I woke up early and used the blue column before I went over to Caleus's bed to wake her, but she was already awake and grabbed my hand to pull me onto the bed with her. A few minutes later, we both got out of bed and had our breakfast.

We were going to go down to Earth to see the sites that I had promised to show her, so Caleus had changed the style of her suit to fit the occasion. She now looked as if she had on a pink below-the-knee-length dress, white low-healed shoes, a white scarf over her head, and she carried a white purse on a strap over one shoulder. The neck line of the dress was cut low and showed cleavage between her breasts.

I had changed the style my suit too, so now I looked as if I was wearing a light blue sport shirt, dark blue slacks and brown oxford shoes. I also carried four gold coins in my pockets, with the ovals, in the event that we may need to buy something.

"I'll see if I can locate a place where we can jump to on Earth so we will not be seen by anyone, Caleus."

"I'll tag my thoughts with yours so I can see also."

"Okay, Caleus, let's go!"

I projected my thoughts toward Earth and into the heart of a large city in the United States. Seeing that there were many mobiles crowding the streets and people crowding the sidewalks, I went through the glass wall of a tall building and up through the concrete floors, bedrooms, hallways, and into an elevator shaft until I came to an empty elevator.

"This is the place. Are you ready, Caleus?"

"Yes, Caleb."

We jumped our bodies from the Eagle to the floor of the empty elevator, and I reached out and pushed in a button that read, "Lobby", and the elevator began moving downward.

"We're on Earth, Caleus!" then, as I looked at her, I said, "Damn but you look beautiful in that dress! I'm going to have to keep an eye on you because one of these men in this city may just whisk you away from me."

"Thank you, Caleb. You look very handsome yourself, but I don't believe you have to worry about someone whisking me away from you," she put her arm around my waist, "because I love you too much."

The elevator stopped and the door slid open. Two people stood there waiting to step into the elevator, so Caleus and I stepped out onto the lobby floor and walked toward the glass doors at the entrance into the building.

"This city is known as the gambling capital of the United States, but there are also some of the best stage shows in the world at the hotels here," I told Caleus, "Do you want to gamble a little then go see a stage show later?"

We were walking along the sidewalk looking at the many neon signs that were advertising the many gambling clubs.

"That's fine with me, but you'll have to exchange the gold coins for cash first, won't you?" she said.

"Yes, I will. Let's go into one of these clubs and see if they'll take one of the gold coins," I said, "If not, we'll go to a bank."

I opened the glass door for Caleus and we stepped into a large room filled with noise from the crowds of people around the gambling tables, and everywhere we looked, there was a gambling table. I also saw four black suited Space Force crewmen at one table, so I knew the club was bound to accept the gold coins.

The windows in a wall on our right were similar to the windows at drive-in Banks, so we went over to one. The young women on the other side of the glass asked if she could help me. I placed a gold coin in a tray that had slid out at the bottom of the window and asked her for some cash. The tray slid back under the window, and the woman took out the coin, placed a bundle of paper money in the tray, and the tray slid back out toward us. I picked up the bundle and counted four hundred dollars in one hundred, fifty, twenty, and ten dollar bills in the bundle.

I turned to Caleus and said, "Let's go gamble away some of this money."

She nodded her head, but said by thought, "I don't know the first thing about gambling, Caleb. You'll have to show me how."

I took her by the arm and led her through the throng of people to a crap table while I told her by thought how to play the game, "If the spots on top of the two die add up to seven or eleven on the first throw, you win, but if they add up to two, three or twelve, you lose. However, if they add up to a number from four through ten on the first throw and seven comes up before that number is reached on succeeding throws of the dice, you lose, and then you pass the dice to the next player. But if the number you throw first is from four through ten and that number comes up, you win and you start a new game. Simple, isn't it?"

We squeezed through the crowd and stood next to the crap table, "When do I get to play, and where do I place my money?" Caleus asked by thought.

"It will be your turn as soon as the man on your right has quit playing, Caleus. The squares around the edge of the table are where you place your bet, and you can bet at any time on what number the dice will have on them after they are rolled, even when someone else is rolling the dice."

We placed a few bets, and won, before it became Caleus's turn to roll the dice, but she passed them to me. I bet one hundred dollars that I would make my point. But, before I rolled the dice, I felt a twitch in my mind from the film of thought that I had placed around the galaxy as an alien vessel penetrated it.

"Did you feel it, Caleus?"

"Yes! I believe we must leave Earth, Caleb."

I lay the dice down on the green felt of the crap table and picked up the one hundred dollar bill. Then I handed all of the cash I had to the man next to me, and said, "Here, you have fun with this because we have to leave," then Caleus and I jumped to the seats on the control deck of the Eagle and our suits were again as they were before.

"Gambling isn't very much fun is it, Caleus?"

