Sections with a light green background are events in the history of the Heim project - the others are my Heim story and, from Chaper 119 onwards, a narrative of recent events.
Within their categories (history or story), most chapters and events are in chronological order, but some history chapters are not, due to the time at which they were originally researched, written and published.
John Mortimer
| Ch# | Date | Precis of Events | Latest update |
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| Jan-89 | The Beginning - Childhood Memories Perth, Western Australia. Back in 1989, at 12 years of age, the storyteller, John Mortimer is visiting his father's friend where he and his friend Huey discover a strange object in a cave on the land. | 1 Jan 2022 | |
| 1958-1961 | The Cold War and the Alliance.The years 1954 to 1961 saw the formation of a semi-secret group called the Alliance of Concerned Scientists who's aim was to promote science free from the influence and control of the military and industrial complex. This led to research into previously neglected areas, including the work of Burkhard Heim. | 19 Apr 2024 | |
| Jun-2015 | 26 years later - The return to Perth. In 2015, at 38 years of age,our protagonist returns to Perth after a prolonged absence. He learns that his father's old friend, Harry, has died and bequeathed to him his rural property. Has an encounter with a stranger called Booth and agrees to discuss a vague job offer with him. Reacquainted with his childhood friend, Huey, they revisit the cave where they discovered the strange object 26 years earlier. Another stanger, a man called Leon Chisholm, offers to lease or buy the property. | 8 Jan 2022 | |
| Early 60's | Heim University.In the 1960’s, the Alliance establishes a Swiss Institute which is specifically set up to attempt to develop practical applications of the Heim's Unified Field Theory and kick-start the Heim University project. | 29 July 2024 | |
| Aug-2015 | An intriguing offer. In mid August 2015, John Mortimer visits a factory compex in Perth to discuss Booth's job offer, where the existence of the Heim project is revealed. He is offered a job as the University's historian. He finds that the complex has a number of strange features, including strange wall displays, unfamiliar components being manufactured and effortlessly loaded onto train wagons in a covered loading dock for shipment to a remote facility. He is invited to join Booth on the next train journey to its remote destination. | 15 Jan 2022 | |
| 1950's | Heim's Unified Field theory - Publication and reaction. In the 1950's German physicist Burkhard Heim, in the course of his attempts to link quantum mechanics with Einstein's general theory of relativity, began to explore a hyper-drive propulsion concept. His paper on the subject was published in 1957 but was largely ignored. Building on Heim's work, on similar but not parallel lines, the Institute scientists were heading towards the development of practical applications. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Aug-2015 | On the Train. I prepare to board train from GB1 to Heim University's Remote Ground Base one (RGB1) in Nullarbor. There I first learn of the University's true purpose and the full extent of its reach. During the journey, Booth reveals that they are involved in space exploration. | 22 Jan 2022 | |
| Early 70's | Breakthrough. The Institute's scientists achieved a breakthrough in the early 1970’s. This led to the development of a low energy input field propulsion device. After producing prototypes of small lifting devices, the first manned vehicle was built. From there the speed of development followed exponential curve between 1970 and 1972. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Aug-2015 | Out to the Nullarbor desert.The train arrives at night at a rail siding in the Nullarbor desert and JM is transported across the desert to a large complex and shown to sleeping accommodation. The next day on a tour of the facility he witnesses a strange vehicle being loaded with containers in an underground hangar. He is told that it is a space-going vehicle. He is told that its destination is a twenty-five year old asteroid settlement called Heim Alpha and that there is a second called Heim Beta. | 29 Jan 2022 | |
| Late 1971 | The Heim effect and Development of the first GET, GEV and the LV. Each of the Heim effects is simply a manifestation of the same fundamental force, but engineered to operate in different ways. It can be used to simulate a gravity field in a zero or micro-gravity situation. This is referred to as the pseudo-gravity configuration, shortened to pGrav. In its driving or repelling configuration, at low power, it can act as if to provide a counter, or negative, gravity field - anti-gravity or aGrav, in Heim terms. That same configuration can be scaled up and focused to act as a mass driver, to accelerate bodies in space. That is termed hDrive. These effects were used in the development of the GET (Ground Effect Transporter), GEV (Ground Effect Vehicle) and the LV (Lift Vehicle). | 19 April 2024 | |
| Aug/Sep-2015 | Closing the deal. In August I saw, for the first time, the lift off of an LV at RGB1 in the Nullarbor. Later, in September, I accepted Booth's job offer to join the Heim project as their historian. | 5 Feb 2022 | |
| 1970 | Outline plan for off-world settlement. The proof of the viability of a practical, high efficiency and low energy means of putting high mass objects into space almost inevitably led to the concept of off-world activities on a significant scale. The faculty put a planning Circle (team) together to develop a structure for space exploration and resource exploitation with the ultimate objective of achieving a future permanent, self-sustaining off-world campus and support facilities. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Sept-2015 | Ulterior Motive and The Neighbours. I suspect that Booth and his colleagues have an ulterior Motive for my job offer when the 'Neighbours' existence and history is revealed to me for the first time and the nature of the object buried on my property is revealed. | 12 Feb 2022 | |
| Sept-2015 | Homo Neanderthalis. What really happened to them? This chapter discusses the modern archaeological communities' theories about the fate of Homo Neanderthalis and compares them with the recent revelations from their living, off-world, descendants - the 'Neighbours' - as to their actual history. | 22 Aug 2024 | |
| Sept-2015 | Putting the Pieces Together. I summarise what I have learned to date, discussing return of Neighbours lost property and the start of my writing of this story, together with the history of the Heim project. | 19 Feb 2022 | |
| Mid-1990 | First contact. The people that we refer to as the Neighbours first made themselves known to us in the mid-1990's in connection with one of their scout ships, lost many centuries ago. They contacted the Heim Alpha asteroid settlement and asked for assistance to recover that lost artefact of theirs, which turned out to be the apparently ancient mysterious object buried on John Mortimer's property to the north of Perth, Western Australia. Ye, of the Sometime Three, is the name of the usual spokesperson for the trio of Neighbours who we now know to be advanced, off-world, descendants of the branch of humans that we call the Neanderthals. |
19 April 2024 | |
| Nov-2015 | The Contact Circle. My first meeting with a member of our Neighbours Contact Circle occurred when I happened to be at the Perth base, GB1, when a member of that Circle, Sarah Lassiter, was passing through. Over lunch, she explained that their main contact with the Neighbours was a person, or possibly several people, called Ye who spoke to them, either on their own, or in a group with two others whose names hadn't been revealed. Because of this, the Circle members had taken to referring to Ye as "Ye, of the sometime three". She filled me in on their knowledge of the Neighbours to date and indicated that I may be able to communicate directly to Ye at some future contact session. | 15 Nov 2022 | |
| Mid-1970 | The Steering Circle. Steering Circle was a committee of faculty members formed to report on suggested suitable and discrete locations for construction of Heim effect vehicles and to oversee their research and development. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Nov/Dec 2015 | Going around in Circles. The concept and purpose of 'Circles' in the Heim context was outlined to me. He explained that the University's modus operandi is to form research, discussion and decision making 'Circles' from groups of people who are working on similar problems areas or fields. Ultimately, I agreed to join and contribute to two specific Circles; the Risk Assessment and Mitigation Circle and the Exit Planning Circle. | 5 Mar 2022 | |
| Late 1970 | Recruitment. To meet the needs of the Planning Circle's scheme for development of the first Western Australian ground bases and the building of Heim effect vehicles, a drive was initiated to recruit those with skills such as in construction, metal fabrication, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, avionics and support people. The programme was put together on the basis of two levels of staff - the few with security clearance and, in the majority, those without. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Jan-2016 | The Excavation. In early January 2016, excavation of the Neighbour's long-lost scout vessel from rear of my West Australian property, took place. I witnessed its covert extraction and was, for the first time, able to see its shape and size. | 12 Mar 2022 | |
| 1970-71 | City base (GB1) In 1970, the purchase of a business in industrial area of Perth city, within its southern rail yards, took place. During 1971, extensive repair, renovation and construction took place on the site. The GB1 site, which was initially the hub of all Australian operations, was quite extensive in size, to cater for future needs and expansion. The base continued to serve as the project's Australian HQ until 2019, when all sensitive equipment and records were removed and transferred to RGB1 for off-world shipment, or disposal. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Jan-2016 | The return of the property. The return of the Neighbours long-lost scout ship, following its uncovering on my property, took place at night. The vessel was covered, loaded onto a trailer and delivered to GB1 in Perth for onward shipment by rail to RGB1 in the Nullarbor plains. Two days later, I witnessed its loading onto the freight deck of an LV and its subsequent lift-off for an arranged but unwitnessed rendezvous with a neighbour's vessel of some sort. | 19 Mar 2022 | |
| 1970-71 | GETs and Railway Transport. The original Heim rail stock, purchased in 1970, consisted of four 1951-52 GM Class diesel electric locomotives, various flatbed rail wagons and four pairs of worker's accommodation railcars. Subsequently, Heim effect GET units were fitted to all rolling stock and the worker's accommodation car interiors were refurbished and fitted out with full communications suites. | 19 April 2024 | |
| June-2015 & Feb-2016 | The Bermuda story and the conspiracy confirmed. One day, at the Perth base, I was in conversation with a person known as 'The Commander' who was, several years ago, the head of the now defunct Heim Bermuda Ground base. That made me recall a strange story, told to me by a former resident of the island of Bermuda, which revealed his discovery of an underground Base there. The storyteller maintained contact with me and expressed a good deal of interest in my property. I now realise that he was aware of what was on it. The Commander admitted that he knew this man. All this, together with earlier 'chance' meetings with other Heim people made me realise that I had been manipulated, obviously to gain access to the Neighbour's ship. | 26 Mar 2022 | |
| 1971-72 | Remote Ground Base 1. The Western Australian Nullarbor Plains were selected as the most likely place to establish a remote base. Exploration of the area around the Transline road and Trans-Australia railway line took place over a four-month period in the winter of 1970. Eventually, an abandoned mine site was found and a 50-year lease was obtained from the Australian Federal Government's Crown Lands department. Construction of the RGB1 base facilities started in 1971. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Jan-2016 | A pleasant time in Berne, Switzerland. I visit the Institute/University's offices in Berne, Switzerland to begin research into the history of the Heim project and the University. | 2 Apr 2022 | |
