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+Title: The Ultimate Experiment
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+Author: Thornton DeKy
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+Release Date: August 31, 2007 [EBook #22466]
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+Language: English
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+THE ULTIMATE EXPERIMENT
+
+by
+
+THORNTON DeKY
+
+
+
+
+                   _No living soul breathed upon the
+                  earth. Only robots, carrying on the
+                           last great order._
+
+
+"They were all gone now, The Masters, all dead and their atoms scattered
+to the never ceasing winds that swept the great crysolite city towers in
+ever increasing fury. That had been the last wish of each as he had
+passed away, dying from sheer old age. True they had fought on as long
+as they could to save their kind from utter extinction but the comet
+that had trailed its poisoning wake across space to leave behind it,
+upon Earth, a noxious, lethal gas vapor, had done its work too well."
+
+No living soul breathed upon the Earth. No one lived here now, but Kiron
+and his kind.
+
+"And," so thought Kiron to himself, "he might as well be a great
+unthinking robot able to do only one thing instead of the mental giant
+he was, so obsessed had he become with the task he had set himself to
+do."
+
+Yet, in spite of a great loneliness and a strong fear of a final
+frustration, he worked on with the others of his people, hardly stopping
+for anything except the very necessities needed to keep his big body
+working in perfect coordination.
+
+Tirelessly he worked, for The Masters had bred, if that is the word to
+use, fatigue and the need for restoration out of his race long decades
+ago.
+
+Sometimes, though, he would stop his work when the great red dying sun
+began to fade into the west and his round eyes would grow wistful as he
+looked out over the great city that stretched in towering minarets and
+lofty spires of purest crystal blue for miles on every side. A fairy
+city of rarest hue and beauty. A city for the Gods and the Gods were
+dead. Kiron felt, at such times, the great loneliness that the last
+Master must have known.
+
+They had been kind, The Masters, and Kiron knew that his people, as they
+went about their eternal tasks of keeping the great city in perfect
+shape for The Masters who no longer needed it, must miss them as he did.
+
+Never to hear their voices ringing, never to see them again gathered in
+groups to witness some game or to play amid the silver fountains and
+flowery gardens of the wondrous city, made him infinitely saddened. It
+would always be like this, unless....
+
+But thinking, dreaming, reminiscing would not bring it all back for
+there was only one answer to still the longing: work. The others worked
+and did not dream, but instead kept busy tending to the thousand and one
+tasks The Masters had set them to do--had left them doing when the last
+Master perished. He too must remember the trust they had placed in his
+hands and fulfill it as best he could.
+
+From the time the great red eye of the sun opened itself in the East
+until it disappeared in the blue haze beyond the crysolite city, Kiron
+labored with his fellows. Then, at the appointed hour, the musical
+signals would peal forth their sweet, sad chimes, whispering goodnight
+to ears that would hear them no more and all operations would halt for
+the night, just as it had done when The Masters were here to supervise
+it.
+
+Then when morning came he would start once more trying, testing,
+experimenting with his chemicals and plastics, forever following
+labyrinth of knowledge, seeking for the great triumph that would make
+the work of the others of some real use.
+
+His hands molded the materials carefully, lovingly to a pattern that was
+set in his mind as a thing to cherish. Day by day his experiments in
+their liquid baths took form under his careful modeling. He mixed his
+chemicals with the same loving touch, the same careful concentration and
+painstaking thoroughness, studying often his notes and analysis charts.
+
+Everything must be just so lest his experiment not turn out perfectly.
+He never became exasperated at a failure or a defect that proved to be
+the only reward for his faithful endeavors but worked patiently on
+toward a goal that he knew would ultimately be his.
+
+Then one day, as the great red sun glowed like an immense red eye
+overhead, Kiron stepped back to admire his handiwork. In that instant
+the entire wondrous city seemed to breathe a silent prayer as he stood
+transfixed by the sight before him. Then it went on as usual, hurrying
+noiselessly about its business. The surface cars, empty though they
+were, fled swiftly about supported only by the rings of magnetic force
+that held them to their designated paths. The gravoships raised from the
+tower-dromes to speed silently into the eye of the red sun that was
+dying.
+
+"No one now," Kiron thought to himself as he studied his handiwork. Then
+he walked unhurriedly to the cabinet in the laboratory corner and took
+from it a pair of earphones resembling those of a long forgotten radio
+set. Just as unhurriedly, though his mind was filled with turmoil and
+his being with excitement, he walked back and connected the earphones to
+the box upon his bench. The phones dangled into the liquid bath before
+him as he adjusted them to suit his requirements.
+
+Slowly he checked over every step of his experiments before he went
+farther. Then, as he proved them for the last time, his hand went slowly
+to the small knife switch upon the box at his elbow. Next he threw into
+connection the larger switch upon his laboratory wall bringing into his
+laboratory the broadcast power of the crysolite city.
+
+The laboratory generators hummed softly, drowning out the quiet hum of
+the city outside. As they built up, sending tiny living electrical
+impulses over the wires like minute currents that come from the brain,
+Kiron sat breathless; his eyes intent.
+
+Closer to his work he bent, watching lovingly, fearful least all might
+not be quite right. Then his eyes took on a brighter light as he began
+to see the reaction. He knew the messages that he had sent out were
+being received and coordinated into a unit that would stir and grow into
+intellect.
+
+Suddenly the machine flashed its little warning red light and
+automatically snapped off. Kiron twisted quickly in his seat and threw
+home the final switch. This, he knew, was the ultimate test. On the
+results of the flood of energy impulses that he had set in motion rested
+the fulfillment of his success--_or failure_.
+
+He watched with slight misgivings. This had never been accomplished
+before. How could it possibly be a success now? Even The Masters had
+never quite succeeded at this final test, how could he, only a servant?
+Yet it must work for he had no desire in life but to make it work.
+
+Then, suddenly, he was on his feet, eyes wide. From the two long,
+coffin-like liquid baths, there arose two perfect specimens of the _Homo
+sapiens_. Man and woman, they were, and they blinked their eyes in the
+light of the noonday sun, raised themselves dripping from the baths of
+their creation and stepped to the floor before Kiron.
+
+The man spoke, the woman remained silent.
+
+"I am Adam Two," he said. "Created, by you Kiron from a formula they
+left, in their image. I was created to be a Master and she whom you also
+have created is to be my wife. We shall mate and the race of Man shall
+be reborn through us and others whom I shall help you create."
+
+The Man halted at the last declaration he intoned and walked smilingly
+toward the woman who stepped into his open arms returning his smile.
+
+Kiron smiled too within his pumping heart. The words the Man had intoned
+had been placed in his still pregnable mind by the tele-teach phones and
+record that the last Master had prepared before death had halted his
+experiments. The actions of the Man toward the Woman, Kiron knew, was
+caused by the natural constituents that went to form his chemical body
+and govern his humanness.
+
+He, Kiron, had created a living man and woman. The Masters lived again
+because of him. They would sing and play and again people the
+magnificent crysolite city because he loved them and had kept on until
+success had been his. But then why not such a turnabout? Hadn't they,
+The Masters, created him a superb, thinking _robot_?
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+This etext was produced from _Comet_ July 1941. Extensive research did
+not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was
+renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected
+without note.
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