Discovering Alien Technology Part Two
Copyright© 2026 by GMet
Chapter 14
I woke up early Saturday April 11, 2026, and stepped out onto my second storey balcony to look over the lake. My ladies and I had moved into my new home the day after Christmas and they had loved their present. We had all the privacy we wanted, even when their older sisters stayed over when they were back from University.
After viewing the sun just starting to peek up from the east, I went back inside, got changed and went out for a run. I still jogged ten kilometres each day to keep in shape, weather permitting. It was still cool but at least the road wasn’t covered in snow or even wet this morning.
Along the way, I thought of the Artemis II landing last night off the coast of San Diego, with all four astronauts safely returned to the planet, including the Canadian astronaut. The trip around the moon, but not landing on the moon, was something planned for years so they still went ahead with it even after we’d been on the moon since December. I mentally shrugged and put it out of my mind as I had more pressing things to mull over.
Addler Enterprises started our tourist flights on January second and it was a rousing success, so much so that we had to quickly get a second AddlerThree built and add it to the daily rotation of flights to the moon. The hotel was booked to full capacity every day for the next year as were the daily flights to the moon. Some guests didn’t, or couldn’t stay over, but would take a walk and a rover excursion before getting back on the flight returning home to Dryden. It was expensive for them but everyone said that it was a bucket list item that they never thought would be fulfilled so it was worth it.
The town of Dryden and the airport got really busy with the extra traffic and people staying over for a couple of days before their moon flight. Three new hotels were hurriedly built and one was already open and quickly busy. Restaurants and even a new nightclub sprung up for the rich visitors to spend some time at while waiting for their moon trip. There were daily flights in from Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg and further west from Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. There were even some private jets that flew in from the States and Europe that brought in their well-to-do passengers.
Up on the moon, we had hired a base manager, a hotel manager, a flight director, various other managers to oversee the greenhouse, store as well as utilities and aircraft maintenance to work with the robots and the human customers. We had a few extra humans at the hotel to cater to the guests that didn’t warm up to the service robots, but the total was under twenty at any one time. A few went up and wanted to return right away but most loved it.
Meanwhile we had the whole base under the new shield and it worked great on all the meteoroids that found their way past the lasers and rail guns mounted on the ridge outside the shield. We had to shut it down for the takeoffs and landings and to allow rovers access outside but that was coordinated by the robot pilots and drivers with the Base’s AI, an AI built from a portion of Base, my AI from the Telan’s base beside my house. We found a way to shut down just a portion of the shield to let the rover out or in while keeping most of the shield still active.
As we had discussed back when I came back from the moon in December, we started making separate bases on the moon and offered them to countries that wanted them. We just didn’t let anyone, mind you, it was first offered to countries who we approved of and would help with advancing mankind out in space. Canada wanted one at the location Roger and I picked out and then Great Britian, France, Germany, Australia, Israel, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Japan were soon on board and paid handsomely for Addler to first shuttle up some people and then to build a base as per their specifications. Russia and China reached out but the US still was reluctant after we didn’t provide them with our aircraft. All three posed problems and we weren’t sure how to handle having the superpowers up with us. We had to space out the builds anyway as building nine bases on the moon didn’t happen overnight.
Canada moved into theirs at the end of March and the others would start in the next months, spaced out monthly for each new one to be commissioned. We handled all the shipments with our AddlerThree ships for people and AddlerFours for their equipment and consumables. Some would bring their own space suits but most had us manufacture them as ours were built to exacting standards and tested on the moon prior to allowing a human to use them. We would handle all rover transport to and from the bases but some wanted to bring their own vehicles up. We insisted on testing by robots on the moon first to ensure they were space ready and had the necessary emergency equipment before allowing their use on the moon. So far there were no accidents or loss of life at the Canadian base or travel in-between.
On April first, we launched a new AddlerThree, with a new AddlerSix in the top plus a couple of rovers in the bottom cargo area, along with an accompanying AddlerFour, to Mars. The trip would take approximately twenty days to get there and then a couple of days to map the entire surface. After that, we would pick a spot to land both ships vertically and touch down on the red planet. Exploration would occur and then a base would be started with the robots and equipment the supply ship was carrying. The two space ships would come back once the tunnels were drilled and the utilities were put in so that the robots had power and heat in the tunnels as they assembled the first dome in front of the main tunnel doorway. Weekly AddlerFours would head to Mars once the ships started back to provide additional dome materials and other needed supplies.