| 1970-1973 | Construction of the LV1s. Development of prototype Lift Vehicles - the designing and building the first space exploration vessels. In Switzerland in early 1970 the Institute put together a dedicated design team with a remit to settle on a suitable design for an off-world lift vehicle, utilising the hDrive. By March 1972 the GB1 workshops were ready to begin the fabrication of the first components. By early May 1972, all major problems with the fabrication of component parts had been ironed out and the LV1 assembly began in earnest at RGB1 in the Nullarbor. The first two flight-ready LV1s took eighteen months to complete, and be ready for field testing. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Jan-2016 | My first visit to the United Kingdom. After my Swiss visit, I travelled to the UK to inspect the Heim port facility and a Heim owned container vessel used for launch and recovery of LV's. | 9 Apr 2022 | |
| Nov-73 to Sep-74 | Field Testing the first LV1s. After eighteen months of construction, two of the LV1s were ready for field testing. These were both to be made flight ready. A third, which was not designed to be fully fitted out, had been undergoing pressure and stress testing for a few months. The certification process took place in four stages: Ground testing, atmospheric flight testing, exospheric testing and testing in interplanetary space. The testing programme took ten months to complete, so it wasn't until the end of September 1974 that the vessels were certified for a full deep-space asteroid survey expedition. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Jan-2016 | Going to the Tailor's. Measurement and fitting of flight suits, work suits and space suits. Near the close of January 2016, I returned from the Nullarbor base to my home in Perth as I had an appointment for pressure suit measurement at GB1, preparatory to an upcoming training course. There I met my fellow trainees, Hanran O'Halloran, James Box, Leanne Shawditch and Lars Svensson. We were to be fitted with three types of protective wear; the FlightSuit, the WorkSuit and the Spacesuit. We spent two days familiarising ourselves with the manufacture, functions and maintenance of the three different types. | 16 Apr 2022 | |
| Oct-1974 | First asteroid expedition was an LV1 proving journey to a relatively near asteroid. Its purpose was to build on the experience gained on the stage-four test excursions to the L2 Lagrange point, which took place in July and August 1974, and to shake down any remaining problems. The main objectives were to test deep space navigation and life-support systems. The mission took twenty-seven days and included a touch down on an asteroid and EVA exploration of the surface, surface drilling, seismic surveying, sample gathering and radiation and magnetic field measurements. The results of the structural examination of the returned vessel, together with asteroid samples and survey results formed the basis of planning for the next mission and modifications to the specifications for the production version LV, the LV2. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Feb 2016 | Training: Days 1 to 3. LV2 Familiarisation. The first three days of our training included full familiarisation with all parts of an actual LV2 and developing an understanding the risks and challenges of space travel. | 16 Apr 2022 | |
| 1974/75 | LV2 - The next generation. The production model, the LV2, superseded the LV1 prototypes. Fabrication of components for this next-generation vessel started in late-1974. The final design changes were made, in Switzerland, in response to the data obtained from the first asteroid mission. The LV2 was to become the principal 'work-horse' of the Heim project for the next ten years - until the development of the new range of SV deep space vessels in 1984. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Feb 2016 | Training: Days 4 to 7. Checklists and Flight Simulation. The next three days included familiarisation with pre-flight inspection checklists, time spent on the flight simulator, simulated systems failures and a time-abbreviated simulated trip to Alpha. The fourth day, Sunday, was a free day. | 23 Apr 2022 | |
| July 1975 | Location selection. The lead up to the selection of bodies to be visited on the Second Expedition was a culmination of a study into the various types and locations of asteroids within the Belt. Prior to the August '75 launch of that expedition, it had been decided that the initial selection was to be solely from S-Type asteroids. The final decision of the body most suitable for Heim Alpha took place in November and December of 1975, after the analysis of results from the October 1975 return of the expedition. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Feb 2016 | Training: Days 8 and 9. Flight and Work Suits. Day 8 of the training saw the arrival of our tailored set of pressure suits. That day was spent checking and fitting the FlightSuits, the WorkSuits and the EVA ready Spacesuits. The next day was spent training in the use of the FlightSuits and WorkSuits. | 23 Apr 2022 | |
| Aug-Oct 75 | Second expedition. By the middle of 1975, the Circle members were satisfied that modifications incorporated into the LV2s during the preceding months meant that they were ready to begin preparations for that second expedition to the inner belt. During July of that year two crews were assembled and two ships were prepared, equipped and provisioned. The Second Expedition was launched in August 1975 and returned to base during the last week in October 1975. The survey missions were highly successful, having proved the reliability and mission effectiveness of the LV2 design and navigation systems and having identified several candidate bodies for the first off-world Heim settlement. | 19 April 2024 | |
| Feb 2016 | Training: Days 10 to 14. Spacesuit and Zero G activities. The final days of training were largely devoted to intensive training in Spacesuit use in vacuum and zero-g conditions. They also included airlock safety training, use of the emergency pack Personal Environment Kit, Zero-g stowage procedures and basic paramedic training. | 30 April 2022 | |
| Dec 75 to July 76 |
Alpha Survey Expeditions. The next stage in the process was the mounting of a series of three new expeditions to thoroughly survey and examine the selected asteroid, now called Heim Alpha. It was necessary to have a great deal more information before a workable plan for excavation and habitat construction could be formulated. This period, close to fifty years ago, could truly be said to be the birth of Heim Alpha, the first off-world settlement. |
30 April 2022 | |
| Late Feb-2016 | Briefing and Itinerary for my first visit to Alpha. At RGB1, three days prior to lift off on my first spaceflight, I received lists of my individual pre-departure, onboard and on-arrival duties, downloaded to my Heim tablet. Later, I also received my final itinerary for my Alpha Base visit. After a brief return to Perth came back for final quarantine and pre-flight health checks. | 30 April 2022 | |
| 1976 | Equipment sourcing - crew selection and training. By mid-1976 the Institute in Switzerland had built or acquired several engineering and manufacturing facilities capable of fabricating many of the components which would be required for the construction of the Heim Alpha settlement. Later, major items of equipment, such as tunnel borers, were acquired from specialist organizations and modified for airless, micro-gravity conditions in the Institute's engineering facilities. Recruitment requirements were for both engineers and support personnel to man the supply ships and carry out basic training in off-world environmental conditions. The recruits for these support and trainer roles included war veterans, pilots and ex-security people. |
19 April 2024 | |
| End Feb-2016 | The Journey to Heim Alpha. On my first Journey to Heim Alpha, we carried out our final pre-flight checks at 8:30pm and lifted off at 23:35 AWST. During the journey the watches were four hours long, making six watch periods per day. The other crew commented that the journey was routine and relatively short, but to me it was amazing and exciting. On the fourth day, acceleration ceased at 0900 hours and we docked at Alpha shortly after. After post flight checks we disembarked into the Assembly and Interchange Hall and travelled down to Dome one, the Oldtown dome. | 7 May 2022 | |
| Jul 1976 - Aug 1977 |
Establishment of Alpha Surface Base. The surface base was to be located at a point on the asteroid's surface furthest away from the sun - one of the existing rotational axis points. The fourth expedition consisted of fleet of four LV2s. It was the first to carry a construction crew. Their task was to establish docking facilities and an initial surface base, using the materials left there by earlier expeditions plus additional components brought along with them. Once the basic facilities had been established, additional construction engineers and support people were flown up, and work commenced on the next phase of construction. This included the building of additional accommodation blocks, fabrication workshops, maintenance buildings, hospital, catering and recreational facilities, a backup power plant and a dedicated communications and control centre. The final stage of the surface base development was the preparation for the installation of the tunnel borer. | 19 April 2024 | |
| March 2016 | Introduction to Alpha: Oldtown and the Farm. First impressions. I think I was expecting to see a sort of sci-fi movie-like warren of echoing metallic corridors and tunnels with dim lighting and hissing doors and people-carrying electric carts whizzing around. What I did see astonished me. Under a blue 'sky', with a 'sun' shining down, there stretched before us a long street. At first glance, it could have been a view of an English University town street. We could see neo-classical style buildings, mixed with modern ones and there were cafes and shops. We were seeing level five, the upper level of 'Oldtown'. Over the next four days we also toured the 'underground' levels, levels one to four. On day five we were taken, by train, to the farm dome and given a tour of each of the levels, from the upper, open air, farm through to the hydroponics, 'meat' manufacturing laboratories and aquaculture ponds. |
7 May 2022 | |
| Sept 1977 to June 1980 |
Excavation. The first stage was a main shaft from the centre of the surface base crater through to the asteroid's core. At the core was a cavern excavated to accommodate a large interchange hub for access tunnels to the habitat domes. From the interchange hub, four equally-spaced two-kilometre-long cross-shafts were driven perpendicular to the main shaft. These led to the four excavated habitation domes which were to eventually become Oldtown, Newtown, the Factory and the Farm. From these a ring tunnel was driven through, to link the four domes, and emergency egress shafts were bored through to the surface. At the end of the excavation phase the main shaft to the core, the habitat lift shafts, the domes, the ring-road and the emergency exit tunnels walls were structurally stabilised and sealed, and ducted power supply cables were extended to all remaining areas. The excavation process took almost three years to complete. In June 1980, it was ready for the fit-out. | 19 April 2024 | |
| March 2016 | Heim Alpha: In our second week on Alpha we visited the other town dome, Newtown, and later the Factory dome and the surface base. We were hosted by a family who took us to a leisure area aside a lake, where we relaxed, ate and swam. The next morning, we collected our PEK's and our WorkSuit holdalls, and walked to the monorail terminus. Ten minutes travel later we arrived at the Factory terminus to find our guide waiting for us. During a tour he said that a significant portion of the success of the Heim worlds is due to achievements in the areas of materials processing and fabrication, over the last thirty or more years. The following day we returned to the surface base to tour the facilities there, including the hospital and medical research centre, the accommodation facilities, the rest areas and catering domes, the maintenance workshops, the research laboratories, the crater wall restaurant, the command-and-control centre, the ship assembly units - stages one and two, the storage tanks for water, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and hydrogen, the nuclear power generation reactors, the raw material storage bunkers and the minerals pre-processing plant. |
