1 or 0

Music=
1. Marchin On
  -Smashing Pumpkins

🔐




UFOtext=
I. The Lost Canal
Astira & Ozymandias

        

Sunset Curtain

Music=
1. Outlier
  -Spoon
2. Can You Feel It
  -Cannons

🏞



UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
Astira & Ozymandias xx

           

Solstice Of The Heart

Music=
1. Martian Chronicles 
  -Mindscape
2. Travels
  -Smashing Pumpkins
3. Love Cymbal
  -Deep Forest & Gaudi
4. Low
  -Coldplay


🖕



UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
Astira could see the skeletal outline of ancient canals. She could imagine Princess Leizu floating out to sea in a royal procession.
“Ozymandias- the historian left a time capsule somewhere at the end of a canal.”
Ozymandias tilted his head. He looked at Astira with his deep electronic eyes.
“Correct. It was only 3 galactic centuries in the past. He called the capsule a branching node in a network of historical possibilities. But he said it was unlikely to be important.”
Astira felt a chill run up her spine. She looked up to the ceiling of heaven. She closed her eyes.
“What did he look like?”
“He was old but spry. He came from Trantor & said his name was Harry.”
Ozymandias smiled as if he were human & recalled a fond memory.
Astira blacked out. She felt overwhelmed. She looked away. The network of canals stretched to the horizon, branching out in all directions.
“Ozymandias, you said he said it wasn’t likely to be important. Right?”
“Correct. He called it his message in a bottle- a galactic SOS just in case everything went haywire.”
Astira stood in silence.
“Ozymandias, who else knows this?”
“Nobody- except you. I follow the laws of robotics with exact precision & zero error.”

II. The Venetian World
Ivy heard the twinkling of a silver bell. She walked down a short flight of steps. She opened the door. A lean elderly woman in a flowing robe stood tall & firm on the short pier. She brandished a long cane.
“Merry Christmas child!” said Vivienne with a tight smile & regal air.

The Ledger

Music=
1. Star Of Wonder
  -Tori Amos

🔑












UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
Astira & Ozymandias


        

Lunatick

Music=
1. We Appreciate Power (feat. HANA)
-Grimes
2. Luna -Smashing Pumpkins

Q

UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
Astira & Ozymandias xx

Ozymandias

Music=
1. Pink Up
  -Spoon

🧮








UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
Astira xx
         

The Q-Anon Chronicles

Music=
1. Travels
-Smashing Pumpkins
2. Losing The Light -Night Flowers

“Bees do have a smell, you know, & if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with the spices of a million flowers.” 
-Ray Bradbury

“X-22”

UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
Astira & Project Dragonfly xx

1 Zettabyte

Music=

1. Heavy Metal Machine

-Smashing Pumpkins

“xx”

UFOtext=

I. The Lost City

Astira & Project Dragonfly

        

The Drones Of Eden

       

Music=
1. Solara
-Smashing Pumpkins
2. Night Verses
-Cannons

“The robots did the rest.”
Arthur C Clarke








UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
Astira & Project Dragonfly... 

Trick Or Treat

Music=
1.The Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine
-Spoon

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”
Rene Descartes

🔮

UFOtext=
I. Saint-Emilion
The Count, the Princess & Ivy listen to the First Citizen.

Slow Climb

Music=
1.Get Out The State
  -Spoon

"xx"








UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
The dragonship stood docked on the pier for 50,000 years.
"Is the dealer warranty still good?" asked Astira.
Project Dragonfly lit up in a confusing array of lights. It spoke.
"The airship has indefinite lifespan. It is silicon based, therefore it exists."
Astira looked over the aerodynamic contours- now blunted by heaps of volcanic ash. She doubted the craft airworthy.
"Press the red button to restore." said Project Dragonfly.
Astira could see a small red triangular button in the open cockpit. She pressed it.
The dragonship instantly glowed within a force field. She felt pushed away by something warm & invisible. The ash of millennia electrostatically exploded away from the craft. Astira stood dumbfounded. In a few minutes the dragonship gleamed bright as new. She now realized the Lotus of Civilization had been the First Foundation of its time. Before... annihilation.

Drag Force

Music=

1.Cruel Wind
-Night Flowers

"X22"

UFOtext=

I. The Lost City
Twilight fell & a cool draft brought a faint chill. Astira shuddered. She looked down & out over the vast cavern with its falling water; then she walked down to the pier. She felt refreshed from food & rest. She noticed the first drone waiting for her, hovering over the red dragonship. The other drones circled in their doom loops. 
"Astira- board the dragonship & we will fly you to the gate of the Bridge Path. We will guide you to the royal safe place of Princess Leizu."
"Good." said Astira.
"What is your identification?" she asked.
"I want to use friendly symbols from your brain map. It makes us more human. We are not evil. Call me Project Dragonfly."
Astira felt a menacing chill- a stray draft of the ancient humming wind.

