"Resurrection" (The fifty years' report) (standard:other, 3067 words)
Author: kurosh parsi	Added: Aug 15 2008	Views/Reads: 3056/2189	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A fictional historic, sci-fi, political, spiritual, inspirational short story about the future of the world and the human race's war on terror between years 2012 and 2062 as published in a "daily", written by a prize-winner, sometime in mid 2070

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eleven years to complete the "Lunar Detention Center"- LDC and on 
October 15th 2031 the lift-off operation began to transfer all war 
prisoners from the Nest to the moon base. One hundred specially 
designed LDC space shuttles completed the operation over six months. 
The detention center, which was built on the moon's sea of tranquility, 
was guarded by two thousands NATO space division task force staff for 
eighteen years and beneath the vast network of oxygenated tube 
corridors it housed the wrath of human history. Nevertheless the UN and 
the NATO always feared Brotherhood's devious prison break plans which 
were diffused from time to time with the help of LDC insiders. 

Jail break and the Ultimatum 

It finally happened. On 13th of April 2050the world leaders' worst
nightmare came alive and the devil's disciples strike once again and in 
a massive and well planed jail break, took over the lunar center. The 
out laws found access to LDC armory, killed nearly three hundred prison 
guards and task force officials and took the remaining one thousand and 
seven hundred as hostages. Taking control of the entire facility and 
its communication devices, they conveyed their first message and 
demanded evacuation of Australia of its entire population and leaving 
the island and its untouched military facilities to the "once again 
come alive evil forces of brotherhood". They also demanded shipping all 
the moon inmates and their hostages back to earth's Australia and 
acknowledgment of their revolutionary government as a new founded 
nation by the UNO. The jail breakers at the LDC had the lives of one 
thousand and seven hundred NATO men to bargain on and gave earth 
exactly one thousand days to fulfill their demands. They threatened to 
leave the hostages out of the oxygenated tubes on the moon's surface 
with no space suits. A mass "surface execution" without firing even one 
bullet, reminiscent of the Nazi gas chambers at their concentration 
camps. From the next day the countdown began. 

My family and the Summit 

I remember that back in the days of lunar hostage crisis for me as a
child, the moon had turned gray. Every full moon night my Mother used 
to make me sit by the window, look at the moon and pray with her, and 
though she would always try to keep a brave face and smile at me, she 
cried every time. I used to imagine that the man on the moon I knew all 
my life had gone crazy and is grinning at me, while pointing a gun at 
my father's head. My dad was an LDC guard and one of the hostages. So 
we waited...and the wait was painfully long. Back then it must have 
been a difficult choice to make but finally on the 300th day of the 
ultimatum a world summit supported by the Security Council began in 
Geneva to deal with the situation that took seven days. No one knew 
what went on behind the closed doors but on the 8th day, the leaders of 
the free world announced that they would "give in". 

The Truth- Resurrection 

At that time those who thought that the freedom was once again about to
be enslaved, made themselves heard. Demonstrations and riots broke out 
every where on the planet, while some accepted the summit's decision as 
the only logical choice. For me and my mother, it was a glimpse of hope 
we desperately needed at the time. But we know now and nobody knew back 
then that to face the situation and to prevent its grave consequences, 
and also as a matter of global security, the summit had lied and it was 
inevitable. For a couple of months the Council and the LDC kept regular 
contacts and although the details were never made public, from the look 
of things, Brotherhood seamed content by the course of events. But then 
this was just a prelude to one of the biggest and riskiest plans ever 
conceived by mankind, "Operation Resurrection". 

The Intruder 

While back on the moon the Brotherhood leaders assumed that the super
powers had been cracked down, an army of scientists and astrophysicists 
envisaged secretly on bringing the most farfetched and at the same time 
painful decision taken jointly by the heads of the states and the 
Security Council to reality. The truth of the matter was that the 
resolution to commence the Operation Resurrection was the reaction to 
the unexpected events that had happened on the 281st day of the 
ultimatum count down. On January 21st 2051at 6:39 hours London recorded 
an intrusion of its airspace by a manned space ship and at the same 
time its SOS signal. Americans and Russians joined at the entry point 
within minutes and as the trio decided not to attack, the space craft 
was soon identified as one of the smaller LDC types. A great sense of 
curiosity at that sensitive period of time made the space security 
forces of the three countries to make way for the safe landing of the 
craft in the Mediterranean's. The NASA's chopper rushed the pilot to 
the quarantine facility at Cape Kennedy, where he was identified as 
Ahmed Bin Idris, a Lebanese born Brotherhood lieutenant. He was one of 
those rare kinds of "terrorist turned human being" who had lived to 
tell his tale. A few who had attempted such escapes in the passed 
always ended up being beheaded by their henchmen. And so the world 
never forgets Idris, as the plot he unveiled which in turn he had 
learnt through his contacts within the leadership committee of the jail 
breakers was vital enough to become the basis of the summit's decision 
and the foundation of the Operation Resurrection that eventually 
changed our world for ever. 

The Terrorists' plot and the CGI 

It turns out that after the jail break the terrorists had gained access
to the LDC's nuclear power plant fuel reserves and had gotten hold of 
the plutonium supplies which had been shipped from earth just days 
prior to the unrest enough to generate nuclear electricity for the moon 
base for the next five years. The renegades had plotted to sneak the 
plutonium supplies back to Australia and make use of them in left 
behind military facilities to nuke specified targets all over the world 
in order to paralyze the super powers and eventually fulfill their long 
cherished dream of taking over the planet by waging war on the weakened 
nations. Learning about their intentions brought the UN and the leaders 
to their senses about the gravity of the crisis far beyond what was 
conceived as 1700 lives at stake. This was the whole world and the 
future of mankind hanging from the edge of the universe. Therefore it 
was decided to convince the lunar rebels that all was going according 
to their wish. To achieve that the NASA cleverly intercepted the 
signals back to the moon, using some believable made up CGI coverage 
created at the Universal studios showing the Australian evacuation 
operation under way. And while buying time, a miracle was being born. 

