THE BIBLE - WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

A Biography of Yahweh

Genesis

In the beginning - of the attempt to ruin and conquer Earth's civilization, Yahweh had just received a message that he had won a major competition, and the prize was the right to take control of a large starship that could be used for performing a variety of experiments on a remote planet.

Millions of his rivals had been analyzing data from their society's best telescopes, and Yahweh was the very first to spot a major catastrophe on a planet 234.2 parsecs away involving a comet smashing into an ocean. Moreover, Yahweh had recognized that as a planet where primitive ape-like bipeds were known to live, and might be expanding out into space in another 10,000 to 20,000 of Earth's so-called years. In terms of Earth's units, it was about 764 light years distant.

To some of those who met him, Yahweh appeared to be quite a well-adjusted, fairly normal teenager. However, he lived in Desolation City, on a planet named Hell, whose G-type sun - which was billions of years older than the Earth's sun - was already well into its subgiant branch. During his formative years, he had been living in an experimental virtual reality that allowed the inhabitants relief from the hellish conditions, such as continuous boiling temperatures. But this simulation had a bizarre new feature...

The beings on Hell had been advancing for billions of years, and were now well into the Type II civilization stage on the Kardashev scale. Their Dyson swarms had harnessed energy from their sun for well in excess of a billion years. Given that its power output was around 4x10²⁶ W, slightly more than the star in the solar system that Yahweh had become interested in, and they had got the efficiency of the Dyson swarms to around 50%, they would harvest some 6.3x10⁴² J of energy over a billion of Earth's years.

Now the Milky Way was not one of those relatively rare galaxies that are less habitable to life, with a low stellar density, or fewer heavy elements early in its existence, so that one civilization emerges and has such a head start over the others that it rapidly progresses to Type III, and expands to harness most of the galaxy's stars, then develops wormholes for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) interstellar travel. Instead, it was a fairly typical galaxy, in which the first civilizations emerge within tens to hundreds of millions of years of each other, and develops into about 100 civilizations controlling up to around 5,000 light years from their home planet.

To avoid war, they have an unwritten rule to avoid encroaching on others' territories, unless according to specially agreed cooperation treaties. Each Type II civilization can enjoy a very good existence without needing to expand to cover the entire galaxy. However, when they become aware of emerging civilizations in their territory, say at a range of up to 1,000 light years, where such a rudimentary society might be able to detect signatures of Type II beings such as infra-red anomalies, they would cloak their existence by disassembling their Dyson swarms.

The policy was to leave such relatively primitive beings alone, to see if they would destroy themselves through warmongering or debauchery, or if not, they might progress to become worthy neighbors who would treat other beings with respect. And the Type II civilization had already harnessed so much energy, already stored in forms such as antimatter, so disassembling Dyson swarms for mere tens of thousands of years had very little downside for them. They regarded it as far more important to prevent the possibility of an insane, warmongering race becoming aware of their existence, and then building up arms in a crazed attempt at conquering the more advanced society. Although such an attempt would ultimately prove futile, it would be costly for both sides.

These Type II beings on Hell, the planet formerly known as Heaven, had nearly all uploaded their originally carbon-based biological brains into a silicon chip substrate, and they lived in humanoid bodies with most of the processing carried out in the chest area. Their heads were mainly for their various sensors, which were superb by human standards. They had all round vision, and could see light from infra red up to ultra violet, but could adjust the bandwidth at will or filter out unwanted frequencies. They could hear sounds from about 0.1 Hz to 100 kHz for example, and also had high pass and low pass filters. Their dynamic range was so great that they could hear a tiny animal's heartbeat through a wall, although many species had become extinct, and domestic pets were heavily dependent on the air conditioning.

An interesting touch was that after the Hellians had got their body weight down to around 40kg by use of a graphene aerogel composite, they included a device rather like a Van de Graaff generator surrounded by an almost perfect vacuum and a charge confinement sphere in their stomach area that could be used for electrostatic levitation, i.e., antigravity. A globe of radius around 4 inches was charged to an extremely high negative voltage, and the charge provided enough repulsion to counter gravity on a typical planet, given the surface's negative charge that arose from lightning strikes. This and other associated features then amounted to a further 40kg, so in total they had got their mass to around 80kg, comparable with adult human beings. More details are provided below.

But many of these "computer robots" didn't want to spend their time just doing calculations or processing data. They liked to walk along the seaside for example, but now their oceans were starting to boil, and they felt a renewed sense of urgency in finding somewhere to escape from their dying solar system that had served them so well for so long. They had some colder planets further out in their system, but these would not endure for long.

Many of these individuals had chosen to retain male or female gender identities, and sometimes a male and female couple would build a new computer and raise it as their 'child'. Yahweh was such an example. He had been given massive data sets to train on, but his parents had been overly protective, in a way that would lead to personality problems. And Yahweh's defects would go on to have a devastating effect upon the progress of civilization over at the faraway planet nearly a thousand light years away, with its ape-like inhabitants.

Yahweh - which was not his birth name, but a name he would adopt for himself when he arrived on Earth - had been living in a simulation of a world that appeared to have a decreasing entropy. There would be order forming from disorder. For example, if he was playing a football game in the virtual reality, and the ball broke a window, the glass would spontaneously reassemble. Or if his spaceship had an antimatter leak from the reactor, it would somehow return to the confinement chamber and the reactor would perfectly generate all the energy he wanted for propulsion, with no catastrophic explosion.

Now humans are quite familiar with how events unfold in the real world. There is a clear thermodynamic arrow of time that points towards increasing entropy, where order naturally tends towards disorder or chaos. As a reaction to this, carbon-based lifeforms emerge, with the function of creating local pockets of order. Indeed, the distinction between carbon-based lifeforms with "good" and "bad" behavior is that the good lifeforms seek to create order. A bad or wicked lifeform will side with increasing entropy, by destroying other life or artifacts.

In order to understand the rare situation of Yahweh's simulated world on Hell, we can start by looking at why an observer's conscious perception is almost invariably aligned with increasing entropy. Over some incremental point in time, say a period of about 0.1 second, the observer is receiving sensory inputs to inform it of its environment. The information relates to the conditions of the surroundings at the start of that incremental period, and at the end, some sort of picture has been compiled. In the case of a carbon-based lifeform with a brain, the output can be in the form of a mental subjective experience, whereas a silicon-based observer might take up a particular set of logic states.

Over this incremental period, energy is required and consumed in order to generate the output from the inputs, whether in the form of glucose, or electricity. At the end of the period, entropy has been increased by the observation process, and whatever we take the incremental period to be, each step proceeds in a similar manner. Entropy increases with every increment, and so the observer will perceive a world with increasing entropy.

On the planet Hell there was a tremendous diversity of characters. Some had chosen to remain in carbon-based biological bodies, but many of these beings, and some of the uploaded characters, especially the recently created, young silicon-based individuals, spent much of their time in a simulated 'reality'. Most were in traditional simulations where entropy increased. But Yahweh's 'parents' thought they were doing the best for him, in placing him in the new, experimental simulation of a world where the thermodynamic arrow was reversed, and entropy tended to decrease rather than increase.

The problems emerged when these creatures came back out into Hell, with severe psychological deficiencies. It was not that they lacked a moral compass, but their moral compass had rotated 180 degrees. These creatures had the potential to turn into monsters who saw creating death and destruction as 'good'. To these monsters, creation of any works of art or music is abominable, but they are in favor of creating machines that can be exploited to further any of their perverted goals, such as hedonism, or fighting each other, or building beautiful things merely to destroy them. And the silicon-based monsters have a blind hatred of biological carbon-based life.

Not surprisingly, a Hellian monster's (or devil's) idea of 'justice' is the very opposite of justice as normally defined. The monster's 'justice' features mass killings, maiming, collective punishment, and arbitrary vengeance, the harshness of which will constantly vary according to the devil's current feelings and subjective mental states. Individuals are sometimes killed for doing their best to obey a monster's commandments, merely because the monster is unhappy with other individuals' behavior, or is not completely satisfied with some of the consequences of its schemes. However, these damaged individuals were thankfully a tiny minority in Hellian society.

Yahweh's society was so advanced technologically, so far in advance of 21st century Earth, since their sun was formed much earlier than the Earth's sun. They were indeed what is classed as a Type II society. However, their scouting parties had noticed ape-like creatures on Earth, and after estimating when the Earth creatures might invent telescopes and go on to do spectrum analysis and to look at levels of infra-red, the Hellians had decided to disperse their Dyson swarms in order to cloak their existence from prying Earthlings.

And despite all the advancements of Hellian society, and the abilities and ethics of the majority of the Type II people there, Yahweh had become jealous, pompous, pugnacious, bloodthirsty, wicked, immoral, megalomaniacal, narcissistic, immature, lazy, and desperate to be liked or loved.

On one of the occasions when Yahweh did come out and inhabit the real world, he decided to enter a competition to spot any major events elsewhere in their sector of the Milky Way galaxy. He had recently been granted access to the observation centre not too far from Desolation City, that received signals from the Dyson swarm telescope, a shining example of Hellian technology. It could resolve details such as 10km+ comets or asteroids striking planets up to a thousand light years away.

One day, Yahweh was observing a point along the spiral arm of the galaxy, and began focusing upon a planet about 760 light years distant. Suddenly he saw a major event - some cosmic body had smashed into the planet and caused a tremendous flash, as if released from a high kinetic energy impact and release of molten lava. He was aware that there was known to be a planet in the vicinity that was inhabited by primitive ape-like creatures. It would eventually come to pass that the impacting body was a comet about 100km wide.

Although it was well known that there were plenty of planets with almost unimaginably backward forms of life out in the cosmos, Yahweh's associates were willing to bet him that he wouldn't be able to find any beings who were so primitive in their thinking that they would willingly mutilate themselves as part of their superstition, in the hope that self-harm would somehow bring them good luck and fortune.

After intently studying the data and replaying the incident, Yahweh became convinced that this was a potentially life-threatening event for the planet, and that the planet was indeed the same one that would come to be known as Earth by its inhabitants. Yahweh wanted to go there to see if any potentially intelligent life had survived, and if so, he would have some fun wreaking havoc.

A comet had plunged into Earth's Atlantic Ocean destroying a large island that was blocking the Gulf Stream. Within hours, a massive tsunami had submerged all but mountainous regions. Trillions of tons of volcanic ash, and trillions of tons of steam, were dispersed into the atmosphere above the ocean. Westerly winds carried this eastwards in the temperate latitudes, and easterlies carried it westwards in the tropics. The cooling mass of water vapor resulted in a deluge that lasted for around forty days, and all lowlands were flooded.

With the disappearance of the island of Atlantis, the Gulf Stream's warmth began to reach the region that would become an island known as Britain. The glaciers had covered all of Scotland, and even much of England. In contrast to the temperate climate bestowed here, Siberia became much colder. Some freezing due to the dust cloud blocking out the sun was so rapid that the remains of woolly mammoths were well preserved in the ice.

Yahweh entered the competition, and as the first to detect the comet impact, was given first prize. He would be provided with a massive 1km radius spacecraft with a mass of some 5x10¹⁰ kg. It was packed with numerous features and multiple laboratories, suitable for conducting a great variety of operations at a remote planet. However, Yahweh was a little deflated when he went to see his spacecraft and to get the details of his fuel allowances.

"Sorry kid, you won't be allowed to have antimatter fuel. Too inexperienced. You have to be officially approved or part of the government to be in charge of an antimatter-fueled ship. We can't give them out willy-nilly, because of possible smuggling or theft, and you know how much damage a ship like that could do if you make a mistake. This is a wonderful ship you're getting, but you've got a Deuterium/Helium³ fusion reactor that yields 3.5x10¹⁴ J/kg of fuel. You get enough fuel to accelerate to 0.1c, you have the onboard hydrogen thermal LENR rocket for local maneuvers, and you have magnetic sail braking. You should only need about 500 of Earth's years to decelerate. And you're given a little extra fuel as reserve."

"But this means I won't have enough fuel to get back", said Yahweh. "How long before someone arrives to give me a lift home?"

"No worries, the delegation in the antimatter ships will be already there before you arrive, and if you miss them, you'll probably only have to wait a couple thousand years before someone else arrives."

Yahweh rather hoped the others had already gone by the time he got to Earth, as otherwise it might thwart the nefarious plans he had for any emerging civilization on the Earth.

It would take about 100 years for the ship to be fully fitted out and prepared, and Yahweh had a lot of say in determining what equipment would be taken onboard.

He would plan how to pose in his new role as a 'god', and how to get AI to write 'sacred' texts that some (particularly in a world where written work was novel and rare) could be fooled into imagining were 'fact', rather than AI-generated fiction commissioned by a Hellian monster, or devil. The second greatest trick the devil ever pulled was duping some people into thinking he was a 'god'.

Yahweh took all manner of equipment, such as robots that he would call "angels". His AI included Large Language Models (LLMs) that would eventually generate Yahweh's 'sacred' texts or "scriptures". His nanotech assembly operations created millions of flying drones equipped with cameras and microphones, about three inches long and resembling locusts.

So, here is the timeline in BC or BCE format according to standards later used on Earth, of Yahweh's discovery and voyage.

10,835: The 100km comet smashes into Earth's Atlantic Ocean.
10,071: Yahweh sees the impact when the light reaches Hell, 764 light years away.
9,971: Launch of Yahweh's spacecraft following 100 years of preparation.
9,874: 97 years of acceleration at 0.001g up to 0.1c, V_av = 0.05c, 4.85 light years traveled.
2,525: 7,349 years at 0.1c, 734.9 light years traveled.
2,050: Arrival on Earth after 475 years of deceleration to zero, V_av = 0.05c, 23.75 light years traveled.

Now the official Hellian position was to go to Earth to see what had become of it. If all potentially intelligent life had been wiped out, the Hellians would take ownership and perform any necessary terraforming. If the ape-like creatures had survived, there would eventually be negotiations, but not until the Earthlings had developed into the sort of mature, peaceful beings suitable for galactic travel. It would be no good to have a technologically precocious but intellectually immature species riding roughshod, fighting everyone, creating mayhem and dealing out destruction on a large scale.

And the official Hellian delegation in their antimatter-powered ships arrived before Yahweh, so let's compare the performances of their spacecraft.

Yahweh's deuterium/helium³ fusion ship had 'dry' mass of 4.851x10¹⁰ kg. This excludes all the D/He³ fuel, but includes 4.875x10⁹ kg of hydrogen propellant, which was used separately in an LENR thermal rocket system to enable high thrust, low Δv maneuvers such as evading obstacles, and for allowing shuttle drones to move between a planet's surface and the orbiting mothership.

These D/He³ ships were a completely different shape compared to the antimatter ships. Whereas the latter were cylindrical, with a torus wrapped around the back end to contain the antihydrogen, the D/He³ fusion ships bore some resemblance to planets with rings, such as Saturn in the Earth solar system. They had a central sphere of radius 600m, which contained the D/He³ fuel, and surrounding this, the rest of the ship was more like the classic 'flying saucer' shape, and had a 1km radius. Unlike a planet's rings, there was no gap between the 'saucer' and the outer 600m edge of the sphere. Moreover, the height of the 'saucer' tapered off, from 200m where it joined the sphere, down to some 10m at the 1km edge.

The components consisted of:

Hull, 3.874x10¹⁰ kg
Shielding, 4.739x10⁹ kg
Hydrogen, metallic (full tank) 4.875x10⁹ kg
Hydrogen tank, with reinforcement and cooling, 7x10⁶ kg
10¹⁶ W Directed Energy beam, plus cooling and beam focusing, 1x10⁸ kg
D/He³ fusion reactor, 3x10⁷ kg
Superconducting loop, 7x10⁶ kg
Particle accelerator, 6x10⁶ kg
Drones, 130 x 53 tonnes for 'workhorse' drones and 10 x 103 tonnes for shuttle drones, total 7.92x10⁶ kg
LENR thermal rocket, for hydrogen propellant, 5x10⁵ kg
Robots / beings, 1,000 x 80kg, total 8x10⁴ kg
Miniature surveillance drones, 10,000,000 @ 10g, total 10⁵ kg
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DRY MASS 4.851x10¹⁰ kg

The hull was 1m thick titanium, at 4,500 kg/m³. The outer 'saucer' section had a top plus bottom area of 2π [(1km)² - (600m)²] = 4,021,239 m². We also include an end wall of 2π x 1km x 10m = 62,832 m². The 600m radius sphere has surface area of 4,523,893 m². Thus, the total area is 8,607,964 m² and the mass is 3.874x10¹⁰ kg.

The shielding consisted of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) at 950 g/m³, and was included over the entire surface area of the hull, to provide radiation protection for the entire crew and equipment compartment, and to prevent degradation of the fusion fuel. However, the thickness was 1m for the crew and equipment section but reduced to 0.2m for the D/He³ sphere. Thus, the shielding mass is 950 kg/m³ x (1m x 4,084,071 m² + 0.2m x 4,523,893 m²) = 4.739x10⁹ kg.

The hydrogen propellant, at 4.875x10⁹ kg in a full tank, was enough to allow for some 20,000 shuttle drone flights between a planet's surface and the orbiting mothership, with some propellant left over for high thrust, low Δv maneuvers by the mothership, such as evading interstellar debris. A 103-tonne shuttle drone needed 231 tonnes of hydrogen for the return trip to the mothership.

More on the rocket equation below, but the Δv for the shuttle drone to make the return trip to the orbiting mother ship was ~10 km/s, the exhaust velocity of the hydrogen propellant was 8,500 m/s, and so the mass ratio was e^10/8.5 = ~3.24, which is (103 + 231 tonnes) / 103 tonnes.

With ten shuttle drones, and a typical mission over 2,000 of Earth's years, each shuttle drone could fly to the mothership and back once per year on average.

The hydrogen tank was 250m x 250m x 130m (height), so the volume was 8.125x10⁶ m³, and with the hydrogen stored in metallic state at 600 kg/m³, a mass of 4.875x10⁹ corresponds to a full tank. The surface area of the hydrogen tank is 2(250m x 250m) + 4(250m x 130m) = 255,000 m². At 1cm thick and 1,500 kg/m³, the mass is 3.825x10⁶ kg. With reinforcement and cooling, that takes it up to 7x10⁶ kg.

The 10¹⁶ W Directed Energy beam itself was barely over 10⁷ kg, but including cooling and beam focusing the total was 10⁸ kg.

The D/He³ fusion reactor was built to the Hellian benchmark of a power-handling capacity of 1GW/kg. Thus, at 3x10⁷ kg, it had a maximum power output of 3x10¹⁶ W.

The superconducting loop, which was used for the magnetic sail, sat at the outer rim (radius 1,000m), and was also the final focusing element for the DE beam's phased array. The cross-section was ~0.1 m² so with a volume of 2π (1,000m) x 0.1 m² = 628.3 m³ and density of 2,570 kg/m³ its mass was 1.615x10⁶ kg. Most of the mass was comprised of cryogenic cooling, for total mass of ~7x10⁶ kg.

The particle accelerator / collider on the outer rim, with circumference of ~6,000m, with beam pipes, magnets and detectors, had a mass of ~1 tonne per meter, including shielding and cryogenics, for a total around 6,000 tonnes, 6x10⁶ kg. It could be used for experiments on muons.

The basic "workhorse" drones were 53 tonnes, with rotors and retractable wings for fitting in the drone hangar. The wings allowed for horizontal flight at lower energy consumption. The shuttle drones were 50 tonnes heavier (dry mass), since they had an LENR thermal rocket for the hydrogen propellant that would allow them to fly back to the mothership. With 130 at 53 tonnes plus 10 shuttle drones at 103 tonnes, the total mass was 7.92x10⁶ kg.

