Messengers from the Past

CHAPTER 3

IGITANS



Arimusis standing at the far end of the city of Burak. Where he stood, wasan uninviting part of the underground city. That is where the threechemical desalination plants are located and they are still operatingat maximum capacity. Each plant supplies fresh water to one of thethree cities below. They are operating twenty-four hours per day,every day of the year, for the last 300,000 earth years. With theexception of the air-conditioned offices, this area is damp and coldand only the operators are staying there, clothed in protectivegarments. Salt particles saturate the atmosphere and in some areas,saltcicles form constantly, connecting the ceiling to the floor. Once a week, the operator makes his rounds, breaks off the saltciclesand shoots them into the ocean through a pressurized non-metallicpipe. The city of Burak is deeper than the other two cities, becausethe Sargasso Sea above is more than 5,000 feet deep in places, butall three cities are at about one mile below the surface of theEarth. Arimus is checking water consumption of all three cities. Because many Urians have already moved to Sumer City, he noted thatall three plants are producing an excess of more than 50 percent. The newest of the three plants is the one that supplies water to thecity of Sundra. It is located below the South Pole and the city hasits own shaft to the surface of earth. He will disconnect thisdesalination plant and move it to the Gulf of California. However,first he must reroute the water from the other two plants to feed thethree cities. Because the original salination engineer situated theplants close together, the rerouting will take minimal effort. Arimus is satisfied with his decision.

Onthe surface, it will be easier to operate the plant. He will arrangeto sell the salt residues to snow bound municipalities, which stilluse old-style, cement, or asphalt coated highways for transportation. To discard the salt below the surface of earth, Arimus designed amachine to transport the salt crystals back into the ocean using aspiraling screw inside a pressurized tube, one thousand feet long. Arimus was in deep thought about moving the plant to the surface,when a familiar voice startled him, "How are you proceeding withthis project?" Arimus turned and was surprised to see Benson. He smiled at him and he explained his plan in detail.

"Itis a good plan and that sounds logical to me. How are you going totransfer the plant to the Gulf of California?" asked Benson,concerned. Arimus thought for a while and continued, "I willbreak the plant into three pieces. Then I will mount an antigravityengine below each section. The engines will lift each sectionstraight up, using remote controls. I will lift the sections aboutone thousand feet above the surface of the earth and then move themwest, across the CNAS to the Gulf of California. There, my men willreassemble the sections. I will use AG trench diggers to dig astraight line to Sumer City. Then I will bring fifty pipefittersfrom the city of Burak to install underground pipelines that willlead to Sumer City and I will offer them permanent jobs on thesurface of earth. In the state of Mexico, I will order thepipefitters to install Tee’s and shutoff valves, in case that theirpeople will need water. Large underground nonmetallic tanks, nearthe outer periphery of Sumer City, will hold the reserve water."

"Thisis an excellent plan, Arimus. What about the second plant?"

"Wewill have to build this one and I have the drawings." NowBenson was in deep thought, New Mexico is sucha dry state and it has an exceptional amount of sunlight.

“Arimuswhy couldn’t we build the second plant based on the principle ofevaporation? Our ancestors have used this principle over 300,000years ago. We could install evaporation coils and collect thedesalinated water in a tank. At night, we could continue the processof evaporation utilizing stored solar energy. Then we could pump thewater in a second pipe to Sumer City. We could also sell the saltcrystals from this plant. Or we could add one of our new chemicalcatalysts to the sodium and use it as an alternate power source."

"Ilike this idea. Let me talk to Ensabar about this. I am sure thathe will go along with it." Later, the same week, Arimus talkedto Ensabar and he agreed that the second plant should be built, basedon the principle of evaporation.



Twoweeks later, Arimus was ready to transport the sections of thechemical desalination plant. His crew meticulously took apart allthree subassemblies and stored them. He was excited about theproject and he hoped that it would go off smoothly. He informed thelocal authorities that he would be moving heavy equipment from theSargasso Sea to the Gulf of California. They waited for a clear dayto move the equipment. Local authorities cleared the airspace andAGS’s led the way. Earthlings have never before seen such anengineering accomplishment. People from all over the world lined upalong the travel route to get a glimpse of this, once in a lifetime,engineering spectacle. How is it possible to move hundreds of tonsabove ground, floating in the sky, defying the gravitational forcesof the earth? What kind of technology is this and where did it comefrom? Why has no one informed the inhabitants of earth of thistechnology? The earth people asked these questions. They arelooking into the sky, watching, while the AGS’s transported thethree sections of the desalination plant in a westerly direction, oneafter the other, right along the thirtieth parallel.

Onecollege senior, who is also watching explained it this way, "Theseare the Urians who are moving the equipment up there. They had thistechnology for over 400,000 years. They are using remote controlledanti gravity machines to move the equipment."

