(Lyka relates on if she had seen third dimensional worlds like ours during her tours saying she had seen far worse. That brings up the core of the Sirian Defense Force, the importance of an oath. Her whole life is centered around the oath she took with no others allowed from there until it is fulfilled. She talks about the maths involved in her ballistics training and her studies of generals in earth’s history such as Custer. ) 

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Lyka: hi.

Skip: hi sweetie.

Lyka: hey, how’s it going?

Russ: good.

Skip: good, how about you?

Lyka: I’m doing good, much better than last week, much better than last week.

Russ: well yeah, you sound a little less dragging.

Lyka: uh-huh, I'm more lucid and aware of my faculties, I will make myself available to discuss.

Skip: okay, can I you ask you a question?

Lyka: yeah sure.

Skip: in your few years….

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: have you seen the disintegration of a society like is happening in our 3-D world?

Lyka: I’ve seen far worse, I’ve seen far, far worse.

Skip: no what I’m trying to get at is, I believe in my own mind that ours is just starting.

Lyka: I would say from what I have been able to see and from what I’ve heard and what I have been having access to, I would say yes you are just starting, I’ve seen far, far worse. 

Skip: well, that comes with being a soldier.

Lyka: uh-huh, we have a job to do, we took an oath, we took an oath.

Skip: you’ve got a job to perform, no matter which side you’re on, you still have a job to do.

Lyka: yes.

Skip: when you swear an allegiance or take an oath…..

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: but that would be a UN force would be Oath Keepers.

Russ: uh-huh.

Lyka: in essence yes we are like your United Nations. I’m not that familiar with it so I’m not going to say what I think I know about it but it’s probably totally inaccurate but our purpose is to go in and make sure that the world survives. We took an oath thousands of years ago as a group of people from Sirius to defend the sister worlds, to protect them from any harm that may befall them. When we join and we finish our training, we take that exact same oath and part of the oath is that if by losing our lives we can save or protect or aid in the advancement of the sister worlds, then we die with immunity, we cease to be for the fulfillment of our oaths.

Skip: uh-hum, okay.

Lyka: you see oaths are very important regardless of what dimension you are on. If you give your oath, your word, your honor, nothing else matters.

Skip: see that’s something that's fallen by the wayside in this world.

Lyka: if I stand up and say, “I promise, I swear I will do it”, I have to do it regardless of what it is, even if it means my destruction, even if it means that I cease to be in this physical form, even if it affects the life of my child, I have to fulfill that oath. I promise, I swear, I oblige myself, my freedom is now gone, I have willingly given up that freedom to fulfill an oath. It's not for everybody, it’s definitely not for everybody. I can think of numerous people that the mere concept of losing their freedom would be more horrific than losing an arm or a leg but it is something that is very, very important. Oaths are something that are necessary to be fulfilled.

Russ: it seems like that’s one of those things that would help you through the sixth dimension though.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: especially the commitment that you’re making as far as dedicating your life to protecting people you don’t know.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: uh-huh.

Russ: it’s a concept as Skip said that’s fallen by the wayside down here.

Skip: yes it has.

Lyka: it’s a very important one, to have that…..

Skip: in fact a person’s word in this time and era on this planet has got to the point of where it’s almost nonexistent.

Lyka: it means nothing.

Skip: you have to have it in writing…..

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: or it’s no good.

Lyka: uh-huh but with us it is who you are. If you give an oath, even those people that are very much opposed to giving a promise or an oath, they will fulfill it. They have to promise they will fulfill that promise and that obligation even to the point of if it costs them dearly and it is something that is very, very important. An oath is more important than anything else. Even the life of yourself, my unborn child, my bond mate, my friends, my comrades, it’s more important than that.

Skip: yeah it is because your word is you.

Lyka: uh-huh, it’s who I am and as the Oath Keeper, I cannot say I promise to do something, I cannot say I swear I’ll do something because I’m already taken.

Skip: uh-huh. 

Lyka: I’ve given my solemn word, I have taken an oath and that has precedent above all else. I cannot give another oath, I cannot give another promise until my oath is expired and I took an oath for no less than 300 cycles, 300 years. I have the opportunity to renew at the end of the time but 300 years is a long time.

Skip: yes it is.

Lyka: and the sad thing is that not many Oath Keepers see that, we have a very high rate of Oath Keepers that fulfill their oaths prematurely.

Russ: hmmm.

Lyka: and there’s also a lot of Oath Keepers that continue after the 300 years, they renew, re-up their oath for another 100 years or 200 years or 300 years.

Russ: does it make it any easier to keep fulfilling these oaths when you do see what you do see with the worlds you to go to?

Lyka: sometimes it’s very, very hard.

Russ: isn’t there also besides the Oath Keepers, is there a diplomatic side?

Lyka: no, they have to work out that themselves.

Russ: now what about planets that actually have a belief in Ashtar Command and an understanding of them, of other races….

Lyka: very few do.

Russ: oh.

Lyka: besides, we’re not part of Ashtar Command.

Russ: oh you’re not?

Lyka: no.

Russ: you're part of Sirius.

Lyka: correct. So it’s irrelevant whether or not they have a belief in Ashtar Command, those worlds that do aren’t a problem though. 

Skip: okay darling.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: oh golly.

Russ: so how is it with your limited, lighter duties now?

