Oxygénia

ignite certain longings and excitement. Apart from that, they know
of no other wishes than for oxygen and food. Their sexual drive, too,
is reduced to the Grand Spring Festival, to a few hours, like with
animals. If, for instance, you would fall right into the middle of a
servant city, you could walk along these beings for years without
anyone caring for you. All of that is achieved by our excellent
numbing drug, the Green Drops. This drug lets everything in the
beings get numb except for a certain reflex, which is limited to
realise that there is a connection between the oxygen, the food and
the work. So the beings work precisely, attentive, with all their
power and diligence. Of course, there are changes in the production
schedule, it can become necessary for one or other facility to
produce more or less. Our computers change the program and the
quota of the single machines in a thousanth second. Some
machines get blocked by gratings, so the beings need to go to
another working place. On another station, we reduce the amount
of oxygen for the same work and this way can force the Trunk
Bearers to work longer. In a similiar way, the usage of food can be
controlled. We provide more or less oxygen consuming foods, add
more or less Green Drops... But I got a bit off our topic, I'm afraid.
We demand work and regulated proliferation from the beings to
ensure the continuous support of Rememberers. The most
important feature of the Gren Drops is that they don't interfere with
the psychic and physical abilities of the offspring, don't mess with
the sexual hormones and the biological cells. They don't destroy
their function, only subdue them. Thanks to this, the servants
procreate healthy offspring from which we can select several
millions of engineers, mathematicians, architects, biologists and all
other kind of specialists without any trouble, whatever is needed in
the future. But I don't know whether all of what you just saw wasn't
very exhausting for you?"
"No, not at all", Peter exclaimed, eagerly.
"Good, because the interesting part is yet to come. I'd like to
show you the Cities of the Rememberers. Until the reign of
Benefactor VIII., we weren't completely in charge of directing those
who do the more advanced mental work. They consumed too much
oxygen and used only a part of their energy to do their assigned
tasks. Without oxygen – I mean, without oxygen in bigger amounts
– there is no advanced mental work. So we provided the intelligence
plenty, I'm tempted to say, we spoiled them. In exchange, we wished
for nothing more than that they cared for nothing else and didn't
think of anything else than solving the problems they were assigned
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