Andanother bystander responded, "This is astonishing. Did theymove gigantic marble blocks, thousands of years ago in the samemanner?"

"Verypossible but we do not know that for sure," replied the collegestudent, frowning.

“Howis it possible to prevent these massive machines from falling to theground?” asked another bystander.

“Ithink it has to do with counteracting the weight of the machines withan equal and opposing artificial weight,” said the same student. “We are just now studying this phenomenon in advanced physics. Forthis subject, we have an Urian instructor. He also said thatoccasionally, 30 feet tall men moved the stone blocks. They groundthem and placed then on top of each other.”

Thesemen have been extinct for thousands of years. The bystander nodded,“I see. Thank you for the information, but I don’t know if Ibelieve it.”



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Aramu and Damitu are still working in the equipment room on the thirdfloor of the government building, located in the center of SumerCity. If you were to walk in this room, looking at the two men, youmight have difficulty telling them apart. Only a trained eye wouldsee that Aramu is older and slightly heavier than Damitu. Both are aproduct of genetic engineering. As the centuries went by, the Uriansstarted to look proportionally similar.

Theorbiting satellites above are scanning the earth’s atmosphere andsurface for the aura of Igitans. This practice has been in effectfor the last twenty-eight years. Now more than ever, they could be adanger to the Urians, because they returned to the surface of earth. Compared to the aura of the humans, the Igitan aura is entirelydifferent. The aura that humans give off from their bodies assumesthe shape of concentric circles, rising slowly above them. And a fewfeet above the humans, the circles get bigger and bigger and theyeventually dissipate slowly into the atmosphere. It is similar tothe rings that a stone creates, dropped into a pool of water. However, the auras of the Igitans are disoriented. They areirregular rays, which shoot in various directions at the same timeand they rise much higher than the rays of humans.



Thesurveillance room is quiet and it is getting late. On this day,Aramu visited Damitu to see how he is coping with this tedious job. He fully adjusted to living on the surface of earth. In fact, allUrians that moved up adjusted quickly to their new environment. Itis far superior to living one mile below the surface of earth. Downthere is no grass, no sand and no trees. Whatever they have isartificial. On the surface, however, there is life. There might beonly roadrunners, ants and birds but it is better than a completelyartificial environment. Aramu and Damitu are bored. They areconversing in their Sumerian dialect, using mental telepathy. Because there has been absolutely no activity or unusual movementnoticed during the last few years, Damitu suggested that they shouldshut the scanners down and consider the Igitans a threat of the past. He suggested that they might have stopped reproducing and have givenup the quest to occupy the southern half of earth. Aramu was intotal disagreement and he said, “I will never allow this, Damituand Benson feels the same way. The Igitans are war lovers and I knowwhat kind of damage they can inflict when they decide to attack.” He still remembers the attack on Los Angeles. They created giganticpower outages; they destroyed one-half of the city and manyEarthlings died. The infrastructure was completely gone. However,one advantage came from this attack. The Urians helped the Earthlingto incorporate new technology to rebuild the city.

"NoDamitu, we must continue to scan all the areas of the world —particularly the Nazca area in Peru. This is where we saw theIgitans the last time," said Aramu, convinced.

"Ihave heard of conflicts in that area, but what exactly happenedthere?" asked Damitu. Aramu sat back in his chair and thoughtfor a while about the encounters that they have had with the Igitans. The Urians and the Earthlings frequentlyallied and together they defeated the Igitans. That was nearly 26earth years ago and they have not returned since. Aramu did rememberthe vicious struggle during their last encounter with the Igitans.

"Damitu,as I remember it was in April of 2024. An Igitan glider craft landednorth of Nazca in one of the caves of the Andes Mountains. Then theydrove a jeep over rocky terrain to the government building, in thecenter of Nazca. We were surprised, because normally they had theirmeetings in Lima. We believed that they came to one of their regularmeetings with the officials of Peru and Chile. They were attemptingto form something like a dictatorship of South America. We took twoof our new gliders that I designed and flushed them out from one ofthe caves. They escaped and we followed. I flew with Willy Walkerand Lord Ben flew with Captain Striker. We followed them all the wayto Titan and that is where they landed in their caves. We alsolanded on Titan, a safe distance away and that is where we met theWarfs. They are small humanoid types and they also live in caves. We were amazed at the technology that they used—mind you—theywere not smart enough to invent it. They just learned how to use it,by pushing buttons and turning dials. This age-old technology wasthere and nobody knows where it came from, not even I.”

“Youmust have some idea, Aramu.”

“Yes,I have some idea. They could have been Andromedians. They are beautiful entities,built tall, between eight to ten feet, and they are thin. Theircrafts have the ability to travel in hyper-light and they could behere in a matter of moments.”

“Howlong have they existed?”

“Iam not sure, but it must be millions of years.”

“Anyoneelse?” asked Damitu.

