Alexander LAZAREV Dreier - Alexander MIKHAILOV Kolotun - Boris SHCHERBAKOV Rakan - Igor LEDOGOROV Glan - Gleb STRIZHENOV Torki - Igor YASULOVICH Part 1 NEEYA: ARTIFICIAL HUMAN BEING Second engine slow down. Speed 5 meters. - Got it. - Third sector; Are you ready? - We need two more minutes. It's a strange ship. Look it up in the Somov's atlas. It's not listed. I don't understand. What's up with Lebedev? - Sergei; they're waiting for you in the third sector. Are you ready? - Coming Remember, the ship is broken. You'll have to work in vacuum. Good luck. Get ready. We're moving through the hallway. Can you see us? See you fairly well. What's there? Just dust floating here. The equipment compartments are damaged significantly. We could use some additional light here. Can you determine the time of catastrophe? At least a few months ago. This was a laboratory. Sergei; you're a contact specialist. Does it remind you of anything? I don't see any analogies so far. Who are they? Humanoids? Without a doubt. It's a strange camera. It looks like a cloning laboratory. - What makes you think so? - They're all identical. Damn it! They're all identical? - Attention! Sergei; why did you fall silent? The very existence of the permanent space laboratory, and the presence of different stages of cloning from 5 to 17-18 years of age leads us without a doubt to make the conclusion that all these specimens were grown in vitro. That's why we thought it necessary to have this meeting of the members of the Contacts Council here, on Earth's orbit. It means that these people came from a test tube? You could put it that way. Why was the station located on a ship? Did it have to be done in space? I doubt it. There is no contact. This is too categorical a judgment. We're obviously dealing with humanoid beings, that are close to us. We can hope for real contact if we create optimal conditions. Her brain is exhausted. And the tests that we ran on the ship in the last 20 days are not enough to make any final conclusions. But the anatomic and functional differences from Homo Sapiens are very insignificant. You're not watching your son? He'll forgive me. I don't have a single free minute. All my sperm whales have gone crazy! and besides, from a biological point of view it holds no fascination at all! You know very well that Zagorsky succeeded with cloning in the year 200. Grandpa, you're a conservative- she's from up there. We're dealing with a alien kind of mindset. The very principal of growing humans in vitro must serve some secret goal. Our task is to understand the goals of this experiment and until we do so we must treat this creature as... - As a girl. To treat this as a human being is foolish. For all we know she may be a source of danger for all humanity. What do you suggest? We'll quarantine this creature in our institute of Cosmic Bio Robo Technics, and will conduct thorough tests. Tests of it's brain first of all. When we'll understand everything- then we'll talk about contacts. I disagree with Nadezhda Ivanova. Contact is a two-way street. I don't argue, but it seems that you've forgotten about our responsibility. No, I didn't. But I also didn't forget about our responsibility toward her. Nadezhda! Sergei! I don't understand the point of your argument. It's pretty obvious that we're dealing not with a robot but a human being. And a pretty girl at that. Something's scary. This girl has the body of a robot. I'm asking the Council to let her stay at my house. What if she was created to kill? Any contact with an alien mind implies some degree of risk. And sooner or later this risk has to be taken. In your institute she'll be completely isolated. And this is bad. Let her stay among people. Let not only us understand her, but also her understand us. A human being must have a house. It needs to be proved that she's a human. Let her become ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Персона на английском - текст Элина, словно меня и не было на английском - текст Сорок первый на английском - текст Беги без оглядки на английском - текст Шерлок Холмс и доктор Ватсон на английском |