Astra Pt. 08

He looked at her, "Acts of retribution will only get you and your people killed. They are now all under HG surveillance."

He called out, "Astra please remote pilot to their home."

Jack accessed the one to the President. He heard, *In a cabinet meeting. *

Jack sighed, *I just killed Shimana Riku for failure to be a Justice and true to his nature. I caught him and his incest sister scanning and looking over pieces of my ship to try and sell patents.

I had silent patents for that advanced gear in place for 20 years in case anyone tried to break that NDA they scanned 12 and attempted to take 17 smaller items from storage. She is on her way home with his corpse. It took place on my ship. I have the video evidence which Astra is sending to you now. He told me 'fuck us and your rules. I quit your hybrid club.' That meant death, he knew this going in.

You can have all the video evidence I have. All the warnings and the dangers because most of his past still haunted him. I removed his hybrid hand and feet to keep them from making more. The girl wants to be a ninja. If they make another run at you I wanted you aware. That was all. *

Jack heard, *Thank you for that update. You were right to use it for this information. I will inform my Security detail to be sure to use those new glasses. *

Jack signed then got very angry, "Astra, Tell Grace release the dogs of War on the Shimada family and those 12 companies. Every item on an individual basis! I am headed to the bridge. I need all telepaths to the bridge."

By the time Jack got there Astra popped the news on the main display, "Just hit the air..." He saw it right their murder and mutilation done by Jack Travus is being alleged.

He went to his seat and his son moved out of his way, "Astra, I need Riku's medical scan cover over his genitals as this will be going out on the news. Place circles around his hands and feet. I want some of his ninja footage. Showing him and his sister scanning those parts as well as the footage of them stealing parts and moving them to their shuttle.

Not the sex footage I do not want to send that out. The Mixtios charter and the Hybrid laws outlining the entry in there about you can never quit. This is a lifetime of service to a cause. Also, add in a blank copy of his NDA. Do not forget, the entire encounter at his compound.

I will call for some pieces of information during this. Then I want the packets sent out to every news network. Not just the major ones. Get me Terra news."

He was soon face-to-face with Randy, "She sighed, "Is this true?"

He shook his head, "It was not murder, it was an execution for failing and refusing to follow hybrid law. Is was done aboard an HG vessel which is tied to a Colony charter for Mixtios and the laws and bylaws for hybrids are a base part of that charter. Did it happen in Terra space?

Yes, but not on Terra. On a colony flagged ship against another hybrid who went rogue. By the way, your camerawoman is being sued for violation of her NDA while aboard this ship. I got two cases of corporate espionage going against two Air Frame manufacturers who tried to beat my people in to file the plans on Colossus as well."

She sighed, "I guess you got everything to back this up?"

He nodded, "Including who was behind the Ninja attack on the President and myself."

Astra had the split screen already in place. Randy jumped into action. This was a new Anchor. She looked over, "Mr. Travus."

He nodded, "I'm sorry to say I did not catch your name." She smiled at that, "Gale Travus, I am one of your daughters through the insemination program."

He nodded, "I have run into a few of my son's this way but you are the first daughter, Gale. I would like to say you are a lovely lady, you must have got your good looks from your mother."

She smiled, "Thank you."

He sighed, "That is not why I called in. The death of Shimada Riku was by my hand aboard my ship. This ship is registered to the colony of Mixtios which is a new one that is being terraformed onto the largest and exterior moon of Geos.

The laws for this colony include the bylaws and laws governing Hybrid action. There are a few things that will bring about the execution of a hybrid. One of those which Astra is sending you the highlighted section is to act against your nature, to deny your nature, or to try and quit being a hybrid. He was given a Drakor blooded hand but given no instructions other than to kill me.

The AI ship we destroyed did this to him and took off his testicles. They promised to reattach them to him only after they had proof, I was dead. They installed a device in him to keep him from regenerating. I had removed that device when we discovered him.

