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  Pathway to the Stars:

  Part 9, Allure & Spacecraft

  Author – Matthew J. Opdyke

  Publisher – Matthew J. Opdyke

  Copyright © MJO Publications, 2019

  All Rights Reserved

  Paperback Edition

  ISBN – 978-1-951321-10-9

  Library of Congress Control Number:

  2019918425

  Disclaimers

  This is a work of science fiction and utopian fantasy. The names, characters, businesses, places, incidents, locales, and events are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious way and with the utmost of respect toward all parties.

  Reading this text and enjoying it may take you on a journey that is enjoyable while increasing your reading comprehension level as well as your philosophical, emotional, intuitive, and creative literacy. If there are any blatant errors or constructive suggestions, please advise the author through email, at:

  [email protected]

  This book was written using the mind and heart of the author, and in many cases, it was written completely “off the grid.” In brief moments if there is a quote, the author uses quotations and directly sites the author within the text. In many occasions, the author wrote prose and phrases that are spoken every day, or in the past, and should never be taken from any artist since a major part of any amazing story brings a sense of normalcy. Otherwise, this text is original in every sense, wherein, in this book the author also suggests we search for the well-being of those around us as well as ourselves.

  Table of Contents

  Pathway to the Stars: Part 9, Allure & Spacecraft

  Disclaimers

  Table of Contents

  Preface by Author

  Epigraph

  Chapter 1: The Joy of Life

  Chapter 2: Kindness is Strength

  Chapter 3: Enlightened Security

  Chapter 4: An Attack on Life

  Chapter 5: Above the Worst

  Chapter 6: Space Elevator

  Chapter 7: The T.O. & Tech Cities

  Chapter 8: Pathway Operations

  Chapter 9: A Huge Mission

  Chapter 10: Designs & Innovations

  Chapter 11: Teamwork

  Chapter 12: Spacecraft Leadership

  Chapter 13: Spacecraft Defenses

  Chapter 14: Seeds of Disaster

  Appendix

  Appendix – Character Summaries

  Appendix – Glossary

  Appendix – Artwork & Inspiration

  Appendix – Bio of Author

  Appendix – Published Works

  Appendix – Thank you

  Appendix – Farewell for Now

  Preface by Author

  This book contains the ninth segment from A Cosmic Legacy: From Earth to the Stars and is thus the eighth book in the Pathway to the Stars series. Allure & Spacecraft focuses on some of Eliza Williams’ and her Pathway organization’s operations, both on Earth and throughout the Solar System.

  Vesha Celeste shows grace despite the worst, and we learn that kindness in fact is strength.

  This science fiction booklet also contains a revisit to one of Joanne Gallant’s concerns, and how that may affect the future if not dealt with appropriately.

  With spacecraft the size of large cities being built above Pluto, enjoy this story, as we continue this Space Opera saga!

  Very Respectfully,

  Matthew J. Opdyke

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  https://www.mjopublications.com

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  Epigraph

  “No matter our past, we can shift our gaze to a beautiful and lovely future. There are many who have gone before us, whom we will never know. Yet, there still exists within this world, so many who have potential that is untold, amazingness just waiting to be released, and hearts that have borne the weight of too much for any one individual to bear.

  ~ Yesha Alevtina

  “You are wonderful, but if people with malicious intentions knew these advancements were available, they would hurt many by either undoing it all or making it into something that is oriented toward brutality.”

  ~ Amber Blythe

  “We cannot engage in human progression as solo artists, alone, and expect long-term and optimal results. While we can inspire momentum for a time, while working diligently, ultimately the laws of chaos will prevail unless we work together to preserve our world, our solar system, and our Universe.”

  ~ Eliza Williams

  Chapter 1: The Joy of Life

  Database Moon Archive, Celestial-Sol Entry Date: 2019 March 25. Erin Carter, Yesha Alevtina’s young understudy, summarizes the experiences, journeys, and missions of Vesha Celeste as assigned by Senator Eliza A. Williams. These memories are a collaboration of life and insight from the minds of Vesha, Eliza, and numerous senatorial politicians recorded within the Virtual Universe, interfaced within the Pathway Melrose Campus. Input by Erin Carter, Vice President of Pathway, 2018-2022, President of Pathway, 2022-2029.

  Vesha had been awake for about three months and had found a new sense of clarity in every academic subject she studied. Every challenge presented before her was easy to mitigate due to the phenomenal restructuring, adding to, and compounding of each individual neuron and brain cell within her near perfect skull—which happened to be a smidgen fuller and unnoticeably larger than before, except of course to Vesha and her closest friends, Eliza, Yesha, Amber, Erin, Najem, James, Jasmine, and Joanne. The addition to her neurological capacities was due to three new layers of tissue that had formed inside her skull, kind of like the membrane of an eggshell, but several times thicker. Her neural nanos worked seamlessly to improve her cognitive framework, making reparations, and dispersing synaptic links equitably throughout her brain.

