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which was inhabited, and contained one huge city on it. Another planet was called
Aires in which the aliens told Maris they used for experiments with new “life
forms”. The last was the smallest and remotest and was called Emsa-2 with two
small towns in it, with concentrated technocratic and research facilities.
According to Maris the planet Menpluriya was the most closely resembling Earth. It
was a small planet literally swarming with predators. It had once contained a city,
which was abandoned because of changes in the planet’s atmosphere; only one
outpost or station remained there. The glass-like robot, which had visited Maris in
Riga apparently, lived on that station. But the main reason that the city was
abandoned was because of the growing aggressiveness and potential psychological
and physical deterioration of the planet inhabitants, which was constantly changing,
just like the earth’s atmosphere. Further conversation revealed that the aliens were
convinced that Mars was inhabited but did not give any specific information why
they thought that, apparently their capabilities were also limited. The aliens
mentioned that the distance between their star and our sun was about 26700
parsecs, which seemed wrong and too large. Their star is not visible even with the
most powerful telescopes. Its similar to a G-class star or sun. Interested, Maris
asked the aliens if there were civilizations located closer to the earth. The aliens
answered that there was a star in the area of Polaris, which had 3 earth-like planets
and were inhabited by living organisms. During those conversations, Maris was
suddenly distracted by a strange entity that ambled out of the forest. It somehow
resembled a terrestrial chicken walking on almost 1-meter long thin legs. The
“chicken” looked at the aliens and the boy with large eyes and began slowly moving
away on the road leaving the glade. This did not cause the slightest impression on
the aliens. (Similar type creatures had been reportedly seen around 1937-1939 near
Aluksne and Pechory). Soon after that a 2-meter tall giant with a bucket-like cowl
on its head appeared on the glade. Maris watched as one of the aliens promptly
grabbed a tube-like weapon from his belt and shot a dispersed blue ray of light
towards the strange entity. The uninvited alien guest then retreated back into the
thicket the robot had stood between the shot and the strange entity and had
partially hindered the shot. They all looked in the direction for a long time and then
the owner of the shiny tube dropped it on the grass. They then resumed the
conversation with Maris, talking about the earth. They pointed out that a supercalamity
would not endanger the earth until at least 200 years (that’s refreshing),
but added that, “planets, grow, live and die”. Maris then asked the robot if
everything is programmed and could be predicted. The robot then explained to
Maris (already a young atheist) that a scientific “team” under the leadership of a
superior entity called the “Professor” began the colonization of the earth using at
first, bacterium. But the higher the civilization, the more difficult the “operations”,
and there was more energy consumption. Humans on earth now were sufficiently
developed and at times were not under the control of those aliens who conducted the
experiments or operations. Apparently humanity was at the edge of its Rubicon and
was about to enter an intergalactic community as a young member or “brother”,
and “experimentation” on earth will resume. The term Apocalypse, which no one
knows precisely when it would occur, had shifted to the distant future. With every
new arrival of the “Professor” or creator humanity receives a new injection of
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