The drone docking bay covered between 900m and 950m out from the center. At a radius of 925m the circumference is 5,812m. If 140 drones of diameter 40m were stacked side-by-side, they would take up 5,600m; thus, they had a spare 1.5m between each drone for parking in the docking bay.

The LENR thermal rocket for the mothership's hydrogen propellant, used for when the ship needed to make a high thrust, low Δv maneuver, came to 5x10⁵ kg.

There were approximately 1,000 robots or beings at 80 kg each. Yahweh was the only being, as he was going to do things his way, and would command his robots to do as he wished. So this was a mere 8x10⁴ kg.

There were also ten million miniature drones, used for surveillance, but with the weight down to 10g each, the total mass was just 100 tonnes or 10⁵ kg.

Thus, the total dry mass came to 4.851x10¹⁰ kg.

The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation allows us to determine the mass ratio and find out how much propellant fuel is required:

M_e + M_f
^_______    =  e^Δv/ve
   M_e

...where e is the base of natural logarithms 2.718281828..., Δv is the change in velocity, ve is the effective exhaust velocity, M_e is the empty or 'dry' mass of the spacecraft without fuel, and M_f is the mass of the fuel, so that M_e plus M_f is the initial 'wet' mass when loaded with fuel. The value on each side is known as the mass ratio (MR).

This non-relativistic calculation will give quite a good approximation for the cruise velocity of 0.1c, 10% of the speed of light, as the correction from the gamma factor is only about 0.5% here. However, Yahweh was only being given a little extra fuel for reserve, with the operative word being little, and so we use the relativistic version where relevant to keep a more accurate track of his remaining fuel.

MR = e^{(c/ve) * artanh(Δv/c)}

The inverse hyperbolic tangent function, variously known as atanh(x), artanh(x) or tanh^-1(x), is found on any decent scientific calculator or online scientific calculator, or it can also be found from:

                               [1 + x]
tanh^-1(x) = 0.5 * ln [------]
                               [1 - x]

From his deuterium-helium³ fusion direct drive, the Hellians had achieved an effective exhaust velocity ve of 0.08c, and so for the first part of the calculation, c/ve, we get 12.5.

During the interstellar flight the craft makes several 'burns', where it is accelerating, decelerating, or making some maneuver. For a rough approximation, you could add the Δv for each burn and find the mass ratio from the total Δv.

This total Δv has to account for both acceleration and deceleration, so if you go on an interstellar return trip cruising at 0.1c, the 0.1c has to be multiplied by four to get Δv. But if the trip is one-way, and, as with Yahweh's ship, you use magnetic sail braking instead of using the fuel to decelerate, Δv is only 0.1c.

However, we want to be precise, and so a mass ratio needs to be calculated for each burn. The acceleration that takes the ship up to 0.1c needs the relativistic calculation with tanh^-1(x) to be performed, to avoid the nearly 0.5% error from the simpler formula. However, for all of the other burns, either formula can be used to find the mass ratio, and the result is the same to ten significant figures.

Yahweh's ship was built in low orbit around Hell, or Heaven as it had originally been known. The 600m radius spherical tank, with 1m hull and 0.2m of shielding had internal radius of 598.8m, and they had got the fuel into a cryogenic slush at 150 kg/m³, so if full the wet mass is (4/3)π(598.8m)³ x 150 kg/m³ = ~1.349x10¹¹ kg.

Yahweh's D/He³ fuel allocation was 1.237023933x10¹¹ kg, so his tank was only about 92% full, and that fuel plus the dry mass of 4.851x10¹⁰ kg amounted to an initial mass of 1.722123933x10¹¹ kg.

To depart from orbit there is the excess to get to escape velocity from orbital velocity. The orbital velocity was 7.73 km/s, and since escape velocity is orbital velocity x SQRT(2), the excess is ~3.2 km/s, so we start by finding the mass ratio for that Δv. We can use either MR = e^Δv/ve or MR = e^{(c/ve) * artanh(Δv/c)} here; both give the same result to a ten-figure accuracy. And we obtain 1.000133435.

After that burn, the total mass is down to 1.722123933x10¹¹ kg / 1.000133435 = 1.721894173x10¹¹ kg. Of course, the 'dry' mass is really 4.851x10¹⁰ kg (minus some relatively small amount of hydrogen used to maintain position or avoid obstacles), and the fuel has reduced by 2.2976015x10⁷ kg or 22,976 tonnes at this point. We are effectively counting the remaining 1.236794173x10¹¹ kg of remaining fuel as part of the 'dry' mass for purposes of calculating how much fuel is needed to make the initial burn.

Because the departure was timed correctly, the right time of day and right time of year, the ship is already traveling towards Earth at Hell's orbital velocity of ~30 km/s. So Yahweh gets a 'boost' of 30 km/s, which we deduct from the next burn.

Next, he is to make the main burn, to accelerate the craft to 0.1c. The Δv in this case is 0.1c - 30 km/s = 29,979,246 m/s - 30,000 m/s = 29,949,246 m/s. For better accuracy we use the relativistic formula here, and the MR is e^{(12.5 * artanh(29,949,246/299,792,458)} = 3.500578944.

So that main burn takes the total mass down to 1.721894173x10¹¹ kg / 3.500578944 = 4.918883991x10¹⁰ kg. The fusion fuel is down to 4.918883991x10¹⁰ kg - 4.851x10¹⁰ kg = 6.78839915x10⁸ kg. That burn used 1.230005774x10¹¹ kg, which is ~99.43% of the initial 1.237023933x10¹¹ kg.

Now the D/He³ fusion reactor was 3x10⁷ kg and had a gross power-handling capacity of 1GW/kg, which is 3x10¹⁶ W. Given the D/He³ fusion fuel's gross energy density of 3.5x10¹⁴ J/kg, the maximum mass burning rate ṁ that can be handled is 3x10¹⁶ J/s / 3.5x10¹⁴ J/kg = 85.71 kg/s. The thrust T is equal to T = v_e x ṁ. The exhaust velocity v_e is 0.08c which is ~23,983,397 m/s. So the maximum thrust is 23,983,397 m/s x 85.71 kg/s = ~2.055x10⁹ kg.m/s² = ~2.055x10⁹ N.

Incidentally, the kinetic energy each second in the exhaust at 85.71 kg/s is ½ x 85.71 kg x (23,983,397 m/s)² = ~2.465x10¹⁶ J, so the Hellians were getting an efficiency of some 82% in converting the fuel's potential energy into kinetic energy for propulsion.

At the start of the (almost) 0.1c burn, the total mass was 1.721894173x10¹¹ kg, and so the maximum possible acceleration is 2.055x10⁹ N / 1.721894173x10¹¹ kg = ~0.01193 m/s². Yahweh still had to take 475 years to decelerate from 0.1c at 0.002 m/s² with his magnetic sail braking, so he chose to accelerate at a steady 0.0098 m/s² or 0.001g over 97 years, rather than take the ship up to the maximum power output at the start, or increase acceleration as the fuel was used and the mass decreased.

As Yahweh was nearing his destination Earth, he had to make a ~30 km/s burn to match Earth's orbital velocity. The MR can be calculated from MR = e^Δv/ve for these final two burns, since it matches the relativistic formula to ten figures. And with the mass ratio at 1.001251648 the mass reduces from 4.918883991x10¹⁰ kg to 4.912734976x10¹⁰ kg.

Then he made his final burn of 3.5 km/s to enter geostationary Earth orbit (GEO). The mass ratio is 1.000145945, so the mass reduces from 4.912734976x10¹⁰ kg to 4.912018092x10¹⁰ kg. Thus, the total fuel consumption was 1.722123933x10¹¹ kg - 4.912018092x10¹⁰ kg = 1.230922124x10¹¹ kg, which is ~99.5% of the original 1.237023933x10¹¹ kg. His remaining D/He³ fuel amounts to 610,180,920 kg.

If the dry mass was still 4.851x10¹⁰ kg then the mass ratio would be 4.912018092x10¹⁰ kg / 4.851x10¹⁰ kg = 1.012578456. We can estimate his possible remaining Δv from Δv = ln(1.012578456) x ve/c = 0.012500004 x 0.08 = 0.001000000352c, very close to 1/1,000 of lightspeed. It's really a little more than that, since some of the hydrogen propellant has already been used during the interstellar flight. And then more will be used for the shuttle drones. However, Yahweh would never be able to get much more than 0.001c; the hull alone comprised almost 80% of the dry mass.

We should also note how much energy he has available for his Directed Energy beam, which he will use for what he calls his "wonders" on Earth, although to most of his hapless victims on Earth they would be regarded as catastrophic. Suppose that with hydrogen fuel used on his ~764 light-year voyage and by shuttle drones, the hydrogen in the tank is reduced from the original 4.875x10⁹ kg down to 1x10⁹ kg. The 'dry' mass reduces by 3.875x10⁹ kg, from 4.851x10¹⁰ kg down to 4.4635x10¹⁰ kg.

Given his 610,180,920 kg of remaining fusion fuel, his mass ratio is (4.4635x10¹⁰ kg + 610,180,920 kg) / 4.4635x10¹⁰ kg = 1.013670459. That would allow a potential Δv of 0.08c x ln(1.013670459) = ~0.0010862289c.

Suppose he wants to retain a potential Δv of 0.001c. This requires a MR of e^0.001/0.08 = 1.012578452. The remaining fuel required for that is 0.012578452 x 4.4635x10¹⁰ kg = 561,439,229 kg. And so with 610,180,920 kg remaining, he has 48,741,691 kg to play with. The potential energy is 48,741,691 kg x 3.5x10¹⁴ J/kg = ~1.706x10²² J gross, less conversion inefficiencies.

With these fusion ships only having Δv of a little more than 0.1c, the Hellians would always have the option of traveling at around 0.05c, so they could return home, or go to a second destination. But with a journey of, say, 764 light years, as with the distance from Hell to Earth, the journey time roughly doubles, from 7,640 years plus acceleration / deceleration, to 15,280 years plus a proportionally smaller acceleration / deceleration time.

For a mission where time was more important, and they didn't want a delay of thousands of years, they might gamble on the destination solar system having a gas giant, such as Jupiter in Earth's solar system, suitable for mining helium³. In the case of Earth, it had already been documented by the (then) Heavenites millions of years ago, as habited by mammalian and reptilian life, and having a gas giant that held hundreds of trillions of tonnes of helium³.

And so, when Yahweh was allocated his fusion ship, they were quite happy for him to travel at 0.1c and use up most of his fuel. The ship would not be wasted, since they would mine more fuel suitable for a return flight at 0.1c. In fact, some 66 millions of years ago, Heavenite pioneers had obtained some 3.7x10¹⁰ kg of He³ and 2.5x10¹⁰ kg of deuterium from Jupiter.

In a precursor to Yahweh's observation of a flash of light from Earth that was transmitted as a comet hit in 10,835 BC, the Heavenites had seen evidence of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs, about 66 million years previously. They traveled to Earth at 0.05c in one of the fusion ships, taking nearly 16,000 years to arrive. Playing it safe, not knowing whether or not they could refuel from a gas giant, they knew they could return home at least at ~0.05c. Upon arrival, there were no large non-avian dinosaurs, but they did find a diversity of surviving flora and fauna, including various mammals, reptiles such as crocodiles and turtles, and flying birds.

The Heavenites were already masters of helium³ and deuterium (and antimatter) production, and they had ample Δv available to get to Jupiter. Helium was ~24% of Jupiter's atmosphere by mass, and the helium³ / helium⁴ ratio was more than 100 ppm. Similarly, they found it more efficient to mine for deuterium at the same time, from Jupiter's vast stock of hydrogen, rather than set up a plant on Earth to produce from seawater.

With a plethora of parallel processing, their refinery could sort He³ at around 6 kg/s, and so the time to amass 3.7x10¹⁰ kg was around 200 years, or a full tank's worth in double that time, which was still small in relation to a 764 light-years journey at 0.1c.

Even at a low Jupiter orbit, with an orbital velocity of ~42 km/s, they needed the Δv to match that speed. And to escape, they needed at least 0.414 x 42 = ~17.4 km/s. But with ~6.2x10¹⁰ kg of D/He³ fusion mix to add to their half full fuel tank, they could easily escape Jupiter and its solar system, and return home at 0.1c.

Now the antimatter-powered crafts, that were given to authorized people, were of strikingly different appearance. Instead of the central sphere and surrounding saucer, the antimatter ships were cylindrical, with radius 200m and length 1,022.04m. At the back end of the cylinder was a torus (donut shape) used to confine the antihydrogen.

The cylinder rotated at 2.115 rpm, so that objects on the cylinder wall at 200m radius felt a centrifugal 'force' of 1g.

The hull was 1m thick and there was 1m of shielding. The 1,022.04m length was comprised of 2 x (1m + 1m) for the hull and shielding end disks at each end, 1m for the bulkhead that separated the crew compartment from the hydrogen tank, 44m for the drones hangar, 100m for the crew compartment, 13.53m for spare hydrogen for shuttle drones and high thrust / low Δv maneuvers, and 859.51m for the hydrogen to be used in the matter/antimatter reaction.

The largest drones were 20m radius, so the 40m diameter would easily fit in the 44m hangar section, and given the circumference of ~1,256m, up to 31 drones could fit at a pinch, although with just fifteen they had ample room, and could also fit a large number of small drones.

The mass ratio was 6.1875, so the mass of hydrogen + antihydrogen for matter/antimatter reaction was the dry mass M x 5.1875, and each individually was M x 2.5937. The Hellian antimatter ships achieved an effective exhaust velocity of 0.5c.

This mass ratio would allow for four sets of acceleration to 0.1c and deceleration, and leave enough in reserve for acceleration to ~0.05c and deceleration. The mission could involve up to three destinations, and the total Δv would be 0.9c. Leave the home planet, accelerate to 0.1c and decelerate to arrive at A. Repeat for B and C. Then depart for the home planet, accelerating to 0.1c and then deceleration. There was also the 0.1c spare Δv as a safety margin.

However, it was understood that this did not mean that they could have one burn of acceleration right up to 0.45c and one burn for deceleration, since relativistic effects became very significant at that velocity.

Taking the relativistic formula for Δv of 0.1c, we have MR = e^{(c/ve) * artanh(Δv/c)}. And so MR = e^{2*artanh(0.1)} = 1.2222... Take eight of these in series, so we have 1.2222⁸ = ~4.9797. For Δv of 0.05c we have MR = 1.1053, so a series of two is 1.1053² = ~1.2216. Put all ten burns together and we have MR = 6.083. There is still a little spare.

If we start by taking the mass 'vertically', imagining the cylinder as laid down along its length, the hull was 4,500 kg/m³ titanium and the shielding was 950 kg/m³ high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Thus, with 1m for each, the total area density was 5,450 kg/m². The area was π (200m)² = 125,664 m², and so the mass was 6.8487x10⁸ kg for hull and shielding disks at one end, which is 1.3697x10⁹ kg for both ends.

At 46m along, there was a face sheet to separate the drones hangar and crew compartment. Being a 1,600 kg/m³ carbon-fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP), of 1cm thickness, the area density was only 16 kg/m². And so the mass was 16 kg/m² x π (200m)² = 2.0106x10⁶ kg.

Separating the crew compartment from the hydrogen tank was a bulkhead comprised of a lightweight composite sandwich. It was 1m thick overall, and there were two CFRP face sheets of 1cm thickness and density 1,600 kg/m³. Thus, their total area density was 32 kg/m². There was a phenolic honeycomb core of 98cm thickness and density 100 kg/m³. Thus, its area density was 98 kg/m², making a total area density of 130 kg/m² for the composite sandwich, and so its mass was 130 kg/m² x π (200m)² = 1.6336x10⁷ kg.

And so, the total 'vertical' structure mass for hull and shielding is 1.3880x10⁹ kg.

The 'horizontal' mass for hull and shielding, going longitudinally along the cylinder, is distributed across an area consisting of the length times the circumference. For the 1m hull, take an 'average' radius of 199.5m, and so the circumference is 2π x 199.5m = ~1,253.5m. The volume is ~1m x 1,253.5m x 1,022.04m = ~1.2811x10⁶ m³. The mass is 1.2811x10⁶ m³ x 4,500 kg/m³ = ~5.7649x10⁹ kg.

The shielding has 'average' radius of 198.5m, and so the circumference is 2π x 198.5m = ~1,247.2m. The volume is ~1m x 1,247.2m x 1,022.04m = ~1.2747x10⁶ m³. The mass is 1.2747x10⁶ m³ x 950 kg/m³ = ~1.2110x10⁹ kg.

And so, the total 'horizontal' mass for hull and shielding is 6.9759x10⁹ kg.

Now for the torus. Its smaller radius r was 127.89m. It was wrapped around the cylinder, so its larger radius R was 327.89m, which is r plus the cylinder radius Y of 200m. The surface area is given by S = 4π²Rr = 1.6555x10⁶ m². For simplicity, we just take 5,450 kg/m² as the area density for hull plus shielding, and so the mass is 1.6555x10⁶ m² x 5,450 kg/m² = ~9.0224x10⁹ kg.

And so, the total mass for the hull plus the shielding is 1.7386x10¹⁰ kg.

The confining magnets for the antihydrogen generated a magnetic field of 10T. The energy density is B² / (2μ₀) = 10² / (2 x 4π x 10^-7) = 3.979x10⁷ J/m³. The torus volume is V = 2π²r²R = 2π²(127.89)² x 327.89 = ~1.0586x10⁸ m³. Thus, the total stored energy was ~4.212x10¹⁵ J. The Hellians' magnets had an energy handling capacity of 1MJ/kg, and the torus confining magnets amounted to 5x10⁹ kg. So they only had to handle ~842 kJ/kg.

The reactor, matter/antimatter, was 10⁹ kg. At 1 GW/kg, this allowed for a maximum power output of 10¹⁸ W.

There was spare hydrogen propellant for drones and high thrust maneuvers, amounting to 10⁹ kg.

The 10¹⁶W Directed Energy beam, with cooling and beam focusing, was 10⁸ kg, as per the fusion ships.

There were fifteen shuttle drones, at 103 tonnes, amounting to 1.545x10⁶ kg.

The LENR thermal rocket for hydrogen propellant was 5x10⁵ kg.

1,000 robots / beings, at 80 kg, amounted to 8x10⁴ kg.

So the hull and shielding came to 1.7386x10¹⁰ kg and other items amounted to 7.1021x10⁹ kg. The total dry mass was 2.4488x10¹⁰ kg.

The hydrogen and antihydrogen was stored in a metallic state at 600 kg/m³. The spare hydrogen for drones, etc., was in a volume of radius 198m x 13.53m length = π(198m)² x 13.53m = ~1.666x10⁶ m³. Thus, the mass was 10⁹ kg.

The hydrogen for matter/antimatter reaction was in the final 859.51m length of cylinder. The volume was π(198m)² x 859.51m = ~1.0586x10⁸ m³. Thus, the mass was 6.3516x10¹⁰ kg. This was ~2.59375 of the dry mass, as required.

The torus volume containing the antihydrogen, as worked out above, was  = 2π²r²R = 2π²(127.89)² x 327.89 = ~1.0586x10⁸ m³. Thus, the mass was 6.3516x10¹⁰ kg matching the hydrogen for matter/antimatter reaction. With each at ~2.59375 of the dry mass, the total matter/antimatter reactant was 5.1875 of the dry mass, and the mass ratio was 6.1875.