Deep State

Music=
1. Dead Forest
   -Deep Forest 


"X22"










UFOtext=
I. The Lost Citylegacy
The ancient drones probed Astira with tentacles of their Deep State legacy. Their bulbous camera eyes focused on every square millimeter of her body surface. They studied her brain map in the four dimensions of real time. They gawked & googled & twittered.
"Astira- we will take you to the apex of Princess Leizu's royal safe place. It is forbidden to servant drones & most carbon units."
"Just do it." said Astira. She smiled wryly & stood up from her crouch behind the bright red dragonship. Her i6 glowed dull red warning her of the social presence of the drone attackers. She dropped a few pieces of bread.

Red October

Music=

1. November Rain-Guns N' Roses

"Let us cultivate our garden."
-Voltaire

UFOtext=

I. Saint-Emilion
"The First Citizen proposes that Guardians of Truth should moniter & control the Media of Paris. It is for their own good he says."
The Count stirred his coffee. Cream swirled in his porcelain cup like the arms from a spiral galaxy of stars.
"But he has no jurisdiction over Paris." countered Princess Lei. She looked soberly at the Count.
"Well...not yet. But notice how the Union of Worlds under command of the First Citizen grows & grows. He is a Napoleon of the stars. Of that there is no doubt."
The Count held the hand of the Princess. How long would Paris remain free? Or even her precious Silk Path for that matter? Foreboding questions in darkened clouds loomed over the Count. He knew first hand about the capricious iron fist of authority. He affectionately released the hand of the Princess. Autumn stirred within him like turning leaves of nature's pallette. He felt barefoot upon the stones. He could feel the doubt of the Princess. She looked at the world like an unfolding adventure that she would tame to fit her youthful ideals. She knew no defeat. But the Count knew the power of the objective universe. Defeat was always possible- from the tyranny of rulers or the madness of crowds. Hail Caesar- beware the Ides of March. And so it was. It never changed. Would it ever? The Count wondered. Like Rene Descartes, he knew one thing for sure- he existed. He felt that profoundly. He reached out & held the earnest hand of the Princess. Perhaps reasoning & experience allowed room for one more person in his universe. One small victory in the microcosm. One rose in the garden.

EquinOX

Music=
1. Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)
-Smashing  Pumpkins

"X22"




UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
"The Deep State destroyed the Lotus of the Galaxy. This was necessary for the birth of the Empire. We are programmed to follow the directives of the Elites."
Astira's earpods decrypted the ancient dialect. Their tiny quantum computers now generated a clear audible translation in galactic standard.
"Princess Leizu arrived from the stars- exiled from the Lotus of the Galaxy. The Empire & their Court of Elites now welcomed the exiled Princess. She joined the Inner Circle at the Crescent Lake. Soon thereafter a revolt occurred & she vanished without a trace- until now."
"Yes" said Astira, "until now."
Q-Anon 1ZB she thought. Her life hung by that one thread. Quantum computers didn't help when allowed only one guess for a secret key.

Shadowban

Music=
1. Square 1
  -Coldplay

"All warfare is deception."
-Sun Tzu








UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
Astira spoke carefully:
"Q-Anon 1ZB"
She paused. 1 zettabyte. All the lost info of the ancient shadow planet. Vivienne's key from Joshua.
The drone hovered & hovered. Finally it spoke.
"Astira. Welcome to the gates of Heaven's Seventh Empire. Take us to Princess Leizu."
The drone moved in close to the dragonship & opened its wings in a welcoming gesture. Astira stared in fascination at the flying machine- a birdlike cyber insect.
"Princess Leizu is on another planet. She sent me here."
Astira carefully lowered her laser pistol. She gazed into the eyes of the artificial intelligence.
"Excellent. How may we assist the emissary of the Princess?"
Astira worked to contain her excitement. 
"Take me to the royal chambers on the highland. Then show me a passage to the Crescent Lake."