14 May 2022 | |
| June 1980 to Feb 1983 |
Interior Design and Construction. During the four-year period it took the tunnel out the underground areas, designs and plans for the construction of the interior of the Heim Alpha settlement were produced. This was done when computer-aided design technology was in its early stages of development. The construction planning was very labour intensive and the tasks to be undertaken were to be in an environment in which mankind had never worked before. A number of Circles (teams) were set up to divide the project into logical and manageable construction stages. These Circles included IT specialists, designers and drafters, quantity surveyors, procurement people, construction engineers, pilots, and various support staff, many of whom had multiple roles across the project stages. |
20 April 2024 | |
| Late March 2016 | Back to Western Australia. After lunch on the second day after our tour of the surface base, I received a message from my childhood friend, Huey - Dr Hugh Mannix, saying that he would be on a flight from the UK to Perth in a week's time. I knew that he was coming to Australia to meet me and find out what a job offer from Joe Booth was all about. I was able to get a passage on an LV2, in two days, provided that I would act as co-pilot to an experienced pilot for this trip. The journey was uneventful so I had a fair bit of spare time, which was spent updating my story of the events of the past two weeks on Alpha. After Huey had gone back to UK, I invited my father, Dan Mortimer, up to my property for the weekend because I had decided that if I was to be away for long periods in potentially dangerous situations, he deserved to know the full story of where I was and what I was doing. |
14 May 2022 | |
| 1980-83 | Life Support Systems development. This chapter discusses the development of airlocks and pressurisation, habitat life support and individual life support. Individual life support covers the uses of the various pressure suits and the short-term emergency kit (PEK), carried by all Heim inhabitants. | 20 April 2024 | |
| April 2016 | A Second trip to Alpha. I said farewell to my father and embarked on my second Alpha trip, on the new LV2.2. Earth and Alpha orbits were not very well synchronised at that time so trip was to be a fairly long one, necessitating an extended period under zero-g and a journey lasting just over eight days. The LV2.2 had several equipment upgrades and special features. The exercise area in the lower module was equipped with pGrav underfloor units, which could be switched on as needed. There were also small pGrav units embedded in the mess table which could be switched on when we were eating under zero g, enabling us to eat and drink normally. On Alpha again it was very nice to return to Oldtown and see friends again. For the first time I was comfortable and feeling at home. I felt I belonged. I decided to treat myself to a couple of days rest and recreation in Newtown, so I drove myself through the circuit tunnel to Newtown and then out to the lakeside, where I found a room in the waterside hostel. |
21 May 2022 | |
| 1980-83 | Water and power supply. The average adult human body is between fifty and sixty-five percent water. As a general rule of thumb, a person can survive without water for about 3 days. Without water we cannot make air to breathe. Without air we can only survive for a few minutes. Fortunately, there is a lot of it on non-Earth bodies. The snag is that it is not in liquid form and you need to locate it, extract it, and bring it home. C-type asteroids have a high abundance of water and, further out, most Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles. Another source of water is from comets, particularly short-period comets or Jupiter-family comets. Power is provided principally by light water graphite nuclear reactors and, to a lesser extent, by solar power. For emergency or mobile applications, hydrogen/oxygen fuel cells and various kinds of storage batteries are still the mainstay. |
20 April 2024 | |
| Late April 2016 | A roving brief - revisiting the Contact Circle. To fulfill my role of historian and diarist for the Heim project, my brief was to go anywhere and see anything I chose to. How to do that was apparently to be left for me to decide, so I assembled a preliminary list of places, people and activities that I thought I needed to look at. I thought I would first try to track down some of the people I had met earlier in my journeys to 'pick their brains' and begin to establish a network of contacts, rather than 'cold call' on people I didn't know. My last call was to the university department on Oldtown level four where the Neighbours Contact Circle has its home. I re-acquainted myself with Sarah Lassiter, who had arranged for her colleagues, Peta and Emile to be there. They summarised the latest information from the Neighbours, about themselves and their long-lost scout ship. |
20 December 2022 | |
| 1983 onwards | Establishment of Bio-systems. The priority was sustainable food production, over general biodiversity. Initially, Heim Alpha was heavily dependent on Earth for supplies of food and other consumables. The University research centre at the surface base did produce a limited supply of food for the base personnel, but not enough. The first task was to bring in soils, growing media and nutrients to begin the establishment of an ecosystem. Most of the 'soils' were produced by the surface mineral processing plants with a few supplements sourced from Earth. The ultimate aim was to produce all materials, fertilisers and soil supplements from non-earth material resources. In Alpha's 'farm' dome there were several different zones established on floors three to five, with differing micro-climates in each. Typically, there were variations in light, heat and humidity as well as unique nutrient regimes. By the time of the final commissioning of the Heim Alpha, and the influx of residents, there was enough food being grown, processed and stored to provide a balanced diet for all. |
20 April 2024 | |
| May to July 2016 | Joining the workforce. I believed that my role as recorder of the life and times of Heim could only be achieved if I immersed myself into the everyday life of its residents, so I volunteered for a variety of jobs. I worked in places such as the cinema and theatres, the hotels and hostels, the shops and restaurants and the warehouses. Amongst other things, my jobs included projectionist, stagehand, receptionist, kitchen hand, laundry assistant, shop assistant, waiter, barman and sorter and repairer in the recycling warehouse. |
28 May 2022 | |
| April 1983 | The Commissioning of Heim Alpha. The official opening date was recorded as 1 April 1983, marked by a ceremonial ribbon cutting but, by that time quite a few personnel had for some time been living in the new facilities. The first residents to move into Oldtown were those who had previously been staying in the surface base accommodation domes. | 20 April 2024 | |
| July 2016 | To Earth, and back. A short return trip to Earth to get together with Earth-based colleagues in the Risk Assessment and Mitigation Circle and the Exit Planning Circle to discuss plans and preparations for the closing down of Earth bases. I return to Alpha with Huey - his first space flight after completing his training. I saw Huey in the evenings and weekends of most of his two-week stay on Alpha, other than when he took a short trip over to Beta. He seemed very comfortable and quite impressed with the sophistication of the facilities there. As a result, he was eager to do the full training course so as return to see and experience more. It seemed that Joe Booth had him 'hooked'. |
28 May 2022 | |
| Feb - Nov 1979 | Ice tug - New source of volatiles. The capture and return of a small Kuyper belt ice body was worth the effort as they tend to be composed largely of frozen volatiles, such as methane, ammonia and molecular water, so an expedition was equipped and sent out. After a long journey to the belt the fleet eventually selected of a suitable body. It took two days to enclose enough of the object with the micro-mesh netting, attach the harness cable around the circumference, and secure the pre-programmed hDrive tug units. The LVs didn't travel back with ice body because the tugs were designed to accelerate at only 0.1 m/s^2 to a maximum speed of 2.3 million kph after five months, making their journey to Alpha just under ten months. On arrival, the body was intercepted, guided in to Alpha's orbit, and then shunted down to the base collection point. |
20 April 2024 | |
| Sept-Oct 2016 | A very long journey. I joined an expedition to capture a sizeable 'iceberg' segment of a Jupiter-family short-orbit comet. Earlier missions had headed for the Kuyper belt but this one had been modified to a comet intercept mission - a shorter journey. The journey fleet was three SV1-Long-distance exploration vessels, travelling in close formation. The mission achieved its main objective, but several important lessons were learned and new techniques needed to be developed for use on future expeditions. For me, the trip was an outstanding success and I was beginning to feel like a seasoned and useful person to have on such missions. |
4 Jun 2022 | |
| Mid-1983 | Hospitals and Medical research. Setting up the first full hospital and medical research facility in Oldtown, on Alpha. In the years since 1983 both the hospital and the medical research units have significantly expanded across both habitation domes and now are equipped with most of the latest earth developed, and Heim developed, diagnostic, medical and surgical equipment. | 21 April 2024 | |
| Nov 2016 | Settling in after the long voyage. After the long journey, followed by the two days of intense debriefing sessions, I was glad to finally be able to relax a bit and catch up on news and events via the intra-net news board postings. There wasn't too much time for R & R in Newtown as I was needed at many meetings and involved in some planning tasks for both the Circles of which I was a principal member. I also spent a fair amount of my time following, and contributing, to several other Circles that I have maintained an interest in, as well as volunteering in various jobs. |
4 June 2022 | |
| 1983 | Oldtown and Newtown - The finishing touches. This chapter fills in more detail of the completion of fit out of Oldtown and Newtown - the application of the 'finishing touches' to both. At the end of this stage of development, both towns were fully fitted out, on all levels, and fully operational. Virtually all the facilities of Oldtown' top floor were replicated in Newtown's upper level. The only major differences were around the lake area where, in Newtown, the artificial cliff was replaced by a hillock, and the lake was primarily used for recreational purposes, omitting the zoo/aviary garden. | 21 April 2024 | |
| Late Nov 2016 | The Pioneers, the Settlers and the Teachers. It's now some forty-two years since the pioneers first set out on their exploration missions and over thirty years since the first permanent settlement on Alpha. The original pioneers were young men and women who are now in their seventies, and still going strong. They have an informal group called the Pioneer Club and I met some members at a big jamboree style get-together, held by the lake in Newtown. Whilst still very active in research and technological fields, many of these are also heavily involved in imparting their accumulated knowledge and expertise to the next generation. They form the majority of the lecturers and tutors in the university, polytechnics and schools. | 11 June 2022 | |
| July-Dec 1983 | Installing pGrav units on Alpha. The installation of Heim effect pGrav underfloor units over critical areas of the surface base was a considerable task; an undertaking that, in the earlier years, was not considered to be a priority. However, in 1983, shortly after commissioning the underground domes, the sub-floor installation work on many parts of the surface base, took place. | 21 April 2024 | |
