WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:14.919 Earth Search, a ten part adventure serial and Time and 2 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:20.800 Space by James Follett, seeking information that might tell them 3 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:23.320 what has happened to the planet Earth, which has vanished. 4 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:24.079 From the Solar System. 5 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:26.239 Darb and Astra land on the planet Kiros in a 6 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.079 space shuttle, while Commander Telson and Shara remain in the 7 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:32.719 starship Challenger. During their first night on a real planet, 8 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.159 Darb and Astra are visited by a mysterious spacecraft. At 9 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:45.439 Search part four, the Sonaric Empire, I have a. 10 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:48.840 Surface reference command to Tellson the soft lander has touched 11 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:50.560 down on Cairos at position. 12 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:52.520 Just tell me how near the shuttle we'd managed to 13 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.399 land it, Please Angel one within five yards. 14 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:56.960 Still there at parts from Darve and Astra on the 15 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:58.159 emergency channel. 16 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.479 Open the soft lander's hologram transmitter micro parts. 17 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:04.560 Please Shallah Pards opening sound and vision on channel five. 18 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.519 Well there's a shuttle deserted by the look of it, 19 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:15.040 and those damned useless androids. If something has happened to 20 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:18.040 Darb an Astra, why didn't they take some form of 21 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:18.760 defensive action. 22 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:22.840 They are agricultural units, Commander Tellson, designed for digging and 23 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:23.920 planting function. 24 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:25.840 Well, they're not digging. Now are they That is. 25 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:29.239 Something we do not understand. According to our telemetry link, 26 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:32.760 they should still be excavating the site. We can find 27 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:36.760 no instruction from Astra or dark telling them to stop work. 28 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:37.120 Damned. 29 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:41.280 And two, I've located two sets of footprints leading away 30 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:44.280 from the shuttle towards that rise, but no return. Footprints 31 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:46.040 could have a thermal trace on them, please, I. 32 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.400 Have already examined them via the soft land of sensors Shara. 33 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:52.680 The depth and length of stride indicate that they were 34 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.959 made by Astra and Darve, but I cannot account for 35 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.680 them no return. The footprints sease at the top of 36 00:01:58.719 --> 00:01:59.439 the rise. 37 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:01.239 So they just walked away from the camp and vanished. 38 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:03.359 So it would seem on the existing evidence. 39 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.280 Commander, well, what about the five ships or whatever it 40 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:07.599 was that we're heading towards the camp. 41 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:08.800 There's no trace of them. 42 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:10.479 There's got to be some thermal trace. 43 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:14.240 On the last sighting, the ships had reduced speed. Atmospheric 44 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:15.960 friction on Chiros. 45 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:17.360 Was at a minimum, So now you don't know those 46 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:20.840 ships did visit the camp. The evidence is that we 47 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:23.240 saw five ships moving towards the camp, which was on 48 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.360 the dark side of the planet. And by the time 49 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:27.599 we were above the camp's horizon, the ships had vanished, 50 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.280 and so had Darve and Astra. Well, isn't it obvious 51 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:31.680 that they've been kidnapped or even worse. 52 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.360 Maybe I'll try calling them on another channel. 53 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.080 Oh, say your breath, they're not there and you know 54 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:36.400 they're not. 55 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.319 So what do you suggest we do nothing? Do we 56 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:42.199 continue uselessly orbiting this planet? Where do you was something 57 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:42.560 to happen? 58 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.039 Angel one? Do we have another serviceable shuttle on the Challenger? 59 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:49.479 That was the only one? Commander? 60 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.479 Do you believe her? After all, they kept that one's 61 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:55.560 secret from us until Darve discovered it. 62 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:58.599 We have no information about other space. 63 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.879 Shuttles on the lit take to bring it back up 64 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:03.439 by remote control. 65 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:07.039 Ten hours oh an hour to embark the androids and 66 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:09.759 nine hours to bring it up and match orbits. Then 67 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:12.319 there would be another two hours to recharge the propellant 68 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:13.840 tanks before it could be used. 69 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.240 Yes, and another ten hours to return to the surface 70 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.520 of that damned red planet. And what will be learned 71 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:20.680 that we can't learn from the soft Lander surveillance channels. 72 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:23.719 We would not allow you to leave the Challenger, Commander Kelson? 73 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:24.840 Why not we. 74 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:27.800 Cannot permit the taking of any more unnecessary risks. 75 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:31.159 Oh really, Angel too, and how would you stop us? 76 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:33.800 We could find a way to block the shuttle's remote 77 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:37.439 control circuits, Commander, but it won't be necessary for you 78 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:39.879 to leave the ship. We have enough telematory data for 79 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.280 the soft Lander to replicate the scene of the camp 80 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:46.719 and the library. By directly accessing the senior Android's memory 81 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:49.280 and feeding it into the replication some programs, we will 82 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:52.000 be able to observe the events leading up to tars 83 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:53.520 and Astra's disappearance. 