The Gemini Divergence (80 page)

When the Apollo 8 capsule rounded the far
side of the moon, they were shocked and horrified to see city
lights on the surface of the dark side, as well as lights of space
craft moving back and forth between the lunar cities and an
extremely large space station.

The Apollo crew members were horrified.

Even though some of them had prior
experiences in space with Overseer craft; none of them had any clue
as to the scale of the Raumsfahrtwaffe’s actual size, or what to
expect on the dark side.

They were soon elated to hear the voice of
Air Force escorts, flying advanced Gemini fighter craft, suddenly
announcing that they had secretly tagged along. Then, they watched
in Terror as Overseer fighter craft approached, and were engaged by
the Air Force Gemini fighters.

As Mission Control anxiously waited for
Apollo 8 to report for the first time after traversing the radio
silent far side of the moon, Von Braun grimaced with hope that the
Apollo astronauts would survive, and if they did survive, he hoped
that they would be discrete and use protocol language to report
what they had witnessed.

When Apollo 8 finally rounded the moon and
reported, they didn’t say that they were alright or everything was
going as planned.

They excitedly interrupted the Mission
Control radio operator to report, “Houston! Please be advised!
There ‘is’ a Santa Claus!”

*~*

Schwerig was accumulating a small library of
maps and charts of the Martian surface that was being collected by
his prospecting and surveying teams.

From this information, he selected the most
viable locations for natural resources, useful for prompt
habitation.

Once he had assessed all of the resources at
his disposal, he sent requests back to Von Sterbenbach for the
necessary machinery and supplies to exploit their new virtual
cornucopia of minerals and metals to foment the newest
Raumsfahrtwaffe endeavor.

He charged Graff to begin the gradual influx
of population; beginning with the most needed, then gradually
allowing other Raumsfahrtwaffe interests to migrate to Mars and
begin other aspects of the newly thriving civilization.

On the sprawling Ares plane of Cydonia, work
on the space gazing façade was progressing with a splendor
reminiscent of a bygone Egyptian era.

*~*

Back on the moon, Adlerkrallen had discovered
a seemingly bottomless volcanic tube or cave on the Earth facing
side of the lunar surface, within Mare Ingenii, and began to build
a secret sublunarian base of operations; unknown, even to
Schwerig.

*~*

Apollo 9 and 10 went as planned and were both
successfully defended by the newest Blue Gemini/MOL variants.

With the success of the equipment tests, as
well as the demonstration that the Apollo astronauts could be
successfully defended by the Air Force, NASA decided to go ahead
with a moon landing during the next mission, Apollo 11.

3 July 1969

The Soviets had developed an enormous rocket
called the N-1to be their equivalent of the American’s Saturn V.
They desperately needed it to get to the moon; as well as to
secretly propel their Almaz fighting platforms deeper into space,
but during the N-1s maiden blast off, they were attacked by the
Raumsfahrtwaffe.

The Overseers managed to get the colossal
rocket to crash onto the observation bunker where all of the
program’s scientists, engineers, and financiers were watching;
permanently ending the Soviets hopes to build another. Thus, ending
the Soviet moon program and preventing the Almaz stations from
further penetration into Raumsfahrtwaffe space territory.

16 July 1969

Apollo 11

The world watched as the Apollo 11 crew
thundered into the heavens and embarked on what common knowledge
believed was mankind’s first trek to another body in space.

Already, on their way to the moon, they
sighted objects following them and radioed back to mission control
for an explanation.

Mission Control told them that it was just
debris from their booster that had been caught in the same
trajectory as them, and that there was nothing to worry about.

In reality, it was their Air Force escort
fighters, keeping their distance and secrecy.

Upon passing around the dark side, on their
circumlunar bearing, they were entreated to the same spectacular
visions and revelations that their former Apollo compatriots had
been enlightened to.

The world excitedly watched the version of
events that was being cleansed for public consumption by NASA, as
some radio operators with the ability to access NASA’s classified
frequencies heard a completely different story.

One such story is of a horrified Apollo crew,
in utter dismay at the size and technological ability of a part of
humanity that just hours before, they were totally oblivious
of.

Many of these amateur radio operators from
around the world reported that Armstrong continually commented
about the lights that followed them to the crater rim and were now
perched there observing the Apollo crew.

Newspapers from countries other than the
United States that printed their claims, quoted the crew as making
comments like, “They’ve been here for some time judging by the
installations,” “They are here… under the surface,” “These babies
are huge… Oh my God… you wouldn’t believe it,” “They’re lined up in
formation on the far side of the crater.”

It was even rumored that they were able to
film an object that hovered directly over their LEM, but such
footage has never surfaced.

Many people remember a little tidbit that
slipped past the NASA censors and was broadcast to the world where
one of the astronauts referred to a light on the perimeter of the
crater during a television transmission, which was quickly followed
by a Mission Control request for more specific information… but the
conversation was cut off and NASA has never given an explanation
for the comments.

After the crew returned to Earth and were
paraded around the world as ambassadors of science and good will,
Doctor J. Allen Hynek, of Blue Book, supposedly approached
Armstrong about the amateur radio operators claims.

It has been rumored that Armstrong confessed
that he had indeed witnessed a colossal space station and a lunar
city on the back side of the moon, and that America had been warned
to stay away from the moon.

He said that he was prohibited from going
into detail but that their ships were far superior to ours and
extremely menacing.

When Hynek supposedly asked why NASA
continued with more moon landings after being warned, Armstrong
answered that we had ‘some protection’ and that the image of
America was at stake and we were already committed to finish the
Apollo program, but that it was indeed eventually cut short and
cancelled. He also commented, “When we did have to go, we didn’t
stay long, we just landed, grabbed some rocks and left.”