  The training that Vesha went through had been phenomenal, in-part because of Yesha's dedication, yet in many other aspects due to the efforts of each of the scientists that were involved in the project of bringing her back to life. During previous efforts of bringing her online, every time an individual linked mind-to-mind with the Virtual Universe, Vesha's neural network and capacity compounded upon its ability to digest and express knowledge and wisdom even more. After she had awoken, during her training, more than two-billion people went through the Virtual Universe throughout the Pathway-influenced regions of the Solar System. With a connection to their minds, Vesha's intellect grew exponentially. It was amazing how life could play out before anyone's eyes with these new-found freedoms, thoughts, ideas, and clarity in resolving issues. It became second nature for Vesha to desire to raise the quality of life for each person she met in the world.

  The journeys, studies, and training Vesha received in the Virtual Universe allowed neural pathways of thought and communication to form with detailed increases in the capabilities of each of her senses. She practiced to the domination of each of her motor skills, neural balance for crystal clear clarity, recall, cognitive coherence, and critical thinking. Every bit of data on the Internet from any venue had downloaded into her brain, and she processed all of it with ease in the best of ways. Cognitive frame-working augmented her visualization of well-being-oriented choices allowing her to demonstrate more fullness in character than ever before. She exuded an increase in confidence and an ability to multitask with an enhanced plethora of visions of goals she wished to pursue. She was able to weave her goals and tasks into many of the most dynamic arrays of accomplishments, with the most effective results, and chase her dreams she did. She tackled every art, profession, science, skill, and sport, learning their nuances quickly and became proficient in short order.
br />   During the three months since she had awoken, Vesha had accomplished many things. She enjoyed spending time with Erin as she pored over her studies, lost herself in the fascinating histories of humanity, and recovered secrets hidden throughout the globe. While doing so, she and Erin engaged in sleuthing, in the pursuit of helping youth around the world overcome their various battles in life. Journeying with Yesha, Vesha found and rescued many more men, women, and children worldwide, while Eliza continued to try to resolve issues of stagnation within the Legislative branch of government. Vesha even helped a plethora of animals, birds, and other creatures to heal, become optimized, trained up, and read-in to Pathway. After they were read-in, she assisted James and nurtured everyone she had helped into a fuller capacity to use their newly-gifted abilities with ease. She also helped them to choose where to go throughout the Solar System, within or nearby any of the tech cities. They could help anywhere and call anyplace their home. With optimized minds, they wanted to contribute toward the preservation of life and the goals of humanity, of combing the Cosmos and preserving the life-giving qualities of the Universe. Until the time was right for Earth-borne civilization to go beyond the Solar System, the animals and all read-in creatures decided to live in the many forests, jungles, lakes, and small seas near and within Pathway’s twenty-thousand tech city environments.

  Vesha had also spent time with Amber Blythe analyzing how any given physiology and neurology could adapt to the various environments in short order with minimal to no adverse effect on the body's systems. If there were any adverse effects at all, following optimization, the nanos throughout an individual's body would cause them to radiate and glow as they healed instantaneously. Together, they figured out how to integrate specific microbial DNA sequences into any living organism, including humans, that would allow them to live in space without oxygen and with the complete ability to absorb radiation and space debris without harmful effect while consuming it as fuel or sustenance.

  Vesha had also spent time with Najem and Jasmine combing the Universe with their sensors to peer out and map a robust plan for an incredible future journey through the Cosmos. This journey would take place once humanity got its act together, and mutual respect was second nature.

  The intellect and wisdom of Vesha’s mind had compounded based upon that of anyone who had passed through the Virtual Universe. The care that Yesha and Amber had taken over the two years between Vesha's passing and awakening was unique. They had made her ability to process and extrapolate information infinitesimally more considerable than the conceivable capacity of anyone else, including Eliza. Eliza was very proud of the efforts they made. Likewise, Vesha consistently impressed Eliza with everything she had seen or heard about her while on her daily tour through the Virtual Universe to get up-to-speed on what had gone on, courtesy of Pathway. No matter how great the result, it seemed Vesha was there to add an extra dash of brilliance to the end-product. Indeed, Vesha had expressed the kind of character that Eliza had seen burning from within her, since the first day they had met.

  Vesha was both physiologically and neurologically superior in every way to anyone else, yet she was humble and kind. She did not brag or gloat. Eliza knew that Vesha frequently contemplated on a novel idea. “Greatness is not a measure of brain cells or any item. Rather, virtue is in the choices we make using the tools and unlimited and self-sustaining resources given to us, no matter their complexity. Our level of benevolence, or care for others, is the true measure of our character.” Despite being a significant player in many of the latest great inventions and improvements, Vesha looked at herself as ordinary and knew it was essential to treat the contributions of others as the valuable and unique offerings of personal sacrifice that they were. Eliza saw Vesha’s love of others, alone, as a pre-qualifier for the pinnacle of great leadership she sought for the leader of humanity throughout the Cosmos, when that day would eventually arrive. The attributes that Vesha not only possessed but expressed was paramount for the tasks she would delegate to her. Eliza had known her for many years now, and Vesha was one-of-a-kind.

