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The one who first introduced Charles to the Palaces of the Ancient Land was an old man named Jobe. Very old, actually, he was over 200 years old, and that without any bionic enhancements, nor unusual drugs - and he was a full human living on Venus. He was the only living human on Venus at that time, as far as anyone knows, and had flown along-side Saint Teilhard III in the in the Rebel Mission which began the VI Calendar of the Venusian Year and time scale. Before that the Cross-Breeds had not even worked out how many days there were in a Venusian year.

Thus, Jobe was the only human at that time to interact with a cross-breed in person... Seeing them in their true form, as quite tall... a bit awkward looking and slow moving... the large black eyes and very pale skin. In the Free-Web the Venusians usually choose a more human form, as this makes it easier for the humans to relate with them. Most Venusians visit the Rebels only rarely, though...

Charles was always a little different from other Venusians... in his wanderings, it is said, he intuitively came to a certain cave and found Jobe sitting there motionless, seemingly dead, but with his fingernails and hair having grown far beyond any standard of normalcy. Then, it is said, Jobe opened his eyes for the first time in decades and said to Charles: "I've been waiting for you."

To the aliens from the other side of the galaxy, the people they ended up communicating with i.e. the ones who funded Voyager, they determined that there was no possible way they could understand or communicate with us. The only thing they really understood was the DNA stran, so they recommended (in English) that they artificially insemenate someone with this grafted mixture of the two races of sentient homineds - so the Kings of the New World and their Servant-Cousins had a few billion people terraform Venus and make it nice and cozy and they left a lab-harvested test-tube generation of the cross-breeds there. As per the Aliens' request, they decided not to damper with them, directly or indirectly, but to observe them via Satalite.

Rebels caught wind of this and Saint Teilhard III led a team of stolen spacecraft to Venus where they gave them the keys to the Free Web, which included access to all the same survalence technology the Red Birds of Earth have access to, which included all the information there was available about their own origins. In fact, everyone on Earth and Venus, except for the Drones, have access to every last piece of information there is, except for the names of the Kings and the locations of them and their Servant-Cousins. However, only the Rebels of earth and the Venusians have the Keys to the Free Web. The Drones, Red Birds, and even the Kings and their Servant-Cousins, do not.

This was all about 120 years ago, though, Charles is the great great grandson of the Venusians who found out about the Earth.

The funny thing is, a Venusian has to do quite a bit of research into Piscean history to even realize how the most populated FWW (Free Web World: full sensory virtual reality universe) is called Underground America and the Metalic-Mercury-Monarch (who is actually an anonymous collective of Rebel Nobles) is called "Lincoln" and rules in "The Black House" and a red and white striped with 50 Stars on a blue square in the upper left hand corner flag is burning on every street corner when even on Old Earth there isn't a flag like that flying anywhere but a museum in the abandoned subways under New World Center.