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      “What do you want to learn about the future, Alex, while studying the past? How many times have we looked through your life record, starting with the point of the successful landing?” Although AI was talking in a calm voice, she captured a tinge of hidden irony in his words.

      “Abel, I have a strong feeling that I am missing out something important in the past, which keeps me from moving on. Can you see a system in our logics that leads us into deadlock? This is some principle that escapes our understanding, isn’t it? Or this might be something else?”

      “I am working on this, esteemed Head of the Council! The chronicles of your memory are the Minotaur’s labyrinth: things aren’t always what they seem.”

      “Don’t call me like that, Wolf!”

      “Okay, I won’t, senior lieutenant Bjorg, let’s start by repeating the brief chronicle of the Planet over the past two hundred years.

      The year 2222 or 7730 according to the First Chronology. By the way, both these dates carry the Mark of Force!

      I’ve selected the most significant events of these two hundred years’ period that determine the balance of power and motives for the war. Here’s the picture I’ve got:

      – the Free People’s colony was set up on a remote planet;

      – following the volcanic eruption, the continent got immersed and massive relocation of the cataclysm victims ensured;

      – the Ocean level rose by 17 meters over 150 years;

      – the Coalition resumed its struggle for global domination;

      – the Planet’s population protested against the Coalition’s policy;

      – a large-scale war with the Coalition broke out, the Free People determined to go all the way;

      – the Planet’s system of states was destroyed;

      – the family institution was eliminated;

      – only two states were left on the Planet: the Coalition and the Free People;

      – the Planet’s population embarked on a massive migration;

      – the Free People abolished monetary relations, with priority being given to fostering creativity;

      – weapons of radically new types emerged in all branches of the military;

      – the population was annihilated by a new virus strain;

      – The Planet’s environment reached a critical state;

      – the Planet’s living beings were saved from complete extinction by means of cloning;

      – a processor for human consciousness recording was created;

      – a cyber body was developed as an alternative to a biological one;

      – the perpetual energy source was generated from the Planet’s field and the surrounding Space;

      – the super conductivity principle began to be used in flights;

      – the Antigravity Principle was discovered.

      “All right, Abel, that’s enough for the analysis. Now put together a system and principles common to all these developments. Then search for something that unifies the factors of the Planet’s live environment, social medium and scientific achievements. Draw a system-based Principle out of all these and then transfer the obtained system-based Principle over to THAT period of my life. What do you get? Put the semantic and graphic aspects up on a projection. I see there is an imagery aspect as well. I wonder what this image is?”

      “It’s a Spiral, Alex, shrinking into a point.”

      (a conversation fragment)