Aeolus: The Gliese Project, #3

By W. D. Smart

This is Book Three of The Gliese Project, a four-book series.

 

Dr. Sarah Chambers, Dr. Haneefah Baqri, and Dr. Raza Ahuja, all technically-oriented Ph.Ds. with a different set of skills, first met at a job fair sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley. Their meeting was unplanned and in many respects, coincidental. As a result, however, they were drawn together in an unlikely alliance by a mysterious set of circumstances that was set into motion by an equally mysterious employer who was only identified as "HETC."

 

They were, as a team, offered very lucrative, month-long engagements which involved doing research at HETC's isolated, underground headquarters located in the California desert near the Nevada border. This, their third assignment, was to reverse-engineer a technology called "electrogravitics." It was used as a propulsion system so the project was called "Aeolus," the Greek god of the winds. This was also discovered and extracted from the salvaged UFO, but this time, they would have some "expert" help to guide them.

 

All this was done under the umbrella of one of HETC's four main projects — The Gliese Project — which was focused on Energy Technologies.

 

Their research culminated in startling conclusions, but the experiences they had during their stay at the underground facility left them with more questions than answers.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: W. D. Smart
• Release date: Sep 13, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201063535

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Table of Figures

1 – Drawing of Sub-Arcis' Mess Halls

2 – Electron Avalanche Event

3 – Gravity Well

4 – Earth/Moon Gravity Wells

5 – Electrogravitics Propulsion

6 – Project Aeolus Test Design

7 – Project Aeolus UFO Model

8 – Sub-Arcis Drawing / Fibonacci Sequence Diagram

9 – Sub-Arcis Drawing / Fibonacci Sequence Diagram (Modified)

10 – Fibonacci Sequence Number Chart

11 – Fibonacci Tree / Nautilus Shell

12 – Pascal's Pyramid / Fibonacci Diagram

13 – Sub-Arcis Drawing / Rationalized Diagram

14 – Electron Avalanche Event

15 – Aeolus Propulsion Disk

16 – Remote Control Unit

17 – Remote-Control Unit Sticks

The Gliese Project

Aeolus

The Greek god of the winds

Book 3 of a 4-Book Series

W. D. Smart

Prologue

Drs. Sarah Chambers, Haneefah Baqri, and Raza Ahuja first met at a job fair sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley. Although all are Ph.D.’s, they each have a different area of expertise. Dr. Chambers is an environmental scientist, Dr. Baqri, a physicist specializing in energy systems, and Dr. Ahuja, a mathematician and computer scientist. Their meeting was unplanned and, in many respects, coincidental. As a result, however, they were drawn together into an unlikely alliance by a mysterious set of circumstances that was set into motion by an equally mysterious employer who was only identified as HETC.

They were, as a team, offered a very lucrative, one-time, month-long engagement which involved doing research at HETC’s isolated, underground headquarters, Sub-Arcis, located in the California desert near the Nevada border. Their job was to analyze the feasibility of Helios, a proposal to develop and deploy space-based, orbiting solar arrays as a future source of energy to help address Earth’s rapidly growing and seemingly insatiable appetite for energy. All this was done under the umbrella of one of HETC’s four main projects — The Gliese Project — which was focused on Energy Technologies. The other three main projects are Governmental Projects and Public Awareness, Extraterrestrial Exploration, and The Nature of Reality. 

Once on site at Sub-Arcis and housed in the relatively unrestricted Area A, the team quickly settled into the technologically-advanced, but secretive compound and successfully completed their research. Their conclusions about the viability of Helios, however, were negative and not well-accepted by the majority of the staff and even their own project leader. Much to their surprise, a week later they were informed that their final report was wholeheartedly accepted by HETC’s senior management.

As a result of their performance on their initial month’s work, the team was asked to return to perform a similar analysis on another energy technology which was the subject of an ongoing project in Area B, the first of Sub-Arcis’ three restricted areas. The effort itself was not a pure development project as was the last project, but a reverse-engineering effort. The technology being reverse-engineered was controversial, and some claimed science-fictional technology, called Permanent Magnet or Pulsed Motor/Generator. The project itself was called Kratos, named after the Greek god of strength and power. The incredulity and almost universal skepticism about the legitimacy of the subject technology was not even the most controversial aspect of Kratos. The most remarkable feature was the source of the reverse-engineering — a salvaged UFO.

Working with others already on-site, the team was able to reanalyze the design, develop an effective test plan, and eventually help validate the true potential of this reverse-engineered technology.

