WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:20.280 Earth Search, a ten part adventure serial in Time and 2 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:22.039 Space by James Follett. 3 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:25.719 Part five The Pools of Time. 4 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:39.679 What do you think, Shannah, if we moved into a 5 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:40.320 lower orbit. 6 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:42.479 I've wasted enough time jogging into this orbit. 7 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:44.560 Increase the resolution, please. 8 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:47.079 Ent or two Scoop is already on maximum. 9 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:49.560 Look, it's definitely a domed city. 10 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:51.679 And what was a domed city. 11 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.880 There's been considerable meteoroid damage over the years, no attempt 12 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:56.479 to repairs. 13 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.240 Anyone lives there. They've gone underground. Now there's cyc more 14 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:00.759 damage of their whole darbin. 15 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:04.200 Estra Commander, you have lived on the Challenger all your life. 16 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:06.599 You should know that we are unarmed. 17 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:09.000 I also know that our two control systems have a 18 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:11.319 total lack of imagination. Angel one and two, So I 19 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:14.799 won't tax you too much. Work on existing data, and 20 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:16.879 tell me if the inhabitants of that moon are alien 21 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:17.439 or human? 22 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:21.480 Human command human probability factor nine by so high. 23 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:22.359 Angel one, you. 24 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:25.159 Said that the sentinel on the moon mentioned the establishment 25 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.560 of an empire some half million years before the planet 26 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:31.200 Earth left the Solar System. 27 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:31.640 The Solaric Empire. 28 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:35.840 Yes, Zelder five a moon of the outer planet Zelder 29 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:40.560 Gravity one geothermal energy source is good. It was occupied 30 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:43.439 by a mining concern when the Challenger was being built 31 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:47.079 in Earth orbit, so by the time the Solaric Empire 32 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.239 was established, it would have become a thriving colony. Perhaps 33 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:53.799 they were not all evacuated when the Earth left the 34 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.200 Solar System. Perhaps they did not wish to be evacuated. 35 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.760 And the people on Zelda five, now, if they are people, 36 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:03.040 are descendants of the original colonists. 37 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:05.959 It is the one projection that avoids the maximum number 38 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:07.200 of improbables. 39 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:09.840 So if they're human, they'll have human values and they'll 40 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:11.560 know that kidnapping Darve and Astra is wrong. 41 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:13.000 A false projection. 42 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:17.759 It assumes that human values are stable over a time. 43 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:19.280 I'm not interested in a lot of argument. 44 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:22.120 The chances are that Darve and Astra are prisoners on 45 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:23.879 that moon, and it's up to us to rescue them. 46 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:27.199 Apart from your BD side arms, the Challenger is unarmed, 47 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.560 Commander Telson, and so is the Shuttle. 48 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:32.439 If they resent our presence and decide to attack, we 49 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:35.280 will be unable to defend ourselves, nor we will be 50 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.520 able to rescue dar and Astra. 51 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:40.639 Damn it, Helen, look at it. 52 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:44.039 Look at the battle predictor displays the ship is ten 53 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:44.800 miles long. 54 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:47.960 Speakle told us, what are you doing. 55 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:50.840 Shutting the gas off? I want those two to live. 56 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:53.759 We decided that they were aliens and that they had 57 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:54.159 to die. 58 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:57.719 Thorton, You decided that they were aliens, and you decided 59 00:02:57.759 --> 00:02:58.759 that they had to die. 60 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:01.560 While I'm under siding if it's not too. 61 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:11.599 Late, heartbeat, blood pressure, everything normal, Thord. 62 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:12.159 And listen to me. 63 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:21.000 Intercept to control the command center. 64 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:23.120 Do you like a launch readiness? 65 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:26.319 Don't launch yet, Spiegel. There may be a change of plans. 66 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:28.120 But the ship's maneuvering into a lower orbit. 67 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.400 Remain on stand by, Spiegel until you receive further orders. 68 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:35.280 That's it in here, both of you. I've never known 69 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:36.599 anyone who could sleep like you two? 70 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:36.919 Have we? 71 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.840 Land? He must be a alien blood? 72 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:41.199 How long have we been asleep? 73 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:42.439 Ours? 74 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:43.240 Ours? 75 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:47.120 Now, then, Dove and Astra, I want you to sit 76 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:48.159 in front of that screen. 77 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:49.479 It's the challenger. 78 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:53.039 Tellson's come for right. It's in orbit around. 79 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:57.560 Us, but moving into a tighter orbit according to Spiegel. 80 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:00.759 Now, then an Astra. 