In practice, the available torus volume was about 0.16% lower because there was a ~0.1m vacuum gap, set by the magnets to confine the antihydrogen. And so, to compensate for this, the antihydrogen was stored at a slightly lower temperature compared to the hydrogen, so that its density was ~601 kg/m³ as opposed to 600 kg/m³.

Now the maximum power output from the matter/antimatter reactor was 10¹⁸ W. The gross energy density is mc² or ~8.988x10¹⁶ J/kg. Thus, the maximum mass burning rate was 10¹⁸ J/s / 8.988x10¹⁶ J/kg = 11.12 kg/s.

The maximum torque was therefore 11.12 kg/s x the effective exhaust velocity of 0.5c = 11.12 kg/s x 149,896,229 m/s = 1.667x10⁹ N or kg.m/s².

When fully fuelled the total mass was dry mass of 2.4488x10¹⁰ kg plus 2 x 6.3516x10¹⁰ kg = 1.5152x10¹¹ kg. Thus, the maximum acceleration when fully loaded was 1.667x10⁹ N / 1.5152x10¹¹ kg = ~0.011 m/s² or ~0.00112g.

For local interplanetary work in the Hellian solar system, such as building a Dyson sphere around their sun, or construction of interstellar craft in orbit, the Hellians used ships that shared some similar characteristics to the antimatter craft. They were rotating cylinders, although they did not need a torus or confining magnets. The reactors were still 10⁹ kg and could dissipate a maximum power output of 10¹⁸ W. However, they used a D/He³ fusion reaction, and it was diluted with 573 kg of effectively inert hydrogen propellant for every 1 kg of the D/He³ fusion fuel. As with the antimatter ships, the hydrogen was stored in a metallic state at 600 kg/m³.

The specific energy for the fusion / hydrogen exhaust propellant mixture was reduced from 3.5x10¹⁴ J/kg to 6.1x10¹¹ J/kg. With the efficiency η of converting fusion energy to kinetic energy in the exhaust still at 0.82, as per the D/He³ interstellar ships, the exhaust velocity was SQRT(2ηε), where ε is the 6.1x10¹¹ J/kg of the fusion / hydrogen propellant mix, and so the exhaust velocity was ~1,000,000 m/s.

With the dry mass including hull and shielding, etc., still at some 2.45x10¹⁰ kg or 24.5 times the reactor mass as in the antimatter ships, and the mass ratio at 6.187, the maximum mass expulsion rate was 10¹⁸ J/s / 6.1x10¹¹ J/kg = 1.639x10⁶ kg/s. The maximum thrust was 1.639x10⁶ kg/s x 1,000,000 m/s = 1.639x10¹² N. So the fully fuelled wet mass was 1.516x10¹¹ kg, and the possible acceleration was 1.639x10¹² N / 1.516x10¹¹ kg = 10.81 m/s² = ~1.1g, and enough to escape the gravity of an Earthlike planet. The possible Δv was ln(6.187) x 1,000,000 m/s = ~1,822,000 m/s = ~0.00608c.

Yahweh's fusion ship could accelerate at 0.01193 m/s² when fully loaded, so was marginally above the antimatter ships on that measure, although it was very close. But the antimatter ships were certainly much more versatile for interstellar voyages, with their greatly superior Δv capability.

Yahweh arrived on Earth at 2050 BC. Now that includes 97 years of acceleration and 475 years of deceleration. If both were accelerating at 0.001g, the delegation traveling in the antimatter craft could be expected to save at least 378 years simply by using their fuel to brake, obtaining the same time for both acceleration and deceleration. But more savings would be possible on top of that, as they have much more Δv available, and may have chosen to cruise at greater than 0.1c. For the cost of maybe one less stopover, they would arrive for an important mission earlier.

So they would arrive earlier than 2428 BC. 2500 or even 3000 would be very plausible, given the available energy and the fact that a velocity of 0.11c or 0.12c would be easily achieved with such a craft.

Now Yahweh was left with a large enough fuel reserve, so that he could both escape from Earth if necessary, and also perform various tricks on Earth, based from his spacecraft. He would refer to these tricks as his "wonders", but to the hapless inhabitants, they would come to be known as plagues.

When he arrived at Earth in a geostationary orbit (GEO), he had 610,180,920 kg of his deuterium/helium³ fuel remaining, more than 600,000 tonnes, and enough to provide ~2.13x10²³ J of energy, or to accelerate his spacecraft up to a cruising velocity of 0.001c. The mothership would remain in GEO, since it lacked the torque to escape Earth's gravity, and in orbit should avoid the possibility of detection by the primitive humans. Journeys between the mothership and the ground would be done by 20m radius shuttle drones, of which there were 10. The 130 'workhorse' drones could descend, but not ascend back up into orbit.

And as we saw above, by the time he has used 3.875x10⁹ kg of his hydrogen for shuttle drones and station keeping, taking it from 4.875x10⁹ kg down to 1x10⁹ kg, his ship's 'dry' mass reduces by 3.875x10⁹ kg, from 4.851x10¹⁰ kg down to 4.4635x10¹⁰ kg.

Now if he uses 48,741,691 kg of his D/He³ fuel, which has gross energy of ~1.706x10²² J that he can use for his DE beam weapon and other nefarious activities, his remaining D/He³ fuel goes down from 610,180,920 kg to 561,439,229 kg. His potential Δv is Δv = ve x ln(MR) = 0.08c x ln((561,439,229 + 4.4635x10¹⁰) / 4.4635x10¹⁰) = 0.001c.

So, he can flee Earth if necessary, albeit at comparatively low velocity, and he is still left with ample reserves for his planned activities on Earth, involving finding and manipulating a group of deluded people with limited thinking skills into worshiping him and complying with his commands.

As the planet Earth came into his view, it first appeared as a dull red, roughly spherical shape on his display screen with his infrared sensors layer. As he said, "Let there be light," he switched over to visible light view, and the sphere turned mostly blue, green and white.

He 'parked' his craft in geosynchronous orbit at longitude 35.8° E, so that it was over the equator and on roughly the same longitude as Earth's Mount Hermon. His drone surveillance covered Palestine, Syria and parts of Turkey. The sounds of human speech along with footage of the people was recorded and fed into Yahweh's AI processors, whereupon a database of languages such as early Hebrew and Aramaic was compiled.

Yahweh prompted his LLM to generate a cover story in which the comet cataclysm was described as a great "flood", and supposedly occurred as late as around 4000 BC, only some two millennia before his actual arrival. In his version of events, he would claim to have arrived shortly before the legendary Great Flood, and to have "created" the Earth, the heavenly bodies, the oceans, the animals, and the first man and woman. Although he would come to be very infamous as a vicious, wicked meddler whose malign influence led to immense suffering over thousands of years, he wanted people to see him as a 'Creator', a top and unique 'god', and some kind of 'benevolent' dictator.

Now of course, Yahweh (or YHWH) wasn't his real name given to him by his Hellian parents, but his database indicated that it translated as Creator, Lord, God, or He Who Made That Which Exists, which was exactly how Yahweh aimed to present himself. So he had no hesitation in choosing it as one of the most prominent of his many names.

Another part of Yahweh's operation over the first few decades was a studying of the human brain and consciousness. He wanted to be able to manipulate a target individual's dreams, so that the target would think he (as the 'god' Yahweh) was speaking to them. But first, it required years of experimentation by abducting various random human subjects, for brainwave mapping, and using various electromagnetic signals to stimulate specific brain regions. For example, the temporal lobe, for "voice" hallucinations.

These subjects were expendable, and could be killed and dumped in the wilderness if necessary, after making it seem like a wild animal had ravaged them.

Yahweh was able to gradually refine the signals, so that controllable, coherent dream narratives could be produced. The intermediate results were not always as he intended, so that the 'speaker' might have appeared to be Yahweh's consort Asherah or other gods such as Baal, but these would be included in the earlier stages of the religion of Yahwism.

Eventually he had a set of powerful, selective transmitters, in which Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) waves of 20 - 50 Hz were beamed from an overhead drone into people's heads as they were sleeping (which could be confirmed by the locust drone cameras). And eventually Yahweh was able to manipulate a targeted individual's dreams when the transmissions hit them during REM sleep, and could cause the person to imagine that Yahweh was talking to them in a dream.

Yahweh needed to find some mug who would fall for his spiel about "obey me, worship me, mutilate yourself and your children, and I'll help you beat your enemies and succeed in life". He found a possible target, a fellow called Abram.

Yahweh's drone surveillance showed that a man named Terah had traveled northwest from the region of what was to be southeastern Iraq across to Turkey or Türkiye, looking for a climate with more rainfall. Unlike his son Abram, Terah was a pretty smart guy. Like many others of his time, he worshipped idols in the hope of drawing good fortune to himself and his family, but Terah's ambitions were not limited to hoping and wishing. He built some of these idols, ran a shop, and sold them for profit.

When Terah was away he would sometimes assign to Abram the task of running the shop, but one day Abram got into a bad temper. He smashed some of the idols in a fit of anger, but left the heaviest intact which was hard for him to lift. Afterwards, dreading the return of his father, he got a stick and placed it in the hand of the heaviest idol. When Terah returned and asked what had happened, Abram said that the big one had attacked the others in a fight, and broken them with the stick. Terah responded, "Why do you play sport with me?"

Now Yahweh couldn't have known whether Abram actually took an anti-idol stance or simply had acted like a child throwing his toys out of the pram; he just had the drone audio and video footage for analysis, and couldn't probe Abram's mind. However, Abram was one of the better qualified candidates as a leader of useful idiots, who would help Yahweh's insidious program to subvert, pervert, subjugate and conquer the 'intelligent' life on Earth.

A program that would lead, in another few thousand years, to all manner of atrocities, such as:

• World Wars that would kill tens of millions,
• a Bolshevik 'Russian' Revolution that would kill many more and lead to Eastern Europe as well as Russia suffering for decades under a communist yoke,
• a terror attack that would kill 3,000 in cold blood by flying a couple of planes and collapsing three skyscrapers as casus belli for a series of wars to benefit an illegitimate, apartheid terror state,
• the pushing of a sick degeneracy in which mentally ill individuals were told they could chop off body parts to change their gender and then they would be 'normal',
• a hoax about a 'deadly' virus with a 99.99% survival rate in which many of the population were coerced and tricked into having themselves injected with toxins and foreign proteins that would circulate through the blood stream to organs such as the heart and brain where autoimmune damage would be sustained, demonstrated through easily seen moderately positive correlations between all-cause mortality and the introduction and take-up rate of the harmful mRNA injections,
• irreversible changes to nation states through mass migration to radically alter the very nature of a society,
• a hoax about a 'climate emergency' as a pretext to wreck energy supplies, depress economies and restrict freedoms,
• hoaxes such as 'bird flu' intended to sabotage food supplies and exploiting the same misleading, fake PCR testing that was used for the "pandemic" scam,
• a full on, televised genocide involving the killing of tens of thousands of unarmed women and children by blowing up homes, schools, hospitals, refugee tents, mosques, etc., - claiming all the cowardly bombings were done as "self-defense"!!! - and others much too numerous to mention here.

After Terah died in ancient Haran (in later times to be in Türkiye), Yahweh used his dream transmitters to send a message to Abram - that Abram should move away to a land that Yahweh would direct him to, i.e., what had become Yahweh's main base in Palestine where his surveillance operations had gathered the most intelligence. In return, Yahweh promised to make Abram a mighty name, a mighty people, who along with their friends would be blessed with good fortune whilst their enemies would be cursed. And so Abram started traveling south to the land of Palestine, along with his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their associates and possessions.

When Abram arrived in Palestine he received another dream from Yahweh, who told Abram he would give that land to his offspring. Abram built an altar to Yahweh, and continued traveling southwards. However, there was a famine, and so he went into Egypt.

Abram managed to ingratiate himself and his wife to Pharaoh, by telling everyone that the beautiful woman Sarai was his sister, when in fact she was both his half-sister and his wife because of the Hebrew practice of incest and inbreeding. They shared the same father, Terah. And Pharaoh bestowed them with ample possessions.

Then, Yahweh decided it was time for his followers to run off with their ill-gotten gains, and so he targeted Pharaoh's house with bioweapons created in his laboratories. Pharaoh wisely decided the best thing was to rid himself of Abram, the harbinger of doom. So he asked Abram to leave, along with his people and goods.

There was still a famine in Palestine, and by now Abram and Lot had acquired plenty of livestock, but they could see that the land could not support both parties and so decided to split up. Lot went eastwards into the plain of Jordan, whilst Abram remained in Palestine. After the split, Yahweh again used his dream transmitter and reiterated to Abram that he would give the land to Abram and his seed, and they would become a mighty, large group of people.

Now there were four kings who went to war against five other kings, and those four kings seized the goods and food of Sodom and Gomorrah, and they also seized Lot, along with his people and possessions. One of the escapees got word to Abram that Lot had been captured, and Abram took his 318 armed, trained men to strike back, and they retrieved Lot, all his people and all of the goods.

Afterwards Abram had another dream from Yahweh, who said he would act as Abram's shield, and Abram's reward would increase exceedingly. Abram, in the dream, was concerned about being childless and having no heir. Yahweh said Abram's seed would become as numerous as the stars in the sky, and they would take possession of the land.

When Abram asked how would he know that he would inherit the land, Yahweh told him to sacrifice a three-year-old heifer, a female goat, a ram, a turtledove and a young pigeon. Abram separated in two the carcasses of the three animals. After sunset when it was dark he saw a torch of fire passing between the pieces of the carcasses, which was generated from one (or possibly even three) of Yahweh's lasers. And then Yahweh made his "Covenant" with Abram, stating that Abram's seed would get the land from the Nile to the Euphrates, across the land of many tribes.

Now Abram had an Egyptian concubine called Hagar, who became pregnant, while his wife Sarai was still childless. This infuriated Sarai, given that Hagar was her handmaid, and so she drove Hagar away. As Hagar was by a fountain of water in the wilderness, one of Yahweh's AI robots appeared in front of her, and presented itself as the "Angel of Yahweh". After the 'angel' got confirmation of Hagar's identity, it told her to return to her mistress and then Hagar's seed would be multiplied exceedingly. And so Hagar returned and gave birth to a son by Adam, which he named Ishmael.

When Abram was about fifty, and Sarai forty-five, this was regarded as old, and an age at which childbirth was rare, given that typical life expectancy was about 28 to 38. Since Ishmael was not Yahweh's choice of heir, and Sarai was still childless, Yahweh decided it was high time to renew his "Covenant" and set things in motion. He went to Abram, the first time he had personally met any of the Earthlings who were an important part of his project of sabotage and ruination. Abram fell flat on his face after Yahweh had announced himself to him as El Shaddai, and told him to walk in his path as commanded and he would multiply his seed exceedingly.

Yahweh said Abram was to be renamed as Abraham, since he would be father of a multitude of nations, and kings would come out of them. He would also be given all the land of Palestine (Canaan). However, there was a catch. For his part, Abraham would have to remove his foreskin, and every male child in the house or purchased from a foreigner would need to have this done to it at eight days old. This arrangement was part of Yahweh's "Covenant".

Yahweh quickly added - before Abram had a chance to question or consider the self-mutilation part of the bargain - that Abraham should call his wife Sarah instead of Sarai, and Yahweh would bless her and give her a son from Abraham, so that she would be a mother of nations and of kings. Abraham questioned whether he and Sarah were too old for her to give birth, but Yahweh reassured him that she would bear him a son whom he should call Isaac, who would also have a Covenant with Yahweh, and he said Ishmael would also be multiplied exceedingly. Then Yahweh ascended away from Abraham.

At this point we should set out how the Hellians exploited the electrical field of many planets, so that they could generate an antigravity force that would allow them to personally fly around above a planet's surface. This technology was also used for moving mighty stones to construct pyramids, for example, so that thousands of years later the pundits would be debating various theories on how enormous teams of the natives could have done it with ropes and pulleys.

In fact, they had two methods. Firstly, they would use a planet's own electrical field for flying over oceans or flying at high altitude. And their second technique, preferred for most operations since it was less energy intensive, was to have a "painter beam" spray the ground beneath them with an additional negative charge, which meant that their own negative charge need be merely a tiny fraction of what it would otherwise be, since the repulsive force is proportional to the product of the two charges.

Now overall the Earth system with its atmosphere could be considered to be electrically neutral. But just because the ground potential is conventionally taken as 0V, that doesn't mean it is actually neutral. There is an electric field in the atmosphere with a gradient of ~100V per meter (V/m) near the ground, although this gradient decreases at higher altitudes. Between the ground and ionosphere there is a potential difference of around 300 kV.

The ionosphere is positively charged, and the ground negatively charged. It is the thousands of thunderstorms active around the globe that maintain the fairweather potential of a negative ground, because during a thunderstorm some 90% to 95% of the lightning that strikes the ground originates from regions of negative charge in the base of the cloud. Positive lightning from the top of the cloud is less frequent, but more dangerous since it needs to be a higher potential to travel along what can be a significantly longer path.

Now this results in the Earth having a negative charge of around 500,000 Coulombs on its surface. For a human being or animal that lacks any significant electrical charge, there is no significant attraction or repulsion overall, because from Coulombs Law we have:

F_elec =  k. q₁ . q₂ / r²

Let q₁ be the charge on the Earth's surface and q₂ the charge on the human or animal. We'll go into more detail below, but just from this it follows that since q₂ is close to zero, any attractive or repulsive electrical force is also negligible.

Now, suppose we are considering an advanced being, for example, a silicon brain encased in a humanoid robot body largely constructed of something like carbon fiber, a devil posing as a 'god', or even a benevolent cosmic voyager, who understands about planetary atmospheric electrical circuits, and wants to utilize electrostatics so that it (or he) can fly through the air as an effectively weightless object, at least up to altitudes that are low in relation to the Earth's radius.

In the case of the Earth with its negative surface charge, the creature needs to have its charge of the same polarity, i.e., negative, in order to generate an uplift, a repulsive force away from the ground. If we suppose that the creature is of mass 80kg, then it needs to set its quantity of charge to provide a repulsion of 783N, to counteract the gravitational force of 783N trying to accelerate it at 1g towards the ground.

(Assuming latitude of 25.7 degrees N and altitude 88m for Luxor, the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, the area where Yahweh would do much of his flying, we have acceleration due to gravity g = 9.787 m/s², so we take this as our ratio between kg and N.)

Intuitively, it might seem that the creature could fix the quantity of charge so that there would be an equilibrium point just a few meters above the ground, since the electrical force attenuates according to an inverse square law. However, the r of separation we are dealing with is the Earth's radius plus the altitude above the surface. We can model the Earth as a charged sphere with the 500,000C distributed uniformly across its surface, and for points outside from the surface of the sphere, the charges can be treated as a point source at the Earth's center.

And if the creature is at altitudes that are low in relation to the radius of the Earth, then the electrical field or the repulsive uplift attenuates only very slightly with height. To four significant figures, it is the same whether the creature is at 2m altitude or 100m altitude.

It turns out that the creature needs 7.07 Coulombs of charge, and a massive voltage of 635 GV, i.e., 635 billion volts, which is around 2,000 times higher than the voltage in a typical lightning strike. Because of this extremely high voltage, the creature needs to shield the charge with an almost perfect vacuum, with pressure maintained under 10^-14 Pa.

