Cargo Cult by Graham Storrs

Author:Graham Storrs [Storrs, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: aliens, australia, machine intelligence, comedy scifi adventure
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20: Aftermath

Earth

"Hello, I'm Gina Spacek and welcome to a specially-extended edition of the Seven O"Clock News.

"Queensland Commissioner of Police, Mr. Barry Skingle, is still refusing to comment on the incredible events which appear to have taken place in and around the city of Brisbane over a forty-eight hour period last week.

"Police are now refusing to confirm or deny their own initial reports of a terrorist attack in Brisbane's central business district, early on the morning of the Sixteenth, in which eighteen people may have been kidnapped. Three passers-by are known to have died in the incident while, at the subsequent shoot-out at Saunders’ Station, a remote farmhouse North-West of the city, a further seventeen police officers were killed and twenty-nine injured.

"Despite this being the largest police operation ever undertaken in Australia, the Police, the State Government and the Federal Government have closed ranks and are refusing to release any further information, claiming that the incident is a matter of national security.

"More peculiarly, reporters who were at the scene have alleged they saw a gigantic space-ship descend from the clouds above an area where the police had been engaged in a prolonged gunfight and then fly off again shortly afterwards. Police are alleged to have confiscated video recordings of the incident and, in simultaneous raids on the evening of the Seventeenth, Federal police entered the offices of every leading news agency in Australia and confiscated other materials including more video recordings.

“The farm where the incident happened belongs to a Mr John Saunders. Locals allege that Saunders ran a space cult from the farm and held late-night orgies in which young girls were forced to engage in sexual acts with men wearing alien costumes. Earlier I interviewed Dr. Hilary Gore, Emeritus Professor of Cult Studies at the Australian National University who told me this.”

“I have been aware of this particular cult for more than a year now. One of my PhD students did her thesis on it last year after having spent several weeks with them. They are what we classify as a ‘cargo cult’. The term comes from cults which arose particularly in the South Sea Islands during periods of first contact with modern Western civilisation. The cargo cultists were overawed by the amazing items in the newcomers’ cargoes and believed the white men to be bringing magical and powerful objects to the islands. Cults arose which worshipped the gifts of the strange invaders and prayed for the giving of these gifts to the cultists.

“What we find with the Saunders’ Station cult—the Receivers of Cosmic Bounty, as they call themselves—is exactly parallel. Only, here, the cargoes are being brought by aliens, not white men. Frankly, I am amazed that there was trouble with the police as cults of this kind tend to be extremely passive and never violent.”

“That was Professor Hilary Gore.

“Adding to the mystery of the whole affair, several eye witnesses in Brisbane, including the Verger at St Stephen’s Cathedral, have reported encountering groups of up to twenty women looking exactly like the actress Loosi Beecham, star of the blockbuster films, P.

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