the highest mountains. With it, he discovered
that there were two more planets that went around their sun than were
previously thought, and that some of these planets had LITTLE planets
orbiting around them! He named these planets satellites.
29 His discoveries brought him fame, though at first some other sky
watchers ridiculed him, but later confirmed his discoveries.
''These discoveries," they announced, "prove things The Lords told us
hundreds of seasons ago. Can anyone doubt that The Lords exist, when
the proof of Their Wisdom is given to us daily?"
30 Now, The Oneness hated The Children of Spirit because of their
ingenuity. They would not buy the rights to manufacture their
discoveries, but stole their ideas and claimed that their people had
invented them first, and that knowledge was given by The One True God
for everyone to use, not for a few people to become wealthy on. And
almost everything they stole from The Children of Spirit they
immediately began to seek ways of using as weapons.
31 Some of their inventors, too, came up with ideas. One was the
machine rifle that could shoot far faster than a rolling gun, and did
not have to be cranked.
32 With each season that passed as The Children of Spirit became more
prosperous, The People of The Oneness hated them more and more. There
was little doubt war would come again.
33 The Oneness was constantly seeking a weapon that would give them
advantage. Then, they thought they'd found it. They created a vehicle
that ran on rolling treads. They surrounded it with heavy sheets of
metal plate, that would stop bullets from all rifles and, from even
light artillery.
34 They mounted them with small cannons, and