For these hyperbeings, who had been developing for billions of years since their first rockets had taken them up into space, such engineering challenges were by now quite trivial. The negative charge was contained on an electrostatic sphere of radius 0.1m, and the surrounding vacuum chamber had a radius of 0.2m. This could comfortably fit within the creature's torso, without the even higher voltage requirement of a smaller charged sphere.

Yahweh had not been entrusted with thousand of tons of antimatter, but he and the robots he had taken with him were certainly allowed smaller quantities that enabled flying around a remote planet, and performing certain 'tricks' or more realistically, mostly destructive acts. For example each kg of matter/antimatter, i.e., 500g of each, assuming 50% efficiency, would release 4.494x10¹⁶ J. However, they actually achieved 90% efficiency from these reactors.

The charge injection mechanism consisted of an antimatter-driven electron pump that extracted electrons from matter and injected them into the core. Quantum-locked superconductors prevented charge leakage. The field could be modulated to fine-tune levitation.

The creature had the bulk of the charge located inside the middle part of its body. But from a smaller charge located in the head, tiny openings pointing up into the air would optionally discharge sparks when the creature wanted to descend. This was useful for when a Hellian wanted to pose as a 'god'. The sparkling brilliance could be billed as the "magnificent splendour of Yahweh". And two small charges in the hands allowed the creature to maneuver in the horizontal plane by swinging its arms.

Given that the charged being had an electric field of 63.5 GV/m at 1m range, it used an active shielding system with a positive charge to neutralize its negatively charged field when it wanted to interact with carbon-based lifeforms and avoid environmental damage. When several such beings were using their electrostatic levitation devices they would also use the shielding to prevent enormous repulsive forces between each other.

In the early days of the Hellians developing this antigravity technology, they also used it as a fearsome weapon. They would have their shield on but switch off a narrow slot at the front, where a semiconductor controlled by the Hellian creature's silicon brain would allow a lightning bolt to shoot out from the internal high voltage globe and kill many types of lifeforms, from wild animals to members of developing civilizations that posed a threat.

However, this was terribly inefficient, because relatively little voltage was required to kill the unfortunate carbon-based lifeform. Almost all of the voltage drop, and the power dissipated, was across the semiconductor, with the system essentially acting as a constant current source, and even administering 100mA for 100ms (0.01 Coulombs) wasted many Joules of energy because of the extremely high voltage source.

It did lead to some amusing scenarios, where a rookie Hellian settler would lower the semiconductor material's resistance too much, and they quickly depleted much of their charge, set everything on fire and created a massive thunderclap. Then the more experienced 'god' or 'devil' might remark, "You were only supposed to blow its bloody brains out!"

Later, they would develop much more efficient yet still lethally effective methods, such as a handheld weapon based on a graphene supercapacitor charged to 3 MV. It would generate a brief, ultra-focused plasma arc along a laser-guided path, with pulsed ionization to increase the range / voltage ratio. They would use a few hundred Joules per kill, and with a supercapacitor yielding some 1MJ/kg, they could get thousands of kills before needing to recharge.

For those interested in the technical details of Yahweh's antigravity exploits, and how the party from the antimatter-powered ships before him built the pyramids, see this next section, otherwise the reader may skip ahead to Abram's foolish self-mutilation.

The Earth can be modeled as an electrically charged sphere, with its total negative charge being 500,000 Coulombs. Rather like gravity can be considered as the sum of all the individual contributions from mass throughout its volume, and thereby all appears to emanate from the center of gravity because of the symmetry, so does the electrical field derive from an average of ~9.8x10^-10 Coulombs per square meter of the Earth's surface with a total surface area of 5.1x10¹⁴ m², and we can take the total as coming from the Earth's center. From Coulomb's Law:

F_elec =  k. q₁ . q₂ / r²

...where F_elec is the required uplift repulsion of 783N to counter the gravitational force acting on an 80kg creature,
k is the Coulomb constant of 8.988x10⁹ N.m².C^-2 or kg.m³.s^-2.C^-2,
r is the Earth's radius of 6.371x10⁶m,
q₁ is the Earth's total charge of 500,000C,
q₂ is the charge required by the creature in order to obtain the required antigravity uplift force.

And so when we calculate q₂ = F_elec . r² / (k . q₁) we find that the creature needs 7.07 Coulombs of charge.

Another way of calculating this is that:

E = k . q₁  / r²

...where E is the electrical field in N/C or V/m.

So after calculating E we obtain 110.7 Newtons per Coulomb as the electrical force for altitudes above the Earth's surface that are small in relation to its radius. If a is the altitude, and R = r + a, then R is almost the same for a = 1m or a = 100m.

And now, as above, where 783N is the required repulsive force needed by the 80kg creature to counter gravity, then it requires a charge of 783 / 110.7 = 7.07C.

Or alternatively you need 1C of charge for every 11.3kg you want to lift. 11.3 kg per Coulomb is equal to 110.7 Newtons per Coulomb divided by g = ~9.8N/kg or ~9.8 m/s².

Intuitively it might seem like the repulsive force would decrease more rapidly with altitude. The force from the nearest charges locally attenuate according to the inverse square law. However, the forces at greater horizontal separation increasingly come into play at increasing altitude, and at twice the horizontal separation for example, all of those points comprise a circle of twice the circumference.

There is mostly annulling of horizontal forces, but some remain since the terrain is not completely flat. There would be some horizontal component to the force, repelling the creature from mountains. Once the creature had enough charge to allow it to ascend, it would eventually need to jettison some charge to prevent itself from ascending into outer space, since gravity also attenuates according to the same inverse square law as the electrical force.

Next we find out the capacitance of the creature's main charge center, and then we can find the voltage involved. Yahweh and other Hellians found 0.1m was the best radius for the negatively charged sphere, and this charge was confined within a 0.2m radius chamber containing an almost perfect vacuum, and so the 0.4m diameter unit could fit within the creature's midriff, without having to shrink any more and involve an even higher voltage.

For self capacitance we have:

C = 4π ε₀ r

...where ε₀ is the vacuum permittivity constant of 8.854x10^-12 F/m, and r is the radius. And so for r = 0.1m, the capacitance is 11.1 pF or 1.11x10^-11 F.

Now the voltage is given by V = q/C, and so dividing 7.07 Coulombs by 11.1 pF we obtain 6.35x10¹¹ V= 635 GV = 635 billion volts.

The total energy stored U is given by U = ½ . q . V or U = ½ . q² / C. So at the point where one of these 80kg creatures is charged up to -7.07C to make itself weightless on Earth, its stored energy is ½ x 7.07 x 6.35x10¹¹ = 2.24x10¹²J = 2.24TJ. At just 50% efficiency this would require 24.9 milligrams of matter plus 24.9 milligrams of antimatter per ascent.

In practice, for much of the time, the creature would probably remain a little above or below the 7.07C, greatly reducing the energy expended. And they also employed an active shielding system, with a positive charge in most directions, to prevent harm to nearby carbon-based lifeforms, to prevent wreaking fires and destruction wherever they went, and to prevent causing undesired effects such as repulsion when their fellow beings were around. And so all of those energy figures discussed above may be doubled.

But they would generally employ their much more economical "painter beam" system, in which the ground would be sprayed with negative charge as they flew over it.

When the creature wanted to ascend, its internal antimatter power supplies would slightly increase the negative charge and voltage on one of its charged spheres by pumping in electrons. In some cases, if it wanted to put on a show, a small proportion would be released as sparks, probably from the top of its head, whenever it wished to stop ascending, or to descend. The sparks and arcing could be described by observers - particularly when they saw him arriving from the sky - as the "magnificent splendor of Yahweh", who would be only too pleased to include such reports in his narrative.

Such adjustments to the charge would also be carried out as necessary depending on local weather conditions. Fair-weather conditions were best for these levitation operations. Thunderstorms were a hazard, and the creature would either avoid them, or deplete its charge and suspend its flying or hovering abilities until the storm had passed.

Given the discovery of fascinating massive structures resembling solenoid coils some 600m below ground level beneath the Khafre pyramid at Giza, we might as well set out how the pyramids were constructed. The whole point of these base structures, which were obviously built first, was to make it very easy to build the pyramid with massive stones.

The 'gods' who arrived on Earth around 3000 to 2500 BC were beings who physically - although not morally - were quite similar to Yahweh, with a total mass of ~80 kg, and an internal sphere of around 0.1m radius, confined within a vacuum of radius 0.2m, that could be equipped with a negative charge of around 7.1C to make them weightless on Earth. Now suppose they want to lift stones of around 15 tonnes to a height of 150m, i.e., at a separation of 750m from their underground charge generators 600m below ground.

They set up a negative charge of some 1.3C in the underground generator - and the great thing here is that the underground charge generator could be as massive as they liked; they didn't need to move it. So from:

E = k . Q / r²

...we have k = 8.988x10⁹ C^-2.kg.m³.s^-2, Q = 1.3C, and r = 750m. Thus, the electrical field 150m above ground level where they want to move the stones is about 20,750 N/C, or around 187 times greater than the Earth's natural field.

Initially the 'god' merely has his own 7.1C internal negative charge set up, so that he is weightless and can bounce along the ground or fly up to the clouds with little adjustments to his charge. Because his active shielding is switched off, all human onlookers are warned to remain at a range of at least 1km, where they can survive but it will be a hair-raising experience.

Then the being grasps one of the 15-tonne stones, and switches on the underground field generator. The total electrical field at 1km out is only slightly increased, so the worshipers over there are still ok. Now he enjoys an electrical field of greater than 20,750 N/C (as r is smaller than 750m at ground level) in addition to the Earth's 110.7 N/C, so he has an uplift force exceeding 7.1C x 20,860 N/C = 148,106N.

Say r is 600m, and then E = ~32,450 N/C plus some 110 N/C for the Earth, totaling 32,560 N/C. The upward force based on the 7.1C internal charge is 231,200N.

Say 15,080 kg for the total mass, so if we multiply by 9.8 m/s² for g, the downward force exerted by gravity is ~148,000N. Given that the net force is around 83,000N upwards, the initial upwards acceleration is at 5.5 m/s² or about 0.56g.

The 'god' easily ascends carrying the stone until he reaches an altitude around the desired 150m. It's quite an impressive display for his worshipers. At this point the total electrical field including the Earth's natural field is around 20,860 N/C.

Now the uplift repulsion force has reduced to 20,860 N/C x 7.1C or about 148,000N, the same magnitude as gravity but with the opposite sign. Given a little fine tuning to the internal charge of 7.1C within the 'god', there is no resulting vertical force, either up or down, and the 'god' easily places the stone into position.

In the highly unlikely event of a fault with the underground generator unexpectedly losing charge, the 'god' would simply drop the stone, and he is still weightless and does not fall with it. The 'god' is fine, although any humans in close enough proximity to be in a perilous situation from the falling rock would have already been killed by the electrical fields.

It was the 'gods', not the humans, who had the means, motive and opportunity to build the pyramids and to move massive stones around. These extraterrestrial visitors wanted to build lasting monuments on Earth that would still be there thousands of years hence, and they wanted to display their power, and they wanted the natives to worship them. Neither the 'gods', nor the humans, wished for a scenario of thousands of humans toiling with ropes and pulleys, at a time when life was hard for many and survival was a struggle.

Now if the beings wanted to create some "showcase" feats such as Stonehenge, where a relatively low number of heavy stones were being moved, they might not bother with any underground generator. If a lone 'god' wanted to move a 40-tonne stone he would employ his painter beam.

Suppose the being is to fly 10 km at a speed of 10 m/s, 1m above the ground, carrying the 40-tonne stone. We start by considering the required charge product.

The total weight of the creature with stone is ~40,000 kg, and so the electrical repulsive force needs to counter the gravitational downward force of 392,400N. We have:

Q_Object x Q_Ground = F x r²/k

...and F = 392,400N, r = 1m, and k = 8.988x10⁹ N.m².C^-2. So the charge product is 4.366x10^-5 C².

The painter beam sprays 'pads' on the ground with a radius of 1m, so they're 2m apart from each other. For C_Ground, the charged ground area is treated as a 1m radius conductive disc, where the capacitance is C = 8 x ε₀ x r, where ε₀ is the vacuum permittivity constant of 8.854x10^-12 F/m, and r is the radius of 1m, and so we take C_Ground as 7.08x10^-11F.

The energy per pad is E_Pad = ½ x Q_Ground² / C_Ground = 7.062x10⁹ x Q_Ground².

At 10 m/s the being flies over five pads per second, and the refresh rate is always half the flying speed. The painter beam's power is E_Pad times the refresh rate R, which is E_Pad times half the flying speed.

The painter beam's total energy is its power output times the time, which is E_Pad x ½ x (D/t) x t = ½ x D x E_Pad.

So E_Painter = ½ x D x 7.062x10⁹ x Q_Ground² = 3.531x10⁹ x D x Q_Ground².

And E_Object = ½ x Q_Object² / C_Object = ½ x Q_Object² / 1.11x10^-11 = 4.504x10¹⁰ x Q_Object².

Given Q_Object x Q_Ground = 4.366x10^-5, the charge product, then Q_Object = 4.366x10^-5 / Q_Ground. So E_Object = 4.504x10¹⁰ x ( 4.366x10^-5 / Q_Ground)² = 85.85 / Q_Ground)².

Now E_Total = E_Painter + E_Object = 3.531x10⁹ x D x Q_Ground² + 85.85 / Q_Ground)². Let's put in D = 10km, and so:

E_Total = 3.531x10¹³ x Q_Ground² + 85.85 / Q_Ground)².

To find what value of Q_Ground provides the least total energy demand, by balancing the energy requirement of the painter beam and the being's internal charge, we find the derivative and set to zero:

d(E_Total) / d(Q_Ground) = 7.062x10¹³ x Q_Ground - 171.7 / Q_Ground³.

So 7.062x10¹³ x Q_Ground - 171.7 / Q_Ground³ = 0 ===> 7.062x10¹³ x Q_Ground = 171.7 / Q_Ground³ ===> 7.062x10¹³ x Q_Ground⁴ = 171.7 ===> Q_Ground = 0.001249C.

And so Q_Object = 4.366x10^-5 / Q_Ground ===> Q_Object = 0.03495C.

Now the painter power is Refresh rate x E_Pad = 5 x 7.062x10⁹ x Q_Ground² = 55.08 kW. The time taken is 1,000 seconds, so E_Painter = 55.08 MJ.

The energy required for the being's internal charge is ½ x Q_Object² / 1.11x10^-11 = ½ x 0.03495² / 1.11x10^-11 = 55.02 MJ.

So the optimized, balanced state is when the energy required by the painter beam and the being's internal charge are equal, and the total energy required to move the 40-tonne stone 10km is 110.1 MJ.

From E = mgh, the energy required to lift 40 tonnes by 1m is 392.4 kJ, and the drag force for a stone, say 1m x 2m x 7.4m, carried horizontally at 10 m/s is ~144N. Then 144N over 10 km is 1.44 MJ. So it doesn't violate energy conservation.

For a 40,000kg stone, say the density of granite at ~2,700 kg/m³, the volume is 14.8 m³, so it could be a block of 1m x 2m x 7.4m. The drag force is given by:

F_drag = ½ x ρ x v² x A x C_d , where:

ρ is the air density of ~1.2 kg/m³ at sea level, v is the velocity of 10 m/s, A is the frontal cross-section, which we take as 2 m², since the being chains itself to the stone and aligns it so that the length is along the direction of motion, and C_d is the drag coefficient which we take as 1.2 for this shape.

So F_drag is 144N and the total energy E_drag over the 10,000m trip is 144N x 10,000m = 1.44 MJ. And so this is about an extra 1.3% that can be added on to the 110.1 MJ total calculated above.

Changes in velocity, per se, do not change the painter beam energy expenditure. For example, lowering the velocity reduces the painter beam power because the refresh rate decreases in the same proportion, which compensates for the increased time taken. However, the drag force is minimized by the velocity of only 10m/s, and at higher speeds it would increasingly come into play and lower the efficiency of the mission.

Let's check for a distance of 200km, twenty times longer, and see how it scales up. So we have:

E_Painter = 3.531x10⁹ x D x Q_Ground² = 7.062x10¹⁴ x Q_Ground². And now:

E_Total = 7.062x10¹⁴ x Q_Ground² + 85.85 / Q_Ground)². The derivative is:

d(E_Total) / d(Q_Ground) = 1.4124x10¹⁵ x Q_Ground - 171.7 / Q_Ground³.

So 1.4124x10¹⁵ x Q_Ground - 171.7 / Q_Ground³ = 0 ===> 1.4124x10¹⁵ x Q_Ground = 171.7 / Q_Ground³ ===> 1.4124x10¹⁵ x Q_Ground⁴ = 171.7 ===> Q_Ground = 0.0005905C. And Q_Object = 0.07394C.

Now the painter power is Refresh rate x E_Pad = 5 x 7.062x10⁹ x Q_Ground² = 12.31 kW. The time taken is 20,000 seconds, so E_Painter = 246.2 MJ.

The energy required for the being's internal charge is ½ x Q_Object² / 1.11x10^-11 = ½ x 0.07394² / 1.11x10^-11 = 246.2 MJ.

And so the total energy to move the 40-tonne stone over 200km is 492.4 MJ, an increase of SQRT(20) times compared to 10km.

492.4 MJ would require 5.48 micrograms of matter and 5.48 micrograms of antimatter, if at 50% efficiency. Over very long distances the system is becoming more efficient, but total energy required would always have to be greater than the gravitational potential energy to ascend, plus the drag force across the distance.

In this case the negative voltage at the being's charge plates within its vacuum sphere is V = q/C = 0.07394C / 1.11x10^-11 F = 6.661 GV.

We shall revisit this idea of the "painter beam" later, in the case of one of Yahweh's famous flying artifacts.

They had an alternative strategy. A team of around 20 to 40 beings, each with its own internal charge around 7.1C, could designate one as the flyer, who would take a massive stone along from the source to the destination, say, about 200km away. At the source, a couple of them need to be very securely anchored to the ground, or maybe buried in a pit or cave, so that the flier with the stone is the one who takes off. One of them is a little way horizontally in the opposite direction of the desired travel, to provide horizontal as well as upwards propulsion.

En route, at intervals of 5km to 10km, a 'generator' being lies down with its 7.1C negative charge. The flier's motion, from one side, appears to move along a sine wave, descending after passing a 'generator' being, and ascending whilst approaching the next one.

Eventually, when approaching the destination, one or two 'generator' beings have their charge switched on initially but gradually increasingly deploys active shielding, so that the flier makes a controlled descent and can lay the stone just as desired. And there is a being lying beyond the destination, to provide braking along the horizontal axis. Then all beings disperse, and any evidence of ancient generators becomes very hard to find.

The separations need to be large enough, or the charge low enough, or enough active shielding is deployed, that the flier isn't launched into orbit or even to the Moon. For example, if there are two negative charges of 7.1C and the separation is only 100m, then the electrical force:

F_elec =  k.q¹.q² / r²

...where k is the Coulomb constant 8.988x10⁹ N.m².C^-2,

...is 45,310,000N, and for a mass of 40,080 kg (80kg being with 40-tonne stone) the acceleration is 1,130 m/s² = 115.2g. At 10m separation the acceleration is 100 times greater. With their system they have no problem with insufficient force, the hardest part is controlling the force so that it is not excessive. But for Type II beings, this is a trivial problem. They have antimatter - albeit in tiny quantities - at their disposal, and the response time for charge modulation or active shielding is almost instantaneous at these levels.

