Option Two: the Edwardian Proposal

Option Two: the Edwardian Proposal by Jill Crokett

(copyright 2004, Jillian Victoria Crokett)

Chapter Two: A Rebel Mole

My code name is Grey Marleau. I cannot tell you my real name. I am writing this secret journal at risk to my own life and that of my loved ones. My writing has only one purpose; that my fellow citizens of Earth learn the truth.

Ever since alien Edwardians appeared on our planet four years ago, there has been a worldwide conspiracy between major governments to keep the truth about the alien abductions of humans out of the world media. This conspiracy extends to a secret global censure which bans the reporting of what actually happens to those persons and families (yes, entire families) who are abducted, and to an unspoken full media censure of any discussion of the collaboration by major world powers, the United Nations, and powerful human individuals, with regard to the exploitation of, and profiteering from, abducted, enslaved humans.

Soon after receiving an MBA degree with honors from Stanford University in California three years ago, I was hired by Edwardian officials as an executive management trainee at their massive Human Processing Plant and Teleporting Center in central Australia, just east of the now booming but quite isolated city of Alice Springs. (It must be noted here that, since 2019, reporters have been banned from going anywhere near Alice Springs). Since completing my senior management internship at the plant I have been promoted, along with hundreds of other mid-level managers, to a supervisory management position in Human Harvesting and Processing which I will not further identify here. It is my hope that, by learning the truth about what happens to tens-of-thousands of their fellow humans each week, the people of Earth will know that their own politicians betrayed them, and they will begin to speak out against both the censorship, and the atrocities.

Before explaining the functions of the massive facility in Australia where I work each day alongside over six thousand of other human employees, I need to give you some background on the abduction process itself, that is, what happens to people in the 30 minutes or so before we receive them.

ABDUCTION

I did not know how the locations of the daily mass abductions are determined. According to the Edwardian Proposal Treaty of 2019 they are suppose to be at random but totally determined by the Edwardians. Most of us humans at the plant assume that they are determined by some computer selection process, but that is conjecture on our part.

Once the location for a given day's abduction has been determined, an Edwardian Starship hovers in place over the selected town, neighborhood, campus, or workplace. A yellow beam of light is then emitted from the starship and covers a precise pre-prescribed area of Earth. The beam penetrates buildings, trees, steel, anything it touches. Within moments, hovercraft, which are actually portable teleporting facilities, hover down and land throughout the prescribed area.

Everyone in that area will be harvested and beamed to Australia. The only blanket exception are those who appear to be over age 60 and young kids under about age 10. They are always left behind. Kids between 10 and 14 years of age are only harvested along with their parents, and if no parents are clearly with them they are left alone. Anyone who appears to be 15 years or older is considered an adult and is taken, parents or no parents. Mothers who clearly are with babies or very young children are not abducted. That said, this part of the selection process is done very quickly and mistakes are made. When an abduction error is determined in the processing phase here in Australia, the abductee in question is simply beamed back home to their neighborhood. No apology is given.

Once the yellow harvesting beam from the Edwardian Starship strikes, everyone and everything under its effect more or less freezes in a sort of slow-motion. Machines stop running. Automobile engines stall. Clocks stop. As part of my management training I had to witness all phases of the process, and even though I'm not directly involved in the human abduction phase, I've had to witness several of them. The people under the beam's effect can still move about and walk slowly; they just can't run or make quick movements. Resistance does occur, but because of the beam's effect the abductees cannot struggle very much. Their speech is also slowed down and they are not able to yell or scream very well under the beam's effect. Once they've been handcuffed with their hands behind their back, the abductees are hustled out to one of dozens of awaiting portable teleporting vans which are now hovering low throughout their neighborhood. If they resist at this point, and they occasionally do, they're sprayed in the face with a very brief knock-out gas and carried to the van. Each portable teleporting van holds about 20 people. Within minutes its human contents is teleported to the receiving center here in Australia, and the van is then ready to be filled again by the harvesting crew.

The human employee members of the harvesting team are not affected by the yellow beam because of special space-like suits they wear. Edwardians supervisors, apparently because of an oil their skin secretes, appear to be totally immune to the beam's effect.

