Violet Ugrat - Ways to heaven. Colonization of Mars I

Victor Pavlovich has noticed an surprised look of the head of the Safety Council. He understood that he wasestimating the expenses, habitually measuring time for the works with the military certain and short terms. But the head of Roskosmos decided not to allowed himself to lose the necessary note now, he left furtherexplanations of the reasons. He continued the report.

– Colonization of Mars is necessary. The mankind must have one more planet for life. Today there is a soilfor air creation, but there isn't enough gravitation to hold it. We will use tested and purified asteroids to gain weight. Also we shoudn’t forget that colonization isn't the rush decision now. We have centuries forthe work, this time will be used to create the environmentally friendly place for living. Nowadays our spaceindustry is able to afford the large-scale employment company. We will provide people with the work. Theone part of the means can be taken from the system of the dole payment. Of course, it will go for thesalary for the laymen occupied on the new manifacture. Its scale and prestige will be intended to make theenemies envy and to capture them with the desire to do the same. We will occupy Medici and Borgia forthe work that will be even more prestigious and necessary. We will spend the public money to make themcompete with us and do the same. We will appreciate and praise their job, we will learn the society how to do the same, increasing their prestige here to create for them a new way of existence, new clear andtempting programs. We will teach them how to appreciate the people and not to do the poison. And, as a result, we will destroy the root of the military conflicts. It is said that in the military science has a systemthat begins a race of the arms and provokes the conflicts. Real reason is that often not all equipmentcontains ideally. On the bases there are not enough materials or they are stolen. To write off the losses it is easier to begin the fighting and to blame the enemy. There is another unpleasant, but habitual scenario of the beginning the conflict. Military need money from the state treasury at least just to support army andthe equipment. But the authorities reluctantly finance even expenditure on the duty for the maintenanceof the dangerous weapon. To find the funds for its work at the same time following the obligatoryinstruction, it is necessary to start other projects and to give a part of the money to the nuclear physicistsor on the control of the chemical and biological weapon. Earning these additional funds in the peacefularea – the competitors appear anyway. As the result they are left without money and with problemsbecause of the market closing. The only way out for the soldiers is to continue making the arms with thebudget money, there they can hold the monopoly. They advertize the new weapon and receive the hugesums from the higher authority’s budget on its creation. It was the way of the economy development thatcreated so much weapon in the world so the planet can not survive now. The new programs will give theeconomic system of the peaceful development. We also have the strategic plans for the military part of thepopulation as they will remain the police officers of all created system working in space mines and theplants. They will have a peaceful business which they will be able to keep under control. We will change a lot of things in the economic system of the war. We will distract those who invent and use terrible weaponto make living. Therefore we will protect ourselves and the whole world from the self-destruction.

All the time the facial expression of the head of the Council of safety was changing. Now there was no signof the initial hopelessness. He was interested and full of hope. When Pankratov had finished, the head of the Safety Council said to him:

– Of course, it’s very good, Victor Pavlovich! The more resources and work, the less reasons for wars. It sounds oddly enough but the asteroids can save Earth from the full elimination. But how will we organizeall this? We huge funds are necessary! It will be possible only if the project is international!

Volin stood up.

– Mister head of the Council! It’s exactly what we want to make. But the direct negotiations with our richrivals won't lead to anything. Therefore we have developed the large-scale project directed to the changeof the priorities of all the mankind. For this purpose we will launch a secret information campaign whichpurpose is to reorient the developed countries of the world from resource wars on Earth to the peacefuldevelopment of the geology in Solar system. We will surely add the explanations about the threat of the hitof the meteorites to the nuclear objects, develop the huge company on accumulation of the prestige of everybody who is engaged in space researches. People will be torn to such a works even only to be considered as elite of the society. The system of the employment will be focused on the upbringing peopleas much as it possible. Besides the space, we have one more advantage – effective intelligence service andcounterintelligence. In Russia there are many agents of NATO and China, absolutely confident that theyaren't revealed by us. Moreover, they have enlisted a number of our high-ranking officials. It was reallydifficult to convince agents of foreign service that their informants are reliable and we aren’t involved in it. We even merge several small secrets to do this. We also use them to send to the leaders of the countries of NATO and China information necessary to us! But the biggest victory will be already created system for theimitation.

– And what information will it be? – asked with the interest the head of the Council.

– And it will be announced by Dmitry Andreevich!

Morozov Dmitry Andreevich, the Minister of Economic Development in Russia, came to a conference halltribune. Pankratov didn't sit down, standing nearby and letting know he wanted to add something to Morozov's report.