The full details of this team’s origin and their work on Helios has been recorded in a companion book, The Gliese Project: Helios, which is the first in this series. Their work on Kratos has been recorded in a second book, The Gliese Project: Kratos. The author recommends reading these two books before continuing with this, the third book, and especially before reading the fourth and last book in this series.

The team had a brief introduction to their next assignment before they departed the Sub-Arcis complex after completion of their work on Kratos. The next project was called Aeolus and was named after the Greek god of the winds. This name was chosen because the project concerned a propulsion technology called electrogravitics. The technology was known on Earth, but further analysis of certain aspects of the technology as implemented in the salvaged UFO was to be used to augment the knowledge of the existing understanding of the technology. The team would have access to all the technologically advanced facilities of Sub-Arcis and were promised an additional asset — some expert help. And, their fee for this month-long effort was generous indeed — $240,000 for the team which was $80,000 apiece.

It is the team’s work on this project that is the subject of this book.

Chapter 1

Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen

Sarah had been trying for a week to contact Raza and Hannah with no luck. All she got were their answering machines. Finally, just a week before they were all supposed to return to Sub-Arcis to participate in HETC’s Aeolus project, they called her back. Raza had been vacationing in Brazil. This came as no surprise since he already enjoyed a somewhat spoiled playboy, jet-setting lifestyle before joining their team. Now, with the lucrative income HETC was providing them for their research, he had taken that lifestyle to even greater excesses.

Hannah, on the other hand, had been a very reserved, serious scientist dedicated only to her work before joining the team. Although petite and attractive, Hannah had suffered from a bad hip and a limp for most of her adult life. This had caused her to be withdrawn and, some would say, reclusive. She was also a practicing Muslim and wore a hijab. This, too, tended to isolate her somewhat in Western society, especially in the ultra-liberal community of Berkeley, California.

Hannah, however, had undergone a life-changing incident just a month ago at the end of their last day at Sub-Arcis. The cancer that had been destroying her hip for so many years had suddenly gone into remission. In fact, it was even more astounding than that. Not only had the cancer stopped growing, but it also seemed to have completely disappeared, and the damage it had caused to her hip had miraculously been repaired. How? No one knows. As all people should do with all miracles, Hannah didn’t spend time on questioning how and why. She was only thankful for the what, and that gave her a completely new outlook on life.

But even knowing that, Sarah was very surprised to learn that the reason she had not been able to contact Hannah for the past week was that Hannah had gone skiing! Sarah could just not get that image to stick in her head. Hannah skiing? Who would have ever thought that a month ago? Certainly not Sarah, and also not Hannah.

Anyway, when Sarah had finally got in touch with both her teammates, she suggested they get together to discuss the upcoming project and brief each other on their preparations before it was time for them to return to Sub-Arcis. They both agreed. Sarah suggested a conference room at the library, but Raza suggested dinner at Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen, and Hannah enthusiastically seconded his suggestion. The date was set for Saturday night, leaving just three days, Sunday through Tuesday, before their scheduled departure for Sub-Arcis the next Wednesday which was the first of the month. Sarah thought that was too tight and pressed for an early date, but the other two were insistent — so this Saturday it was. Their reservation was for 7 p.m.

Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen is a popular Cajun restaurant at the corner of Shattuck and Kitteridge, just a block west of the southwest corner of the UC Berkeley campus. There was a bus stop right on that corner, and on that Saturday evening, Sarah leaped from the bus and ran the 20 meters or so to the restaurant’s front door. It was already past 7:30. She was late, and Sarah was not in the habit of being late.

It was Isabella’s, her roommate’s, fault. She had called Sarah at 6:30 just as Sarah was preparing to leave. Bella had been out on a date, and for reasons that were never fully explained, had stormed out of a party leaving behind her date, her ride, and most importantly, her purse with all her money. She borrowed a stranger’s mobile phone out on the street and called Sarah for help. After going through all her options, Sarah advised her to hail a cab and come back to the apartment. Sarah would wait for her there and pay the cab.

Sarah waited… and she waited some more. Finally, sometime after 7:00, Bella called again, this time to report that now all was well. She’d made up with her date and was back at the party enjoying herself with her friends, her ride, and her money.

"¡Muchas gracias! I’ll never forget you for this!" exclaimed Bella over the phone just before she ended the call.

As Sarah was putting her phone away, she thought, And neither will I…

So, as a result, Sarah was late getting out of her apartment, late for the bus, and now late arriving at the restaurant. The small courtyard outside the restaurant was full of people waiting to get in. She jogged up to the door and told the doorman that her party had already arrived as she peered into the dining area trying to