  It was confusing or nearly impossible for hitmen hired by competing industries throughout the world to successfully destroy anyone who was fully read-in. Since these malicious monsters of society were not read-in, they did not know that they could not kill their target. Optimizations and the rapid healing effects of gene-, neuron-, and cell-oriented nanos could thwart any efforts made to that end. Every attempt had been stopped thus far, due to excellent communication, courtesy of the neural links and the robust capacities of the Twelve Database Moons. If the worst were to occur, a targeted individual could dodge any vicious assaults. With the same technologies, if someone were to attack a read-in person and blow them to smithereens, they could rematerialize in a safe-zone nearby.

  The Twelve Database Moons retained full sequential data of every form, on every given and read-in individual, allowing them to maintain their memories, even if in effect they had died. Eliza knew that if someone were to try to hurt Vesha, she could theoretically heal in seconds, no matter the damage. Hit attempts had been on the rise. Too many, who played at pulling the proverbial strings of humanity, were lost in the fanfare of politics as usual. Individual competitors and managers who lived to breathe terror into the lives of those who worked for them and many others who did not value life as she did, were in constant, covert, and even overt missions to destroy all that Pathway stood for. Anti-Pathway groups were on the rise, and even more so as it seemed to the antagonists that these people "miraculously" healed. Eliza was well-aware of the attempts made on the lives of so many kind and beautiful people, and she didn't suffer it lightly. She had, however, made every attempt to protect the people who, by her inventions, had benefitted from them.

  Now, because there were a couple of cases of collateral damage, where hit attempts hurt someone who had not been fully read-in, Eliza knew something had to be done to reduce the cultural and societal toxicity. So, she went before the Senate. Eliza could do more by moving legislative attention toward well-being and away from thirst for wealth and power. By revisiting her tax bill, she could have a positive impact. She would work to loosen the coffers of greed and enable humanity to have the financial fluidity to invest in longevity, health, and clarity of mind. With those three goals that Eliza treasured, innovations would provide a higher quality of life.

  Humanity could overcome the many challenges the Earth itself faced. Rewriting and reintroducing a clean bill before Congress and the Senate, or one that does not have riders attached, which had been passed with unfortunate and questionable additions to it more than a year ago, would help. She would introduce and pass other bills, to include one of home-based healthcare and top-quality home-based education via biopod, by sanctioning proliferation and distribution of these robustly capable devices. If the Senate were to approve her bills, she would also need to find a way to afford the legislators involved with similar protections as shared by those in Pathway who had been fully read-in.

  Chapter 2: Kindness is Strength

  It was late March of 2019, and Eliza linked with Yesha, who had taken a break from her worldwide journeys, to be nearby. Yesha was at the Pathway Operations Presidential Center, with Erin Carter by her side as her Vice President. Eliza stood on the Senate floor behind the pulpit. In her mind, she represented not only the state of Massachusetts but all people worldwide. She was here to deliberate and unambiguously present her case for sanctioned physiological and neurological therapies that would significantly increase the possibilities of curing a multitude of disorders. Many of which, were in fact, responsible for the rise in violence throughout the world. While these disorders were very much different from Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia, ADHD, and many among others that hampered the shared quality of life, many others were not addressed yet.

  Eliza knew that no matter the decision, it was still the mind that was at the center of the decision-making process. Something was firing wrong in the neurological system of an ind
ividual if their desire for mutual well-being was nonexistent. There was an ethical way to mend the mind, and Eliza had to figure out how to do it billions of times. Society was very fickle, however, and convincing one entity through vocal persuasion wasn’t always as efficient or effective as she would have liked it to have been. Still, here she was, and she would try to reach as many people as she could, through this legal and public forum.

  All too often, it had become increasingly acceptable to tear others down in the name of being "real" or destroying someone's ingenuity through brutality for the sake of popularity and so-called "strength." Eliza knew that a person could be "real" yet considerate, kind, and helpful. She also believed that this lack of reasoning contributed to a sickness that was worse than a disease, yet people bathed in it as if it were gold. Ruthless behavior was a malicious virus and a vulnerability that was being exploited overmuch by those who had motives in mind that had nothing to do with well-being. They used this against vulnerable young people, with growing minds that were amenable to ideas that were unhealthy.

  Many, to impress others, or to look "cool," proudly talked about how little they cared for the well-being of others while displaying crude gestures before a global audience. It was easy to see how this could be, given their young and rebellious age, especially after all they had witnessed when it came to the unhealthy environment; they were the victims. This type of behavior was destroying the fabric of society, of humanity, and would ultimately become the end of human civilization and result in a future where no other sentient being would even know of the existence of sentient life forms on Earth. Eliza knew she had to do something, and she was doing it.