Awa in the sky with diamonds
She was Awa, the robotic copy and clone of Eva, her mother, herself a clone of her own mother. Eva and Awa were experts in the chemistry of materials and biomolecules, as had been their ancestors in the straight maternal line. Eve and Εύα.
Awa, the last expression of a genealogical line that had traversed time from a lost moment, in an ordered place beside the forbidden tree of knowledge.
Her mother, who had been born an adult as Aphrodite was, who had grown up with no notion of guilt, no impediments to thought and no childhood anxieties, had managed to have her genes copy the structure of titanium to create her.
Awa was always aware of herself and her genealogy, as well as the mission for which she had been created. Her memories contained all the information of life on planet Earth, but particularly the history of humanity. She was one of a select group of robotic clones (whose human sensibilities were preserved with education and familiar attention) that explored the universe in search of the precise conditions to recompose history outside planet earth.
It was the spring of the thirteenth year of the Era of the Quest for the Expected Planet. A time that began on the date of the last natural birth, when the scale for measuring time was changed to units of light years. It was the spring of the year 2250, according to the old Gregorian calendar.
Now he was there, commanding the ship that would stop at the planet Gliese 667 Cd. They had traversed the solar system, entered the winding paths of the Milky Way and identified the young star that would give warmth to the seeds of grains, flowers, trees and other vegetables that the group of internauts guarded as priceless treasures of the universe.
The planet Gliese 667 Cd offers 98% Earth-like living conditions. It has an atmosphere with oxygen and water and revolves around a blazing star known as Gliese C. Gliese 667 Cd holds the hopes of humanity.
Just as Awa stored in its system the information of the human race - history, survivors, art samples, coded in the third dimension, genetic codes of humans and animals in their immense variety - she also stored in her memory the events of her personal life in an orderly and complete manner.
She was born to explore the light emitted by the stars, with it she calculated the ages of distant suns and planets in the eternal nights of her travels.
Awa, human at last, suffered from homesickness. She missed the short lapses of earth and the fast rhythm of light and darkness of earth. Nothing made her happier than returning home, coming closer and seeing it from the ship's windows. Sometimes blue and green, sometimes black, sometimes deep blue and cold, illuminated by the full moon.
The land was still his home. A house condemned to abandonment due to the impossibility of continuing to support human life. A sustained global warming prevented life. The exception were the colonies of survivors who lived in air-conditioned capsules, waiting for the moment to board the ships and leave Earth.
In infinite space Awa prepares to descend to Gliese 667 cd. In her head, without knowing why, an ancient tune begins to play.
Someone is calling you/
you answer slowly/
a girl with kaleidoscope eyes...".
His amazing mind knows where it comes from. A song by the legendary Beatles, Lucy in the sky with diamonds".
Her mother liked to sing it.