PROCESSING

To get a mental picture, one needs to imagine the massive scale of this place. The plant was built to process 10,000 human abductees a day, every day, 365 days a year, and over 6,000 human employees work at the facility. It's a small town with a medical clinic, security and maintenance centers, a training center, dining facilities, an athletic center, and multiple employee lounges. Why, you might ask, would someone want to work here? The answer is simple; money. Even a janitor here can make several hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. But no matter what the pay, the mental toll of witnessing a holocaust of unimaginable proportions is overwhelming. Suicide and divorce rates are high among employees are the highest in the world, and there is a strict code of secrecy which cannot be broken under penalty of death. I risk my own life, and that of my loved ones, just for writing these words.

Before processing can begin here at the Australia facility, the abductee must first be classified into one of two categories. The first category is Frozen Processed Human Meat, which is a carcass ready for cooking. 95% of all abductees entering the facility will be classified into this category. They will be slaughtered at the facility the day they arrive, and their carcass will be flashed frozen and teleported to the planet Edo within 24 hours.

The second category, which represents only about 5% of all abductees, is those who are selected to be sent to Edo alive. What happens to them on Edo is up to the Edwardians, but generally speaking they are either slaughtered there as fresh meat, kept as slaves, or kept in reserve as livestock. I believe the Edwardians want to keep some livestock on their own turf just in case the teleporting system temporarily breaks down. They don't want the whole process there however, because their planet does not have the natural resources to support such an effort. The people selected to be sent to Edo alive tend to the related family members who can be shipped alive together as one package.

The Edwardians have a fondness for slaughtering people together who have an emotional bond with one another. This is something that almost no one on Earth knows about except those who work in harvesting and processing. To select those 5% (about 500 people per day) who will be teleported to Edo alive, special selection teams at the Receiving Center look for family members who have been abducted together so they can be sent to Edo as a small group. They look for parents abducted together with children, pairs of sisters, brothers and sisters, etc. This special selection process begins as soon as the inductees arrive at the Receiving Center. Not all family members abducted together are selected. In order to qualify for special live shipment, candidates must be healthy and at least fairly attractive.

The receiving area, officially known as the Teleport Receiving Center, is a building larger than a football stadium. 10,000 people are beamed into it each day. The people arrive handcuffed, dazed, and wearing exactly what that they had on when they were abducted; a nightgown, business suit, bathing suit, a bath towel, and occasionally nothing. People usually have been harvested at home or work, but they also just as well might have been seized on a city sidewalk, a university campus, a bus, a subway train or their very own automobile. No one knows it is coming.

During the two-minute teleporting process the handcuffed abductees are shown a brief video warning them to be compliant once they arrive at the center. The video is always in their native language, and it is very graphic. It shows several unfortunate abductees being bayoneted for refusing to obey a direct order. The brief video makes it clear. Noncompliance will not be tolerated.

Once the abductees have seen the video, the teleport doors fly open and the very first person they see is a uniformed guard holding a bayonet. He looks just like the one in the video. They are then hustled out into a large reception hall where they see hundreds of other abductees also being processed. If there is even the slightest noncompliance, an abductee will be bayoneted as an example to the hundreds of others in the hall. For this reason the floor of the receiving hall is a steel grate so blood will quickly drain straight down from any point. If the noncompliant abductee is bayoneted as an example, their body is then immediately hoisted up on the meat hook for all to see, just in case someone didn't get the message. Each day at least a dozen abductees are bayoneted in the receiving hall.

The abductees are then lined up and each is quickly quizzed and computer scanned to calculate into which of the two groups they belong. Families and relatives are sorted out and group together, and from among those it is determined who will be sent to Edo alive. The rest, which constitute the great majority, are hustled, still fully clothed and handcuffed, to one of several long parallel conveyor belts which move them out of the hall and on to their next station. Guards with bayonets are stationed along the conveyor belts. The 5% selected to be sent live are packed back into the teleporter, and in two minutes and they are on the planet Edo, still handcuffed, and still wearing the clothes they had on when they were abducted.

Continued in chapter three