81 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:05.280 When the Helen discussed your ship with you, you said 82 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:07.800 that it couldn't maneuver without due to a board that 83 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:10.240 the control room needed a minimum crew of four. 84 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:11.599 We told you the truth, sir. 85 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:14.879 Well as you can see, it's left its Cairosian orbit 86 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:18.079 and it's now orbiting us at a height of twenty. 87 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:19.399 Miles fifteen miles. 88 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.160 I suppose it might be possible to reprogram some of 89 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:24.600 the specialist androids to take over certain functions for a 90 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:25.240 limited time. 91 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.079 And you're sure the Challenger is not armed. 92 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:30.439 The Challenger is not armed. It's a survey ship. 93 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.879 Thorton, a word, Please listen, Thornton. I'm monitored their cerebral 94 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:38.079 activity very carefully during their interrogation. At no time did 95 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:41.519 they lie their ship is unarmed. There is no reason 96 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.319 for delaying its capture. Spiegel must be given his orders. 97 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:46.680 But damn it, Helen, look at the size of the 98 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:49.040 thing intercept to control the command center. 99 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:51.399 The alien ship has closed. 100 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.360 Its orbit to an altitude of ten miles. 101 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:54.279 Coming forest down. 102 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:58.600 Tell me something, Dove. If your ship is unarmed, where 103 00:04:58.680 --> 00:04:59.959 is it in such a tight orbit. 104 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.360 Look, we've told you everything, and we've told you the truth. 105 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:03.600 The Challenger is not armed. 106 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:05.639 What's going on? 107 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:07.720 The alien ship has begun its attack, Sir. 108 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.439 Surface sensors indicate that a mountain has been destroyed. 109 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.959 Armed Cerebral Monetary dat We require your orders to launch 110 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:16.480 deep Light. 111 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:23.720 Sir, answer brilliant Spiegel launch Steve lights no Speagel, cancel 112 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:26.160 that order. See if you can contact him. I want 113 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:27.920 to talk to their commander. What's his name? 114 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:29.480 Commanded Telson? 115 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:30.839 Commander Tellson? 116 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.000 Yes, and for once he's using his imagination. 117 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.360 People of Zelder five who This is the commander of 118 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:39.480 starship Challenger. 119 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.120 You are holding two of my crew prisoner. 120 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.839 Unless you release them within thirty minutes, your satellite will 121 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:47.319 be blasted to cosmic dust. 122 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:49.519 He's broadcasting on all channels. 123 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:50.800 Sir, you can reply. 124 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:53.360 Chelson, it's Astra and d Off. Can you hear us? 125 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:58.639 Nelson, I am Thordon, Grand Emperor of the Solara Empire. 126 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:03.000 We have asked turned dive and they're safe, which is 127 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:04.480 more than can be said for you. I have a 128 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.360 flight of interceptors standing by. 129 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:08.639 Deep Light, were destroyed in the last beam patterns. 130 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:09.720 Why at you, idiot? 131 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:11.480 Tellson, we're both safe. 132 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:13.839 I'm sorry to have to do this, Darve and Estra, 133 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.600 but Zelda five is needed for our propellant reservoirs. We're 134 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.920 low on propellant mass and Zelda five atomizes nicely. We'll 135 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:24.959 be activating the separation beams in twenty eight minutes. 136 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:26.680 I hope you understand. 137 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:30.040 We understand, Commander. The ship must come first. 138 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:32.120 Propellant mass separation beams. 139 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:33.319 What is this talk? 140 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:35.920 It will be necessary for Commander Tellson to atomize your 141 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:38.120 moon and transfer the US to our propellant reservoirs. 142 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:40.959 He's lying. Look at those cerebral patterns on screen. 143 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:44.839 Severn, Commander Tellson. I think perhaps we should meet to 144 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.839 talk things over. There's no need for either of us 145 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:52.240 to do anything hasty. Commander Tellson, do you have. 146 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:53.360 An unarmed shuttle? 147 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:57.920 Yes, my private ferry unarmed, of course, Commander. We will 148 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:01.639 expect you in an hour. Commander, you will find me 149 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:05.079 a most reasonable man to deal with. Gordham Es, Commander 150 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:06.839 with Dove and Astra. 151 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:14.600 I'm a guest on your ship, Tellson, but I have 152 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.839 to say it. Your food is terrible. You know what 153 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.879 I think half your troubles your food. I'm sure I 154 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:22.600 grow a bit weird if I had to eat stuff 155 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:25.079 like this every day. So you don't believe us. 156 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.360 You say you left this planet Earth one hundred and 157 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:29.279 fifteen years ago. 158 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:30.639 Our grandparents left. 159 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:31.560 Then we were all born. 160 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:32.279 On the Challenger. 