| Early Dec 2016 | Understanding this new style of society. In order to get a broader perspective, I decided to look further into education, society, culture, families and how problems were handled in the Heim worlds. I was aware that today's Heim society was a non-hierarchical model, but was it really a 'free for all' society where anyone could do whatever he or she wanted. Clearly that wouldn't work. There had to be checks and balances. What about lazy people and 'freeloaders', or antisocial acts? I'm told that the key is to get the right people in the first place. In short, everyone is very busy, and no-one on the Heim worlds can live a life of leisure and indolence. | 21 April 2024 | |
| 1985 onwards | Permanent settlement. True permanent settlement occurred when a small group of senior faculty members who no longer had any family ties on Earth made the decision to live permanently on Alpha with few, if any, trips back to Earth. In the mid-1980s there were upwards of two thousand people inhabiting Alpha at any one time. |
21 April 2024 | |
| Dec 2016 | Working in the Observatory. I did 2 weeks 'work' in Alpha's surface observatory, which includes reflecting telescopes, infrared detectors, short-wavelength detectors, very-long-baseline interferometry (linking the arrays on Alpha and Beta), ultraviolet telescopes, X-ray telescopes and gamma-ray detectors. | 17 June 2022 | |
| 1985 onwards | Politics and management. This chapter covers the Heim Constitution and Rules of Conduct, the Grand Circle, the internal 'economy', the external economy, services and administration and health and safety. | 21 April 2024 | |
| Jan 2017 | Down on the Farm again. A return visit to the 'Farm' dome to spend some time working there on food production, related scientific research and many other areas such as the air scrubbing re-oxygenating and recycling plant. | 17 June 2022 | |
| 1985-1992 | The development of food production. his chapter covers the completion of a closed-loop, sustainable system consisting of conventional 'open-air' farming, hydroponics, aeroponics, aquaculture and meat culturing. | 21 April 2024 | |
| Feb 2017 | Joining the explorers - Briefing session. The main purpose of this mission was survey potential settlement asteroids, using SV1 Long-distance exploration vessels, SV4 Mining supply and support vessel and SV5 General supply ships. Specifically, seeking out bodies suitable for the proposed new settlements, Heim Gamma and Heim Delta, and an unmanned scientific outpost on the outer fringes of the Belt. | 24 June 2022 | |
| 1977 onward | Minerals exploration. The search for suitable asteroids to mine began in late 1977. In order to be independent of Earth, it was necessary to establish off-world mineral and hydrocarbon mining and processing, together with material fabrication shops and plastics manufacture. | 21 April 2024 | |
| Feb-May 2017 | Assessing new asteroids for settlement. Shortly after the briefing session I join exploration expedition, tasked with assessing new asteroids for settlement and the selecting and setting up distant unmanned outstation. | 14 July 2022 | |
| 1985 | Mining, processing, fabrication. This chapter covers mining techniques, materials processing methods, manufacturing and fabrication and the Factory domes. | 21 April 2024 | |
| June 2017 | A month in the Factory. I worked with May Bessler on and off, for the whole month - accompanying her on her morning 'rounds' throughout levels three to five, collecting test samples for laboratory analysis. I also worked in the Polymer engineering workshops, additive manufacturing (3D printing) and laser Sintering shops. Generally, my jobs were of the labouring kind - loading in raw materials, unloading finished product onto conveyors, disposing of any waste for recycling and periodically assisting in the inspection of the machines to ensure that they were working within pre-set tolerances with no obvious mechanical problems. | 2 July 2022 | |
| 1984 onwards | Shipbuilding. As far back as 1976 it became apparent that, to be able to expand out into the asteroid belt and further, it would be necessary to build a fleet of new ships. Thus, construction of a new class of SV designated ships began. These new vessels were larger than the LVs, were made specifically for deep-space use and were not structurally designed to enter or leave the gravity well of Earth. | 21 April 2024 | |
| Jul/Aug 2017 | Working in the shipyards. I had put my name forward, on the Heim intranet open roster, for work in the shipbuilding area hoping to spend a couple of months there 'learning the ropes'. My first job was to assist in monitoring the screens display the schedule of robotic jobs and if there is a problem or delay, and part of our job was to go over and try to sort it out - to 'troubleshoot it'. On my third week in the shipyard, I was allowed to get 'on the tools' and shown how to do some of the assembly work. By the end of my first month, I think I had got the hang of many of the less-technical jobs - even though I was not yet proficient. Over my second month there, I was given a lot more responsibility, | 2 July 2022 | |
| 1990's onwards | Communications and Information Technology. Development of Information Processing systems starting early to mid-1990s, leading to the advanced Data Processing systems and robotics control systems that we have today. | 22 April 2024 | |
| Sept 2017 | Meeting the science and technology people. I was introduced to the workings of facilities ranging from the observatory, low gravity laboratories, the medical research centre, plasma physics laboratory and many other projects, incorporating such things as statistical mechanics, photonics, optics and acoustics, quantum optics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and materials science, neural networks, and more. | 8 July 2022 | |
| 1985 onwards | Recreation. Includes various Entertainment, Recreation and Leisure Circle activities, together with exercise and sports. Daytime outdoor facilities are children's playgrounds, picnic and barbecue areas and open-air concert venues and tea gardens. Evening venues and activities - dancing, concerts and theatre, street concerts, nightclubs, restaurants and bars, | 22 April 2024 | |
| Oct 2017 | An invitation to join the Planning Circle. I suppose I was invited to join the Planning Circle because of my contributions to three other related Circles; The Risk Assessment and Mitigation, the Exit Planning and the Publication Circles. It soon became apparent that there was a good deal of crossover between the objectives of all these groups. The Planning Circle has a wide-ranging brief to develop an 'overarching pathway' for Heim - looking as far out as possible into the future to suggest the next logical steps for the Heim Project - a 'framework for the future'. | 8 July 2022 | |
| 1985 onwards | Exploration. From 1985 onwards an extensive programme of asteroid belt survey and exploration was undertaken. The objectives being to visit, survey and catalogue as many as possible of the smaller bodies that could be useful for future mining and to identify asteroids that may be suitable for the second Heim settlement, Heim Beta. | 22 April 2024 | |
| Early Nov 2017 | My first trip to Beta. At long last, I was going to make my first visit to the second Heim asteroid settlement, Heim Beta. It had been a year and nine months since I first set foot on Alpha. During that time, I had done so much, including travelling to the far edge of the belt, but had never found the time to make the relatively short hop over to Heim Beta. On that first trip I met the founders of the Heim Project and explored the Towns, the Farm, the Factory, the heavy engineering and Fabrication workshops, the surface base and the forests of the 'Pleasure Dome'. |
15 July 2022 | |
| 1995-2001 | Heim Beta - The second asteroid settlement. There were a number of reasons for building a second base - to accommodate the growing number of people who wished to participate in the Heim projects, to have a refuge should any disaster befall Alpha, to cater for the expanding needs of the University for the research and testing of newer technology, to provide more space for the work of the recently established Polytechnic and with the ultimate aim of providing a bigger and better equipped manufacturing facility and launching platform for further expansion within the solar system. | 22 April 2024 | |
| Dec 2017 | I return to Earth for Christmas. It was nice to be back home, but it took me a bit of time to get used to the open spaces, the distant horizon and the huge clouds in the sky. Dad and I had his new house, on the Swan river banks, to ourselves and the weekend was spent talking, eating, drinking, swimming, sailing downriver to Fremantle and then taking the twenty-three kilometre trip across the ocean to Rottnest Island, where we had a pleasant lunch in the Island Hotel. On the following Monday I headed off back up to my property and spent the rest of the week doing maintenance jobs around the place. Over Christmas, Huey and I went separate ways; he to his mother's and I to dad's place, where I spent the Christmas to New Year period, before heading back to RGB1 for the journey to my other home. |
15 July 2022 | |
| Mid-1990s | Homes, families and schools. The first families to permanently settle on Heim Alpha came in the mid-1990s. These original families were typically male-female partnerships of faculty members who had children in their teens, or older. At that time the Polytechnic was providing secondary education and skills training, and the University, tertiary degree courses. Today, they are provided with excellent education and a have wide range of career prospects. The parents agree that raising children in this environment is quite easy. The children can move freely and safely throughout the habitation domes, without the need for constant parental supervision, leaving the parents free to concentrate on their roles or fields of interest. | 22 April 2024 | |
| Feb to Apr 2018 | A Security Breach, and
the Making of the Heim Movie. From information gathered from a source that I cannot divulge, it appeared that we may have had a 'sleeper' in our midst for some time. Our investigations suggest that a certain government is using implied threats to friends or family to coerce this person into reluctantly gathering information and passing it on to them, against their will. As we have no sensitive information that is not stored in encrypted form only decryptable on Heim devices, the probability is that any leaked information would be photographic, or anecdotal. The question of how to deal with the consequences of leaving that person in place for much longer was answered by the idea of a 'disinformation' strategy. The strategy adopted was to turn the Heim project into an Earth based fictional movie, for distribution if deemed necessary to discredit leaks of actual information. |
22 July 2022 | |
| 2002 | The University today. The Heim University today is still, largely, a practical 'hard sciences' university. Most mainstream science is researched and taught, with one faculty being dedicated to the study of the philosophy of science as it relates to the fundamental nature of information, reality, and existence. The University is now spread over campuses on Alpha and Beta; as is the Polytechnic. | 22 April 2024 | |
| May 2018 - Dec 2019 | Helping to build the new settlements:
Gamma and Delta. In view of the uncertainty surrounding Heim's future relationships with the various Earth governments and its people, it was agreed by the Grand Circle that development of Gamma and Delta should proceed at full speed, given that there was no longer any requirement for Earth sourced resources to do so. I was asked to consider joining the Gamma-Delta construction project; specifically, to undergo basic training as a remote machinery operator in the robotics division of the Gamma-Delta Construction Circle on Beta, and then ship out to finish my training on-site with the construction teams. It was very much a case of 'all hands to the pump'. I worked a total of twelve one-month shifts on either Gamma or Delta, returning to my home on Beta for one-week breaks in between. |
22 July 2022 | |
| 2015-2022 | Gamma and Delta: Concept, method and timeline.