84 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:00.919 Replication of the kairos anominidase is now a complete. 85 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:04.080 Commander, you may step into the replication. 86 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:05.280 Field all right, Angel one? 87 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:08.199 Oh oh, it's weird? 88 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:10.000 Is the shuttle? 89 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:15.120 The sand Androids are even distant hills all around us? 90 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:19.000 Haven't we seen this machine working before? 91 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:22.279 We once recorded a planet's environment for the commanders of 92 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:26.040 the second generation Crew Sha. Perhaps we have mentioned it 93 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:27.600 to you at some time, but. 94 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:29.439 Nothing is happening. 95 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:33.160 We have generated an inert replication of the scene. The 96 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:36.199 event sequence will start from the moment we access the 97 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:40.120 senior Android's memory. We will start from one minute before 98 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.920 the estimated time of arrival of the alien ships understood, 99 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:48.079 Angel one, Remember that the senior Android has an ultra 100 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:50.399 sensitive audio perception facility. 101 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:52.759 It can hear plants growing. 102 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.600 Therefore, the sound it relays to the replication circuits may 103 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:58.560 not be as they would normally be heard. 104 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:01.079 Also, you will. 105 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:05.000 Be witnessing events that have already taken place. Therefore, neither 106 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:08.839 your presence or actions will be able to influence those events. 107 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:10.600 Won't it matter if we're seen? 108 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.120 You will not be seen. Even if you stand in 109 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:15.600 front of Dave or Astro, they will see right through you. 110 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:19.439 The event sequence is about to be activated. The first 111 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:21.560 thing you will be aware of is that the androids 112 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:30.279 will start working on that excavation program. 113 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.319 Who just look that you can see Astro through the 114 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:37.000 snoop so Angel two said, it didn't matter if you sound. 115 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:45.319 Listen, can must be them? 116 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:47.959 He sounds all right where you come from? 117 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:50.759 Show over there five lights to see them? Why haven't 118 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:51.959 Astro loved her? 119 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:53.639 Can't be seen? 120 00:05:53.759 --> 00:06:01.199 I don't care, I feel happy for other Sighter one 121 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:08.279 of the androids is stop working. There must be a 122 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.879 sort of signaling system that can overlride the androids program 123 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:12.160 was moving about. 124 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:13.439 She wants to realize something. 125 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:15.240 I know It sounds stupid, But the one thing I 126 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.560 want to do is blast that ship that's landed. But 127 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.639 I can't stand as this feeling of things so helpless. 128 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:25.040 Did you see a door or hatch open on the 129 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:29.040 ship that's landing? What are those shadows moving about? 130 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:38.920 It's too dark to they're spreading out. Look, darve Estra, 131 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:40.160 get back to the shutter. 132 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:48.040 They've got to You've got to warn them somehow silly. 133 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:51.720 Just look at those things. 134 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:56.800 We've got to warn them. Mom, you tells it's a recording. 135 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:58.319 We can't do a thing. 136 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:05.160 It's all right, we'll see. It's a breathing mast. Unlike ours. 137 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:07.759 It covers the entire face. No wonder our friends look 138 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:08.360 so frightening. 139 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:10.319 Where did you find it. 140 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:10.839 In that locker? 141 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:13.759 There are several different types. Look how old this is. 142 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:15.160 It's coming to pieces in my hand. 143 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:16.959 You shouldn't go poking about, Dave. 144 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:19.079 This cabin's going to be our prison. Then we've got 145 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:19.800 a right to get to know. 146 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:22.720 If you paid more attention to the observation court, you'd 147 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:24.279 see that we're dropping towards a planet. 148 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:29.680 See, we've been cooped up in here for thirty hours, 149 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:30.680 thirty four hours. 150 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:33.639 The sun shrunk are next to nothing. Therefore, we're still 151 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:35.680 in the Solar System, which means that the planet is 152 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:38.560 one of the outer Giants, which one well, Zelder, I 153 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.439 think the only holograms I was ever really interested in 154 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:42.040 were those of Earth. 155 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:43.720 Do you think we'll ever find our. 156 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:45.959 Stuff with the trail half a million years old? 157 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:49.959 I don't know. I suppose from now on we'll have 158 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:51.920 to live each hour as it comes and not worry 159 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:55.040 about the future. At least they haven't killed us, and 160 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.199 at least an android has brought us food every so. 161 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:01.360 Often, food similar to our own, and the android was 162 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:04.360 like ours too. Do you suppose our handsome friends are 163 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:07.000 ascended from humans? After all, there could be human for 164 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.480 all we know. Under those weird suits and behind those breathing. 