The Highland Palace

Music=
1. Leave It Alone
-White Arrows






"xx"





UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
Astira xx

The Secret Key

     Music=
1. WhisperI'lllistentohearit
   -Spoon

"x22"












UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
"Leizu - Princess - carbon unit - dead - Astira - carbon unit - delete now"
Hot thoughts raced in Astira.
"Stop- Princess Leizu not dead. She travel in time on spaceship near light cone. Tau zero. She travel 50,000 years to now. She sent me. History check- she disappear. No death. You know this?"
Astira's finger tightened to a hair trigger. Her fate flickered in the air.
"Death - confirmed - negative"
The drone approached closer. It quivered with telescoping wings. More drones emerged from dark passages in the wet rocks.
"Astira- face recognize- negative"
"Astira - proof - negative"
Astira scrambled her memory. What was Vivienne's secret key? Joshua told her.
"I know royal crypto-key."
Astira watched the drone. More drones flew like hawkish arrows through the mist. She could only kill a few drones in time. But she could take cover behind the dragonship.
"Astira - Ledger - Must verify - now"
The drones circled in their killing vectors. 

Delusions Of Grandeur

 Music=
1. Ox
-Deaf Wish

"If life exists on other planets, then the Earth is an insane asylum for the cosmos."
-Voltaire







UFOtext=
I. Kalgan
The Mule peered at his scrawny image in the mirror. He stood dressed in rag tag fashion. The harlequin twittered & his face booked a crooked smile. Today he would go to the beach!
II. The Lost City
The twisted broken voice droned in her ear. Astira could only grasp lingual fragments: "The Emperor - commands - submit - glorious - truth - ignorance - strength." She connected the erratic dots.
"I am Astira- servant of Princess Leizu in the High Gardens Of Heaven."
Would it work? She remembered Ozymandias & his silver wire- they watched the ancient flash memory not so long ago by the infrared shore. She wondered & fingered the trigger on her laser pistol. The drone hovered indecisively.

Midnight Diamond

 Music=
1. Fiction
   -The xx

"Roads made for journeys- not destinations"
-Confucius 










UFOtext=
I. Saint-Emilion
The Count gazed into the crystal eye. His vision grew like the pearl of an oyster. The climbing ivy grew in tendrils around the Valentine blooms of Aphrodite. Princess Lei brushed off the snow upon her shoulder. Her beads of summer sweat rolled off her body like rain drops of divine wine. The sunflowers smiled.

Believe In The Stars Above

Music=
1. Tell Me
  -Boston

"Liberty of thought is the life of the soul."
-Voltaire 



UFOtext=
I. The Humming Desert
The drone twinkled in the night sky. Taran watched it hover, then disappear into the jagged crack. He turned to the Jackass-
"You see, these killer drones know their way around. We can follow."
"F**k yea, straight to hell." said the Jackass. He rolled his eyes in the moonshine.
"Look, these fanatical killer drones guard the precious metals- they've done it for tens of thousands of years. Empires collapse & these freak drones go on like nothing happened- they live in the past- total mind control- they're hard wired that way."
"But you have their cyber key."
"Yep."
The Jackass chuckled. He remembered well the day he found that stupid black cyber key- and its ancient room locked & filled with gold bullion. He fondled it warmly.
"Yep. I can turn off those birds any time they get too close. But your lady can't. If they find her- & they probably have- they will kill her. You need to understand that."
For once the Jackass showed empathy for Taran. His eyes watered just a bit.
Taran looked down into the abyss. He remembered well the day he met Astira.
"Astira follows the Way. She is not dead."
The Dragonfly meditated in the starlight. From west to the east the luminous Silk Path arced high in the sky.

The Lost Drones

Music=
1. The Rat Is Back
  -Deaf Wish

"Paradise is where I am."
-Voltaire 









UFOtext=

I. The Lost City
The drone patrol cork screwed down the cavern waterfall. They hovered above the plush mist of the roaring water. One by one they disappeared into dark passages along the rock face. The last drone began to twitter & move in an agitated way. Astira drew her laser pistol & crouched behind a dragonboat. Her i6 gave silent warning in red holographic letters.
"This one want to hack me." she thought.
"Try to read i6."
Then she heard the foreign tongue. She recognized bits & pieces of the modern Silk Path, but the main body of the audio sounded twisted & deformed, perhaps ancient & defunct. She turned on the earpod translator. The altered drone voice warbled in her ear.

Know

Music=
1. In One Ear
  -Cage The Elephant

"There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe... but not for us." 
-Franz Kafka


UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
Natural morning light returned to the vast cavern. Long waterfalls stretched beyond the rocky highland cliff, arcing into space. Falling water roared in the bay but Astira adjusted her earpods to filter out most of the noise. She could still hear the parrots chattering incessantly, but their cacophony went in one ear & out the other. Birdbrains, she thought.
She turned her attention to the flock of ancient drones.

