The Good Reaper (26 page)

“No. We don’t believe the Greys are hostile. They just seem
to lack a kind of empathy. They are cold as ice. They have an agenda and they
follow it. The lives of average people may be altered forever or perhaps even
destroyed, but the Greys don’t seem to care. For that reason, we think they see
themselves as far superior to humans or Ranjisi. But they don’t have any desire
to do harm here. Whatever their ultimate goal is here, they have not reached it
yet. They have been here for many decades. If they wanted to actually hurt the
human race, they could have done it a long time ago. I don’t think we need to
be too concerned with them. They are really more of a nuisance than anything
else.”

The questions on the monitor stopped and I was able to
proceed with the rest of my presentation. “Before I close I would like to spend
a few minutes showing you a little of our planet.” I proceeded to show a series
of photos and videos of Ranjisan. I described the six moons and explained about
our extreme summers and winters due to the orbital tilt of our planet. I closed
with a series of beautiful pictures of the six moons at Northern Tiara on the
first day of
Sorex
. The scrolling text at the bottom
of the monitor came alive with comments about how beautiful it was.
  

At the end of my presentation I introduced Russian President
Yevgeni
Pasternak who asked the attendees to think
about when, where and how they would make the announcement to the world.
President Pasternak requested that everyone return in forty eight hours to vote
on a final venue for the announcement that would change the world.

A little more than forty eight hours later, a decision had
been reached. After a few suggestions like Brussels, New York, London, it was
unanimous. The announcement would be made right there in Ponta Delgada. During
the next two weeks, invitations went out to all the media broadcast companies
of the world. The invitations didn’t go into detail about what would be
announced. The invitation simply stated that an announcement would be made to
the entire world at the same time and that the announcement would be the most
significant announcement in the history of the human race. 

The moment of truth had come, for us and for the human
race.  Many of the conference attendees had gone home but the stadium was
filled with thousands of media people. If you walked through the crowd you
could hear the low rumble of speculation about the purpose of the announcement.
I thought it was amazing how everyone there already seemed to know the secret.
As I walked through the crowd, I heard bits and pieces of conversations like,
“Aliens from space have made contact with us,” and “I heard there are actually
aliens here who are going to present themselves.” I chuckled at that one,
thinking, “Here I am and I’m not very spectacular.”

As with any huge public announcement, there were delays and
more delays so the broadcast was filled with news people trying to fill the gap
with interesting speculations and some beautiful flyover videos of the Azores.

Finally after a three hour
wait,
Russian President
Yevgeni
Pasternak and American
President
Elvin Hawkins stepped up to the podium.
President Hawkins made a hand gesture to President
Pasternak, indicating
that he could take the microphone.

“Greetings.
We know it took a
tremendous amount of planning for you all to be here today. There are far too
many people to thank, so for now we will just say a simple thank you to all of
you. We have already left you in suspense so I want to get right to the point.
There have been many rumors. You know, I have found throughout my life that
there is often a bit of truth within rumors and this is a perfect example.”

President Pasternak paused for a moment and continued,
“Travelers from deep space are here. Aliens are here and they have introduced
themselves.”

The low rumble in the crowd quickly swelled to a deafening
roar. It sounded like six football stadiums cheering on their team. The two
presenters had to wait until the crowd settled down to continue. Finally
President
Pasternak waved to the crowd, indicating
that he needed to continue.

“The first thing you need to know is that this alien race
has traveled 9,000 light years to come here and their intentions are purely
benevolent. They have come here to ask us, the human race, to join an
allegiance of races that share knowledge. We are especially excited to learn
about their medical advances. They have wiped out many of the diseases we have
been plagued with here for many years. In fact, their advanced medical
procedures are capable of curing any and all diseases.”

President Pasternak turned the microphone over to President
Hawkins. “In the coming days and weeks, we will broadcast several follow-up
newscasts focusing on the four races that are currently included in the
alliance. For now we will show a quick slide show and overview.” President
Hawkins went through an abbreviated version of the presentation I had given at
the conference. It took about a half hour. The crowd was silent and watched in
amazement.

President Hawkins closed the broadcast with one final
statement: “Governments of the world have been hiding the truth about UFOs for
decades. Those days are over. From this day forward there will be no more
secrets.”