Lyka: my duties aren’t that lighter, the only thing that I’m not allowed to do is to go on exercise or to participate in combative sports.

Russ: hmm.

Lyka: and I really don’t feel like running so that pretty much means all’s I do is walk and sit behind my desk, make my inspections and study. In fact not being able to exercise or participate in combative sports is leaving me to catch up with some interesting studies that I’ve always had difficulty with.

Russ: ballistics.

Lyka: yes.

Russ: good.

Lyka: uh-huh, working very hard on that and my maths is improving.

Russ: excellent, glad to hear it.

Lyka: I didn’t know that you could, if you’re launching a long-range ballistic missile, use the rotation of the planet to give it that extra kick.

Skip: uh-huh.

Lyka: I didn’t know that.

Russ: that makes two of us.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: yeah, they’ve always done that.

Lyka: it depends also on the location that you’re firing from.

Skip: yeah.

Russ: hmm.

Lyka: for example, if the planet is spinning this way and you launch your missile right? As it spins away it means that you use less fuel to launch it because the planet is turning away from it as it’s already entering its trajectory which means that you use less fuel and you can make it travel further if you take have the exact same amount of fuel and you can get to the target quicker.

Skip: it’s what they talk about……have you ever heard them about windows?

Russ: uh-huh.

Skip: that’s what they’re talking about.

Russ: oh.

Lyka: isn’t there some kind of computer system?

Skip: no, no, no, yeah, yeah it is now but I mean I’m talking about flight control windows.

Lyka: oh.

Skip: they can go through windows, you don’t have as much friction on account of the rotation of the planet and if you hit the window correctly, it gives you that extra boost.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: hmm.

Skip: same thing coming back in.

Lyka: I’m actually studying at the moment the long-range projectile interplanetary. For example, attacking a planet that is quite some way away, getting into the real heavy maths.

Skip: we haven't quite progressed that far yet.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: well we’ve landed on the moon and we’re landing them on Mars so we’re way progressed that far.

Lyka: well you’re talking if you hit within 20 miles of the target you’re doing good, I’m talking within one or two units over such a great distance.

Skip: uh-huh.

Russ: tricky stuff.

Lyka: oh it’s a lot of fun too. I’m also currently studying some interesting battlefield strategies from the………nevermind, I can't go into details as I was about to start blabbing about Sirian battle tactics but I can’t, can’t discuss that.

Skip: yeah.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: you might study some of our ancient generals too.

Lyka: I have, Hadrian, Caesar, Ramses….

Skip: some of them were pretty sharp.

Lyka: uh-huh, Alexander, Napoleon, Rommel, oh I can sit here and go on naming generals. I can discuss the Carthaginian wars which I've studied, Macedonian wars, I could talk about Philip the Second of Macedonia. Do you know who Philip of Macedonia was?

Russ: uh-uh.

Lyka: do you know who he was father of?

Skip: who he was what?

Russ: Alexander the Great.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: hmm, I did know that.

Lyka: uh-huh, I can sit and pontificate all day about battles. I can talk about...…I can’t remember the location but it is a famous battle with Ramses the Second and…..I forget but it was something like fourteen something against think it was the Hittites or somewhere in that area where he got ahead of his main force and he’s got a small patrol with him……..well not a small patrol but I think it was like one third of his army and he was attacked by the Hittites, what he thought was a small patrol turned out to be their whole entire army and his bravery and audacity saved a possible massive defeat and his own life, turned it into what the Egyptians claimed was a victory. In actual fact it was a stalemate.

Russ: hmm.

Skip: hmm.

Russ: interesting.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: well you had a lot of fun.

Lyka: oh yeah, studied that battle and realized that a lot of it was luck, a lot of it was luck.

Russ: a lot of battles are luck.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: uh-huh.

Russ: uh-huh, rain or air cover or whatever.

Lyka: maybe on your planet they're luck, we have…..……but put it this way as a student when I play a wargame, I have to have at least six possible strategies for each possible scenario. And in a wargame it won’t be one scenario, they will have as many as 12 different scenarios that can phase in at any time and I’ve got to have them in writing plus memorized.

Russ: wow.

Skip: wow.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Skip: that’s heavy.

Lyka: oh it is heavy, gives me headaches. I’ve only actually ever won one wargame and I've played a lot. I’ve had quite a few stalemates but I’ve only ever won one so I’m not the best student in the world in fact actually in my class I’m probably in the bottom 15, but I try. But you have a famous general that was actually I think like the bottom of his class that went on to become quite famous but should never have been famous, he was foolish and stupid.

Russ: Patton?

Lyka: no Custer.

Russ: oh Custer.

Lyka: uh-huh. In fact I was studying his famous Battle of Little Bighorn, do you know how lucky he was not to lose his whole entire force?

Russ: really?

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: I thought he did lose his whole entire force.

Lyka: no he didn’t lose his whole entire command.

Skip: he lost one third of it.

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: oh.

(Skip laughs)

Skip: sorry, I didn’t mean to jump in there.

Lyka: oh that’s quite all right. Captain Reno was wise in hunkering down but also remiss in his duty and his oath, he failed to fulfill his oath and duties.

Russ: what, back up his commanding officer?

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: oh.

Lyka: that was very foolish and remiss. Okay, I’ve got to depart, I need to take care of a few things and Kiri’s going……oh she's going bye, okay bye.

Skip: thank you very much.

Lyka: okay.

Russ: take care.