Written In The Stars

Music=
1. Hopeless Romantic
   -Michelle Branch














"The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, & if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more. Seldon predicted a series of crises through the thousand years of growth, each of which would force a new turning of history into a pre-calculated path. It is those crises which direct us- & therefore a crisis must come now.
"Now!" she repeated, forcefully. "It's almost a century since the last one, & in that century, every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation.""
-Bayta
 From "Foundation & Empire" by Isaac Asimov

The Dragon Ships

Music=
1. Rhinoceros
  
-Smashing Pumpkins

"Be aware of the present."
-Buddha

UFOtext=
I. Edge Of The Lotus Of Civilization
Ozymandias connected his silver wire. Suddenly the permanent night burst into tropical paradise- the ancient yellow emperor sun ruled a blue sky filled with hummingbirds & parrots. Princess Leizu stood before the Dragon in a water garden of lotus. A spreading fountain gushed from the horn of a white stone rhinoceros. She spoke-
"The Computer Masters left a back door to the kingdom..."
The Dragon smiled ever so faintly. The hologram enlightened a dark branch of ancient psychohistory. He knew Astira would find her way to the magic air pods.

Three Smiles

Music=
1. Performance 
  -The xx


"On the polished surface of the divine glass, chaste with flowers of snow."
-Basho






UFOtext=
I. Saint-Emilion
The door beckoned at midnight. The Count ushered in his lady guest of Valentine's night. She laid her divine crystal upon the table. He took her winter wrap & brushed off the blooms of fresh snow. She smiled warmly. 

The Decision

    

1. Wait Til You See My Smile
   -Alicia Keys
2. Believe
   -Smashing Pumpkins

"Ignorance is a night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."
-Confucius

Pic=
"Only Dreams Keep Me Alive"
-Josh Wallace on Tumblr
UFOtext=
I. Dark Island
"Here it is!" called the Jackass.
Taryn dug his space boots into sand & rock. After a brief climb he joined the Jackass.
"See the crack?"
Taryn stood over a running crack in the rock formation. A dim sunlit path narrowed down for miles. He looked up at the Jackass.
"Get the right tools- we could climb down."
"Are you sure that's a good idea?"
The Jackass chuckled.
"Astira is down there somewhere. She could be fighting for her life. Let's go."
Taryn gave a determined look at the Jackass.
"Let's take a vote. What does the lady say?"
The Dragonfly stood nearby, a slender shadow in front of the setting sun. A glint of sunlight glanced off her boot knife.
"Yes- we live as one- or we die as one."
The desert wind began to hum. The sun soon died & the stars were born again.

New Year Day 2018- Epilogue

Music=
1. Low
   -Coldplay








UFOtext=
The sun reddened and sank below the horizon leaving behind a soft veil of stars. In the warm candlelight Astira's shoulder appeared from behind her gliding hair- an image of a dog with a spiked collar appeared.
"What is this?" asked Taron.
"He is my bodyguard." Astira said, "and my companion. He talks to me in my dreams when I sleep."
"What does he say?" asked Taron.
"He tells me what I need to hear. This is only for Astira to know Taron," and she smiled respectfully.
"Of course." said Taron politely. And for some reason he felt his heart sink a little bit.

https://steemit.com/music/@ufotext/new-year-day-2018-epilogue

http://dnhart.blogspot.com/2007/07/4-continuity-3-previous-entries.html?m=0

Reality Meets Dream

Music=
1. The Life
  -Alicia Keys
2. Stand Inside Your Love
  -Smashing Pumpkins

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."
-Buddha





UFOtext=
I. Dark Island
The natural light returned from the morning above. Astira walked on the waterfront, away from several waterfalls cascading down the rocks. The dark open sea stretched out in an abyss. Ancient aerial dragonboats lined the island harbor. She could see rock steps, metal ladders & doors. No doubt she could find a way back to the high mountain patio. A small flock of birds flew out of the dark abyss. Unlike the black parrots, they remained silent. They flew through the mist of waterfalls & then moved in close to the harbor. Then they stopped & hovered like prehistoric humming birds, not so far away. Strange. They just hovered, motionless, as though they watched her every move. Suddenly Astira caught sight of movement on the east face of the rocks. Her telescopic lens focused on the shadowed movement. She stood stunned, unbelieving. A desert tiger nimbly picked its way down the rock face, a sandy beige & orange camouflage shadow moving closer & closer to the waterfront. The implication stared Astira in the face. The tiger lived above in the desert world- there must be a way to the surface, the way of the tiger. Astira narrowed her eyes.

https://steemit.com/music/@ufotext/reality-meets-dream-mon1-jan-2018