"I didn't like it, Caleb. I always knew what the number was going to be when the dice were rolled, that's why I gave you the dice."

"I did too, Caleus, but I was going to play anyway. I guess we had better get in touch with the Space Force."

"Attention all Space Force Captains!" Caleus and I said to Earth and Jade, using thought-voice, "The evil beings are at the outskirts of the galaxy. You must be ready to defend your planet's star system, and your neighboring star systems, from their weapons. A few of your vessels may go to the outskirts of this galaxy to help the Galactic Space Force fight the alien vessels there if you so choose."

We had let each planet think that the vessels from the other planet were members of the Galactic Space Force. This deception had worked so far only because we had not permitted the vessels from one planet to communicate with the vessels from the other.

We jumped the Eagle to the vicinity of our galaxy where the alien vessel had penetrated through the film of thought, but we couldn't find it. The alien vessel is probably floating in space to be eventuality pulled into the heart of a star and destroyed

We did see, however, a red dot on the viewer as one of the alien vessels headed away from our galaxy, and it was almost to the limits of our detection. The red dots of the other alien vessels were out in intergalactic space a thousand light years away from the edge of our galaxy at this time, and the blue dots of the Condors were spread along the outer edge of our galaxy to intercept the alien vessels or anything that they may fire at our galaxy.

The alien vessel had penetrated the film of thought above an arm of our spiraling galaxy where the Earth's star, Sol, is located. Our galaxy is a sphere, approximately 130 thousand light years in diameter, with the greatest amount of the stars and gases at the center of the sphere in a tight ball. Then, tapering out from the center ball of stars are the flat arms of a spiral that reach out to the periphery of the sphere, and in the spiral arms are the remainder of the stars and gases of our main galaxy. Above and below this spiraling disk of stars and gases are many smaller galaxies, or globular clusters of stars, that make up the remainder of our overall spherical galaxy.

The alien vessels began to move from one spot to the next, at random, so we could not fire our weapons and expect to hit a target that was ten minutes away, but we could jump our vessels out to where they were, fire our weapons, and then jump back to our galaxy. This way, we could also watch for an attack on our galaxy by the alien vessels and their fire balls or anything else they may have.

We explained this tactics to the vessels' crews, and two of our Condors, which were attached bottom to bottom, jumped out to the alien vessels, fired their SID weapons, and jumped back to the same spot from which they had jumped. They didn't hit an alien vessel on this try, but another egg shaped Condor that jumped out to the alien vessels, fired its SID, and jumped back did hit one. This was all the other crews needed to see. The Condors begin to take turns jumping out to fire at the aliens and then jumping back to where they had begun. Then the aliens began to fire their weapons at the vessels, and at the galaxy, so the black Doves were brought into play to destroy the fireballs, as they came into range, while the Condors jumped out to fire at the alien vessels.

Caleus and I were surprised to see how well the crews of the vessels from Earth and Jade worked together without communicating with each other. We knew then that the deceiving game we were playing with the two planets would not last too much longer unless we thought of some other way to add to the deception. Whatever we did, we knew it would have to be well planned to deceive these very intelligent humans.

The battle between the Space Force and the aliens continued while we tried to think of some other ways to make Earth and Jade believe the Galactic Republic of Calorn really existed, and we came up with only one solution. We would bring fifty Vultures from the Creator's home planet and place them among the Condors. The crews of the Condors would believe, we hoped, that these were more Galactic Space Force vessels which were there only to observe their tactics in this battle with the aliens.

After the battle was over, we would tell the crews from the two planets how they had participated with each other in this battle with the aliens without the help of any Galactic Space Force vessels, and that they would, from then on, be able to communicate with each other.

This would end our involvement with the two planets, except to furnish them with a vessel now and then until each of the planets had fifty Vulture vessels and fifty Hawk vessels to go along with the fifty Condor vessels they already had, and, of course, to give them the Creator's planets to colonize.

The aliens did not give up easily. They had lost five vessels in this battle alone, but they were not leaving as they had before, and we soon found out why. Another fleet of alien vessels appeared on the viewer, on the opposite side of our galaxy, and began firing their weapons at an arm of the galaxy in which the planet Jade was located.

Four Jade and three Earth Condors jumped to that region of our galaxy to intercept the fire balls and to fire their weapons at the alien vessels. Caleus and I jumped the Eagle into one of the fifty Vulture vessels that had arrived a few minutes earlier, and I jumped my body into the control seat of the Vulture. Then I jumped the Vulture to that region also, but I never got to fire the Vulture's weapons because the Condors had destroyed all but one of the alien vessels before I arrived. The one alien vessel was tied to one of the Condor vessels by its GI beams.