So, we had started the colonization of the moon and had the next one on its way to Mars so most of our goals we had set for ourselves were met or in great shape after the launch to Mars. My parents went up to the moon for a few days two weeks ago and enjoyed themselves, so much so that they went back up with Rachel and Nancy mid week and would be back today. Reece and Sage were nearing end of first year and would start writing final exams at the start of May. The sisters had already ensured that they would spend the summer with us, taking up the suite at the other end of the new house. We had staff to deal with all the flights and our Moon base and even had some people in charge of the Mars mission as well as the building of next set of bases on the moon and Mars.
Myself, I turned to other pursuits in the new year. While I had gotten Base’s nanites into all the ladies a long time ago, I wanted to somehow get everyone in the family into the pod to ensure all was well with them. Base and I decided to ‘invent’ our own pod, part scanner and part healer for some of human’s worst diseases. The Telans had long ago cured cancer, cardiovascular and kidney disease as well as few of the other big ones such as Parkinson’s, Altheimer’s and dementia, MS, ALS, Diabetes, HIV/AIDs, Leukemia and Arthritis. Obviously, they didn’t call them that but had the same diseases on their planet and had developed cures long ago. They had even cured a few of the mental health diseases by regulating the chemicals in the brain and the function of various parts of it like the thyroid. Most of the current ear, eye and various skeletal problems were already being fixed by our current robot surgeons around the world.
Part of the cure would be to clean out the vascular system, the digestive system as well as the brain and the lungs of any harmful things with nanites and filtering of the body’s liquids. Reduction of fats would also be needed to overcome obesity and all its accompanying maladies. So the pod would have to filter and dispose of a lot of harmful things without causing any issues to the patient. Size of the patient had to be taken into account for the size of the pod and what it did. We decided on infants, children, teens, adults and then extra large sizes and then did male and females of each of those for ten different pods to start.
Building the pods wouldn’t be the problem, it would be explaining how I knew to correct all the diseases with one machine while not being a medical doctor or researcher. While the adage, ‘build and they will come’ would definitely work with desperate people hoping to be cured, the powers-that-be, whether they be those in the medical field, or in governmental authority, would want to know how they worked. Curing everyone of all those diseases would paint a target on our heads from all the pharmaceutical corporations, for profit hospitals, medical professionals and so on. We thought the benefits outweighed the potential loss of jobs, as some of the medical profession could still be employed to use the pods.
We decided to make one of each pod and have the family use them to start and then work out how to employ them out into the world. I thought just having the ten put into a new type of hospital or clinic in Dryden or somewhere that could handle the demand would be a first step, but Base and I weren’t sure if that was a good way to start so we wanted the family to know about them and help decide.
I worked on them in the basement of my house to keep it secret and used the tunnel to bring in all the components and materials needed. All of them had to be made from Earth materials and we had to have the components made from molds and dies so we could quickly scale up production when demand soared. The chemicals were made up from known compounds and mixed to get the same results as the Telan pod did. Removal of the waste products from the body and the pod had to be figured out so that the patient was clean and comfortable and not too embarrassed.
It took a couple months to get them all built but they would all be ready for testing by the end of April. Base ramped up nanite production and started outsourcing the compounds needed for the chemicals production. The chemicals needed would be a factor in appeasing the drug and chemical companies for losing their profits from their drugs no longer being needed.
The other big ticket item was now going to be building a space station at the LeGrange Point L4 or L5, in the orbital path of the moon but at the point where there was as stable gravitational equilibrium between the earth and the moon so an object would stay there. L4 would be in front of the moon’s path while L5 would be behind it’s orbital path.
The design had be set for a while and it would allow for a dozen of the large AddlerFours to be parked at the same time, let alone more of the AddlerThree sized ships. It was going to be huge and therefore needed a lot of material and large spaces to build it in sections on earth. We put up another hangar type building, four times as big as our current one, on the extra land they had bought around the space port. It was up by end of February and we were building sections, four at a time, broken into smaller sections to bring each up in a AddlerFour and use robots to put the one floor together, linked to an AddlerFour that was stationed there semi-permanently. The first sections had gone up a few days ago and the robots were busy up there putting them together. It wasn’t big enough to be seen with the naked eye just yet but anyone with a decent telescope could see it. Base had a very good one installed on the deck for all to use and it was cool to see something being put together way out there.
So my days were spent in the space station hangars and in my basement after I went for my jog, worked out or did some fishing in the morning. It was still too cold to swim and we had lots of logs and split wood from when we had cleared the area for the house and the winding driveway so I wouldn’t have to do any splitting until the fall. I had left my parents with enough for the year as well so I used a gym downstairs for any exercise I needed beyond jogging. Once a week I rented the rink for an hour to get in some skating and shooting on their nets to keep in hockey shape but didn’t get into any pickup games.
