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Mahoud patrols had discovered a new
type of human far to the north. They were notably different from
the local brutes, shorter, more robust, more massive in muscle, and
larger in brain capacity. At first, the learned ones thought these
new humans might be of some use to the cities, both as cheap labor
and guards. But, alas, when the Mahoud patrols managed to capture a
few specimens, it was discovered that they were extremely
passive.
    These new humans were clearly more
intelligent than the dirty ones, for they had a primitive language,
a combination of grunts and clicks. Nevertheless, their passive
nature made them unsuitable as laborers and so they were left
alone. Unfortunately, the dirty ones took every opportunity to hunt
and rape these passive peoples wherever they were found. Eventually
the elders learned that the dirty ones had managed to wipe out all
the passive new humans for at least as far north as the Mahoud
patrols flew.
    The time had come to remove Mahoud completely
from the twisted creatures, for the safety of all its citizens.
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    Dart speaks to Reader:
    No, the Mahouds did not simply pack their
suitcases and move, leaving their beautiful buildings and wonderful
country for the brutal primitives to ravage. They took the country
with them.
    You say that's not possible, Reader?
    But it happened, and they used antigravity to
do it. For millions of years a portion of Earth's core had been
working its way to the surface and, when it neared four hundred
miles from the upper mantle, the immense pressures of over-lying
rock shifted rapidly, allowing a large fragment to surge toward the
surface. However, the shift also broke this core piece into smaller
shards which were not powerful enough by themselves to entirely
penetrate Earth's shell. Thus they lay undiscovered until the Toba
eruption.
    It was this Toba volcanic eruption of 70,000
BCE which ejected the small fragments of Earth's core to the
surface. It must have been stupendous, though I'm glad I wasn't
around to experience it. Humans had never faced such a large and
extraordinary eruption, considered by later standards as a deep
earthquake and the nearest to level 10 on the Richter scale ever
experienced.
    Well, as the ejected fragments of the core
cooled, they took on the properties of antigravity, much like
placing two magnets of opposite charges in proximity to one
another. The immense pressures in Earth's core determined the
polarity of the planet's magnetic field but, as the core fragment
was no longer subjected to pressure and heat, the cooling fragments
flipped their magnetic field to become antigravity.
    No, the shards weren't discovered right away.
It would have been impossible to approach the area for a long time.
But eventually things cooled down enough for human exploration.
    At first only small pieces of these magic
rocks were dug out of the ground. Those who found them held them to
be sacred for they had the power of lifting heavy objects into the
air. Releasing such a shard would cause it to rise and disappear
forever, so great care was taken to secure shards to the ground by
placing them between manganite stones, canceling their effect.
Eventually technology was developed that could retrieve the whole
core fragment and it was soon learned that the fragment could be
controlled by placing dense materials near it to repel or attract
the stone so that it moved in a desired direction.
    Yes, Reader, a steering system. Anyway, that
was how the first human antigravity-powered drive was built for the
tiny continent of Mahoud.
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    The antigravity drive took hundreds of years
to perfect and many lives were lost in the process, but the small
island continent of Mahoud finally transformed itself into the
first sky city. As the island ripped itself from Earth's surface,
debris fell everywhere. The ground shook and a great crackling
filled the air, sending the primitive humans scurrying to their
shamans for protection. The city rose ever upward, while the