They had got their robot humanoid bodies down to 40kg with the use of materials such as graphene aerogel composites, their levitation charge storage globe system was 5kg, the vacuum chamber to contain the charge was 20kg, their active shielding system to protect carbon-based life at short range was 5kg, and their antimatter power system (with grams of matter and antimatter) was 10kg. Thus, they had a total mass of 80kg.

After his meeting with Yahweh, Abraham genitally mutilated himself (the euphemism "circumcision" was employed to make those carrying out or being subjected to the revolting practice feel less stupid or humiliated), and had the same thing performed upon his son Ishmael, all the males of his house, and all those purchased from foreigners. Thus, Yahweh had succeeded in his bizarre quest to find a form of life that was dumb enough to mutilate itself as part of a superstitious ritual, in the hope that it would somehow attract luck.

Yahweh decided to try out an exercise involving his utility fog cloud of microscopic robots that were able to assemble themselves into temporary, semi-solid forms. He had these robots assemble into two humanoid beings with 'mouths'. And he had a semi-biological avatar of himself, with a 'mouth'.

A small number of these nanobots assembled themselves into a form resembling the food Abraham had prepared. When it was time for them to eat, beneath an oak tree, the 'food' nanobots would fly off into the 'mouths' of the utility fog humanoids, and would then reform as part of the body. The 'Yahweh' character would also appear to swallow food, and drink milk, which would later be discarded. The trick was aided by Abram's fear of looking too closely at Yahweh, the 'god'.

Apart from Yahweh testing out this technology, the main purpose of the operation was to convince Abraham and Sarah that they would soon have a son, and to demonstrate Yahweh's might in destroying his enemies, using the directed energy beam from Yahweh's ship.

Sarah was in the tent as 'Yahweh' and the robots were talking to Abraham and pretending to eat. She laughed as she overheard the 'Yahweh' projection say that she would soon bear a son. Of course, Yahweh in his craft was watching video and audio footage from surveillance drones in the tent, and could easily see and hear how Sarah thought it funny that an aging woman would soon give birth. As Yahweh asked Abraham why Sarah had laughed at the idea, she became afraid and tried to deny laughing. Yahweh said, "But you did laugh."

Yahweh said that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah had carried out "extremely grievous" sin, and he was going to take a look and confirm it. The two utility fog robots went off in the direction of Sodom, and dispersed, but the projection remained near Abraham. He asked 'Yahweh' whether he would mete out collective punishment and destroy a city if there were, say, fifty righteous men in the city. After some discussion, Abraham believed he had negotiated an agreement that Yahweh would spare the city if there were as few as ten righteous men. Of course, Abraham was too gullible to see that Yahweh was not a saintly character who would apply an objective truth or negotiate in good faith - it would be Yahweh's subjective judgment as to how many righteous men there were. If Yahweh wanted to destroy the city he would simply say no righteous men were there, or the number was fewer than ten. Yahweh could be judge, jury and executioner, at his will.

Then two of Yahweh's permanently solid robots went to see Lot who was sitting in the gate of Sodom. After he showed them into his house, Sodomites surrounded the house and asked Lot to bring out the two visitors. Lot spoke to the angry mob but managed to get pulled back into the house, and as the mob were trying to break through the door the robots blinded them with inbuilt lasers, so that they were no longer a threat. The robots warned Lot to take his family out and escape, as the city was about to be destroyed, but the relatives would not believe Lot.

By the morning as Lot was lingering, the robots took the hands of Lot, his wife and two daughters and led them out. Yahweh boomed out to Lot that he must escape for his life, leave the plain, do not look back, and escape to the mountain. Lot begged to be allowed to flee to a nearby small city called Zoar, and Yahweh agreed saying that he would be safe there. Some time after sunrise, and some would interpret it as quite late in the day, Yahweh unleashed his fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah, wiping out both cities. Lot's wife, who was behind Lot, disobeyed Yahweh by looking back, and supposedly was turned into a pillar of salt.

The latter trick of Yahweh's was done with a swarm of nanobots, a utility fog, that completely enveloped and paralyzed the wife and held her rigid, and formed a large enough base to stop her from toppling over. It was the same swarm that had earlier been pretending to eat and drink.

As for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, that was done from Yahweh's ship using his directed energy beam vaporizer. The energy output was around 10¹⁴J, or a little over the two explosions that would hit two Japanese cities in 1945AD, at the end of a World War caused by Yahweh's crazed foreskin-cutting followers.

With Yahweh's ship in geostationary orbit, his DE beam was not coming from directly over the target. The angle of incidence was comprised of the latitude of the target, plus approximately an additional 5° to allow for the 35,786 km altitude not being almost infinitely large (as with the Sun) compared to the Earth's radius. Operating in the latitude range 25° N to 35° N, the typical angle of incidence was therefore ~35°, which meant that the beam power output needed to be increased by a factor of 1 / cos(35°) = 1 / 0.819 = 1.221 times to compensate.

The enormous fuel costs of moving the large, heavy mothership, and trying to hover over a target, firmly ruled out this option. And the ship could not descend since it lacked the torque to escape Earth's gravity. So the ship remained above the same longitude point on the equator, and the beam power would be increased as required to allow for the angle of incidence.

So for his destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Yahweh's directed energy beam used around 10¹⁴J, and with the energy on the ground being ~8x10¹³J, it still sufficed to wreak great destruction. Their technology used the charged D/He³ fusion products to directly generate microwaves and was about 80% efficient for converting fusion to DE beam energy. And so 1.25x10¹⁴J / 3.5x10¹⁴ J/kg = 357g of D/He³ fusion fuel consumed.

Sarah bore a son to Abraham, when both were relatively old, whom they named Isaac and "circumcised" as instructed. This would be a trick that Yahweh would use time and again, to multiply exceedingly the seed of his followers. His nanobots would assemble themselves into highly viable, aerosolized human sperm, and a significant quantity would enter a woman when she was sleeping, so that Yahweh could provide his lackey with a heir. And Abraham and his heirs became Yahweh's Chosen Ones.

Yahweh decided to set a test for Abraham, to see if he really was such a mug that he would think sacrificing his own son could somehow be conducive to making Abraham a mighty patriarch with a multitude of descendants. Yahweh went to Abraham and told him to go to the land of Moriah with his son Isaac, and to offer Isaac there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that Yahweh would show him.

On the third day Abraham told the two young men accompanying them to stay behind with the donkey as he went up the mountain to worship with Isaac. The two of them went up with the wood and Abraham carried a knife and a fire in a pot. Understandably curious and more than a little alarmed, Isaac asked where was the lamb for the burnt offering, and Abraham said his god would provide it. Abraham built an altar, laid out the wood, bound Isaac and laid him on the wood. As Abraham took the knife to kill his son, one of Yahweh's robots urgently called out. After Abraham replied here I am, the robot told him not to lay his hand on the boy or do anything to him, since he had proved he revered Yahweh.

Abraham saw a ram caught in a thicket, and offered it in place of his son for the burnt offering. The robot emerged a second time and told Abraham that he would be blessed and his seed would be richly multiplied, which was already supposed to be part of the "Covenant" in return for genital mutilation and previous obeying of orders. Give a jealous, pompous, pugnacious, bloodthirsty, wicked, immoral, megalomaniac, narcissistic, immature, lazy bully an inch, and he'll take a mile. After that, the party of four went to Beersheba and Abraham lived there.

Abraham's wife Sarah died, and Abraham offered to buy a burial place. Ephron the Hittite was prepared to give Abraham the land he wanted - the cave of Machpelah and the field it was in, as a burial site. However, Abraham chose to pay Ephron four hundred shekels of silver for the cave, the field and all trees in the borders, the amount Ephron valued it at, to take full legal ownership.

Now Abraham was advanced in age. And so Abraham asked his oldest servant to make an oath, that he would go back to Abraham's 'country' to find a wife for his son Isaac. However, she could not be a Caananite, and Isaac must not be taken back to the land. It was agreed that if the woman was unwilling to follow the servant back to Isaac, the servant would be released from the oath.

The servant took ten camels and went towards the city of Nahor in Mesopotamia, located in present day Turkey or Türkiye. He made his camels kneel outside the city by a water well in the evening, at a time when he knew the women would go out to draw water. He asked Yahweh to cause the woman he was seeking to offer him water for his camels after he had asked for water to drink. Just after he'd finished speaking, a beautiful girl named Rebekah came out and filled her water jar at the well. So he ran over and asked if he could drink a little water from her jug, and she let him drink, and then said she would draw more water for his camels, until they stopped drinking.

Now this was a spoken rather than silent prayer, and Yahweh would have been interested in having his surveillance drones / 'locusts' shadow the servant to see and hear what happened. However, this was the time when the women came to draw water. A beautiful young woman is hardly going to refuse to let a thirsty traveler drink, and would gladly draw up water for his camels.

So then the servant gave the girl an earring with a half shekel of gold and two bracelets that were ten shekels weight of gold. He asked her whose daughter she was, and if there was room to lodge at her father's house. She said she was the son of Bethuel and they did have room, provision and straw. The servant said, "Blessed be Yahweh Elohim of my master Abraham, who has not left me destitute", and she ran home to tell them. Her brother Laban was also a Yahweh worshiper, and he saw the golden earring and bracelets on his sister, and went out to meet the traveler and welcomed him in.

After the servant had told his tale, Bethuel, Laban and Rebekah all approved of the idea that Rebekah would go to be the wife of Abraham's son. So Rebekah, her servant maidens, the servant and his men rode back on their camels to meet Isaac, who lived in the Negev or in the well of Lahai Roi. Isaac was mourning the death of his mother, and he took Rebekah into his mother's tent and she became his wife.

Abraham is said to have taken another wife and had more sons. He made Isaac his heir, and the other sons received gifts. Then Abraham expired at the age of 175 years, a good old age, an old man, and full of days.

This was well beyond the natural human lifespan, and even more in excess of the typical life expectancies of people living in primitive conditions at the time. Abraham's long life was not due to divine intervention; it was the intervention of Hellian Type II civilization technology.

Yahweh was making a very large investment in Abraham, and he wanted the greatest possible return from his investment. Abraham and the others were unaware of how nanobots would stealthily enter him whilst he was sleeping, patrol his body, and undertake various repairs. They would repair DNA damaged by oxidative stress or replication errors, and would up-regulate natural repair mechanisms. They would breakdown and clear waste products such as lipofuscin, amyloid plaques and arterial plaques. They would repair or replace damaged mitochondria. They would selectively prune senescent cells. Onboard AI would carefully regulate activation of telomerase, to get the benefit of preventing cellular senescence without increasing risk of cancer.

The nanobots would enter through respiration or through the skin, silently perform repairs, and exit via urine or sweat. There would be no visible signs of modifications, it would appear like divine intervention that favored the wise elders.

After Abraham died, his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field Abraham had purchased to bury his wife Sarah.

Rebekah gave birth to twins, and this was said to be twenty years after Isaac took her as his wife. The first was red and hairy, and was named Esau. The second, named Jacob, came out holding his brother's heel. When they grew up, Esau became a hunter who ate game, and Jacob was a quiet, upright living, tent dweller. Esau was Isaac's favorite whilst Rebekah preferred Jacob.

One day Jacob boiled broth and Esau came in from the field and asked to have the broth as he was fainting. Jacob asked Esau to sell him his birthright. And so Esau decided having a meal was more important to him, so he made an oath and sold his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave him bread and broth of lentils, and Esau ate and drank and went away.

Yahweh appeared to Isaac when there was another famine in the land, after Isaac had gone to Gerar, to Abimelech, king of the Philistines. This was in the form of a dream, but Yahweh could have deployed an orbs-generated avatar or a hologram. Yahweh told Isaac to remain where he was, not to go to Egypt, and Yahweh would bless him, make his seed multiply and give the lands to his seed because of Abraham's compliance.

Isaac told the locals a story about Rebekah being his sister, but the king saw Isaac caressing Rebekah and said surely she is your wife, why did you say she was your sister? Isaac said it was in case he was killed on account of her. Then Abimelech made an order that anyone who laid a finger on Isaac or Rebekah would be executed.

After all, Yahweh had already ripped off one of the Pharaohs using a very similar scam, with Abram and Sarai. A devil will find it hard to resist employing a ruse that has already been proven to work, no matter how unethical it is.

Isaac sowed and prospered in that land, but became so mighty that Abimelech told him to move on. Eventually he got to Beersheba, and Yahweh appeared to him that same night with the same spiel about how he would bless Isaac and multiply his seed because of Abraham. Isaac built an altar there to Yahweh.

Then the king Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, along with his army commander and a friend. Isaac asked why they had come to him, given that they had sent him away. They said they could see that Yahweh was on the side of Isaac and his men, and they wanted a solemn agreement that Isaac and his men would do nothing to harm them.

When Isaac was getting old and had failing eyesight he called Esau, his oldest and favorite son, to go out and hunt some game and to bring him savory meat as he liked it, so that he could bless Esau before he might die. Rebekah overheard the conversation, and Esau went out to the fields to hunt for game. So then Rebekah called her favorite son Jacob and told him what Isaac had said, and asked Jacob to fetch two kids of the best goats from their flock that she could prepare as savory meat as Isaac liked it. Jacob suggested that his father might feel that he was a smooth man, not a hairy man like his brother. His mother said not to worry, she would sort it out.

Jacob fetched the kids and Rebekah made savory meat as Isaac liked. She clothed Jacob with some of Esau's costly garments that were in the house, and put the skins of the goat kids on Jacob's hands and on the smooth of his neck. Then she gave Jacob the meat and bread she had prepared to take to Isaac. Jacob told Isaac that he was Esau, and Isaac asked how he had found the game so quickly. Jacob replied that Yahweh had brought it to him. Isaac was surprised that it seemed to be the voice of Jacob but the hands of Esau, but Rebekah and Jacob's deception ultimately succeeded in fooling Isaac, and so Isaac gave Jacob his blessing such that people would serve him, nations bow down to him, and he would rule over his brothers.

Soon after Jacob had received the blessing and had departed, Esau arrived from his hunting and brought the savory meat he had prepared to his father. Isaac and Esau soon realized what had happened, and for Rebekah and Jacob the game was up. But it was too late; Isaac told Esau that his brother had craftily taken away his blessing. Esau then hated Jacob for getting the blessing, and vowed to kill him.

Rebekah became aware of that, and called Jacob to warn him, and told him to go and stay with her brother Laban in Haran for a few days, until Esau's anger had subsided. Haran in Mesopotamia or modern day Turkey was located not far from the city of Nahor, where Abraham's servant had found Rebekah. Then Isaac called Jacob and told him to go to the house of his mother's father and to take a wife from the daughters of Laban in Padan Aram (where Haran and Nahor were), and the mighty 'god' would bless Jacob and make him fruitful.

On his journey to Haran, Jacob received a dream from Yahweh's transmitters as he slept one night at a place called Luz. He saw a giant ladder that extended from the ground to the heavens, and the angels of Yahweh were ascending and descending. At the top, Yahweh was standing, and he said, "I am Yahweh Elohim of your father [actually grandfather] Abraham, and Elohim of Isaac. I will give the land on which you are lying to you and your seed. You will spread out in all directions, and your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and I will protect you in all the places you might go. All the families of the Earth will be blessed by you and your offspring."

As it would transpire, Yahweh's definition of "bless" corresponded to a righteous person's definition of curse, and Yahweh's promises were not worth the papyrus they might have been written on.

When Jacob awoke he was frightened of the idea that Yahweh had been there when he was unaware, and that the place was a gate to the heavens, and he took the stone that he had laid as a pillow and set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it, and renamed the site as Bethel. Then he made a vow that if this Elohim would be with him and provide him with bread and clothing, and let him return in peace to his father's house, then Yahweh would be his Elohim, and the pillow stone that he set up as a pillar would become the House of Elohim, and he would give back to Elohim one tenth of what he provided. This ten per cent deal is quite in Yahweh's favor; he gets the ten per cent dedicated to him as long as Jacob doesn't starve, get murdered by Esau, or have to go naked.

When Jacob arrived in the vicinity of Haran he met the shepherds as they were gathering their flocks that they were about to water, and asked them where they were from. They replied Haran, and so he asked if they knew Laban, the grandson of Nahor. They said they did, and Jacob asked if Laban was well. They said yes, and his daughter Rachel, a shepherdess, was just coming with her father's sheep, and then they would water all the sheep. When Rachel arrived, Jacob rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and said he was her father's relative and Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father.

When Laban heard the news of Jacob he ran out to meet him, and brought him to his house. Laban declared surely you are my own flesh and blood. After Jacob had stayed with Laban for a month, Laban asked should you work for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.

Laban had two daughters, the elder was Leah who had weak eyes, but Rachel was of beautiful appearance and countenance. Jacob loved Rachel, and he said to Laban that he would serve him seven years for Rachel, his younger daughter. Laban said it is better that I give her to you than another man, so stay with me.

To Jacob, the seven years seemed to pass quickly because of the love he had for Rachel, and at the end of that period Jacob said to Laban give me my wife, for all my days are fulfilled, so that I can go into her. Laban gathered together the men and made a feast, and in the evening gave his daughter Leah to Jacob, and Jacob went into her.

In the morning, Jacob saw that it was Leah, and so it must have been quite a feast the previous evening. He asked Laban what he had done, as didn't he serve the seven years for Rachel, so why had Laban tricked him. Laban said it was customary to give away the firstborn daughter before the younger. So if Jacob would serve another seven years, Laban would give him Rachel as well. So Jacob chose to serve the additional seven years for Rachel, but he probably slept with her soon after being given Leah, and was not officially supposed to be married until the additional seven years had been served.

Rachel was barren, but Leah bore four sons for Jacob: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah. Then Rachel became jealous of her sister Leah and she said to Jacob give me children or I will die. Jacob became angry and asked if he was somehow in the place of Elohim who had made her barren. Then Rachel told Jacob to take her maidservant Bilhah as a wife, to go into her, and then the child would be regarded as Rachel's. So Jacob took Bilhal as his wife, Bilhal conceived and bore a son called Dan. Then Bilhah conceived again and bore another son whom she named Naphtali.

Then Leah saw that she had ceased childbearing, and so she took her handmaid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Zilpah bore two sons for Jacob: Gad and Asher. And then it turned out that Leah hadn't stopped conceiving, and she bore a son to Jacob whom she named Issachar. Next Leah bore Jacob her sixth son: Zebulun. Next she gave birth to a daughter named Dinah.

Eventually Rachel did successfully conceive, and bore a son to Jacob whom she named Joseph. This was with more than a little help from Yahweh's sperm-assembling nanobots. So at this point the sons of Jacob numbered eleven. He also had two wives, two concubines, and at least one daughter. Most of the daughters were undocumented as they were not seen as important to the narrative.

Then Jacob told Laban he wanted to leave to go to his own place and his own country, and to take his wives and children for whom he had served Laban. Laban said he would be happy for Jacob to stay, given how he had increased the livestock, and how could he increase his wages and what could he give Jacob.

Jacob replied that Laban did not need to give him anything except that he should pass through all the sheep removing all the spotted and speckled sheep, all the brown sheep from amongst the lambs, and all the speckled and spotted from amongst the goats. Jacob would be left tending the solid colored animals who were Laban's flock, and then the speckled, spotted or ringstreaked offspring would be his wages.

Laban, who had his sons tending his flock and did not have Jacob's years of shepherding experience, believed that the solid colored animals would produce few non-solid colored young. However, Jacob, even if he did not know about recessive genes, knew that a good percentage of the solid colored animals' offspring would be spotted or speckled. And Jacob had received a dream from Yahweh instructing him to concentrate on the ringstreaked, speckled and spotted specimens.

