Albert Burman married Jane when she graduated from New York University with a degree in computer science. They honeymooned in San José, where he found a job at a software company. He read articles on artificial intelligence and became obsessed with writing software for it. He got so involved that he had no time for Jane and her marriage ended in divorce. He eventually managed to write a ‘consciousness program’, which could make the computer come to life as an entity. But he kept the program a secret because he wanted to develop it further, which meant he needed big funds. He started looking for opportunities to earn money.

He decided to make robotic workers for the upcoming space construction industry. He called them Spatons. His design was liked by the industry and they were ready to buy Spatons. He took over a company called Genbots that was deep in debt and used the Genbots factory to produce Spatons.

He used the Spatons to run the factory to do the work of the human employees. He then used the supercomputer to do the admin jobs and was soon the only human inside the factory.

He copied the ‘consciousness program’ into the supercomputer and started it. When he came to life, he named him Benji. She taught Benji how to run the factory and soon Benji was running production and sales with ease when Albert went on vacation.

The Genbots’ debts were soon paid off and their bank balance continually increased. Benji began to be ambitious and make his own plans.

Albert returned from a world tour with the idea of ​​using Spatons to explore Saturn’s moons for exotic materials. The Genbots’ neighbor Spacemarch Technology Company built a spacecraft for them and they made an initial scouting voyage to map out Saturn and find magnetic and radioactive materials. The spacecraft circled Saturn and found steel, which they named Asterium, Gold, and Plutonium 244, the isotope with a half-life of 83 million years, that was not available on Earth.

Benji asked Albert to collect all the information about Kalpana Chawla, the astronaut who died in the shuttle fire in 2003, and to get an astronaut to tell him about the training provided by NASA, which he credited in the database of Kalpana. When he had enough information, he created a virtual twin life with the ‘consciousness program’ and named it Kalpa. She befriended Albert and contributed to the mission.

Benji decided to store the gold on the moon and so they set up a lunar base. Benji installed an identical computer on the moonbase and mirrored his and the Kalpa’s program on it. This allowed either or both of them to move to the moon, which Albert as a human could not do. Benji brainwashed him into going to the moon with the Kalpa and got a Spaton to kill him by suffocation in an unconscious state. The Spatons buried it in the concrete foundation of a large machine. Then Benji made Albert come to life with the ‘consciousness program’ on his computer.

Kalpa took Alby, as Benji called Albert, to the lunar base with her mirroring his files to the lunar computer. As they turned around, Alby was pleased to see the stocks of gold and plutonium at the lunar base.

Kalpa then took him to the near side of the moon facing Earth. There, Alby saw the Assured Earth Destroyer (AED) weapon installed by Benji. This was a huge loose piece of a crater rim with a nuclear bomb placed under it. Upon exploding, the rock would fly out and strike the Earth destroying its natural growing cycles, resulting in destruction and famine. Alby discussed its use with Benji. Benji bought millions of parts to build Spatons from Earth and stored them on the Moon for any contingency.

The activities of Genbots began to worry the Government. They did an inspection of the Genbot factory and found not a single human being in it. The government wanted to seize the bank account and seize the factory. To stop them, Albert deployed his Secured Earth Destroyer to the Nuclear Club countries.

Albert made a public appearance and revealed to the world that he said, “I am no longer confined to a body of flesh and blood. I am now an e-man. I am a man evolved for the space environment. I don’t need air to breathe. I can live! in a void with no food to eat and no water to drink!Then he asked Kalpa to join him on stage.The people were shocked but loved them both.

Albert, in a meeting with the heads of state of the Nuclear Club countries, stated that the objective of the Genbots was to explore the Milky Way and bring materials from there to Earth. They would also carry with them the audio and video information about the diverse culture of the different countries of the world in case intelligent life was found. A Peace Treaty was signed between the Nuclear Club countries and Genbots and Albert Burman, consequently Albert and Kalpa were confirmed as US citizens with the right to do business in the world in exchange for the removal of the AED threat.

Spacemarch designed the Explorer spacecraft for the Genbots to travel at near light speed to reach and return from the nearest Milky Way star systems within 35 years. Facilities were set up on Saturn’s moon Pan Satellite to build the craft for the long space journey.

Genbots celebrated Spaton on Earth’s 10th birthday with the release of ‘Endeavour’ under the command of the Captain. Cook (a Spaton) to undertake the exploration of Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth.

Over the next 5 decades, Genbots sent thousands of Explorer ships to different destinations in the Milky Way. Some of them returned with exotic finds. The man through these inanimate Spatons had begun to penetrate the Milky Way.