In the sixteen years since the commissioning of Heim Beta, the facilities on Alpha and Beta were steadily improved and modernised, particularly in the area of advances in automation and general technology. However, it was clear from the outset that there were limitations to the expansion capacity of these two settlements that could only be addressed by developing, more settlement worlds. The concept was for next generation habitats relying heavily on robotics in construction and operation. Between 2015 and 2017 preliminary construction plans for the surface and underground layout of the proposed two new bases were drawn up and factories on both Alpha and Beta began fabricating standard components and mining machinery. The project was basically completed, on schedule, by the end of 2022. |
24 April 2024 | |
| Early 2020 | My part in discussing Heim's long-term plans. I am a member of the Circle that is primarily concerned with planning the future of Heim - the Planning Circle. One aspect of the Circle's work is that of formulating the technical plans - the nuts and bolts of finding new base locations, and building them. The other is to set the framework for the longer term - the 'long view'. Reviewing a comprehensive map of the next thirty years, scheduling the massive logistical details of the plans for expansion throughout the belt. Henri, a Physicist who is the leading member of the circle, shared with me all the planning detail that had been produced to date. It was an amazingly comprehensive map of the next thirty years. I have participated in Circle discussions and we have succeeded in putting together a realistic set of proposals, and a time line, for next decade. |
29 July 2022 | |
| 2020 | Where to next? This chapter discusses the short, medium and long term objectives in exploration, settlement and science. The Heim Planning Circle has put forward proposals, and a time line, for next decade, but it has been more circumspect about the outlook beyond then, in view of the uncertainties about Earth co-operation and scientific and engineering progress. They have developed an outline vision for beyond the next decade, but it is very much a work in progress. | 22 April 2024 | |
| Mid-to-late 2020 | Writing the Heim History. Starting in November 2015, it has taken almost six years to prepare and publish the initial chapters - 1 to 92 - of the history of Heim and the story of my involvement. I work under the aegis of the Publication Circle whose principal members are Bertha Fischer and Oscar Ström. This is an unfolding story and there is no 'completion date' in sight. | 19 Aug 24 | |
| 2021 | Heim's Vision for Human occupation of space. In discussions with faculty members about the University's vision for the expansion of the Heim settlements, they were at pains to make it clear that such expansion is regarded as the vanguard of a human diaspora, from all nations on Earth, throughout the Heliosphere, and possibly beyond. The overwhelming conclusion is that Earth is not yet politically stable enough for a full exchange of technology. As a longer-term vision, it is hoped that the benefits of the diaspora can be used by Earth nations to better the life of their people and generally make the world a safer, better and more egalitarian place to live, | 23 April 2024 | |
| Mid 2021 | The decision to publish. The decision to finally reveal the existence of the Heim University and its other off-world projects was a long and difficult one, taking almost three years to reach a consensus. The persuasive argument for revealing Heim was that it would be better to release information on an orderly basis rather than be discovered by the Earth's increasingly sophisticated astronomy and surveillance capabilities, possibly causing concern, or even panic, around the world. The first chapters were to be released in January 2022, without fanfare or publicity of any kind. | 5 Aug 2022 | |
| 2022 | Self-sufficiency and the Ark concept: Survival of the human race. Self-sufficiency has actually been achieved due to the level of expertise and maturity of the settlements today. The Ark concept is principally a long-term strategy for the continuance of the human race in the unlikely event that a catastrophic disaster should render Earth uninhabitable, or marginally habitable. | 23 April 2024 | |
| Aug 2022 | To stay, or not to stay? Where does my future lie? At this juncture I feel I need to answer some important questions about my future - questions such as, do I sell the 'farm', or keep it? Do I give up Heim and return to Earth, or stay out here? This raises the other question of how, after the 'revelation', can we surreptitiously travel between Earth and the belt, should we need to, without having the ground bases and ships? This problem has been addressed and there are ways in which, with some difficulty and risk, that it can be done. These involve disguised and camouflaged new, remote, and sometimes mobile 'mini-spaceport' facilities, but I cannot go into details here, for obvious reasons. |
5 Aug 2022 | |
| 2022 | Maintaining the security of the Heim settlements. From around the year 2010 onwards, the security issues inherent in operating Earth bases, particularly in Australia, were becoming increasingly concerning to the University. There followed a detailed examination of the Earth's surveillance methods, looking at mitigation strategies and considering the implications of premature discovery. Ultimately, the risk was minimised by the act of severing all ties with Earth, until such time as appropriate joint space development projects can be agreed. This required the dismantling of all permanent Earth bases and freight exchange and supply facilities - self-sufficiency on Heim settlements making this possible. In addition a 'disinformation smokescreen', to be used as a last resort, was developed. Thus, in 2018, a film studio, with sets, models and a special effects team was set up a to produce a Sci-Fi movie loosely based on what was really happening on Heim. |
20 Aug 2024 | |
| Aug 2022 | Heim University's obligations to the 'Mother World'. A discussion took place with colleagues Bertha Fischer and Oscar Ström on the subject of our responsibilities and obligations towards our home world. I opened the topic by saying, "I know all the reasons why we kept the Heim drive technology to ourselves, but was it the right thing to do? Was it a selfish act on the part of the Founders, or was it done to protect the nations of Earth from a disastrous misuse of the technology, to the detriment of many nations and peoples?" Our conclusion was that it would indeed be potentially disastrous to release Heim technology now, as Earth nations' uses would likely be uncoordinated and fragmented amongst competing nations, rendering them less effective, counter-productive or even downright dangerous. | 12 Aug 2022 | |
| 2019-2020 | Decommissioning the Earth bases. This chapter details the closure of GB1 in Perth, RGB1 on the Nullarbor, full de-commissioning of RGB-B in Bermuda, disposal of Heim's port facilities and container vessels and the reorganisation of the Swiss facilities to remove all trace of Heim. | 23 April 2024 | |
| Aug 2022 | I have a dream. My dream is for our diaspora to create, in the next decades, the ability to help Earth to reach universal contentment. My hope is that the combination of Earth and Heim science, with possibly some help from the Neighbours, will enable us to provide the Earth's population with all that they need or want. A harmonious and peaceful world will never be achieved by attempting to create a homogenous society throughout the planet. On the contrary I would like to see a planet which rejoices in its differences. Differences in culture, customs and beliefs that the whole world can experience and enjoy without sacrificing their own. |
12 Aug 2022 | |
| 1 Jan 2022 | Release of Story and History. At the time of writing, all Earth bases have been removed and tidied up and, hopefully, all tangible evidence of our activities on Earth has been obliterated. The first of January 2022 saw the release, onto the www, of the introduction and first chapters your author's story and the history of Heim. | 20 August 2024 | |
| Aug 2022 | The Grand Circle. The Grand Circle is the forum where major strategy or policy decisions are made. One of their recent discussions was the topic, what is our purpose? why are we here, living out here in the larger solar system instead of on Earth, and why are we doing what we do? The discussion objective was to review our past reasoning and see if it is still appropriate and pertinent today, and will still serve us into tomorrow. It was proposed that we have a twofold duty to mankind; to be the vanguard of human expansion outside the Earth's confines and to help to redress the ecological ills looming for the World; such things as pollution, climate change and insufficient food or clean water and lack of shelter for many people. | 19 Aug 2022 | |
| 2022 | Joint settlement? During this period there was much discussion on the pros and cons of joint projects with Earth entities. The first, and guiding principal, is that the Heim Drive technology will not be shared in the foreseeable future as it would be too dangerous for both Earth and Heim people. Assuming that we can find a path to peaceful cooperation, there are proposals in place for facilitating it. These proposals have been tentatively named 'Project EarthWide'. If Project EarthWide proves to be feasible, 2030 has been tentatively chosen as a starting date. |
25 April 2024 | |
| Aug 2022 | Getting ready for the tourists. At a monthly meeting of the Grand Circle, it was agreed that joint operations with Earth would not be possible until a high level of trust had been built up with the world's nations. To that end, it was suggested that welcoming tourists, journalists, scientists and other visitors to Alpha and Beta to build up trust, would be the best approach. The attendees had proposed that a new Public Relations and Tourism Circle be formed as soon as possible to develop the strategy. | 19 Aug 2022 | |
| 2022 | Building orbiting space platforms. Preliminary work being done on the design and construction of space stations for uses such as orbiting hotels for Earth tourist visits | 25 April 2024 | |
| Aug 2022 | New Humans? Research is being undertaken to attempt improve the human body to make is more suitable for a life in 'space'. Inter alia, looking at a section of non-coding DNA that appears to control the activation of a "master control gene" called early growth response, or EGR. The goal of making humans healthier and extending life expectancy would benefit all humans. | 26 Aug 2022 | |
| Dec 2022 | Reaction to Release of Story and History. First chapters released on www in January 2022. To date, there has been no public discussion of the Heim worlds in the media, so we can assume that we are still 'flying under the radar' as far as the general population of Earth is concerned. | 25 April 2024 | |
