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Omega Two.

The last of the medical robots entered the ship. Four metal man shaped things that held the latest knowledge of man’s medical and technical advances in this year of four thousand and ten. I was not happy about these metal monsters I would have preferred a human team of Doctors.

Pressing the last of the control switches I saw the doors of this one hundred million endor credits close, cutting me and my robots off from the rest of the world. I had no time to think and for the next ten minutes it was full concentration. At the back of my mind I could picture my counterpart sitting in front of his control panel. The only difference I was actually on board this huge thing. I will not call it a space ship. This had no semblance whatsoever to a ship.

Slowly the anti gravity plates lifted this metallic horror from the ground. For the first time mankind had built vehicles that would eventually evacuate the whole of mankind to another planet. Somewhere in outer space one of the modern space telescopes had sighted a huge meteor that was on a direct collision course with the earth.

The thing is now five hundred miles above the small ball that we call Earth. Time for me to operate another row of switches, I was in no hurry each switch controlled an ionic motor that would propel the thing to that part of the space system that we know as Alderbaron. Here if all went well mankind would find a new home. Every desert on the earth’s surface things much bigger than the thing that I was in control of were being built. Each of these monstrosities was self-containing. That meant Oxygen, water, food supplies, even down to hospital amenities some had Churches for people to pray in or whatever it is that people do when going to Church.

Why was I trained to pilot this thing? I will give you a straight forward simple answer. I killed a man. The Judge gave me this choice, be trained to pilot this monstrosity or spend the rest of my life in one of the state prisons. I opted for this mission. Every hour I had to give a control report back to earth. For one whole week I reported the same nonsense, speed, estimated time of arrival even down to the quantity of water consumed by myself.

I decided not to send any more communications to earth. I knew that at least ten different stations on earth, and two on the moon and two on Mars were watching this monstrosity. I have not forgotten the medical robots. Two cameras were in constant movement watching every move they made. I am no medical man but each time a mock up of an operation was carried out something was not right. I checked with the computer about operation procedures. Then I saw what was wrong the whole operation was a farce. No human being would be operated on without an anaesthetist the powers that be had forgotten to make a metal robot for this team. A robot to control the amount of gas or drugs given to a patient to keep him or her in a state of unconsciousness. Now I was on my guard. I made it a point to keep an eye on my robot crew.

 I increased the speed of the Ionic motors, steering was done by the computer. All I had to do was push a button or two. What the courts had not taken into consideration was the fact that I went to University and studied informatics. It was the easiest thing for me to change the course of this monster. I was not going to Alderbaron I had other plans. I changed the program controlling this monster of a thing so that my counterpart sitting behind his computer could not see what I was doing or where the monster was heading.

It was now time for me to take care of the medical robots. Reaching for the microphone. I called over the loudspeaker system that I needed help my heart was racing. The whole team ran to the corridor that led to the control room. In this corridor there were no electrical points no wiring at all. As soon as the team were in the corridor I locked the doors at each end of the corridor. Now the metal robots would only be active as long as their batteries were full. In three days at the most the batteries would be empty and the whole bunch of them I would expedite out into open space.

I left the robots in the corridor for fourteen days before I put them one after the other into the double space doors. I watched through the glass as I pulled the lever that opened the outer space door. Whoosh the whole crew were sucked out into space. Closing the outer door I thoroughly checked the whole monstrosity in case others had been put on the space ship before I came on board. I was alone no robots no humans.

I broke off all communication with mars, the moon and the earth. I was now my own master, food and water enough to last a hundred life times. I rebuilt the system of cameras so that I had an all round view of space and of this huge monstrosity of a thing. I built alarms on all of the outside entrances. I could not think of anything that could cut its way through the titan steel which the thing was made of I was safe and free. I am still roaming space. My cameras are recording everything that is taking place in space. I have up until now found no traces of others, no alien races, no animals in fact I have left a diary of events since I have taken over this monstrosity of a ship I have deposited it in the ship’s safe. The safe I opened on my first day on board this thing. Thank you for the Diamonds that were deposited in the safe to barter with other races or aliens. The Diamonds are still in the safe. By the way I found the weapons room purely by chance. I tried them all out and must congratulate the Government for placing this destructive power in my hands. One word of advice, do not attempt to use these weapons in outer space. The consequences would be fatal for mankind.