Maitreya's Decision

Delve into a world far in the future, where genetic enhancement of every human and longevity up to 10,000 years are taken for granted. Where teleportation and time travel are realities:

Two young scientists, the 180 year old biologist Anamara and her 250 year old astrophysicist fiancé Yury - the developer of the Theorem of Quantum Chronogravity - live peaceful lives on Planet Pacific in the Whirlpool Sector of the cosmos in the year 4551. Suddenly their tranquil existences are turned upside down when Arakin, a fellow scientist, an ambitious and driven man plagued by a secret insecurity creates a conflict What is the mystery behind Arakin, and how will Yury and Anamara overcome the threat to their future?

Excerpts from the short story

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"There were many problems that early colonists in the first wave of outward radiation from Source had to overcome. Only planets that existed in the Goldilocks zone, at the right distance from their sun to support liquid water, were inhabitable. Also, treaties with x-terrans had to be signed. We had to colonize galaxies distant from their territories. [] What's particularly interesting--unbeknownst to anyone there turned out to be eons-old x-terran ruins on Atlantis. It evidently did have a natural atmosphere in the past. Archaeologists specialize in studying the ruins, which speak of a very advanced civilization. The x-terrans called themselves the Cymru. They purposely left behind magneto-tapes describing their feats and scientific discoveries. Much of that still remains to be analyzed and understood. They had extremely high IQs, we often cannot follow their leaps of imagination and deduction.' "

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"The first exhibit was a 10 foot long sleek green sea-dragon with a long narrow toothy snout. []. Arakin recited enthusiastically from a panel: 'The nothosaur, a sea reptile, existed on Earth in the Triassic era, 250 million years ago. Related to plesiosaurs, it swam in the tepid waters of the Tethys Ocean, between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia. Notice the presence of black and white striped sea snakes in the tank.' He read on 'The nothosaur was re-created using time-travel. Scientists brought a snippet of DNA into the present. They carefully planned their actions in such a fashion that no ripples in timespace ensued. Such waves could affect our present. The required Schroedinger-Aksyonov calculations are incredibly complex and are only understood by select initiates'."

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"The living room revealed fascinating objets d'art that the poet had collected over a long period of time. Such as small, intricate figurines of dancers from Nava Varanasi, a town home to many Yogics on the other side of the planet. The dancers seemed to fluidly move when one glanced at them, and their facial expressions altered depending on one's mood. Anamara wasn't sure what form of energy the figurines were powered by. The guide helpfully explained that they were quasi-holographic creations of advanced Yogic masters. They crafted the statues by manipulating material, spacetime and Prana-flow. And they evidently imbued the statues with a tiny fragment of their own consciousness, that reacted to the gaze of a visitor and caused the figurine to dance and mirror their mood."

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