– Mister head of the Council! Information which we intend to merge to the West and to China will be thefollowing content. I will briefly read only the theses. The oil reserves in Russia at the current consumption, spread of blue plague, X107 and its export will be enough for 15 years. The drinking water reserves werereduced dramatically because of the awful ecology. Especially, after the failure of the train with 90 cars of chemical C17X04 reagent in Siberia and the penetration of all these reagents to the lake.

The head of the Safety Council has turned pale and cried out:

– What accident? When did it happen? Why didn’t you tell me!?

– Andrey Leonidovich, calm down! – Semenov, the head of the department of the fight against war crimestold him impassively. – Accident hasn’t happened yet. We plan it next week. But it will be small, only as an occasion to start actions.

The head of the Council understood everything, took a deep breath, leant on the back of the chair and saidwith the voice still shivering nervously:

– This way I will leave the Kremlin only legs forward! No, there won’t be any accident. Do what you want, but no diversions against our own country, even in case of the recruitment the foreign armies. We have no war. They don’t attack us, don't occupy the territory. We are not on the losing side. Why are the realdiversions necessary in a normal life?

The soldiers didn't object. And shamed Morozov continued:

– We will use all the possible exits due to the appearing problems. We will find the new ways out. We needto begin looking for the reserves of the necessary metals and minerals outside Earth. To develop the systemof the disinfecting and to make the space cleaning fashionable so it will help on Earth too. Let's create thesecular society, like in Pushkin’s lyceum where we will begin to bring up the noble people. Let's make thelife beautiful for the millions. People would forget that they once wanted robots only for the killing mostof the fellow citizens.

The conversation has right there joined Pankratov:

– We also want to tell the part of the information about the asteroids and our plan in general, that will be interesting for the press. We even have a project of the plant processing the asteroids on the orbit. We want to tell about it too. The purpose is simple: to let the West and China understand what now they can’t caught anything and get the profit in Russia, and at the same time to aim them at the exploration of thespace richness, to show them it’s real. In this case the huge money that are spending for the arms now willbe reoriented on the space programs, and thousands unemployed people will be able to find the job in thesphere of studying, delivery and processing the asteroids.

– The idea is clear and I completely support it! – The head of the Safety Council with a sign invited Morozovand Pankratov to sit down at a table. – And if it’s not a secret, who is an informant telling the information to the agents ?

Volin smiled:

– This is mister Morozov! And mister Orlov – the first deputy of Pankratov!

The head of the Council looked at Morozov and said reproachfully, shaking the head:

– Oh, didn't expect it from you, Dmitry Andreevich, didn't expect!

It was the end of the meeting. The discussion was already about to an end when the head of the Councildecided to say about one more condition.

– I am ready to support the project and I will make an official motion for its development in thegovernment. We have capacities to continue the work. But I promise all this on the one condition. Thegeneral system of the program has to include searching the protection against radiation.

– Do you mean the alternative energy sources? – Volin has asked him.

– It’s not the only way. The program is large-scale. The best physicists and chemists of the world willparticipate in its work. You have to to support their efforts of studying the nuclear reactions and makingtheir forces safe for the person. Let use everything. Study the alternative types of the obtaining energy andmake the cheaper power plants. Create the programs for studying the nuclear synthesis and simulate themon the computer so that in the beginning models, and then our experiences prove the ways of using of thisdangerous energy without harm for the person and the nature. I understand that this task is difficult and I won't demand instant results. I’m against the dangerous technologies to become known to those whomustn’t know about their power. But its studying has to be a part of the new direction.

– We will make it, – Volin answered to all. – I imagine how people in the West will react to this program.

Everybody burst into laughter and in a good mood began to discuss details of the forthcoming informationcampaign.

Space is fronted of the Cold War

The general Parkers was a hereditary military. His great-grandfather was involved in World War II, meetingon Elba forces of allies, and the grandfather was at war in Vietnam. Then he couldn't be met on spontaneousrevolts when most of veterans threw out medals and hated everything that was considered as their feet, publicly proving to be opponents of fighting. Parkers's father has died during the operation "Tigers in theDesert" when the boy hardly was 10 years old.

Only his courage was the cause. The command car was well protected, but he has decided to go out of it personally to dispose about evacuation of children, to check the performance of the order. The bullet hasovertaken him when he was already convinced that everything is executed precisely. Already then his sonwho has remained the orphan didn't doubt that he will carry on the family tradition and will become themilitary. And now he, John Parkers, the general ordering the American contingent of NATO in Europe. He was proud of the position and carried the officer's rank with honor.