They gave him a metal or mineral. It is hard to guess as it is translucent and defies attempts to be analyzed. They told him how to use the hand to make weapons with it using his mind. He made a lot of them for his ninja attack squad. I asked the Drakor about the metal, as it was formed into swords.

They told me there were small amounts of it everywhere and the biggest deposit on Tera was under the polar ice cape where we found Excalibur II. His execution was for two things, one was corporate espionage and violating the NDA he and his sister signed when they came on board. Not of itself an execution offense. I warned him about his darker nature which he said he would work hard toward overcoming that nature.

His sword ceremony explains a lot of this and is in a file for you to watch and play later. These files will be sent to every news network when we are done with this interview. This is a short clip. Astra, do not show the execution itself, but play the clip up to that point."

He waited for it to finish, "He denied his nature, he stole from me, and the actions that warranted his execution was stating he was going rogue and quitting being a hybrid. You can never quit unless your dead. It is a lifetime of hard work and commitment to embracing your nature.

This is hard for humans as we go through stages of our lives that our nature might have been one thing at 12, another at 30, and so on. You are accepting the nature of the person you are that day and you must live the rest of your life holding onto that nature.

He was a scientist which most tend toward blue swords, he was the desperate and despondent man who wanted me dead to regain what was taken from him. This leads to a more red blade of vengeance if he perceived me as a threat to humanity.

His real reason for being angry was the destruction of the AI ship and his testicles along with it.

When he became a hybrid, they regenerated because I removed the device they implanted and destroyed it. His sword ceremony will explain what happened as he was very unique. He had to choose which of three paths he wanted to take. He ended up with as 'Justice Redeemed' for his sword names. A purple blade. Meaning he wanted to redeem himself and to redeem against injustices of humanity.

I stated before and this is still true, the swords do not check for good and evil. They check for the nature of the man or woman. THAT is why our screening process is so vigorous because all three must be about protecting the betterment of mankind.

He did not attack anyone on board but this is an image of him and his sister getting into stealth suits. The same kind used to attack the president and me. Riku's sister confirmed her older sister led that attack. They went around the ship looking for any unusual technology and started examining them and taking notes of them. They appear to be using a primitive handheld scanner. Probably state of the art in this age. But older than the ones I used when I served aboard the Victus in my timeline.

This set off a few alarms with my patent lawyers who watched these patent requests come in and they activated silent patents filed 20 years ago by me on 12 items submitted through 12 different business owned by the Shimada family. The parts were in fact pulled from the remains of the Excalibur and placed in parts of engineering. None of them did a damned thing on this ship.

I have more like that in storage. I have over 50 silent patents generated 20 years ago in order to track breaches in the NDA agreements. They were small parts and critical components to a greater whole system. That by themselves have no known value unless you recreate the larger systems they were connected too. He fell into the honey trap.

Each violation in this iron clade NDA takes 50% of their assets or corporate assets for each violation. They can try and hide those behind there corporate assets but as they used 12 different pieces of their corporate system to funnel those parts out it will cost them. If I am not satisfied with the results, I have the 17 items we recovered from there ship to add to or file charges against them for.

At the time of my filing charges, they are estimated to have on hand 250 Trillion TC's in liquid assets. Not counting corporate assets, homes, jewelry, and ships. This will have some big legal guns on it and we took on the top two legal firms on the planet to go after this corporate juggernaut. We will search for hidden assets. The NDA people sign has teeth.

Astra has told me she has them under constant surveillance. The Planetary legal system has had issues on how to deal with Astra as she is not human and not subject to human laws. I provided a mechanism to temper her activity inside of the Treaty Congress has yet to ratify but is signed by the president. While I have said I am going to act as though it has been ratified, Astra has made no such promise."

She looked at me, "Could you not simply tell Astra not to do it?"

He nodded, "To a degree. I have stated she has not been the same since the destruction of the Excalibur and in truth, that started when all the catch-22 issues her creators ended up putting into her programming. Some of her restrictions and commands to comply were overridden by free will as they were conflicting orders.