President Hawkins paused for a long moment and continued,
“We are not alone in the universe.”

***

“Space aliens
introduce themselves”

The headline on the front page of the New York Globe was
misleading and obviously intended to sell papers. The picture that went with
the front page article showed a picture of a Grey alien. It implied that it was
the Grey race that had introduced
themselves
. The
article continued with some random reactions of people from around the world:

“
Meifen
Jiang is always upbeat,
but anyone who knows her, can see how she seems to be walking on a cloud since
the announcement.
Meifen
is in the Master’s Degree
program in Astrophysics at Beijing Normal University. She is completely
overwhelmed with joy that there is finally proof that humans are not alone in the
universe.
Meifen
carries an ear-to-ear smile that
seems to be frozen on her face. ‘We are so lucky to be alive in this time,’
Meifen
keeps saying to anyone who will listen.
Meifen
can’t wait to learn more about the exciting visitors
who have traveled all those miles to greet the human race.”

“Amateur astronomer
Sigurfinnur
Ingolfsson
is well known in the small town of
Reykholt
, Iceland. He has spent a lifetime gazing up at the
crisp, clear night sky, so when the announcement was made, the local press was
anxious to print a few comments from him. ‘I can’t think of anything more
wonderful than getting to meet beings from another world. I am so anxious to
learn about their medical and technological advancements that I feel like
packing my things and traveling to the Azores.”

“Brian Kelly, a construction worker from Boston,
Massachusetts was not so sure about the good intentions of the aliens. ‘These
people are obviously much more advanced than we are. How do we know that this
is not all a trick to lull us to sleep? How do we know that they are not going
to make us slaves, once they have infiltrated our society and governments?”

The reaction to the announcement was like a rogue wave that
was heading toward the shoreline. You could feel the tension everywhere. The
announcement and proof of extraterrestrial intelligence caused a worldwide
questioning of spiritual faith. Much of the human race was going through a
period of religious confusion as they tried to reconcile their beliefs. They
asked themselves if their belief in god and the afterlife applied to races from
far away galaxies. The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation
and the CIA expected at some point there would be protests or riots as the
human race sank into a kind of cultural religious state of confusion and
turmoil. We knew this would happen after the announcement was made but we also
knew that humans are resilient and that they would eventually come to accept a
world where god may be a universal god. After all, it was what they always
taught themselves. They just needed to believe it.

The first protests began peacefully and they popped up where
you would least expect them to. The theme of many of the protests was
anti-Ranjisi with a religious prejudice weaving through them. People carried
signs down 15
^th
St. in Sacramento with slogans like, “Ranjisi go
home,” and “God is for humans,” and “Aliens want hell on Earth.” After what
happened to Chara and Atik, I was not surprised to see the protests.

Similar protests popped up in New York, Chicago, London and
Sydney. It had become clear that there was a portion of the human population
that did not trust us. There wasn’t much we could do to convince them our
intentions were good. It would require the passing of time. I still believed
that eventually they would accept the concept of other races and other
religious beliefs. I expected the anti-Ranjisi sentiment to grow even more when
our beliefs about assisted suicide were made public. I was afraid it made us
appear coldhearted but in reality, it was the opposite. Most of the people of
the world appeared to agree with us. It was the first and only positive
reaction I had seen since the announcement.

But the reaction to the announcement varied from country to
country and from city to city. The Midwestern US seemed to accept us and even
prayed for us in some of their sermons. It was the same for the Middle East.
Muslims across the globe had no problem at all adjusting to the concept of the
existence of extraterrestrial races from faraway galaxies. It was odd that the
resistance and denial seemed to emanate from the most progressive areas of the
world. Protests were still going on in Amsterdam and San
Francisco,
months after the rest of the world seemed to accept us.

Without a doubt, the most outspoken critic of our presence
came from the Vatican. They insisted that they should have been consulted
before the announcement. “Perhaps they are correct,” I thought, “but it is too
late now.” The church had to scramble to come to a consensus and make an official
statement about the announcement.

