The Port of G’Daan

David Pahor
Curated Newsletters
2 min readNov 21, 2023

The mechanicals had one true home.

Hawaii, where theG’Daan awaits.
Image by © David Pahor +AI

Yet it was not the human lawbreakers that drew the most childlike fascination from the tourists and attention from the wary lawmen in the Sheltered Harbour of the Isle of Hawaiʻi on weekend nights, but the mechanicals, artefactoids and robotrons.

These gathered in the dank and pitchy narrow alleys and backstreets, appearing seemingly by magic in one district, then, mere minutes later, surreptitiously swarmed in a neighbourhood at the opposite end of the city.

They were mostly harmless, except for those whose wretched condition deteriorated during their social activities to such an extent that they released their pitiful EM souls with sighs of radio static and photonic spurts, collapsing into piles of metallic debris where they had been, only moments before, creakingly shuffling or levitating, posing a traffic hazard.

Most of them bore the database embeds and markings of faraway colonies and quaint star systems, and nobody knew how they had reached Earth and its island in the middle of the Pacific Plate.

The best guess was that they were stowaways, arriving concealed in the off-planet cargo of the space elevator, tethered with its single-crystal graphene strands to the summit of Mauna Kea.

The more romantic chose to believe the city’s allure to the non-biologicals had to do something with the fact it was the birthplace of G’Daan, the reclusive computational researcher who had developed the Singularity Algorithm.

I set little store by roses and hearts, yet I tend to agree with the sentimental on this one; they were coming home to die.

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Physicist turned programmer, now a writer. Writing should be truthful but never easy. When it becomes effortless, you have stopped caring. https://bit.ly/kekur0