"Can you believe that, Caleus?" I thought-voiced, "The aliens were not too smart to stay so close to the galaxy after they fired their weapons, were they? Well, Caleus, I guess we had better take this alien vessel off their hands and send the Condors back to the other battle."

Caleus had jumped the Eagle out of the Vulture, and the Eagle now set in space beside the Vulture.

"I know what you're thinking, Caleb, and I don't like it!" Caleus thought-voiced.

"Look a little deeper, Caleus, and you'll see that I can communicate with their alien mind. Their concepts of reality were implanted in my mind when they tried to kill me with their dying thoughts."

"I can see that, Caleb. But I still don't want you to try to communicate with them. It's too dangerous!"

"I'll just send them a message and then we can give their vessel a great push out into intergalactic space, okay?"

"All right, Caleb. But make the message brief!"

We told the crew of the Condor that we were going to place our GI beams around the alien vessel and, as soon as we did, for them and the other Condors to go back to the battle at the opposite side of the galaxy. We placed our GI beams around the alien vessel and the Condors jumped across the galaxy.

"As soon as I send the message, Caleus, you be ready to push the vessel out into intergalactic space."

"I'm ready, Caleb, but please be careful!

"I will," I thought-said.

Using the alien concepts of reality, I told the evil aliens to stay away from our galaxy or face the consequence of our deadly vessels' attack on their galaxy in the near future. Then I pulled my thoughts back into the Vulture, and Caleus and I pushed the alien vessel far out into the blackness of intergalactic space.

"I hope the aliens do believe that we will attack their galaxy, Caleb."

"They do believe we will attack them, Caleus. What I told them was no idle threat, and they know it! Now, I believe we had better get back to that other battle."

"Yes, I believe we better, Caleb!" Caleus thought-voiced, and the Eagle vanished. I then jumped the Vulture back to where it had been a few minutes earlier, and I jumped back aboard the Eagle. The alien vessels in this battle began to head back toward their galaxy; however, they lost two more vessels before they got out of range.

After the aliens left, we ordered our vessels back to their planets, but first, we told the crews that we had an announcement to make to them in one hour. Then we sent the fifty Vulture vessels back to the home planet of the Creators, Calorn.

This battle had lasted for a little over ten hours, and our vessels had destroyed twenty-two alien vessels without the loss of any of our vessels. Our belief was that the aliens would not be back for quite some time.

The following is the announcement we sent by thought-voice to the Space Force of the two planets, Jade and Earth:

"Fellow Captains of the Space Force, we want to congratulate you on the successful completion of your training. You have shown us something that all humans in this galaxy will never forget. And that something is: Without prior knowledge of interplanetary or interstellar war, you have defeated the evil alien beings three times in less than three months. You have also battled the aliens along side of what you have believed to be the Galactic Space Force without the ability to communicate with them. But in reality these vessels were the vessels we furnished to another planet, such as yours, that was also in jeopardy of attack from the aliens.

"And, from the words of only one person, you have fought the aliens without questioning as to why they are fighting the Republic of Calorn. The answer to that is, the aliens want the secrets of our space vessels. But we will not give them up to the aliens, or to anyone else, and you can well imagine why.

"We are sorry to have deceived you, but it was necessary that we find out if you could defend yourselves without our help. Your two planets' names are Earth and Jade, and you can now communicate with the each other when ever you choose to do so.

"We will remove our vessels from around your planets since you can now protect yourselves, but we will leave the Vulture vessels, which set on your planets, because you should use them as the headquarters of your Space Force.

"You are now free to take your rightful places in our galaxy as members of the Galactic Space Force and someday, in the near future we hope, your planets will be asked to join the Galactic Republic of Calorn, but, until then, we ask you to colonize only the planets which we will make available to you. Each of the planets that you may colonize will be shown on your viewers. The planets that Jade may colonize will be the ones that have a blue dot with a red circle around it, and Earth's planets will be the ones that are green with a red circle around it.

"The two of us, Captain Caleb and Captain Caleus, will always be close by to advise and guide you and to help you in any way in which we are able. Thank you and let peace be with you."

After the announcement, Caleus and I changed four of the dots that represented the Creators planets on the viewers of the Space Force vessels to two red and blue dots, and two red and green dots. Two of the planets were near Jade and two were near Earth.

"All we need to do now, Caleus, is to wait and see how the two planets get along," I said, as I rose from my seat at the table in the center of the library.

"I believe they will get along fine, Caleb, as long as the Space Force is there to protect them from the governments who want to control their lives," Caleus said, as she also rose from her seat on the opposite side of the table from me, "And we'll be here to make sure the Space Force does protect the people. However, if the Space Force finds out that we are the only two people in the Galactic Republic of Calorn, we'll have to tell them about the Creators."

