Progenitor
Prologue
It was dark and raining as the single-user scout ship made it's way back to the base; to conserve power the pilot had minimal shielding in place. "Another day of waste of power"; that is what Capt. Tuvok would say when the pilot got back to the base. At least this time the pilot hadn't used as much power as the rest of the "wasted" missions had been using. It was another boring mission that had revealed no new sources of power or usable resources for the marooned explorers. As the pilot was exiting the scout ship storage area he received an "ALL PERSONNEL" announcement that there was to be a base-wide meeting in two time units and attendance was mandatory. 'Oh great, just what I needed, another interruption to my rest period the pilot thought to himself.
As he made himself as unnoticeable as possible in the meeting room, he noticed that maybe this was really an "ALL PERSONAL" meeting as he saw that the optical image relays were turned on and being tuned to show the meeting on all viewing screens though out the ship for the personal that had to stay at their posts to maintain the base.
As Capt. Tuvok approached the podium he appeared very unsettled and quiet, which was not like him at all, he was usually seen as being quiet calm and interested in whatever the crew and officers were doing when he came around. The usual call to attention was given and the Captain just seemed to look out at the ones assembled here, he even appeared to look at the ones that were still on duty - though very few were actual not present.
"My greatest sorrow is to have to make this announcement. It has been revolutions since we came to this planet as explorers and in hopes of finding a place for our people to expand. I know it has been a hardship on all of you as it has been to me in that we have not been completely successful in this. While this planet would have been a small help for our people the fact that we have had many unusual breakdowns and unable to tap into the power we needed to leave this place. I have decided that the only thing left to do is for us to abandon this base and start trying to make a life for ourselves on the planet itself. The scout ships have not be able to find the resources or power sources for us to continue here. To that end, starting in about one time period, we will all evacuate this base with minimal equipment and have the shuttles deposit us as widely as possible so that we have some hope of survival of not only ourselves but our peoples. After the shuttles have dropped all of us off they will return here to the base and the base will shutdown completely except for the personal scanners which will be left on so that if some of us do survive, or our prodigy, and make it back here with the needed resources and power; that they can hope to return to our home planet. ALl personnel will have the location and activation codes implanted into your sub-micro structure so that you or your prodigy can find and gain access to the base when it becomes possible. You will not be allowed to take any of our technology with you just the outer garments provided and two (2) weight units of food." With that announcement there were many gasps and groans heard throughout the base. "AI take control of all systems and start power reduction in all sections on my authority Capt. Tuvok of the Ursula 1 expedition. That is all; you are dismissed."
With that said the Captain left the podium and started towards his living area. There was much confusion throughout the base at the Capt.'s words and his actions, most of them were not too happy with this outcome. As the Capt entered his quarters the AI contacted him.
"Captain, there are several individuals trying to modify your commands; do you want your plan changed? Or do you want them to be removed from the base without supplies?" the AI said.
"AI, sever all connections throughout the base except this one at this time; override DeltaTheataOmaga 13 under extreme action code Sol 7. Acknowledge." the Capt. said.
"Override acknowledged; please enter personal encryption ID,", replied the AI.
The Capt. entered his ID encryption and then typed the final command for his plan. Throughout the ship people were hurrying to collect their belongings and get to their assigned shuttle. There were a few that tried to take what was not allowed but the AI and base transport system removed these items without their knowledge. When the last person was off the base and the last shuttle was back the AI brought power back up and moved the base to the orbiting satellite above and hid it under the crust of that satellite. Then all was shut down and put into standby mode at minimal power.
Chapter 1
Jake was really into his erotic dream when he was awakened by the constant beeping of his alarm clock. When Jake looked at the clock it said 6:00am. 6am on a Saturday?? He didn't remember setting the clock; it was Saturday and he could sleep later than usual. Jake couldn't get back to sleep, so he just lay there and thought about his life and his expectations. Here he was 16 years old, tall and skinny, not really into the athletic scene, just a bookworm and a very minor geek to all that knew him. Sure he could fix just about anything computer wise and he had built his own mini-network here at home; he even helped out at school when they asked for help with the school's systems. But, he still didn't get the kind of attention he thought he wanted from any of the girls; well maybe except for Amy. Amy and he had been friends for the past 11 years, ever since Amy's family moved next door. But "next door" was about a mile down the road from him since they lived "out in the country" about 5 miles from the small town Birdeye, population 14,000. This was an agricultural section of the state and also had several good gravel pits that were still semi-active. As Jake thought about Amy he could picture her in his mind; she was about 5'8", 140lb, brown eyes and dirty blonde hair, and seemed to have a medium size "rack" with a cute butt. She always tried her best to not stand out at school, but, like him, she really upset the curve in all of her classes except PE. Then he remembered that two of them were suppose to get together later today and work on their "special" project on his computer. That really got him to thinking instead of trying to catch a few more minutes of sleep he got up and went to his computer to see what was left to do on the project.
After about 10 minutes of review he can to the conclusion that all that was really left to do was for them to try it out. The project came about due their interest in "Adult" stories and particularly the Master PC stories. They were trying to write a program that would do what the stories said the program could do - control someone via a computer program. So far they had not had much luck except to improve their computer and program writing skills. Jake just knew that if they could find a way to output a "signal" from the computer they might have a chance, but what type signal, what freq., modulated or unmodulated, and the gain of the signal. As a test subject he had entered the vital statistics for himself, Amy, and his sister Kate. Jake thought he might as well try the newest version of the program before Amy got there. Since he didn't really think it would work, he selected his sister's profile after the program came up. He clicked on the "current activity" button and was surprised that it showed his sister sitting in the bathroom running a bath, at least he thought it was his sister since the picture was a little out of focus and grainy. as he watched he could see Kate stand up and take off her robe and step into the tub. "Damn too bad the picture is so bad I might have been able to get a good look at her," he thought. Having a wild thought he clicked the command tab and entered clean up video feed and pressed <ENTER>; suddenly the picture was crystal clear and it wasn't Kate but Amy instead. As he watched he could see that Amy really looked nice without any clothes on. But, wait he had clicked Kate's profile hadn't he; why was it showing Amy?? He thought about exiting the program to debug it when he noticed a new button on the screen Audio so he tried that one and could here Amy mumbling his name and she was rubbing her breasts and pinching her nipples! This really got his attention! He couldn't leave now. As he watched he noticed that it was Amy's name shown as the subject and not Kate's, but the file still said Kate. After she got out of the tub, Jake decided to see what would happen if he tried to send her a command; so he typed in a command for Amy to turn 90 degrees to her right, spread her legs apart, and bend over far enough to put her hands on her knees and look straight ahead. After pressing <ENTER> she did it!! and just stayed that way for about 2 minutes then stood up and got dressed. Now he had to see what would happen if he selected Amy's profile; so he clicked on it and saw himself sitting at the computer. He reached up and scratched his head and the monitor showed him doing it. Now to try his own profile; which showed Kate asleep in her bed with the covers kicked off and wearing nothing but a T-shirt and panties. "Okay, now all I have to do is rename the files to fit the correct profiles" he thought. So he did just that; but put in a password so that no commands could be entered for him without his permission, he hoped. About that time his mom called to say that breakfast was ready so he exited the program and went downstairs to eat.