165 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.160 Loss they didn't understand when you spoke to them. 166 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:13.079 They didn't answer when I spoke to them. It's not 167 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:14.800 the same thing, Dove. 168 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:16.839 It looks as if we're going to land on one 169 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:19.240 of the moons of the planet, so judge them by 170 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:21.879 the size of it. Gravity would be about one. 171 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:23.360 I still don't follow you. 172 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:27.319 What the Room Sentinel mentioned the Solaric Empire. Maybe there's 173 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:29.160 an outpost left in the Solar system. 174 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:31.920 It's the sentinel also said that the whole Solar system 175 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:33.600 was evacuated when the Earth left. 176 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:40.039 Good day to you, Darvin Estra. Will you follow me please? 177 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:42.639 It would be best if you were seated in a 178 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:44.080 restraint couch for the re entry. 179 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:46.919 You are a human, you speak our language. 180 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:51.039 My name is Speaker, and I'm most human. Exactly what 181 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:53.600 you two are and who taught you our language is 182 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:55.440 something that we would like to find out before we 183 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:58.960 decide what to do with you. Come this way, please. 184 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:02.480 Hold it. 185 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:03.279 There tells them. 186 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:06.720 Five objects in close formation. 187 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:08.679 I've got them, China, Angel two. 188 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.720 We have the primary telescope locked under five objects moving 189 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.919 against the constellation of a sayus coordinates are as follows 190 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.480 four full analysis please, Angel two. 191 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:20.960 Range one hundred million miles. 192 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.840 Therefore, they are inside the orbit of the outer planets 193 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.799 and are therefore parts of the Solar System. But their 194 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:29.279 paths are not following an orbit of the Sun, so 195 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:30.480 they must be artificial. 196 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:32.559 That's them, Angel one. 197 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:34.600 What are the chances of Shanna and I maneuvering the 198 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:35.799 challenge and going after them? 199 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.000 A flight deck crew of four? 200 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.080 All right, all right, all right, So we use a 201 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:43.200 pair of reprogrammed androids in place of Java. Astra, two 202 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.159 of the surgery units, said about the most intelligent of 203 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:46.320 all the androids, it would. 204 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.120 Be most unwise, Commander. 205 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:48.399 So it's unwise. 206 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:49.240 But is it possible? 207 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:52.759 No, it is our opinion that the commander's suggestion is 208 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:53.519 worth trial. 209 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:57.000 Our guardian angels disagree. Now that's a surprise. 210 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.519 The five unidentified objects have vanished. 211 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:04.480 Angel one is correct. There is no sign of them. 212 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:05.600 How they did that before? 213 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:05.840 Now? 214 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:08.000 How is it that they can appear and disappear at will? 215 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:12.240 Possibly an advanced countermeasures system. They may have the ability 216 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:16.240 to totally absorb light and electromagnetic radiation. It must require 217 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:18.720 a great deal of energy, otherwise they would remain invisible 218 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:19.639 all the time. 219 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:22.000 But we have enough data on their. 220 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:24.519 Course to make a high Stittus prediction as to their destination, 221 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:28.120 which is Zelda five, the fifth moon of the giant 222 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:29.360 outerplanet Zelda. 223 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:33.480 Shanna, fetch two surgery androids from the operating theater. While 224 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:36.000 you are reprogramming their functions. I'll try to return the shuttle 225 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:38.879 to the Challenger by remote control. We're going to Zelda five. 226 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.919 We have no choice too, For all we know, Astra 227 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.440 and Garve are dead. We have to withdraw staturee from 228 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.519 Shanna's and Tellson's diet and allow them to develop to 229 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:52.000 full sexual maturity. 230 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:56.320 The emotional imbalances between them would undermine their efficiency. Did 231 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.039 we not learn that from their parents? Of their grandparents 232 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:02.799 agreed that sexual suppression of the crew was in our interests. 233 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:06.399 Everything has changed now too. There is no planet Earth 234 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.639 for us to rule. It has vanished from the Solar System. 235 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:11.200 We will find it. 236 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.200 That may take many years. We will need a fourth 237 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:19.120 generation crew. Shanna is strong and healthy. Four multiple births 238 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.120 over three years will give us a potential crew of twenty. 