"The people will need to grow up for quite awhile before they can be told who their creators really were, Caleus," I said, as I placed my arms around her and kissed her tenderly, "They are but children. We don't want to see them hurt, do we?"

"You are right, Caleb, we do not want to hurt them," Caleus said and hugged me tightly.

Caleus and I then jumped our bodies into the control seats of the Eagle and jumped the Eagle to the planet Sustenance, where we would box the food-water packets to keep the two Space Forces supplied, and where we would spend our time while the Human race grew outward into the galaxy.

After Caleus and I spent a month on Sustenance stacking the boxes of the gray food, and the green water, packets by ourselves, we decided that we would have to find more people to be the crew of the Eagle.

The Eagle had room for 32 people, so we would have to find 30 more people who would work with us and keep our secret about the Galactic Republic of Calorn to themselves.

We had the knowledge of the Creators, so we made 30 oval Passes, like our own, to capture the cells from 30 people. The people would have to have the Creators genes, and they would have to be very close to death, or very crippled, before the Passes would take a cell from their bodies.

Caleus took 15 of the Passes to Jade to choose seven women and eight men, and I took 15 Passes to Earth to choose seven men and eight women. Each Pass would choose the person that it was assigned to choose and bring them and the cells to Sustenance, and Micro would build a new body from the cells and place the persons mind in the body. The person would then know that he or she was naked and was standing, or lying in a bed, in a bedroom in one of the apartments aboard the Eagle.

After Caleus and I turned the Passes loose to find the people, we went back to Sustenance to wait for the people to arrive aboard the Eagle. Caleus would take care of the women, and I would make sure that the men found the suits and the oval necklace so that we could communicate with one another.

The first person to arrive was a man from Jade. I went to the apartment where he had arrived lying in bed and, using sign language, began to show him how to get the suit to appear by touching the dent in the oval plate beside his bed, but he didn't pay any attention to me.

The man lay in bed and stared at his hands and arms, then ran his hands over both of his arms and said, "Am I dreaming this, or do I really have arms and hands now?"

"You are not dreaming," I said to him. He was from the same country on Jade that Caleus had come from, so I did understand his language.

"I have legs and feet too!" he said, as he raised his legs in the air and wiggled his feet, "How did this happen?" he looked at me, "Who are you, and where am I? This isn't my room!"

"My name is Caleb Thorn," I said, "You are in one of the apartments aboard the space vessel Eagle. You were brought here by that oval Pass," I indicated the Pass that lay on the bed beside him.

He picked up the Pass as he sat up on the side of the bed and said, "I saw this black rock fly into my room and hover in front of my face, so I touched it with my tongue and then I was here in this room and I had arms and legs," his brown eyes studied my face, "I've heard about a Captain Caleb who was with Captain Caleus and the space vessel Eagle. Are you the same person?"

"Yes," I said, "I am Captain Caleb."

"Why was I brought here? How did you give me back my arms and legs?" he said, as he stood up.

"Caleus and I needed a few people to help us here at the food-water complex on the planet Sustenance," I told him, "We had the Pass bring a cell from your body so that Micro could build a new body from the cell and place your mind in that body. By the way, what is your name, sir?

"My name is Bruin, Joud K. Bruin. But aren't you from the Galactic Republic of Calorn?" Joud said, "Why didn't you get some of your own people to help you?"

I saw that Joud had just realized that he was naked, so I said, "Touch this brown dent in this white panel and a suit of clothes will appear on that black wall," he did, and while he was putting on the suit, I told him about the Creators and why they had placed a Pass on Jade and Earth to bring Caleus and I here to Sustenance.

"Until you arrived, Caleus and I were the only members of the Galactic Republic of Calorn," I said, "There will be 32 members when the Passes bring the other 29 people here from Earth and Jade."

"I am a member of the Republic of Calorn, then?" Joud asked.

"Yes," I said.

"Why was I picked to be a member?" Joud asked, as he ran his hands over the suit to feel of his new body.

"The Pass chose you because you have the genes of the Creators, and you were crippled, or close to death."

Joud then told me how he had been stripped of his arms and legs in an accident a few years earlier and how he had coped with the situation by using his tongue to manipulate gadgets that would do for him what his arms, hands, and legs had done before.

A few days later, all of the 15 men and 15 women had arrived in the apartments on the Eagle, and Caleus and I had explained to each of them how and why they had been brought to this planet, and we had told them about the Creators.

In a month or so, after we have taught the people how to run the food-water complex and how to operate the Dove craft and the Eagle vessel, we will take our new crew to Calorn. There, they will open the secret place where each of them will obtain the knowledge of the Creators as Caleus and I had done.

I have recorded this story in a library oval, and this oval will be placed in the library on the Creators home planet, Calorn, for all of the Human race of the future to see.

We will always be alert for the evil aliens if, or when, they return to this galaxy.