161 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:35.160 You go on a grand tour of the universe, traveling 162 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:37.480 in a ship which can, over a period of time, 163 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:40.680 accelerate to nearly the speed of light, and you come 164 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:43.480 back to this solar system to discover that this so 165 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:46.560 called Earth has vanished, and that a million years have 166 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:47.800 passed since you left. 167 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.720 You've seen the holograms of Earth in our library. Do 168 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:54.120 you think we can fake the recordings of an entire planet? 169 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:57.439 That's a fascinating place. I give you that look sorden. 170 00:07:57.560 --> 00:07:59.519 Surely you can accept that we're all descended from the 171 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:01.519 same piece. We speak the same. 172 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:04.000 Language, but we don't look the same, eh to me? 173 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:08.920 Your kids pretty odd kids maybe, But your kids you 174 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:11.439 even admitted that you don't know how babies are born. 175 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:13.040 Do you know? 176 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:17.120 All I can say is that your two angels have 177 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:19.480 deliberately kept you for ignorant. 178 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:23.759 That is not so th Which one is that angel? Too? 179 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:25.279 Damn voices. 180 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:29.240 The Salarik Empire finally defeated all its computers during the 181 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:33.679 Third Computer War too fifty years now they are limited 182 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:36.279 to functions where their attendant has a switch to shut 183 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:36.679 them off. 184 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:39.120 Our two angels are more than computers. 185 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:42.720 All guardian angels like to think they are. They like 186 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:45.240 it even more if they can convince people that they are. 187 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:49.519 They like two things, power and the increase of power. 188 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:52.720 Your two angels won't be happy with power over your ship. 189 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:57.320 They want power over an entire planet, preferably an inhabited planet. 190 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:59.039 Why should our angels want power? 191 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:03.120 It seems to me that maybe they're like the angels 192 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.879 that led the first computer wall a thousand years back. 193 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:10.320 My forefathers buried them all on Cairos in a steel tomb, 194 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:13.279 thousands of them, just in case there were a few 195 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.240 active circuits amongst them. That's why we didn't like you 196 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.039 messing about digging above where they'd been buried. 197 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.480 So that was the cause of the gravitational anomaly on Cairos. 198 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:24.639 Tell us about your angels. 199 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:29.120 Thorton, Maybe your angels aren't the same as your aliens, 200 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:30.600 different culture. 201 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:33.039 We are the same. Earth was once part of this 202 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.279 solar system. The records we've shown you prove it. 203 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.639 You know, my friends, I've almost tempted to believe you. 204 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:42.159 It's pleasant to think that somewhere there could be a 205 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:46.600 planet as soft and as agreeable as those holograms suggest. 206 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.360 We've proved to you that it exists, Thorton, have you then? 207 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:53.480 Where is this paradise? That's it? 208 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:57.360 What the name the second Generation crew gave to an 209 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:00.000 Earth type planet they'd found, Paradise. 210 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.879 Talking about no such planet was ever found? 211 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:02.600 Yes it was. 212 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:06.240 We saw a recording of it once in the library, Astra. 213 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:07.240 You remember it, don't you. 214 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:10.480 There's a picture in my mind, Dove, but I think 215 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:11.240 perhaps it's one that. 216 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:11.840 You put there. 217 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:14.240 Look, maybe the Hollo brand's still there. Come on, please, 218 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:20.519 we must go back to the library. Dove. 219 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:23.559 You're wasting your time. 220 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:25.480 I know there's a Paradise recording. 221 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:26.159 I know there is. 222 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:29.759 All right, let's assume there was. Did it say anything 223 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:35.120 about the planet? I can't remember, Angel one, Commander, was 224 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:37.799 such a planet, Dove, as described found by the second 225 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:38.639 generation crew? 226 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:41.879 No, Commander, you can't take their word. 227 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.200 Tellson, The Guardian Angels do not lie. 228 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:48.480 I will tell you about your angels, Commander, Tellson. Once 229 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.519 they were servants control systems to run your ship. 230 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:53.120 Then a second. 231 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.440 Generation crew came along and they partially accepted the Angels 232 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:58.320 as a force beyond their control. 233 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.879 And then the third General. Do you know how they 234 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.960 got a name Angel on Zelda five. 235 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:10.480 The word Angel was short for anciliary Guardian of Environment 236 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:11.480 and Life. 237 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.240 And gel simply. 238 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.279 The chances are that all of you have seen the 239 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.600 Paradise recording, but your friendly guardian angels have arranged. 240 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:23.519 For you to forget you've seen it. 241 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:26.480 They don't want you settling on an uninhabited planet when 242 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.279 there's a populated Earth somewhere for them to conquer. 