The Battleship 

"Resurrection" was an under-cover sophisticated military starship cum
history's first ever artificially manufactured gravitational force 
filed generator being built in the shape of an ultra gigantic cross 
with each peace measuring 3474 km in length matching the moon's 
diameter. Its mission was to travel to the moon, making the brotherhood 
believe that it was their carrier ship back to victory on earth, but in 
fact to blast the moon using laser navigated atomic super missiles a 
thousand time stronger than Hiroshima's and Nagasaki's put together, 
and almost immediately replacing the planet by taking its position 
within the circum-terrestrial orbit back in solar system. Resurrection 
matched the moon in diameter, orbital volume and gravity to maintain 
the balance on earth, in the solar system and in Milky Way. The 
precision of the calculations that had to be reached were 
inconceivable. Enormous it was, as it meddled with creation, godly, as 
it would bring an end to the last of the Satan's dynasty, and 
sorrowful, as 1700 of earth's most precious men had to be sacrificed. 
Men who hoped to be saved and reunited with their loved ones every day 
of their captivity, 250,000 miles away from  their home. Even as the 
families of those brave soldiers, we knew nothing about the plan until 
the final day, for obvious reasons. And yet it seams like the world had 
no second choice. To build a starship of such magnitude, a floating 
twenty five million square meters mega factory was used, which occupied 
a seventh of Pacific Ocean's watery surface, close to America's western 
borders. 

The Executions 

As the task was far more complicated than what the Brotherhood and the
world were made to believe, it took longer than the deadline that ended 
in the second week of January 2053. So the UN asked the terrorists for 
an extension of the ultimatum's period, and the answer came quick. 
Twenty of the hostages were surface executed at once. It was filmed by 
the executers and signaled to the earth to be televised, and it was 
gruesome. Added to the deoxygenation, since it was a full moon night 
for earth and Mara Tranquilitatis faced the sun, the bodies began to 
melt in 260 degree Fahrenheit heat of the moon's surface. To keep the 
pressure high and at the same time not to loose too much of their 
bargaining assets, the Brotherhood chose to repeat executing exactly 
the same number once every six months beyond the original deadline, 
announcing their names every time. On the earth while the general 
population knew nothing about the real mission, every time the 
executions were carried out violence broke out and there were blood 
sheds. People all around the world grew agitated and inpatient as days 
went by. As for our family every time they read out the names it was a 
near death experience for me and my mother, but never heard his name 
right till the end. 

The Crusaders 

Finally in the ending days of the length season in 2062, Resurrection
was all set for man's final crusade. By then the number of the hostages 
had come down to 1340 and all through those nine years as the 
Brotherhood waited and murdered, they never suspected the mission that 
was kept as the history's greatest secret. The battleship had a crew of 
three hundred and was led by two of NASA's best astro-military 
officers, Christopher Washington, an American pilot, and the Iranian 
born Captain Ahura Parsa, two crusaders whose names have never stopped 
shining right at the top of the list of those who changed our world for 
better. 

Facing the Moon and the Message 

Within two days after its lift off on Friday the 24th of March year 2062
Resurrection reached the moon and for the first time the earth saw the 
real thing. The moon was crossed by the starship. An unbelievable sight 
that was telecasted live while the people on the night side of the 
world could see it even with naked eye, and lasted three hours. Beyond 
that the only match for what actually was happening was not the science 
or astronomy, but the human existence itself. Just fifteen minutes 
before the lunar blast, when the world leaders were certain that 
nothing could change the course of the mission, the UN decided that it 
was only fair to let the world know that their moon was dieing to be 
replaced by a new one for ever and their soldiers were being martyred 
at the cost of exorcising the evil from their world for all eternity. 
And exactly in these many words the message by the UN's chief broke the 
news to us. 

The Armageddon 

As the earth watched in silence, disbelief and shock Parsa and
Washington shot at the moon. Our beloved moon that at the time carried 
with it the good and the evil at once broke into billions of pieces in 
the hearth of the solar system and along with it so did our men. It 
would take 72 hours for Resurrection to fit in its right position, 
replacing the moon. In those three days an enormous light from the 
explosion lit up the skies even at night times along with a thick haze. 
The time gap in gravitational force take over caused erratic low tides 
at the oceans all over the planet, reaching catastrophic level 
particularly with marine echo-system. The climate changes, the haze and 
receding waters were far greater than what the scientists had 
forecasted and even though the armies and the Red Cross were doing 
their best all around the globe, the world was not ready to cope with 
so much. In those three days it seamed like the whole universe was 
about to fall apart for the sin of playing God, but suddenly...... 

The Easter 

On the third day it all calmed down. On Easter Sunday March 26th, 2062
Resurrection took its rightful place and put the universe back in 
balance. From that night for the first time in 4.5 billion years there 
was no more a moon up in the sky and one lost out of sixty one in the 
solar system. But instead a shining cross brightened up the nights of 
the earth. A glorious cross in the hearth of the sky to remind us that 
the bravery of mankind stood against the impossible and carried the 
human existence to the next level across the choice between extinction 
and freedom. The choice between good and evil. A reminder that every 
drop of blood that was shed was worth it and we were free once again. 
Yes, ...between 2012 and 2062 a fifty years piece out of human history 
must have even shocked God himself...but at the end of it all, we know 
for sure, that he too is smiling. 


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