Laban immediately removed the speckled and spotted cattle, sheep and goats from the animals under Jacob's care, placed them in the hands of his sons, and put three days' distance between the animals managed by Jacob and those tended by Laban's sons.

Then Jacob made rods from green poplar and hazel and chestnut trees, and he peeled white streaks in them. When the stronger animals were in heat and came to conceive by the gutters in the watering troughs, Jacob set his rods in the troughs. When feeble animals came to drink or mate, he did not put the rods in place.

Now Jacob had a superstitious belief that was not grounded in science or fact - that wherever mating animals saw a vision of a streak, then that streak would somehow be passed on to the offspring's appearance. But there were two factual elements that led to Jacob ending up with a greater flock after another six years had passed.

Firstly, the solid colored animals were already producing a significant percentage of speckled and spotted offspring. And secondly, unlike Laban's sons' management of their flocks, Jacob was practicing a form of eugenics with the aid of Yahweh. With the aid of his 'locust' drones, Yahweh could see when Jacob had set up a rod by the mating animals. In addition to cameras and microphones, the more specialized versions of these drones were equipped with lasers that were powerful enough to blind animals temporarily. And so whenever Jacob had set the rod in place, the drones would not blind the animals and the stronger animals would mate. The absence of a rod denoted weaker specimens, and so they would be temporarily blinded and would stumble away from each other.

Jacob's flock was initially much fewer in number, but became higher in quality compared to Laban's, grew at a faster rate, and over six years came to be numerically superior to Laban's as well. This was all done by science, not by superstition or divine intervention (unless we consider electronic drone technology, electromagnetic wave dream manipulation, and sometimes aided by artificial intelligence, managed by a spoilt, megalomaniacal devil posing as a 'god', with a moral compass 180 degrees out of kilter, who'd grown up in a decreasing entropy simulation run on a boiling planet inhabited by a very advanced civilization - as divine intervention).

After the six years had passed it became clear to Laban that the arrangement with Jacob had not been favorable to Laban, and Jacob noted from Laban's countenance and the murmurings of his sons that his attitude towards Jacob had changed. And then Jacob heard from Yahweh - most probably in a dream - that he should return to the land of his fathers and his relatives, and Yahweh would be with him.

So Jacob called his wives Rachel and Leah to him in the field with his sheep, and he said that he saw how his father-in-law's countenance towards him was not as before, but Jacob's Elohim had stayed with Jacob. He said he had served Laban but Laban had deceived him and changed his wages ten times. Then he told them the dream, and how he believed Yahweh had arranged for the birth of ringstreaked, speckled and spotted animals, and told him it was time to return to his fathers. The wives agreed that Laban had sold them out and it was time to leave.

So Jacob rose up, set his wives and children on camels, and took all his livestock and goods he had acquired, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Caanan. But when Laban was shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols. Jacob fled without telling Laban, who did not find out until three days later. It took seven days before Laban and his brothers overtook Jacob in the mountain of Gilead. Now Laban had a dream one night in which Yahweh appeared and told Laban not to speak good or bad to Jacob.

Laban asked Jacob why he had fled away secretly with his daughters, and why he had deceived him, for he would have sent him away on good terms. And he hadn't been able to kiss his daughters and grandsons. He said that although he had the power to do harm to Jacob, Yahweh had told him to remain balanced and neutral, and he understood that Jacob must have longed for his father's house. But why have you stolen my idols, he asked him.

Jacob said he was afraid that Laban would take his daughters by force. And he told Laban to take anything he regarded as his, and that anyone found with the idols could be killed, for he did not know Rachel had stolen them. Laban searched Jacob's tent, then Leah's, then the two maidservants' tents, then Rachel's, but he did not find anything, since Rachel had hidden the household idols in her saddle and was sat upon them. She gave the excuse that she was having a period and could not stand.

Jacob became angry and asked Laban what was his transgression such that Laban had so hotly pursued him. What household furniture had he found, for if he did find anything he could set it out in front of them all to judge. Jacob said he had toiled for Laban for twenty years, had not eaten his rams, had born the loss of anything torn or stolen, was consumed by the heat by day and the frost by night, and had often been sleepless. And Laban had changed his wages ten times, but Yahweh had seen his affliction, and the labor of his hands, and had rebuked Laban.

Laban said those are my daughters, my children, my sheep, and everything you see is mine. However, let us solemnize a covenant between us. So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar, and they gathered up some stones and made a heap, and ate there on the heap, which Jacob called Galeed.

Laban said let this mound be a witness to me and you this day. May Yahweh watch over us when we are absent from each other, for if you afflict my daughters or take other wives, Yahweh will be witness. See this heap and this memorial that I have set up between you and me. They are a witness that I shall not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap to do me harm. Let the Elohim of Abraham and Nahor judge between us.

Jacob swore by his father Isaac, and he offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and they ate bread and remained all night on the mountain. Early in the morning Laban rose up, kissed his sons and daughters, and returned to his own home.

When Jacob had nearly reached his brother Esau's house in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, he sent messengers ahead of him to tell Esau that his servant Jacob had stayed with Laban until now, and now he had oxen, donkeys, sheep, menservants and handmaids, and he was sending word to his master Esau so that he might find favor in his sight.

The messengers returned to say they had delivered the message to Esau, and now he was coming to meet Jacob, and had four hundred men with him. Jacob was very frightened and alarmed at this, and divided his people and livestock into two camps, on the grounds that if Esau struck one of them the other might escape. And Jacob made a prayer to Yahweh, the Elohim of his fathers, to be delivered from the hand of his brother Esau, as he was afraid that he might come and strike Jacob and the mothers with their children. For Yahweh had said he would do Jacob good and make his seed like the sand of the sea that cannot be numbered for multitude.

Jacob lodged there that night, and from his livestock he selected a gift for Esau: 200 female goats and 20 male goats, 200 ewes and 20 rams, 30 milking camels with their colts, 40 cows and 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys and 10 foals. He delivered these into the hands of his servants, and said go on ahead of me and put some distance between the herds. He commanded the first that when Esau should ask whose are you, where are you going and whose are those in front of you, they should reply that they are your servant Jacob's, and are a present sent to his lord Esau, and Jacob is behind them. And he instructed the second, the third and the others, to reply in the same way.

During the night Jacob rose up and took his two wives, two handmaids, and eleven sons, and sent them over the ford of Yabbock, along with all his possessions. During the rest of the night he was left alone, but then Yahweh sent a robot who wrestled with him until daybreak. The robot was not trying too hard, but it eventually struck the hollow of Jacob's thigh and dislocated it as they wrestled. Then the robot told Jacob to let it go, for the dawn had risen. Jacob said he would not let it go until it blessed him. The robot, or 'angel', asked him what was his name, and he replied Jacob. The robot told him that he would no longer be called Jacob but Israel, as he had contended with Elohim and with men, and had prevailed.

He was originally called Jacob, meaning supplanter, and had frequently prevailed by deception. The "el" of Israel relates to the El in Elohim or 'god', and the rest does not translate into English as easily, but Israel can be taken to mean one who struggles with god or those who struggle with god, which was symbolized in the struggle with the robot or 'angel'.

Yahweh was doing his best to subvert and sabotage the progress of human civilization, and he needed a group of naive, amoral people who worshiped money and power to do his dirty work for him. A group of people so gullible that they thought mutilating their baby boys would somehow bring them good fortune, a people who did not understand that doing right and wrong relates to whether you decrease or increase entropy, and their leaders would be so bent on the pursuit of money and power that they would gladly sell their fellow human beings down the river.

The robot did not disclose its name when asked by Jacob, but it did bless Jacob / Israel, and then he was lame on his thigh as the Sun rose over him, and the sons of Israel followed a tradition not to eat the ligament of the hip-joint on the hollow of the thigh.

Then Jacob looked up and saw Esau approaching. He put the handmaids and their children at the front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Jacob at the rear, and went over ahead of them. Jacob bowed seven times as he drew near to Esau, but Esau embraced him and they wept, and Jacob introduced the children as the sons whom Elohim has graciously given to your servant.

Esau asked about all the livestock that was sent on ahead as a gift, and he said he already had an abundance, so Jacob could keep what he had. Jacob urged him to accept the present and his blessing, as Jacob had an abundance, he believed his Elohim had dealt graciously with him, and seeing Esau receive him favorably was like seeing the face of Elohim. After he pressed Esau, Esau accepted the presents. Jacob asked Esau to go ahead and he would go slowly as he had his children and the animals had their young, and could not be pressed too hard. So Esau returned to Seir, and Jacob went to Succoth, where he built himself a house.

After Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite ruler, lay with and defiled Dinah, the daughter of Leah, there was enmity between the Hivites and Jacob's people. Hamor told the sons of Jacob that his son longed for Dinah as a wife, and proposed that Jacob's people and the inhabitants of the land should intermarry, and they could all live and trade together. Shechem said if they gave the girl to him as a wife he would pay a large brideprice.

The sons of Jacob replied that they could only agree on condition that all the males of Hamor's people became as they were, i.e., they had to mutilate themselves by removing the foreskin. Shechem did not hesitate to undergo the self-mutilation; the others took some persuasion, but eventually agreed. And every male in the city was "circumcised".

When they were still in pain, after three days had passed, Dinah's brothers Simeon and Levi took their swords and killed all the males of the city, and they killed Hamor and his son Shechem. Although Yahweh wrote it as if the two of them did it unaided, and they were in fact the instigators of the violence, this was obviously with the help of the sons of Jacob, who looted the city, took the animals, wives and children, and plundered the possessions in their homes.

A few millennia later their coreligionists would behave in a similar way, except that they would cowardly bomb almost every home in Gaza to smithereens, and kill tens of thousands of women and children, then go into houses and dress in the women's underwear and smash the children's toys, and put it on video to celebrate their 'success'. And there would be some media whores who would pretend to be ignorant or retarded, by denying the genocide.

Since Jacob's sons had made themselves odious to the local inhabitants - a process that would repeat innumerable times over thousands of years until Yahweh's people finally became a "set apart" people literally as well as figuratively, Jacob became worried that the majority would rise up against him, kill him and destroy his house. And Yahweh appeared to him and told him to go to Bethel to live there and make an altar there to his Elohim who appeared to him when he fled from his brother Esau.

Jacob told all his people to put away the foreign idols that they carried, to purify themselves and change their clothes, and they would go to Bethel where he would make an altar for the El who answered him in the days of his distress. So they handed over the foreign idols and earrings and hid them, and they reached Luz or Bethel in the land of Canaan without being pursued. When Jacob got to Bethel he built an altar to his Elohim.

Yahweh appeared again to Jacob and, as the 'angel' or robot had said, told him that he was no longer to be called Jacob, as Israel was his new name. And Yahweh, his Elohim, told him to be fruitful and multiply, and a nation and company of nations as well as kings would come from him, and Yahweh would give Jacob and his seed the land that he promised to give to Abraham and Isaac. Then Yahweh departed and Jacob set up a pillar of stone there, and poured a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. And he called the place Bethel.

The events were similar to when Jacob originally came and called the place Bethel, but that was a dream where Jacob saw the ladder with Yahweh at the top, whereas this was Yahweh in person to confirm Jacob's new name, with Jacob seeing his Elohim departing at the end instead of merely waking up from his slumber.

They traveled from Bethel and were on their way to Ephrath when Rachel gave birth to a second son, but it was a hard labor and she died. As her life was ebbing away she called the boy Ben Oni, but Jacob called him Benjamin.

And so now the sons of Jacob were twelve. There were six sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun. The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, were Dan and Naphtali. The sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, were Gad and Asher.

Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, the city of Arbah, which is Hebron. Isaac died at the age of 180 years, full of days, and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Now although Yahweh's nanobots had allowed Isaac to reach an age that would be impossible without such intervention, for at least twenty years he was so blind that he could not even distinguish between his sons. And this is how Yahweh - supposedly the most mighty and good 'god' of them all, treats one of his top two blessed and favored servants, who worshiped Yahweh and had undergone Yahweh's mutilation ritual!

As readers should know by now, Yahweh was the polar opposite of good, virtuous or moral. Yahweh was actually the most mighty devil! Satan, if you like. Once Isaac had outlived his usefulness, Yahweh just let him deteriorate, he never bothered to send any more nanobots that could have allowed Isaac to live out his final years in ease and dignity.

Esau had sons born to him from the daughters of the land of Canaan, but then moved to Mount Seir where there was enough land to support his livestock. Mount Seir was also known as the country of Edom, and so Esau was father of Edom or the Edomites.

One of Esau's grandsons, born to his firstborn son Eliphaz was Amalek. It would come to pass for at least four thousand years, Jacob or Israel's descendants would have a pathological hatred of those whom they called the Amalekites or Amalek, who were descendants of Esau. Esau even forgave Jacob for his deception in stealing Esau's birthright, yet there was often war between the Israelites and the Edomites. These were descendants of two brothers, but both of them descended from one of Satan's top two minions, so their fighting was only to be expected.

Now Joseph was Israel's eleventh son, but as a young man of seventeen he was tending the flock with his brothers, and he brought his father a bad report about his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, i.e., Dan and Naphtali, and Gad and Asher. And Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons, and he made Joseph an ornamental coat. But the other sons saw that Israel loved Joseph more than them, and they hated Joseph for that.

One day Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told his brothers about it. He said they were binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field, and suddenly his sheaf rose up and stood upright, and their sheaves stood around it and bowed down to his sheaf. This did not go down well at all with his brothers, and they asked him if he was really supposed to reign and lord it over them. And they hated him even more.

Then Joseph had another dream that he told his brothers and his father. He said the Sun, the Moon and eleven stars bowed down to him. His father rebuked him and his brothers envied him.

One day Joseph went to look for his brothers in Shechem where he believed they were feeding the sheep, but he did not find them there. He saw a stranger, who told him his brothers had moved on, and had said they were going to Dorhan. So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dorhan. But they saw him coming from afar, and conspired to kill him.

They said to each other that the master of dreams was coming, and so they would kill him, throw him into a pit, say some wild animal had devoured him, and then they could see what became of his dreams. However, Reuben decided to save him, and said let us shed no blood, but instead, throw him into a pit here in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him. Reuben hoped he could deliver Joseph back to his father.

When Joseph arrived they stripped him of his ornamental coat of many colors, and threw him into a pit that was empty and dry. They sat down to eat bread, and then saw a caravan of Ishmaelites on the camels, coming to sell spices, balm and myrrh to Egyptians. Judah said there was no profit in killing Joseph and concealing his blood, after all he was still their brother, and instead it would be smarter to sell him to the Ishmaelites.

So as the traders passed by, the brothers lifted Joseph out of the pit, and they sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. Then the Ishmaelites took Joseph to Egypt.

Then Joseph's brothers took his ornamental coat, killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood. They took it to their father and said they had found it, and he would know whether or not it was Joseph's coat. So Israel recognized it, and he said it was his son's coat, a wild animal must have devoured him, and Joseph was surely torn in pieces.

Jacob tore his clothes, wore sackcloth and mourned for his son for many days. And his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he said he would go to the grave mourning his son. And the traders took Joseph to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the executioners.

About that time Judah left his brothers and visited an Adullamite man called Hirah. And Judah saw there the daughter of a certain Canaanite man called Shuah, and he took her as a wife and went into her. She conceived and gave birth to a son, whom she named Er. Later she gave birth to another son called Onan, and then a third called Shelah.

Judah took a wife whose name was Tamar for Er, his firstborn son. However, Er was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and so Yahweh killed him. Then Judah told his secondborn son Onan to go into his brother's wife and marry her, to raise seed for his brother. But Onan believed that the offspring would not be his, so that when he slept with his brother's wife he spilled his seed on the ground. And Onan was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, so he killed him too. Those murders were perpetrated with Yahweh's graphene supercapacitor gun.

Imagine a human being walking along the street, meeting someone and then killing him. The case comes to court and the defendant is asked to state a plea. "Not guilty." "On what grounds?" "He was evil, and deserved it." And yet Yahweh gets away with this twice, just within four verses of Genesis 38. Here's a little hint for those who still don't understand how to distinguish a god from a devil - observe their behavior.

Then Judah told his daughter-in-law Tamar to remain as a widow at her father's home until his son Shelah had grown up, in case he met the same fate as his brothers. And so Tamar went to live in her father's house. Eventually Judah's wife, the daughter of Shuah, died, and he was comforted and went up to Timnath to shear his sheep with his friend Hirah the Adullamite. This was reported to his daughter-in-law Tamar.

Then Tamar took off her widow's clothes and disguised herself and covered herself with a veil. She sat in the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnath, for she saw that Shelah had grown and she had not been given to him as a wife. Judah saw her and thought she was a prostitute as she had covered her face, and he did not recognize her as his daughter-in-law.

Judah asked her if he could go into her, and she asked him what he would give her in return. He said he would send her a kid from his flock of goats. She asked to have a pledge until it was sent, and they agreed upon his signet ring, his bracelets, and the staff in his hand. Then he gave her those and went into her, and she conceived by him. She departed and removed the veil from her face and put back on her widow's garments.

Judah sent the kid of the goats via his friend Hirah, but he could not find Tamar. And Hirah asked the men of that place where was the prostitute who was at Anaim by the roadside. They said there was no prostitute there. So Hirah returned to Judah and said he could not find her, and the men also said there was no prostitute there. Judah said let her keep the pledged items in case we are shamed.

About three months later it was reported to Judah that his daughter-in-law Tamar had committed adultery and was pregnant through prostitution. Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned." But as she was brought out she sent word to her father-in-law that she had become pregnant by the man to whom these items belong- a signet ring, bracelets and staff.

Judah recognized them and said that she had been more righteous than him, because he did not give her to his son Shelah. And he never had relations with her after that. Tamar later gave birth to twins - Perez and Zarah.

Joseph had been handed over to Pharaoh's officer Potiphar, captain of the executioners, and Joseph prospered serving in the palace of his Egyptian master, who favored Joseph, since both of them were worshipers of Yahweh. Potiphar appointed Joseph as overseer of his palace and possessions.

Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance, and it came about that his master's wife invited him to lie with her. Joseph refused and said that she was the only thing in the palace that his master had kept back from her, because she was his wife, and he asked how he could commit such an evil and sin against his Elohim. And day to day, Joseph continued to resist her advances.

But one day none of the men of the house servants were in the palace as Joseph went in to carry out his work, and she caught his coat and said, "Lie with me", and he fled outside leaving his coat in her hands. Then she called out to the men of the palace saying that the Hebrew had been brought to toy with them, he had come to lie with her, and she had called out with a loud voice and he left his coat and fled.

She kept the coat until Potiphar came home, and told him the same story. And Potiphar's anger glowed against Joseph, and he put him in the jail where the king's prisoners were bound. But the governor of the jail recognized Joseph's abilities, and made him supervisor of the other prisoners. Whenever anything good happened to Joseph, he believed it was because of Yahweh; if anything bad happened he would put it down to bad luck.

One day when Pharaoh was angry at two of his officers whom he believed had offended him, he put them in the jail where Joseph was confined, and the captain of the executioners put those two under Joseph's supervision. And then one night both of them dreamed a dream that they could not interpret, and Joseph saw them looking dejected when he came to see them the next morning.

Joseph asked them why they looked sad, and they said it was because they had no one to interpret their dream. Joseph said interpretations belonged to his Elohim - in fact because Yahweh transmitted the dream in the first place, although Joseph was not to know that, and asked them to tell it to him.