He also commented that Nixon and other higher
ups knew, because the president had even written their epitaph, not
knowing how they would react to our intrusion.

Many automatically assumed that Armstrong’s
‘they’, referred to aliens, but he in fact never mentioned aliens,
he just always referred that he was surprised that ‘they’ had
developed beyond us.

Buzz Aldrin, has remained in the public eye
and has always touted the NASA line and denied any of these
reports.

The only report that he admits to is the
sighting on the way to the moon.

Many believe that Armstrong’s inherent
honesty and reluctance to lie is what had caused him to become a
virtual hermit, and avoid the press for the rest of his life.

*~*

After his supposed audience with Armstrong,
Hynek reportedly set out on a campaign to phone Von Braun as well
as other NASA and Air Force officials with questions about
Armstrong’s claims, what Lonnie Zamora really saw and why did the
Arnold sighting resemble the ‘Horton’ Antipodal Amerika Bomber so
much? What really crashed at Roswell? Why AFOAT was always involved
and why are they now sending civilian clothed technicians to
interview witnesses? And if we are so much better than the Russians
at announcing our space program, then why does NASA always take the
information into a back room before they disseminate it to the
media?

Von Braun and Fitzpatrick finally got to the
point where they wouldn’t even answer or return Hynek’s calls
anymore.

They knew that Hynek was on the verge of
figuring everything out, or already had and was trying to trick
them into admitting something.

Von Braun even relented to Fitzpatrick that
he thought Hynek had actually figured it out, but that he was just
being scientific about his approach and hunting for facts to prove
his theory before making any public claims.

To protect NASA, the Air Force, and
themselves, they decided to dissolve Project Blue Book in December
of 1969 and disperse its members throughout the Air Force on
completely different projects.

They even portrayed Hynek as a cook, only out
to sensationalize stories for his own benefit.

Hynek went on to write several books on UFOs
and toured the country granting interviews and giving speeches for
the rest of his career.

*~*

Astronomers assigned to Schwerig with a
mission to analyze the solar system from the perspective of Mars
and to constantly monitor the way back home, discovered a very
large asteroid on a very inclined and non-ecliptic orbit that would
cross the ecliptic plane between Earth and Mars every six
months.

At first Schwerig didn’t understand what the
astronomers were so excited about and thought that they were just
wasting his time; until they explained further.

It seemed that the Asteroid was about 50
kilometers across which would be quite adequate for a permanently
manned station.

When Schwerig asked why he should waste his
time and resources building a station on an asteroid with a radical
bearing, the astronomers explained that the orbit was
gravitationally influenced by the orbits of Earth and Mars. That
caused its orbital plane to spin upright like a gyroscope frame,
the gyroscope itself being the ecliptic plane; synchronously
lagging the respective orbits of Earth and Mars.

This highly unusual orbit meant that if they
built a station on this asteroid, that the Raumsfahrtwaffe would
not have to waste fuel on trans-Martian flights any more.

They could easily ride this asteroid back and
forth like a shuttle between Earth and Mars every six months.

They decided to name it Hermes, the
messenger, since Mercury had already been taken.

The new shuttle station ‘Hermes’ was soon
capable of carrying thousands of passengers as well as warehouse
after warehouse of freight and supplies.

The Raumsfahrtwaffe quickly whisked away
their masses that had been waiting at Colonia Dignadad and within a
few short years built a foundation to regain a community of cities
in space that obviously had the potential to dwarf what they had
previously accomplished on the moon.

31 July 1969

Schwerig watched as the American Mariner 6
and 7 probes glided by Mars, taking some pictures but missing the
suspected Raumsfahrtwaffe presence altogether. As a matter of fact
the probes didn’t even detect the largest volcano and valley system
in the Solar system.

14 November 1969

Apollo 12 sat like a light house enduring a
coastal storm on the Florida coast.

The usual crowds had still gathered and sat
patiently in the rain waiting for the launch.

Von Braun was nervous as hell as the
inclement weather had prohibited him from having his usual fighter
patrol sweeping the area. Mainly because, the Overseers had been
notorious for sneaking in during storms and using the cloud cover
as camouflage.

But the political pressure to proceed was
overwhelming, so he requested that a flight of fighters be brought
in from somewhere outside of the storm, and to approach the cape at
a higher altitude, patrolling the air above the clouds. That way,
Apollo 12 would only have to sweat the short distance from the
ground until it emerged from the storm.

At the end of the countdown the massive
motors fired and Apollo 12 started to lift into the squall.

Just as Von Braun had feared, 30 seconds into
the flight, just as Apollo 12 was about to enter the clouds, the
tell tail bolt of a Raumsfahrtwaffe Strahlenkanone came streaming
from the clouds to strike Apollo 12, causing many of its systems to
be knocked off line.

Mission Control technicians scrambled to
bring the most crucial systems back on line when 50 seconds into
the flight, just before Apollo 12 climbed out of the clouds came
the second bolt.

The fighter pilots were alerted, but had
already seen the flashes. They could not, however, get a definitive
lock on the Overseer intruder to take it out without endangering
Apollo 12, so they had to wait for the ascending Saturn V rocket to
climb to a safer altitude.

The Astronauts were oblivious that they were
under attack, and knew nothing about the fighters scrambling to
defend them; they were far too busy, hurriedly switching off alarms
and bringing systems back on line.

But soon… they were away.

Once into the open sky, they could be
escorted and defended from there, all the way to the moon.

Once they passed through the same circumlunar
initiation into knowledge of the Raumsfahrtwaffe that the other
Apollo astronauts had gone through, they landed at their target
site and began to quickly go through their assignments.

The faster they accomplished their tasks, the
faster they could leave.

Unlike Apollo 11; Apollo 12 had carried along
a color camera to televise their lunar antics, but that never came
to fruition.