I had a shower when I got back to the house and started some breakfast. Riley and Teigan made their way down to the kitchen and sat down in front of their plates and a cup of coffee.
“Already done your jog?” Riley asked.
“Yep,” I replied with a grin as I sat down with my plate of eggs, bacon and toast.
They both just shook their heads before taking a sip of their elixir.
“So, what’s on the agenda today?” I asked.
“We need to order groceries and have them delivered,” Teigan answered. “After that, we need to work on our school science project as it is due on Monday.”
“The rents come home today and will want to meet up I’m sure,” Riley added. “Maybe we’ll have them over for dinner if they’re up to it.”
“Okay, I’ll grab my tablet and we can get the order ready, including what you want to make for dinner,” I said, getting up to retrieve it from the counter.
We all contributed to the list before I sent it into the grocery store in town that had a delivery service, for a fee of course. We got a response that it would delivered in a couple of hours.
The girls went back up to shower and dressed while I headed downstairs to work on the pods. Base had a couple robots bring in some components via the tunnel and they stayed to help install them. We had the pods themselves completed and were just putting in the final controls for scanning and injections. The scanners were an upgrade on our robot surgery unit’s scanners so we could include new MRI and Ultrasound improvements Base and I made on existing human tech. The injections were for the chemicals and the nanites needed to fix the problems. The waste extraction of the toxic material, including excessive fat deposits were moved into the patient’s digestive system, and out of the body in the normal manner. A diaper contraption would be slipped onto the patient which would gather the waste out of the digestive system and suck it away from the body and into tubes that led to tanks underneath the pod to be removed after each session.
We added virtual reality headsets for all pods except the infant ones and just put in a tablet on an adjustable arm to distract the babies. The lid of the pod would also display pleasant scenes for the patient if they didn’t want to use the VR headsets and we put in speakers to play music or nature sounds if they wanted that instead. This was just for the scanning portion as they would be put under for any procedures that had to be done.
I spent almost three hours on the pods and we had the two adult and the two teen pods finished and ready for testing. The children and infants’ pods needed a couple more hours and then we would concentrate on the oversize ones last. I figured testing would be complete by the end of the week and then we would need volunteers for human trials.
My ladies met me in the kitchen for lunch and we just had some soup and sandwiches. They had taken care of the grocery delivery while I was downstairs, with the help of our personal robots.
“How goes down there in your mad scientist laboratory?” Riley asked with a grin.
“Very good,” I said in a horrible accent, with an accompanying ghoulish laugh while rubbing my hands together. “I’ll need some test subjects soon so why don’t you visit later.”
“Not a chance mister,” she replied.
“Don’t worry, you’ll hardly feel a thing,” I told them, still acting the mad scientist.
“I don’t think so,” Teigan responded. “What are you building down there anyway?”
“Healing pods for all sorts of diseases,” I replied, getting serious. “I have sets of pods for adults and teens done, and the children and infant ones will be done tomorrow. I have to finish the oversized one’s next and then we can do human trials starting in about a week.”
They just looked at each other and then Riley asked, “What kinds of diseases?”
“Almost all of them that the robot surgeons can’t correct, like cancer, heart and kidney disease, ALC, MLS, Altheimer’s and dementia, Arthritis, Leukemia, Parkinson’s, HIV/AIDs, Diabetes and many of the more exotic and rare ones,” I told her.
“No shit?” she asked, clearly shocked.
“Yes shit,” I answered with a grin.
“And it works?” Teigan asked.
“The nanites and the compounds work, the pod system and scanners need testing obviously,” I replied. “We’ll all go see them when the rents come over this evening for dinner and then we’ll discuss them further.”
“Okay,” Riley said slowly. “This is bigger than your robot surgeons. The demand will be enormous.”
“Hence the talk about it this evening,” I responded. “The issue will be getting them passed through the medical and governmental restrictions as I use nanites and new compounds to eradicate the bad cells and get the waste products out of the body. Imagine how much waste there will be with overweight people.”
“Eww, gross,” Teigan said with a frown.
“Exactly, but it’s needed to get the bad stuff out of each person,” I told them. “I was thinking to set them up in a new building here in Dryden or somewhere with a bigger population and try them out on seriously ill patients to start. Terminal cancer or bad Altheimer’s patients to see what happens. They would have to be volunteers that would sign waivers. Once we have all the bugs fixed, we’ll be booked solid for months so we’ll have to add lines to make more pods and get other hospitals set up.”
