The Time Harvester by D.A.Sanford - HTML preview

Epilogue

There has been more and more doors opened but only after they request it. The original ones have been frequent visitors. They found that we did not abuse the device that they left.

We now have become an intergalactic bed and breakfast.

The corporation has been given an abandoned military base with large hangers. It is in the desert of Nevada. The government closed it years ago but kept some activity as a distraction so people would not find the next hidden base. Since we are now a well known corporation that leads in innovation, they let us purchase it for a dollar with the only proviso that we maintain the security. We were also allowed to use lethal force.

That is good because our two friends have asked us to see if we can find out what is the problem that has caused all these crashes. They have not been confined to this world. We now have been taught how to fly them.

The cause was found to be a poor design in the atmospheric stabilizer. That was fixed with the intergalactic patent that we now hold.

It is not a surprise to us that we now have visitors of all races come to us for problem solving.

With the remotes, I was able to figure out a cloaking device that will enable those races that cannot shift into a native form. This will allow them to be able to go where ever they want to visit and will be seen as natives of the world they visit. Another patent.

The ones that we most enjoy are a race of independent green people calling themselves Goblins. We find them very personable and a delight. They come to see our latest improvements in flight.

It seems that they, on some worlds, are used as disposable slaves. They were delighted when I gave them a few of my new invention.

With those books on the door, I was able to compensate for the fact we did not have magical capabilities. I used the remote to make a magic replicator that used the ambient magic that we could not use to recharge that battery. Now the goblins are able to just orbit a slave world and use this device to open doors and rescue all the slaves.

They have made enough that they can encircle a slave planet and open doors to rescue a whole planet at one time.

Since we give them the items they want and allow them to make the items for themselves. They have given us things. There is a light bullet pistol that is really sick. We feel that our world, right now, is not ready.

They also gave us a replicator. Food and small items. I told them that I could see that I need to enlarge it.

“Just think, I would make improvements in flight items and you would just have to program the item into a large replicator and mass produce that.” They see me thinking. “I think that I can use this for off world items that could be put on that market. Of course, none of your items. You could supply every one of those worlds you protect with items that would help defend their world.”

I remember the mouse folk fighters and ask for one. “I have a wonderfully wicked idea that both races will like. I won’t say anything other than your fighter group will go “Oh shit” and laugh hysterically.

My partners have agreed that, since they defend those worlds that they have settled freed slaves on, we freely share with them what we have and give them a part or a system so that they can manufacture those for themselves. They assure us that it will not be sold. We find them extremely trust worthy.

There is a month in the winter that we do go adventuring , mostly as tourists to see what we may be able to acquire. I first get the history books of the world that we will visit. We all study. Searching for lost things. We all miss that excitement so we want to start back to see what treasures there are out there beyond our world.

This time it won’t be on the QT.