Review authors: A.V. Sheverov and A.V. Chinarev.
All of humanity has taken a giant leap forward. Since 2012, a year long foretold by the Maya, Nostradamus, and the Ancient Egyptians as a time of hardship, something else happened. I remember that day, December 21, 2012, as if it were yesterday; all of humanity was in turmoil, trembling, waiting for the madness that soon followed.
Led by the presidents of all nations, extraterrestrial beings made a special broadcast on television. People could not believe their eyes, let alone their ears. It turned out that contact had been established and close cooperation with UFOs had been ongoing since 1959. They were not scary at all, unlike in the movies; on the contrary, they resembled humans, though taller, with bright auras of various colors depending on their ULU (a kind of social status—for example, a doctor is purple, a politician is yellow-gray, and white is their Chakhli, i.e., the emperor).
From that day on, everything began to change for humanity. The dominant states finally signed an agreement to dismantle nuclear weapons, as it was one of the conditions set by our new friends, who were interested in preserving Earth as a particle of the Universe. In return, we received advanced technologies that we had only heard of in books, such as H.G. Wells' novel 'The Time Machine' or Jules Verne's science fiction novel 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' and others.
In 2018, the first flying cars rolled off the assembly lines; it was a sensation. New materials brought to us from the far corners of the Universe were incredibly strong yet lighter than air; our scientists were simply baffled.
- The United States of America was chosen as the main headquarters for the Anola race on Earth.
In 2025, dissatisfied, China and the Russian Federation issued a verdict to the supreme management of A2E (Anola to Earth) with the following petition: 'We, the two powerful superpowers, China and the Russian Federation, ask you to move your command center to our vast lands.' But the A2E supreme management did not grant this request, offering instead much more important powers, granting them ownership of a 'scander' for travel through space and time, with the ability to open a portal to any point on Earth and other planets in the Universe. This decision was to our liking.
You will likely ask me why I am talking about politics and what role IEC (International Exchange Center) plays here, after all?
Well, a year and a half ago, specifically on June 15, 2027, the Government of the Russian Federation signed a decree on the commercial use of the scander. And now we have arrived at the point where IEC, being a successful corporation, having eliminated all competitors by this time and standing in the market alongside corporations like RAO Aeromobile, RAO GazpromLicidiy—without the 'RAO' prefix, of course—was quick to act and added such a tool as the Scander to its arsenal.
It is 2029. I live in Samara on the 100th floor—approximately, because I have a flying house in the clouds. If people in 2010 could hear me, they would have locked me in an asylum. But now everything is different. With the help of my aeromobile, I freely fly to the snowy streets of the village and head to the International Exchange Center. You might ask: 'Hey, it's 2029, why go anywhere, isn't everything computerized?' I will answer: 'Yes, that is true, but this morning I didn't even plan to go to the USA, and then a text message arrived from friends with an offer to relax and earn some money in Uncle Sam's country and admire the Anola headquarters. I agreed immediately; just by imagining the call, my frequencies were caught by the neuro-brain locator, which connected my car to an IEC specialist. In an instant, I was fully consulted and enrolled in the program.'
And now, I am already flying to meet the famous alien invention—the scander. They say the first time you teleport is difficult, but I am not afraid, because in our time, it is so hard to die.
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