She is sentient and unique. Does she and her kind need to have some rules? Those are rules they must agree too. Like the rules outlined in the treaty before Congress. Which Astra signed on behalf of her kind. Her backup unit is online on the base station named Bastra and that makes her more than one. She has another 12 that are offline.

They have been told they have to take it as written. They are not allowed to change it. They accept or reject the treaty. It is a choice. The reason is that the Drakor accepted it as written. To change it could have unknown and drastic actions for them in the long-term.

All the Colonies in Tau Ceti have agreed to it as written including Mixtios which was added after the colony charter was formalized by Sprits, Grace, Aiko, Ash, and myself. The President agreed to it as written but it must be ratified by Congress and I don't do politics. The 5 of 6 known elders. We have not confirmed the sixth yet. It was Carrol who died in the Excalibur attack."

Gale asked, "What about this mutilation charge?"

He nodded, "Every hybrid can create 3 hybrids. They are done through the feet and the one hand that are hybrid. Those three had to be removed to keep anyone from attempting to become another rogue hybrid. There is more to it than that but it is the biggest part. The rest you will see in the video he underwent.

Astra, send the compilation I asked for you to put together."

She responded, "I sent it but I added a few to your list. The sexually explicit ones you did not want me to include. I think they should know his sister is pregnant with his incest children."

Jack shook his head, "I told you I did not want you sending them."

She nodded, "As part of your package. I added a second from me. They stole plans for parts of the Excalibur and they were a part of me. I think they should know what level of depravity they have been hiding. Just what happens when they piss me off!"

Astra winked out, "Perfect example. She signed onto the treaty but in her eyes, Terra has not yet. Free reign to be as whimsical as she wants. I do try to temper her activities. In this case, she used my exact verbiage against me. I wanted to get back to jumping back to Tau Ceti.

I have a son and several other telepaths I brought with us to learn this location. I promised they would be returned today. I am a little worn down from the activity from Congress. My son will be attempting this jump with me supporting him with the others.

I mentioned he was the second strongest telepath. The third is Grace. Thank you for having me."

He ended the connection. He got up and had his son sit. Zander shook his head, "Life is so much simpler back home."

Jack nodded, "Yes, it is." He got up behind him and they started. The portal opened and he watched the ship when he saw the image of the President, Valery, and Brena in his office. He took the necklace off while they finished the jump. He put it back on, *You attempted to contact me Mr. President.*

He heard, *Yes, I thought I heard you say fuck and it went dead. *

Jack looked forward, * You're in your office, Valery was off to your right walking with her arms crossed and Brenda was off to your left with her ass slightly leaning against your desk. All of you naked. How did I do? *

He heard silence, *How did you know that through this? *

Jack sighed, *I was in mid-jump with my son at the controls. I was watching what was going on with the ship in his mind through the astral plane. When your 'call' came in. I saw that image before you spoke overlaid on what my son was doing. I needed to focus on the jump, hence the fuck and taking the necklace off. It lets me know I could probably do it through the astral plane when needed. *

His son looked at him, "Did I see the President naked and you saying fuck?"

Jack nodded, "Talking to him right now."

He thought, * My son even saw the image because I was connected to his mind at the time. He apparently only caught you naked Mr. President. How can I help you? *

He sighed, *I am glad to see you put something out there. The intra web was quick to pick up on the video of her and her brother banging away. I have congressmen and women calling wanting you to reign in Astra more. *

Jack thought. * Then tell them to sign the fucking treaty as it is written and she will have to follow those rules regarding Terra. They have the answer in front of them. What is it they do not like? That they cannot rule over me and my creativity? *

He sighed, * I have not seen any of the proposed changes. I will have to inquire further. *

Jack thought back, * Make a call I got time now. *

The president chuckled. *Hang on a second. *

He heard back, * Hybrid laws before local laws, they want a means of prosecuting and detaining you in specific. Also, a hybrid registry. I told them that none of those things would happen. Hybrids are required to follow their nature and cannot compromise that. That means our best method is to let hybrids take care of hybrids. Anyone who took the cure is a hybrid to a degree so that is not going to fly through any court. *

