellites with mirrors to reflect sunlight down to the Antarctic surface to make it inhabitable. By changing the angle of the mirrors, they could decide how much sunlight that reached the surface affecting the local climate. The sunlight reaching earth from the mirrors did not look like the sun but resembled several very luminous stars. During the summer, the satellites were still reflecting down sunlight to the surface, as the Antarctic sun was not strong enough to give the desired temperature.

Abraham felt uneasy and could not enjoy the annual sunrise as much as usual. He had made a lot of enemies, and the only thing that kept them from striking was that they thought that he knew every move they took. In fact, he didn't. In his physical human form, he could only connect with one person at the time, and that took a tremendous amount of focus effectively stopping him from doing anything else. 

Abraham reflected on how to move forward. He knew that regardless of external enemies or not his physical years were soon to end, and he needed to be in the Divine Dimension by that time. The best way to stay permanently in the Divine Dimension would be to keep the Divine Detector Machine running with him connected to it, while his body was cryogenically frozen.

Abraham realised that he had moved too fast.  There was not enough electricity available to keep both the production facilities and Divine Detector Machine running at the same time. If the production wasn't running, he could not keep the citizens content, and most of them did not have a chip implanted had nothing to fear from his divine powers. If there was a public uprising against him, no-one would support him, and he would perish without achieving his goals.

The most straightforward solution for Abraham would be to get a few more fusion reactors to get enough power for both the production facilities and the Divine Detector machine. This solution could be implemented in a year and it was achievable. It was also profoundly unsatisfying. What he would get from this solution would be an extended life where he kept ruling his business empire through intimidating the family members under his control. They would not worship him, and eventually, they would find a way to overthrow and kill him.

Abraham wanted to find people that feared him AND worshipped him like a god. Such people had been easier to find in the dawn of the human era when science and technology were less prevalent than mysticism and superstition. But extensive experiments on time travel during the 26Th century had proven that time travel was impossible. But what if he could use memory-wipe technology to completely erase the memories of a group of people and then have them wake up on a terraformed planet, which resembled the Promised Land, with the Divine technology human chip implanted. They would act like ancient humans did when they first reached self-awareness. And with Abraham’s divine direction, they would act like his early ancestors although better, as he would have a stronger grip on them than Yahweh ever had.

But where would he create his Holy Land replica? Abraham could not make it on Earth as his people would eventually wander off and notice the advanced civilisations around them and realise the fraud. Awareness of technology was the bane of any divine being, as scientifically minded people had less need for a god to answer for the mysteries of the world. Ideally, he would find a planet in another star system for his plan, although this carried insurmountable difficulties.

Alien planets required advanced technology to be liveable for humans. They could not be terraformed to a degree where humans with only ancient technology could live and thrive. Abraham understood that terraforming a planet in another solar system was beyond his reach.

But then another idea struck him, what about an asteroid? Several asteroids with artificial gravity and atmosphere generators were orbiting earth as luxurious residences for some of the other faction leaders. What if he could do something similar but further away in the Asteroid Belt? All the technology to do it was available:

·         He could create gravity through putting fusion thrusters on the bottom of the asteroid to make it rotate.

·         A Nanotechnology photon shield generator could be used to stop the atmosphere from dissipating out on in space. Refining oxygen from iron and silica oxides could create the oxygen required for the inhabitants.

·         Electrifying the iron core of the asteroid would create a magnetic field to protect the inhabitants from dangerous background radiation.

·         Satellites with large mirrors would reflect enough sunlight down to the comet surface to make it warm, like what the Goldstein's had done in Antarctica 150 years earlier.

·         The asteroid would need to contain frozen water to start with to save costs, as it was far too costly to transport all the required water from Earth.  Once the surface temperature would rise the water would become a liquid state, and it would dissipate and come down as rain as on Earth.

Abraham felt inspired and looked through the asteroid database trying to find the perfect rock for his ambitions. After a while he found it, B528A measured 22,072 square kilometres, precisely the same size as the Promised Land. It was orbited by B528B, which measured 100 square kilometres, which was enough space to set up his base of operations.

The only problems with the B528A and B528B were that they were co-owned through the Terran Council. But Abraham was convinced that he would not face much opposition from the other factions if he gave them some concessions for them to trade their part of the ownership to him. To most people B528A and B528B were just barren rocks floating through space but for him they were DESTINY.

Excited with his plan, Abraham set up a proposal that would encourage the other faction leaders to transfer the ownership of the asteroid to him.