“I can see all sorts of complications already,” Riley said after thinking about it. “You’d put all sorts of medical professionals out of business, not to mention pharmaceutical companies that would lose all sorts of income and profits.”
“You’ve got it,” I agreed. “Most health care people will like that people are being cured but will have to change their specialities to something either helping with the pods or something the pods won’t do. The corporations will hate the loss of profits but I’m thinking we could get them to make the chemicals necessary for the pods to work. The governments would like it the best as it would take up to thirty percent out of their budgets.”
“Maybe the adults will have some ideas to make it easier,” Riley mused.
“Hopefully,” I agreed. “If not, I’ll call the Prime Minister and get his thoughts before we go too far.”
The ladies went back to their school project and I went down to finish the other pods. They came down around three to look at the pods and I explained them while working on the infant pod. They were impressed with how polished and professional they already looked and appreciated the extra touches I added to put the patients at ease. I quickly finished up and they dragged me up to our bedroom to reward me for my new invention and I exhausted myself trying to satisfy both of them.
They left me to rest while they got a tray of fried chicken into the oven along with some homemade potato wedges. I eventually showered and joined them downstairs to watch the food while they got cleaned and dressed for dinner with the folks. I set the table for seven people and welcomed our guests when they arrived, texting my ladies to get their butts downstairs.
“The girls should be down in a minute,” I told as I led them to the kitchen. “How was your trip to the glowing ball of rock?”
“It was fantastic,” Rachel enthused.
“I loved every second of it,” Nancy added. “It’s really done up right to enjoy the scenery while eating or lounging in the hotel and the excursions out onto the moon’s surface are just out of this world.”
“Yes they are,” I responded, just putting a small smirk on my face.
“You know what I mean,” she said, giving me the mom look.
“I’m glad everyone had a good time,” I said. “Did you see anything that needs improvement or to be added?”
“You’re going to need more big rovers as there was a wait for excursions and the British were in from their colony to spend time in the restaurant and lounge,” Mom told me. “We might need an extra dome for overflow as the colonies get populated as we have better facilities for gatherings and eating than the colonies have at this time.”
“Okay, we can get that done, especially the rovers right away,” I responded. “What else?”
“You’ll need another hotel, we’re booking into the fall already,” Nancy spoke up. “Add more space ships and flights as those are booked solid as well.”
“Okay, more AddlerThrees for people and AddlerFours for the Spaceport and Mars builds,” I made a list. “Another, larger dome for another resort up there. How are finances?”
“You’re printing money so no worries,” Mom answered. “You’re well on your way to being the youngest self made billionaire before the end of the year.”
“Good, we’ll need lots of money to build ships and the space station, let alone my new project,” I told them. “Dad, let’s get the shipbuilding cranked up here and in Winnipeg please.”
“Will do,” he agreed.
The girls came down and hugs all around ensued before the girls got the food out of the oven. We sat down and had a nice meal together, with all sorts of topics being discussed. After the cleanup, we brought them downstairs and showed them the pods and I went through what they could do.
“This will be bigger than the robot surgery units,” Dad predicted.
“Yep, we’ll need more of these as well,” I agreed. “This will be harder to get approved but demand will take off as soon as they see the results.”
“So we need human trials next?” Mom asked. “How are we going to do that?”
“Ask for volunteers, people desperate enough to sign waivers,” I answered. “It won’t harm them but no one knows that at this point.”
“Anyone gets hurt and it will go badly,” Rachel warned. “Anyone that doesn’t get healed will bitch as well.”
“So, do we set up trials ourselves, in a building in Dryden or go the official way through the governments?” I inquired.
We debated the topic for a while before I threw out that I could call the Prime Minister and get his opinion on the subject.
“Sometimes it’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission,” Dad warned. “These could take years to get approved and tested out the official way and lots of people don’t have weeks let alone years to wait.”
“We might have to go to another country with less stringent regulations to get them tested,” Rachel suggested.
“Or use that as a threat to get something done quicker here,” I said.
“Good point,” Dad agreed. “Let’s get all ten done and then we can do some testing of the scanning equipment and maybe fix something simple on me for a first test before we approach the PM.”
“The adult and teen ones are complete so we can do scans of everyone here now and if there is something we need to fix we can do it right away, documenting it of course,” I responded.
“Okay, tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be your patient zero after we do a check of the spaceport, the ship building and the Mars launch,” Dad said. “It’s been a long day, we’ll get out of your hair and get a good night’s sleep. We’ll be in by nine at the spaceport.”
“Alright, I’ll be there and we can do the rounds together,” I agreed.