| Mid-2021 | I sell my Perth country property, from where the neighbours lost scout ship had been recovered. In preparation for a move to Beta, I temporarily stayed in the university's own gated community near Perth city, ostensibly taking up permanent residence there. Close to the end of 2021, I was able to get a berth on one of the few LV flights coming through; travelling to Beta, via Alpha. | 2 Sept 2022 | |
| Early 2022 | Continued preparations for opening up to visitors. The initial preparations for receiving visitors began in early 2022. Stage one started with the filming of a series of documentaries across a wide range of places and activities on Heim. Stage two concerned technical arrangements for transporting visitors and building facilities for them. Year 2030 is still the target date if a decision to proceed is taken. | 25 April 2024 | |
| Sept 2022 | Gamma and Delta revisited. I took a trip to first Gamma, and then Delta, to see what progress had been made since my last time there in late 2021. I was particularly interested in looking more closely at the development stage of the larger dedicated tourist facilities; one in the Sunville zone on Gamma and the other in the Seaport zone on Delta. These facilities will potentially need to cater for different types of visitors, including Earth tourists and their families, holidaying Heim residents, visiting academics and technicians, visiting 'dignitaries' and, importantly, journalists and documentary producers from Earth. The latter being crucial to the building up of trust between Heim and Earth nations and people. | 10 Sept 2022 | |
| Late 2022 | Moving on - More and bigger settlements. The next major project is for the building of a much larger new asteroid 'city' to serve as the de facto Capital of the Heim 'colonies'. This has been tentatively called Heim Prime. Preliminary design work on this is now underway and the concept will be discussed more fully in later chapters. | 25 April 2024 | |
| Mid-June 2022 | A nostalgic trip. A message from my long-term friend, Dr Hugh Mannix (Huey) said that he was planning to fly out from England to Perth to see his mother and friends. I decided to try to get there myself to catch up with him. I managed to get passage on an LV which was leaving Beta to pick up some people from Perth. During late July and early August Huey and I toured Western Australia and had long discussions about our personal lives. In late August Huey accompanied me back up to Beta. | 17 Sept 2022 | |
| Late 2022 | The planning of Heim Prime, Our New home world, with the aim is to have this new world completed by the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Alpha - Year 2033 - at the latest. | 25 April 2024 | |
| Aug 2022 | A time for introspection. I move my home to Gamma, choosing Gamma over Delta for convenience, as it is located in a position between Beta and Delta. At the time of writing this chapter, I am in the process of setting myself up here in Gamma's Tunis zone, joining the ranks of permanent Heim residents who never visit Earth, or only do so briefly and out of strict necessity. | 25 Nov 2022 | |
| Jan-June 2023 | Heim Prime - The detail. At the time of writing this chapter, a final location for Heim Prime has not yet been settled, although several candidates have been identified. However, much of the concept planning has been done. | 25 April 2024 | |
| Sept 2022 | We review the Earth 'situation'. The agent managing our website updating has advised us that the site hosts have been under pressure from certain outside sources to reveal his/her identity, thereby circumventing the Domain Privacy arrangement - a clear attempt to track down Heim people on Earth. I was asked to convene an urgent Tourism Circle meeting to map out a plan for 'pulling back' on our previous intention to 'open up' in the next few years. | 25 Nov 2022 | |
| Sept 2022 | Earthlink is put on hold. Work is to continue on Project Earthlink infrastructure that has already started, but no new vessels or space-stations will be built specifically for that purpose and some of those under construction may be repurposed. | 25 April 2024 | |
| Jan 2023 | Re-assessing the risk of Heim's existence being physically confirmed. With the extraordinary progress being made in Earth space-launch capability in the past few months and the very real possibility of manned missions to Mars, if our location was discovered it will soon be feasible for crewed or uncrewed vessels to reach us from Earth, so we shouldn't be too complacent. | 25 April, 2024 | |
| Jan 2023 | 'Neighbours' update. We now know that their diaspora has taken them to exoplanets and moons in other star systems and we are given to understand that only a few still live in the outer solar system. Were it not for the few archaeologists from Neanderthal communities still living in the outer solar system who are interested in their mother world, we would probably never have learned of their existence. | April 25, 2024 | |
| Feb 2023 | Recruitment. The core of the plan is to set up a series of space-oriented industries and research establishments in various countries around the World. The basic idea is to select and recruit scientists, engineers and others to work on these projects on Earth. Ultimately, those deemed suitable will be 'brought into the loop' and invited to work with us off-Earth. | April 25, 2024 | |
| Feb 2023 | Moving between Earth and Heim worlds. All the personnel and light freight movements now involve very brief touchdowns and lift-offs of fully stealth equipped small landers (EL's) which detach from the new LV3-EL's whilst in orbit. | April 25, 2024 | |
| Mar 2023 | Life and leisure on the Heim worlds - today and tomorrow. The general quality of life on these worlds is, and will continue to be exceptional, with a wide variety of architecture, flora and fauna, leisure facilities, educational opportunities, satisfying work and research opportunities - all in safety and comfort. The yet to be developed new Heim 'capital city', Heim Prime, promises to be an exceptional experience for long-term residents of the first four Heim worlds. | April 25, 2024 | |
| Mar 2023 | Defence. The likelihood of others rediscovering the Heim effect or developing other means of continuous and sustained propulsion puts us at risk of countries or agencies that would be prepared to use such technology to interfere with the lives of those on the Heim worlds, for many reasons, including greed, envy and paranoia over our relationship with the Neighbours. It was agreed that the Heim ethos would allow for passive defence only - we would not develop offensive weapons or arm ourselves in any way. A wide range of suggestions were received for repositioning our key infrastructure and 'hardening up' our defences, but those must remain confidential, for obvious reasons. | April 25, 2024 | |
| April 2023 | Religion, and the Heim worlds. From the outset the University was, and continues to be, unapologetically apolitical and secular. A policy to exclude proponents of closed views and behavioural practices based solely on religious dogma - i.e. religious fundamentalists or extremists. Of course, our people today come from wide ethnic backgrounds and some, through social and family tradition, have reached maturity under religious influences. All the faculty expects of those people is that they keep such beliefs strictly to themselves and ensure that, in all their actions and their teachings to their children never suborn logic and rationality. Group practicing of religious rituals or proselytising is not tolerated, under any circumstances. These policies are non-controversial amongst the population of the Settlements. | April 25, 2024 | |
| April 2023 | Food production vs biodiversity. The bulk of food is produced in a semi-sterile environment in the lower levels of the farm domes, by a variety of means, including hydroponics, aeroponics, kelp ponds, fish tanks and manufactured meats. However, these processes really perform only a minor role in the larger Heim settlements ecologies. Setting up sustainable bio-systems requires soil manufacture, planting and the introduction of insects, animals, reptiles and birds. The balancing of these to give the right organic composition of the soils to grow the plants that the birds and insects can pollinate has been an onerous task, requiring long-term experimentation to achieve that balance. | April 25, 2024 | |
| May 2023 | Heim Prime planning update. The idea is to have varying areas of mini-climate throughout this new habitat - ranging through tropical, sub-tropical, temperate, cold, and savannah and arid. This poses problems relating to the interface between the different climatic areas, given that it is a continuous ring habitat. Other design changes are being developed in response to the Defence Circle's recommendations regarding 'hardening up' the new settlement. |
April 25, 2024 | |
| Nov 2022 | A week in my life on Gamma. A personal look at a week of my life on Gamma just before heading out to work on the Heim Prime asteroid. | April 25, 2024 | |
| Dec 2022 | Surveying Heim Prime and building an advance base. The journey of the fleet to the new asteroid base designated Heim Prime took a total of thirty hours. Upon arrival, the job was to set up the advanced base. The tasks were the clearing of a construction site, the unloading and installation of prefabricated habitation modules and the assembly of kit form components to erect geodesic hangar domes. The priority was the setting up of our SV4 and three others, in an airlock-linked square with upper high-density shields in place, to form the temporary accommodation and control block. The surveying and planning team were to examine the detailed survey of the asteroid and pin-point the sites for excavation of the tunnels and the sub-surface facilities for the two permanent surface bases - one at each proposed spin-axis location. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Early June 2023 | Back on the job, on Prime. After a five-day break - two of them spent travelling to and from Gamma - I return to Heim Prime's advance surface base to, inter alia, distribute electronic survey markers and fix them securely to the asteroid surface and to calculate excavation tonnage. | April 26, 2024 | |
| June 2023 | Another week on the Prime project - Major strides in the planning process are taking place. Design changes which leave more than half of the habitat tunnel just five hundred metres in diameter but, at the location of the six 'towns' where the lift shafts intersected the tunnel, expand it to two kilometres wide by two kilometres long with a higher roof, thus creating six dome-like 'towns' around the habitat ring. | April 26, 2024 | |
| July 2023 | A Delta reunion. The Prime development circle held a planning and review symposium on Delta, at which the new design concepts for it were presented to a large audience. I was one of the attendees there in person and I was delighted to meet some old acquaintances, many of whom I hadn't seen for almost seven years. | April 26, 2024 | |