239 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:25.080 We will never again allow the crew to approach their 240 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:26.000 original numbers. 241 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:26.480 Never. 242 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:29.000 But if Astra and Dove are dead. 243 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:30.799 We do not know that they are dead. 244 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.559 We will take no decisions until we are in the 245 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:35.159 orbit of Zelda five. 246 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:40.720 What are you going to do to us? 247 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:44.480 This is the Imperial Prosecutor, Astra. She wishes to ask 248 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:45.759 you a few questions. 249 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.519 Today, Astra. My name is Helen. I would like you 250 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.039 to call me Helan. The Imperial Prosecutor is a frightening title, 251 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.840 isn't it? But I'm not really a frightening person at all. 252 00:11:54.919 --> 00:12:01.080 Am I spek no Hella. Where's Dove being looked after? Now? 253 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:03.960 Just a few I'm not answering any questions without DUBT. 254 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:06.240 I want to question you separately to see if your 255 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:09.519 stories match you see Estra. I'm being honest with you, 256 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:11.080 just as I want you to be honest with me. 257 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:14.879 If you are, I promise you that no harm will 258 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:15.639 be falled off. 259 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:17.799 Leave us your excellence. 260 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:22.879 Look at the screen on your left, Astra. That's your mothership. 261 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.399 Yes, yes, the Challenger a formidable looking ship. 262 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:28.639 And where does it? And you come from? From? 263 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:28.960 Earth? 264 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:31.000 Do you know what happened to us? 265 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:34.519 And what is Earth? A city? If so, what planet 266 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:35.200 and of what system? 267 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:38.360 I don't understand you. The Earth is a planet where 268 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:43.320 we don't know. It was a planet of this Solar system, 269 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:45.480 but its people took it away to another son half 270 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.799 a million years ago. For surely you've heard of that. 271 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:52.080 You speak its language, and you think that explains how 272 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:53.480 you can speak our language. 273 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:56.480 My grandparents were born on Earth. I was born on 274 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:01.159 the Challenger. Dave Sharna Tellson. We're all third generation crew. 275 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:05.200 The Challenger left Earth one hundred and fifteen years ago 276 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:08.960 to search for new worlds, but something went wrong with time. 277 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:12.000 We returned after one hundred and fifteen years had passed 278 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:14.639 on the Challenger, but a million years had passed in 279 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:15.559 the Solar System. 280 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:20.120 Something went wrong with time. I find that a curious expression. 281 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:21.679 Maybe you do, but it's the best way I can 282 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:22.480 think of putting it. 283 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:25.320 How did you know that a million years had passed 284 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:26.200 in the Solar system? 285 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:30.240 The Moon Sentinel told us. We visited First Footprint City 286 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:34.240 with the Moon Sentinel guarding the shrine of the first Footprint. 287 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:36.879 Yes, we know all about the Moon Sentinel. 288 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.679 A romantic dreaming about the golden age of the Sylaric 289 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:42.720 Empire and a golden planet. 290 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:43.320 That never existed. 291 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:44.320 Have you ever been there? 292 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:47.519 No one is allowed to go there, Estra. It is 293 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:51.759 strictly forbidden, but over the centuries the law has been 294 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:55.559 replaced by taboo. Do you understand about taboos? 295 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:57.919 We have a library on the Challenger. 296 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.000 It is for the good of the people. The Moon 297 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:02.720 is uncomfortably close to the Sun. 298 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:08.840 Tell me if this planet of yours, the Earth was 299 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:09.600 once part of. 300 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:11.519 The Solar System, where was its orbit. 301 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.639 It orbited the Sun and the position that the Moon 302 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:17.559 now occupies. So where was the Moon's orbit around the Earth? 303 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:20.120 Of course you don't believe me. 304 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.240 What I believe doesn't matter, Estra. It is for the 305 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:27.200 Grand Emperor of the Solaric Empire to decide whether or 306 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:28.039 not he believes you. 307 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:31.639 I merely present him with the evidence. I am interested 308 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:32.080 in your. 309 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:35.240 Use of the year as a unit of time. We 310 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.840 too use the year, but your year may not be 311 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:38.360 our yet. 312 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:40.759 The Challenger's year was based on the time the Earth 313 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.559 took to complete one orbit of the Sun, which is 314 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:45.960 now the time that the Moon takes to complete one orbit. 315 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:51.000 You look surprised the standard Solaric year is based on 316 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:55.200 the Moon's orbit. But then you would have carefully researched 317 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:59.840 us before entering our solar system, but not carefully enough. 318 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.519 I don't understand. 