“Yes. The Pleiadians. They live on the planet Erra, in the Taurusconstellation, they look allot like Earthlings and they have alsoexisted for millions of years.”

“Anyoneelse?” Aramu thought for a while and replied, “The Nordics, theKoldasians, the Ashtarians and the Grays, all of which are much, mucholder than we are, Damitu.”

“Ihave heard of most of them. Someday you must teach me about them.” Aramu nodded, thought about what Damitu said, stroked his chin andcontinued, “Damitu, one of these days I want to go back there andbring this highly technical and advanced equipment back to earth.” But first, I will have to get Aropad to train space glider pilots."

"Aramu,do you think that the Igitans are still living on Titan?"

"Ido not know that. But we should not get too comfortable."

“Whodo the Igitans take orders from?” asked Damitu, raising his brows.

“Iam not sure. It could be Enki. He has been disillusioned forthousands of years, because he lost some control in the Anunnakikingdom.”

“Thatis too bad. I guess we have to watch out for him and his henchmen.”

“Yes,we do.”

Aramuand Damitu had their lunch and then they left the government buildingto go for a walk. It was a beautiful day. They strolled along themain avenue. Both men are six feet six inches tall and they lookalike. Aramu is wearing a green cloak and Damitu is wearing asimilar cape, but it is brown. Both are walking in step, with long,slow, determined and majestic strides, sandals mounted on theirsix-toed feet. Roadrunners are crossing the avenue in front of them. The Urians are still adjusting to the presence of these mobile andfunny birds. However, they are a part of the desert, a small part ofwhich the Urians now occupy. The birds stopped, squealed and thensped down the avenue. Finally, they took a sharp turn and returnedto the uninhabited desert in their comical method of running. Theseodd animals don’t understand that beings moved in and took over alarge part of their habitat. Aramu and Damitu sat on one of thebenches in the center of Sumer City. They are still thinking howconfined the living spaces are in the cities below. The buildingscontain twenty stories and each story is ten feet high. Therefore,the ceilings of these underground cities are 200 feet high. Theyused extreme engineering and ingenuity to make each apartment multifunctional and they stored equipment and furniture in the ceiling. By pushing a few buttons, they could set up any room to the presentneed; a breakfast room, a dining room, a living room or a bedroom. Only the well to do Urians had more than one room, but they couldalso convert their rooms for different needs. During the last year,more than half of the beings below have moved to the surface. Consequently, the remaining beings below have more space in which tomove about. Aramu and Damitu are ecstatic that they are now livingon the surface again.

"Letus return to the office," said Aramu, concerned. The two Urianswalked to their office and upon entering, they immediately noticedthat all three, high-density computer screens flashed. Aramusearched the Nazca area first, but there was no activity. He thoughtfor a moment and explicated one of his favorite Sumerian sounds. Then he continued in English, "Damitu, scan the area of the Gulfof California. I bet that they are watching Arimus as he transportsthe parts of the desalination plant to its new destination." Damitu complied and sure enough, the scanners detected an Igitan inthe area near the Gulf of California. Aramu picked up hiscommunicator and called Lord Ben. Lord Ben called the undersecretaryof defense. His name is General Martin F. Curry. He, in turn calledthe Supreme Chancellor of the CNAS, Dr. Emily Woodlock. Sheimmediately called a meeting in her chambers. Aramu was the first toarrive, since he traveled the light beam. The undersecretary andLord Ben arrived last.

Thesupreme chancellor started the meeting, "Good day gentlemen. This will probably be my last official meeting with you. NextTuesday elections will be held and a new supreme chancellor will beelected." The group was quiet for a while. Then Lord Ben said,"We will miss you, Doctor. We are hoping that we will be ableto work with your successor as well as we have been able to work withyou."

"Iam sure that you will. All candidates are astute and capable people. Aramu, Ben, you have had a lot of experience with the Igitans. Doyou have any suggestions what we should do?" Aramu and Benlooked at each other and they knew what they should do.

"WellBen, what would you doin this situation?" said Aramu. Ben thought for a while, tappedhis four fingers of the right hand on the table and then looked atAramu.

"Iwould like to team up with Sven Bjorken again. We go way back, whenwe fought Igitans years ago."

"Isuppose that could be possible." Aramu was happy with LordBen’s response. Now he felt more comfortable.

"Svenand I will keep in close contact with the Igitan. We will use ourscanners and all other electronic means that we need. We will followhim to wherever he travels, and we will try to stay out of sight. But, if we have to confront him, we will have to adjust our plans. Iwant to find out what he is doing here. I am convinced that being atthe Gulf of California is notwhy he came back and that is not his main mission." Aramu, thegeneral and Lord Ben exchanged glances and judging by their facialexpressions, they knew that this is the right decision to make. Iwill get in touch with Sven, team up and then we will watch theIgitan."