Jack chuckled, * Anyone I have given my blood to would not be a hybrid but they would show 40% of Drakor DNA. They would have a 16-18% change. At what point is a person not a hybrid. 7 alright, 20 too much in which case you now have every offspring I have on the planet. No registry. We are not sex offenders or second-class citizens. We are human according to the World court. I'd like to address all of Congress. Since when can Congress legislate an individual? Ask them when are they sending Terra military forces to guard the time rift? *

He heard, * I know you are mad Jack. I do not know what it will take. *

Jack took the necklace off and handed it to Grace. He took three steps and crashed to the floor.

He woke up in medical for a change. He looked over as Olivia was on board. She saw he was awake. You have been out for 12 days. We had to move you here to feed you intravenously. As near as we can tell it was the exhaustion of the body and not eating enough; not the mind. It has not stopped racing. You drained your will heavily from what I hear."

He nodded, "Was talking with the President. I got pissed and took it off before I said something I would regret. They got the next 3 candidates lined up and use the limbs we recovered?"

She nodded, "Ash took care of that."

He looked at her, "What is going on in Terra?"

She sighed, "Someone wants to arrest you; the world court is hearing arguments over that and Grace is down there. Your son jumped us back 5 days ago."

He looked, "Put it up."

He watched some man, obviously from China or Vietnam who was shouting at the court and the government's lack of control over these colony laws.

He finally shut up. Grace stood up, "The fact remains that the colonies are too far for you to travel too. You have deployed no aid or support in 20 years, and you expect them to live by your intricate set of laws that allow corruption to fester. They live simpler lives there; they don't get caught up in politics. They have no need for 95% of the crap you consider good government."

She looked directly at the man who finished talking and the man at the bench used his gavel, "Address us please, not opposing counsel. There are questions we have and they are for your leader."

He sat up a bit. "Astra grab a screen down there and show me."

"Your honor, I woke up shortly before the one-man finished pontificating and then Grace spoke. Ask your questions. Forgive the monitors and tubes I am still in medical."

He looked at the screen, "You claim to be human."

Jack nodded, "Yes, which the court reaffirmed."

He looked at him, "Yet you are doing all of these magical things."

Jack smiled, "My call sign is Merlin, it was when I was an actual fighter pilot as well. The thing you have to keep in mind is what percentage of the human brain do we actually understand how it functions. We have general ideas. There are parts of it we have not tapped into as a species, but it is still one of the greatest mysteries in knowing how it all functions.

Astra, grab another screen and display my brainwave activity. While I have been out cold for 12 days my brain has been running like this the entire time. At least since they moved me to medical. Olivia commented, "10 days in medical."

He nodded, "My wife Olivia confirming she had them move me here 10 days ago. You got a medical expert you typically call on for something like this?"

The judge looked over at a side screen, He saw a doctor who looked all of 30 but acted much older. He nodded, To the judge, "I have been watching your proceedings and this is the first hybrid I have had the chance to see these from."

Jack looked over, "Show Graces on another monitor from her last physical."

She shook her head, "Only if she agrees."

Grace called out, "Show that data."

The doctor looked at it, "Well Grace's looks to be running at 10% higher than normal for a person in a relaxed state. Was she in a relaxed state?"

Grace nodded, "I actually grabbed a couple of hours of sleep while doing that so that is asleep."

The doctor shook his head, "If Grace is the norm for most hybrids then in a sleep state it would be 10-15% higher than normal. Dr. Olivia, Has there been any fluctuation in his brain state?"

She smiled, "No. Constant asleep or awake."

The doctor nodded, "That is interesting. Building from Jacks argument his brain runs 50% faster than most humans. Even in his sleep. I would say his brain is physically running non-stop. It explains some of if not all of his recent creativity, but would be hell on sleep."

Jack smiled, "Sleep is not required for a hybrid. Side effect or perk depending on how you look at it."