We went back upstairs and they thanked us for the meal before they headed home. We cleaned up, put the leftovers away and then relaxed by watching a movie before going to bed.
After working out and a quick jog early Sunday morning, I showered and had some breakfast before waking my ladies with a cup of coffee. They came down a half hour later, showered and ready for some more coffee and some breakfast before our normal Uber driver picked us up. He dropped us off at the spaceport where the girls went off to work with the moms in various departments while I met up with Dad and toured the spaceship building hangars where a AddlerThree and a AddlerFour were being swarmed by robots as well as few humans. We could now build one of each in less than a month with an additional two weeks for testing systems and flight capability before we had the inspectors in. Next, we inspected the new hangar we erected to make the space station sections and found the next four sections of another floor almost ready to go. A hundred robots and at least twenty humans were busy putting in the last components and testing everything before they would break them down into smaller sections to get them ready to ship up.
After checking in on the status of the Mars mission, still about nine days away from Mars, we drove into town and visited the two building where the multiple build lines were still putting out various components, drones, AMDS and AMIS probes, surgical units and rovers. There were four large rovers being built for the moon and more to be built for the next Mars mission.
In the second building, another AddlerFive, the fighter space craft, was being worked on by humans and robots.
“That’s number eight I believe,” Dad said. “We’ve filled a hangar out at the space port. We’ll need another one or put them somewhere else.”
“We could put a couple on the moon and a few on Mars eventually, but I guess we need another hangar out at our space port,” I mused. “Better have Nancy buy more land.”
“She’s already on it,” Dad responded. “A couple neighbours don’t like the sound and the hustle and bustle so we’ve bought them out and moved them farther away just to keep the peace. I’ll get busy on the paperwork and the permits to put up a few more domes.”
“Great, I think everything is going well so far,” I stated.
“Now you did it, something will go wrong for sure,” Dad said, shaking his head.
I laughed and we checked in with some of the humans in the offices here at the first building. We had to employ dozens of people in our travel department to handle all the people issues for the flights to the moon and stays at our hotel. Add in fulltime media people, coordinators with the CSA and other governmental departments, people for the accounting and legal departments as well as people to assist Dad in coordinating all the ship builds, space port build and the new Mars mission, and we were filling up all the offices in town and at the space port main building.
Things seemed to be running well, though everyone was busy and it looked like organized chaos in the travel department, even on a Sunday. Base and I had set up servers for each department and put in AI software for each to assist the humans in scheduling and data storage and retrieval, but with humans involved, things didn’t always go as we predicted. Dad and I helped out solving a few issues before we headed back to the space port where we met with other humans there.
We now had at least a hundred people directly employed by Addler Enterprises, from something as simple as a janitor or luggage handler, to coordinators, schedulers and managers. We could have done it all with robots and computers, with Base or another AI in charge, but people liked to talk to people and see them working alongside the robots when they came to the space port. The more important schedules were maintained by the family and Base and all the meticulous manufacturing and inspection was done by robots. Most of the errors we found in our inspections for everything we built usually led back to human error at some point in the build cycle, whether it was outside components or humans putting things together, so we weren’t going to change our inspection methods. As we were a seven day twenty-four hour operation, the humans staggered their days off so we had coverage on the weekends.
We met up with the moms and the two daughters and had lunch before we all drove back to our house. Riley and Teigan went upstairs to work on their school project while Dad volunteered to get scanned first and he stripped down to his underwear before climbing in.
“Alright, we’ll just do a scan so you could put on the VR headset or we can give you some nature sounds and views on the top to relax you,” I said. “It won’t take more than five minutes for the scans. They’re improved from the robot surgical unit scans so nothing to worry about.”
“Alright, I’ll be fine with the nature views,” he replied. “I’m trusting you not to fry my brain or lop off an ear.”
I gave him an evil laugh as I had the lid start to close. The ladies laughed at me and his worried look before it hid him away.
“Alright, let’s see what we can do to him,” I mused. “Any requests?”
“Pink hair?” Rachel suggested.
“Lose ten pounds?” Mom added.
“Fix his balding,” Nancy stated.
“Okay, we can do the last two but I’m not doing the pink hair,” I responded, giving Rachel a disappointed look.
They all laughed as I started the music and video show and then the scans. I monitored the scans and then reviewed the results on the panel with the built in AI as the top opened.
“I was just getting comfortable enough for a snooze,” Dad complained.
“Good, that’s what we want the patients to do, relax,” I replied. “I’m looking at the results and you’re pretty healthy for an old man.”
“Bite me,” he said as he sat up. “Anything we need to take care of?”
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