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The Relic of Time - Ron New Beginning Part 1 Here he was, a relic of the earth - he died but was resurrected. Nearly a thousand years later ... his name was Ron. He died from lung cancer at age 55 in the year 2032 A.D. he died in a hospice, and he thought it was it. He died as a broken man who suffered from a severe mental illness all his life - and here he is 1023 years later after his family had frozen his remaining body. He was found like a king tot in a relic Shuttle sent for research in the early 2100s A.D. A team of Astro archeologists and doctors restored and resurrected him. and now he was told the year was 3055 A.D., nothing remains from planet Earth, and the human race has been scattered among the stars... He sat near a "computer" that the team at the station where he now lives helped him set up - an old early 21st-century computer with a Linux OS, a keyboard, a screen, and a mouse... near him set his "assistant" who seemed human-like but told him he is an AI android... "call me Alex," his new assistant requested him. "I'll be happy to help you in any way." He asked him if he could find a picture of his family... his parents, something from his past... "I'll see what I can do," said Alex and walked away to the "real computer" of the station and returned after a few minutes with what seemed like a version of a "USB stick." "This is all the data we could restore from the digital data that was found in the ancient shuttle you were found in..." said Alex. They both plugged it into the "old computer," and 21.8 GB of data was found, some of it badly damaged. Alex helped a lot with finding "good quality data" of pictures and photos from all the raw data... most of it was from the shuttle personal crew data from around the year 2100s A.D. Ron looked at the pictures of cities from the earth and also family pictures of the Suttle's crew personal data files along with ... music that was popular back then, some electro-rap or classical ambient music he didn't recognize non of it so he asked Alex to stop... "I'm sorry, Ron," said Alex "That's the best we could do". Ron looked sad at Alex but then asked, "Do you have any data regarding 20th or 21st-century Art?" "Art?" asked Alex. "Sure, we have some data." "let me choose one art image of a painting," said Ron, "and then hard print it and give it to me as a framed picture to hand near my bedroom wall." "very well," said Alex. It took a few days for Ron to select an image of an old amateurish painting from the 1990s. The painter was unknown - it was a painting of some green valleys with a blue cloudy sky and some buildings and people in the background. He received it as a sticky framed picture, and Alex helped him glue it above his bed... "why did you ask for it? Why do you want it above your bed?" asked Alex. "my mother was an amateurish painter, and all the walls in my parent's home were full of her paintings," explained Ron. "I see," said Alex. It was time to sleep Alex said goodnight and "sleep well" and left Ron's personal quarters the lights dimmed out. Ron lay down in his bed, and from the windows galaxies and stars shined through and he thoughts about the world he left behind him - in a sense he was a relic from old Earth he died and was now resurrected while everyone he knew back then was dead no more old places and old politics of the earth - his country was no more so was his people or religion no more all that has remained was people scattered across the stars, but he still misses his mom and dad his lost childhood and youth but now what laid before him? An unknown future maybe he should ask if there are others like him - people who died in the past but were frozen and resurrected back to life - Alex said he'll try to find more data mabout it but it's very rare... In this unknown future, he was explained that there is no money or property and no famine or crime - go figure... he asked, "Who is the leader of your nation?" and Alex smiled and answered, "There are no nations or leaders. Everything is run by AI." Ron slipped into a deep sleep and, for a while, dreamt he was with his family somewhere on the green field near where he was brought up as a child... (to be continued)...