Objective Vantage Astronomical Laboratory Systems: Origin Planet Report #132

(Pilots are anthropomorphized to benefit listeners and readers)

Four OVALS, Hao, Madrigal, Corcoran and Initiate Peters, hover in low Earth orbit. Peters is participating for the first time in an observation of consequential Earth activity. Therefore, for the first time, he is feeling the angst of helplessness in a situation where he is constrained, not only by policy, but by the nature of space-time itself, to affect.

The Ovals already know how this ends. They learn the fate of their origin planet as children. They watch the historical accounts of all the epoch cycles, and have seen the record of the events currently unfolding before them, as well.

These Ovals are in this calendar location in order to gather some tailing material from a space rock traveling through their origin solar system. Initiate Peters is on a fast track to be a Mission Leader. The Project Team decided to place him in this calendar location for dual-purpose training.

“It’s gut-wrenching.” Says initiate Peters.

“The humans who know are suppressed.” Hao replies.

“It’s so dumb, they sell their planet off to those lizards, but the whole thing is going to be wiped out by meteors again, in what might as well be five-minutes anyway.” Peters adds.

“All out of spite.” Madrigal responds. “They’re mad that they can’t win, so they do the ‘it’s better to rule in hell’ thing.” She says.

The four of them watch something happening in this location that they have seen records of many times. They know exactly how it proceeds. Even if physics allowed them to intercede, nothing would be affected. Time is what it is, it’s not something else.

Suddenly, they see an Oval diving around and confusing the Earth population during this disturbing time of what has been termed The Inbred Abhorrence, in their Calendrical classes.

“I wasn’t made aware that there’d be an Oval operating in proximity to that location.” Initiate Peters says. “Wait…. Is that? No way, is he real?”

“Fsake Madsen.” Madrigal says.

“I guess you are getting three lessons today, Peters.” Hao says. “He is a broken rule, and he’s testing all the laws.”

“Do I hate loving him, or do I love hating him?” Madrigal asks.

“… all the laws.” Hao repeats.

Corcoran chimes in. “There are some interesting humans, though. They are worth looking at, the species really did have a lot of promise. It would have been interesting to see what they could have done.”

Hao concurs. “They exhausted their tries.”

423 Words.

* Below are good for OVALS background. Search my substack for OVALS for more.

https://commercialherschel.substack.com/p/death-fiction-species-created-ovals

https://commercialherschel.substack.com/p/ovals-e-36-ovals-linear-time-re-entry

https://commercialherschel.substack.com/p/ovals-where-is-madsen-antogonist-conflict

https://commercialherschel.substack.com/p/ovals-project-watchtower-leopard-5

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