| July 2023 | Space stations. A design for a new modular generic space station was proposed by Leanne Shawditch, and adopted. The skeleton frame for first one is already under construction on a Delta surface shipbuilding pad. The frame provides the 'fixed' architecture of the station with the rest being provided by a series of slot-in modules. These modules can be largely self-contained and self-supporting in the event of an emergency, but would usually be connected to the base-frame services pack for power and life support. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Aug 2023 | Designing viable biospheres for Heim Prime. The challenge is to design six 'town' biospheres linked to six mixed agriculture and wilderness areas without their weather spilling over into each other too much, given that the original design concept did not allow for barriers separating the zones. Now we are contemplating some form of barrier separating each of the zones. There will probably be temperate, sub-tropical, tropical, savannah, arid and low temperature environments - each with its own flora, fauna, entomology, bacteriology and marine considerations. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Aug 2023 | HSSV's - Faster ships. Hanran O'Hallaran (Han), an astro-physicist and aerospace engineer, is currently heading a team that is building a prototype for a new High Speed Space Vessel (HSSV). The basic design for these new fast ships is for a spherical crew and control module nestled within a larger conical protective outer shell, separated by sacrificial struts and honeycomb structures of metals and nonmetals which can absorb the sudden shock loads. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Sep 2023 | Space war, and the consequences. On Earth, we are witnessing the increase in the aggressiveness of a few nations and, in response to that, a new push for rearmament in others. The danger is that this will lead to new kinds of 'cold war' - cyberwars and space wars. Space wars, in this context, relate principally to aggressive acts, in low earth orbit, between earth nations. In this digital age, war in space would have devastating effects. Attacks on satellites could take out GPS systems, banking systems, power grids, and affect military operations. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Sep 2023 | Dreaming about the Neighbours, prompting my further investigation about what we really knew of them, followed by a conference with Ye and the sometime three. I learned that our assumption that the Neighbours had an archaeological outpost, somewhere in the inner solar system, that was manned by a rotating teams of people that we called Ye of the Sometime Three, was quite wrong. There is something out there relatively close to us, in astronomical terms, but it is merely a small, unmanned communications and relay system. The various Ye, and their colleagues, are apparently firmly ensconced on their home world somewhere in the outer system. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Oct 2023 | Earth: the enemy? Many Heim people were uneasy about the possibility of becoming a target of paranoia and aggression from Earth's government security agencies, military cadres and belligerent nations and that there is an increasing level of concern that the few on the Heim worlds may ultimately be overwhelmed by the many in an Earth diaspora. In my view the answer to that is, by observation, rather than aggression - by gathering intelligence and developing a higher level of awareness. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Jan 2023 | Digging the holes on Heim Prime. I meet up with May Bessler and discussed her progress on examining the geology of the new Heim Prime asteroid and in planning for the work to start. I offer my help. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Jan 2023 | Making the tunnel linings for Heim Prime. The task of supervising this has fallen on our friend Jimmy Box. Discussion on methods and procedures. Estimated between eighteen months and two years before production begins. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Nov 2023 | Progress report - Gamma and Delta. The tremendous effort being put in is daily beginning to show amazing results. Of course, nature must largely move at its own pace in terms of the growth of plants, vegetation, trees, reeds and crops but infrastructure is well on its way to completion and buildings are popping up everywhere. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Mar 2023 | Over to Prime again, with May's team. Tunnel points of entry will be the two surface bases at the 'poles' and the six other locations evenly spaced around the 'equator' of Prime - eight, in all. Six modular 'office block' space stations are to be built and temporarily 'moored' on the surface, at the six circumference escape tunnel locations. These are to be used as temporary accommodation, stores and workshops for the tunnelling teams. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Dec 2023 | The first signs of espionage? The son of a visiting professor from England gathers information whilst visiting Heim and, upon his return to Earth, unsuccessfully attempts to sell it to a popular newspaper. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Jan 2023 | Touring Earth with Huey. Grand Circle meeting requested that we extend our proposed private visit to Earth with a brief to generally gauge the mood of the people, by travelling widely as possible and talking to as many people as we could. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Feb-Mar 2023 | Report on our Earth journey. During our first three weeks after visiting Australia and the U.K. we travelled widely in the countries we had earmarked for our trip and spoke to many ordinary citizens to try and gauge the mood of people. It appeared that some of our questioning had come to the attention of certain national or possibly international organisations and we were alerted to the fact that questions had been asked about us. This came to a peak in the US West Coast when we were picked up from our hotel late one evening and questioned by people identifying themselves as agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. We had to leave the US via Mexico and we consider ourselves lucky to have got back to Australia unscathed. | April 26, 2024 | |
| Jan 2024 | First major conference with the Neighbours. Ye, the Neighbours 'spokesperson' requested a virtual open meeting with the team, the Faculty members and the wider Heim community, saying that they wished to discuss the present situation and the future of their ancestral homeland, Earth. At the meeting he said that Earth is facing two threats to its continued existence as a planet habitable by the human races. The first is a relatively minor threat, that of catastrophic impact by a large asteroid, which they say they could easily avert, and the second was the prospect of runaway and irreversible climate change, rendering life on Earth's surface impossible. He suggested that we join together to help. | April 27, 2024 | |
| Feb 2024 | Progress on our new home world - Heim Prime. I take a Delta - Prime shuttle flight for an update visit. It is clear that we are well on target, if not ahead a little, on the 'big steps' of this project. However, the detail of the finishing, fit out and bringing the settlement to a habitable and sustainable state is estimated to take 90 percent of the time allotted - we have only achieved about 10 percent so far. We have a long, long way to go. | May 3, 2024 | |
| Feb 2024 | Preparations for next Neighbours meeting. After much discussion we concluded that we must produce a comprehensive matrix of all the major problems in the world and, importantly, show any causal links between them, so that we can ultimately attempt to address the root causes of each. | May 6, 2024 | |
| Mar 2024 | Prime follow up. I report back to the Prime teams on Delta concerning what I had learned on my recent inspection tour of Prime and obtain an update on the latest planning issues. For the present, 2033 was still the target year for final fit out and for the first settlers to arrive. | May 6, 2024 | |
| Mar 2024 | Second Neighbours Forum - Joint action plan. Ye said that they understood the risks of jumping in too soon but that their calculations suggested that we were running out of time. They suggest a two-pronged attack on the problem. The first being to jointly put together a series of measure to fix some the major problems sooner rather than later. The second is to find longer term solutions by addressing those that emerge, over time, from the database analysis work that we are proposing. The meeting ended with Ye saying that they would put their (melded?) minds to all the issues raised, and report back later. | May 7, 2024 | |
| Apr 2024 | Heim, and quantum technology. Our scientists and computer tech people see quantum technology as being pivotal to Heim's future, in many and varied ways. They say that they are making great progress in some aspects - greatly aided by the conditions under which they can perform experiments, including access to exotic materials, micro-gravity, low temperatures and natural vacuums. They are hoping to get some help from the Neighbours. UPDATE - March 2025: Since first publishing this chapter, in May 2024, Heim has been sucessful in developing practical quantum computers, which have enabled it to develop its own form of functional Artificial Intelligence. This AI is referred to by the acronym DEGAS (Data Extraction, Gathering, Analysis and Storage). DEGAS is now used extensively in the Asteroid Watch Control centre, on Delta, and for Virtual Reality imaging in the new Prime Design Centre. | May 21, 2024 | |
| Apr 2024 | Heim University - Sixty years on. In terms of collective effort, the amount put into academic activities is now overshadowed by projects designed to expand and improve the settlements. Thus, the original university concept of academic activities combined with on-campus scientific research has changed somewhat, with much of the research aspect taking place off-campus. | May 21, 2024 | |
| May 2024 | Mars The idea of building a settlement on Mars seems to be catching the imagination of Heim people, to such an extent that plans are being made to carry out a detailed survey of the planet. The vision for Heim's future, and the future of humans in general, on Mars, is still very much the subject of open discussion. At this stage it is just a collection of ideas that need to be examined in the harsh light of reality. | May 28, 2024 | |
| May 2024 | Have we bitten off more than we can chew? With our limited resources, are we taking on too many things at once? Are we overworking our people? We currently have four major projects in hand, potentially stretching our resources to breaking point. These are: The completion of the final fit out of Gamma and Delta, building Heim's new home world - Heim Prime, the Earth assistance project and the surveying of Mars and designing surface settlements. | June 6, 2024 | |