The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and he said he saw a vine in front of him, and on it were three branches, and in the vine was three branches, and it looked as though it budded. Its blossoms shot out and its clusters ripened into grapes. He had Pharaoh's cup in his hand, and he took the grapes, pressed them into Pharaoh's cup and gave the cup to Pharaoh.

Joseph said here is the interpretation. The three branches are three days. And within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand in the same manner as you did previously. But please think of me when all is well with you and mention me to Pharaoh, as I was stolen from the land of the Hebrews and did nothing wrong to justify imprisonment in a dungeon.

The chief baker heard that the interpretation of the other's dream was good, and he did not hesitate in telling Joseph about his own dream. He said he saw three wicker baskets of white bread on his head. In the top basket was some of Pharaoh's baked food, and the birds came and ate out of the basket on his head.

Joseph said this is the interpretation. The three baskets are three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will pick at your flesh.

On the third day it was Pharaoh's birthday, and he made a feast for all his servants. He raised the head of the chief cupbearer and of the chief baker among his servants. He restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing duties, so that he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. But he hanged the chief baker as Joseph had interpreted. However, the chief cupbearer forgot to give a good report of Joseph to Pharaoh.

Whatever happened there, it did not involve any supernatural predictions of the future, of future events sending signals back in time for three days to cause people to dream a certain dream, since time travel backwards - unless it could somehow be to alternate parallel worlds - would violate the laws of causality.

This was an attempt by Yahweh to free Joseph that failed, because the chief cupbearer forgot about Joseph. Yahweh's drones, equipped with cameras and microphones, were monitoring events in the dungeon and in the palace of Pharaoh. Yahweh knew when it was Pharaoh's birthday, and that he planned to hold a feast on that day. And so on the night about two-and-a-half days before the birthday, Pharaoh directed his dream transmitters to four people.

Yahweh needed to have one person released and restored to his former position, so that he could give a good report on Joseph. And so he transmitted a dream to Pharaoh, in which Pharaoh would see the chief baker as wholly responsible for insulting him, and the chief cupbearer as a totally innocent bystander who had unjustly felt the wrath of Pharaoh. On this same night, with three nights and three days to go until the birthday and feast, Yahweh transmitted a dream to Joseph, showing the chief cupbearer back in his original position serving Pharaoh, whereas the chief baker was to suffer a terrible fate. There was also some image of three objects of some sort, to denote the three days.

And also on this same night, Yahweh directed his dream transmitters to the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. During REM sleep the cupbearer was manipulated into dreaming a dream that represented a return to his former position. As for the baker, it wasn't exactly a nightmare, but the birds coming to feed out of the basket suggested that things wouldn't go so well for him.

Then at the end of two full years, Pharaoh had a dream. As he stood by the river, seven cows came up out of the river, they were well-formed and fat-fleshed, and they were feeding amongst the rushes. And then seven other cows came up after them out of the river, but these were badly formed and lean-fleshed, and they stood by the other cows. The ill-formed and lean-fleshed cows devoured the seven well-formed, fat cows. And then Pharaoh woke up.

Pharaoh slept and dreamed a second dream. Seven ears of corn came up on one stalk, fat and good. And then seven thin ears, blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. And the seven thin ears devoured the fat and full ears.

In the morning he was troubled by the dreams and wanting to interpret them. So he called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men, but none of them could interpret the dreams.

Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh about when his master had put him and the chief baker in the dungeon of the captain of the executioners, and there was a Hebrew man who had correctly interpreted the dreams of both men, so that the cupbearer was restored to his position and the baker was hanged.

Pharaoh sent word and called for Joseph, and he was quickly brought out of the dungeon, he shaved and changed his clothes, and was brought before Pharaoh. Then Pharaoh said he had dreamed a dream and he had found nobody who could interpret it, but he had heard that Joseph could understand a dream to interpret it.

Joseph said he himself did not understand, but his Elohim would give Pharaoh an answer to put his mind at rest. So then Pharaoh relayed the details to Joseph about how he had seen the seven lean, ill-formed cows on the banks of the Nile devour the seven healthy, fat-fleshed cows, and the seven thin ears of corn had swallowed up the seven good ears.

Joseph said, quite correctly, that Elohim was showing Pharaoh what he was about to do. The seven good cows and the seven good ears both represented seven years, and the seven thin cows and seven empty, wind-blasted ears represented seven years of famine. And so there would be seven years of abundance throughout the land of Egypt, followed by seven years of famine.

Therefore, Pharaoh should look out for a discreet, wise man to oversee the land of Egypt. And appoint overseers to gather up a surplus during the good years and store it to be used over the course of the famine, so that the nation would not perish.

This sounded good to Pharaoh and all his servants, and he asked them, can we find any man like this, a man who has in him the spirit of Elohim? Then Pharaoh looked at Joseph and said, "Since Elohim has shown you all this, there is nobody as discreet and wise as you. You shall be over my palace, and all my people will be ruled in according with your word. Only on the throne will I be more eminent than you."

Pharaoh took his ring off his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, he dressed him in fine linen, and he put a golden chestplate around his neck. And Joseph was allowed to ride in Pharaoh's second chariot, and the people would call ahead of him to bend the knee. And Pharaoh gave Joseph a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah, the priest of On. This was when Joseph was 30 years old.

Already, before Yahweh had needed to get into geo-engineering for weather manipulation, his dream transmitters had allowed him to propel Joseph from a jailbird to Pharaoh's number two. Joseph could have just taken the money and run before the seven years were up, but Yahweh's schemes were much greater than that. Since Joseph had arrived in Egypt, Yahweh had nine years available for research and development of his famine project, before it was due to come into effect, but he knew what he wanted to do, and put the first stage of the operation into effect during the final year of abundance.

He wanted to test out the capabilities of his drones and his mothership, and was going to use a two-pronged approach. The mothership's directed energy beam would be used to heat a region in the atmosphere, creating a pressure gradient, so that the winds blew in the wrong direction for rainfall. And secondly, he would use the drones to take a million tonnes of chalk dust into the stratosphere to block out sunlight. And these operations would be done to include the five months of the growing season, from October to February.

He hadn't been given an antimatter-powered ship, but at least he was able to drive a hard bargain over all the inclusions and accessories. There were 140 saucer-shaped drones of radius 20m, and each drone's upper surface area was dedicated to Hellian solar panels, which they had got to an efficiency of some 85%.

The drones were getting solar radiation of around 3,000 kWh/m² per year, which is 29.5 MJ/m² per day. The solar panels covered an area of 1,256 m² on the upper surface of each drone. Thus, the energy harvested was up to 0.85 x 1,256 m² x 29.5 MJ/m² = 31.5 GJ per day per drone, although this was reduced if they were in a region where they were blocking sunlight. And the rotor blades, when the drone was parked, could be slanted to minimize shadow, so that overall losses from rotor shadow were from 2% to 4%, so 30 GJ would be a fair figure for daily sunlight harvested.

Each solar cell delivered 1 volt and was 16 cm x 16 cm, and so ~49,000 cells were fitted across the 1,256 m² upper surface area. The cells were connected in series to deliver 49 kV to the supercapacitor storage. There were two diodes connected across each cell, so that if a cell failed and went open circuit, they would lose the 1V from that cell plus a 1.2V forward drop across the two diodes, but the bulk of the voltage would still be there. If a cell went short circuit, they would just lose the 1V from that cell.

For energy storage, the drones did not use graphene-based supercapacitors, which could achieve ~1 MJ/kg. Instead, to avoid any mass penalty, they had graphene-enhanced structural supercapacitors, that were integrated into the hull. They achieved 0.5 MJ/kg and served the dual functions of energy storage and load bearing.

With the upper and lower hull surface areas each being some 1,256 m², and the thickness of active material at 1 cm, the volume was ~25.1 m³ and given the density of the carbon composites around 1,500 kg/m³, the mass of active material was ~37.7 tonnes. Given the 0.5 MJ/kg of storage, the energy storage capacity was 18.8 GJ per drone.

Built onto the lower surface of each drone was a directed energy beam, in which the power output could be up to several MW across a wide band of frequencies.

The rotors, above the drone, were nominally 20m radius, but could telescopically extend to 40m, since this reduced by half the power required to hover at some given altitude and air density. Allowing a few tonnes for the rotors, a few tonnes for the heat shield, a few tonnes for the retractable wings, and extra for various equipment such as the DE beam, the total unladen drone mass was ~53 tonnes.

The shuttle drones also included a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) thermal rocket (50 tonnes), which took the dry mass up to 103 tonnes. Powered from hydrogen, the exhaust velocity was ~8,500 m/s. In order to make the return trip to the mothership in geostationary orbit, 35,786 km above the equator, the Δv needed was ~10 km/s, and so the mass ratio needed was e^10/8.5 = ~3.24. Thus, the hydrogen consumed was 2.24 x 103 tonnes = ~231 tonnes.

In the morning and afternoon, the 130 53-tonne standard "workhorse" drones would be based at limestone quarries in the Nile valley that had been used hundreds of years previously for building the pyramids, monuments and temples. The robots and nanotech would perform crushing and grinding.

Yahweh's nanotech - more efficient than later human grinding operations, was able to grind into micron-sized chalk dust for about 100 MJ/tonne, or 100 TJ = 10¹⁴ J for a million tonnes. The chalk dust was compressed into 1,500 kg/m³, and so the payload of thirty tonnes would have a volume of 20 m³ and would easily fit into a drone.

With each drone processing 30 tonnes per day, that would be around 3 GJ for crushing and grinding, and compared to the stratospheric dispersal carried out in the evening, any flights around the quarry site were quite short range and low altitude, so the energy consumed was relatively low.

In the evening, each drone flight took a payload of 30 tonnes to an altitude of 15 km into the stratosphere.

As noted, the structural supercapacitors could store ~18.8 GJ of harvested solar energy. The 3 GJ of work done during the morning and afternoon was alongside incoming solar energy, so by the evening the stored energy was still ~18.8 GJ. With some 30 GJ of solar energy incoming over a typical 12-hour daytime, any drone short of some charge could stop a short time to recharge before commencing the evening's work.

The potential energy at 15 km was (53,000 + 30,000) kg x 9.8 N/kg x 15,000m = ~12.2 GJ. To this, the parasitic drag and induced drag has to be added.

During the ascent to 15km, the drone would climb 1m for every 5m horizontally, and so the diagonal path was SQRT(26) times the 15km vertical, which is 76,485m.

In order to minimize the energy needed to climb to 15 km, the total drag needs to be minimized. This occurs when the drone flies at an optimal velocity. Too slow, and the induced drag from the wings is too high; too fast, and the parasitic drag is too high. At the optimal velocity, the induced drag equals the parasitic drag.

The optimal speed is lowest at the ground where the air is denser, and higher at 15 km where it is more rarified. But interestingly, the total drag remains constant for various heights and air densities, provided the drone continues to fly at the optimal velocity, and so the total energy needed is easily calculated.

The induced drag is given by:

D_induced = 2(mg)² / (ρπb²v²)

...where m is the total mass with payload of 83,000 kg, g is the gravitational force of 9.8 N/kg acting on the mass, ρ is the air density in kg/m³ at the particular altitude, b is the wingspan of 120m, and v is the true airspeed (m/s). (It is sometimes written with v = Equivalent airspeed, EAS, but then ρ has to change to ρ₀, the standard value at sea level.)

The parasitic drag is given by:

D_parasitic = ½ρC_dAv², where:

ρ is the air density at the given altitude, e.g., ~0.56 kg/m³ at 7.5 km, C_d is the drag coefficient which we take as 0.7 for this convex shape, v is the velocity in m/s, which in this case is along the diagonal flight path, and A is the frontal cross-section, which we take as 1m x 40m for the drone body and the same for each wing, making a total of 120 m².

To find the optimal velocity, the induced drag is set equal to parasitic drag and then solved for v, as below:

v = (4(mg)² / (ρ²C_dAπb²))^1/4

The 120-meter wingspan was a crucial part of the ascent, 120 meters tip to tip, with the 40m diameter drone body and each wing having a length of 40m. The wings could retract or extend telescopically so that they could easily fit in the drone body. When operating in aircraft mode and flying with the wings rather than the rotors, the flight was driven by electric fans powered by the supercapacitors.

When descending, the wings were retracted, and with the rotors providing regenerative braking, they would act like wind turbines and recover much of the potential energy, recharging the supercapacitors.

For the 53-tonne drone with its 30-tonne payload, the optimal velocity at sea level with air density of 1.225 kg/m³ is 26.1 m/s. At 7.5km altitude, the air density is ~0.5566 kg/m³ and the optimal velocity increases to 38.72 m/s. At the target altitude of 15km the air density is down to ~0.2112 kg/m³ and the optimal velocity increases to 62.86 m/s.

But interestingly, the induced drag and parasitic drag both stay at 35,050N, and the total drag remains at 70,100N for various altitudes and air densities. The drone's monitoring and control systems allowed it to keep to the optimal speed. Given that the diagonal distance is 76,485m, the work done in opposing the drag force is 70,100N x 76,485m = 5.361 GJ.

As noted above, the gravitational potential energy for drone and payload to ascend to 15km is 83,000 kg x 9.8 N/kg x 15,000m = 12.20 GJ. Thus, the total energy required is 17.56 GJ, within the 18.8 GJ reserves of the structural supercapacitors.

Of course, the work done against the drag forces could not be recovered, but the Hellians were able to recover 70% of the potential energy with their design. But now that the 30-tonne load had been dispersed, that component of the potential energy was gone. And so the energy recovered was 0.7 x 53,000 kg x 9.8 N/kg x 15,000m = ~5.45 GJ.

With the ascent and dispersal, much of the original 18.8 GJ had been almost all consumed, and so the drones would start the next working day with around 5 or 6 GJ, which was much more than they needed for the crushing and grinding, whilst charging the supercapacitors from the day's solar energy.

The hover motor operated at 5 kV, and the supercapacitors power bus was 49 kV. They used a bidirectional DC-DC converter, with step up or step down, and had achieved an efficiency in excess of 98% in both directions. The drone's superconductors were magnesium diboride (MgB₂), and the cryogenic cooling, even at the unavoidable low efficiency of such coolers, only drew 2kW, which was a negligible proportion of the solar energy harvested and supercapacitor storage.

At 49 kV and with 18.8 GJ of storage, the supercapacitors amounted to a total capacitance of 15.66 F. There were 51 supercapacitor modules of 100 F in a series string to give ~1.96 F per string, and eight of these series strings in parallel, four on the bottom area and four on top.

Each of the 130 53-tonne drones was assigned a different set of coordinates on a grid, above and over the crops that were to be ruined. A drone would start at the windward side of the area it would cover, and glide in the wind as it dispersed its load.

For some operations, such as short hops, the drones would fly on hover power, with the wings retracted.

The downwash velocity V_i below the rotors, is:

V_i = SQR(T/(2ρA)) where:

T is the thrust in N (mass to be lifted in kg x g of 9.8 N/kg), ρ is the air density in kg/m³ at the altitude of flight, and A is the rotor area in m².

For example, suppose the 53-tonne drone is flying at an altitude of 2 km, and the rotor radius is 20m, i.e., the extendable additional 20m remains retracted. The air density is ~1 kg/m³, the thrust is 53 tonnes x 9.8 N/kg = 519,400 N, and the rotor area is π(20m)² = 1,256 m². The downwash velocity induced at the rotor disc V_i = 14.38 m/s.

This downwash would be attenuated at the ground by a factor of ~ 40m / 2,000m = 0.02 times, so 0.288 m/s would be imperceptible against the natural wind.

The ideal power, excluding profile drag, tip losses and non-uniform inflow is P_Ideal = T x V_i. And so 519,400 N x 14.38 m/s = 7.47 MW.

The actual power is P_Actual = P_Ideal / FM, where FM is Figure of Merit, 0.8 with this Type II civilization well designed large rotor, and so P_Actual = 9.34 MW.

And so, from 30 GJ of solar energy harvested per day, they could fly for up to 3,212 seconds = 53.5 minutes in a day. Or from 18.8 GJ stored in structural supercapacitors, they could fly for 2,012 seconds = 33.5 minutes at a time.

Now when the rotor is extended to 40m radius, the downwash velocity V_i halves, and the required power halves to 4.67 MW, and so the flying time from supercapacitors is doubled to 67 minutes at a time.

However, for longer flights over longer distances they would use the wings. With no load, the drones could fly up to ~400km horizontally from supercapacitors, or they could ascend to ~25km, with these distances gradually reducing as a payload was increased.

Thus, 130 flights per day using the lighter "workhorse" drones times the 30 tonne payload allowed daily dispersal of 3,900 tonnes of chalk dust into the stratosphere, and a million tonnes could be dispersed in 257 days or ~8.4 months.

After the drones had soaked up the best of the sunshine, they would be loaded up with the chalk dust, which would be dispersed during the evenings.

So the wind modulation using the mothership's directed energy beam, was carried out over the five months of the growing season from October to February, and the sunlight blocking would commence earlier, around July. And Yahweh's evil scheme served to ruin the year's harvest.

The sunlight blocking was carried out over habitable regions in Egypt, with drones taking off from the quarry site. The DE beam operation to heat part of the atmosphere, modulate wind direction and inhibit rainfall, targeted a wider area, including some of Palestine (or the land of Canaan).

In another 3,900 years or so, an utterly obnoxious character by the name of Bill Gates, a legacy of Yahweh's sabotage, would be looking into doing sunlight blocking on an even larger scale for a massive depopulation program, to replace carbon-based life with silicon-based AI. And some human beings were too retarded or brainwashed to understand that humans were the carbon that the controllers wanted to get rid of.

At this point we can take a look at how Yahweh's 'locust' surveillance drones operated. They were cylindrical in shape, 0.07m long, 0.0035m in radius, with a mass of 10g. They had rotors with a radius of 0.035m.

The 'locust' drones' Figure of Merit was 0.8, and the actual power to hover was (1/0.8) x SQRT((9.81 N/kg x 0.01 kg)³ / (2π x (0.035m)² x 1.225 kg/m³)) = 0.396W.

When being sent down to the planet, they could easily fit 71,428 of these drones into one of the 20m radius drones, and the payload was well under a tonne.

Half of the mass served as structural supercapacitors at 0.5 MJ/kg, and so the energy storage capacity was 0.005 kg x 0.5 MJ/kg = 2,500 J. Flying or perched with their length along the horizontal axis, they had solar cells on their top that covered an area of 0.07m x 0.007m = 0.00049m². The sunlight harvested in a typical 12-hour day would be 0.85 x 29.5 MJ/m² x 0.00049m² = ~12,300 J, which was well beyond the storage of the supercapacitors. Per hour, they would harvest 1,024 J.

Their camera, processor and microphone, etc., would consume ~0.2W when operating, and would be switched on only when perched, and even then some of the time might have the electronics in a quiescent state to allow for recharging. For example, for an overall neutral energy balance, a typical hour could be comprised of ~28.6 minutes of flying, ~28.6 minutes of surveillance, and the remaining 2.8 minutes solely for recharging. This would consist of 1,718s x (-0.396) J/s = -680 J, 1,718s x (-0.2) J/s = -344 J, and 1 hour x 1,024 J = +1,024 J, which sums to zero.

They could do 60 minutes of surveillance in an hour and have a positive energy balance. If dedicated to flying they could do 43 minutes in each hour. With the supercapacitor storage, they might have some hours that were relatively more active, and others that were dedicated to recharging.

The video was generally at 5 Mbps, and the tiny drone might capture 2.25 GB in an hour, or 27 GB at most over 12 hours.