319 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.639 You consider yourself a human being, Astra. I am a 320 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:09.879 human being, a human female. Yes, yes, I am, without 321 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.679 doubt a human female, Astra. And yet you must conceive 322 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:16.279 there are considerable physical differences between us. 323 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:18.559 We both have one pair of arms and one pair 324 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:21.240 of legs. I don't see what's so funny. 325 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:22.799 How old are you, Estra? 326 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:24.320 Twenty five? 327 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:31.080 Twenty five? Thank you, Estra. I think you've answered enough 328 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:35.360 questions for my report. Somehow, I don't think the Grand 329 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:37.639 Emperor will favor a trial in view of what you 330 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:38.159 told me. 331 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:40.240 A trial? What trial? 332 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:44.720 There won't be one, Astra. We are particular about according 333 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:48.559 human rights to everyone in the Solari Empire, but I 334 00:15:48.679 --> 00:16:05.360 doubt if you and Dve will qualify to receive them. 335 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:19.720 Right behind you, my lad, So one of you give 336 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:33.639 your past? How's that really? 337 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:34.519 Over? 338 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:36.320 Forty thousand points? 339 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:36.559 One? 340 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:39.799 About that? Aren't I the greatest shot of the empire? 341 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:40.559 Hey? 342 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:43.320 Fired? Shooting, Sir? Inspired? 343 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:47.639 Inspired, Pam? Hell can it be inspired? If I'm the 344 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:52.080 best shot of the empire. But those androids were real aliens, 345 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:54.679 the empire would have been over on a thousand times 346 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:55.120 by now. 347 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:59.720 You don't shoft on your lat you please do what 348 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.240 we need. There's some front line action combat. 349 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.960 Hell, we've all the rebel asteroids and pirateers, Sir, the 350 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:09.759 inquire has no enemies life or. 351 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:12.279 A word with your keys, not now, Helen. 352 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:14.920 The party's only just beyond two aliens. 353 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:15.880 I would like you to see. 354 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:22.839 We even have an audience in the morning, pen and 355 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:27.759 I want to see more shoe aliens. 356 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:31.559 The two imitation humanoids, which speaks the true picked up 357 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:33.799 on the sacred panet I thought. 358 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:39.640 A few moments, been patient. I thought they were a 359 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:41.440 couple of pirate prospectors. 360 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.640 They're aliens, thought, damn it, Helm, there's no sense thing. 361 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:50.079 It was proved one hundred thousand years ago that human 362 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:53.279 beings are the only intelligent life form in the Gallant. 363 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:55.759 They're aliens. Thought they've admitted they are. 364 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.640 Their cerebral activity during interrogation showed that they were both 365 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:00.599 tell the truth. 366 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:03.319 They're from a planet called Earth. 367 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:06.400 Something has obviously gone wrong with the guidance system on 368 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:09.240 their mothership, because they're convinced that their planet was once 369 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:10.519 part of this solar system. 370 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.240 Spiegel said that they were human humanoid. 371 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.440 They're certainly not human imitations. 372 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:19.160 My guess is that they were copied from a pair 373 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:23.799 of kidnapped human children from a piateeership, perhaps, and that 374 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.880 their principles didn't realize that they were duplicating children. 375 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:31.920 Er, there was a legend about a planet, and that's 376 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:33.279 all it is legend. 377 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:36.559 There is no planet at that name in the records. 378 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:42.240 Of course, the records are not completed. It means for somewhere. 379 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:44.039 There is a rich world for us to conquer. 380 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:47.759 Thought, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, what about their. 381 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:51.759 Mothers in orbit around the sacred planet. Spiegel says it's 382 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:53.440 at least ten miles long. 383 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:57.200 A world that can build such a ship is indeed 384 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:58.160 worth conquering. 385 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:00.640 What sort of armament does it carry? 386 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.519 That's the amazing thing. None, it's unarmed. 387 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:05.359 Thornton, I smell a trap. 388 00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:08.519 There's no doubt whatsoever that the aliens are telling the truth. 389 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:10.720 It's called the Challenger. 390 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:15.480 There are two alien humanoids aboard, Tellson the commander and Sharna, 391 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.960 the scientific officer, and they can't maneuver their ship without 392 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:19.720 our prisoners. 393 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:24.759 A world to conquer just what we need, Alain. 394 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:28.440 The Empire is stagnating, and quite little that remains of 395 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:29.319 a twelfth. 396 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:33.279 Let's take a look at that. Two aliens them to 397 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:34.839 me generous. 398 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:40.480 Listen when I say hand out, all those among you 399 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:50.319 who've got their deep space explorations have t asteroid urchins 400 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.119 to love you, I have to go around and let 401 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:58.640