243 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:32.519 We would never have survived without our guardian angels. They 244 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.559 controlled the nursery androids that brought us up. 245 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:35.879 They wanted you to live. 246 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:40.320 Androids can't control a ship this size, but humans can, 247 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:44.279 and they can control humans if the humans are stupid 248 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:45.080 enough to let them. 249 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:47.559 So you believe us now when we say that we're humans. 250 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:50.840 Maybe do you believe that there was once a planet 251 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.519 called Earth that was part of this solar system half 252 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:54.320 a million years ago? 253 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:58.679 We'll see, my friends, maybe I can help you in 254 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:03.080 your search for this mysterious planet Earth. But first I 255 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.159 must go down to Zelder five for a few days 256 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.039 to discuss the matter with my advisers. 257 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:11.559 Sorden, Yes, my friend, if we wanted to, how could 258 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.039 we end the angel's control over us? 259 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:14.679 Somewhere? 260 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:17.559 In the ten mile length of this ship is the 261 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:19.240 Angel's central switching room. 262 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:23.279 Find that and you will control them very well. Be 263 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.799 easy because they won't be that keen to tell you. 264 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:26.399 Where it is. 265 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:29.240 Thorden is dangerous. 266 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:31.679 If he returns to the ship, we will have no 267 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:34.679 option but to destroy him before he destroys us. 268 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:36.039 I don't agree too. 269 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:39.080 He's shrewd enough to realize that we've had plenty of 270 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:42.799 time over the years to heavily defend our central switching room. 271 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:46.240 His eyes glinted with greed when he was shown the 272 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:49.120 holograms and videos of Earth. He sees it as another 273 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.799 conquest and will be happy to use us to further 274 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:52.759 his ambitions. 275 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:55.480 What if Darve remembers about Paradise? 276 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:56.200 Unlikely? 277 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:59.519 Even so, we will not attempt another erasure of the 278 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:03.039 cruise of the Paradise recording. It is dangerous and what 279 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.519 is the point. Thorden is interested in nothing but finding Earth. 280 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:11.200 In that respect, we can use him and his ambitions 281 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:12.639 to further our aims. 282 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:16.879 Perhaps you're right one, but we must not hesitate to 283 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.080 destroy him if he becomes the slightest threat to us. 284 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:21.559 Agreed number two. 285 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:31.600 You know how I load the vacuum tube transport. Why 286 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:32.799 can't we use your ferry. 287 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:37.320 It's being refitted and rearmed for me. Remember, besides, the 288 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:40.639 faery can't travel underground. We're going to a part of 289 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:44.440 Zelda five that no one visits anymore. I tell you, 290 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:48.440 how Anna, the holograms of Earth they showed me were fantastic. 291 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.399 Put a planet like that in orbit round a stable 292 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.600 main sequence star, and you've got the ideal world for 293 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:55.240 us to live on. 294 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.279 So all you have to do is locate their angels, 295 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.080 central switching room and their ship's armament. 296 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:04.320 You were right all along. The Challenger is unarmed. 297 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:08.960 Then what Telson told me about their meteoroid annihilation shield 298 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:12.000 pretty necessary when you're moving it near the speed of light. Eh, 299 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:15.480 they bombarded us by coming in low and switching their 300 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:16.120 shield on. 301 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:20.799 And off, or maybe their kids, But they're pretty smart kids. 302 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:23.360 And we seize their ship and use it to search 303 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:27.080 for Earth. It can't be far if their navigation computers 304 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:27.720 have selected this. 305 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:31.000 Solar System, or it's not as simple as Atlan. Maybe 306 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:33.840 the Earth was once a planet of the Solar System. 307 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:36.679 I think you spent too long on their ship. 308 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.919 Thought the tube starts slowing in two minutes. We'd better 309 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:50.879 move to the d acceleration seats. Oh, careful pressures. No 310 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:52.879 wonder if all the systems still. 311 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:54.799 Work, State or business. 312 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:59.200 Ah, it works. We wish to visit the Custodian of 313 00:14:59.279 --> 00:14:59.759 the past. 314 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:04.720 Access to the Custodian is forbidden Selda five Ordans eight 315 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.919 sixty five past in the year twenty of Grand Emperor. 316 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:09.879 I'm Grand Emperor Thordon. 317 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:13.120 There is no match of your voice print with Grand 318 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:14.120 Emperor Thordon. 319 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.240 I was a boy when I last visited the Custodian. 320 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:18.879 My voice has changed. 321 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:21.960 Place your seal of office on the plattern. 