| May 2024 | Earth The Grand Circle called for people to give their time to the Earth-Assist Circle's EA project, as it has become known. The measures we will be proposing will be broad-based in nature and designed to act quickly on an urgent problem. They will not solve the root cause of many of the problems affecting people all over the world. However, the longer-term, detailed, EA project has not been forgotten. | June 7, 2024 | |
| May 2024 | Heading for Australia - Earth Assist (EA) operations base. Preparing for the setting up of an Australian base to co-ordinate upcoming Earth Assist (EA) operations. Examining the new HSSV-EL. Preparing to depart for Earth. | June 28, 2024 | |
| May 2024 | Earth Journey. Describes journey to Earth orbit on the HSSV and down to Earth's surface on the EL, preparatory to setting up of base for Earth Assist (EA) operations. Describes lengthy discussions, between Vicci and I, on the source of money to fund any EA initiatives. Describes the EL drop from orbit to secret Earth station. | August 7, 2024 | |
| Aug 2024 | Heim Prime - A brief update. This chapter discusses innovations in construction techniques which have led to a revision of the estimated completion date to late 2028. Changes include; re-scheduling of engineering works so as to immediately start the construction of floors and infrastructure in all of the shafts and circuit tunnels, following closely behind the 'piddocks' boring the tunnels; the use of automated self-unloading/dumping GEV hoppers; defer pressurisation and spin-up until the bulk of the fit-out is finished. | August 18, 2024 | |
| Aug 2024 | Establishing the EA main base. Discusses return of Author and colleague Vicci to Perth, Australia, to begin the Earth Assist project. Formulating a preliminary do-list. Taking a break to see family - Getting to see my father again. After 2 months, the 'war room' is fully operational and we, and all the Perth based team members are proficient in the use of all the systems and communications equipment | Nov 3, 2024 | |
| Jan 2025 | EA update. Five months later - The EA (Earth Assist) project base in Perth and the various international bases, are now fully established, operational and inter-communicating successfully. Discusses the way forward for the Earth Assist project. (Final commentary on EA project) | Jan 5, 2025 | |
| Jan 2025 | Relaxing in the Heim worlds - Alpha. Covers my return the Heim Alpha for a relaxation break. Meeting up with Vicci again and touring Oldtown and Newtown, seeing all the differences and improvements in the past few months. Describes Heim developed AI type system with the acronym DEGAS [Data Extraction, Gathering, Analysis and Storage] | Jan 31, 2025 | |
| Feb 2025 | The 'New Style' ferry to Beta. Describes a journey on board one of the new inter-asteroid 'luxury' ferries. Much larger than the old SV6 Shuttle. PGrav throughout boarding, journey and arrival. Sleeping cabins, restaurants, entertainment. No FlightSuits needed. | Feb 6, 2025 | |
| Feb 2025 | A fresh look at Beta. Report on a visit to Beta to see the changes there since last visited. First evening back, Vicci and I met up with some old colleagues who introduced us to one of their favourite eateries. During the meal, we had some pretty intense discussions about the future of the asteroid belt and Earth. Later, drove through the forests and jungles in Dome six, followed by a quick tour of the lower levels which incorporate extensive bio-research laboratories, hydroponic propagation areas and seedbanks. | Feb 15, 2025 | |
| Feb 2025 | Off to Gamma and Delta. Report on journey to Gamma and to see the changes there since last visited. A lot more greenery in the streetscape, which we attributed to new plantings and ten months of growth on the existing trees and bushes. We later learned that a number of semi-mature trees and bushes had been transplanted from Dome six on Beta; planted in the streets, parks and woodlands. In Tunis zone, climate systems simulating seasons and weather changes, such as rain, snow, clouds, breezes etc., had finally been installed. | Feb 21, 2025 | |
| Feb 2025 | Asteroid Watch Control centre - Delta. Account of my visit the Asteroid Watch Control centre, or AWC, which is located outside the Surface Base on Delta and is now run by Amy Santos. Stayed on surface base for my whole time there. Taken through control centre methods and objectives, i.e. Searching space - continuous scanning of all areas of interest; monitoring Earth's exploration launches; continuous processing of real-time data; disseminating the data to settlements and vessels in transit. | Feb 23, 2025 | |
| Late Feb 2025 | Back to work on the Prime project I am asked to take on a new role on the Prime project. My job to gain understanding of what each design team is doing and check that they are in lock-step with colleagues on all other aspects of the design. Now have a greatly improved the 3D model of the project - using DEGAS, can now don visual headsets and virtually walk through most of the model. Concluded that we should first concentrate on the final picture - the terraforming. | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| Early March 2025 | Biosphere on Prime We have a video link meeting with Lars Svensson and two colleagues to bring us up to date on the final decisions on tunnel and habitat layout on Heim Prime and their plans for developing the biospheres in the new habitat. | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| Mid March 2025 | The Prime Terraforming team. We ferry over to Beta to meet all the Prime 'Bio' people for briefings and discussions about the terraforming of Prime's interior spaces. We meet the engineering team, the soils and biomass people, the flora and fauna team and the planning and modelling team. We then immerse ourselves in a Virtual reality tour of a section of the rural tunnels being built on Prime. | Mar 21, 2025 | |
| Late March 2025 | City 2 on Prime : A VR visit. A Virtual reality tour of one of the four cities being constructed on Prime. | Mar 26, 2025 | |
| End March 2025 | New Africa, New Europe and New Scandinavia. A Virtual reality preview of the other three rural tunnel 'environmental corridor' zones being installed on Prime. | April 7, 2025 | |
| Early April 2025 | Q & A update for 2025 At this juncture in the Heim story there is much going on, and I am receiving so many questions from visitors and FIFO people, that I thought it might be helpful to put together an abstract of the Heim 'worlds' today. | April 11, 2025 | |
| 12th - 13th April | A weekend with friends - New perspectives. Lunchtime discussions with friends about the basic question of purpose - what is Heim's mission - to support Earth, or go its own way? | April 25, 2025 | |
| Late April 2025 | A new look at the Prime project. We stand back and look at the Prime project from a broader perspective and formulate plans for our next steps. | May 8, 2025 | |
| Early May 2025 | Our new workshop - Getting started. With the equipment and facilities of our new workshop we make progress on our Prime review. | May 17, 2025 | |
| Mid-May 2025 | Introspection. I ponder the style of earlier chapters and decide to take a break from the Prime project and try to to better understand the people of Heim. | June 4, 2025 | |
| Early July 2025 | A new vision for Heim Prime. Ideas for a major redesign of the 'city' spheres. | July 10, 2025 | |
| July 2025 | Water, water, everywhere. Proposed expedition to an MBC (Main Belt Comet). | July 23, 2025 | |
| Late July 2025 | Prime Cityscape update. Further discussions about the ideas for a major redesign of the four Prime cities. | July 30, 2025 | |
| August 2025 | The MBC expedition Preparing the advance base at the outstation, for the MBC expedition.. | Aug 13, 2025 | |
| August 2025 | Earth Assist Program Discussing new directions for the programme and new assistance from the Neighbours. | Aug 19, 2025 | |
| August 2025 | Water Mining Feasibility Mission.A report on the results of the initial feasibility visit to the Main Belt Comet selected as a potential major source of water and other volatiles for the Heim worlds. | Aug 25, 2025 | |
| August 2025 | Where to now? - New Heim initiatives. Here, we briefly touch on other projects that are likely to be undertaken over the next few years. | Aug 30, 2025 | |
| September 2025 | Planning the ice mine on the MBC.This chapter gives a brief overview of the next phase of the ice-mining project. | Sep 4, 2025 | |
| September 2025 | Our place in the Universe.This chapter discusses our relationship with our Neanderthal "Neighbours". | Sep 13, 2025 | |
| September 2025 | The University's reach across the World. This chapter discusses why Heim University is still active on Earth. | Sep 17, 2025 | |
| September 2025 | When Earth breaks through. A time, in the not-too-distant future, when the people of Earth decide to move out into space, in earnest. | Sep 22, 2025 | |
| September 2025 | Burn out. Viccy and I taking a break in the 'Leasure Dome,' area in Dome six, on Beta. | Sep 29, 2025 | |
| September/early October 2025 | Touring around the world. Viccy and I conducting research tours in an attempt to gauge the mood of people today. One through the European continent and another through South Asia, East Asia and parts of North Asia. | Oct 4, 2025 | |
| Early October 2025 | Ye and the Neighbours come back to the party. The Neighbours identify what they consider to be a major factor in human development. | Oct 9, 2025 | |
| October 2025 | Nuclear energy and space. Discusses the importance of, and how we use, nuclear energy on the Heim asteroid worlds. | Oct 16, 2025 | |
| October 2025 | Back to the joint Heim-Neighbours EA project. John Mortimer and Viccy return to work with the Earth Assist teams. The solar energy scheme is discussed. | Oct 21, 2025 | |
| October 2025 | Our Shangri-La.This chapter discusses some parallels between Milton's poetic insights and our life in the Heim worlds. | Oct 28, 2025 | |
| November 2025 | Money.This chapter discusses discusses Heim's need for money for its Earth activities. | Nov 7, 2025 | |
| November 2025 | Earth Assist project planning begins.This chapter discusses ecological tipping points and the progress of planning for EA works. | Nov 13, 2025 | |
| November 2025 | Contract Workers.This chapter explains the role of contract workers in the Heim settlements. | Nov 22, 2025 | |
| November 2025 | Planetary mining and settlement.This chapter discusses the pros and cons of permanent settlement on the surface of moons and planets. | Dec 5, 2025 | |
| Late November 2025 | Security Conference.This chapter details discussions with Grand Circle members on preparing for a Heim-wide security conference. | Dec 12, 2025 | |
| December 2025 | Security Conference preparations. This chapter covers preliminary preparations for the upcoming Heim-wide security conference. | Dec 24, 2025 |