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Chapter Summary:
The home planet of Artemis is briefly described. It is inhabited by a species dominated by a species which is predominately female with superhuman abilities. We are introduced to Isis. The intimate love affair between Jim and Isis is briefly described. She requests from him a joyride in the Venetian Empire’s magnificent starship. She also asks him for children.
Author's comments:
I call to mind several legends in constructing this chapter. Central to understanding our worldly desrires is how it controls our thinking. Our hero is to break free of his worldly realm, where he is surrounded by riches and power. Recall the legend of Lilith who refused to be subserviant to Adam; recall, the fact that the ancients used to worship the Earth and goddesses to represent their earthly concerns and desires. Rather than bore you with an academic explanation of goddess worship, let me illustrate the concept in my story. Notice Jim does not care to much of this deceptive tactic of Isis. I am quite aware of a considerable amount of literature dealing with this subject.
With regard to this female planet, in a future story I am going to expose how such would be possible for our own earth's future, and the way how it can happen is terrifying. When one discovers why Artemis is a predominantly single sex race on a planet and why it dominates all others can be best understood by a simple
proposition.......Many centuries in the past, Artemis had a war. It was a biological war. Perhaps the civilized creatures had an aversion to taking the life of a female, since the female as a childbearer could possibly be bearing innocent life, and as such females were barred as soldiers and it was equally tabu to kill a female enemy. Result, some brilliant enemy chemist came up with a biological weapon that destroyed the males of the enemy population as an attempt to commit genocide. Somehow a few males managed to mutate and survive. The Venetians after having been almost exterminated by their enemies took a dreadful revenge and now rule all planets. Does that make sense to anyone now?