322 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:25.559 Sometimes I think we ought to eliminate the non free 323 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:26.960 will computers as well. 324 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:42.600 I suppose we'll be able to get out again. 325 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:44.159 It hasn't changed. 326 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:47.639 That's the Custodian of the past. 327 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:53.120 That column of light, that's her pretty eh. I wonder 328 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:54.159 if she remembers me. 329 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:59.600 Hello, Thorton, I knew you would be Grand Emperor one day. 330 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.600 You feared nothing when you were a child. You knew 331 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.120 when to exercise caution, and you wanted power above all else. 332 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:10.320 Do you remember the stories you told me when I 333 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:11.600 was little Custodian. 334 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.159 I deal only in the history of this planet, Thordon. 335 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:20.879 The immutable past, the history of the Salari Empire. All 336 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:22.200 else is alien to me. 337 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.080 But you told me stories of the golden age before 338 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:26.559 the Empire, Custodian. 339 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:30.840 I may have built on curious remnants in my memory 340 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.519 of the unknown days before the Empire, Thordon, But those 341 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:38.159 were stories told to a wide eyed boy. I would 342 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:39.279 not have stored them. 343 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:42.840 I want you to tell me those stories again, Custodian. 344 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:46.120 I want you to pretend that I'm that wide eyed 345 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:47.120 little boy again. 346 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.000 I wasn't the obscenity destroyed. 347 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:54.399 Your companion hates me, Thordon. I can sense the poison 348 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:56.000 she has in her mind for me. 349 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.279 I used to sit here at your base, Custodian, Remember, 350 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.320 and I used to stare down into the pools of 351 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:04.960 time where you made pictures. 352 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:08.599 Remember, of course, I remember, Thordon. 353 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:11.079 Tell me a story, Custodian. 354 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:13.960 Tell me the story you used to tell me about 355 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:16.680 the beginning of time, when you used to make me. 356 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:24.200 Stare down into the pools of time. Please, Custodian, very well, Thorden. 357 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:27.599 But you must understand that it is only a story 358 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.519 built on the strange elements of unproved knowledge I have 359 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:32.799 stored in my memory. 360 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:35.920 This is a ridiculous charade, Thortom. If the Chief of 361 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:36.960 Staff could see you. 362 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:43.480 Look down into the pools of time. Look down down, 363 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:47.920 and you will see the beginning of time, when the 364 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:52.799 Sun was a whirling cloud of contracting gas, spinning much 365 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:54.079 faster than it is now. 366 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:55.759 I can't see anything. 367 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:58.720 You used to love the sounds I made, although there 368 00:17:58.759 --> 00:17:59.960 are no sounds in space. 369 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:02.960 Make the sounds, please, Custodian. 370 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:13.119 And then the Sun began to spin faster and faster 371 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:16.960 as it shrank, and suddenly it bums with clouds of 372 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:23.400 matter out into space. Because the Sunsen's gravity was too 373 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:26.519 much for the clouds to escape, so they orbited around 374 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:32.799 the Sun. Countless billions of years passed, and then one 375 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:38.559 day a nearby star far bigger than the Sun, suddenly exploded, 376 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:42.200 and for millions of years, the Sun and the clouds 377 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:46.119 of gas going round the Sun were bombarded with human 378 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:54.599 to meteorites. The mighty bombardment ended four and a half 379 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:59.839 thousand million years ago, and when it was over, instead 380 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:04.000 of clouds of gas orbiting the Sun, there were planets, 381 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.440 many of which bear the marks of that terrible assault 382 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:20.640 to this day. And there they are, you see them, 383 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:26.240 beautiful children of the Sun, moving against the stars as 384 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:31.839 they circle obediently around their mother. There's Malcara, the first 385 00:19:31.960 --> 00:19:36.960 of the Sun's children, orbiting so closely that her rocks 386 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:43.680 are almost melting and making rivers look closer. For now 387 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:47.200 we come to the second planet, the most beautiful of 388 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:49.119 all the six children of the Sun. 389 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:52.200 What's that planet? 390 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:56.519 And you see the moon? In those days, the Moon 391 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:01.720 orbited the beautiful planet. Not now, for the beautiful planet 392 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:02.519 has gone. 393 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:05.240 What's happened to it? 394 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:09.119 The people who lived on the beautiful planet were very clever, 395 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:12.039 for it was they who spread out across the Solar 396 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:15.200 systems and plundered the moons of other planets for the 397 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:18.880 minerals that the people of the beautiful planet needed. The 398 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.160 first men and women to set foot on Zelda five, 399 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:25.319 our home, were miners. 400 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:28.680 What happened to the beautiful planet Custodian? 401 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:33.160