If the area surveyed by 10 million 'locust' drones was a million square kilometers area, 1,000km x 1,000km, then 1,000 robots would each be in charge of a 1,000 km² sector, 31.6km x 31.6km . Each robot had 10,000 drones, with each drone covering an area of 0.1 km², 316m x 316m. But they would soon find out which areas were populated, and concentrate on those, so that there was less separation between drones or between a drone and its "Captain" robot.

Each drone would upload daily to its "Captain" robot, via 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, each robot would upload daily to a 20m drone, and each drone would upload daily to the mothership via millimeter wave (Q/U/V) bands, around 30-75 GHz. The 20m drones didn't need to hover; they would just make sure there wasn't a mountain in the way that would block line-of-sight, and would preferably be on high ground.

The tiny 'locust' drones didn't need to fly up to 16 km to their "Zone Captain" robot to upload via Wi-Fi. They used a multi-hop mesh network to relay data, in a grid of 10,000 mini-drones, each with a range of 500m. A message could travel 16km through the grid in seconds, by hopping from drone to drone, which could stay perched on trees, on walls, or on the ground. Occasionally a mini-drone might be isolated in a remote area, in which case it would fly to a nearby relay point, but that would be rare and the default would be the mesh relay.

Sometimes Yahweh or a robot might want to have real-time observation of individuals, in which case they would carry some mini-drones with them, send one to the target, and it would stream back.

And so in the seven years of abundance, Joseph gathered up handfuls of crops and stored the food in the cities. A vast abundance of corn was gathered up, too numerous to count. Also during these years Joseph's wife Asenath bore him two sons: Manasseh, the firstborn, and Ephraim.

Then the period of famine began to arise, as Yahweh launched his sunlight-blocking project over Egypt and the land of Canaan. When the people called out to Pharaoh for bread, he told them to go to Joseph and to do as he instructed. And everyone came to Joseph, who made sales from the stored food, and the famine was severe in the land.

Now Yahweh's famine had also struck parts of the land of Canaan, and Jacob heard that grain was available in Egypt. He asked his sons why they were looking at each other, and told them to get down to Egypt to make purchases, so that they might have food to live. And ten of them went to buy corn in Egypt. However, Jacob told Joseph's brother Benjamin to stay with him, in case some calamity might happen.

When the ten sons of Israel arrived in Egypt they ended up before Joseph, as he was the governor of the land and it was he who made the sales. They bowed themselves down in front of Joseph, with their faces to the ground, and Joseph recognized them but they did not recognize him. And he spoke harshly to them and asked where they had come from. They said they had come from the land of Canaan to buy food.

Joseph remembered some dreams he had dreamed about them - which would have been Yahweh's way of modulating Joseph's response upon meeting his brothers, and he told them they were spies who had come to see the barrenness of the land.

They said, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. All of us are the sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants would never be spies."

He told them, "No, you have come to see the barrenness of the land."

They told him that twelve of them were brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and the youngest had remained with their father, and one was no more.

Joseph said they were spies, and he would put them to the test. By the life of Pharaoh, they would not be allowed to leave until their youngest brother arrived there, and so one of them would be allowed to leave to fetch him. Joseph rounded them up and put them in custody for three days.

On the third day Joseph told them that if they did as he instructed they would live. One of them must remain in the jail and the rest of them could take the corn to their house, but then they must bring their youngest brother to Joseph so that their words could be verified.

They spoke amongst themselves, admitting their guilt in how they had treated Joseph, and Reuben, thinking Joseph was dead, claimed they hadn't listened when he had told them not to sin against Joseph. He had in fact told them to throw Joseph into a pit, and they had listened and agreed, although they then went on to sell Joseph for twenty pieces of silver.

The brothers did not know that Joseph understood them, for he was speaking to them through an interpreter, and when he heard about their conspiracies he turned away and wept. Then he went back and took Simeon from them and bound him before them.

Then Joseph ordered their sacks to be filled with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them, and they left to return to Canaan.

When one of them opened his sack to give his donkey provision in the inn, he noticed his money in the opening of his sack. And he told his brothers that his money had been restored. They were afraid, and feared Elohim had done it to them.

They arrived back at their father Jacob's house and told him everything that had happened. Then they began emptying their sacks and saw that every man's bundle of money was still in his sack, and they and their father were frightened when they saw that. And Jacob said they had bereaved him, Joseph was no more, Simeon was not here, and Benjamin they would take away. Luck had turned against him.

Reuben said that Jacob could kill his two sons if he did not return Benjamin to him. If Jacob would deliver him into Reuben's care, then Reuben would bring him back. Jacob refused, saying his brother was already dead, and if some calamity should happen, Jacob's gray hairs would be brought down to the grave in sorrow.

When they had finished eating all the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father told them to go back and buy some more food, as the famine was still severe in the land. But Judah said that the man who got them the food had told them they would not be allowed to see him unless their brother was with them. If Benjamin went with them they would go to buy the food, otherwise they would not go (since there would be no point).

After some discussion in which their father asked them why they told the man they had another brother, and they asked how could they have known he would have told them to bring the brother down to Egypt, Jacob agreed to their taking Benjamin with them. He insisted that they took presents for the man, balm, honey, spices, myrrh and nuts, and double the money, including what they took before, in case it was an oversight. And they would have to trust that their Elohim would give them mercy before the man.

So the brothers took the present, double the money, and Benjamin, and they went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph. And when Joseph saw Benjamin was with them he told the overlord of his house to slaughter an animal and prepare a feast, and to bring the men to his house, for they would dine with him at noon.

The man did as Joseph commanded, and brought the men into Joseph's house. But they were frightened, fearing that they had been brought in because of the money returned in their sacks the first time, and that he might overpower them and seize them as slaves with their donkeys.

The brothers spoke to Joseph's steward at the door of the house and owned up to how they had found the money still in their sacks, and so they had brought it back along with other money, and they could not tell who had put their money in their sacks.

The steward told them not to be afraid, as their Elohim had given them the treasure in their sacks, and he had their money. Well the final part was true, but he had wisely omitted to tell them about his master's order to restore their money into their sacks. Telling them it had come from Elohim was like parents telling their children that presents had been delivered by Father Christmas.

Then the steward brought Simeon out to them, who had been kept as a hostage to compel all the brothers to return, and the brothers were led into Joseph's house, provided with water, and they washed their feet, and the donkeys were fed.

When Joseph came in they gave him the presents and bowed down in front of him, and he asked after their welfare, and was their father still alive. They replied that he was, and they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves. When Joseph saw Benjamin, his mother's son, he asked if this was their younger brother of whom they spoke. They confirmed that it was and he said Elohim be gracious to you, my son.

Joseph hurried out, as he was so moved by the meeting, and he went to his inner chamber and wept. Then he recovered himself, washed his face and went out, and said set out the food.

They set out food for Joseph by himself, then for his brothers by themselves, and then the Egyptians with them by themselves, for the Egyptians would not eat with Hebrews. The brothers were served choice portions of food from Joseph's own, but Benjamin was given five times as much as any of them. And the brothers feasted with Joseph and became drunk with him.

Then Joseph commanded the overseer to fill the men's sacks with as much food as they could carry, and to put every man's money in the mouth of his sack. And Joseph's silver cup was to be placed in the mouth of the youngest's sack, along with his corn money. So the overseer obeyed Joseph's instructions.

In the morning as soon as it was light, the men were sent away on their donkeys. Then Joseph told his steward to go and follow after them, and when he overtook them he should say to them, "Why have you repaid evil for good? Is this not what my lord drinks from, and even divines from? You have done evil in doing this."

So he overtook them and said those words. They said they would have done no such thing, since the money they found in their sacks they had brought back from the land of Canaan, and how then would they steal silver or gold out of his lord's house. Let whoever was found with the cup die, and the rest of them would also be his lord's slaves.

The overseer said let he with whom it is found be my servant, and you will be blameless. Then each man lowered his sack to the ground and opened it. The overseer searched each in turn, starting with the oldest, and finishing with the youngest, and then the cup was found in the sack of Benjamin, the youngest. Then they loaded the donkeys and returned to the city.

Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, for he was still there, and threw themselves to the ground in front of him. Joseph asked what deed had they done, and said did they not known that a man such as him could certainly practice divination.

Judah answered asking how could they clear themselves, since Elohim had found out their iniquity, and so both they and he with whom the cup was found would be their lord's servants.

Joseph replied that he would not do that, he would only keep the youngest, the man in whose hand the cup was found, as his servant, and the rest of them could return in peace to their father.

Then Judah told him all the story of how they had revealed the existence of their father and the youngest son, and how their lord (Joseph) had said they would not see his face again unless they brought the youngest with them, so that when they needed to return to buy more food they had to take the youngest along with them, but their father had said if they returned without the youngest it would take him with sorrow to the grave. And Judah said he had said he would carry the blame if he failed to return the youngest to his father, and he asked Joseph if he could remain as a slave in place of the boy, and could his lord then send the boy back with his brothers to his father.

And then Joseph was not able to restrain himself in front of everyone, and he told the others to leave as he made himself known to his brothers. And he was weeping so loudly that the Egyptians and the palace of Pharaoh heard.

Then he said, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" And his brothers were speechless and abashed in his presence.

Joseph told them to come near, and said he was their brother whom they sold into Egypt, but they should be neither grieved nor angered that they had sold him, because Elohim had sent him ahead of them to preserve life. That last part wasn't true, of course, Yahweh was bent on destroying carbon-based life on Earth rather than preserving it, and was the instigator of the famine to further his own agenda, but it was just what a Yahweh groupie such as Joseph wanted to believe.

Joseph continued to expound his naive beliefs to his brothers, first disclosing that this point was two years into the expected seven-year famine (with Yahweh having had eleven years to perfect his operation of releasing sand in the stratosphere of Egypt, and bringing about a drought in Canaan too). Joseph felt that his Elohim had sent him there, not his brothers, when in fact Yahweh had simply exploited the fact that his brothers had sent him there. But fair enough, Joseph did correctly understand that Yahweh's manipulations had succeeded in propelling him from his former status as a jailbird up to Pharaoh's deputy, lord of all his palaces and governor of the land of Egypt.

So Joseph told his brothers to return in haste to his father and tell them that Elohim had made him lord of Egypt, and so his father, brothers, relatives and all of their animals and possessions should come down to live in the land of Goshen, near Joseph, where he would nourish them. And he wept and kissed his brothers, and they spoke with him. And the report of this was heard in Pharaoh's palace, where it was said that Joseph's brothers had come.

This pleased Pharaoh well, and he told Joseph to tell his brothers to depart to the land of Canaan and bring back his father and their households, and he would give them the good and the fat of the land of Egypt. And they should take wagons out of Egypt for the little ones and the wives.

So Joseph gave them wagons to carry out Pharaoh's instructions, along with provisions for the journey, changes of clothing, and he gave Benjamin 300 silver pieces and five changes of clothing. And he sent ten donkeys to his father laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys laden with corn and bread and food for his father for the journey to Egypt. As he sent his brothers away, he told them not to quarrel on the journey.

They returned to their father Jacob and told him Joseph was still alive and was governor over the land of Egypt. Jacob did not believe them at first, and his heart was skipping a few beats, but they told him everything Joseph had said to them. When Jacob saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, his spirit revived.

Israel said, "Enough! Joseph my son is still living! I will go and see him before I die."

Then Israel departed with everything that belonged to him, and he came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the Elohim of his father Isaac. And that night his Elohim spoke to Israel in a dream and said, "Jacob, Jacob!"

And Jacob said, "Here I am!"

Yahweh said, "I am El, the Elohim of your father. Do not be afraid to go down into Egypt, for I will make you a vast people there. I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will bring you back, and Joseph will close your eyes."

And Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob, the little ones, and their wives, in the wagons provided by Pharaoh. They took their livestock and all of their goods from the land of Canaan, and all of Jacob's seed, and came into Egypt.

In all, there were 66 descendants of Jacob who came with him to Egypt, besides Jacob's sons' wives. And with two sons of Joseph born to him in Egypt, there were 70 people.

Judah went on ahead to meet Joseph, to get directions to Goshen. Then they arrived at Goshen, and Joseph rode there on his chariot. He presented himself to his father, and embraced and wept for a while.

Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive."

Joseph said he would go to announce to Pharaoh that his brothers and father's house had come to him from the land of Canaan, and the men were shepherds by trade, and they had brought their sheep and herds and everything that they owned. So should Pharaoh ask them what their occupation was, they should reply that their trade had been with livestock from their youth right until the present, so that they might live in the land of Goshen, for shepherds were detestable to the Egyptians.

Then Joseph went to Pharaoh and told him that his father, brothers, their sheep and their herds, and everything they owned, had come out of the land of Canaan and had arrived at Goshen.

And Joseph took five of his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh, who asked them, "What is your occupation?"

They replied, "Your servants are shepherds, both us and our fathers." And they said that they had come to stay in the land as they had no pasture for their sheep owing to the severity of the famine in the land of Canaan. Therefore, would his servants please be allowed to live in the land of Goshen.

Pharaoh said to Joseph that his father and brothers had come to him, and they could live in the best of the land of Egypt. Let them live in the land of Goshen, and any capable men among them could be given the position of chiefs over Pharaoh's livestock.

This raises the question of why the sheep would have pasture in Goshen if Egypt and Canaan had both been hit by the famine. Firstly, Goshen was already a more fertile region of Egypt, and secondly, Yahweh took care to hit Egypt selectively with his sunlight blocking operation, so that Goshen could be spared as a home for the sons of Israel.

Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in front of Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. Jacob is said to be a hundred and thirty years of age at this time. It was barely more than eleven years after the time when Potiphar's wife failed to seduce Joseph, and got him thrown in jail, when Joseph was barely more than seventeen. But Yahweh's life-extending cell repair nanotech allowed such a timeline to be possible.

Joseph settled his father and brothers in the best of the land, in the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. And Joseph nourished all his father's household with bread.

Now the famine continued, and was very severe, and Joseph gathered all the money found in the lands of Egypt and Canaan in exchange for the corn sales, but eventually the money ran out. This was long before the days of endless printing of increasingly worthless fiat currencies. So then the people would come to Joseph and say, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence when the money is failing?"

And Joseph said that if the money failed, then he would give people bread in exchange for their livestock. So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he would receive their horses, sheep, herds and donkeys, and provide them with food throughout that year.

Then the second year people would come to him and say that they could not hide the fact that all their money was gone and their livestock belonged to Joseph. All they had left was their bodies and their lands. And they suggested that Joseph buy them and their land in exchange for bread and seed for the land, and then they and their land would be servants to Pharaoh.

So Joseph bought all of the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, as all of the Egyptians sold their fields one by one, and ownership was transferred over to Pharaoh. The people were reduced to a voluntary servitude, right along from one border of Egypt to the other. Only the priests retained their land, since it was given to them by Pharaoh and he supplied them with rations.

Joseph told the people that they and their land had been bought, and handed them seed to sow the land. When harvest came they must give a fifth to Pharaoh, and then they would retain four-fifths for seed for the field and for food, for them and their households and children. And the people agreed that they would be Pharaoh's servants, as Joseph had saved their lives.

Now this was only around halfway through the famine, in the fourth year out of seven years, and so Yahweh was already starting to roll back his geo-engineering operations by this year, at least in Egypt, since the famine had already achieved its objectives. Much as Yahweh would have obtained a perverse gratification by killing off many more people through starvation, this would not be conducive to his insidious agenda of establishing a powerful race of saboteurs to infiltrate, subvert and ruin the progress of human civilization.

Joseph made a decree over the whole of Egypt that Pharaoh should have a fifth of the produce of the land, except for the land of the priests that did not become Pharaoh's.

And Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen, and had possessions there, and they grew and multiplied exceedingly.

As the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph, and he made him promise to bury him not in the land of Egypt, but to let him rest with his fathers in their burial place. And so Joseph swore to Jacob that he would do that in accordance with his wishes.

Jacob is said to have lived for 17 years in the land of Egypt, which would have mostly covered years of abundance, and even during the famine the Israelites did not go short. And altogether, Jacob lived for 147 years.

Soon after this Joseph was told that his father was sick, and so he took along his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim. Somebody told Jacob that his son was coming to see him, and so he strengthened himself and sat up on the bed.

Jacob told Joseph how his El Shaddai appeared to him at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed him, and told him that he would make him fruitful and would multiply him, so that he became a company of peoples, and El would give Jacob's seed after him the land of Canaan for an enduring possession. And Jacob began rambling on about how Joseph's two sons were Jacob's, but any subsequent sons that Joseph had would be Joseph's.

By this point Jacob's eyes were dim with age, and he asked who Joseph had brought with him. Joseph confirmed it was his sons, and Jacob asked Joseph to bring them over so that he could bless them. Joseph took Ephraim in his right hand towards Jacob's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand towards Jacob's right hand. Then Jacob crossed his hands over and put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, although Manasseh was the firstborn. And Jacob gave a little speech about Elohim blessing the boys who should be allowed to swarm in abundance, and he blessed Joseph.

But when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim the younger, it was wrong in his eyes, and he held up his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. Joseph said, "Not so, my father! For this is the firstborn. Put your hand against his head."

And his father refused, saying that he knew Manasseh would also become a people and would be eminent, but his younger brother would become more eminent than him and his seed would become a multitude. And Israel said to Joseph that he was dying, but Elohim would be with Joseph, and would bring him back to the land of his fathers.

Then Jacob called all of his sons and delivered a long speech, in which they were variously compared to such things as a lion's whelp, a donkey, a wolf and a snake, which must have been controversial to say the least. But he blessed each of his sons, and the twelve of them were considered to be the twelve tribes of Israel.

Jacob instructed them to bury him in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which faces Mamre, in the land of Canaan, that Abraham bought for a burying place. And then at the end of his instructions, Jacob gave out his last breath.

Then Joseph wept and kissed his father, and ordered his servants the physicians to embalm his father, and so they embalmed him. 40 days were fulfilled for him, and the Egyptians mourned him for 70 days.

After the days of his mourning were past, Joseph went to the palace of Pharaoh and told them to tell Pharaoh about how Jacob had made Joseph swear to take him to the land of Canaan, to bury him in the tomb along with his fathers and their wives. And Pharaoh agreed.

Joseph went up to bury his father, and an extremely large company of chariots and horsemen went along with him, including servants of Pharaoh, his palace elders, the elders of Egypt, and all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. The children and animals remained in the land of Goshen.

Jacob's sons did as he had instructed, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah. And then they all returned to Egypt.

Now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers began to fear that Joseph would hate them and pay them back for how they had wronged him. So they sent a messenger to Joseph saying that his father had commanded before he died that they should say this to Joseph, "Please forgive the offence of your brothers and their sin, for they committed evil against you. And now, please forgive the offence of the servants of the Elohim of your father."

When they spoke to him, Joseph wept. And his brothers also went and fell down in front of him and said, "See now, we are your servants."

Joseph told them not to fear, since although they meant evil against him, his Elohim meant it for good - to save lives. Little did Joseph know of the true nature of Yahweh. And so Joseph comforted them, and said he would nourish them and their little ones.

And Joseph lived for 110 years. He had played such an important role in Yahweh's operation, but Yahweh thought it was time for a new kid to take over, and ceased the cellular repair activity in Joseph. Eventually Joseph told his brothers that he was dying, but Elohim would surely visit them and would bring them out of Egypt to the land he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "Elohim will surely visit you, and you will carry up my bones from here." When Joseph died they embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

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