***

After the announcement, our team headed to Guinea in western
Africa. Chara and Mesarthim had done extensive research on human biology and
they were convinced that there wouldn’t be any adverse reactions to the
attorobobiotic transfusions. Doctor
Nnenna
Bockarie
had come from Sierra Leone to help in the
Dubreka
Mobile Hospital and Clinic. She was a bundle of tireless energy
who
moved so fast through the clinic, if someone was looking
for her you could just tell them to look for the long swinging braids. Chara
and Mesarthim explained to Doctor Bockarie that although the serum was there,
it needed to be programmed.

“Programmed?” Doctor Bockarie asked, sounding confused.

“Yes,” Mesarthim replied. “First we need to get tissue from
the virus and then we’ll perform some tests to create the code. The code is
essentially a generic template. We just need to add the parameters to it. As
soon as that is done, we can begin injecting patients with the serum. On
Ranjisan, this medical procedure is known as Zaurak
Elakribi
.
We’ve adapted a human, English name for the medical specialty based on our
knowledge of human science. We have translated the name of the procedure to a
human label that hints at a description. We call it attorobobiotics.”

Doctor
Nnenna
Bockarie pressed
Mesarthim for a better explanation. “I need to understand exactly how this
treatment works if I am going to administer it,” Doctor Bockarie said.

“We’ll be spending a lot of time together Doctor. I can
explain it as we proceed. It will be much easier to understand if you shadow me
while I develop the parameters for the serum. We will be analyzing the tissue,
extracting and sequencing DNA and then adding the parameters to the
software.” 
 

“We can’t possibly do this here,” Doctor Bockarie said. “We
need a safe and sterile lab to do the sequencing.”

“You are correct Doctor,” Chara said. “I’ve been told there
is such a place in Conakry.
Turais
and
Enif
are making arrangements as we speak. It looks like we
won’t be able to get there until tomorrow.”

The following day a small plane landed at the mobile
hospital. The medical specialist team consisting of Chara, Mesarthim, Gomeisa,
Azha
and Doctor Bockarie were on their way to the research
facility in Conakry. Doctor Bockarie was on the phone, speaking to someone at
the facility. She spoke French so the rest of the team had no idea what she was
saying. “Well, at least we won’t have to do a biopsy. There are live specimens
there waiting to be sequenced,” Doctor Bockarie said.

“Then it should only take about eight to twelve hours and we
can be on our way back to the hospital,” Mesarthim said.

The team had time to rest while they waited for the cut
cells to move through the gel using the electrical current. As soon as it
finished, they made a copy of the Zaurak
Elakribi
application and began modifying it with the data from the Ebola DNA model.
Doctor Bockarie watched silently. Her big dark eyes seemed to never blink. She
appeared amazed as she leaned in to see the front end of the Zaurak
Elakribi
application which displayed the computer simulated
models. “It actually is beginning to make sense,” Doctor Bockarie said. “The
pods will hunt down and destroy the cells with the matching DNA. It’s amazing.”

Back at the hospital, the problem was logistics. Good news
has a way of spreading and it only took about eight hours for all the beds and
all the cots to be filled. The darkness of night did not slow the steady
trickling of people. The team took rotating cat naps and continued working
non-stop. By the third day, several nurses and local doctors were added to the
team and the whole operation became a well-oiled machine. It only took about
ten minutes to set up a patient with the drip which only took about an hour.
After the drip, the patient could sit almost anywhere within the wireless
range. Each patient wore a numbered ID on their shirt, indicating that they had
been given the serum and they awaited the activation of the attorobobiotic
code. There were no side effects caused by the activation of the attorobobiotic
code since the pods didn’t attack any normal blood cells.

Monitoring the treatment for the Ebola virus was something
new to the Ranjisi team since they had never seen the virus before. After the
first two weeks, they documented that it took six to eight days before the
first signs of remission appeared. The fever generally broke and returned to
normal while the patient slept. The vomiting and diarrhea faded over the
following two days. The fatigue continued for several days and the Ranjisi team
determined that the cure spanned about two weeks from beginning to end. After
the two week period, the patient was tested one more time to make sure the pods
had self-destructed and the patient was released.

Record keeping was not the priority at the
Dubreka
Mobile Hospital and Clinic. The team was too busy
saving lives. But
Turais
and
Enif
managed to keep a hand-written chart with patient names in five categories:
Infected, not-infected, registered, treated, cured & released.
Turais
and
Enif
estimated that by
the end of the first thirty days they had cured over three hundred people.